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Farrah Abraham Flashes Crowd As She Goes Commando At Venice Film Festival - Access
Yikes! Farrah Abraham bared all at the 2019 Venice Film Festival when she went commando in a floral Christophe Guillarme ball gown with a thigh-high slit for the premiere of Brad Pitt and Liv Tyler's latest movie "Ad Astra." The former adult film star's crotch became exposed on the red carpet as she was posing for photos, though it's unclear whether the NSFW moment was accidental or intentional.
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August 31, 2019 at 03:51AM
'Joker' review roundup: What critics thought of the Batman villain's standalone debut - Mashable
The Joker has been depicted by so many actors that it's hard to remember them all. Whether it's the hyperactive and goofy Cesar Romero, the hilarious and witty Jack Nicholson, the menacing and magnetic Heath Ledger, or Jared Leto, everybody has a favorite live-action Joker.
One thing none of those actors got to do, however, was carry an entire movie as the Clown Prince of Crime. Joaquin Phoenix is the latest to don the clown makeup in Joker, the villain's standalone film debut from director Todd Philips of the Hangover trilogy. Phoenix is Arthur Fleck, a clown for hire and standup comedian who gradually becomes the character we're all too familiar with amid a backdrop of social unrest and income inequality.
This new Joker is more of a sympathetic figure at the center of a darker, more realistic story. Reviews dropped on Saturday and we know what you're wondering: Is it any good?
Phoenix's performance is the draw, for better or worse
Marlow Stern, The Daily Beast
Much has been made of how the 44-year-old recast his body for the role, dropping 52 pounds to depict this disturbed shell of a man, all raised shoulders and sunken chest. But more than that, he and Phillips have presented us with a compelling portrait of “God’s lonely man” whose simmering rage turns to a boil.
Richard Lawson, Vanity Fair
I’ve not always gotten along with Phoenix’s mannered, muscle-strained approach to his craft, but here he makes a compelling case for going full-tilt. He somehow doesn’t condescend to Arthur’s condition, even if the movie around him sometimes does. There’s a softness cutting through the affect, a sorrow of soul that gives Joker a pale, tragic glow.
David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter
But this is Phoenix's film, and he inhabits it with an insanity by turns pitiful and fearsome in an out-there performance that's no laughing matter. Not to discredit the imaginative vision of the writer-director, his co-scripter and invaluable tech and design teams, but Phoenix is the prime force that makes Joker such a distinctively edgy entry in the Hollywood comics industrial complex.
Stephanie Zacharek, Time
In Joker — playing in competition here at the Venice Film Festival — Phoenix is acting so hard you can feel the desperation throbbing in his veins. He leaves you wanting to start him a GoFundMe, so he won’t have to pour so much sweat into his job again. But the aggressive terribleness of his performance isn’t completely his fault. (He has often been, and generally remains, a superb actor. Just not here.)
This is darker than your average comic book movie
Richard Lawson, Vanity Fair
There is undeniable style and propulsive charge to Joker, a film that looms and leers with nasty inexorability. It’s exhilarating in the most prurient of ways, a snuff film about the death of order, about the rot of a governing ethos. But from a step back, outside in the baking Venetian heat, it also may be irresponsible propaganda for the very men it pathologizes. Is Joker celebratory or horrified? Or is there simply no difference, the way there wasn’t in Natural Born Killers or myriad other “America, man” movies about the freeing allure of depravity?
Jessica Kiang, The Playlist
And here is what is even more frightening than Phoenix’ hacking cackle, or the moments of gruesome bloodiness, or the portrait of a society teetering on the brink of breakdown: “Joker,” based on recognisable IP and now given the seal of critical and possible awards-consideration approval too, is so aesthetically impressive, effective and persuasive of its own reality that you see clearly how easily it could be (mis)interpreted and co-opted by the very 4Chan/Incel/”mentally ill loner” element it purports to darkly satirize.
Jim Vejvoda, IGN
Joker is an indictment of a society’s collective disregard for the well-being of its citizens rather than necessarily critiquing any one type of individual or class. As much as you sympathize with their plight, Gotham’s downtrodden can be as callous and vicious as the rich and powerful. Arthur is at one point or another injured emotionally or physically by individuals at every level, as well as by the institutions they populate. If Taxi Driver’s Travis Bickle called himself “God’s lonely man” then Arthur Fleck is certainly Gotham’s lonely man.
Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times
The mounting violence is intensely unpleasant, shocking if not particularly surprising; in scene after scene, the buildup is so agonizingly drawn out that you’re unsure whether the movie is depicting or embracing its protagonist’s cruelty. Perhaps the distinction matters less than we like to think.
Whether it all comes together in the end, well...
Stephanie Zacharek, Time
Joker is dark only in a stupidly adolescent way, but it wants us to think it’s imparting subtle political or cultural wisdom. Just before one of his more violent tirades, Arthur muses, “Everybody just screams at each other. Nobody’s civil anymore.” Who doesn’t feel that way in our terrible modern times? But Arthur’s observation is one of those truisms that’s so true it just slides off the wall, a message that both the left and the right can get behind and use for their own aims. It means nothing.
Jessica Kiang, The Playlist
At the press conference after the Venice press screening, Phillips asserted his belief that while movies mirror society, they do not mold it. While not usually ones to deny cinema one iota of its power, this time we just have to hope that he’s right because whatever monumentally unfunny funhouse we’re in, we’re barely hanging on in the world “Joker” reflects. I’m not sure we’d survive the one it would build.
Owen Gleiberman, Variety
Many have asked, and with good reason: Do we need another Joker movie? Yet what we do need — badly — are comic-book films that have a verité gravitas, that unfold in the real world, so that there’s something more dramatic at stake than whether the film in question is going to rack up a billion-and-a-half dollars worldwide. “Joker” manages the nimble feat of telling the Joker’s origin story as if it were unprecedented. We feel a tingle when Bruce Wayne comes into the picture; he’s there less as a force than an omen. And we feel a deeply deranged thrill when Arthur, having come out the other side of his rage, emerges wearing smeary make-up, green hair, an orange vest and a rust-colored suit.
David Ehrlich, IndieWire
Todd Phillips’ “Joker” is unquestionably the boldest reinvention of “superhero” cinema since “The Dark Knight”; a true original that’s sure to be remembered as one of the most transgressive studio blockbusters of the 21st Century. It’s also a toxic rallying cry for self-pitying incels, and a hyper-familiar origin story so indebted to “Taxi Driver” and “The King of Comedy” that Martin Scorsese probably deserves an executive producer credit.
