Month: September 2022

Despite six years of musical silence, Rihanna (34) is still the second mostsuccessful performer in the Top 40. Finally, the singer returns to the stageand on the intermission show of the Super Bowl. Where was Rihanna all thistime?

Take a look at Rihanna’s website and all you’ll find are posts about lingerie,skincare products, and makeup. The latest lipstick, a nice scent or a bottleof oil for supple skin? Rihanna offers it all.

It fits in with the image that has arisen in recent years of the singer whowas born on February 20, 1988 as Robyn Rihanna Fenty in Barbados. Pop queenRihanna built a real business empire, started her own charity and had herfirst child, a son, in May with American rapper A$AP Rocky.

Although not everything worked out – her own clothing line Fenty wentdefunct after two years – the artist launched several brands in recent years.For example, Fenty Beauty stands for cosmetics, Savage X Fenty __ for lingerieand Fenty Skin __ for skin care products. Not that Rihanna left it at that,she presented several of her own shoe lines in collaboration with sports brandPuma and oh yes, she also has an acting career.

A pregnant Rihanna with A$AP Rocky. © Getty Images for Gucci

Music has been relegated to second place for years. her latest album, Anti ,dates back to 2016. A new studio album, her ninth, should have been out longago. Reportedly, that is a reggae record, which Rihanna announced for 2019.However, he stayed away and so far the singer has not commented on theproject.

Super Bowl

Still, Rihanna seems busy with new music right now, something that would alignwell with her announcement to perform during the Super Bowl break in February.The American football season finale is one of the most watched sporting eventsin the world. Alone and together with A$AP Rocky, Rihanna has recently beenspotted at a music studio in Los Angeles on several occasions. That will notbe a coincidence, although the question is to what extent her original plansfor the new album have survived.

The Super Bowl intermission has long been a marketing stage that benefits theworld’s greatest artists. From Coldplay to Madonna, from Michael Jackson tothe Rolling Stones and from Lady Gaga to Prince of Beyoncé; all benefited froma huge TV audience. Rihanna will follow up on a whole company on February 12,as the intermission show this year was provided by no fewer than fivecolleagues: Eminem, Dr. Dre, Mary J. Blige, Kendrick Lamar and Snoop Dogg.

Her fortieth (!) and last song in the Top 40 may come from 2017 (a guest roleon Wild Thoughts by DJ Khaled), there is still only one artist that Rihanna_(Diamonds, Umbrella, Shut up and drive)_ trumps in success in this chart.David Guetta has been the king of the Top 40 for a year, the lead that Rihannaheld the five years before. She had in turn, very symbolically, replaced thepop queen of yesteryear: Madonna.

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Rachel Zegler has opened up about her health.

the West Side Story star, 21, used her Instagram Stories on Saturday as aplatform to share a photo of the scar she had after a breast cancer scare at19 led to an out-patient biopsy procedure.

In a since expired post that was captured by JustJared, Zegler told her story.

“Two years ago I found a lump in my breast and went through what wasundoubtedly the scariest week of my life,” she wrote over the photo.

“No OB/GYN was taking new patients due to the backlog of the pandemic, but Iwas fortunate to have the care of my pediatrician who prescribed me anultrasound, which led to an out-patient biopsy procedure,” she continued.”Thankfully it was benign.”

“And now the scar serves as a reminder to check my breasts regularly for anyirregular growth – the fibroadenoma in my left breast is a common occurrencebut nevertheless extremely scary to find. Early detection saves lives!!! Checkyour titty meat :), Zeler concluded.

Rachel Zegler

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The Golden Globe winner has used her platform to share health updates in thepast, from mental to physical. In 2018, prior to her meteoric rise, shetweeted: “Hello. My name is Rachel. I suffer from anxiety and depression, andoccasionally feel depersonalized/dissociated from reality. I am a work inprogress. I am finding the common ground between me and my mind. And that’senough. But please, ask if I’m okay.#EndTheStigma“

RELATED: Get to Know Rachel Zegler, Who Plays Maria in West Side Story

Next up for the actress is Disney’s Snow White. In a chat with AndrewGarfield for Varieties Actors on Actors series earlier this year, sherecalled that her live-action casting announcement “was a huge thing that wastrending on Twitter for days, because all of the people were angry.”

