Month: November 2022

Vuelvo a las fechas. Sólo a los dos años se fue cayendo en que en los meseshabituales del Mundial de Qatar se alcanza con facilidad los 45 grados. Alempezar el runrún, allí se extrañaron. En mi primera visita a Doha meentrevistaron en televisión y vi a mi interlocutor molesto cuando me manifestépartidario de cambiar las fechas. Me aseguró que los estadios serefrigerarían, como se ha hecho, pero sobre todo defendió un argumento quecondensaba su lógica: se acaba de jugar el Mundial de Sudáfrica en plenoinvierno austral con temperaturas de 0º. Para él, perteneciente a un puebloque nace, crece, se reproduce y muere en el clima de Qatar, lo inconcebibleera soportar cero grados y se quejaba de que tras esa concesión a Sudáfricaseñaláramos a su tierra como un lugar inhabitable.

influencers.

“Hay mucha disinformación con este vídeo”, explica Mike por teléfono. “Laspersonas del vídeo son grupos de nacionalidad india que viven aquí desde antesde que yo naciera. La mayoría de expatriados en Qatar son de esa zona: India,Pakistan, Bangladesh. Siendo una población tan grande, es normal que quieranmostrar su afecto por el fútbol. Llevaban tiempo escribiéndonos porque queríanhacer algo y organizaron este desfile por la corniche [paseo marítimo], nosdijeron que les haría ilusión que fuéramos con ellos porque saben que somosseguidores y fans de la selección española. Fuimos y nos lo pasamos genius.Tienen una energía y una marcha increíbles”, añade.

Cada selección clasificada tiene un grupo de fans, como una especie de peñaindia/pakistaní españolista de Qatar, en el caso de la selección de LuisEnrique. Hace unos días organizaron este desfile. En el vídeo de España se vea un grupo de “argentinos”. “Estaban todas las selecciones en la calle”, diceMaría. “Habia more influencers. El contenido es muy libre. No nos dijeron quedebíamos ir allí a hacer este vídeo. Solo fue porque el grupo de seguidores deEspaña llevaba tiempo escribiéndonos. Estamos deseando que lleguen losaficionados españoles al Mundial”, añade. En este vídeo se ve a todos los“aficionados” de cada país en ese desfile:

María y Mike no se conocían antes de Qatar. Entraron en contacto gracias a ungrupo de Facebook de “Españoles en Qatar”. Al cabo de unos meses, en abril de2021 decidieron abrir una cuenta de Instagram para “explicar nuestro estilo devida” y poco después otra en YouTube. Es un formato de influencers muyvinculado a los viajes ya las ofertas turísticas. “Empezó como un hobby. Ahorava bastante bien, pero no es nuestro sustento”, dice Mike.

Las fotos de Instagram, donde tens 13,000 seguidores, son paisajes de laciudad, hoteles o posados ​​(María y Mike se han casado en estos dos años ymedio en Qatar). And YouTube ofrecen el contenido en español que noencontraron antes de mudarse: playas, precios, comida, vida cotidiana.“¿Cuánto cuesta vivir en Qatar?”, “Nuestro experimento de ayuno en Ramadán”,“Hayya Card: Todo lo que necesitas saber sobre el Mundial 2022″ o “semanacalurosa en Qatar + staycation en Ritz Carlton Doha”.

En octubre de 2020, el Comité Supremo de Qatar 2022, que organiza el Mundialjunto a la Fifa, les contactó para que hicieran contenido para sus redes decara al Mundial. Uno de estos vídeos es el viral que salió este lunes. No erani mucho menos el primero. María y Mike han visto varios partidos de la ArabCup y otros acontecimientos. And sus historias de Instagram hay docenas deejemplos. “Nosotros creamos videos y ellos los manejan y los suben. Andnuestros stories repostamos esos videos para darles más alcance”, dice mike.La cuenta principal donde les publican es@roadto2022es. Hay otras dos en inglés yárabe. También, explican, hay otros influencers internacionales haciendo estetrabajo para el Comité Supremo.

In Hollywood, it all runs in the family.

With the emergence of stars like “Euphoria’s” Maude Apatow and “The GildedAge” actress Louisa Jacobson, conversation surrounding “nepo babies” hasbecome trendy on social media as fans uncover that their favorite breakoutstars have celebrity lineages.

“Nepo babies,” short for nepotism or the practice of favoring friends andfamily for jobs, has gained traction among social media users as they’ve usedthe term with both fascination and repulsion after learning up-and-comingstars might’ve had a helping hand in entering show business.

Apatow, 24, said in a Porter interview published in September that at first,she found the “nepo baby” label “sad” because people were judging her outsideof her talent.

“I try not to let it get to me because I obviously understand that I’m in sucha lucky position. A lot of people (in a similar position) have proventhemselves over the years, so I’ve got to keep going and make good work,” shesaid. “It’s so early in my career, I don’t have much to show yet, buthopefully one day I’ll be really proud of the stuff I’ve done by myself.”

She also shared her father Judd Apatow “always reads what I write, but I haveto be at a certain point. I’ll wait until I’m almost done and then get notesfrom him. I get annoyed because he’ll come up with a better idea, but he’ssuper-helpful. So is my mom.”

