Month: August 2023

TODAY: In 1949, travel writer and explorer Helen Churchill Candee, a survivor of the RMS Titanic, dies at 90.     Also on Lit Hub: On the death of the comedy blockbuster • Lou Matthews on the long, booby-trapped road to publication • Read from Attila Bartis’s newly translated novel, The End (tr. Judith Sollosy)
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One of Gwyneth Paltrow’s best movies was Shallow Hal where she wore a fat suit to play plus-sized Rosemary. For close-ups of Rosemary’s arms, torso, and thighs, then-20-year-old Ivy Snitzer played Paltrow’s body double. Sadly, Snitzer developed an eating disorder after Shallow Hal’s success. Before Shallow Hal, Snitzer was a Los Angeles acting student with
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Photography by Getty ImagesWith a series of subtle looks, under-wraps details, and an undoubtedly high budget, the actor’s nuptials bring quiet luxury into the bridal game. By Natalie Michie Date August 22, 2023 Facebook Twitter Celebrity nuptials are famously fussy affairs. So it feels pretty unusual when an A-list wedding can wrangle half of Hollywood
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August 22, 2023, 10:51am If you guessed London, you’re right—London is mentioned at least three times more often than any other European city. (Wonder why?) As Travel Daily reports, a digital printing company called Aura Print has apparently processed the entire Google Books database to “identify the cumulative mentions of 31 prominent European cities across
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Blue Beetle flew into theaters this week, so I took a gander at the Angel Manuel Soto-directed pic and must now decide where it ranks in the pantheon of the DC Extended Universe. Let’s dive in and look back on all of the DCEU movies. [embedded content] 15.) Justice League (2017) What happens when you
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