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Britney Spears Biopic Film Set at Universal With ‘Wicked’ Director Jon M. Chu
Universal Pictures has landed the rights to Britney Spears‘ bestselling memoir “The Woman in Me,” with “Wicked” director Jon M. Chu and producer Marc Platt attached to develop the feature.
Spears shared news of the “secret project” on social media, writing that Platt has “always made my favorite movies” and telling her fans to “stay tuned” for more news.

Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Next Project Is a Concept Album Co-Written with Eisa Davis and Inspired by The Warriors
The Hamilton creator’s next project is about New York City gangs in the 1960s.
Is Lin-Manuel Miranda’s next big musical almost here?
The creator of Hamilton and In the Heights announced today a concept album inspired by The Warriors, a 1965 novel by Sol Yurick about gangs in New York City in the 1960s. The book was later adapted into a cult-classic film in 1979 by director Walter Hill.
The concept album was co-created with Eisa Davis. “We’ve spent the past three years musicalizing the Warriors’ journey home, from the South Bronx to Coney Island,” Davis and Miranda said in a statement. “Along the way we’ve gotten to work with a lot of our favorite artists, and we’ll be announcing their roles on the album in the weeks ahead. We can’t wait to share these songs with you on October 18th.”

The most empowering moments from the Paris Olympics 2024 so far
From Simone Biles to Nada Hafez.
Every four years, I find myself putting a dent in my sofa, eyes glued to my television, as I suddenly, inexplicably, become a sports girl. I don’t love watching sports — that is, until the Olympics roll around. Seeing competitors compete in front of the entire world after tirelessly training for four years is uniquely emotional and undeniably gripping. It’s rarely the actual sport that enthrals me — it is the moment after. The moment after the race, the routine, the jump or the dive when the competitor realises that they’ve overcome every adversity — that they’ve done it.
The 2024 Paris Olympics have already been filled with a number of particularly inspiring moments, particularly for the female competitors. After all, this year’s games is being hailed as the first “gender-equal” Olympics, welcoming an equal 50:50 ratio of male and female competitors. There are still a number of sports in which gender parity hasn’t been achieved, with 28 out of 32 sports being fully gender equal.

Should we feel guilty for watching Netflix’s Baby Reindeer?
Netflix has admitted that the ‘real-life Martha’ was not convicted of stalking Richard Gadd.
The Baby Reindeer backlash is far from over, as a letter appears to show that Netflix was aware that the ‘real-life Martha’ – who the show was based on – was not convicted of stalking.
In the show, Martha’s character is portrayed as pleading guilty to stalking and being sentenced to prison. After the show aired, Fiona Harvey, a Scottish lawyer, was identified as the woman ‘Martha’ was based on. She then appeared on Piers Morgan’s TV show to deny that she’d ever been convicted.
In May earlier this year, Benjamin King, Netflix’s senior UK director of public policy, told Parliament’s Culture, Media and Sport Committee that Baby Reindeer was a “true story of the horrific abuse” suffered by Gadd “at the hands of a convicted stalker.”

How Timothée Chalamet’s Bob Dylan Biopic Could Shape This Year’s Oscar Race
With A Complete Unknown, the Oscar nominee could be back in the race for the first time since his breakout in Call Me by Your Name. But that’s only the beginning of the awards potential for this movie.
Last week, Searchlight Pictures launched an earthquake heard ’round Hollywood with the sudden dating of A Complete Unknown, its buzzy Bob Dylan biopic helmed by Oscar nominee James Mangold. The film will be released this December—which is to say, this awards season. It completed production only recently, following delays induced by last year’s industry strikes, and the assumed approach would be that it’d be taking this cycle off. But as discussed on this week’s Little Gold Men (listen below), Mangold is a pro who knows how to work efficiently—and the studio must like what it sees enough to swiftly mount a campaign.

Almond Nails: How To Perfect The Eternally Popular – And Ultra-Flattering – Manicure
Tapered and meticulously shaped to follow the lateral edges of the nail groove, almond nails – regularly spotted on stars including Sabrina Carpenter, Halle Bailey and Nicole Kidman – “provide a natural illusion of an elongated nail”, explains luxury manicurist Georgia Barker. Celebrity manicurist Trish Lomax warns that “a stylist mustn’t file too harshly on each side of the free edge” when working on almond nails.

