Here Are All the Celebrities at Coachella 2018
Rihanna, Kylie Jenner, Rita Ora, Paris Hilton and more at Coachella
STARS COME OUT FOR CARTIER ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL PARTY
CELEBRATING SANTOS DE CARTIER IN SAN FRANCISCO
Stars gathered at the annual Cartier biggest watch launch party of the year in San Francisco, California. Celebration marked the launch of the 2018 Santos de Cartier collection of watches.
The party, at Pier 48 in San Francisco, was hosted by Cartier North America president and CEO Mercedes Abramo and international marketing and communications director Arnaud Carrez.
The Santos name dates back to one of the world’s first wristwatches, which was designed by Louis Cartier in the early 20th century for his friend Alberto Santos-Dumont, a fearless Brazilian airman and inventor. The 2018 family is bang up-to-date with its 1847 MC automatic calibre using anti-magnetic nickel phosphorus components in the escapement and movement mechanisms, as well as a shield made from a paramagnetic alloy to prevent interference from magnetic fields.
The watch, which will hit stores this month, sticks closely to historic designs. Its square case with rounded corners and lugs that sweep into the strap are familiar, as are the eight screws on the bezel and the roman numeral hours behind Cartier blue hands.
Stars attending the San Francisto party included Mercedes Abramo, President & CEO Cartier North America; Arnaud Carrez, International Marketing and Communication Director; Jake Gyllenhaal, Sofia Coppola, Annabelle Wallis, Bianca Brandolini, Melanie Laurent, Niels Schneider, Idris Elba, Phoenix, Sienna Miller, Freida Pinto, Lily Collins, Chloe Sevigny, Sofia Boutella, Lisa Bonet, Courtney Eaton, Yasmine Sabri, Winnie Harlow, Edgar Ramirez, Jeremy Renner, Dave Franco, Aaron Paul, Jason Momoa, Laird Hamilton, Miguel Angel Silvestre, Henry Golding, Deng Chao, Ma Yansong, Shota Matsuda, Simi and Haze Khadra, Prin Suparat, Trystan Pütter, Volker Bruch, Maxi Iglesias, Yoo Ah-In, Ali Mostafa, Anne Waterman Bassin, Caroline Issa, Charlie Spalding, Elizabeth Von Guttman, Vanessa Getty, Alexis Traina, Todd Traina, Trevor Traina, Victoria Traina Emilie Spalding, Katie Paige Schwab, Katya Sorokko, Lauren Goodman, Mary Gonsalves Kinney, Olya Dzilikhova, Juliet Belkin, Ruzwana Bashir, Sabrina Buell, Sonya Molodetskaya, Tatiana Sorokko, Tatum Getty, Timo Weiland, Yves Behar, Liev Schreiber, Nas, Kelly Sawyer, Sam & Aaron Taylor Johnson, Derek Blasberg, Leila Nda, Juan Pablo Jim, Eric Buterbaugh.
Vincent Cassel and his 20 year-old lover Tina Kunakey are in Love
The new girl of Vincent Cassel, the Italian model Tina Kunakey, recently became one of the main heroines of glossy media.
Vincent Kassel's desire to look young and daring is understandable -he and Tina Kunakey have a difference of 31 years. He is 51, she is 20. However, by today's standards, it's all good.
Italian model Tina Kunakeya has a serious career in the fashion world. She was born in Sicily, in the Italian family and native of Togo, a country located in West Africa. When Tina was 15, she moved to Madrid to study at the Lyceum. She spoke no Spanish. Now Tina calls Madrid her favorite city, and speaks Spanish flawlessly - as well as English and French.
