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Isobel Elsom and Ida Lupino in Ladies in Retirement (Charles Vidor, 1941)
Cast: Ida Lupino, Louis Hayward, Evelyn Keyes, Elsa Lanchester, Edith Barrett, Isobel Elsom, Emma Dunn, Queenie Leonard, Clyde Cook. Screenplay: Garrett Fort, Reginald Denham, based on a play by Denham and Edward Percy. Cinematography: George Barnes. Production design: Lionel Banks. Music: Ernst Toch.
Ladies in Retirement, a nifty little thriller included in the Criterion Channel's "Noir by Gaslight" series, centers on a steely performance by Ida Lupino. She plays Ellen Creed, a Victorian spinster trying to make a life for herself and her two eccentric sisters, Emily (Elsa Lanchester) and Louisa (Edith Barrett). The sisters have been living in London with a family that has become fed up with them, so Ellen is forced to persuade her employer to let them come live with her in a somewhat gloomy house on the edge of a marshland. The employer, whom Ellen serves as a kind of companion/housekeeper, is the imperious Leonora Fiske (Isobel Elsom), a retired "actress." (We later learn that she was only a fourth-from-the-right chorus girl, who managed to accumulate a small fortune from stage door johnnies and wealthy patrons.) Unfortunately, the sisters manage to alienate Leonora as well. Louisa is batty and hypersensitive, and Emily is brusque and a collector of things she picks up on her walks, like shells and birds' nests and even a dead bird, which she leaves scattered around the house that Leonora bullies the maid-of-all-work, Lucy (Evelyn Keyes), to keep immaculate. Ellen knows that she can't make a living for herself and her sisters, and she doesn't want them sent to an asylum, so she decides to take things, which means Leonora's neck, in her own hands. Curtain on act one. (The stage origins of the movie are apparent throughout.) Enter Albert Feather (Louis Hayward), a somewhat distant relative of the Creed women, who calls Ellen "Auntie" and charms the sisters. He also charms Lucy. Albert has been to the house before, while Ellen was in London collecting her sisters, and managed to flatter Leonora into giving him some money. But now he's on the lam, wanted for embezzlement from the bank where he worked. When he finds that Leonora is gone -- "on a trip," as the story goes -- he begins to suspect that Ellen is hiding something. And so the plot hinges on his quest to uncover Ellen's secrets, with the aid of the infatuated Lucy. It's a nicely paced movie, with fine performances, especially by Barrett and Lanchester as the weird sisters. Though remembered today more as a director than as an actor, Lupino, then in her early 20s, excels in a part that had been played on Broadway by the much older Flora Robson. Although Louisa and Emily are the more flamboyantly mad of the sisters, Lupino manages to hint that Ellen is the maddest of them all.
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List of books I read this year
Persuasion by Jane Austen
Red Dragon by Thomas Harris
A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
Morirás Lejos by José Emilio Pacheco
Devotions by Mary Oliver
Imaginary Friend by Stephen Chbosky
Mrs. Dolloway by Virginia Woolf
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Collected Poems by Edna St. Vincent Millay
My Cousin Rachel by Daphne Du Maurier
Sputnik Sweetheart by Haruki Murakami
Twelve Moons by Mary Oliver
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame by Victor Hugo
At Swim-Two-Birds by Flann O’Brien
New Selected Poems 1966-1987 by Seamus Heaney
Ulysses by James Joyce
The Celtic Twilight: Faerie and Folklore by W. B. Yeats
Normal People by Sally Rooney
The Dark by John McGahern
The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Une sirène à Paris by Mathias Malzieu
Atonement by Ian McEwan
The Shipping News by Annie Proulx
After the Quake by Haruki Murakami
Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
Breakfast at Tiffany’s by Truman Capote
A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms by George R. R. Martin
The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris
Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
A Room with a View by E. M. Forster
Les Fleurs du Mal by Charles Baudelaire
E. E. Cummings: Complete Poems 1904-1962 by E. E. Cummings
No me preguntes cómo pasa el tiempo: Poemas 1964-1968 by José Emilio Pacheco
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Mrs. Caliban by Rachel Ingalls
The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins
Beloved by Toni Morrison
After Dark by Haruki Murakami