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“Ah, those people. The people that we need to educate. The people that we needto love into awareness,” explained Garfield, 38.

“We need to love them in the right direction,” replied Zegler, in reference tothose who criticized her casting over her race. She added, “At the end of theday, I have a job to do that I’m really excited to do. I get to be a Latinaprincess.”

“Never in a million years did I imagine that this would be a possibility forme,” the actress noted. “You don’t normally see Snow Whites that are of Latindescent. Even though Snow White is really a big deal in Spanish-speakingcountries.”

“Blanca Nieves is a huge icon whether you’re talking about the Disney cartoonor just different iterations and the Grimm fairytale and all the stories thatcome with it,” Zegler continued. “But you don’t particularly see people wholook like me or are me playing roles like that.”

RELATED: Snow White Star Rachel Zegler Says She Worked to Make a ‘ModernWoman Out of’ Disney Character

Rachel Zeler; Snow White

20th Century Studios; Everett Rachel Zegler (L); Snow White

The 1937 Disney animated classic Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs serves asthe inspiration for the upcoming live-action reimagining, but don’t expect abeat-by-beat retelling.

“Most of my character does not work for today’s audience, I’ll just say it,”Zegler — who plays the lead princess in the movie opposite Gal Gadot as theEvil Queen — told PEOPLE at the D23 Expo Sept. 12, comparing their new versionto the original. “We did a really deep dive into fixing and making a modernwoman out of Snow White.”

She and the filmmakers set out to “make a new version of the character.”

“I think she’s 13 in the original cartoon, so we started there and said, ‘No,she’s 18 in this one.’ She’s a bit more independent,” Zegler, 21, continued.”She’s also living in grief. I mean, there was a lot of complex emotion thatwe decided to deep-dive into. And understanding what it’s like to be ateenager on top of all that.”

the Snow White remake will be directed by Marc Webb ( The Amazing Spider-Man ) and will also star Gal Gadot as the Evil Queen.

For ten years, Michael Leendertse brooded on a drama series about the planecrash in the Bijlmer. It resulted in a multimillion-dollar project that willbe on television on Thursday. ‘During my research I had goosebumps up to myneck.’

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It starts to drizzle at the monument where 43 victims of the Bijlmer disasterare commemorated. Screenwriter Michael Leendertse hides under ‘the tree thatsaw everything’, a sturdy poppy that survived the plane crash and wasnicknamed because of the eye-shaped pattern on its bark.

It will be thirty years ago on October 4, in Amsterdam-Zuidoost, that anIsraeli plane crashed into the Groeneveen and Klein-Kruitberg gallery flats.Half of the Netherlands sat with the board on their lap in front of the TV andsaw how Studio Sport was interrupted for an inserted news with Gijs Wanders.Leendertse was ten years old, living in Zwijndrecht. “I remember that mymother called my aunt in Amstelveen very emotional. Was she still alive?Something terrible had happened in Amsterdam. Later that evening we saw theimages of burning flats in the Bijlmer and the despair of the residents. Thatmade such an impression.”

Victim Support

Near the memorial, a large part of his drama series disaster flight_Hospitalized. The set – with debris, ‘wounded’ and ambulances driving back andforth – seemed so lifelike that Victim Support was ready to assist residentsof the Bijlmer if necessary. “Of course that is very sensitive, but theresidents we spoke to also said: if our story is told, then preferably here,”says the screenwriter, known for series such as _From God Lose , Feuten and_Flying Dutchmen_.

The five-part series follows the young veterinarian Asha from the Bijlmermeerand two journalists from competing newspapers, who go in search of answers.After the disaster, there was great uncertainty about the contents of the – asit turned out later – military aircraft, the missing black box and theunexplained health complaints of survivors. Men in white suits were spotted inthe rubble. Who were they? All those questions led to conspiracy theories. Itwas not until six years later, in 1998, that a parliamentary inquiry was held.