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September 01, 2019 at 01:43AM
Valerie Harper broke taboos, stole hearts as TV's Rhoda - CTV News
NEW YORK -- There was never a better laugh line in all of sitcomania and, in her signature role as Rhoda, Valerie Harper nailed it.
Eyeing a piece of candy with desire yet trepidation, Rhoda cracks, "I don't know why I'm putting this in my mouth. I should just apply it directly to my hips."
That was in 1970 in the first weeks of "The Mary Tyler Moore Show," as Rhoda -- and Harper -- first stole viewers' hearts.
Rhoda was lovely and adorable but she had relatable issues with her weight and took refuge in self-deprecating jokes.
Rhoda was for everyone, and she would prove it in back-to-back hit sitcoms that made Harper a breakout star on "The Mary Tyler Moore Show," then established her as a funny leading lady in her own series, "Rhoda," scoring guffaws and busting TV taboos as an overweight, brash, Jewish version of the girl next door.
Harper, who died Friday in Los Angeles days after she turned 80 after a long battle with cancer, won three consecutive Emmys (1971-73) as supporting actress on "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" plus another for outstanding lead actress for "Rhoda," which ran from 1974-78. She was immortalized -- and typecast -- for playing one of television's most beloved characters, who as Mary's best friend was the equal of Ethel Mertz and Ed Norton in TV's sidekick pantheon.
Harper's career cooled after "Rhoda." Maybe she had done her job too well, becoming indelibly connected with the woman she played.
In recent years, her appearances were mostly limited to voice work on the animated shows "The Simpsons" and "American Dad." But for years, Harper's appearances had been mostly in the occasional stage and guest-star TV role.
Then in 2013, she was back in the news, and all over TV, when she revealed that just a few weeks earlier she was diagnosed with brain cancer. This rare condition, leptomeningeal carcinomatosis, occurs when cancer cells spread into the fluid-filled membrane surrounding the brain. (She had battled lung cancer in 2009.)
Harper said she had been told by her doctors she had as little as three months to live. Fans responded as if a family member were in peril.
But while the diagnosis might have seemed like a death sentence, "I'm not dying until I do," Harper said in a TV interview. "I promise I won't."
She continued to work, with guest shots in 2015 on "2 Broke Girls" and "Melissa & Joey" as well as her stage dates. And she outlived her famous co-star: Mary Tyler Moore died in January 2017.
Harper was a chorus dancer on Broadway as a teen before moving into comedy and improv when, in 1970, she auditioned for the part of a Bronx-born Jewish girl who would be a neighbour and pal of Minneapolis news gal Mary Richards on a new sitcom for CBS.
It seemed a long shot for the young, unknown actress. As she recalled, "I'm not Jewish, not from New York, and I have a small shiksa nose." And she had almost no TV experience.
But Harper, who, even as a dancer had battled plumpness and who arrived for her audition packing a couple of dozen extra pounds, may have clinched the role when she blurted out in admiration to the "Mary Tyler Moore Show's" reed-thin star: "Look at you in white pants without a long jacket to cover your behind!"
It was exactly the sort of thing Rhoda would say to "Mar," as Harper recalled in her 2013 memoir, "I, Rhoda." Harper was signed without a screen test.
Of course, if CBS had gotten its way, Rhoda might have been a very different woman with a much different actress in place. As "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" was being developed, its producers were battling a four-point decree from the network, which insisted that the nation's TV viewers would not accept series characters who were (1) divorced, (2) from New York, (3) Jewish or (4) have moustaches.
The producers lost on having Mary Richards divorced (instead, she had been dumped by her long-time boyfriend). But with Rhoda they overrode the network on two other counts.
The show that resulted was a groundbreaking hit, with comically relatable Rhoda one big reason.
Item: "What am I? I'm not married, I'm not engaged. I'm not even pinned. I bet Hallmark doesn't even have a card for me!"
Item: "I came to Minneapolis because of the cold. I figured if I was frozen I'd keep better."
"Women really identified with Rhoda because her problems and fears were theirs," Harper theorized in her book. "Despite the fact that she was the butt of most of her own jokes, so to speak ... her confident swagger masked her insecurity. Rhoda never gave up."
Neither did Harper, who confronted her own insecurities with similar moxie.
"I was always a little overweight," she once told The Associated Press. "I'd say, 'Hello, I'm Valerie Harper and I'm overweight.' I'd say it quickly before they could. ... I always got called Chubby, my nose was too wide, my hair was too kinky."
But as "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" evolved, so did Rhoda. At first, she made jokes about her weight, famously cracking that she the candy she was eating should be applied "directly" to her hips. But Rhoda (and Harper) trimmed down and glammed up, while never losing her comic step. The audience loved her more than ever.
Then, in fall of 1974, the "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" producers spun the character off. Rhoda was dispatched from Minneapolis back home to New York City ("This is your last chance," she told New York in the opening titles), where she was reunited with her parents and younger sister in a new sitcom that costarred Nancy Walker, Harold Gould and Julie Kavner.
She also met and fell in love with the hunky owner of a demolition firm.
The premiere of "Rhoda" that September was the week's top-rated show, getting a 42% share of audience against competition including Monday Night Football on ABC. And a few weeks later, when Rhoda and her fiance, Joe, were wed in a one-hour special episode, more than 52 million people -- half of the U.S. viewing audience -- tuned in.
But "Rhoda" couldn't maintain those comic or popular heights. A domesticated, lucky-in-love Rhoda wasn't a funny Rhoda -- not the Rhoda who could claim "I had a bad puberty. It lasted 17 years;" not the Rhoda who before a date had been hungry but refused to eat, explaining, "I've got to lose 10 pounds by 8:30."
By the end of the third season, the show's writers had taken a desperate step to shake things up: Rhoda divorced Joe. Thus had Rhoda (and Harper) defied a third CBS taboo.
The series ended in 1978 with Harper having played Rhoda for a total of nine seasons.
She had captured the character by studying her Italian stepmother. But Harper's own ethnicity -- neither Jewish nor Italian -- was summed up in a New York Times profile as "an exotic mixture of Spanish-English-Scotch-Irish-Welsh-French-Canadian."
And she was not a New Yorker. Born in Suffern, New York, into a family headed by a peripatetic sales executive, she spent her early years in Oregon, Michigan and California before settling in Jersey City, N.J.