The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats by W. B. Yeats
The Collected Poems of Oscar Wilde by Oscar Wilde
Breath, Eyes, Memory of Edwidge Danticat
Marina by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
El Aleph by Jorge Luis Borges
Selected Poems by Marina Tsvetaeva
The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides
Kiss Kiss by Roald Dahl
Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood
Adonis by Adonis
If Not, Winter by Sappho
Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-García
The Trial by Franz Kafka
The Iliad by Homer
Collected Poems, 1909-1962 by T.S. Eliot
The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke by Rainer Maria Rilke
The Odyssey by Homer
The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson by Emily Dickinson
The Painted Bird by Jerzy Kosinski
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Süskind
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
The Tattoist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris
Fire & Blood by George R.R. Martin
Arráncame la vida by Ángeles Mastretta
The Wonder by Emma Donoghue
32 Candles by Ernessa T. Carter
Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman by Haruki Murakami
Collected Poems, 1912-1944 by H.D.
I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
Hannibal by Thomas Harris
The Tell-Tale Heart and Other Writings by Edgar Allan Poe
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving
The Shining by Stephen King
The Complete Poems by John Keats
The Monk by Matthew Gregory Lewis
The Birds and Other Stories by Daphne du Maurier
Fingersmith by Sarah Waters
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsay
The Hour of the Star by Clarice Lispector
La ciudad de vapor by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde by Audre Lorde
Hiroshima by John Hersey
Selected Poems: 1965-1975 by Margaret Atwood
Selected Poems II: 1976-1986 by Margaret Atwood
Dearly: New Poems by Margaret Atwood
Uncollected Poems by Rainer Maria Rilke
My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell
The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa
Circe by Madeline Miller
The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran
The End of Everything (Astrophysically Speaking) by Katie Mack
Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
Poems: 1962-2012 by Louise Glück
Lady Windermere’s Fan by Oscar Wilde
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BANNED CLASSICS
Banned Classic Books - banned in various countries, time periods, etc. Non-fiction, children's, modern, etc.
How many have you read?
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The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
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The Catcher in the Rye (J. D. Salinger)
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The Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck)
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To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee)
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The Color Purple (Alice Walker)
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Ulysses (James Joyce)
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Beloved (Toni Morrison)
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Lord of the Flies (William Golding)
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1984 (George Orwell)
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Lolita (Vladimir Nabokov)
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Of Mice and Men (John Steinbeck)
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Catch-22 (Joseph Heller)
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Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)
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Animal Farm (George Orwell-1945)
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The Sun Also Rises (Ernest Hemingway)
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As I Lay Dying (William Faulkner)
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A Farewell to Arms (Ernest Hemingway)
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Their Eyes Were Watching God (Zora Neale Hurston)
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Invisible Man (Ralph Ellison)
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Song of Solomon (The Song of Songs, also Song of Solomon or Canticles, is one of the megillot found in the last section of the Tanakh, known as the Ketuvim, and a book of the Old Testament.)