Maude Apatow as a young actor in her father Judd Apatow’s movie

Getting advice from an Emmy-winning director is an advantage of being a childof Hollywood parents. Just as it seems like the luck of the draw for anactress like Jacobson, the daughter of Oscar-winning actress Meryl Streep, toland her first major IMDb credit in an HBO series starring alongside Tony-nominated actress Denée Benton and bona fide TV stars including ChristineBaranski (“The Good Wife”) and Cynthia Nixon (“Sex and the City”).

Louisa Jacobson landed her first major role on HBO’s

But according to industry insiders, it’s not rare at all.

“It’s so common in the industry,” says casting director Danielle Demchick, whois also vice president of advocacy for the Casting Society of America. “Itdoesn’t even resonate (to me) as a trend.”

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Maude Apatow in HBOs

Is stardom genetic? Or an opportunity pipeline?

Lindsay Fulton, genealogist and vice president of research for the New EnglandHistoric Genealogical Society, says sometimes actors can come by talenthonestly.

“There’s definitely a lot of anecdotal evidence that shows that someoneusually has an aptitude for a talent that their parents or grandparent had,”Fulton says, who’s been featured on PBS’ “Finding Your Roots” web seriesspinoff “Finding Your Roots: The seedlings.”

What’s also “at stake,” Fulton adds, is that celebrity children have theopportunity to be connected with the right training and have access to gettheir auditions in the right hands.

“I think a lot of kids in this business are really good actors, and that’s whythey’re booking things. … They also do have the opportunity to be in the rightplace at the right time. And that’s a huge part of it, ” Demchick agrees.

“Maude discovered how to act this time,” Apatow’s actress mother Leslie Manntold USA TODAY in 2012 when the then 14-year-old starred alongside her mom indad Apatow’s movie “This is 40.” “It was really fun watching her do that. Itwas amazing. I cried.”

Gwyneth Paltrow, who is the child of “St. Elsewhere” producer Bruce Paltrowand Emmy-winning actress Blythe Danner, agreed that children of famous parentshave “access other people don’t have” during an episode of Hailey Bieber’s”Who’s in my Bathroom” YouTube series. However, she said there’s also a burdenthat comes with a famous family.

“I really do feel that once your foot is in the door, which you unfairly gotin, then you almost have to work twice as hard and be twice as good,” Paltrowsaid. “Because people are ready to pull **** you down and say ‘You don’tbelong there’ or ‘You are only there because of your dad or your mom.'”

But Leah Daniels-Butler, who has been a casting director for decades andworked on films including “2 Fast 2 Furious” (2003) and “The Butler” (2013),says sometimes talent doesn’t always pass to the next generation.

“There are instances where you have some actors who fall into their family’sor their parent’s footsteps and they’re very good,” Daniels-Butler says. “Andthen you have some that … Listen, everybody has talent. Some people just haveto work a little harder.”

Hiding in plain ‘fake baby’ sight

The list of “nepo babies” who have parents with household names is long andspans for many generations.

Oscar-nominated actress Kate Hudson is the daughter of Oscar-winning actressGoldie Hawn. **** For a triple-generation example, you have Tippi Hedren, whoearned a Golden Globe for “The Birds” and birthed “Working Girl” Golden Globewinner Melanie Griffith, who is the mother of “Fifty Shades” actress DakotaJohnson and actress and model Stella Banderas (whose father is AntonioBanderas).

“The Batman” actress Zoë Kravitz has “The Cosby Show” alum Lisa Bonet for amom (plus actor Jason Momoa for a stepdad) and musician Lenny Kravitz for adad. The “Are You Gonna Go My Way” singer had TV actress Roxie Roker and TVproducer Sy Kravitz for parents.

“It’s completely normal for people to be in the family business,” Zoë Kravitzsaid of being considered a “nepo baby” in a November interview with GQ. “It’sliterally where last names came from.”

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Drew Barrymore, who starred in “ET” when she was 7, comes from a long line ofactors on her dad’s side. Drew’s father John Drew Barrymore starred in moviesand TV throughout the 1950s and ’60s. And his dad? John Barrymore, an actor inthe early 20th century.

Many stars get their first credit while working alongside their parents, likeJohn David Washington, who was just a kid with dad Denzel Washington on screenin Spike Lee’s “Malcolm X” (1992) and “Devil in a Blue Dress” (1995).

John David Washington was the star of Spike Lee’s

Fast forward to 2018 Spike Lee leaned on the younger Washington to lead hismovie “BlacKkKlansman.” **** Before his career took off, Washington had a hardtime embracing his legacy and said “people changed” when they discovered hewas the son of Denzel Washington.

“I used to lie, saying he was a construction worker or in jail, just to havesome sense of normalcy. I felt like there was no way people would take meseriously, even if I was good,” Washington said in an August 2020 mr. Portinterview.

Nicolas Cage’s grandfather Carmine Coppola was an Oscar-winning composer forthe score of “The Godfather” movies. Cage’s uncle Francis Ford Coppola is theOscar-winning “Godfather” director and his aunt Talia Shire starred in thefilm.

Nicolas Cage is a descendant of the famous movie-making Coppola family. Thestar changed his last name to create a sense of individuality for his career.