By high school, she was taking dance lessons in Manhattan several times a week. By the time was 15, she was dancing specialty numbers at Radio City Music Hall. By 18 she was in the chorus of the Broadway musical "Li'l Abner" (then appeared in the film adaptation a year later). She also danced in the musicals "Take Me Along" (starring Jackie Gleason) and "Wildcat" (starring Lucille Ball).
She found comedy when she fell in with a group of Second City players from Chicago who had taken up residence in Greenwich Village. One of these improv players was Richard Schaal, whom she wed in 1964 (and would divorce in 1978).
Harper and Schaal moved to Los Angeles in 1968, and in a theatre production there in 1970, she was spotted by a casting agent for the role of Rhoda.
During "The Mary Tyler Moore," Harper appeared in her first major film, the comedy "Freebie and the Bean," and later appeared in "Chapter Two" and "Blame It on Rio."
In 1986, she returned to series TV with a family sitcom called "Valerie." While not matching her past critical successes, the series proved popular. But in the summer of 1987, Harper and her manager, Tony Cacciotti, whom she had married a few months earlier, were embroiled in a highly publicized feud with Lorimar Telepictures, the show's production company, and its network, NBC.
In a dispute over salary demands, Harper had refused to report for work, missing one episode. The episode was filmed without her. She was back on duty the following week, only to be abruptly dumped and replaced by actress Sandy Duncan. The show was renamed "Valerie's Family" and then "The Hogan Family."
Meanwhile, lawsuits and countersuits flew. In September 1988, a jury decided that Harper was wrongfully fired. She was awarded $1.4 million compensation plus profit participation in the show (which continued without Harper until 1991).
"I felt vindicated," Harper wrote in her memoir. "I had beaten Lorimar and reclaimed my reputation."
During the 1990s, Harper starred in a pair of short-lived sitcoms (one of which, "City," was created by future Oscar-winner Paul Haggis) and made guest appearances on series including "Melrose Place," "Sex and the City" and "Desperate Housewives."
She reunited with Moore in a 2000 TV film, "Mary and Rhoda." And in April 2013, there was an even grander reunion: Harper and Moore were back together along with fellow "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" alumnae Leachman, White and Georgia Engel to tape an episode of White's hit comedy, "Hot in Cleveland." It was the ensemble's first acting job together in some 36 years.
The character of Rhoda "taught me to thank your lucky stars for a fabulous friend," Harper noted during a news conference, referring to Mary Richards and pointing to Moore and laughing.
Harper is survived by her husband, Tony Cacciotti, and daughter, Cristina Cacciotti.
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August 31, 2019 at 07:26PM
Dior stokes outrage with new ad for its Sauvage fragrance - CP24 Toronto's Breaking News
LOS ANGELES - A new ad for a Dior men's fragrance called Sauvage sparked outrage Friday for its use of Native American culture and symbols.
The French luxury goods company posted a trailer Friday of a Native American dancer and promised more details about the fragrance on Monday. Another post, on Instagram, noted the campaign was developed along with Native American consultants. But the ad continued to receive heavy criticism for being insensitive and having an offensive name.
The videos had been removed from Dior's Instagram and Twitter accounts by Friday afternoon, although they still appeared on some accounts devoted to Johnny Depp, the fragrance's celebrity spokesmodel. It is unclear whether Dior will release a film starring Depp that was part of its efforts to promote the fragrance. The company did not return emails seeking comment Friday.
Sauvage in French has a variety of meanings, including wild, unspoiled and savage. The fragrance is not new; it has been produced by Dior since the mid-1960s, and Depp has promoted it before.
Some critics seized on Depp's involvement. His portrayal of Tonto in the 2013 movie “The Lone Ranger” was also criticized, despite the actor working with consultants from the group Americans for Indian Opportunity, which also consulted on the Dior ad. Depp was adopted as an honorary citizen of the Comanche Nation in a private ceremony by the group's founder.
“Cultural appropriation for us is a huge thing because we've been dealing with this since colonization,” said Ron “Looking Elk” Martinez, one of the consultants on the Dior ad in a video posted about its creation. “Our presence on this project is really to help. So for us to make sure that the look and the identity is authentic is very important.”
As part of the Sauvage campaign, Depp stars in a film called “We Are the Land” that is described in marketing materials as an “ode to Mother Earth” and says the inclusion of the danger is meant to be “a powerful tribute to this culture, portrayed with immense respect.”
A representative for Depp did not respond to a message seeking comment.
Dior had posted trailers and other images from its new Sauvage campaign earlier in the week, but they did not generate similar reactions.
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August 31, 2019 at 06:41AM
Venice International Film Festival 2019 Scorecard - Rotten Tomatoes
Aaaaand here comes awards season 2019, as Venice stages the 76th iteration of its film fest, mere days before the Toronto International Film Festival, as a presage of the industry campaigning mayhem in the coming weeks and months. This year’s Venice Film Festival boasts a number of big ticket premieres, including the so-serious Joker, James Gray’s Ad Astra, Noah Baumbach’s Marriage Story, and opener The Truth, from Hirokazu Kore-eda. Will these and the rest of this year’s selections have the same cultural impact as previous Venice premiere highlights of this decade, like Roma, The Shape of Water, Black Swan, or Arrival? Maybe Joker…if the fickle arthouse crowd shows up at the box office.
We’ll be updating the Venice Film Festival 2019 Scorecard as long as it runs and the reviews keep coming in, so check back daily from now until September 7!
#57
Adjusted Score: 100.082%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
#56
Adjusted Score: 66.959%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
#55
Adjusted Score: 36.261%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
#54
Adjusted Score: 78.185%
Critics Consensus: Ad Astra takes a visually thrilling journey through the vast reaches of space while charting an ambitious course for the heart of the bond between parent and child.
#53
Adjusted Score: 31.059%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
#52
Adjusted Score: 25.959%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
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August 31, 2019 at 01:34AM
Connie Britton & Nicole Kidman Support Sheryl Crow After 'Threads Release! - Just Jared
Connie Britton and Nicole Kidman are showing support for their friend Sheryl Crow!
The group joined some other gal pals to celebrate Sheryl‘s Threads album release with a hike in Tennessee!
Connie took to her Instagram to share some cute group photos from the outing.
“Celebrating the beautiful @sherylcrow today and her #Threads album release! I know what a labor of love this one was and feel so joyful watching her put it out there. Also, the best to have great girlfriends to celebrate with! #GreatSmokyMountainsTN,” Connie captioned the photo.
You can now stream Sheryl Crow‘s album Threads on all music platforms!
