30 Established 1961 Tuesday, December 30, 2017 Lifestyle Music & Movies Mariah Carey Xmas song is most streamed on Spotify ariah Carey’s ‘All I Want For Christmas Is You’ is Spotify’s most streamed Christmas song of all time. The M46-year-old singer’s 1994 single - which she wrote and produced with Walter Afanasieff - has been streamed globally over 217 million times, and is followed close behind by Wham!’s ‘Last Christmas’ in second place, with Michael Buble’s ‘It’s Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas’ third. Festive hit- releasing machine Buble features five times, with his covers of (From left) Actors ‘White Christmas’ (Featuring Shania Twain), ‘All I Want For Jeremy Strong, Bill Christmas Is You’, ‘Holly Camp, Poker player Jolly Christmas’ and ‘Santa Molly Bloom, Michael Claus Is Coming To Town’ Cena, Jessica also dominating the list. Chastain, Director ‘Mistletoe’ by Justin Aaron Sorkin, and Bieber and Ariana Grande’s Madison McKinley ‘Santa Tell Me’ are also attend “Molly’s Game” popular Yuletide tracks. New York Premiere at Mariah recently said she AMC Loews Lincoln had no idea she’d be able Square in to build an empire around New York City. ‘All I Want For Christmas’. The ‘Hero’ singer has been “surprised” by how well the track has stood the test of time, and how it Chastain on the rise and fall becomes more and more popular each year around the festive period. Asked if she knew the hit would bring her so much success of Hollywood’s ‘poker princess’ and revenue, she said: “Oh my gosh, no no, never, no. I Mariah Carey feel like this is something essica Chastain struggled initially to halt to her dreams and she turned her secrets of the rich and famous. vocal proponents of the #MeToo social small compared to the rest relate to Molly Bloom, the former ski attention to underground poker. The movie, due for release on media campaign against sexual assault, of my catalogue. This song just continues to surprise me.” Mariah Jchampion turned “poker princess” She earned a fortune hosting illegal Christmas Day, does not name or repre- set up after veteran producer Harvey - who has six-year-old twins Moroccan and Monroe with ex- hostess to the rich and famous at gambling for Hollywood stars like sent onscreen any specific personalities, Weinstein was brought down by more husband Nick Cannon - loves it when she hears how the song has Hollywood’s most exclusive high stakes Leonardo DiCaprio and Matt Damon, as but Bloom’s 2014 memoir shocked and than 100 allegations of misconduct. resonated with her fans. She said: “I’m very thankful that people card tables. It wasn’t until Chastain met well as politicians and Wall Street titans, amused Hollywood with its tales of A-list Sweetly-spoken but iron-willed, the seem to still have an attachment to it. “It makes me feel good Tinseltown’s goddess of gambling as part taking eye-watering stakes from her poker parties. Charmed by Ben Affleck- tenacious graduate of prestigious New when people tell me that it’s part of their lives.” illustrious clientele, fueled by cocaine. ”he’s nice to everyone,” she says-Bloom York performing arts conservatory the At her height, Bloom claimed to be mak- was less impressed by Spider-Man Julliard School says she learns her lines Spotify’s Top 20 Christmas songs globally are as follows: ing $4 million a year, but things fell apart actor Tobey Maguire, describing him as methodically until they flow “like music.” 1.Mariah Carey - ‘All I Want for Christmas Is You’ when she made the mistake of insisting “the worst tipper, the best player and Chastain says “Molly’s Game” direc- 2.Wham! - ‘Last Christmas’ on a cut of the pot, rather than just mak- the absolute worst loser.” Bloom wrote tor Aaron Sorkin, celebrated for his 3.Michael Buble - ‘It’s Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas’ ing her living from tips, which pushed that the “Seabiscuit” star once told her sharp, back-and-forth dialogue in “The 4.Justin Bieber - ‘Mistletoe’ her activities into the bracket of organ- to “bark like a seal who wants a fish” for West Wing,” “A Social Network” and 5.Ariana Grande - ‘Santa Tell Me’ ized crime. Her dealings also came to the a $1,000 chip. She refused. Dressed “Steve Jobs,” may well be the best 6.Andy Williams - ‘It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year’ notice of Mafia mobsters, who began screenwriter in Hollywood. “I studied 7.Band Aid - ‘Do They Know It’s Christmas?’ (1984 Version) demanding their own share, before one the classics-Shakespeare, Chekhov and 8.The Pogues - ‘Fairytale of New York’ (feat. Kirsty MacColl) of her games was raided by FBI agents Ibsen-and he has this way, he has a 9.Bing Crosby - ‘White Christmas’ and all her possessions were seized. rhythm just like Shakespeare had,” said 10.Frank Sinatra - ‘Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!’ “To understand how she got trapped Chastain. “Aaron’s dialogue is like that. 11.Michael Buble - ‘White Christmas’ (Duet With Shania Twain) by these people, this was hard and I Be visible, So if you drop the ball on that pace, you 12.Bobby Helms - ‘Jingle Bell Rock’ think I was guilty of some judgment,” “ lose it. So I wanted to be word perfect 13.Michael Buble - ‘All I Want For Christmas Is You’ California native Chastain told AFP. “We on his script.” At the heart of the 14.Elvis Presley - ‘Blue Christmas’ as a society have fallen to the pattern of to be heard in “Molly’s Game” is the relationship 15.Jose Feliciano - ‘Feliz Navidad’ blaming women for things, the way they “ between Molly and her lawyer Charlie 16.Michael Buble - ‘Holly Jolly Christmas’ look, dismissing them, shaming them for a man’s world Jaffey (Idris Elba), who encourages her 17.Coldplay - ‘Christmas Lights’ revealing their bodies. I absolutely had to cooperate with the police and give up 18.Chris Rea - ‘Driving Home For Christmas’ that judgment before I met her.” her celebrity former clients. “She gives 19.Nat King Cole - ‘The Christmas Song (Merry Christmas To You)’ away piece after piece of who she is and 20.Michael Buble - ‘Santa Claus Is Coming To Town’ Uncompromising she goes to Charlie Jaffey’s office and — Bang Showbiz Chastain, 40, nominated for a best you kind of see this shell of this person: actress Golden Globe for her turn as the ‘They took all my money so they could hostess, said she came to see Bloom as simply in stylish gray pants and a white give it back to me for all this gossip,’” “a creation from this patriarchy” who shirt, her porcelain features a study in said Chastain. did what was necessary to “be visible, to placid composure, Chastain exudes a Bloom stopped cooperating but Actress Jessica Chastain attends “Molly’s be heard” in a man’s world. “It comes personal style that is the antithesis of avoided jail time when she was sen- Gallagher joined by Game” New York Premiere at AMC Loews from her childhood. Her dad made it the brash outfits and thick makeup tenced in 2014 to a year probation after Lincoln Square on December 13, 2017 in clear that he made the rules,” the actress Bloom wears in the film. admitting to being a key player in an ex-Oasis guitarist Bonehead New York City. — AFP photos said in an interview in Beverly Hills. “She illegal $100 million gambling ring. “She of her research into playing Bloom in would have to follow them until she Iron-willed goes, ‘My name is Molly Bloom-this is at Manchester Arena upcoming biopic “Molly’s Game” that she makes her own money. So she goes for The flame-haired actress, who who I am-’ and it’s the first time in the began to understand the high-rolling an industry where she feels she can get already has a Golden Globe for military movie she does that,” said Chastain, iam Gallagher performed impresario’s motivations. Growing up in that liberty.” Valued for her discretion thriller “Zero Dark Thirty” and two explaining Bloom’s change of heart. “I with his former Oasis band- Colorado, Bloom seemed destined to fol- and able to earn millions of dollars a Oscar nominations, made her name in don’t see it as protecting others, I see it Lmate Paul ‘Bonehead’ low her Olympian brother Jeremy into year at her peak, Bloom was privy to 2011 with “The Tree of Life” and “The as, for the first time, protecting herself Arthurs at his hometown show at elite level skiing, until an injury brought a some of the darkest and most valuable Help.” She has been one of the most and her integrity.”-AFP the Manchester Arena on Saturday night. The Britpop group’s former frontman wrapped up his UK headline solo tour, in support of his debut LP ‘As You Were’, by ‘In the Fade’ star bringing out the 52-year-old gui- tarist at Manchester Arena for the Ridley Scott knew he had to encore of ‘Cigarettes & Alcohol’, Diane Kruger on ‘Wonderwall’ and an acoustic ren- reshoot All the Money in the World dition of ‘Live Forever’. her real-life agony Bonehead’s appearance was no ir Ridley Scott knew within work” with Scott. The 88-year- doubt a surprise as the night t is the most intense, critically-acclaimed role of her “36 hours” he needed to old actor said: “I really would before the concert, Liam tweeted a career, but Diane Kruger hardly had to act at all to play a reshoot ‘All the Money in have said yes anyway if I hadn’t fan to say the 52-year-old musi- S cian is “too old” for rock ‘n’ roll grief-stricken woman robbed of her family in a bombing.