Month: September 2022

Viewers of Four hands on one belly went from one surprise to another lastnight. The reason for this was 19-year-old Sharona and her boyfriend Arjen(38) who are about to become parents. In addition to the age difference,smoking, Sharona’s daytime activities and the approach of the couple alsoraise questions among the viewing public.

Arjen and Sharona met at a party and after two months a baby was on the way.Özcan Akyol and his wife Anna van den Breemer visit the parents-to-be to passon their parenting knowledge.

Pregnant Sharona (19 years old): ‘I always wanted to be a young mother…so> that you can watch your baby grow up’ #Hurry> up Oh> girl, you can still do that if you have a child at the age of thirty! #four> hands on a> belly>> — Janna de Bruin ג’אנה (@jannareintje) September 27,> 2022

Sharona and Arjen amaze Four hands on one belly viewers

It soon becomes apparent that Sharona still smokes about ten to fifteencigarettes a day during her pregnancy. About which she explains that if shehad something to do, she might smoke less. “But if I’m home all day…”, Sharonasays. Because Sharona’s day is mainly filled with cleaning and watchingNetflix. After a conversation with a pulmonologist and seeing a placenta fromanother smoking parent, the couple decides to stop.

But Sharona had a lot on her plate in her youth. She previously struggled withdepression, she was suicidal and her insecurity dominated her life for a longtime. “I thought I was ugly and fat.”

Smoking during pregnancy.. that was a while ago in this program, but they> are still there 🥲😕> #vhoeb> #four hands on a> belly>> — Romy⚽️🤘🏼 (@missxromy2) September 27,> 2022

Viewers are concerned about smoking and approach to couple

Although the baby’s heart rate is too high during delivery, baby Dexx is bornhealthy. And Sharona and Arjen turn out to be proud parents. In the end, theyoung mother also manages to get a job at a local lunchroom. And Sharona turnsout to be very happy with the fact that in addition to motherhood, she nowalso has something for herself.

Viewers are quite stunned about the couple’s lifestyle, according to thereactions. Because in addition to criticism of the approach of the couple,many viewers are also concerned about Sharona and Arjen. According to some,they need serious help and guidance. By the way, others praise Akyol and hiswife do, who, despite the circumstances, remain calm and quiet.

I can’t bear to watch this… can someone please say that serious guidance and> assistance is also involved here? #four hands on a> belly>> — Annemieke Linke (@AnnemiekeLinke) September 27,> 2022

This episode is getting worse by the minute. Nice how Anna and Özcan stay so> calm here #four hands on a> belly>> — Kristiene (@kristieneeisma) September 27,> 2022

These people should actually be protected and really helped and guided> outside the cameras #four hands on a> belly> #everythingfortheviewingfigures>> — Kelly Vandenhur (@KellyVandenhur1) September 27,> 2022

I’m really perplexed by this episode, so bizarre 🥲> #vhoeb> #four hands on a> belly>> — Dahnee Leuchter (@dgmleuchter) September 27,> 2022

#four hands on a> belly> looking back and falling from one surprise to the next…>> — Nirvaan❌❌❌ (@nirvaan1995) September 27,> 2022

Subway also regularly shares stories about upbringing and parenting. Expertsanswer all kinds of parenting questions for this. For example, what should youdo if your child lies a lot? Or throws a tantrum when he or she doesn’t gethis or her way?

You look back Four hands on one stomach via NPO.

Director Ol Parker knew two things for sure when he made the film Ticket ToParadise wrote: Bali is the perfect location and Julia Roberts and GeorgeClooney have to play the lead roles. He managed to tie the actors, but Baliwas still closed in 2021 due to corona measures when Clooney and Roberts hadtime. So there was no other option: Bali had to be brought to Australia.

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“We did not know how long we had to wait if we wanted to film in Bali andGeorge and Julia only had a limited time in their busy schedules, so it had tohappen during that period,” Parker tells NU.nl. Postponing the shooting andchoosing other actors was not an option. “In the first conversations about thecasting, I made one thing clear: Clooney and Roberts had to be it.”

“They are beautiful and brilliant actors. If you show a divorced couple, ithas to be believable that they were once together. We have thirty years ofimages of George and Julia’s friendship that make this past togetherauthentic. And They also have great chemistry together.”