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August 31, 2019 at 10:57AM
Valerie Harper's daughter shares dad's sweet tribute to late actress - Page Six
Valerie Harper‘s daughter shared her father’s touching tribute to her famous mom on Twitter shortly after the television star’s death.
“My dad has asked me to pass on this message: “My beautiful caring wife of nearly 40 years has passed away at 10:06am, after years of fighting cancer,” she said in a tweet. “She will never, ever be forgotten. Rest In Peace, mia Valeria.”
Harper had been suffering from leptomeningeal carcinomatosis since 2013. She previously beat back lung cancer in 2009, People reported.
In recent weeks, doctors had advised Harper’s husband, Tony Cacciotti, to place her in hospice care, something he had refused to do.
“I have been told by doctors to put Val in Hospice care and I can’t [because of our 40 years of shared commitment to each other] and I won’t because of the amazing good deeds she has graced us with while she’s been here on earth,” he said in a Facebook post last month.
“We will continue going forward as long as the powers above allow us, I will do my very best in making Val as comfortable as possible,” he wrote.
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Remembering Emmy-winning actress Valerie Harper - CBS This Morning
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2019-08-31 11:55:36Z
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Mama June's Former House Totally Gutted in New Photos - TMZ
Mama June was living in such squalor before fleeing her house, it had to be totally gutted by the new owner ... and we've got pics of the shocking conditions.
Neighborhood sources tell us there's been constant demolition at June's house over the last week to clear it out. You can see from the pics ... everything from the kitchen to the bathrooms and bedrooms has been torn apart. Some rooms are stripped down to the drywall and subflooring.
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Our sources say a family with 4 children is getting ready to move into the house, and it was so filthy they've decided to rip it up and start all over.
TMZ broke the story ... June and her boyfriend, Geno, recently left the Hampton, GA home and have plans to buy an RV and tour the country.
As a result, her daughter, Alana -- aka Honey Boo Boo -- is now living with her big sister, Pumpkin.
Alana turned 14 on Wednesday, but it doesn't appear June was part of the celebration. June's family issued her an ultimatum last month, choose Geno or Alana. So far, she's sticking with her BF.
As for her old house -- it's gonna need rehab and TLC. Not unlike June, if you ask her fam.
https://www.tmz.com/2019/08/31/mama-june-house-inside-demolition-trash-photos/
2019-08-31 08:00:00Z
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Actress Valerie Harper, known for ‘Rhoda,’ ‘Mary Tyler Moore Show,’ dies at 80 - CityNews
Valerie Harper, who scored guffaws, stole hearts and busted TV taboos as the brash, self-deprecating Rhoda Morgenstern on back-to-back hit sitcoms in the 1970s, has died.
Longtime family friend Dan Watt confirmed Harper died Friday, adding the family wasn’t immediately releasing any further details. She had been battling cancer for years, and her husband said recently he had been advised to put her in hospice care.
Harper was a breakout star on “The Mary Tyler Moore Show,” then the lead of her own series, “Rhoda.” She was 80.
She won three consecutive Emmys (1971-73) as supporting actress on “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” and another for outstanding lead actress for “Rhoda,” which ran from 1974-78. Beyond awards, she was immortalized — and typecast — for playing one of television’s most beloved characters, a best friend the equal of Ethel Mertz and Ed Norton in TV’s sidekick pantheon.
Fans had long feared the news of her passing. In 2013, she first revealed that she had been diagnosed with brain cancer and had been told by her doctors she had as little as three months to live. Some responded as if a family member were in peril.
But she refused to despair. “I’m not dying until I do,” Harper said in an interview on NBC’s “Today” show. “I promise I won’t.” Harper did outlive her famous co-star: Mary Tyler Moore died in January 2017. Ed Asner, Cloris Leachman and Betty White are among the former cast members who survive her.
In recent years, Harper’s other appearances included “American Dad!” ″The Simpsons” and “Two Broke Girls.”
Harper was a chorus dancer on Broadway as a teen before moving into comedy and improv when, in 1970, she auditioned for the part of a Bronx-born Jewish girl who would be a neighbor and pal of Minneapolis news producer Mary Richards on a new sitcom for CBS.
It seemed a long shot for the young, unknown actress. As she recalled, “I’m not Jewish, not from New York, and I have a small shiksa nose.” And she had almost no TV experience.
But Harper, who arrived for her audition some 20 pounds overweight, may have clinched the role when she blurted out in admiration to the show’s tall, slender star: “Look at you in white pants without a long jacket to cover your behind!”
It was exactly the sort of thing Rhoda would say to “Mar,” as Harper recalled in her 2013 memoir, “I, Rhoda.” Harper was signed without a screen test.
Of course, if CBS had gotten its way, Rhoda might have been a very different character with a much different actress in place. As “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” was being developed, its producers were battling a four-point decree from the network, which insisted that the nation’s TV viewers would not accept series characters who were (1) divorced, (2) from New York, (3) Jewish or (4) have mustaches.
The producers lost on having Mary Richards divorced (instead, she had been dumped by her long-time boyfriend). But with Rhoda they overrode the network on two other counts.
The show that resulted was a groundbreaking hit, with comically relatable Rhoda one big reason.
Item: “What am I? I’m not married, I’m not engaged. I’m not even pinned. I bet Hallmark doesn’t even have a card for me!”
Item: Eyeing a piece of candy, Rhoda wise-cracked: “I don’t know whether to eat this or apply it directly to my hips.”
“Women really identified with Rhoda because her problems and fears were theirs,” Harper theorized in her book. “Despite the fact that she was the butt of most of her own jokes, so to speak, … her confident swagger masked her insecurity. Rhoda never gave up.”
Neither did Harper, who confronted her own insecurities with similar moxie.
“I was always a little overweight,” she once told The Associated Press. “I’d say, ‘Hello, I’m Valerie Harper and I’m overweight.’ I’d say it quickly before they could. … I always got called chubby, my nose was too wide, my hair was too kinky.”
But as “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” evolved, so did Rhoda. Rhoda trimmed down and glammed up, while never losing her comic step. The audience loved her more than ever.
A spinoff seemed inevitable. In 1974, Rhoda was dispatched from Minneapolis back home to New York City, where she was reunited with her parents and younger sister in a new sitcom that costarred Nancy Walker, Harold Gould and Julie Kavner.
She also met and fell in love with the hunky owner of a demolition firm.
