EXCLUSIVE REAL story of Mamie Fish and her Primate Prince whose parties horrified Gilded Age America... and were even too wild for HBO's new hit series
Mamie Fish was no great beauty. Nor was she especially rich or well educated.
But what she may have lacked in money and looks, she made up for in creativity. She was also very funny – despite what the many photographs showing her scowling grimly into the camera may suggest.
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Bruce Springsteen: Tracks II — all seven lost albums reviewed
It is hard to believe but from 1983 to 2018 Bruce Springsteen wrote, recorded, completed and decided not to release a remarkable seven albums. These are not the usual rag-tag collections sold as buried treasure, usually after an artist's death, which turn out to be nothing more than a bunch of demos never intended for public consumption in the first place. These are actual albums, shaped by a sound and a theme, which for one reason or another Springsteen decided to hold back, lock away in a cupboard and forget all about — until now. Back in 1998 Springsteen did release Tracks, a four-CD box set of mostly unreleased songs, but that featured a lot of material already out there. Out of the 83 songs on Tracks II: The Lost Albums, however, 74 are previously unheard. Time to dig in. • Exclusive interview: Bruce Springsteen on his lost albums ★★★★☆Unsure whether to continue in the moody, low-key vein of Nebraska (1982) or release Born in the USA and become the air-punching, denim-clad Eighties rock colossus of legend, Springsteen put together this collection of folky character studies in a garage at his home in the Hollywood Hills. Crime and punishment feature heavily: Jim Deer concerns a former robber reflecting on his lot in prison, Richfield Whistle has the same character struggling to rehabilitate himself once he's out and Fugitive's Dream is about a man whose stable life is derailed by the return of a sinister figure from his misspent youth. Springsteen has written frequently about people who cannot escape their past, mirroring his own attempt to silence inner demons through constant work, and they are all over this bleak, sparse, affecting album. Some of the songs did pop up elsewhere in altered forms, such as Born in the USA's My Hometown and the 1984 B-side Johnny Bye-Bye, a Chuck Berry song rewritten as a reflection on the death of Elvis Presley. For the most part, though, this is a tantalising vision of how Springsteen's life and career could have turned out very differently track: The Klansman ★★★★★In 1994 Streets of Philadelphia, written for Jonathan Demme's Aids movie Philadelphia, went to No 2, giving Springsteen his biggest UK chart hit and reviving his career in the process. He considered releasing an entire album of electronic recordings in the same vein, played out on drum loops and synthesizers, which he had been experimenting with at his new home in Bel-Air, Los Angeles. And he gave free rein to his darkest thoughts in the process. Maybe I Don't Know You is an ominous tale of paranoia, with the unfamiliar sight of a lover's dress sending the narrator down a spiral of jealousy. Blind Spot puts a funky drummer loop and a sampled shout against an oppressive tale of lovers inhabiting each other 'like it was some kind of disease' and the self-explanatory Waiting on the End of the World comes with an ominous siren call. This is deep, revelatory material, a product of inner torment and musical curiosity. That might be why Springsteen held it back, got the old E Street Band back together and put out a greatest hits album track: Maybe I Don't Know You • 50 years with Springsteen: my life working for the Boss ★★★★☆While he was busy returning to socially conscious roots with the sombre 1995 album The Ghost of Tom Joad, Springsteen intended to lighten the mood of that folky collection with a second disc of rockabilly and country songs. So he gathered up an ace session crew, including the pedal steel player Marty Rifkin and the violinist Soozie Tyrell, and cut the whole thing live at his Thrill Hill Beverly Hills home studio. Repo Man, a portrait of the guy who comes to take your car away when you don't keep up the monthly payments, found Springsteen at his most carefree, while Detail Man and Delivery Man are essentially: same tune, different men. Under a Big Sky is a classic heartbreak song in the clean-cut Nashville tradition and the fun Janey Don't You Lose Heart popped up as a Born in the USA-era B-side. It all sounds like the kind of thing you'd want to hear in a honky-tonk on the edge of town: loose, cheerful, not entirely track: Detail Man ★★★★★Inspired by Across the Borderline, Ry Cooder's theme to Tony Richardson's 1982 human smuggling saga The Border, Springsteen recorded an album's worth of tales from the Mexican diaspora, historical, social and magical realist. The Lost Charro tells of a proud former cowboy who finds himself picking fruit in the States, Our Lady of Monroe features a retiring police detective who makes a pilgrimage to a town where the Madonna has been spotted, and Ciudad Juarez depicts drugs and gun smuggling over the Rio Grande. Essentially Springsteen captured the immigrant experience: the dream of going to a place where the streets are paved with gold, only to discover that you might lose