Clooney and Roberts star in Ticket to Paradise the divorced parents of adaughter who falls in love with a Balinese and wants to marry him almostimmediately. The director had to convince one of the two actors, because thenthe other would follow. “I literally wrote her: ‘I’ll do it if you do it too’.Julia said exactly the same thing. That was really the only way for us,”Clooney tells NU.nl. “Poor Ol wrote the movie with no second option in termsof actors in his head, so it would only work if we both went for it.”

“It felt important to create something uplifting together,” adds Roberts. “Iread the script and there was so much fun in it. It was really a relief aftermany other scripts I read at the time and the news that you get.”

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Bringing Bali to Australia

It was never Parker’s plan to film anywhere other than Bali, but he had nochoice. “We were forced to make a radical change. When it became clear thatBali was not an option when George and Julia were available, the questionbecame whether we should throw the project in the trash. Or find another wayto make it work.”

Eventually they moved to the Whitsunday Islands in Australia. Parker is facedwith the challenge of making it as believable as possible that the story takesplace in Bali. “We had a crew in Bali who shot some background footage. Andthey ended up in the film using CGI. It was certainly a challenge, but thatgoes for any film made in times of COVID-19.”

Cultural advisors became actors

The white beaches and palm trees are all right, but the atmosphere and cultureof Bali are just as important. “We hired advisors to teach us more aboutBalinese customs and a large part of our cast is Indonesian. None of them areprofessional actors,” explains the director. “The man who plays the father ofthe character Gede advised us on the rituals we wanted to show in the film.Then I saw how handsome and charming he is and I wanted him as an actor too.”

Still, Parker received some criticism online for the casting choices. He choseactor Maxime Bouttier, who has an Indonesian mother and French father, for therole of a Balinese man. Because he is partly of European descent, Westernbeauty ideals would be projected onto a Balinese character. “Maxime has ahouse in Bali. He lives there. We have spoken to many actors and he has becomeit. It was disappointing to read that. He was surprised himself. He seeshimself as Balinese. I don’t know a single Balinese person who had a problemwith this.”

Parker says it’s good to listen to the people who understand and treat thecustoms of another culture in a respectful way. “Reality is more important inthis case than how you want to portray it as a filmmaker. If I had somethingin my head a certain way and they said it wouldn’t be like that in real life,we didn’t do it in the film. There is nothing more fun than showing adifferent culture with great respect.”

This year the MiXX vocal association consists of our own Hengevelde for 26years. This beautiful anniversary will be celebrated on October 21, 2022 witha concert, ‘completely under its own power’. Tickets at €7.50 are available atDe Bazar van Jon, via the members of MiXX of course or by emailingaleidvoskamp51@gmail.com. The evening starts at 8 p.m., location Herberg DeGebrande Waateren.

An interview with a mixed group: Joke Boomkamp (member since 1996), FrankAppelman (member since 2004 and also chairman since 2016) and Jos Artz (membersince 2021).

In 1996 a group of enthusiastic singers from Hengevelde founded a new choir:MiXX ’96. There were already three choirs in the village at that time. Thenew choir would not be a church choir, but more of a pop choir with songs fromclassical to pop. The ambitions were great. It became more than ‘singing a little’, because theassociation was legally registered, a rehearsal location had to be found, andof course a conductor had to be appointed. This worked and no fewer than 38people, mainly from Hengevelde, came to sing together in MiXX! From the outset it was fun at Assink before, during and after the rehearsalson Monday. With permanent musicians in the band and a conductor on violin, asolid foundation was laid. The choir made music together, but mutualfriendship also grew. Something that is perhaps even more central today thanit was then. “We are really there for each other.” There is serious rehearsal. Of course a lot is expected of the singers, butthey also help each other. Knowing the parties, texts by heart as much aspossible and preferably: a large dose of enthusiasm. No one is left behind inthis. Not then and not now. The enthusiasm remains unchanged, the threemembers say. The third half was always well attended. Fortunately, it is alsostill available at De Marke, the current practice location.

MiXX’96 now consists of no less than 60 members. Hengevelde remains the basis,but today members come from all over the world: Delden, Diepenheim, Beckum,Geesteren, Bentelo, etcetera. MiXX is a household name in our village andaccording to the members ‘you call MiXX and Hengevelde in the same breath’.Hengevelde is a village where a lot is possible.