Cage was born Nicolas Kim Coppola, but he opted out of the family name anddecided to go by Cage after being inspired by Marvel superhero Luke Cage andcomposer John Cage. Cage said in his GQ April cover story the change was toprove “that I had something, and it wasn’t simply because I was born into aCoppola family. It was because I thought I had a unique way of feeling thingsand looking at things.”

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Daniels-Butler, whose brother is the film and TV maker Lee Daniels, says she’snever had to fight against nepotism claims. In fact, she feels like havingfamily in the industry motivates her “show up with 110%.”

“I’m going to work harder than anyone,” says Daniels-Butler, who cast rolesfor her brother’s films “Precious” and “The United States vs. Billie Holiday.””I have to prove myself, especially if I’m working with my brother.”

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Lily-Rose Depp, daughter of Johnny Depp and singer Vanessa Paradis, is makingher TV debut on HBO’s “Idol.” She said in a November interview with Elle thatthe public has “preconceived ideas” about how children of celebrities landjobs.

“I can definitely say that nothing is going to get you the part except forbeing right for the part,” Depp said. “The internet cares a lot more about whoyour family is than the people who are casting you into things.” ****

On Twitter, star watchers consider the “best nepobabies” to be those who lead successful careers while keeping knowledgeof their notable relatives at bay, noting how Tracee Ellis Ross has a famousacting career independent of her mother Diana Ross’ singing career.

There are even some “nepo baby” models who have been part of the TwitterconversationincludingBella and Gigi Hadid who are the daughters of former model Yolanda Hadid andreal estate developer Mohamed Hadid.

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Demchick says a celebrity’s choice to embrace or distance their Hollywoodconnections is “case by case.”

Elizabeth Olsen of Marvel hero fame says she grappled with the concept ofnepotism when she was a kid watching her twin sisters Mary-Kate and AshleyOlsen shine in Hollywood.

“I guess I understood what nepotism was like inherently as a 10-year-old. Idon’t know if I knew the word, but there is some sort of association of notearning something that I think bothered me,” Olsen told Glamor in April 2021.”I don’t know how much I processed, but I did think, ‘I’m going to beElizabeth Chase (her middle name) when I become an actress.” “

2021 Emmys: Elizabeth Olsen wears a dress designed by sisters Mary-Kate,Ashley Olsen

“Elizabeth Olsen didn’t just magically end up in a casting room, she obviouslyhad family connections,” Demchick says. “But I think we can all look at hercareer and say, she is a great actor, and should be working.”

Daniels-Butler says nepotism hires exist, and if they happen “that personshould be qualified.”

How can Hollywood level the playing field?

Before an actor is selected for a role there are many layers of approval, *which consist of submitting audition tapes and impressing * castingdirectors, producers, directors and studio executives.

Something Demchick says could balance the perceived nepotism in Hollywood isto better diversify the decision makers in the industry.

Daniels-Butler says she’s “experienced more” Black and brown people instorytelling and filmmaking seats since beginning her career in the ’90s, butthere’s still improvement to be made.

According to UCLA’s “Hollywood Diversity Report 2021: Pandemic in Progress,”people of color and female writers and directors remain underrepresented byabout two-to-one compared to their presence in the population.

“I know that people are only looking at who’s on camera. But in order tochange the industry we need to be changing that we have more directors of allidentities and walks of life,” she says. “We (need to) have more writers,costume designers, hair and makeup artists. … It’s a full ecosystem.”

Contributing: David Oliver

This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Nepotism babies: Famousfamilies and their impact on Hollywood equity

On Friday evening, a magical musical moment will arise in the beautifulJacobikerk that the visitor will never forget – it will turn out to be one ofmany. The Japanese singer and keyboardist Hinako Omori plays heavenly melodieshere and lets a choir of chirping birds sing along far in the background. Sheherself lays sonorous, unintelligible vocal lines over her calming soundworld, from which all unrest or excitement is banned.

And what a visual spectacle is now emerging in the church. Soft green dropspass against the columns and groin vaults high above the audience, to calm themood even further. And behind Omori, five dark blue beams of light pierce thenave of the church. Where the six halls of TivoliVredenburg in Utrecht formthe hectic heart of the festival, you slowly fall into a trance here, farremoved from it.

Mimi Parker

This year, the American band Low would not only perform but also be a curatorat Le Guess Who. But a few weeks ago they had to cancel; drummer Mimi Parkerwas seriously ill. She passed away from cancer last Sunday; a great loss forthe festival and for rock music in general. The band Divide and Dissolvededicated their show to her on Thursday.

And a day later it hits again, with two breathtakingly beautiful Spanishconcerts in the same church. Singer Lole Montoya, a seventies flamenco singerwith undiluted hippie ideals, sings fragile but moving next to a searching andprofound guitar. Montoya’s voice still has that youthful innocence, especiallywhen it comes to her old flamenco hit Todo es de Color sings with a chanson-like melancholy.

After her, the great Estrella Morente takes the stage, with the AmsterdamAndalusian Orchestra. The singer, in the company of two guitarists and threefemale singers, lets her plaintive flamenco be performed next to swirlingviolins, the ud and the spiritual Arabic vocals of the orchestra leader AhmedEl Maai. Goosebumps up to the ears, especially when Morente strides slowly andsinging out of the church after a thunderous ovation on the arm of El Maai.The audience follows in a procession and is almost moved to tears – a miraclehas taken place in the Jacobikerk.