more than you'll ever gain. With mariachi brass augmenting a rich tapestry of guitars, keyboards and violins, it must be the most elegant album Springsteen never track: When I Build My Beautiful House • Bruce Springsteen: I knew I'd be a musician. It was my only skill ★★★☆☆The only album in the collection not originally intended as a standalone release, here Springsteen had put together various unused rock songs, chiefly as a way of balancing out the folky introspection dominating elsewhere. That's why it doesn't hang together with the same purpose and cohesion as the others. Still, there are plenty of built-for-stadium belters to enjoy, all of them ready to be revived for the next E Street Band world tour. Rain in the River is the kind of rousing belter Wrecking Ball (2012) is filled with, while You Lifted Me Up is a spiritually inclined singalong with backing vocals from Springsteen's wife, Patti Scialfa, and the E Street Band's Steven Van Zandt. The title track, meanwhile, imagines a place where 'every stray dog would find his way'. This has more in common with the feelgood vibes of Springsteen's concerts than the dark moments captured on so many of his quieter albumsTop track: Rain in the River ★★★★☆Written for a film that was never made — a 'spiritual western', according to Springsteen —Faithless features a rare thing for a man who has dedicated his life to crafting the perfect song: instrumental music. Heavenly choirs, twanging guitars and even a celeste contribute to evoke the dusty, desolate beauty of the desert, where we can only assume the abandoned film was set. There are some great songs too, such as Where You Going Where You From, featuring Springsteen's young children Evan and Sam on backing vocals, and Let Me Ride, a close gospel relation to the live favourite Land of Hope and Dreams. Almost nothing is known about the film that never even got to the shooting stage but Where You Going has a line about crossbows and Hawken guns, and Goin' to California conjures images of saloons, whiskey bottles and twirling señoritas, so we can only imagine this was an abandoned Martin Scorsese project about frontiers people wrestling with God and the Devil. Funnily enough, Springsteen wrote such weighty material on a jolly horse-riding trip with his equestrian daughter in track: Let Me Ride • How Bruce Springsteen's darkest days inspired his biopic ★★★★★Leaving the countryside for the city, ditching his plaid shirt for a tuxedo, the Boss headed to the middle of the road for an elegant collection of songs about love lost, regrets made and lives lived. Writing music with the chordal complexity of Burt Bacharach, singing with the purity of Frank Sinatra, Springsteen set himself the challenge of leaving behind familiar styles for orchestrally enhanced songs on the lonely side of romance. 'She's gone and I carry on,' he mourns on Late in the Evening, while Lonely Town could have come straight from a Broadway musical. Springsteen intended Twilight Hours as a companion piece to the 2019 'countrypolitan' album Western Stars but he decided at the last minute to hold it back — an odd choice given this is such a fully realised exercise in songwriting classicism. From the falsetto climax of Sunliner, to the lonely harmonica opening Dinner at Eight, to the small-town love story turned crime drama in High Sierra — another song about a man who cannot outrun his past — Twilight Hours is the most unSpringsteen-like album that Springsteen ever track: High Sierra Tracks II: The Lost Albums by Bruce Springsteen (Columbia) is out on June 27
The Guardian
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Millionaire Tom Brady wins $1m as he beats Eli Manning and James Harden in Fanatics Games
Tom Brady showed his competitive spirit – and physical gifts – have not deserted him in retirement as he beat fans, celebrities and other athletes in the inaugural Fanatics Games. The seven-time Super Bowl champion, who earned $332m in salary alone during his 23-year NFL career, won $1m for his efforts. However, he said he would give $5,000 to each of the 50 fans who competed in the event and donate the rest to charity. 'There is a competitive spirit that I have … I had to at least show up and not embarrass myself,' Brady said after his victory. The competitors in the games, which took place at the Fanatics Fest in New York, took part in seven events including quarterback throwing skills, baseball pitching accuracy, soccer shooting, a golf challenge and a UFC striking competition. Brady finished second in the quarterback skills content, behind Texans QB CJ Stroud. UFC fighter Justin Gaethje finished in second place overall and won a Ferrari. The highest-placed fan was Matt Dennish, a teacher from Pennsylvania, who ended the competition in third place. He won a rare LeBron James trading card, which he sold to Brady for $250,000. 'I was in first for a while, but Brady came in and crushed my score,' Dennish told NBC. 'That was kind of frustrating too because I felt like I left points out there.' NBA star James Harden and former New York Giants quarterback Eli Manning finished fourth and fifth respectively. They were the only other athletes to finish in the top 10. Brady jokingly ripped up Manning's Giants jersey as part of his WWE-style entrance. Manning beat Brady twice in the Super Bowl.