There is supposedly a high involvement in the choir. There is also littleturnover, the majority have been members for a long time. Recently 6 newmembers joined. Four from Delden and two from Hengevelde. It helps tointegrate, says Jos, who has lived in our village for two years now. Togetherwith his wife, he was happy to become a member of MiXX. He likes it very muchand many new social contacts have been made.

Conviviality at its best. A strength of MiXX. But make no mistake, it doeswork. Everyone does this in their own way, stimulated by today’s conductor:Sander Fox. A name that almost makes the eyes of the trio shine. Sander camein as a substitute at one of the performances and actually never left. It wasarranged with a choir from Hengelo that Sander can accompany both them andMiXX musically on Monday evenings. He has been with the group for about 4 years now. And he is positivelycritical, say the members. The level of the singing and the quality of therepertoire has increased further. Sander dares to address the choir, butalways does so constructively: “Everything will be fine”. He keeps in constantcontact with the band, the showpiece of MiXX. George de Witte on bass guitar,Seine Hendriks on rhythm guitar, Gerie Scholten on piano and Ronald Rikkert ondrums. The choir is proud of it. An own band that musically shapes the songsfrom the 60s to the present. From classical to pop. From Adiemus to songs byQueen, ABBA and Toto. Really mixed.

With the jubilee concert on 21 October, the choir is happy to celebrate whereit is now. There is still so much fun and also a party to listen to, accordingto the reactions over the years. The concert is different from previousconcerts. This time MiXX is going ‘solo’. It promises to be a special evening,unlike any other.

Below are some photos from the past few years and a photo of the beautifulchoir of today!

“I first fell in love with Tom as a teenage girl of 14. Less than a monthlater I felt the same jitters for Adam, his best friend. Both boys liked meand I said out loud that I was in love with them both. It didn’t take morethan a little kissing, and in the years that followed I dismissed my doublecrush as a little joke from my childhood. That would probably never happenagain. But it happened again when I was 17. I was in love, I had a greatrelationship and fell in love with someone else again.

This boy broke up with me when I confessed. I felt so strange and so strangethat I didn’t dare to fall in love for a long time. I stopped allowing myselffeelings for others.”

“Until I fell madly in love with James. This handsome blond man was in thesame sorority as me and stole my heart. James turned out to be everything Ineeded. My best friend, my buddy, my romantic love. For the first time inyears I dared again to feel and even enjoy my feelings.

And again it happened. I fell in love with someone else again. To Henry, whomI knew from football. When I confessed this to James, he laughed. There was noanger, no jealousy. In my love with James, there appeared to be room to pursuethis feeling as well.”

Multiple love relationships side by side

“Henry is a bit older than me and has more experience. He taught me aboutpolyamory, having multiple love relationships next to each other, everythinghonest and open to everyone.

I’ve been with James and Henry for a few years now. James and I got married,for administrative reasons, and Henry sat at the front of the ceremony. If Icould I would marry both, but unfortunately that is not allowed by Dutch law.My family, friends and colleagues all know about it.”

“The three of us recently bought a house. Everyone has their own room and bedand private space. We have strict rules about that too. The rest we share withthe three of us, both the household chores and the costs. We have all threedifferent salaries, so we divided the fixed costs pro rata, everyone has theirown room and we share an agenda to keep track of who is where.

They are both nice spontaneous guys with whom I each share different hobbies.They also look a bit alike, it is clear to see that I have a certain taste. Wego to festivals together and weekends away as a couple. When we go out with agroup of friends, both men go with us, but the three of us on holiday wehaven’t really done so far.”

Granting each other’s individuality

“The great thing about poly is that you don’t have to get everything from oneperson. Everyone gets tired sometimes, everyone does things with their partnerthat they actually don’t like. I can outsource those things, as it were. Ihave someone I like to go to concerts with and someone who really likes gamingso I can share all my hobbies with both.

James is much more of an emotional person and can listen very well, whileHenry is very practical. James doesn’t like to cook so Henry does that, Henrydoesn’t like folding the laundry so I do that, I don’t like vacuuming so Jamesdoes. In this way we all complement each other. We give each other ourindividuality.”