"My father Robin was born in Morocco, but comes from Togo. He grew up in France. My mother is Nadia from Sicily. They met in Toulouse and immediately fell in love with each other, "says Tina. She has a brother and sister, Cassandra and Zachary. The family has a wonderful relationship. "I think they are all proud of me. My family supports me very much, and it helps me to live. I also want for them all the best and always tell them that as long as they are happy, everything is fine with us. "
Tina does not hide her relationship with Vincent Cassel, whom she has met year and a half ago. "Sometimes two people who are in the same place at the same time, are attracted to each other. Such surprises can present life"
Paris Jackson reportedly dating supermodel Cara Delevingne
SEE THIS MILLENNIAL SMOOCH INSIDE
It looks like millennial model millionaires Paris Jackson and Cara Delevingne are an item.
The pair were spotted smooching in Los Angeles while out with Jackson’s godfather, Macaulay Culkin, and his girlfriend, Brenda Song, at steakhouse Carlito’s.'
How to Read (a Lot) More Books This Year, According to Harvard Research
Reading is a huge key to success and wealth, but how can you actually benefit from this habit as a busy adult?
I’ve said it many times: reading books is a major key to success. The mega-rich and successful like Bill Gates and Elon Musk devote extraordinary amounts of their time to reading. Musk even attributes his knowledge of how to build rockets to his reading repertoire, and studies have proven that reading can reduce stress, increase focus, and improve long- and short-term memory.
The benefits of flexing your reading muscles are clear. But reading is time-consuming — and as a busy professional, it’s almost impossible to both find the time to read and actually stay focused enough to reap the benefits when deadlines start piling up.
Thankfully, experts at Harvard Business Review (along with a few others) have discovered some tips and tricks to ensure that you not only make reading a daily habit, but that you‘re able to radically increase the amount you read and the benefits you reap.
Read on for seven practical ways to continue to improve your reading habits as time goes on:
1. Accept that it’s okay to quit.
Sometimes I’ll start a book, only to find that I’m not really enjoying it or finding much meaning in it — but I’ll “power through” anyway, because I don’t want to be a quitter.
Gretchen Rubin, author of bestselling book The Happiness Project and habit expert at Harvard Business Review, found that this “winners don’t quit” mentality probably won’t work for your reading habit.
As Rubin put it, quitting early gives you “More time for reading good books! Less time reading books out of a sense of obligation.” Think of it this way — about 50,000 books are published every year. Why spend time with books you don’t really enjoy?
If you ultimately don’t enjoy a novel, free yourself from guilt and put it down.
2. There are hidden minutes everywhere.
Stephen King, who attributes reading to much of his incredible success as an author, reportedly told people to read about 5 hours a day if they want to follow in his footsteps.
As a time-strapped entrepreneur, I first laughed at that notion. That is until HBR pointed out how often King actually reads on the go, or outside of his house. Take all the times he’s been spotted reading at Red Sox games, for instance.
To the average passerby, it might seem insane to whip out a book at Fenway Park. But if they knew that very same habit helped King sell over 350 million books, they might be inclined to bring a paperback next time.
As Parisha put it, “There are minutes hidden in all the corners of the day, and they add up to a lot of minutes.” I’m not saying you should whip out a novel at your sister’s wedding ceremony, but there are small opportunities to read nearly everywhere.
3. Keep it quiet.
Science shows that sharing your intentions with others when you’re working toward a task or goal can backfire, and make you less likely to succeed.
A 2009 study found that when students who wanted to become psychologists wrote down activities that would help them achieve that goal and shared them with the experimenter, they were less likely to actually perform those activities. The control group who did not share their list of intended activities with the experimenter spent much more time pursuing those activities.
When people share their goal, they feel less motivation to work hard. So if you’re committing to reading more books, express your goal and your steps to get there — even write it down — but keep it to yourself.
4. Limit distractions.
Neil Pasricha made this happen in his home by banishing the TV to the basement, and placing the bookshelf front and center. According to HBR, Pasricha drew inspiration from the famous “chocolate chip cookie and radish” experiment by psychologist Roy Baumeister.