Dry cleaning.Figurine Jelmer de Haas

The Utrecht based Le Guess Who has grown in recent years into one of the mostinnovative festivals in the world and is therefore also visited by a veryinternational audience. The four-day festival no longer wants major headlinersin the program to sell tickets. And it no longer wants to program by genre inorder to attract an unambiguous audience. Le Guess Who wants to be more of aquest and lets artists from all corners of the world come together toexperience a kind of joint music journey. The public knows and appreciates it:Le Guess Who was sold out this year.

Although there are also new bands that can also be seen at regular festivals.On Friday, the Ronda in TivoliVredenburg, with a capacity of two thousandvisitors, the largest room at the festival, will be full for the British post-punk band Dry Cleaning. The band with the beautifully hypothermic monotonevoice of Florence Shaw and icy guitar lines exorcises for an hour that part ofthe audience that also wants to hear a more familiar sound. And then theAmerican trio Clipping explodes the same room with an insanely beautiful hip-hop show, and the very sharp raps of Daveed Diggs.

Le Guess Who likes to excite by presenting the most extreme sounds. But nomatter how deafening the Norwegian trio Supersilent was on Sunday: the rootsof their hard music, with a striking role for Arve Henriksen’s piercingtrumpet, lie in the avant-garde and jazz. An eye for tradition, makingconnections between old and new music by programming folk and other folk musicfrom all over the world: that is what makes the festival unique.

Idris Ackamoor & The PyramidsFigurine Jelmer de Haas

The audience understands that and is completely silent to experience theTurkish folk of Derya Yildirim in Ekko. To then end up in the Grote Zaal withan entertaining show by the American orchestra leader and saxophonist IdrisAckamoor. Ackamoor, who is celebrating the 50th anniversary of his orchestraThe Pyramids, does not set the bar too high in the packed Great Hall. Fromafrobeat to free jazz via a piece of R&B à la Sun Ra: assisted by two extrahorn players and a string quartet, it goes off smoothly. Nice to watch, butgreat moments of elevation are missing.

There are plenty of them in the half hour that the American gospel familyBrown will perform in the Janskerk on Friday. The Browns began fifty years agoas The Staples Jr. Singers, out of respect for The Staple Singers. The voicesof Edward and Anna and the guitar of brother ARC almost make you rise fromyour chair with euphoria. Before you know it, wave and sing along. Ecstasy ina church, that’s gospel, and that’s it here.

The Staples Jr. SingersFigurine Jelmer de Haas

The contrast could not be greater with another highlight, the solo performanceon Sunday by the South African pianist Abdullah Ibrahim (88). He stringstogether the most beautiful pieces of improvisation, motifs and melodies foran hour without interruption. And after the applause he sings two more hymnswhile standing and you walk out of the hall for the umpteenth time thisfestival with the feeling that you have experienced something incomparable.

former Who ‘s the Boss? actor Danny Pintauro is staging a Hollywood comebackwith his first major role in 30 years — a part in a Lifetime Christmas movie.

But it was a sci-fi series that inspired him to revive his career, which hadlargely faded since his eight-season stint playing Judith Light’s son on theABC sitcom ended in 1992. While streaming Star Trek: Discovery at home inAustin last year, he watched as stars Wilson Cruz and Anthony Rapp, bothopenly gay, “had this beautiful kiss,” he says in the new issue of PEOPLE.

The moment resonated with Pintauro, 46, a self-described big believer in fateand signs from the universe. He had been publicly forced out of the closet by_The National Enquirer_ in 1997, a time when there were hardly any out gayactors at all, let alone gay actors kissing on TV. As he marveled at how muchhas changed, Pintauro “was jealous,” he says. “It made me want toparticipate.”

It took it as a sign. “Something just clicked,” he says. “I finally feltready.”

(L to R) Danny Pintauro and Giancarlo Sabogal star in A Country ChristmasHarmony

For years he wasn’t eager to get back in the game. “I had a lot of trauma frommy time after Who ‘s the Boss?” he says. He became addicted to drugs, wasdiagnosed with HIV, struggled financially and faced professional rejectionagain and again.

He recalls thinking “maybe I was a child actor, and that’s all I was supposedto be.” But he now has the outlook of someone who’s survived the worst andknows better days lie ahead. “Possibilities,” he says, “are out there.”

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He was right to have faith. After telling his husband, Wil Tabares, 54, abouthis goal to get back into Hollywood, Pintauro quit his job as a veterinariantechnician, called his former manager, secured his first audition and landed arole on A Country Christmas Harmony , playing the best friend and assistantto a country singer (Brooke Elliott) trying to boost her sagging career. “Icouldn’t believe it,” he says of getting the very first gig he tried out for.

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It had been decades since the New Jersey native had that kind of luck. Hislate mother, Margaret, a hairdresser turned talent agent, and father, John,who worked at a lumber store, got their only child into acting early. “Everysingle thing, I would get,” says Pintauro: commercials, the horror movie_Cujo_ and, of course, Who ‘s the Boss?

The hit comedy (in its heyday it had 30 million viewers per week) about alive-in housekeeper (Tony Danza) for a successful ad exec (Light) turnedPintauro into a household name. But during the show’s later years when he wasa teen, the actor says, producers “didn’t really know what to do with me.”