Incredible libidos or swingers

“James is also with Melissa, Henry is also with Sanne and I am with my two menand I have never felt so loved. It is wonderful to see how James and Henryinteract with their other partners and how my men get along so well with befriends. It feels like some kind of intensely close group of friends whereeveryone cares about each other. I would do both metamours or the partnersof my partners, dare to call friends.

“People always think that we must have massive libidos or be swingers, but itdoesn’t work that way. It’s more like having two monogamous relationships sideby side, both of whom are equally dear to me. In fact, I think the trustwithin our relationships is better than in many monogamous relationships.Jealousy and replacement fear are always lurking. Good communication andenough confirmation of the uniqueness of the relationship are therefore veryimportant. We have found our way there by finding out where the felt jealousycomes from. is often not an envy that someone has something you don’t have,but fear or insecurity that needs to be expressed.”

New crush not excluded

“In a practical sense it is sometimes quite difficult to keep an agenda and tofind space in it for all the different parties to be together. We are notlooking for a new love either. We are all polysaturated as it is called, ourcurrent construction is enough.

But it cannot be ruled out that one of us could fall in love again. When thathappens, we just have to sit down again and set rules and expectations. Butone thing is certain: I will grow old with these two.”

The names Elle, James and Henry are fictitious names. Their real names areknown to the editors.

Wanted: Love Lessons

For the Love Lesson section on RTL Nieuws Lifestyle we are looking forbeautiful, vulnerable, funny, inspiring and honest love lessons. An insight, amoment of reflection. Preferably with a hand in your own bosom. Did youeventually turn out to be the one with fear of commitment? Should you neverhave emigrated for love or did a blended family turn out to be an illusion?Journalist Hanneke Mijnster would like to ask you all about it. You can tellanonymously. Mail to: hanneke.mijnster@rtl.nl.

The television he makes awakens a mix of emotions in the viewer. A smile ispreceded by a tear at least as many times and vice versa. That is why oftenintense topics are discussed. One subject is central: the human being in allits facets. In the human interest programs Radio Gaga or The Weekends thepeople he talks to often dare to put their deepest feelings on the table. Thealways sympathetic Hessels succeeds time and again by displaying a largeportion of empathy. But the actor and presenter also knows how to gain thetrust of his interlocutors by giving an insight into his private life, hisperson and the things that affect him.

Also in the latest episode of his latest achievement Taxi Joris let Hesselslook into his heart. In one of the taxi rides, the cheerful TV maker talkscandidly about an insecurity that has been living in him for several years:his increasingly thinning haircut. Hessels receives a call from the AntwerpJens, a young man in his thirties who, like many other men, is starting tosuffer from hair loss. “It has gotten worse in recent years,” he says. “I usedto have a lot of thick hair and now it’s very thin and you can see throughit.”

“Now it’s all over because I’m going there anyway,” says Jens about hisupcoming surgery in Turkey. “At the back they take her away and then they putit in from above one by one. That will take a while,” explains Jens. “It takestwo hours to take the hairs out and four to put them back in. So you’ve lostsix hours.”

So why did he move specifically to the Middle East? “Because it is slightlymore expensive in Belgium. With everything included, flight, hotel, and theoperation itself, it comes down to about 2,500 euros.

“More confidence”

Jens indicates that he is very fond of his appearance and since he becamevisibly bald, the idea of ​​​​having her implanted took place. “It startsbecause you start to see it yourself in the mirror. Especially when I wassitting at the hairdresser, with that light on, I noticed that I could reallysee through it. And that became more and more. I started to fall more and moreabout it,” says Jens.

The fact that the thirty-year-old attaches great importance to his appearanceis apparent when he talks about his passion for sport. “I used to be a bitchubby, which is why I want to exercise so much. I also have a personaltrainer,” says Jens. “I’m especially afraid of getting too fat. I used to notbelong to the most popular group. You always want to belong to the toughguys”, he shows himself vulnerable.

At the age of sixteen, he completely immersed himself in the fitness world.“As you see your body change, you automatically get more self-confidence,”says the Antwerp resident. “But sports is also a very external world, isn’tit?” Joris adds. “Did that speed up your decision?” he wonders. “I think so.People who look good get more attention from others,” is the telling answer.

Hide coves

And that is why, after years of doubt, Jens thought it was high time to takethe step. “I do expect when I get back, that I can go to the hairdresser againto have something decent done again, and to lay my hair properly.”