Hungry test subjects were asked to complete a lengthy puzzle, and some were given no food, while others were given cookies (and told not to eat them). Unsurprisingly, the cookie group caved the soonest — they were the group that had spent all their willpower staying away from the cookies.
5. Read physical books.
The same advice about limiting distractions can be applied in a big way to favoring physical books over e-readers. Having a tangible piece of reading material in your hand — instead of an internet-connected device where you can also check your email or look up recipes on Pinterest — can limit distraction and necessary willpower.
But limiting distractions is just one of the reasons to favor physical books over e-novels. In an era where all our entertainment and professional channels are moving to the screen, it’s a good brain refresh to hold a physical book in your hand.
6. Change your mindset.
Media strategist and author Ryan Holiday stresses that changing how you think about reading is the key to reading more. “You need to stop thinking of it as ‘some activity that you do… [it] must become as natural as eating and breathing to you. It’s not something you do because you feel like it, but because it’s a reflex, a default,” he says.
To the successful, a dream isn’t achieved by deliberating how to reach it, but rather it’s a specific, well-conceived desire that always happens. You can do this today by turning your reading habits into specific, time-sensitive goals, and placing them on the top of your priority list every day.
7. Find curated lists.
Decision fatigue is a very real thing, and it can eat away at your willpower when trying to adopt new habits like reading.
The overwhelming effort to sift through thousands of new books each year can eat away at your mental power before you actually read a page - and that’s why HBR recommends you find curated book lists.
Luckily mega-moguls like Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg aren’t shy about sharing their reading lists. With a few minutes of Google sleuthing, you can follow in the reading habits of the greats.
Maybe we can’t all read 500 pages a day like Warren Buffet, or finish 50 books a year like Bill Gates. But you can commit to using these tips to read more books this year, improve your ability to absorb information, and benefit from scientific advantages that reading can bring.
- by Elle Kaplan, CEO and Founder, LexION Capital, CIO and Founder, LexION Alpha
"if" HE DID IT
Story of a toxic love and no justice.
Centuries of romantic literature and art tell us that real relationships are all about obsession. That people who are truly in love with each other have no boundaries. Our society romanticizes intense, controlling relationships so much that when it comes to love we believe control and manipulation is ok. Perhaps for the novel plot it is, but in real life obsession and manipulation aren't signs of true, passionate love, they are signs of a controlling and manipulative partner.
'Forget everything you think you know about that night, because I know the facts better than anyone. This is one story the whole world got wrong.'
The O.J. Simpson case undeniably the most controversial well-known murder case of modern history is the the product of controlling and abusive relationship triggered by love. The version of "love" you don't want to come face to face with. The world was divided in two over this case. Some were convinced that Simpson murdered his wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ron Goldman and others shouted Free O.J.!
O.J. Simpson was not convicted of murder, but many believed he got away with murder. He planned to write a book about the murders with a title "If I Did It" but Nicole's family argued that he shouldn't be allowed to profit off of her death, the book ended.
In the interview conducted in 2006 with Judith Regan and aired 12 years later today, O.J. Simpson walks Regan through describing what happened on the day of the murder, hypothetically placing himself at the crime scene.
The interview was pitched to Judith Regan as O.J.'s confession, but he wanted to use the word "hypothetical".
"I received a phone call from an attorney who said 'O.J. is ready to confess,'" Regan said in Sunday's show, when asked how the interview came together.
"The only condition that he had was that he didn't want to call the book I Did It. He wanted to put an 'if' in front of it so that he would have deniability with his children. He couldn't face his children and he couldn't tell them that he had done it. That was the way it was portrayed to me."
As the interview progresses, O.J. Simpson forgets the hypothetical and tells a story from his own point of view.
"I always kept a knife in the car for the crazies and stuff because you can't travel with a gun"
"I go to the front and I'm looking to see what's going on," "While I was there, a guy [Goldman] shows up. A guy I really didn't recognize. I may have seen him around, but I really didn't recognize him to be anyone. In the mood I was in, I started having words with him."