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Though he wasn’t yet out, Pintauro says his sexuality was obvious to others.”They didn’t feel like my character dating a girl was believable,” he says. Sohe was stuck with banal story lines like accidentally scratching a car. “Ididn’t understand why,” says Pintauro, who thought, “They don’t want me to behere.” (Pintauro makes it clear that the feeling didn’t vote from his costars,including Light, Danza and Alyssa Milano, who were all “great,” he says.)

At the same time, he struggled socially at his LA school. “I just wanted to bea normal guy,” says Pintauro, who attended class in the morning before goingto set. Once fellow students realized he wasn’t going to live up to a”celebrity vibe,” they ignored him. “I didn’t have friends,” he says. “Soyou’ve got two instances of me just not feeling wanted, and that stuck withme.”

When Boss wrapped its run in 1992, Pintauro threw himself into schoolworkand went to Stanford University, where he studied to become a veterinarian. Bythen, “acting was not in my realm of thought,” he says. But he failedchemistry and shifted gears into the theater program.

Then came the call from the inquirer threatening to reveal his sexuality.Pintauro, who was by then out to his friends and family, gave an interview tohelp control the narrative. “I’m trying to study, and suddenly I’m having todeal with this,” he says.

DANNY PINTAURO rollout

Courtesy Everett Collection

Though he says he was initially “angry,” he calmed down after fans let himknow how much he inspired them following the publication of the article: “I’vestill got a box of letters from people across the country.”

After college he moved to New York City but struggled to find work as atheater director. He’d depleted much of his child-star savings by paying forStanford, so he found odd jobs acting in plays or waiting tables. He also fellin with a bad crowd, partied at clubs and started doing drugs. “I was lost,”he says. “A year goes by, and I’m doing a lot of crystal meth.” During onesexual encounter while high on drugs, he contracted HIV.

New York “became an ugly place” with bad memories, says Pintauro, who begantaking medication to treat the virus. For a fresh start, he moved back to LA,weaned himself off drugs without going to rehab and tried to get back intoacting.

Alas, “auditions were very few and far between,” he says. Another ego blow: Hewas a punch line on a 2003 episode of Will & Grace. When his rep contactedthe show to get Pintauro an appearance, they rebuffed him. “I said, ‘Well, ifyou won’t invite me on, I’ll buy my way on.'”

He bid on and won a walk-on role at a charity auction. But after what he terms”months of runaround” from the show, he decided not to film, he says. “Itbrought back all of that trauma of not feeling wanted.” It took it as a signfrom the universe to move on from show business.

Pintauro tried his hand at random gigs: manager at a PF Chang’s, castingassistant and Tupperware sales consultant, which is how he met Tabares at aTupperware party in 2012. An attraction sparked, and within two years theywere married. “My husband,” says Pintuaro, “means everything to me.”

The pair settled down in Austin, where Pintauro trained to become a vettechnician. They weren’t wealthy — “We’ve always just been getting by,” hesays — but they were happy. “I certainly had a great life,” says Pintauro, whois healthy (his viral load is undetectable) and shares three rescue dogs withTabares. “There was no reason to upset the balance.” Still, after seeing the_Star Trek: Discovery_ kiss, Pintauro couldn’t get acting out of his head.

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Milano, his friend and former costar, is thrilled he’s making a comeback. “I’mvery proud of Dan,” she says. “Not only for following his lifelong dream buteven more so for being a good person and staying true to who he is despite thehardships he’s faced.”

The two may share the screen again on Amazon Freevee’s upcoming Who ‘s theBoss? sequel series, which will focus on Danza’s character and his daughterSamantha (Milano). Asked if he’ll appear, Pintauro is coy. “I’ve been involvedin some conversations,” he says. But he’s also eager to prove he’s not justthe kid from the sitcom: “I can play all kinds of parts.”

Pintauro, who recently relocated to the LA area with Tabares, is at peace withthe idea of ​​things not panning out, but he’s confident they will. “I canfeel it in my gut,” he adds.

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The first tickets for Sziget 2023 have already been sold. In addition, theorganization will soon come up with the first names for the Hungarianfestival. Which artists will be at the top of the poster next year? We havealready started speculating. Below is an overview of the strongest rumors.

Arctic Monkeys, Tame Impala, Justin Bieber, Dua Lipa and many other toppers,among others, were high on Sziget’s poster last year. But who can we expectnext summer on it Island of Freedom? It’s never too early to start theanticipation. We list the biggest rumors for you.

Billy Eilish

Billie Eilish has a great chance of being on the Sziget 2023 bill. TheAmerican pop star has been on the Happier Than Ever World Tour for almost ayear now. In June she was still in Europe, but she only did one festival:Glastonbury 2022. Would the singer catch up in 2023? Eilish was recentlyconfirmed for Lollapalooza Argentina, Chile and Brazil and the ColombianEstereo Picnic. These festivals take place in March and April, leaving plentyof room for the European festivals in the summer.

Photo: Henry J Kamara

Stormzy

With the new album This Is What I Mean and a big performance at All PointsEast 2023, we can’t forget about the rapper as a possible contender. Stormzywill play at the British festival on August 18, a week after Sziget. For now,APE is planning its only festival date. But it probably won’t stop there. Inaddition, the British artist was already booked for the canceled 2020 editionof the Budapest festival. Does this mean we can hear new music from Stormzy onSziget?