After the confessions of Jens, Hessels also has to get something off hischest. “I also look in the mirror and then I think: ‘it is very thin’. Inaddition, I spend a lot of time on TV and you start laying your hair in such away that you can’t see the coves or see through them,” the presenter admitsreadily. “I think that’s very bad about myself, because I think: ‘Who isworking on that now, besides yourself?’”, says Hessels.

He seems to be able to pull every second, the protagonist of the remarkabledebut femi. Dennis, 21, is one lump of pent-up emotions. Not only is heaggressive towards his surroundings, including his pregnant ex-partner, therealso seems to be a permanent battle going on in his head. He sees his Nigerianfather, who committed suicide, appear in dreams about his future child and hehimself has suicidal thoughts. His solution to the memories that terrorize himis not therapy, but voodoo.

Director Dwight Fagbamila (1993) is intrigued by the theme of absent blackfathers, he says. He used it in his graduation film Babatunde and knows ‘thefatherless existence’ from his own experience. “My Nigerian father is stillalive, but he separated from my mother when I was about five, moved to Londonand commuted up and down.”

Black boys who grow up without a father often appear in American films. Itsometimes leads to characters looking for and finding father figures in theunderworld. Well-known example is Oscar winner moonlight. In Fagbamila’sfilm, growing up without a father figure leads to self-hatred. “Dennis getsinto a fight with almost all the characters of color in the film, shaves hiscurls and even his pubic hair and finds the colored part of himself verydifficult.”

Growing up as a “mixed” boy of color in an almost completely white environmentcan lead to an identity crisis, says the director. “This search never led todepression for me like Dennis did. But his behavior is a dramatization offeelings I’ve had myself, which is that you never really belong anywhere andthat you want to fulfill something that is impossible. In the Netherlands Iwas always seen as black and in Nigeria as white.”

That Dennis doesn’t feel at home anywhere in the film doesn’t seem to beexplicitly due to his environment? “Compared to other black or mixed boys, Imyself have had little to do with outside racism. Of course I have beenstopped by the police for no reason, but never on the same structural basis asmany around me.

“So I thought it was more fair and interesting to look at internalized racismin my film. For example, I myself had a little voice in my head that told meto behave in an exemplary way in front of authorities or to be patient withthe elderly who need time to adapt to the current world in which you can nolonger do everything. say and do.”

Voodoo Rituals

Yannick Jozefzoon in the film as Dennis alternates very convincingly outburstsof anger with helpless attempts at overtures. He has rightly been nominatedfor a Golden Calf. His character goes in search of a ‘solution’ for thenegative spiral in which he finds himself in the culture of his deceasedfather. More specifically in voodoo rituals such as those in the West AfricanIfa faith, in which you can influence people and their behavior through spellsand magic. It delivers some thriller and horror-like moments. Fagbamila: “Myfather and Nigerian family are Muslim, but you notice that they know andrespect other West African religious traditions and elements. For example, myfather warned me when I visited people who are working on the dark side ofIfa: don’t let them get to you, they might conjure you.”

Also read a column by Sabeth Snijders about, among other things, ‘Femi’:Dutch film wallows in death and mourning

Except for the occasional warning, Fagbamila’s father made little effort topass on Nigerian traditions, religion, or language to his son. The youngdirector calls it a ‘mortal sin’. “There are all kinds of things that played abig role in the lives of my grandparents, but that I will never be able topass on to my children.” So he did his own research, read a lot and talked toa babalao, a kind of Ifa counselor or priest. Precisely because he knew solittle about them, he wanted to portray these traditions in his film. “Youhave the feeling that it is also part of who you are.”

femi takes place in Eindhoven. “A hugely underused setting in Dutch cinema,”says Fagbamila. And he’s not just saying that because he’s never lived andworked anywhere else. His film is set in somewhat drab locations: emptyfactory buildings, workers’ houses, a window prostitution neighbourhood. Butthe director often bathes these places in striking colors; for example, thePSV stadium casts its red and white light on Dennis’ mother’s residentialarea. It creates an unreal atmosphere that fits a film that combines rawrealism with mysticism. Fagbamila: „I see Eindhoven as a searching city afterthe departure of Philips. Large business premises have been vacant for a longtime and are now all being given new, trendy destinations. I thought thatsearching character of the city was a nice mirror for the character of themain character.”