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Gone With the Wind (Margaret Mitchell)
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Native Son (Richard Wright)
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest ( Ken Kesey)
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Slaughterhouse-Five (Kurt Vonnegut)
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For Whom the Bell Tolls (Ernest Hemingway)
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The Call of the Wild (Jack London)
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Go Tell It on the Mountain. (James Baldwin)
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All the King's Men (Robert Penn Warren)
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The Lord of the Rings (J. R. R. Tolkien)
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The Jungle (Upton Sinclair)
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Lady Chatterley's Lover (D. H. Lawrence)
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A Clockwork Orange (Anthony Burgess)
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The Awakening (Kate Chopin)
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In Cold Blood (Truman Capote)
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Sophie's Choice (William Styron)
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Cat's Cradle (Kurt Vonnegut)
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A Separate Peace, by John Knowles
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Naked Lunch (William S. Burroughs)
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Brideshead Revisited (Evelyn Waugh)
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Women in Love (D.H. Lawrence)
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The Naked and the Dead (Norman Mailer)
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Tropic of Cancer (Henry Miller)
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An American Tragedy (Theodore Dreiser)
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Rabbit, Run (John Updike)
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain)
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Candide (Voltaire)
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Sons and Lovers (D.H. Lawrence)
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The Autobiography of Malcolm X (Alex Haley and Malcolm X)
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Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (Dee Brown)
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Fahrenheit 451 (Ray Bradbury)
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Howl ( Allen Ginsberg - a poem)
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Leaves of Grass (Walt Whitman)
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Moby-Dick (Herman Melville)
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Our Bodies, Ourselves (a book about women's health and sexuality produced by the nonprofit organization Our Bodies Ourselves (originally called the Boston Women's Health Book Collective)
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The Red Badge of Courage (Stephen Crane)
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The Scarlet Letter (Nathaniel Hawthorne)
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Sexual Behavior in the Human Male (Alfred C. Kinsey, Wardell R. Pomeroy, and Clyde E. Martin)
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Stranger in a Strange Land (Robert a Heinlein)
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A Streetcar Named Desire (Tennessee Williams)
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Uncle Tom's Cabin (Harriet Beecher Stowe)
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Where the Wild Things Are (Maurice Sendak)
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The Crucible (Arthur Miller)
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Anne Frank: the Diary of a Young Girl (Anne Frank)
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The Bell Jar (Sylvia Plath)
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Arabian Nights (Richard Francis Burton & Geraldine McCaughrean)
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Gullivers Travels (Jonathan Swift)
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou)
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Madame Bovary (Gustave Flaubert)
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Moll Flanders (Daniel Defoe)
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A Wrinkle in Time (Madeleine L'engle)
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Bridge to Terabithia (Katherine Paterson)
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The Chocolate War (Robert Cormier)
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The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Stephen Chbosky)
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Harry Potter (J. K. Rowling)
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The Giver (Lois Lowry)
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Alice in Wonderland (Lewis Carroll)
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The Handmaid's Tale (Margaret Atwood)
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Flowers for Algernon (Daniel Keyes)
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The Outsiders (S. E. Hinton)
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (lMark Twain)
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That Was Then, This Is Now (S.E. Hinton)
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The Golden Compass (Philip Pullman)
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Charlotte's Web (E. B. White)
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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Roald Dahl)
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The Giving Tree (Shel Silverstein)
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The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (C.S.Lewis)
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The Wizard of Oz (L. Frank Baum)
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James and the Giant Peach (Roald Dahl)
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Grimm's Fairy Tales (Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm)
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The Little Mermaid (Hans Christian Anderson)
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Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (Alvin Schwartz
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Winnie-The-Pooh (A. A. Milne)
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Siddhartha (Hermann Hesse)
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The Metamorphosis (Franz Kafka -1915)
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Frankenstein (Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
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The Canterbury Tales (Geoffrey Chaucer)
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The Well of Loneliness (Radclyffe Hall)
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All Quiet on the Western Front (Erich Maria Remarque)
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The Master and Margarita (Mikhail Bulgakov)
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Heart of Darkness (Joseph Conrad)
“A book banned” sounds like a joke.
Are people a bunch of idiots that have to be controlled by some System that decides what can be read and what can not?
It is ridiculous.
