Posts by Sophie Clearwater
Author Jessica Knoll Teases Twisty Ride in This Excerpt of New Novel Helpless
“That’s not very pretty,” Henry says. He uses his thumb to drag my other eyelid down to match. I think of what I must look like, sitting there with my eyes closed and fish lips smacking, and I realize that must not look very pretty either, and despite what’s happening-what is happening? —I still want…
Read MoreA Formidable Angelina Jolie Anchors Observant Fashion Drama ‘Couture’
Jolie is a formidable actor, and she makes you believe both in Maxine’s initial disbelief and, a little later, in her whirring sense of urgency. But even though Jolie’s Maxine has main-character energy to spare, she’s not necessarily the most compelling figure here. Winocour, a smart, sensitive director, made one of the most striking films…
Read MorePrime Day Beauty Tool Deals End Tonight — Shop Red Light Masks, IPL Devices & More Before It’s Too Late
What Deals to Expect During Prime Day 2026 Shoppers can expect major discounts across categories including tech, beauty, home, kitchen, fashion, and wellness during Prime Day 2026. Amazon devices like Echo speakers, Fire TVs, Kindles, and Ring doorbells are usually among the biggest markdowns, but the event has also become known for impressive deals on…
Read MoreHow to Solve the Art World’s Courage Problem
Jeff Koons’s Balloon Dog (Yellow) in “Pop Forever Tom Wesselmann &” at Fondation Louis Vuittonin 2024. Photo by Anne-Christine POUJOULAT / AFP It’s not always those among us who survive and thrive in brutal environments who are the best of us. If anything, they almost never are. In such a world, it is almost always…
Read MoreA Young Woman Searches for Her Lost Parents in the Graceful, Restorative ‘Roméria’
Marina does have allies among her extended family, including a raffish teenage cousin (played, with swaggering charm, by an actor who goes only by the name of Mitch) and a dissolute but extremely sympathetic uncle (Alberto Gracia), who helps her understand the extent to which her father, as he suffered through addiction and a stigmatizing…
Read MoreMamdani’s Promised Rent Freeze Approved in New York: What to Know
“Everything since has been theater,” Smyth added, citing hearings, public comments, and the data release. Speaking to cable news network News 12, Mamdani echoed that the board acts independently and added that he “look[s] forward to the outcome, the decision that they will make.” What are landlords’ issues with rent freezes? Mamdani himself has pointed…
Read MoreThe Faint Hope for Peace Between India and Pakistan
The four-day war was brief but fierce, with hostilities waged across vast geographies. Drones and missiles were fired deep into each country’s territory, and both militaries deployed weaponry and defense technologies sourced from multiple countries. Pakistan drew on Chinese and Turkish equipment; India relied on French and Israeli weapons. In the four years before the…
Read MoreInside Ariana Grande’s World After Ethan Slater Breakup: How She’s Continuing to Spread Eternal Sunshine
But just keep breathin’ and breathin’ and breathin’ and breathin. Because Grande’s music pov will continue to come across, including in her upcoming album Petal. “It’s basically about something that is full of life growing through the cracks of some things cold and hard and challenging,” she explained in a May 7 Instagram video. “It’s…
Read MoreHow AI Will Make Art Worse
Following this trend, we can expect AI to push artists to be less perfect and more human, and for their art to get better by becoming “worse.” To be sure, AI is not the first technology to face the accusation that it will ruin art forever. When photography emerged in the nineteenth century, painters feared…
Read MoreIran Strikes Vessel in Strait of Hormuz, Pausing Escort Operations
On Tuesday, Trump attempted to allay those concerns, claiming that any economic benefit for Iran will be funnelled back to the U.S. “The Money and/or Sanctions that the U.S. Treasury is releasing goes into escrow, controlled by the U.S.A., and will be used for the purchase of food and medical supplies, exclusively from the United…
Read MoreUntangling Olivia Wilde’s Don’t Worry Darling Scandal as She Makes Directing Comeback With The Invite
By August, though, LaBeouf had been replaced with Harry Styles, due to what was initially cited as scheduling conflicts. Months after they shot in the fall of 2020, Wilde confirmed a romance with Styles the following January. This was about the time Wilde realized not all was right in Victory. “People were f—ing pissed,” Wilde…
Read MoreLove Island USA Removes Alannah Keyser Amid Alleged Use of Racial Slurs
Who Is That Witty Scottish Announcer on Love Island? Iain Stirling pulls a double shift as the narrator of both Love Island UK and Love Island USA—and during filming, he’s also on a tight schedule. “At 12 in the afternoon U.K. time, I’d log on to Love Island UK,” the Scottish comedian detailed to TODAY…
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