Welcome to this week’s “Just for variety.”

Lin-Manuel Miranda has a message to the trolls who have targeted theirhate at Halle Bailey star of the live-action adaptation of “The LittleMermaid” — watch Brandy in “Cinderella.” “I’m old enough to remember thatbeing a game changer for my generation,” Miranda told me during a Zoom chatfrom the L’Attitude conference in San Diego, where he was making an appearancewith American Express to support Latino small business owners . “And RobMarshall was the choreographer on that and is now the director of the movie.I’m really thrilled by that symmetry.”

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Besides, Miranda thinks the positivity and excitement around the new film faroutweigh the negativity. Just take a look at the sneak peek of Bailey singinga snippet of “Part of Your World,” which racked up 104 million global viewswithin days of its debut at the D23 Expo. “I’m not interested in giving themany oxygen because I know the lives that are going to be changed. Halle isperfect for the part,” said the Tony winner, who wrote four songs for themovie with composer Alan Menken. “She’s going to blow them away. If that’sthe thing that makes you mad, then stay mad. But examine your choices.”

In San Diego, Miranda spoke to conference-goers about Drama Book Shop, thecentury-old bookstore that he bought about four years ago along with directorThomas Kail producer Jeffrey Seller and theater owner James L.Dutchman. Miranda and Kail first worked on “In the Heights” in the originalstore’s basement 20 years ago. “The store’s success is inextricably tied tothe health of the theater community,” Miranda said. “When Broadway has a goodweek, we have a good week. When the Omicron wave shuts down shows and cancelsperformances, we have a bad week. When theater-goers come to New York to see ashow, they stop at the Drama Book Shop. That’s been kind of an amazingrevelation to me.”

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He praises American Express for its ongoing support of Latino-ownedbusinesses. “My first show, ‘In the Heights,’ is about those businesses andthe fact that they’re Latino-owned and family-owned, and they make myneighborhood special. I really believe that — I still live in theneighborhood,” Miranda says. “I was happy to partner with Amex on thosecauses. And I’ve been happy to see them really step up in the aftermath ofHurricane Maria in Puerto Rico, supporting us when we took ‘Hamilton’ there toraise money for arts organizations, supporting local businesses on the island.They’re stepping up again in the wake of Hurricane Fiona as we all have to.”

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NEW ORLEANS, LA – Feb. 19, 2021 – Actor Anthony Mackie photographed in theTreme District of New Orleans.

Anthony Mackie insists he doesn’t know if he’ll make an appearance asCaptain America in “Thunderbolts,” the Marvel Studios film set to starFlorence Pugho , Julia Louis-Dreyfus , Sebastian Stan , DavidHarbour and Wyatt Russell. “I have no idea,” he told me while promotinghis new partnership with roofing manufacturer GAF to help residents of hishometown of New Orleans whose roofs were damaged by natural disasters. “Youknow how it works. They call you the week before and are like, ‘We own yourass. Come get in the movie.’”

We do know that Mackie will star in “Captain America: New World Order.” Theplot is under wraps, but Mackie says he’s been talking with screenwriterMalcolm Spellman. “We’ve talked and communicated about what we want thatstory to be going forward and how it’ll fit in his new Marvel universe,”Mackie explained. “You definitely get the idea of ​​collaboration, but youdon’t get to tell them what it’s going to be and how it’s going to be.”

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INDIANA JONES AND THE LAST CRUSADE, from left: Sean Connery, Harrison Ford asIndiana Jones, 1989. ©Paramount Pictures/courtesy Everett Collection

Indiana Jones producer Frank Marshall says he wasn’t surprised thatHarrison Ford got a bit emotional while promoting the fifth installationof the franchise onstage at D23. “We all got emotional,” Marshall told me atthe “Redeem Team” premiere. “We’ve been together for 40 years, and we feellike we made a really good movie. You look back at all the movies and you getemotional, because that’s your life and your career. He’s been that characterfor so long.”

Will we see an “Indiana Jones 6”? “I don’t know,” Marshall said. “When wesigned up, we signed up for three movies, so the next two were all icing onthe cake.

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Billy Reid at Platform in Culver City.