“All the great events in this series are true. You can find that on Google.But it remains a dramatized interpretation of reality,” Leendertse emphasizesa few times.

Goosebumps

For example, the vet is a fictional character, an amalgamation of variousinhabitants of the Bijlmer that he spoke to. His research spanned ten years.At that time, he read everything about the disaster, spoke to relatives andformer politicians, but also retired journalist Vincent Dekker from Fidelity, who got into the case and on whom one of the characters is based. “During myconversations with Vincent, I had goosebumps on my neck. He talked about theinternational interests of the Netherlands, Israel and America to cover upthis accident – ​​I say deliberately accident, it was not a conspiracy. At onepoint, he found a pack of Israeli brand cigarettes in his yard. Was the secretservice Mossad monitoring his work or was he getting paranoia?”

After a walk through the former disaster area – the Klein-Kruitberg galleryflat was completely demolished and is now part of the park – Leendertsesettled down at a halal butcher, which also functions as a community centerannex coffee shop. Over a cup of steaming coffee: “Despite all the research, Istill remain an outsider in this multicultural district.”

While writing the script, he asked for help from Joy Delima (28), a Rotterdamactress and writer with roots in Suriname and Curaçao. “She was not yet bornwhen the disaster took place, but because of her origin she knows much betterhow Surinamese and Antillean people feel about life than I do as a white man.Because of her input, her character Asha came to life.”

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Except for the drama series disaster flight the KRO-NCRV also releases adocumentary, podcast and a digital reconstruction with the same title. The TVseries cost millions of euros. This was partly due to the special specialeffects, which – as far as we know – have not been used before in theNetherlands. For example, the scenes of the parliamentary inquiry were shot infront of giant LED screens that run completely around the set and rotate withthe camera. The big difference with the well-known green screens is thatactors are in the middle of a digital environment, which looks lifelike andspectacular.

In recent years, Leendertse has done so much research that he probably couldhave made a documentary, but he preferred to make a thriller series in whichfact and fiction are mixed. “That gives me more room to choose a perspective.For me, this series is not only about the plane crash, but also about theNetherlands today. In thirty years, the gap between politics and citizens hasnot narrowed: just look at the gas drilling in Groningen or the allowanceaffair in which citizens are still seen as numbers. They are not heard,because larger, often economic, interests are involved. The system fails timeand again.”

If the viewer pulls out that deeper layer, that’s a bonus, he says. “Iespecially hope that the viewer will soon say: what a fat, gripping cover-upthriller. Then my mission is really successful.”

Disaster flight can be seen daily from Thursday 29 September at KRO-NCRV at9.30 pm on NPO1.

Melissa Etheridge says the grief about her son Beckett’s death has been”endless.”

The “Come to My Window” singer opened up to The Daily Beast about Beckett,whom she shared with ex Julie Cypher (with sperm donated by David Crosby),succumbing to his opioid addiction in 2020 at the age of 21. She said herfamily is still recovering from his loss, and shared what his death has taughther.

The mom of four said of motherhood, “Even when my son left this earth, and thechoices he made, I would still not change a thing. To know that kind of love,the things he taught me about life…”

The greatest lesson has been, “He taught me that I cannot save anyone else,and I am not supposed to save anyone else,” she said. “The best thing I couldever do for him was stand in my own truth and my love of myself, take care ofmyself, and try to show him that. He never caught on to that part, but then ofcourse the drugs had him by then.”

Etheridge said Beckett was in a “downward spiral” into addiction beginning atage 17. He was training to be a pro snowboarder, reportedly with hopes tocompete in the X Games, when he had an accident. He was prescribed painkillersfor an ankle injury, which led to substance abuse. Etheridge said the injury”shattered his life” because “couldn’t do what he loved anymore.” It hurts hisself-confidence.

As a parent, Etheridge said she tried everything to help him as far astreatment programs and, sometimes, tough love.

