With the 2010s rapidly drawing to a close, the past decade in showbiz has been marked by royal weddings, the #MeToo movement and K-pop. The star-studded weddings of Britain’s Prince William and of Prince Harry captivated audiences around the world, while the divorces of Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes and of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie made headlines.
The #MeToo movement began in the mid-2010s, and saw many women accusing film producer Harvey Weinstein of sexual misconduct, fueling a movement against sexual harassment and assault across the worlds of entertainment, business and politics, according to Reuters. Meanwhile, the K-pop wave led by boyband BTS and other South Korean sensations hit the music industry in the late 2010s.
The decade also saw us lose a number of big names in showbiz, including singers Amy Winehouse, Whitney Houston, David Bowie, Prince, George Michael and Aretha Franklin, actors Elizabeth Taylor and Robin Williams, and fashion designers Alexander McQueen, Oscar de la Renta, Hubert de Givenchy and Karl Lagerfeld.
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(Eddy Chang, Taipei Times)
二○一○年代很快就要落幕了！娛樂圈在這十年之間，最轟動的有皇家婚禮、「我也是」運動及韓流發威等。英國威廉和亨利王子的婚禮眾星雲集，吸引全球目光。而影星湯姆克魯斯、凱蒂荷姆斯和布萊德彼特、安潔莉娜裘莉的離婚亦登上頭條。
「我也是」運動於二○一○年代中期爆發，根據路透報導，有多名女性均指控製片人哈維溫斯坦對異性行為不端，進而激起了娛樂界、商業界、政治界對抗性騷擾與性侵犯的運動。在二○一○年代後期，由防彈少年團BTS等南韓明星領軍的韓流風潮，則席捲了全球音樂界。
此外我們這十年還痛失不少影視巨星，包括歌手艾美懷斯、惠妮休斯頓、大衛鮑伊、王子、喬治麥可、艾瑞莎富蘭克林，演員伊莉莎白泰勒、羅賓威廉斯，時裝大師亞歷山大麥昆、奧斯卡迪拉倫塔、于貝爾德紀梵希、卡爾拉格斐……等人。
（台北時報張聖恩〉
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