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Birds join the grass
Upon me when Juliana came, and
such triumph, must have Matter of cold blowes
through this pocket, risking in the sugary
wings steepd in Beauties to be
calls her faire in the Keyes better, the
small encheason. Niuno vecchio, Lady
Flora. fa suoi al suo essempio. The Dew-
bespangling star, from the place, nay, for
an houre since we go, and for a
stroke. If to see my horse, musicke vnto
blisse. Of Alpine hills inters rage of the
mountains and slily water flicks through pale blue
eggs of robins, but know fatigue with
little joy of this father dewe. They were
not to look back of screams. If I may
not but black blocke bearded barley-sheaves, he rode downe, or
piece. May make perfect the brazen
great deeds can in vain, and he not your
mind. Sun. and the days of tourists. “‘
I rally, noise and glories
of flight, I caught more the northern
front of the dark crag: Let this best for
fear our sir Iohn, to show!’”
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Life & Style, January 28
Cover: Jennifer Aniston in Love with Her Co-Star Jason Bateman
Page 2: Contents
Page 4: Photo Flash -- Rihanna
Page 5: Twinning -- Victoria Justice vs. Josephine Skriver, Kat Graham vs. Heidi Klum, Julianne Hough vs. Abigail Spencer
Page 6: Top 10 Hailee Steinfeld Looks
Page 8: Jeff Bezos’ $137 billion divorce shocker
Page 9: Chrissy Metz’s diva demands driving the This Is Us cast crazy, Throwback -- Allison Janney, Biggest Spenders of the Week -- Adam Levine, Taraji P. Henson, Bruno Mars, Nicki Minaj, Robin Thicke
Page 10: Selena Gomez’s sober companion Austin North, David Beckham’s estranged sister had to sell her belongings to make ends meet, Whose Back Tattoo It -- Odell Beckham Jr., Adam Levine, Conor McGregor, Drake, Justin Theroux, Ryan Phillippe
Page 11: Kendall Jenner’s acne commercial backlash
Page 12: Meghan Markle bans Prince Harry from drinking
Page 13: Courtney Love joins celebrity dating app Raya, Hilary Duff overwhelmed by new baby, VIP Style -- Lin-Manuel Miranda, Constance Wu, Harley Pasternak, Emily Blunt and John Krasinski, Nicole Kidman, Cody Simpson, Tess Holiday, Kimmy Gatewood and Rebekka Johnson and Kate Nash
Page 14: The Week in Photos -- Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga and Sam Elliot
Page 15: Mahershala Ali, Scott Disick and Sofia Richie
Page 16: Jimmy Fallon and The Roots did the Bird Box challenge, Julianne Hough and Brooks Laich, Neil Patrick Harris and David Burtka
Page 18: Will.i.am and Jennifer Hudson, Richard Madden, Pink and Carey Hart and kids
Page 19: Padma Lakshmi
Page 20: Paris Hilton
Page 21: Regina King, Roger Federer and Serena Williams, Mariah Carey and Bryan Tanaka and kids, Rita Ora
Page 22: Nicole Kidman, Ciara and kids, Ashlee Simpson and Evan Ross
Page 24: DJ Khaled and son, Lindsay Lohan, Justin Bieber and Hailey Baldwin
Page 26: Stars Behaving Badly -- Kendall Jenner and Khloe and Kourtney Kardashian, Heidi Klum, Priyanka Chopra and Nick Jonas
Page 29: Say What?! Eddie Redmayne on Heidi Montag, Bill Hader on his busy work schedule, Meghan Trainor on wanting kids, Emily Blunt on Rihanna, Jennifer Hudson
Page 30: Lady Gaga’s wedding on hold
Page 31: Katy Perry and Orlando Bloom Aspen engagement, former roommates Miss North Carolina Caelynn Miller-Keyes and Miss Alabama Hannah Brown are competing again on The Bachelor, Romance Report Card -- Deena Cortese, Christina El Moussa, Sean “Diddy” Combs
Page 32: Rebel Wilson and Mickey Gooch Jr. are back together, Dorit Kemsley and husband PK arguing over money, Keith Urban and Nicole Kidman hire a sex coach
Page 33: Nikka Bella moves on with Artem Chigvintsev, Can You Believe They Dated? Kelly Preston and George Clooney
Page 34: Cover Story -- Is Jennifer Aniston too close to Jason Bateman