The premiere of “Rhoda” that September was the week’s top-rated show, getting a 42 percent share of audience against competition including Monday Night Football on ABC. And a few weeks later, when Rhoda and her fiance, Joe, were wed in a one-hour special episode, more than 52 million people — half of the U.S. viewing audience — tuned in.
But “Rhoda” couldn’t maintain those comic or popular heights. A domesticated, lucky-in-love Rhoda wasn’t a funny Rhoda. By the end of the third season, the writers had taken a desperate step: Rhoda divorced Joe. Thus had Rhoda (and Harper) defied a third CBS taboo.
The series ended in 1978 with Harper having played Rhoda for a total of nine seasons.
She had captured the character by studying her Italian stepmother. But Harper’s own ethnicity — neither Jewish nor Italian — was summed up in a New York Times profile as “an exotic mixture of Spanish-English-Scotch-Irish-Welsh-French-Canadian.”
And she was not a Gothamite. Born in Suffern, New York, into a family headed by a peripatetic sales executive, she spent her early years in Oregon, Michigan and California before settling in Jersey City, New Jersey.
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August 31, 2019 at 06:18AM
Judy Review | Movie - Empire
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1968. With her ex-husband Sid Luft (Rufus Sewell) demanding custody of her children and struggling to pay a $4 million tax bill, fragile Hollywood legend Judy Garland (Renée Zellweger) takes up a sold-out residency at London’s Talk Of The Town nightclub. Can she keep it together so the show can go on?
There is an image around halfway through _Judy_ that captures Judy Garland (Zellweger) slumped in her dressing room, head bowed, cigarette burning in hand, surrounded by wall-to-wall flowers, a depleted Garland before literal garlands. It’s a moment that gets to the heart of the last days of Garland’s life, the difference between the private and the public, despair and sadness crystallised against a rose-coloured world-view. It’s something Rupert Goold’s film doesn’t quite manage again. For, despite an imposing performance by Renée Zellweger, Judy never exposes the dark heart of Garland’s last years, creating an enjoyable backstage drama movie while failing to get under its protagonist’s skin.
Like last year’s much better _Stan & Ollie_ (it shares a character in showbiz impresario Bernard Delfont), Tom Edge’s screenplay examines Garland through the prism of a late-in-life UK engagement peppered with flashbacks to key moments in her early years as a child star. After a talk-y start in Los Angeles (Gemma-Leah Devereux is a dead spit for Liza Minnelli), things pick up when Garland arrives in London, refuses to rehearse then knocks ‘By Myself’ out of the park. Garland is paired with an assistant-cum-minder, Ros (Jessie Buckley, using a fraction of her talents), and the subsequent uphill struggle to get Garland stage-ready is entertaining. We see glimpses of other areas of Garland’s life — a brutal TV interview about her children, her lover Mickey Deans (Finn Wittrock) surprising her in London — but it’s in the theatre where ‘Judy’ impresses most.
The uphill struggle to get Garland stage-ready is entertained.
The film is less surefooted when it comes to dealing with Garland’s past. Interspersed in the ’60s timeline are flashbacks to young Judy in ’30s Hollywood, being ugly-shamed on the set of The Wizard Of Oz by Louis B. Mayer, denied a French fry at lunch with Mickey Rooney to control her weight, and an act of rebellion as she jumps in a tank at a manufactured birthday party staged two months before the actual date. Yet the correlation between Judy’s brutal management by Mayer and her later-in-life troubles feels simplistic, psychoanalysis 101 that undercuts any attempts at complexity. Equally banal is a plot thread back in London involving Garland and two gay fans (Andy Nyman, Daniel Cerqueira) that feels entirely engineered to pay homage to Garland’s status as a gay icon rather than offer any sense of convincing organic drama.
It’s a small film that never successfully evokes the scale of old-school Hollywood — the LA sequences feel very stage-bound — or the louche London of the ’60s. Zellweger goes some way to etching Judy’s loss — there’s a touching late-on moment when Judy phones home to daughter Lorna (Bella Ramsey) — and goes for broke on stage, barnstorming her way through ‘The Trolley Song’ or smouldering on ‘Come Rain Or Come Shine’. Yet the film really stumbles in its big climax, pulling a cheap trick, parlaying one of Hollywood’s saddest, most tragic stories into a feel-good moment. Garland — and Zellweger — deserved so much more.
Judy is an enjoyable, sincere attempt to present a multi-faceted portrait of a Hollywood legend, bolstered by a strong Renée Zellweger. Yet it never really finds the subtleties and depths to make it compelling and the ‘inspirational’ ending diminishes a sad, complex life.
https://www.empireonline.com/movies/reviews/judy/
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Dior ad stokes outrage - Business News - Castanet.net
A new ad for a Dior men's fragrance called Sauvage has sparked outrage for its use of Native American culture and symbols.
The French luxury goods company posted a trailer Friday of a Native American dancer and promised more details about the fragrance on Monday. Another post, on Instagram, noted the campaign was developed along with Native American consultants. But the ad continued to receive heavy criticism for being insensitive and having an offensive name.
Sauvage in French has a variety of meanings, including wild, unspoiled and savage.
Critics also decried the involvement of Johnny Depp, who is the celebrity face of the fragrance and stars in a film promoting Sauvage.
A message sent to Dior seeking comment about the reaction to the ad was not immediately returned.
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Fall movie preview 2019: Awards contenders to watch - Mashable
Welcome to our 2019 Fall Movie Preview. All week long we're covering the films you need to know about as we head into the final months of the year, from indie gems to awards hopefuls to blockbuster smashes.
The Academy Awards aren't for another five months, but the race to them begins... oh, right about now.
The last few months of the year are when studios unleash all those titles they're hoping will go the distance. Some will prevail, others will stumble, still others will come out of nowhere to trip up the more expected contenders — and we'll be there watching it all, drinking in the drama and mentally preparing our Globes bets.
Here's what to watch if awards season is your thing...
... and you'd never bet against Christian Bale: Ford v. Ferrari (Nov. 15)
There are no sure bets in awards season, especially this far out — but Christian Bale in a historical drama comes pretty close. The actor's been nominated four times in the past decade, and he could be in the running again with Ford v Ferrari, which pairs him up with Matt Damon (another Oscar favorite) in a thrilling true story about the determined men who built a race car for Ford that could take on Ferrari.