Congrats to designer Billy Reid! He just opened his first Los Angelesoutpost, a pop-up at Platform in Culver City. I visited with Reid at the storelast week. He reminisced about Matthew McConaughey being the first celebhe dressed back in 1998. At the time, Reid had just started his business withone employee, who happened to be from the same Texas town as the actor. “Hewas like, ‘I could get us in touch with Matthew,’” Reid recalled. “We sent hima box of clothes and a nice note. The next thing you knew, Matthew was doing ajunket, and he wore one of my shirts in almost all of the interviews.” I’llhave more from Reid later this week about his new capsule collection inspiredby the Gibson Hummingbird acoustic guitar ( Margo Price is one of thefaces of the campaign) and his big dream to get his clothes on KrisKristofferson.

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Hailey Bieber is addressing long-running rumors that she stole Justin Bieberfrom Selena Gomez.

The model, who married the pop star in 2018, went there Wednesday on the CallHer Daddy __ podcast , answering questions about the timeline of theirrelationship and addressing the “bullying” she has faced from Jelena fans. Sherevealed that she has spoken with Gomez and says, “There’s no drama” betweenthem.

“I’ve literally never talked about this ever,” Hailey said while being grilledabout her relationship timeline with Justin and whether it overlapped with himdating Gomez. (Quick recap: Justin and Selena started dating in 2010, split in2012, got back together in 2013, split in 2014, reunited in late 2017 andsplit permanently in early 2018. Justin and Hailey started dating in 2014,split in 2016 and reconciled in June 2018, getting engaged and then married ina span of months. )

“They were not in a relationship” when she reconciled with Justin in June2018, Hailey, 25, said emphatically. “As a woman, I would never want to getinto a relationship with someone — and be engaged to them and be gettingmarried to them — and [be] thinking the back of my mind: I wonder if that[door] was really closed. … I know for a fact that the reason we were able toget back together was because it was very much completely closed.”

So there was no overlap at any point? “No,” Hailey told host Alex Cooper. “Notone time. Let’s just put it this way: When [we] started hooking up … he wasnot ever in a relationship. At any point. I would never. It’s not my characterto mess with someone’s relationship. … I was raised better than that. … I cansay period point-blank: I was never with him when he was in a relationshipwith anybody. That’s the end of it.”

Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez started dating in 2010 and fandom built aroundthem. They were young, existing under a microscope and their relationship wason and off. It ended for good in early 2018 and he reconciled with ex HaileyBaldwin Bieber soon after. Justin and Hailey were married in September 2018.(Photo: Reuters/Danny Moloshok)

Hailey spoke more about Justin and Gomez’s brief reunion, that ended a fewmonths before Justin proposed to Hailey. She said it was closure for the exes,who had a headline-making, on-and-off relationship over a span of eight years.

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“It was the right thing for them to close that door,” she said of Justin andSelena’s final parting. “It closed a chapter. I think it was the best thingthat could have happened for him to move on.”

Hailey talked about being the target of haters since Justin and Gomez splitfor good.

“A lot of the hate, and the perpetuation, comes from [the misperception], ‘Oh,you stole him,'” she said. “It comes from the fact that they wished he hadended up with someone else and that’s fine. You can wish that all you want butthat’s just not the case.”

She added, “The only people that really know the truth of the situation andwhat the timeline really was and how it happened and how it went down are meand him. Perception is a really tricky thing because, when you’re watchingsomething from the outside, you can see it one way. When it may not really bethe reality of what happened behind closed doors.”

Hailey went on to reveal that she has spoken to Gomez since she married Justinin September 2018. She said, “It’s all respect. It’s all love” between them.”There’s no drama.”

“That’s also why I feel like if everybody on our side knows what happened andwe’re good and we could walk away from it with clarity and respect, thenthat’s fine,” she said. She said the conversation “brought me a lot of peace.I’m like, ‘Hey, we know what happened.’ You’re never going to be able tocorrect every narrative.”

Hailey spoke about the trolling she’s received from haters all these years.They’ve interrupted her Instagram Lives flooding her with hateful comments,and stood outside the Met Gala in 2021 to scream “Selena” when she and Justinwalked the red carpet.

“Yes, I could hear everyone screaming,” she recalled. “I think there’s acertain part of you that has a numbness. … It was disrespectful to me, to myrelationship. It just was. Period. The end. But I think I’ve endured so muchdisrespect — and I still do to this day — that there was like a part of methat was just like another day, another negative slay.”

