And yet there’s no better route to an Oscar campaign than playing a messy show-biz icon (see Jessica Chastain as Tammy Faye Bakker, Renée Zellweger as Judy Garland, and Rami Malek as Freddie Mercury), backed by a hefty campaign budget.

Source: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/notes-on-hollywood/the-best-actress-race-is-crowded-unpredictable-and-weird

Found near a beautiful church where poet T. S. Eliot was Warden for 20 years, the garden has five igloos, each named after an iconic singer from recent times (Bowie and Freddie Mercury are among the honoured).

Source: https://www.surreycomet.co.uk/news/23899635.londons-best-festive-dining-igloos-snow-globes-pods/?ref=rss

In this bungled Freddie Mercury biopic, Rami Malek gives less of a performance than a bizarre jumble of false teeth, bad wigs and strange vocal delivery.

Source: https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/features/oscars-mistakes-worst-wins-nominations-b2271083.html

Sotheby’s giant mustache installed over its entrance on New Bond Street, London, for the recent auction of heirlooms that belonged to the rock star Freddie Mercury.

Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/28/arts/design/celebrity-memorabilia-auctions-barbara-walters.html

The new documentary film is being produced by Graham King, Oscar-winning producer of "The Departed" and the Freddie Mercury biopic "Bohemian Rhapsody," alongside the co-executors of Jackson' estate, John Branca and John McClain.

Source: https://toofab.com/2023/02/05/leaving-neverland-director-condemns-michael-jackson-biopic/