... and you stan Adam Driver: The Report (Nov. 15)
It's been a great year to be an Adam Driver fan: Not only did he nab his first Oscar nomination for BlacKkKlansman, he's appeared in two films already with three more coming this fall. One of those is The Report, which garnered serious Sundance buzz for Driver in particular. You know that line about actors so compelling, you'd watch them read a phone book? Driver turns writing a 7,000-page report into utterly riveting stuff.
... and the foreign language categories are your fave: Portrait of a Lady on Fire (December 6)
Since its world premiere at Cannes, Portrait of a Lady on Fire has been scooping up prizes and nomination and inspiring phrases like "best film of 2019." That doesn't necessarily mean it'll be up for the big prizes come awards season, to be sure — but it does mark the film as one worth paying attention to, even if only for your own enjoyment. Directed by Céline Sciamma (Girlhood), it follows a young artist (Noémie Merlant) who begins to fall in love with the woman (Adèle Haenel) she's been tasked with painting in secret.
... and you're a musical theater nerd: Cats (Dec. 20)
Cats looks exactly as bananas as you'd expect from a movie that employs cutting-edge digital fur technology to turn human beings into singing, dancing, two-legged felines. And yet, its awards-friendly pedigree is impossible to deny: It's directed by Tom Hooper (of The King's Speech and Les Misérables), is based on a Broadway smash hit, and stars a bevy of A-listers like Idris Elba, Taylor Swift, Jennifer Hudson, Judi Dench, and Ian McKellen.
... and you can handle revisiting recent history: Bombshell (Dec. 20)
How much you're looking forward to Bombshell probably depends on how much of a stomach you have for rehashing recent history, as the film revolves around the sexual harassment allegations against former Fox News head Roger Ailes. But there's no denying that it's topical, in a way that might get awards voters buzzing, or that it's got some serious talent on board. Oscar winners Nicole Kidman and Charlize Theron play Gretchen Carlson and Megyn Kelly, respectively, while Oscar nominee Margot Robbie rounds out the lead cast as a fictional producer.
... and you were Team Dunkirk in 2017: 1917 (Dec. 25)
1917's combination of a dramatic wartime setting, young leads played by relative unknowns (George MacKay and Dean-Charles Chapman), a star-studded supporting cast (including Colin Firth and Benedict Cumberbatch), and a race-against-time premise bring to mind Dunkirk, and the marketing team has clearly noticed the similarities as well — the first 1917 trailer feels very reminiscent of the ones for that 2018 Best Picture nominee. Hey, it could work.
Come back to learn what to watch if...
Monday: ... you want to be creeped out
Tuesday: ... you just wanna have fun
Wednesday: ... you're with the family
Thursday: ... you're all about awards season
Friday: ... you've only got time for 6 movies
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5 things to know for Thursday, August 29, 2019 - CTV News
A fatal boat crash in Ontario involving a vessel that reality star and one-time Conservative leadership candidate Kevin O'Leary was aboard is drawing attention to boat safety. Here's what else you need to know to start your day.
1. Boat crash: A second person has died following a crash on Ontario's Lake Joseph involving two boats, one of which 'Shark Tank' star and businessman Kevin O'Leary was aboard.
2. Canadian Armed Forces: The Canadian military reservist accused of having connections to a neo-Nazi group has been reported missing after being relieved of his army duties.
3. Brexit: The Queen has approved British Prime Minister Boris Johnson's request to suspend parliament, giving his political opponents even less time to block a no-deal Brexit by the Oct. 31 withdrawal deadline.
4. Team Give'r: Friends and family are mourning former Amazing Race Canada contestant Kenneth McAlpine, who died in what appears to have been a fall from a B.C. mountain peak.
5. Healing with kombucha: A small-batch kombucha brewery in Ottawa is working to change the stigma around addiction by hiring volunteers and staff who have all been touched by substance abuse.
One more thing…
Eco-activism: Swedish teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg has arrived in New York City after a two-week, trans-Atlantic trip on a zero-carbon sailboat to attend the UN climate summits.
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Friday's small-cap stocks to watch - The Globe and Mail
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Our roundup of Canadian small-caps of between $100-million and $2.5-billion in market capitalization making news and on the move today.
DHX Media (DHX-T; DHXM-Q) announced that Eric Ellenbogen has been appointed CEO and vice chair of the board, effective Aug. 29. Mr. Ellenbogen succeeds Michael Donovan, who has stepped down as CEO, the company said.
Mr. Donovan has also stepped down as executive chair and will continue to serve on the board as founding chair, the company stated. Donald Wright has been appointed non-executive chair.
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Cansortium Inc. (TIUM-U-CN) said its second-quarter revenue increased 19 per cent to $6.1-million, compared to pro-forma revenues of $5.1-million for the second quarter of 2018. Analysts were expecting revenue of $5.6-million.
Its consolidated net loss totalled $5.3-million, or 3 cents per share, compared to pro-forma net income of $4.9-million, or 4 cents per share for the second quarter of 2018.
The company also revised its full-year revenue outlook to $40-million from its previous outlook of $80-million to $82-million, citing delayed cultivation and dispensary openings. It also expects a consolidated net loss of approximately $30-million for fiscal 2019.
The company also said it expects to be profitable in the first quarter of 2020, citing "anticipated incremental cultivation capacity, dispensary openings, and operating momentum resulting in increased revenues expected by year-end.
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Plus Products Inc. (PLUS-CN) reported second-quarter revenues climbed to US$3.6-million a 125-per-cent increase from revenues of US$1.6-million for the same quarter last year. Its loss was US$5.4-million or 17 cents US per share versus a loss of US$1.1-million or 10 cents US a year ago.
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Dixie Brands Inc. (DIXI-U-CN) reported second-quarter revenue was US$3-million an increase of 266 per cent from US$817,558 of revenue a year earlier. “Revenue growth was driven by sustained presence and increased dispensary penetration in established markets, increasing traction in the key California market, the first full quarter of sales in Michigan, and the introduction of new products,” the company stated.
Its net loss attributable to the company was US$6.8-million compared to US$1.2-million a year earlier. “The increased loss resulted primarily from higher operating expenses associated with the expansion of Dixie’s work force, and in particular its sales and marketing organization, as well as costs related to becoming a publicly-listed company,” the company stated.
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What we know and still don't know about the fatal boat crash involving Kevin O'Leary - CTV News
Sean Davidson, CTV News Toronto
Published Friday, August 30, 2019 9:42AM EDT
Last Updated Friday, August 30, 2019 1:40PM EDT
Nearly a week after a double fatal boat crash that involved millionaire businessman and TV personality Kevin O’Leary there are many unanswered questions about what exactly happened.