“It was four years of a downward spiral, and I kept thinking, ‘We’ll keepputting him into programs,’ ‘You’ve got to learn this, get this,'” sherecalled. However, “Life was too hard for him, and when you have an easy outwith drugs — I can understand it. I always had a joy of life, but he neverreally did… Then it was four years of watching him slowly go down. I put himin programs. I cut him off. You do everything you can think of. You think,”There’s something I can do, I can save him. I can show him. I can punish himinto this. I can do something.’ Then, finally, towards the end, I realized, ‘Ican’t do anything else, I know I may get the call any day that he’s dead. It’sup to him. It’s his life. He has to figure something out. made thesechoices.'”

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Heartbreakingly, “By the time he died, I wasn’t surprised,” she admitted. “Iwas incredibly sad. I hadn’t heard from him in four days. They sent policeofficers to check on him, and then I was told, ‘He’s gone.'”

Melissa Etheridge poses with daughter Bailey, son Beckett and mother Elizabethat a ceremony where the singer and songwriter received a star on the HollywoodWalk of Fame in Los Angeles September 27, 2011. (Photo: REUTERS/Phil McCarten)

She has second-guessed how she handled it all, admitting, “The guilt and shamewill eat you up. It was very, very stressful. It took a little while for ourwhole family to recover. We still are. We bring his memory in, we celebratehim. We celebrate how funny and joyful he was. He’s still with us, and we helpeach other not bring any kind of guilt and shame into our home.”

But the grievance is “endless,” she admitted. “I don’t imagine I will everstop thinking about him. I find myself constantly thinking about him. He helpsme now by knowing that I have to turn those thoughts into joy, that I can’tlet those thoughts bring me down. I truly have a deep belief we are in aphysical reality and the non-physical reality is right there with us and weare doing this together. I really feel him when thinking about him with love.That’s when he is closest with me, and he teaches me to be more loving in mythoughts also.”

The year Beckett died, the Grammy winner started the Etheridge Foundation tosupport research into new treatments for opioid use disorder.

Etheridge has been married to actress/writer/producer Linda Wallem since 2014.Her daughter Bailey Cypher is 25 and she has nearly 15-year-old twins, Johnnieand Miller, with ex-wife Tammy Lynn Michaels.

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Vanna White, 65, has reigned as co-host of Wheel of Fortune for 40 years now— a role, she tells Yahoo Life, that never gets “monotonous.”

“I have a different dress on, we have different puzzles,” she explains. “So Itreat every show like it’s brand new and it’s so much fun.”

The game show, which she co-hosts alongside Pat Sajak, does __ look differentthis year, thanks to the new LED screen puzzle board. White, however, is stillas glamorous as ever, with her ever-changing array of designer gowns. Justdon’t expect her to look as dolled up at home.

“I feel like I’m the same person I’ve always been growing up in North MyrtleBeach, South Carolina. I really am myself,” she says. “On TV, I’m dressed upglamorous and so forth. But when I go home, I’m in sweats and jeans and tennisshoes — but I’m still the same person on the inside.”

White may be a fashion icon, but she says she takes little credit for herstyle choices on camera.

“Through 40 years, we have had many changes. From the big shoulder pads to theskimpy dresses, I’ve worn it all,” she explains. “The designers send theirlatest clothes every year and I wear them. So it’s really up to them. It’stheir style and I’m modeling their clothes. So the pressure really isn’t on me— I am who I am on TV. When I’m off TV, you’re just going to see me in jeansand no makeup.”

Vanna White talks with Yahoo Life about her romance rules and why she doesn’toverthink aging. (Photo: Getty Images)

That’s why she says she doesn’t see herself as much of a “sex symbol.”

“I’m just so simple and comfortable and not glammed out all the time,” sheexplains. “I feel like I’m just that country girl.”

White does feel pressure when watching herself age on camera, joking that it’s”depressing” to see how much she’s changed since she started her work on_Wheel of Fortune_ when she “was a baby.”

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“I’m not a young spring chicken anymore and, it is what it is,” she says. “Ido the best I can. I eat pretty good. I exercise. I just try to stay healthy,and be the best I can at my age. That’s all you can do.”

