Hollywood for Grownups: Is Celine Dion Ready for Her Vocal Comeback?

These days, nothing — not even medical crises — stops Hollywood stars from reinvention.

Hollywood for Grownups

Hollywood reporter Merle Ginsberg has written about celebrities, film, TV, music and fashion for publications including The New York Times, Hollywood Reporter, Rolling Stone, The Daily Beast, Cosmopolitan and more. Each week she’ll cover celebrity news for AARP’s Hollywood for Grownups column.

Celine Dion in "I Am: Celine Dion."

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Will Celine Dion go back to Vegas?

The superstar chanteuse, 56, whose new documentary I Am: Celine Dion (released on Apple TV+) explores her decades-long battle with stiff person syndrome, a neurological disorder, may come back to Vegas. Her 16-year residency ended two years ago, when she also canceled a world tour. Dion’s longtime stylist Law Roach (who also dresses Zendaya, Kerry Washington and Megan Thee Stallion and who decked out Dion for her surprise moment at this year’s Grammys) sees a notable improvement in Dion’s health. Hosting the recent reopening of the famed Abbey club in West Hollywood (with appearances by Cher, Jean Smart and Ricky Martin), Roach said he was shocked Dion was able to do the Grammys, “which was a very good sign. Her doctors say physical therapy and meds are showing real progress. And she mentioned working with me on new events, concerts — even said she’s talking to Vegas promoters again. We're all praying for her!”

Jeff Goldblum at The 2024 Met Gala on May 6, 2024 in New York City.

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Jeff Goldblum gets ‘Wicked’

At age 71, the perennially youthful Jeff Goldblum is having a full-blown “Jeffaissance,” as one Hollywood agent calls it, and not just as an actor. Goldblum plays Zeus in the new British series Kaos, a Netflix comic take on Greek mythology coming out this summer. As if one immortal wasn’t enough, Goldblum also plays the Wizard (as in Oz) in Wicked (Nov. 27), and again in Wicked Part Two, out a year later, in which he’ll belt out two songs, we hear. His early New York career included stage musicals, playing jazz piano at gigs and touring with his own Mildred Snitzer Orchestra. Maybe that’s where his fashion fixation originated, though friends attribute that to his dancer/gymnast wife, Emilie Livingston, 41. They often go twinning in matching suits. In May, Goldblum wore an Edwardian brooch-covered Prada tux to the Met ball and a suit by Jonathan Anderson at the recent men’s Loewe runway in Paris. “He’s walked the Prada runway,” the agent tells AARP. “But now Jeff’s angling for a Loewe campaign. He’s also written a TV show to host — now that’s likely getting picked up.”