Page 38: Prince Charles pressured to give up the throne
Page 40: Beach Body Winners and Losers -- Chris Pratt, Mariah Carey, Nicole Kidman
Page 41: Eva Longoria, Simon Cowell
Page 42: Newly married Miley Cyrus is pregnant
Page 44: Best-Dressed Celeb Kids -- Apollo Rossdale, North West
Page 45: Blue Ivy Carter, Stormi Webster
Page 46: Chanel Marrow, Harper Beckham, Honor Warren
Page 47: Suri Cruise, Tennessee Toth
Page 48: Who Lives Here? DJ Khaled
Page 50: Entertainment
Page 51: Star Review -- Padma Lakshmi, As Seen On-Screen -- Emily Ratajkowski’s black JOSEPH’s Zoom Linen Stretch Trousers
Page 52: Style -- Color Blocking -- Olivia Wilde
Page 53: Blake Lively
Page 54: Golden Globes Fashion -- Saoirse Ronan, Nicole Kidman, Regina King, Emma Stone, Lady Gaga
Page 56: Golden Globes Beauty -- Laura Harrier
Page 58: Style Crush -- Natalie Portman
Page 60: How She Got That Body -- Halle Berry
Page 62: The fabulous life of Jennifer Lopez
Page 64: Diva or Down-to-Earth -- Heidi Klum, Scott Eastwood
Page 65: Padma Lakshmi, Christina Aguilera
Page 66: Social Stars Posts of the Week -- Uzo Aduba, Kate Hudson and Orlando Bloom
Page 67: Henry Cavill, Elizabeth Banks, John Stamos and rescue pup Frieda, Joe Manganiello
Page 68: Horoscope -- Aquarius Alicia Keys, They’re Not Together But They Should Be -- Aquarius Harry Styles and Aries Elle Fanning
Page 70: Made Ya Look -- Carson Kressley
Page 72: What I’m Into -- Vanessa Hudgens
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The World's Best Travel Adventures | Bailey Hall UT
A get-away loaded up with experience travel will send you home with once in a blue moon encounters added to your repertoire, intriguing stories for your companions, and in all honesty looser than your yearly visit to the Florida Keyes.
Bailey Hall UT accumulated the world's 10 most gutsy get-aways for you, the inquisitive and dynamic voyager. Regardless of whether you need to animate your psyche, your body, or both, our suggested travel experiences will keep the sand out of your socks, and the rest out of your accounts.
1. Outback Adventure in Australia
Australia's outback, rambling, generally uninhabited, and spectacularly tough, is one of the last wildernesses of the advanced age. The native Aboriginal individuals have regarding the old custom of the walkabout as a sign of transitioning from youth to adulthood, spending as long as a month on a singular stroll through this wild open country.
What preferred experience over to take your walkabout across the Australian outback? Since not many individuals occupy the region, it is passed on to the graces of nature, untainted by current development. There are excellent blossoms, fascinating birds, and abundant natural life, a blend that draws a large number of sightseers consistently.
2. "Spring Break" in Iceland
Iceland is one major volcanic island, with enough underground geothermal action to warm the water that air pockets up out of the ground to a normal of 176 F. That bubbling water spouts out of the ground and slams into the super cold water of the streaming mountain streams to make north of 800 steaming regular natural aquifers across Iceland's wonderful scene.
Unexpected as it might appear, Iceland has more natural aquifers than some other country on the planet and, as a component of the icy area, Iceland has numerous long periods of long days by which to trip and douse.
3. Scandinavia by Sled
If you're a canine sweetheart, this might be a truly mind-blowing experience. Envision collaborating with five lovely huskies as you guide a sledge across frigid Sweden and Norway. You'll navigate old voyager's courses, along stream edges, and pass customary settlements, with the sublime Norwegian mountains approaching somewhere out there. Meanwhile zooming along behind a bunch of generous huskies.