Meghan Markle Makes Rare Comment About Protecting Her Children, Archie and Lili
“All you want to do as parents is protect them,” the duch*ess of Sussex said.
This weekend, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle will appear on CBS News Sunday Morning for an interview with Jane Pauley.
In the conversation, which coincidentally airs on Meghan’s birthday (August 4), the Duke and duch*ess of Sussex “talk about the perils of social media, online bullies and how they’re hoping to help families impacted by online harm,” per CBS News. They will also discuss a new program called the Parents Network, launched via their Archewell Foundation.
In a clip promoting the appearance, Meghan makes a rare comment about her children, Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet. “Our kids are young.

There’s a Young Sherlock Holmes TV Show in the Works at Prime Video
Hero Fiennes Tiffin will star as the 19-year-old detective.
There’s another Sherlock Holmes TV show in the works: Young Sherlock Homes will star Hero Fiennes Tiffin as the titular detective at age 19, in a new Prime Video series from Guy Richie.
The official logline reads that it is an “action-packed origin story of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s beloved detective in an explosive re-imagining of this iconic character. At age 19, Sherlock Holmes is disgraced, raw, unfiltered, and unformed, when he finds himself caught up in a murder mystery at Oxford University which threatens his freedom. Diving into his first-ever case with a wild lack of discipline, Sherlock manages to unravel a globe-trotting conspiracy that will change his life forever.”

Queen Camilla Reportedly Keeps Prince William in Check When He’s “Disrespectful”
Insiders say she’d make “subtle jabs” at him to remind him of his place.
King Charles and his relationship with his sons, Prince William and Prince Harry, has been put under a microscope for decades now. With the death of Princess Diana, royal rifts making headlines, and Harry’s memoir all adding a layer of mystery to the generally private life of the monarch, royal insiders are saying that a surprising person has managed to keep things smooth between father and son—at least for Harry and Charles, that is. Queen Camilla reportedly keeps William in check with subtle reminders, author Robert Jobson writes in his new book, Catherine, The Princess of Wales: The Biography, The Mirror reports. Apparently, when King Charles was still Prince Charles, William would sometimes get a little too big for his Saville Row-tailored britches.

For Lady In The Lake, Shiona Turini Channels 1960s Baltimore
Taking on the project on the heels of costuming Issa Rae’s Insecure, Turini says she’d just written “costume designing a ‘60s period piece” as a goal in her journal on New Year’s Eve when Har’el approached her about Lady in the Lake by way of an Instagram DM. Relocating to Maryland to film, Turini spent over eight months breaking down 1960s style and the birth of futurism through the lens of Maddie and Cleo. (She later put her research to use for a second time to outfit Beyoncé’s also very futuristic Renaissance Tour, in what Turini calls a “full circle” moment.) For Lady in the Lake, a show loosely inspired by the real 1969 deaths of Esther Lebowitz and Shirley Parker, the costumer and stylist took an approach much more rooted in realism. “In the show, all those styles—especially in Maddie’s world—were new to women, and their idea of futuristic fashion was very specific,” she says.

Why You Should Skip Marseille This Summer and Visit Nice Instead
Over the past decade—and especially in the years following the pandemic—Marseille has emerged as a port of call for stylish Parisians and creative expats swapping the rigorous demands of urban living for a more relaxed life by the sea. A flurry of restaurants and trendy places to stay have opened to meet the moment, and helped foster the tourism boom that Marseille has been experiencing.
Yet while the spotlight shines on Marseille, a creative renaissance has been quietly building in Nice, the French Riviera’s gateway city.

The Secret to Smelling Wine Like a Pro? Use the Three-Tier Aroma System
Learn to identify the most common scent groups found in a wine’s bouquet and how they can help you choose a better bottle.
Aromas are funny. While the human nose has around 400 scent receptors and researchers have reported that it can distinguish at least one trillion different odors, or combinations of aromatic molecules, what we smell is not all straight science. The reality is that our ability to identify various scents depends on factors such as our internal chemistry, personal references, and experience, and how we align those compounds to material items.
Essentially, what smells like Meyer lemon to one person could be yuzu to another. Allspice may come across like clove to a particular individual, while mulberry to one could be blackberry to another.