"Nicole had come out and we started having words about 'Who is this guy? Why is he here? What's going on?'" Simpson said. "As things got heated, I just remember that Nicole fell and hurt herself and this guy kind of got into a karate thing, and I said, 'Well, you think you can kick my ass?'
"To be honest, after that I don't remember, except, I'm standing there and there's all kinds of stuff around ... blood and stuff around,"
"I go back, parked a block away because I knew the limo would be there. Came across the backyard through the two tennis courts and came through the house,"
Nicole Brown Simpson was the German-American wife of retired professional football player and actor O. J. Simpson and the mother of their two children, Sydney and Justin. She was found murdered at her home in Brentwood, Los Angeles on June 13, 1994 where the young Simpson children, Sydney and Justin, slept upstairs.
Nicole kept a diary describing the anger, the hitting, the kicking, the fighting that began soon after her marriage. She had photos of her injuries and she had witnesses. The stalking began when Nicole filed for divorce. She wrote that she was extremely frightened that O.J. would kill her and that he had become a monster. She tried to protect herself. And he did. Did he get what he wished for?
In 2006 interview with Judith Regan O.J. Simpson answer to Regan's question as to how he felt during Nicole's funeral. O.J. Simpson said:
"if you're angry with a person upon their death, if you're angry with someone about whatever is going on in your life, when they die, it's not like that anger disappears" Simpson told Judith Regan.
He did not stop there, going on to explain that he felt most of that anger over the fact that he would no longer be able to yell at Nicole, who had died just three days prior to the service in a gruesome double murder.
Kind of feelings any grieving husband would have after his/her loved one would be gruesomely murdered, right?
Check out the clip here: TMZ
O.J.Simpson was an abuser of the worst kind, one with money, power and fame. Nicole was his possession like the trophies he earned and mansions he owned and no one was going to walk away from him.The normal rules of society did not apply to O.J. Simpson he could do what he wanted, when he wanted and there would always be an adoring public to have his back. So he did. He slashed her throat killing both Nicole and her friend Ron Goldman.
And public protected him and jury found him not guilty.
Rest in peace Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman. The judgement day will come!
What Carl Jung thinks is crucial for a happy life
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Carl Jung was a renowned psychology expert who founded many theories about personality, identity, and analytical psychology.
His work has been studied the world over, and today, many of this theories and suggestions for improving one’s life still hold true.
In our hustle and bustle world, it can be hard to find time to smell the proverbial roses and it seems that the more access we have to things, the less unsure we are of what can make us happier.
The search for happiness is very real and many affluent psychologists have been busy trying to find their answers to some of life’s most difficult questions.
What makes us happy is not the same for everyone. Pop culture likes to remind us that money and owning stuff is the quickest way to achieve the happiness we seek, but a growing body of literature is claiming its place amongst the theories to remind us that we need only look inward.
And Jung was one of the first to make this claim.
Here are five ways you can start to improve your own happiness, according to Carl Jung:
1) Take Care Of Your Physical and Mental Health
It should not come as a surprise to anyone that taking care of your body, exercising, eating right, getting the sleep your body needs, and tending to the needs of your mental health can help to make you a happier person overall.
The physical benefits of exercise alone is enough to make someone happier. Our bodies release endorphins when we exercise and these endorphins can provide us with the same level of satisfaction that chocolate can.
So rather than fill up on chocolate that could make you feel bloated and full of guilt, spend time outdoors walking. Your body and brain will thank you for you.
2) Working to Improve Your Relationships
Humans crave love and attention and we are able to satisfy those cravings with our relationships: friends, family, marriages, coworkers, neighbors.
Everyone in our lives has the ability to make us feel happy. Of course, we can’t like everyone all the time, and we don’t always get along with everyone all the time, but the general consensus is that someone who is loved and who works to put their relationships first, experiences more happiness overall than people who don’t.