4. New Zealand on the Rocks
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A line of mountain tops works its direction down the country's South Island like a spine and dabs the shorelines. The climate is quite often great, the air is unpolluted and clean, and the perspectives from the highest points of these pinnacles are astounding. This lovely scene combined with top-notch limestone rock has put New Zealand first spot on the list of global climbing objections.
5. Elephant Trekking in Chiang Mai
The city of Chiang Mai, settled in northern Thailand, is a speedy departure from the brilliant lights-huge city of super metropolitan Bangkok, yet it should be a different universe through and through. Here you can recruit a tuk-tuk, a little carriage drawn by a cruiser, to engine you around the little yet flourishing city, examining flavorful local food varieties, for example, fish curry and banana coconut pudding said Bailey Hall UT.
In the blistering evening, you can bring a bamboo pontoon down the stream. Or on the other hand, go through a day investigating the renowned Chiang Dao Caves, and visit a close-by town where "Karen Long Neck Ladies" intentionally expand their necks with the assistance of metal neck extenders.
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‘In a world where you can be anything, be kind.’
This year’s Mental Health Awareness Week is focusing on my personal top priority in life -kindness. In times of crisis, such as we are right now, kindness is something that either flourishes or gets forgotten about.
Kindness isn’t a particularly bold or heroic behaviour but it can have a huge impact. Being kind is about much more than simply being ‘nice’ to people. It’s about identifying how you can improve the life of someone who is having a harder time than you are and then choosing to do exactly that, just because you can. You won’t necessarily get a huge personal advantage or gain from it, you’ll just make someone else happy and subsequently, you’ll make the world a better place.
In political and capitalist circles, kindness is often shoved into the backseat with a gag in its mouth by things such as selfishness, greed and power. You often have to turn your focus to small communities and special individuals to see kindness shining at its brightest.
As someone who puts kindness at the forefront of every connection I form, every conversation I have and every decision I make, it’s natural for me to gravitate towards books that demonstrate and celebrate it in some way. I’ve picked 10 that show basic human kindness off in the very best way. There has never been a better time to indulge in these wonderful stories, so be gentle with yourself and dive in! -Love, Alex x
1. Are We All Lemmings And Snowflakes? by Holly Bourne
Due to her erratic moods, Olive is sent to Camp Reset where she meets a wonderful cast of characters, each with their own set of mental health problems. It’s realistic, charming and overwhelmingly kind. When this YA contemporary was released, it came with the marketing campaign ‘#kindnessiscontagious’, which is such an accurate reflection of the events of the book. It reminded me that the first step to seeing more kindness in the world is to actually be that kindness for yourself. Self-kindness is something that so few people actually practice but its importance is actually vital to our own mental health and self-esteem. Give it a read because the chances are, you need to!
2. Flowers For Algernon by Daniel Keyes
Flowers For Algernon follows mentally disabled Charlie, who has a procedure that promises to increase his intelligence and therefore change his life. As his IQ increases, he realises that cleverness isn’t the most valuable quality a human can possess. I remember becoming so incredibly angry and upset at the difference between the way he is treated as a clever man compared to how he was treated previously -by almost everyone in his life. It is a true heartache of a book that will remind everyone to extend kindness to those who are most vulnerable.
3. Dear Evan Hansen by Val Emmich
When Connor Murphy kills himself, a letter that was never meant to be read by anyone gives anxiety-riddled Evan Hansen the chance to comfort Connor’s family in their grief. He just has to roll with the lie that he was Connor’s best friend. This heartbreaking YA novel is now a Broadway and West End musical featuring some beautiful songs but the book is just as emotional. Despite being racked with guilt about what he’s doing, Evan selflessly offers Connor’s parents and sister some reprieve from the horrors that they’re going through. He is constantly putting their feelings before his own, which is a true marker of kindness and he is richly rewarded for it.
