Новости за 12.10.2023

Jessica Knoll’s third novel, Bright Young Women, isn’t just a story based on Ted Bundy’s string of horrific murders…it rewrites the entire narrative around the notorious 1970s serial killer. Specifically, Bright Young Women is told through the eyes of Bundy’s victims—a perspective that’s been effectively ignored,…

Framing Priscilla Presley as a cinematic hero poses a certain challenge in 2023—at least the version of Priscilla Presley that features in her 1985 memoir Elvis and Me. At age 14, she was plucked from a soda shop near a U.S. army base in Germany and thrust into a life that she barely had tools to understand as the…

Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.), the lone Palestinian American member of Congress, on Wednesday spoke to the Detroit Free Press about her colleagues’ motion to censure her, following a statement she made over the weekend mourning lives lost in the conflict between Israel and Palestine and calling for an end to…

Kendall Jenner, who famously solved racism with a Pepsi can in 2017, has been popping up at bars and grocery stores across the Midwest all week. Her timing—just a few short months before 2024 primaries—triggered my spidey senses, and so now I must know...Is she running?? Because honestly, why is a multimillionaire…

Once again, Nicole Kidman was right. We go to our local AMC for magic, because we need that—all of us. Even Beyoncé, who made a surprise appearance at none other than Taylor Swift’s The Eras Tour film premiere.

“Anger for a man is like tears for a woman,” a doctor tells Judith Moore, the doomed heroine of filmmaker Anna Biller’s new novel, Bluebeard’s Castle (out this week). “We have to let it out sometimes.” The male doctor is making a house call as Judith wrangles with PTSD and anxiety after her husband, the endlessly…

Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R) put out a $1.4 million ad buy focusing on abortion to amplify bogus claims about Democrats ahead of November’s elections, the Richmond-Times Dispatch reported on Tuesday. Youngkin’s Spirit of Virginia PAC is focusing on key swing districts in the state legislature, as Democrats and…

Celebrities including Kendall Jenner, Tom Brady, and, err, YouTuber MrBeast, who I do not relish calling a celebrity, are flocking to Meta to join its frankly dystopian AI chatbot program, The Information reported last week. Through this new program, the chatbots are given their own distinct personalities and purposes…