White’s preferred form of exercise is her spin bike, which she does five daysa week, as well as regular push-ups and and sit-ups.

“I’m still wearing these clothes that I’ve been wearing for the past 40years,” she says. “I have to do a fitting every couple of weeks, so I need tofit into these sample sizes. That keeps me encouraged.”

As for beauty advice, there’s one daily ritual she swears by.

“The best piece of beauty advice that I can offer is to wear sunblock, and notonly on your face and your body, but your hands,” she says. “As we get older,you can tell a woman’s age by her hands…Don’t leave them out because you’realways driving and the sun’s always on them.”

White was previously married to George Santo Pietro from 1990 to 2002, and thetwo share two children, now in their 20s. In terms of the advice she givesthem, she says, “Don’t get married until you’re 30. You can live with yourgirlfriend or boyfriend. You can have all the fun you want. Just don’t getmarried until you ‘re 30.”

Her reasoning? “We all go through many different things throughout our younglife,” she says.

“I think we mature as we get older and just, why not? Wait until you’re 30,you can still do all the same stuff,” she says. “Just don’t tie that knot,just in case.”

White never remarried after the end of her relationship with Pietro, but shehas __ found love with John Donaldson, her partner of 11 years. The couplekeep their romance low key — her perfect date night, she says, is “going outto dinner, having a bottle of wine” or even just a hike or walk.

“I don’t see us ever being apart,” she says. “He’s my soulmate and I’mextremely happy.”

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Ezra Miller hasn’t made the news for months because of movie roles. The actor,who identifies as non-binary, became discredited for, among other things,assault, the grooming of minors and burglary. They will face trial in the USstate of Vermont on Monday for the latter offense.

By Michiel Vos

Miller has been arrested several times in recent months, but this is thefirst time it has come to trial. The actor, known as The Flash in severalfilms, was arrested several times for outbursts of violence during their stayin Hawaii. Miller was ordered to pay a $500 fine after assaulting a woman at akaraoke bar.

In other incidents, such as a break-in at a couple where the actor stolepassports, the charges were dropped. A number of times it also came to asettlement outside the courtroom.

The burglary for which they must appear in court, took place on May 1 in thestate of Vermont. There the Fantastic Beasts actor a farm. Millerallegedly broke into a house and stole bottles of alcohol. The residents werenot home at the time.

The police spoke to witnesses and looked at CCTV footage and ended up withMiller. Still, it took more than two months before the actor was found to hearthe charges.

The house where the actor broke into is said to be the home of a childhoodfriend. That’s what Miller’s spokesperson says to Vanity Fair. “Miller wascooking with their mother and needed rice wine for this. They went to thechildhood friend’s house to pick up the wine and another bottle of wine,” saidthe spokesperson. The actor would not have realized that the friendship hascooled.

Miller is due to appear in court on Monday for a preliminary hearing. Thiswill give them the exact charge.

Ezra Miller as The Flash in the movie Justice League (2017).

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It looks like this won ‘t be the last time the actor will have to appear incourt to answer for their behavior. Miller is also suspected of grooming :building a relationship of trust with a minor and then exploiting it.

The parents of a 12-year-old child filed a restraining order against Miller,alleging an “unhealthy interest” in the child. Insiders say to _Vanity Fair_that this ban will remain in force until June 2023. Massachusetts PoliceDepartment confirms a case against Miller that includes three interactionswith the 12-year-old.

The parents of eighteen-year-old activist Tokata Iron Eyes also wanted tokeep the actor away from their child. Iron Eyes met Miller at age 12 (theactor was 23 at the time) and bonded with them. The activist now lives withMiller. According to the parents, the actor keeps her under their controlwith, among other things, intimidation, violence and drugs.

Miller said in a statement last month that she has entered therapy to treat”complex mental health problems.” “I want to apologize to everyone who hasbeen touched by my past behavior. I will do everything I can to be healthy andproductive again,” they said.