Daily Mail
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Kanye's new arm candy! West's wife Bianca Censori shocks again with EDIBLE lingerie
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'Look at ye dirty little wife walking around the city naked,' the In Da Club rapper, 49, captioned the post. 'LOL is she gonna be a victim later.' Referring to past whispers that Censori follows orders West gives her, 50 Cent said, this looks like free will to me.' The Candy shop rapper wrapped up in saying, 'Any way it was really hot today.' In a subsequent post, 50 Cent said he wasn't comfortable with the timing about the Censori post, and pulled it down as such. 'I took the last post down I didn't realize it was Sunday,' he added. West was spotted with Censori last week in Los Angeles, after he traveling to New York City earlier this month to attend the trial of Sean ' Diddy ' Combs, who he has professed support for publicly on multiple occasions. Daily Mail has reached out to Censori's rep for more details on the eye-catching ensemble. Bianca appeared to be in amazing shape to kick off the summer of 2025 Bianca made headlines with West earlier this year at the Grammy Awards West has remained in the crosshairs of controversy for much of the year amid a torrent of tweets propagating antisemitism, though he renounced those beliefs in a tweet last month. 'I am done with antisemitism,' he said in a May 22 tweet that garnered 167,000 likes from the influential artist's network of more than 33.2 million followers. The stance came in stark contrast to Ye's controversial one four months earlier: He posted multiple images swastikas, and plastering them on a number of clothing items he intended to sell. On February 11, the shop on West's Yeezy Website - which he advertised with an expensive ad in the Super Bowl - was taken offline by Shopify after he was selling a white shirt with a black swastika in the center. West spoke more about the controversy in a series of tweets February 20 - promising to wear the swastika shirt onstage at the 2026 Super Bowl. 'Next year I'm performing at the superbowl wearing my wittle T shirt,' he said. 'People with money bought my wittle t shirt.' He added that Shopify 'gave [him his] account back' after taking down his store after controversy erupted over the shirts, but that he was 'not going to use it.' The eye-catching outing caught the attention of West's fellow rapper 50 Cent, who posted a pic of Censori in the racy candy ensemble. The Anti-Defamation League said in a post on X/Twitter February 10: 'As if we needed further proof of Kanye's antisemitism, he chose to put a single item for sale on his website – a t-shirt emblazoned with a swastika. 'If that wasn't enough, the t-shirt is labeled on Kanye's website as "HH-01,"which is code for "Heil Hitler." 'Kanye was tweeting vile antisemitism nonstop since last week. There's no excuse for this kind of behavior.' The organization added, 'Even worse, Kanye advertised his website during the Super Bowl, amplifying it beyond his already massive social media audience.' Tal-Or Cohen Montemayor, the founder and executive director of CyberWell, an online anti-Semitism watchdog group, told February 11 that the organization made efforts to go over West's head and have the page removed. 'CyberWell reached out Shopify's compliance and safety teams to alert them to flagrant abuse of Shopfiy's services by in violation of the terms of use,' Cohen Montemayor said. Podcaster Van Lathan, who famously clashed with West in a heated discussion in the TMZ newsroom in May of 2018, was critical of the rapper's latest series of tweets in a post on the platform February 20, calling him 'the slow kid in the Black community's class.' 'I am done with antisemitism,' West said in a May 22 tweet that garnered 167,000 likes from the influential artist's network of more than 33.2 million followers Podcaster Van Lathan, who famously clashed with West in a heated discussion in the TMZ newsroom in May of 2018, was critical of the rapper's tweets February 20 'I'm glad you're rich,' Lathan wrote. 'It seems to be the only thing you care about. Money is dope you can do a lot of stuff with it. Sincerely. We need it, as a community. 'One thing that's more valuable than money is people. I'm sure you'd agree no dollar amount can measure North's laugh, I'm sure you'd go broke to bring your mother back. I would for my dad, who I lost in '21.' Lathan told West he was 'trapped in an infant's bubble, where [he] can be reckless and careless and people excuse it because of affection. 'We realize this, and try to ignore you, until the baby picks up something sharp like Nazism, domestic abuse, etc. then we gotta child proof things until you stop crying.' Lathan, who cohosts the podcast Higher Learning with Rachel Lindsay, continued, 'You're right about one thing, I am a slave to capitalism. We all are. Gotta work. 'But No one is more of a slave than the man who puts money over dignity. No one. So I'll be a slave, and you be what you are, which is the slow kid in the Black community's class. Keep eating boogers Kanye.'