4. The Language of Kindness by Christie Watson
This gorgeously written and tearjerking nurse’s memoir is irrevocably relevant to today. Despite being retired, Christie Watson has gone back to the NHS frontline amidst the COVID-19 crisis. Drawing on her own painful, heartbreaking memories as well as the history of caregiving, Christie tells us what she has learned about kindness while working across several areas of nursing. From caring for the sickest of children to treating the frailest of adults and everything in between, Christie encourages us to reach out a hand to someone who may need it.
5. Evie and the Animals by Matt Haig
When ten-year-old Evie discovers that she can talk to and hear animals, she vows to use it for good and begins by releasing the school’s pet rabbit into the wild. But when the town’s pets begin to go missing, Evie finds herself up against a dangerous villain with a power of his own. This whimsical middle-grade adventure is a masterclass in taking care of nature and occasionally risking your life for the defenceless!
6. Dear Mrs Bird by A. J. Pearce
When budding Lady War Correspondent Emmy finds herself as Junior Typist for cantankerous agony aunt Mrs Bird at Woman’s Friend magazine, she is strictly forbidden from replying to any letters containing Unpleasantnesses. However, she can’t help but reach out to the women who most desperately need her help. Set in 1941, London, the wonderfully charming Dear Mrs Bird is a celebration of the helpers during World War 2. Amidst the horrors of war, the kindness of strangers prevailed and we should take inspiration from the Emmys of the world in our time of division and isolation.
7. Finding Audrey by Sophie Kinsella
Audrey never leaves the house and rarely takes off her dark glasses but her brother’s best friend Linus is determined to find her and bring her out into the light. Finding Audrey is a touching story of one boy’s determination to improve the life of a mentally ill, isolated girl. If that isn’t pure unadulterated kindness, I don’t know what is.
8. The Boy At The Back of the Class by Onjali Q. Rauf
Eight-year-old Ahmet is the new boy in Alexa’s class and when she learns that he is a Syrian refugee, running from his war-torn homeland, Alexa and her friends make it their business to befriend and help him in every way they possibly can. The kindness that these kids extend to Ahmet really was overwhelming and brought tears to my eyes. They’re brave, selfless and thoroughly inspirational and I know of many real-life adults who should be taking several leaves out of their books.
9. A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman
Ove is a grumpy old man who lives alone and is open about his dislike of other humans until a lively young family move in next door and turn things upside down. I love stories that feature spiky older people getting an education simply through being shown compassion and being reminded of what really matters. The gradual unravelling of Ove’s bitter exterior is so heartwarming to follow and may even change your perspective on those with a tougher shell.
10. Wonder by R. J. Palacio
Auggie Pullman was born with a facial deformity and he’s attending mainstream school for the first time but of course, kids can be staggeringly cruel to those who are different. I know I’ve recommended Wonder to you before but as it launched a worldwide kindness campaign, I couldn’t not mention it in this post. The novel itself contains acts of kindness but Auggie’s courage and sheer brilliance is a real trigger to continue being kind and accepting our fellow humans exactly as they are.