The Ontario Provincial Police confirmed that two people, a 48-year-old Uxbridge, Ontario resident and a 64-year-old Florida man were killed in the two-boat crash on Lake Joseph, near Emerald Island in Seguin Township, around 11.30 p.m. on Saturday. Seguin Township is about 215 kilometres north of Toronto.
The victims have been identified as father-of-two Gary Poltash and mother-of-three Susanne Brito.
What we know
Kevin O’Leary, who was not seriously injured in the crash, claimed the boat Brito and Poltash were travelling in had “no navigation lights on” and “fled the scene” following the crash.
Police have denied that either of the boats fled the scene, saying that both watercrafts left to "attend a location and both parties called 911."
The two boats involved in the crash were a 13-occupant wakeboard pleasure craft and a small ski boat, police said.
Poltash and Brito were both on the pleasure craft. O’Leary was a passenger on the smaller ski boat, Poltash's brother said.
Kevin O'Leary was involved in the fatal Lake Joseph crash on Saturday. (The Canadian Press)
The boat that Poltash and Brito were on was owned by a friend, who is a medical doctor from California, and owns a cottage on Lake Joseph, Poltash’s brother said.
He also said the doctor drove the boat to a nearby marina so that paramedics would be able to locate them after the crash.
The OPP said the criminal investigation branch is now looking into the crash.
O’Leary said in a statement that he is “fully cooperating” with the police investigation.
On Friday morning, Suzanne Brito's family issued a statement expressing their gratitude for the outpouring of support they've received since her death.
The family asked for privacy in the coming weeks as they cope with the loss. She leaves behind three children, aged 12, 11 and nine.
What we don’t know
Police would not confirm who was driving the boat that O'Leary was travelling in. They would also not confirm how many people were in the boat with O’Leary or who the boat belonged to.
In a statement released by O’Leary after the crash, he claimed the other boat “fled the scene”. While police won’t comment on the specifics of the crash, they quickly rejected that either of the boats fled the scene.
Police have not said if both boats were operating with proper navigation lights.
Police have not said how long their investigation will take or if any charges would be laid.
Three other people were taken to hospital and later released but police would not say which boat those victims were travelling in.
Family and friends remember the victims
The funeral for Brito, who is survived by her husband and three children, will be held on Saturday in Uxbridge, according to an obituary posted online.
In a statement sent to CTV News Toronto, Heidi Barriage described her friend, who was known as Suzana, as “kind, genuine, and vivacious.”
“I loved her from the moment we met. She didn’t take her friendships lightly and made her love known to everyone she cared for,” Barriage said.
“Suzana loved her children deeply and often spoke of her family. She never took life for granted and lived with such a positive energy that many of us will miss dearly. I’m heartbroken and will cherish our friendship forever.”
Susanne Brito, 48, was killed in the crash. (Supplied)
The mayor of Uxbridge, Dave Barton, described Brito as an “active member” of the community.
Barton said her “energy and enthusiasm will be missed by all who knew her.”
Speaking to CP24 on Wednesday night, Larry Poltash remembered his brother as a “handsome guy” who loved to have fun. He said he played football and attended the University of Southern California.
Gary Poltash, 64, was also killed in the boat crash. (Supplied)
Poltash said his brother went to work for a big accounting firm after graduation but ultimately decided to start his own business.
After retirement, he moved to North Carolina and then eventually settled in Florida, where he has resided for about two years.
Poltash added that his brother’s children are on their way to Toronto and a funeral will likely be held for him in early September in San Pedro, Calif.
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Terminator: Dark Fate's Thrilling Final Trailer Unleashed On Judgement Day - Geek Culture
It’s finally Judgement Day, and to commemorate it, the team behind Terminator: Dark Fate has finally released the final trailer of the movie, as well as its official movie poster.
The sixth instalment in the Terminator franchise, Terminator: Dark Fate will be produced by James Cameron and Tim Miller. Dark Fate will serve as a direct sequel to the first two Terminator films. According to Tim Miller, every Terminator film that came after Terminator 2: Judgement Day happened in an alternate universe and will not affect the main canon.
Terminator fans can also look forward to the return of Arnold Schwarzenegger and Linda Hamilton. While Hamilton will be reprising her role as Sarah Connor, it has long been revealed that Schwarzenegger will come back as a different Terminator, with a whole new chassis number.
New year, new Terminator, are we right?
The new trailer gives us a better glimpse at what to expect from the movie, including an older Sarah Connor that is just as much of a badass as she was in every other Terminator film, as well as several cool fight scenes including the new cast and, of course, Schwarzenegger himself.
We can’t wait to see what the full movie has in store for us.
Terminator: Dark Fate will be released in theatres on November 1, 2019.
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2019-08-30 04:34:52Z
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Terminator: Dark Fate's Thrilling Final Trailer Unleashed On Judgement Day - Geek Culture
It’s finally Judgement Day, and to commemorate it, the team behind Terminator: Dark Fate has finally released the final trailer of the movie, as well as its official movie poster.
The sixth instalment in the Terminator franchise, Terminator: Dark Fate will be produced by James Cameron and Tim Miller. Dark Fate will serve as a direct sequel to the first two Terminator films. According to Tim Miller, every Terminator film that came after Terminator 2: Judgement Day happened in an alternate universe and will not affect the main canon.
Terminator fans can also look forward to the return of Arnold Schwarzenegger and Linda Hamilton. While Hamilton will be reprising her role as Sarah Connor, it has long been revealed that Schwarzenegger will come back as a different Terminator, with a whole new chassis number.
New year, new Terminator, are we right?
The new trailer gives us a better glimpse at what to expect from the movie, including an older Sarah Connor that is just as much of a badass as she was in every other Terminator film, as well as several cool fight scenes including the new cast and, of course, Schwarzenegger himself.
We can’t wait to see what the full movie has in store for us.
Terminator: Dark Fate will be released in theatres on November 1, 2019.
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2019-08-30 04:32:42Z
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Lana Del Rey's "Norman F--- Rockwell" dazzles: review - Los Angeles Times
Anyone as obsessed with California as Lana Del Rey is — obsessed with its beauty and its glamour and with the potential for danger that’s always underbellied the swollen promise of this place — was probably destined for a Laurel Canyon phase, and that’s just where we find the singer on her stirring and emotionally risky new album, “Norman F— Rockwell!”
She might be the decade’s least likely pop star: a believer in slooow tempos who concentrates on albums at a moment when bite-size singles predominate. But where others can struggle to outlive a viral smash, she offers fans entrée into a fully realized world. Which means she’s free to evolve at her own idiosyncratic pace.