Miller should hit theaters in the movie from June 2023 The Flash. It is notyet clear whether the release will go ahead as planned.

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Every Monday we look ahead: which films do you definitely not want to miss?Unfortunately, we only have tips from Netflix and Prime Video; of the rest wedon ‘t know yet what’s new to see.

A Trip to Infinity (2022)

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Direction : Jonathan Halperin, Drew Takahashi | cast : AnthonyAguirre, Stephon Alexander, Eugenia Cheng, Moon Duchin | Release date :September 26 on NETFLIX

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Eminent mathematicians, physicists and cosmologists delve into the infiniteand its mind-boggling implications for the universe. The Dead Don ‘t Die(2019)

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Direction: Jim Jarmusch | cast : Bill Murray, Adam Driver, Tom Waits, Chloe Sevigny| Release date : September 27 on NETFLIX

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The Dead Don’t Die is a horror comedy from screenwriter and director JimJarmusch (Paterson, Gimme Danger) featuring an ensemble cast of actors whoregularly appear in his films: Bill Murray, Adam Driver, Chloë Sevigny, TildaSwinton, Iggy Pop, Steve Buscemi and Tom Waits. Also featuring Selena Gomez,Danny Glover, Caleb Landry Jones and Carol Kane. The Dead Don’t Die is anoriginal film that satirically illuminates the American people and theirdesires and portrays society in a comic yet terrifying way.

blonde (2022)

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Direction: Andrew Dominik | cast : Ana de Armas, Bobby Cannavale, Lucy DeVito,Adrien Brody | Release date : September 28 on NETFLIX

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After a traumatic childhood, Norma Jeane Mortenson grows into a movie star andsex symbol in 1950s Hollywood. She became world famous under the pseudonymMarilyn Monroe. But the clean appearance on the silver screen contrastssharply with the love problems, exploitation, abuse of power and drugaddiction she faces in her private life.

My Best Friend ‘s Exorcism (2022)

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Direction: Damon Thomas | cast : Elsie Fisher, Amiah Miller, Cathy Ang, RachelOgechi Kanu | Release date : September 30 on PRIME VIDEO

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It’s 1988. Sophomore Abby and Gretchen have been best friends since fourthgrade. But after a night of nude swimming goes horribly wrong, Gretchen startsbehaving… differently. She’s moody. She is excitable. And weird things keephappening when she’s around. Abby’s investigation leads her to some startlingdiscoveries – and by the time the story reaches its terrifying conclusion,Abby and Gretchen’s fate will be determined by a single question: Is theirfriendship strong enough to defeat the devil?

Paranormal Activity 3 (2011)

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Direction: Henry Joost, Ariel Schulman | cast : Lauren Bittner, ChristopherNicholas Smith, Chloe Csengery, Jessica Brown | Release date : October 1on NETFLIX

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Eighteen years before the events of parts 1 and 2, we follow Katie and hersister Kristi during a sleepover with their grandmother. Their dailyactivities are recorded on film as a reminder for the parents and Katie andKristi are also allowed to use the camera. Katie and Kristi get into bizarresituations and a pact is made with the devil about Hunter…

It started two rows behind me. A gasp in a fist. A chuckle spread through theroom like a fire. The couple in front of me looked around, disturbed. Thenthere was a liberating slash from the left – a woman laughed. I started tolaugh with relief myself. We watched Marilyn Monroe’s death scene in the newmovie blonde.

Earlier this month, during the Venice Film Festival, the premiere received ahistorically long standing ovation of over twelve minutes. The film is basedon the 2000 novel of the same name by Joyce Carol Oates.

There was an excited atmosphere at the cash register and popcorn. I too wasreally looking forward to it, whereas ten years ago I would have probablyturned my nose up at a Monroe biopic. I’m sure I’m not the only one. In anessay for the American vogue Lena Dunham describes her initial disinterestin Monroe. Dunham was more interested in women helping to shift the culturallandscape, contrarian forces. “I found women who called Monroe an inspirationcorny at best, boring at worst.” It wasn’t until she started reading aboutMonroe—like the classic Marilyn from Norman Mailer – she discovered thecomplexities behind the Hollywood star, her intellectual interests and hertraumas. About the ways sexism and the media pushed her to the top and toppledher at 36.

