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Wajah-wajah Freddie Mercury a.k.a. Farroukh Bulsara 27 tahun lalu, 24 November 1991, Farroukh Bulsara—yang kemudian lebih menjulang namanya sebagai Freddie Mercury—meninggal dunia. Tubuhnya digerogoti oleh salah satu penyakit yang mematikan waktu itu, yakni HIV AIDS. Dunia musik populer begitu kehilangan nama besar. Bersama Queen, Freddie Mercury telah memberi warna penting bagi dunia musik. Setidaknya dalam sebulan terakhir nama Freddie Mercury kembali mencuat dalam medan perbincangan. Tak pelak, ini karena kehadiran film “Bohemian Rhapsody” yang tengah diputar di berbagai bioskop di seluruh dunia. Film itu tidak saja kembali mengangkat popularitas Freddie dan Queen, namun juga menjadi salah satu film laris dunia. Menurut catatan situs  boxofficemojo.com  dalam 21 hari pemutarannya di seluruh dunia, “Bohemian Rhapsody” diperkirakan telah menangguk keuntungan hingga $ 138,247,250 (sekitar Rp 2 triliun, dengan kurs sekarang). Tentang film “Bohemian Rhapsody” , mu...

By Jonathan Kandell and Andy Webster Published On Nov. 12, 2018 If Stan Lee revolutionized the comic book world in the 1960s, which he did, he left as big a stamp — maybe bigger — on the even wider pop culture landscape of today. Think of “Spider-Man,” the blockbuster movie franchise and Broadway spectacle. Think of “Iron Man,” another Hollywood gold-mine series personified by its star, Robert Downey Jr. Think of “Black Panther,” the box-office superhero smash that shattered big screen racial barriers in the process. And that is to say nothing of the Hulk, the X-Men, Thor and other film and television juggernauts that have stirred the popular imagination and made many people very rich. If all that entertainment product can be traced to one person, it would be Stan Lee, who died in Los Angeles on Monday at 95. From a cluttered office on Madison Avenue in Manhattan in the 1960s, he helped conjure a lineup of pulp-fiction heroes that has come to define m...