Inside Paris’ New Highly Immersive Cheese Museum
The attraction aims to celebrate the French specialty as a living, moving subject.
When French winemaker Pierre Brisson moved from his home in the Beaujolais region to Paris more than a decade ago, he noticed one key factor missing from the city that had built a reputation as a cheese capital. “There was nothing for cheese,” says the owner of the Musée Vivant du Fromage, which opened in June on Paris’ Île Saint-Louis as the first cheese museum in the city. “There are many great cheese shops, but they are just shops. I thought, we should do with cheese what they’ve done with the two wine museums here.”

Why Are People Decorating the Inside of Their Refrigerators?
‘Fridgescaping’ is a thing, but does it actually make sense for home cooks?
The refrigerator door has always been a canvas for self-expression, or at least a place to show off your priorities: souvenir magnets, save-the-dates, to-do lists. But the latest fridge decor trend is all about what’s on the inside — and it’s not always edible. In #fridgescaping videos on Instagram and TikTok, antique butter dishes might share space with flowers, framed photos, or even eye cream to create a visually stunning display.
Allison Hester (@rosemaryfairy), a Charlotte-based photographer who is known for her foraging and gardening content, remembers when she first came across a “fridgescape” about a year and a half ago.

My Lady Jane’s Weird Science
Everyone knows that Lady Jane Grey — brilliant, Protestant, and a legitimate claimant to the throne as a niece of Henry VIII — was queen of England for nine entire days, deposed to make way for Henry’s eldest surviving child Mary Tudor, and subsequently beheaded for treason. What My Lady Jane presupposes is, maybe she wasn’t?
Jane surviving and possibly thriving isn’t even the most surprising of My Lady Jane’s gleefully deployed ahistorical features (the series is based on a popular YA novel of the same title by Jodi Meadows, Brodi Ashton, and Cynthia Hand). Yes, we’re talking about shapeshifters. In this world, humans are divided into two groups: Ethians, who discover in adolescence that they can transform into an animal at will (objectively cool, fun, and handy), and Verities, who are stuck in their human form forever (pitiable). Verities have convinced one another that Ethians are evil and enforce genocidal laws against them.

The 50 Best Songs of 2024 (So Far): Staff List
Our picks of the best songs from the most packed first half of a year in recent memory.
Wow there are a lot of songs already this year, huh? A facile observation, of course — there are literally millions of new songs uploaded to streaming every year, if not every month — but this year, well, it just feels like there are more. Certainly on the Billboard charts, and certainly compared to other recent years, when it often seemed like we barely got any new songs at all the first few months, and mostly had to make do with leftovers from the year(s) prior. This year, it’s been one full meal after another of oven-fresh, piping-hot new jams — ones actually from 2024 — to make it very likely the most memorable first half of the year for new music so far this decade.

These 2024 Olympians Are Making Inspiring Hair Statements In Paris
From Simone Biles’ clapback at trivial hair comments to the French curl braid trend, here are the hair moments you may have missed.
With the 2024 Olympic Games in full swing, naturally, we’ve been soaking in the awe-inspiring athleticism. But that’s not the only thing that’s made our heads turn. The first week of the games have been chalk-full of powerful beauty moments, too.
For one, 5x Olympic gold-medalist Simone Biles reminds us that she didn’t ask for opinions about her hair, clapping back at the unwarranted criticism.
Then, French curl braids had a moment across sports, from soccer player Trinity Rodman, to tennis champion Coco Gauff and Brazil’s bronze-winning gymnastics team.
We also couldn’t keep our eyes off of team Liberia’s track stars, specifically Ebony Morrison who served Black power in a gorgeous Afro.

Discrimination against trans Olympians has roots in Nazi Germany
The forgotten Olympic history of trans athletes.
Despite being a time when people from all over the world come together in equality and peace, the Olympics are still uncertain territory for transgender athletes. There are no transgender athletes who are competing outside of the gender they were assigned at birth at this year’s Games. Transgender women who transitioned after puberty aren’t allowed to compete in major sports on a college level.
Athletes Nikki Hultz, a runner, and Hergie Bacyadan, a boxer, both identify as transgender (Hultz also identifies as nonbinary), but both have always and continue to compete in the women’s division, which is the sex they were assigned at birth.