Swedish House Mafia

With Swedish House Mafia there is never a lack of a solid party. And now letthe same be the case on it Island of Freedom. An ideal combination, whichbecomes even more beautiful when you know that the Swedish trio will be at theBritish Creamfields 2023 two weeks after Sziget. Currently the only Europeandate, but a crossing to the mainland is quickly made.

blur

Another contender is Blur. The English band put their work on hiatus in 2015,after the album The Magic Whip came out. But the group has now announcedthat they will reunite for a reunion show at Wembley on July 8, 2023. Thiswill be their only gig in England for 2023. The first festival in Europe hasbeen confirmed: on July 6, Damon Albarn & co. at Festival Beauregard inFrance. Blur appeared on the stage at Sziget for the first and last time in2013, but the energetic frontman could still be seen at the festival in 2018with his other project Gorillaz.

Photo: Sven-Sebastian Sajak

Paramore

Long time no see , Paramore. It had been a while since we saw the Americanrock band on stage, but our long wait was rewarded. The group is currently ontour through America. On August 2 they will play their last show of this tour.At the moment no European playdates have been announced yet, but what isn’tcan still come.

Photo:Kamiel Scholten / Festileaks

Foals

Foals played Sziget once before in 2015, but the English rock band is on afestival tour almost every summer. Since the group will be touring the US in2023 as a support act for Paramore, they will also have the whole of Augustfree for Europe. So we add them to the list. The gentlemen have a brand newlong player to their name: Life Is Yours. Who knows, we might also hearthese new tracks on Sziget?

The 1975

With their fifth album Being Funny in a Foreign Language in our pocket, it’sno surprise that we could see the British band back on stage in 2023. Earlier,The 1975 singer Matthew Healy revealed that he and his band members will cometo the Netherlands in February. And in the summer months, the halls areexchanged for the festival grounds. At least at Hurricane & Southside inGermany, and TRNSMT Festival in Scotland. Will they extend the tour to Sziget?It would be a nice follow-up to their headline show in 2019.

Taylor Swift

Sziget loves pop stars and pop stars love Sziget. In recent years, Ed Sheeran,Justin Bieber and Dua Lipa, among others, played huge shows on the island inBudapest. Does Taylor Swift join that list? With the new album, midnight ,of course hears a new tour. The American singer will therefore also be touringthe US again next summer. No European shows have been announced at this time,but the US dates will end on August 9. It’s a long shot, but coincidentallySziget takes place right after that.

Harry Styles

Another pop star with a tour coming to an end just before Sziget 2023. Afterthree times the Johan Cruijff Arena in Amsterdam, Harry Styles can go onholiday on July 22. Or will the British singer add another headline show atSziget? The chances are probably not very great, but the bookers of theHungarian festival often conjure up surprises from their top hat.

Beyonce

We can’t avoid it. Beyoncé’s new tour has been rumored for a while now. With anew album full of hits in the pocket, that tour can now come quietly. Beyoncéhas been rumored for some time now to have shows planned in Italy at the endof June. Who knows, she will continue this until August. In any case, a tourannouncement seems imminent.

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Of course it remains to be seen whether we see one of these rumors on theposter of Sziget 2023. But what could be more fun to speculate in advance?Don’t see your favorite group listed here and are you convinced that yourfavorite band is coming to Hungary after all? Speculate further on theFestileaks Forum and convince your fellow Sziget-goers.

Genk/DiepenbeekNature photographer Niki Colemont (36) from Genk has won thepublic prize of the National Geographic Photo Contest. He received the mostvotes in the Animal category with his photo of a squirrel jumping off a pieceof moss with a nut in its mouth.

Earlier, ‘The Squirrelman’, who was nicknamed for his creative snaps ofsquirrels, enthusiastically posted about the competition on his Instagram. “Adream would come true if I can win with a squirrel photo,” he told his fans.Today it turned out to be a hit and the Diepenbeken resident, who moved toGenk, won the audience prize of the National Geographic Photo Contest.

“I still can’t grasp it,” responds Niki, who walks off with a glass award,shopping credit at CameraNU worth 500 euros and an annual subscription toNational Geographic. That’s my favorite animal and my favorite fashion model_(laughs)._ On Monday evening, the results were suddenly published on theNational Geographic website. Incredible.”

Niki Colemont during his work as a nature photographer. © Caroline Coenen

How exactly was the winning photo taken? “By tempting the squirrel with ahazelnut on some moss, which I floated on a drinking pond,” Niki smiles. “Thatpond in a private forest in North Brabant in the Netherlands is specificallyintended for squirrels. Together with a good friend I went there and waitedfor four hours for a brave squirrel who dared to take the plunge. Manysquirrels wanted to, but did not find the courage.”

Niki Colemont exercises a lot of patience every time during his work as aphotographer. © Caroline Coenen

“Until that one squirrel suddenly jumped, took the hazelnut in its mouth andran off again. I was able to capture that special moment. If you look closely,you can see the reflection of the squirrel in the drinking pond and how theanimal’s tail creates a circular silhouette. I thought that was such a uniqueimage that I didn’t hesitate to send it in. I still can’t believe it’s nownumber one.”