Typically something to make a film about in 2022 (see also: Princess Diana).Too bad it was done by director and screenwriter Andrew Dominik, whose scriptleaves no room for even a sliver agency. Instead, he drowns Monroe invictimhood and beautiful tears. Almost all looks are accurately based onexisting photo shoots. But that is precisely why the film maintains its goldencage, instead of bending the bars open.

“You can’t believe anything you read in the magazines,” Monroe says in thefilm. You shouldn’t just believe director Dominik either. In one scene we seeMonroe and President Kennedy. There was plenty of gossip about their allegedaffair; little of it has ever been confirmed. Dominik let his imagination runwild. Kennedy calls Monroe his little slut in the movie. And we see hersucking off the leader of the free world while he’s on the phone with ajournalist. Close-up, from Kennedy, and insanely long. I looked away, not outof prudishness, but because I felt I was looking at something really perverse.A made-up sex scene about a woman who was plagued during her lifetime by hypedmedia scandals.

It is a film that, under the guise of a more progressive zeitgeist, glorifieswhat it pretends to criticize.

The final scene shows Monroe’s blond locks, luscious between the stark whitesheets, her hand voluptuously along her neck, her heart – so sexy – giving wayunder the barbiturate overdose. The laughter in the room showed no disrespectto the main character, but rather protected her. It was the refusal to takethis image for truth. It was one of the most loving bursts of laughter I’veheard in a long time.

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Yvonne Coldeweijer throws one after the other celebrities in front of thebus. Often the juice that the gossip queen brings is right, but it alsosometimes happens that it is not right. There has been a lot of discussionabout the trustworthiness of her ‘spies’, and after the latest juice she’sshared, more and more questions arise. Is Yvonne going too far?

“Have you ever dated a celebrity? Or do you know someone who ended up in bedwith a celebrity and experienced something crazy / stupid / funny?”, was thequestion Yvonne asked her followers on Instagram yesterday.

Yvonne’s inbox soon filled with the craziest stories about celebrities. Anyonecould message her and the juice was immediately shared on her Instagramaccount. But the big question is: how reliable is that juice really?

‘sweetie’

For example, a follower shares a story about Hans Kraay Jr. “Not dated but hada big sjans behind the bar of our football club when he was a guest at thetime,” writes the follower, who calls Hans a ‘smeerkees’ because he is awanted to have a drink with her. ,,I couldn’t get rid of that guy… I wassmeared just before the end of the game.”

One night stand

Another follower starts talking about Martin Garrix. A friend of hers is saidto have had a one night stand with the DJ. ,,It only lasted 3 minutes and whenhe then asked what grade she would give him and she indicated that it wasdisappointing, he became very irritated. She also said that he was being veryoblivious/showy.”

secret dates

Juvat Westendorp is also not untouched. “Juvat Westendorp dated when he had agirlfriend,” writes another follower. “Secretly meet up in his car at theMediapark in Hilversum.”

Like Juvat, Eljerio Elia would also secretly meet with different women. “Wasin 2015, but then he was already with his current wife,” says a follower inconversation with Yvonne. “Sometimes he stayed all night, sometimes he leftafter a few hours.”

Bait

The gossip queen goes one step further: she shares a story from a follower whosays that Djarno Hofland used André Hazes as bait to lure women to a hotel.

,,He tried to lure you by saying he was with André. Fortunately, I neverresponded, it took about 2 years”, says this follower, who happens to haveanother story. ,,The other is Mart Hoogkamer, he still contacts me about twicea month. He has a secret Snapchat account that his girlfriend certainlydoesn’t know about.”

Fictional?

Some stories are confirmed by multiple followers, but some are not. Becauseanyone can submit a story and nothing seems to have been researched by Yvonne,it raises the question whether a number of stories were made up by herfollowers.