36 Hours in Salzburg, Austria
Summer is when this compact Austrian city of medieval alleys, majestic Alpine views and just 150,000 residents, bursts to life.

Inside the uncanny world of AI tarot readings
AI-generated mystics are appearing on the FYP with spiritual readings transmitted straight from the uncanny valley
“If you’re seeing this video, this message is for you.”
The AI-generated woman who appears on my FYP hunches towards the screen, her face illuminated by a virtual tealight. “Tomorrow night you will receive a large sum of money from unexpected sources you never even suspected,” she says, in a robotic drawl. “When you hear this sound, use it immediately. Karma exists and tomorrow night there will be a significant change in your life.”
In the past few months, there have been countless examples of videos like this showing up on my feed, promising life-changing blessings and financial miracles if only I write ‘yes’ in the comments and ‘share this video with my loved ones’.

“I’m a Nepo Maybe”: John Owen Lowe, in Conversation With Rob Lowe
John Owen Lowe doesn’t feel qualified to claim nepo baby status. But after penning three of film and television legend Rob Lowe’s hit shows, including co-producing the just-released second season of Netflix’s Unstable, he’s ready to step out of his father’s shadow. In the workplace comedy, the father-son duo play a different father-son duo trying to revive both a plummeting tech company and their rocky relationship, sometimes resorting to the absurd. “And unlike this interview, the pace is airtight,” John says of the series, as they veer off-topic to talk meme literacy, college admission scandals, presidential debates, and why you’re only a true nepo baby if you have two famous parents.

3 Baking Soda Substitutes You Probably Have in Your Kitchen
Consider using these alternatives when you’re out of baking soda, but need a leavener for a cake or cookie recipe.
We’ve all been there: You’re making a favorite baked good when you realize you’re clean out of baking soda and need a baking soda substitute. Is there such a thing—or do you need to halt cookie production until you can run to the store to buy that key ingredient? Luckily there are three sound replacements. None are an exact match (and none are perfect), but these baking soda substitutes are good to use in a pinch. We spoke with food professionals to learn more about replacing one staple for another.

How to Make a DIY Shower Cleaner (That Really Works)
Making a DIY shower cleaner is an easy process that requires just a few ingredients you likely already have.
Keeping your shower clean requires a combination of consistent cleaning and using the right products. Though you might think you have to buy shower cleaner at the store, you might be surprised to learn that you can make your own at home that is just as effective.
Homemade shower cleaners are free from harsh chemicals, easy and safe to use, and much cheaper than store-bought products. We turned to a cleaning expert to find the best formulas for DIY shower cleaners and how to use them to keep your shower squeaky clean.

Do You Really Need to Use Fabric Softener? Here’s What Cleaning Experts Say
Learn why fabric softener is considered a laundry staple by many.
There are many reasons why we reach for fabric softener come laundry day. Habit, for one. But we also want our clothes and linens to feel soft and come out wrinkle-free. For some, fabric softener is as essential as detergent. But have you ever considered what fabric softener actually does and how it affects each item you send through the washing machine? To help you understand exactly how fabric softener works, we’re sharing a few things you should know about this laundry staple.

Hong Kong Has an Incredible New Culture District — Here’s What to See
Decades in the making, Hong Kong’s arts quarter is finally ready for its close-up — and these are the key museums and performance venues to visit.
For many years, Hong Kong was dismissed as a cultural desert. Sure, the food was fantastic and the shopping was incredible, but those seeking art were often left wanting.
The idea for an arts enclave emerged around 1997, around the same time that the former British crown colony was handed back to China. Under a master plan by the architects Foster + Partners, a 100-acre “cultural hub” would be built on reclaimed land fronting Victoria Harbour. It took nearly 30 years, but the West Kowloon Cultural District has finally taken shape. Today, there are world-class museums, an opera house, theaters, and open parkland for space-starved Hong Kongers.

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