Justin Bieber and Hailey Bieber attend 2021 Costume Institute Benefit – InAmerica: A Lexicon of Fashion at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on September13, 2021 in New York City. (Photo: Sean Zanni/Patrick McMullan via GettyImages)

Nevertheless, she added, “They’ve never ruined anything for me,” she said ofhaters. “They’re not ruining my life. They’re not ruining my happiness — andthat I think Is really the win of the whole thing. You’re actually not takinganything away from me. So that’s what I just keep stepping forward with …. Youcannot take away my happiness, my relationship, my business, my career. Youcan be mad about it but it doesn’t change anything.”

She said she wonders, “If we have moved on, why can’t you? That’s kind of justthe whole thought process. It’s just hurtful. It’s bullying.”

Hailey was asked if she or Justin ever reached out to Selena ab outintervening with her fans and calling for them to stop harassing Hailey. Theanswer was no.

“What I will say is that she has been in this industry much longer than I haveand maybe there’s something that she knows — like it wouldn’t fix anything,”Hailey replied.

Cooper suggested that Gomez simply liking one of Hailey’s social posts couldput an end to a lot of the drama.

“I think that everyone is just trying to create separation,” Hailey replied,”even though there’s clearly not always separation. I have no expectation” ofGomez doing that. “I would never expect someone to do that for me. She doesn’towe me anything. Neither of us owe anybody anything except respect. I respecther a lot. … If that was something that she felt was necessary, then thatwould be amazing.”

Somewhere half way blonde actress Ana de Armas, who plays Marilyn Monroe,looks into the camera and says, “What have you got to do with my life?”

It’s a question for Monroe’s then-husband, the playwright Arthur Miller. Butit is also a question for us, the viewer. Why are we still interested in hersixty years after her death—suicide from an overdose of tranquilizers, ormurdered for her relationship with the Kennedy brothers? Is it voyeurism,disaster tourism or something deeper, more incomprehensible?

Director Andrew Dominik ( The Assassination of Jesse James by the CowardRobert Ford ) in his very freely factual film biography of the actress, sexsymbol and icon gives dozens of incentives to answer that question. Thesimplest summary: because she was a phenomenon who, because of her tragic lifeand death, but also because of the great corpus of films she left behind,remained burned into our retinas forever. Monroe as the holy trinity of theinnocent girl Norma Jeane as she was born, the sex goddess who createdHollywood and something beyond that.

That mystery is bigger than any label this or any other movie tries to put onher. Niagara, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, The Seven Year Itch, Some Like itHot – they are all films that belong to our cultural capital. Without Marilynthere would be no Madonna, no Lady Gaga, no discourse on stereotypes, beautyideals and victimhood.

Ana de Armas is hypnotic. she is the uncanny valley of all Marilynperformers. If you put pictures of her in blonde next to that of thehistorical Marilyn, she is more Marilyn than Marilyn ever was. This is Oscarmaterial. But you only have to watch a very small film clip of the realMarilyn to realize that her attraction is greater than ten. Blondes canreproduce.

Read also an interview with Andrew Dominik, Ana de Armas and Adrien Brodyon ‘Blonde’

Dominik was inspired for his film by the eponymous fictional biography ofJoyce Carol Oates from 2000. This resulted in a fascinating eclectic whirlwindof fragments from Marilyn’s life. A Finnegans Wake about Hollywood’s mythmachine, nightmare and fever dream. A cinematographic tour de force too, incolour, black and white and all kinds of film formats, filmed from allpossible perspectives. Shots from her vagina during abortion and miscarriagescenes and a talking fetus have already sparked controversy. When thepromotional circus for the film got underway in May of this year, Dominikpromised that there would be something in the film for everyone to shock. Andhe kept his word.

In addition, Dominiks blonde a deconstructed Freudian manual. The trauma ofMarilyn’s mentally ill mother and absent father is in every scene. InDominik’s screenplay, she emphatically calls each man ‘Daddy’. It’s sad andcreepy at the same time.

The perfidious and perverse Hollywood that Dominik portrays is #MeToo avant lalettre. Her makeup artist Whitey is not only the one who transforms her fromwoman to phenomenon time and time again, but also the one with a whole arsenalof pills in his makeup case. The moment Marilyn is dragged out of JFK’s roomas an unconscious sex doll, all you can do is cry.