Little ‘juice’

In addition to a juice channel, Yvonne also has a paid Telegram group wheresubscribers receive the first scoops for ten euros a month. But in recentmonths, few videos are said to have been shared in the group. “In thebeginning really nice/lots of juice, but for the last 3 months really onlyonce a week or sometimes once every two weeks,” a member recently told juicechannel Realityfbi.

Also, not all videos would have been as ‘juicy’ as Yvonne suggested on herInstagram. ,I paid 2x 1 month because I was curious about the juice from Roseand Gregory”, said another. ,,That video was nothing like that… Via Instagramit seems indeed much more than the videos behind the paywall.” Starting to run

The high point of being funny at my seventies primary school was scribbling acapital T on the map of the Netherlands on the wall of the play-learning roomnear Urk. Woahah. With pencil, it was that cowardly. I can’t recall exactlywhy that was liked, but I fear that children in the last century used ‘Turk’as a container swear word for anyone who was not a native Dutchman.

Well takes Özcan Akyol, in the second season of The Cousins ​​of Eus (NTR).the viewer already three weeks to the country of birth of his parents. Thefourth time, Sunday evening, he was able to explain with reasons that ‘the’Turk does not exist, not even in Turkey. He says that he belongs to a minoritynot only in the Netherlands, but also in Turkey. He is Turkish in theNetherlands, but Aleliet in Turkey. Alevism is a liberal-humanist offshoot ofIslam. In this episode he speaks with Kurds and Armenians, with Arabs andSuryoye. And then there are the Lazen and Circassians, the Zaza and Turkmen.

Travel programs also come in different types. You had Ruben Terlou in China,Jelle Brandt Corstius in Russia. They spoke the language, and they sought outthe people who told them the stories of the land. But they remained strangers,outsiders. And that’s not Eus. At least, that’s what I think, when I see howeasily he talks to people there too.

‘Happy and joyful’

Eus is looking for the ‘common denominator’ of all those population groups inthe country that has barely existed for a century (Turkey will celebrate itscentenary in 2023). Seems sensible to me, safer too, to look for whatfraternizes instead of what alienates. In Sanliurfa, a city of two millioninhabitants, he finds all togetherness. Kurds, Turks and Arabs live there andwhoever he speaks to, everyone is so “happy and happy” that you suspectsomething in the drinking water. Eus is there at the time of Ramadan, themonth of fasting, that certainly contributes to the best mood. Eus concludesthat faith brings and keeps the people in this prophetic city together. Andthat common denominator went just a little too fast for me. I was stillchewing on what the young men he spoke to on the street said. They raved abouttheir city, everyone was each other’s brother. One had been to Istanbul once,but he didn’t like it. Why? The girls. They were dressed too naked. This givesthe impression that people are not only kept there in Sanliurfa, but alsobelow it. No fasting during Ramadan for Eus, by the way. Not that he ate thewrap with lamb liver and lamb fat, prepared especially for him. But that wasbecause he doesn’t like liver.

Eus visits an Armenian village in southwestern Turkey where 130 people stilllive. A Suryoye village where of the 150 families, fifteen are left. Theinhabitants still speak their own language, profess their own (Christian)faith and they have their own culture and customs. They don’t have only youngpeople, one after the other leaves for the big city, or rather to Europe.Young people gone, culture gone, language gone, Eus argues. In the lastArmenian village he talks about it with ‘grandpa Musa’. He has been writingfor years about the history of his village and the seven neighboring villagesthat are already extinct. In what language?, asks Eus. Turkish, Grandpa says.Eus, surprised: “You are Armenian, aren’t you?” Grandpa, equally surprised:“What does that have to do with it?” In a single gesture he wipes Eus’snostalgic conservatism off the table. He is a ‘Turkish citizen’ and thuswrites in Turkish. Is it not a pity that his language is disappearing? Willgrandpa be a concern.

In the Suryoye village he meets a Turkish German who comes to live thereagain, his German-born adult sons also want nothing more. In Europe, he says,you remain that stranger. An outsider. To which Eus says more than asks: “And