Follow Niki Colemont’s work? Then you can visit instagram.com/nikicolemont.

Niki Colemont. © Caroline Coenen

Mini-documentary about Diepenbeek nature photographer has been viewed morethan 4 million times: “People from all corners of the world are asking forprints of my images”(+)

Niki Colemont, briefly world news because of his crazy squirrel photos,suddenly also had to swallow negative reactions: “Honestly? I have sometimesthought about quitting” (+)

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[BLOG] I wrote here a week ago about the fine that Radio Veronica receivesfor violating the rules for the FM package on which they broadcast, now 8 dayslater Nu.NL finally comes with the confirmation: Radio Veronica must pay60,000 euros to the Agency Telecom, for violating the speech clause. And ifthey don ‘t improve it will be a monthly loss. They’re appealing. What has nowalso been confirmed is the spicy fact that another radio station (KINK) isbehind this, as I wrote twice before. In such a typical Dutch tattletale way,they patched up Radio Veronica. What do we think?

Well, let’s go back to the situation one more time. Somewhere in the earlynineties, the cable channel KINK FM (get it, kink in the cable, pretty funmade up) was created to play all kinds of alternative shizzle. It was theemergence of other cable channels such as Power FM, later Love Radio etc. so arock station could be added. Initiators included Rob Stenders and one JanHoogesteijn. Those two got into a rant about how to fill in the station; Robwanted to freak out, Jan brought in all kinds of consultants from America.That fight never got better.

We live 30 years later, Stenders is now the boss at Radio Veronica andHoogesteijn is still / again at Kink. One party, owned by John de Mol’s Talpa,has FM transmitters, the other wants them. So at Kink they do everything theycan to be received in cars older than 5 years. It turns out that it even goesso far that Kink has spent months listening to Veronica with a stopwatch inhand, to check whether they are complying with the speech clause rules. No, afour-year-old child can tell you that. Where Stenders is in charge, there ismuch and often talk. Strange for a station that has the slogan We.Love.Music

When I still worked at Veronica, Rob sometimes sent me an app with the text ‘Ionly hear you selling the station!’. In other words: some more dicks dude! Itis also almost impossible with the two-hour programming of now and all those3FM renegades that he has fished in that there is a nice chat about smalltalk. While that is not possible / allowed according to the frequencyconditions. They tried to solve it at Veronica in recent months by inventing a’news section’ for everything (Radio Veronica sports news, music news, concertnews, etc). which would not count towards the speech clause. Guessed wrong.All spoken word except the (official) news on the hour and half and thetraffic information counts. And that has been smelled and reported by Kink.Feels a bit like trying to sew a red card to another player on the field. It’snot sporty anyway. And what is Kink actually buying for this?

I think the most unpleasant element about this is that it came to my attentionthat the complaint that Kink has submitted to the AT has also been co-signedby Michiel Veenstra, deejay/program leader at Kink. I can still understand itfrom Hoogesteijn, he is director, but as a radio deejay you know what a burdenthat retarded clause is. I understand that you want frequencies for your ownradio station, but is this the way? Better just wait for that frequencydistribution next year, this will only cause more bad blood in the alreadyoverstrained Dutch radio market. Still, you know they smell blood at Kink now.They are already sitting with the Hit file on their laps to check whetherVeronica does not also violate the music clause and therefore broadcasts toomuch music of 5 years and younger that has reached the Top 40. Can they giveRob Stenders and his 41 deejays another ear.

If we dive into the history books, it is indeed of all times that quarrelsbetween radio stations: Fifty years ago, a bomb exploded on board the ship ofRadio North Sea, for which people at Radio Veronica had ordered and evensentenced to prison. So it can always get worse.

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Fred Siebelink, the conjoined Siamese twin brother of Rob Stenders, alsospeaks disgracefully about it on his Facebook:

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Elizabeth Banks gets candid about her struggle with infertility. (Photo: GettyImages)

Elizabeth Banks is reflecting on her journey with surrogacy 11 years afterwelcoming her first of two children into the world, sharing that there’s still”so much shame” attached to her infertility.

The 48-year-old actor joined podcaster Alex Cooper on an episode of Call HerDaddy where Banks discussed her life with husband Max Handelman, beginningwith their meeting at college. While Banks described her dreams of marriageand having a family as “traditional” at the time, she explained the process ofletting go of what that had meant to her as she discovered the impossibilityof getting pregnant.

“I’ve never been pregnant and when I was young I thought it was because I wasreally good at taking the pill, which I definitely was. But I have no idea.There’s a small percentage of women who basically have unexplained infertilityand that is me, I’m in that category,” Banks said. “I had always had plenty ofeggs, I never had trouble making embryos, they did not implant. For whateverreason, my uterus is hostile, I don’t know what’s going on but they just willnot stay in there. So I had a broken belly, is what I told my kids, mommy hada broken belly.”

Banks has publicly shared her journey with infertility before and has spokento the judgment that she faced as she and her husband made the decision towork with a surrogate in order to grow their family. “This is a long time agobefore surrogacy was like a Kardashian thing. Nobody was doing it back then,”she reminded Cooper. Banks also addressed the grief that she faced for thepotential of carrying her own child before she was able to celebrate thisalternate route to motherhood.