The follow-up to 2017’s “Lust for Life,” which featured cameos by the Weeknd and ASAP Rocky, Del Rey’s fifth major-label studio disc surrounds her breathy singing with stately piano and gently fingerpicked acoustic guitar; it’s a quieter, more hand-played effort than her earlier work that went for a hip-hop torch-song vibe and made her a favorite of Kanye West, whose wedding she performed at in 2014.
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In “Bartender,” she describes a party where the “ladies of the canyon” are listening to Crosby, Stills & Nash, while “Venice Bitch” evokes that veteran band’s “Our House” as she sings, “You’re in the yard / I light the fire.” (Later she borrows the title of Neil Young’s “Cinnamon Girl.”)
For Del Rey, who famously assembled her breakthrough “Video Games” clip from found footage, all these references are the latest product of her ongoing rummage through California’s history; no doubt she’ll eventually get deep into the Gold Rush.
Yet she and her primary producer, Jack Antonoff, are also looking back at Laurel Canyon’s folk-rock fantasy of domestic bliss as a way to deepen Del Rey’s own songs about reaching for, and occasionally attaining, the kind of romantic intimacy that’s eluded her in the past.
You wouldn’t call the album happy, exactly — heed that F-bomb in the middle of the title — but tracks such as the tender “Love Song” and “F— It I Love You” represent a clear shift from the gloomy fatalism that so distinguished Del Rey when she emerged in the early 2010s as an alternative to the cheerful likes of Kesha and Katy Perry
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“You write, I tour, we make it work,” she sings of a relationship between two creatives in “Venice Bitch.” “You’re beautiful and I’m insane.”
Why the turn toward the light? Del Rey is 34, for one — mature enough by today’s slow-to-grow standards that the old stories about Joni Mitchell and Graham Nash are probably beginning to hold some appeal. (She guards her personal life pretty tightly, so we’re left to presume these songs bear some connection to reality.)
But Del Rey is also a proven dissenter, and nearly 10 years after she released her debut album, “Born to Die,” its influence is unmistakable in music by Ariana Grande, Lorde and Billie Eilish. No less influential is her cut-and-paste visual style, which is impossible not to think of every time the opening credits to HBO’s “Succession” come on screen.
What stands out now — in an era defined by bleary, depressive pop songs — is someone yearning, as Del Rey does in “Venice Bitch,” for “Hallmark — one dream, one life, one lover.” Or her insistence in the strummy “Mariners Apartment Complex” that “you took my sadness out of context.”
The gratifying thing about this album — beyond its gorgeous melodies and Del Rey’s singing, which has never been more vivid — is that even as she’s mellowed her attack, her sense of humor has grown more pointed. The title track is somehow both sensitive and merciless in its description of a “man-child” who talks to the walls when his friends get bored of him.
“Why wait for the best when I could have you?” she wonders over a handsome arrangement lush with horns and strings.
And for all her interest in the idea of creating a home — “You don’t ever have to be stronger than you really are when you’re lying in my arms,” she comforts a lover in “California” — Del Rey isn’t blocking out the world outside. Near the end of “The Greatest,” in which she sings longingly about a bar where the Beach Boys used to go, she strings together a series of short lines that together offer a chilling portrait of life in 2019:
L.A. is in flames, it’s getting hot
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Kanye West is blond and gone
“Life on Mars” ain’t just a song
I hope the live-stream’s almost on
Antonoff keeps playing a little piano lick after that, each repetition slightly softer than the one before it. It feels like a cushion Del Rey knew you’d need.
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Lana Del Rey
“Norman F— Rockwell!”
(Interscope)
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/music/story/2019-08-29/lana-del-rey-norman-rockwell-album-review
2019-08-30 04:02:00Z
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5 things to know for Thursday, August 29, 2019 - CTV News
A fatal boat crash in Ontario involving a vessel that reality star and one-time Conservative leadership candidate Kevin O'Leary was aboard is drawing attention to boat safety. Here's what else you need to know to start your day.
1. Boat crash: A second person has died following a crash on Ontario's Lake Joseph involving two boats, one of which 'Shark Tank' star and businessman Kevin O'Leary was aboard.
2. Canadian Armed Forces: The Canadian military reservist accused of having connections to a neo-Nazi group has been reported missing after being relieved of his army duties.
3. Brexit: The Queen has approved British Prime Minister Boris Johnson's request to suspend parliament, giving his political opponents even less time to block a no-deal Brexit by the Oct. 31 withdrawal deadline.
4. Team Give'r: Friends and family are mourning former Amazing Race Canada contestant Kenneth McAlpine, who died in what appears to have been a fall from a B.C. mountain peak.
5. Healing with kombucha: A small-batch kombucha brewery in Ottawa is working to change the stigma around addiction by hiring volunteers and staff who have all been touched by substance abuse.
One more thing…
Eco-activism: Swedish teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg has arrived in New York City after a two-week, trans-Atlantic trip on a zero-carbon sailboat to attend the UN climate summits.
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R. Kelly Begs Judge To Release Him From Solitary Confinement: Report - HotNewHipHop
R. Kelly is locked up right now with no signs of him being released any time soon. The singer's been locked up in solitary confinement out of fear that he'll be harmed in Gen. Pop. The singer admitted he was happy about being separated from the other inmates out of fear that some of them might retaliate against him. That was in July and a lot has changed since including his stance on being in solitary.
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It looks like R. Kelly's lost all fear of being placed in gen. pop. According to TMZ, the singer is begging the judge to release him from solitary confinement and allow him to join the rest of the inmates in general population in jail. Now, given that he's an accused preying on young girls and a celebrity at that, general population makes him an immediate target. However, he's reportedly willing to take the chance because solitary is taking a toll on his mental and physical health.
Steven Greenberg, Kells lawyer, listed off a bunch of reasons why Kells should be released from solitary -- the main one being that solitary is meant to punish inmates. Greenberg argued that Kelly is locked up without human interaction, access to sunlight and media, recreational activities or even private one-on-one visitations that aren't under surveillance.
Some of what Greenberg brought up seems a bit inhumane as well, even for an accused pedophile. Aside from only getting one 15-min. phone call a month, he's apparently only allowed to shower three days a week.
Greenberg said that Kelly's being treated like this because he's a celebrity, even though he's obeyed the rules and hasn't been convicted of any of the crimes he's been charged with.
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