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- Yahoo
Rock Icon, 52, Reveals He Spent 'Seven Months In Bed' After Emergency Surgery
Rock Icon, 52, Reveals He Spent 'Seven Months In Bed' After Emergency Surgery originally appeared on Parade. Queens of the Stone Age made the difficult decision in August 2024 to cancel their remaining tour dates so that frontman Josh Homme could 'prioritize his health' and 'receive essential medical care.' No more information was given at the time, but it seems that Homme's medical issues were more serious than anyone imagined. In a new interview with Consequence, Homme, 52, explained that he was in immense pain right before filming Alive in the Catacombs in July 2024. Playing in the famed Catacombs of Paris was a 20-year dream for Homme. At that moment, he could have either abandoned the project to seek medical treatment or played through the pain. He chose the latter. "I was in a very difficult physical spot, and I'm really thankful that I was, actually," he said. "I couldn't think about anything else but where we were. It's better that I was unwell, because I think if I was well, we would've maybe been more 'California' about it and thought 'Man, it's so cool to be here...' And something about that kind of sucks." It's good that Homme's pain made him focus and appreciate on the historic nature of this performance, because it would be his last one for a while. "I performed in the Catacombs, and within about 20 hours, I was being sedated and put under," he told Consequence. Homme, who was diagnosed with cancer in 2022 (and declared cancer free a year later) returned to the states to undergo emergency surgery. He then 'spent the next seven months in bed,' said Homme. 'I had a lot of time to think, you know? I was told I was gonna spend 18 months, two years there, so I was not excited,' he added. (Consequence said Josh was being intentionally vague about the nature of his illness for privacy's sake). By December 2024, Homme's doctors told him everything was going to be okay, which just made him want to get out of bed even more. "I felt like a rodeo bull leaning on the gate,' he said. 'It's like, when you open this [explicative] gate, I'm gonna run. I'm gonna run." Homme said that new QOSTA music is on the way. In June, the band announced a run of intimate theater performances dubbed The Catacombs Icon, 52, Reveals He Spent 'Seven Months In Bed' After Emergency Surgery first appeared on Parade on Aug 1, 2025 This story was originally reported by Parade on Aug 1, 2025, where it first appeared. Solve the daily Crossword
Vogue
44 minutes ago
- Vogue
James Baldwin's Love Stories
It was 1996 and I was a junior in college, taking a class on James Baldwin in which we were reading pretty much everything he'd ever written: his groundbreaking novels, his controversial plays, his searing and celebrated essays. Everything, that is, except for one book my professor mentioned in passing—a children's book, originally published in the UK in 1976 but now out of print, entitled Little Man, Little Man: A Story of Childhood. I looked it up in the index of David Leeming's then recently published Baldwin biography and found a scant paragraph or two, including a reference to an obscure French artist, Yoran Cazac, who had apparently illustrated the book. Leeming referred to Baldwin's relationship with him as a 'friendship,' but the sentences that followed suggested there was more to the story: 'Yoran was not a solution to Baldwin's need for a full and lasting relationship. He was committed to his marriage and his children and spent most of his time in Italy.' Leeming's other bits of information only piqued my interest further: 'When Baldwin went to Italy to stand as godfather to Yoran's third child on Easter Sunday, he must have been reminded of another friend, another marriage, and another baptism of another godchild in Switzerland in 1952. He was to dedicate If Beale Street Could Talk to Yoran, as he had dedicated Giovanni's Room to Lucien.' I knew 'Lucien' was Lucien Happersberger, the Swiss man Baldwin had called the love of his life; and Baldwin's classic gay novel Giovanni's Room, published in 1956, was the first of his books I'd read, way back in the ninth grade. I'd borrowed my twin sister's copy and pored over it in the secrecy of my bedroom, simultaneously thrilled and terrified by its exploration of a tortured love affair in Paris between David, a closeted American, and his Italian lover, Giovanni. I had hidden it beneath my mattress, afraid someone in my family would see it in my possession and suspect that I was gay, too—a reality I hadn't yet been able to admit to myself. Now, in college, as I recovered from the ending of my own secret relationship with another college student, my first with another man, I was finally in the process of coming out—and Baldwin was my North Star. How had he survived his own heartbreaks and wrestled with his own identity as a man who loved other men? And what role had this played in his journey to becoming a writer? For this was what I, too, hoped to become. Illustrations © Yoran Cazac (Beatrice Cazac) from James Baldwin, Little Man, Little Man: A Story of Childhood, illus. Yoran Cazac, eds. Nicholas Boggs and Jennifer DeVere Brody (Duke University Press, 2018). Used with Permission of Beatrice Cazac. Soon enough, I was heading to the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, which I'd been told had a copy of Little Man, Little Man. Something electric passed through me when I held the book for the first time, not unlike how I'd felt when I first flipped through the pages of Giovanni's Room. Yes, with its large type and colorful illustrations, it looked like a children's book, but its jacket flap described it as a 'children's book for adults.' Instead of author and illustrator photos, Cazac had drawn an image of himself painting Baldwin, both men smiling at each other and Baldwin smoking a cigarette.
Wall Street Journal
44 minutes ago
- Wall Street Journal
Heidi Klum Is Starting a ‘Worm and Parasite Cleanse'
In fashion, as the saying goes on 'Project Runway,' one day you're in and the next day you're out. Except if you're Heidi Klum on the actual show, in which case you're in, you're out and then you're back in again. The German-born supermodel left the fashion reality TV series with co-star Tim Gunn eight years ago, with the two going on to launch a rival fashion competition show, 'Making the Cut,' on Amazon from 2020 to 2022. Now Klum, 52, has returned to her best-known TV role, stepping back onto the 'Project Runway' stage via a giant zipper entrance on the set in its new home on Freeform, Disney+ and Hulu. Her co-star for the 21st season, which premiered in late July, is designer and season four winner Christian Siriano.