“Your fertility is such a part of your life, men and women. But for womenespecially in a society that’s like, this is why we value you, we don’t valueyou because you could be a CEO, we value you because you can procreate andkeep the race going. So if you can’t do that, you are less of a woman. That’sthe messaging. And my fertility was something I had to mourn. I had to grievefor it. It was a loss. And I had to really work through that before I couldinvite someone else to help me make my family,” she explained. “It wasconfusing too because it’s like my husband and I could make these beautifulbaby cakes and I just didn’t have an oven to bake them in. And so it reallywas my fault, do you know what I mean? It was on me. And I felt that deeply,like I’m the problem.”

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While still trying to carry a baby herself, Banks said she blamed herlifestyle when it hadn’t worked and said she “did everything” to improve herchances.

“I stopped drinking, I stopped eating, then I started eating because someonewas like, ‘You’re too thin, you’re too this. You use that cream and it’s got achemical in it.’ Like, ok everything has a chemical in it,” she recalled.”It’s like everything you’re doing is wrong.”

Banks explained that it took gaining perspective to feel more confident aboutthe decision to move forward with surrogacy. She credited a lot of that to anumber of friends who offered her advice throughout the process.

“I had a great friend who was like, ‘At the end of the day, there’s gonna be ababy and you’re gonna be a parent and nobody’s gonna care how it happened,'”she recalled. “The other great advice I got was like, ‘Is your goal to bepregnant or to be a mom?’ And I was like, ‘Oh, s. It’s just to be a mom.Right. I don’t need to be pregnant, f, I just want the baby.’ So it waslike what’s the best way to get to the baby? What are you doing? Who caresabout the pregnancy? Get the baby.”

Ultimately, it was when Banks met a potential surrogate who she had “anincredible conversation” with that she felt at peace with the way she’d begrowing her family. She explained that “still to this day” she maintains arelationship with that surrogate who brought 11-year-old Felix and 10-year-oldMagnus into the world. “It’s my son’s 10th birthday today and I’m gonna sendher a picture of him, cause she helped make our family with us. Her mom hadbeen a surrogate, that’s how she got into it. She had three beautiful kids ofher own with her awesome husband,” Banks said. “It takes like the wholevillage to do this.”

Now, 11 years after becoming a mother, Banks said that the moment she had herson in her arms the worry about how he was born washed away. “It madeeverything else so stupid. So silly. Everyone’s judgment, it’s like, ‘Oh, f***off.’ Now they get to judge me for how I parent,” she said. “It starts allover again, it’s a whole other side of the cycle.”

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“Estoy muy contento por lo que me ha llegado. Obviamente supone un alivio paramí y mi gente saber esto después de lo que ha sucedido este año. ¿Si afectópositivamente hoy a mi juego? Me gustaría creer que sí”, afirma el campeón de21 grandes, que departe ante la atenta mirada de su agente, la italiana ElenaCapellaro. “Saber que ahora todo está claro, qué voy a hacer durante lapretemporada y que comenzaré el próximo año en Australia nos quita a mí ya miequipo presión de encima. Es genius. Allí es donde más he ganado y, claro,quiero volver allá y jugar al tenis, que es lo que mejor hago. Espero tener ungran verano australiano”, prosigue el balcánico, a solo tres triunfos decelebrar su sexto Masters.

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En el caso de conseguirlo, Djokovic igualaría el registro del gran RogerFederer –retirado de las pistas desde hace dos meses– y atraparía un nuevorécord. Implacable ante Rublev, un jugador con magníficos golpes pero quetiende a deshacerse con facilidad, el serbio afronta el tramo decisivo de lacita maestra con un buen chute anímico y en un envidiable estado de forma.Durante el otoño ha triunfado en Tel Aviv y Astaná, y reccientemente tambiénalcanzó la final de París-Bercy. Aquella tarde le superó el joven Holger Rune,pero en Turín de momento no ha hecho la más mínima concesión; fulminó elprimer día a Stefanos Tsitsipas –aspirante al número uno, a partir de ahí sinopciones– e hizo lo propio con el ruso.

“Siempre tengo que demostrarme algo a mí mismo ya los demás”, contesta cuandose le pregunta por su notable rendimiento en la recta final del curso: 21triunfos y solo dos derrotas –ante Auger-Aliassime en la Laver Cup y la citadaen Bercy – desde que irrumpiera en la hierba de Wimbledon. “Todavía quieroseguir adelante, no siento que el final de mi carrera esté cerca. Me sientomotivado, todavía quiero seguir empujándome a mí mismo”, apunta. Y ahora, conla luz verde de Australia –que a priori iba a impedirle la entrada hasta2025–, no encuentra mejor aliciente que el retorno adonde comenzó supesadilla, el año más complicado de su trayectoria.

“Esta temporada ha sido muy inusual, me he perdido muchos torneos [dos grandesy cuatro Masters 1000, entre otros]. Pero al mismo tiempo puedo decir que heaprendido mucho sobre mí mismo y el mundo en el que vivo, y también sobrealgunas personas que se han comportado de una determinada manera durante elproceso. Siempre agradezco pasar por este tipo de experiencias, intento serpositivo y optimista en la vida. Espero con ansias comenzar el próximo año enAustralia. Veremos como va”, se despide Nole, citado el viernes con el rusoDaniil Medvedev al cierre de la phase de grupos.