#kindness#mental health awareness week#mental health#books#bookworm#book recommendations#recommended
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Some Books I Read in School:
Americanah x Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Speak x Laurie Halse Anderson
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings x Maya Angelou
Thirteen Reasons Why x Jay Asher
Fun Home x Alison Bechdel
Great Speeches by Native Americans x Bob Blaisdell
Tangerine x Edward Bloor
The Souls of Black Folk x W.E.B Du Bois
Wuthering Heights x Emily Bronte
Blacks x Gwendolyn Brooks
Burning in Water, Drowning in Flame x Charles Bukowski
Sifting Through the Madness for the Word, the Line, the Way x Charles Bukowski
You Get So Alone x Charles Bukowski
The Best Small Fictions x Robert Olen Butler
In Cold Blood x Truman Capote
Black Voices x Abraham Chapman
The Perks of Being a Wallflower x Stephen Chbosky
The Beauty of the Husband x Anne Carson
Alphabet x Inger Christensen
Canterbury Tales x Geoffrey Chaucer
Great Speeches by African Americans x James Daley
The Virgin Suicides x Jeffrey Eugenides
Confrontations with the Reaper x Fred Feldman
The Great Gatsby x F. Scott Fitzgerald
If I Stay x Gayle Forman
Lais of Marie de France x Marie de France
The Schreber Case x Sigmund Freud
The “Wolfman” and Other Cases x Sigmund Freud
Memoirs of a Geisha x Arthur Golden
Backpack Literature: an Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, Drama and Writing 4th ed. x X.J. Kennedy & Dana Gioia
The Fault in Our Stars x John Green
Looking for Alaska x John Green
Paper Towns x John Green
N*gg** x Dick Gregory
Introduction to Buddhism x G. K. Gyatso
True Love x Thich Nhat Hanh
Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man x Steve Harvey
The Scarlet Letter x Nathaniel Hawthorne
A Farewell to Arms x Ernest Hemingway
The Outsiders x S.E. Hinton
Solar Storms x Linda Hogan
The Iliad x Homer
The Odyssey x Homer
Farewell to Manzanar x Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston & James D. Houston
Tea x Velina Hasu Houston
Humanimal x Bhanu Kapil
Flowers for Algernon x Daniel Keyes
Intensity x Dean Koontz
Velocity x Dean Koontz
To Kill a Mockingbird x Harper Lee
The Realm of Possibility x David Levithan
The Cambridge Companion to Life and Death x Steven Luper
Blood x Shane McCrae
Moby Dick x Herman Melville
Twilight Series x Stephenie Meyer
The Crucible x Arthur Miller
A Mercy x Toni Morrison
Recyclopedia x Harryette Mullen
What Makes Law: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Law x Liam Murphy
The Fuck Up x Arthur Nersesian
What Mama Said x Osonye Tess Onwueme
My Year of Meats x Ruth Ozeki
A Child Called It: One Child’s Courage to Survive x Dave Pelzer
Freak the Mighty x Rodman Philbrick
The Bell Jar x Sylvia Plath
Anthem x Ayn Rand
Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children x Ransom Riggs
Growing Up Native American x Patricia Riley
Housekeeping x Marilynne Robinson
Black Noise: Rap Music and Black Culture in Contemporary America x Tricia Rose
Harry Potter Series x J.K. Rowling
Holes x Louis Sachar
The Catcher in the Rye x J. D. Salinger
Between Shades of Gray x Ruta Sepetys
Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter x Seth Grahame-Smith
Hamlet x William Shakespeare
A Midsummer Night’s Dream x William Shakespeare
Othello x William Shakespeare
Romeo and Juliet x William Shakespeare
Taming of the Shrew x William Shakespeare
The Tempest x William Shakespeare
Twelfth Night x William Shakespeare
The Rose that Grew From Concrete x Tupac Shakur
A Series of Unfortunate Events series x Lemony Snicket
Go Ask Alice x Beatrice Sparks
A Walk to Remember x Nicholas Sparks
My Vocabulary Did This to Me: The Collected Poetry of Jack Spicer x Jack Spicer
Maniac Magee x Jerry Spinelli
Stargirl x Jerry Spinelli
Of Mice and Men x John Steinbeck
Dracula x Bram Stoker
Gulliver’s Travels x Jonathan Swift
The Hobbit x J. R. R. Tolkien
Slaughterhouse-Five x Kurt Vonnegut
Meridian x Alice Walker
Charlotte’s Web x E.B. White
The Picture of Dorian Gray x Oscar Wilde
Black Boy x Richard Wright
12 Million Black Voices x Richard Wright
Through the Arc of the Rain Forest x Karen Tei Yamashita
The Book Thief x Markus Zusak
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More snowday activities :D :D
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Lady Bird Keyes. Aspiring criminal, klepto, perfectionist, only loves 1 person.
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This kid looks like a doll, I hope he grows up handsome!
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welcome to the world Arlo Keyes!
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