Which makes sense if you think about it, people who spend their lives alone don’t tend to be very happy. Sharing your life with people can make you happier.
What’s more, spending your life in service of others: your wife, children, friends, extended family, can make you feel happier as well. When we remove our needs from the equation and work to make others happy, we experience a great deal of happiness as a byproduct of those actions.
3) See the Beauty All Around
Yesterday I put a pot of soup on the stove to boil and then hours later remembered that I had put soup on the stove. Thankfully, my husband saw that I was busy with housework, so he took the soup off the stove before it burned and made a mess.
This is just one example of how busy our lives are: we don’t even remember that we wanted to eat soup for lunch.
If we want to be happier, we need to slow down and take in the scenery around us. Stop and eat lunch, smell those roses, nap on the patio, picnic under a tree, share some change with a man on the street, visit a friend, appreciate the beauty that is everywhere.
We don’t do this enough as humans. There is always money to make and places to go and projects to deliver. Taking the time to soak up the world around us can help improve our happiness and reduce our stress levels as well.
4) Enjoy Your Work and Life
Everyone’s interest in work varies depending on who you are talking to. There is a great divide between people who live to work and those who work to live.
The happiness of employees seems to go up when they enjoy their work and don’t feel like they need to separate their personal from their professional lives.
When we feel needed and productive, our levels of happiness go up. While many people don’t put any stock in their jobs at all, those that do experience more satisfaction and better standards of living overall because they take pride in their work and products.
5) Something to Believe
While formal religion is not necessary to lead a long and happy life, many people, including Jung, believed that having something bigger than yourself to believe in could lead you down a path of happiness.
The idea that life doesn’t end when we leave this world is of great comfort to millions of people and it can bring solace and acceptance during particularly difficult times in our lives.
If you find yourself struggling to grab hold of happiness, try focusing on one aspect of your life that you can improve upon. Sometimes, the simple of act trying to improve one’s self or one’s situation can bring about a great deal of satisfaction and happiness as well.
CASANOVA: THE SEDUCTION OF EUROPE
Legion of Honor museum in San Francisco brings the visual wealth of Casanova's world to life.
Casanova - a complex figure of the 18th century. Social climber who grew up in poverty with busy parents. He worked his way up the ranks. One of the most extreme libertines of the time, he seduced people, men, women, but an intellectual mind.
A foremost traveler of his time, a great adventurer and an important writer who met everyone, knew everything and saw everything. Compared to our time he will be that annoying Facebook friend who posts every step of his life. Born in Venice, Italy in 1725, he was raised in this most splendid and storied of cities and returned to it again and again. To understand Casanova, you need to explore the city that shaped him. The seat of its own republic and once at the center of a mighty trading empire, Venice was, by the 18th century, no longer a major political power. It had become a “city of pleasure,” where wealthy Europeans flocked to enjoy theater, lavish balls, and the famous carnival.
In his book "The story of my life" Casanova describes how life was in social circles during 18th century.
The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (FAMSF) invites audiences to journey into the world of eighteenth-century Europe with one of its most colorful characters, Giacomo Casanova (Italian, 1725─1798), as guide. Casanova was considered by his own contemporaries to be a witty conversationalist, autobiographer, gambler, spy, and one of the greatest travelers of all time.
The show is a collaboration between three major institutions, The Met, The Getty Museum and Louvre. More than 200 objects displayed at the Legion of Honor museum in San Francisco. A grand tour of Europe in the 18th Century culturally marked as Rococo or or "Late Baroque", an exuberantly decorative 18th century European style.
Text Juliet Belkin
VINTAGE HOLLYWOOD CHRISTMAS CELEBRATION
Look back at the icons of Hollywood’s Golden Age in 11 beautiful vintage shots as they celebrate the festive season.
Bette Davis in 1930
Janet Gaynor in 1930
William Powell and Myrna Loy in 1936
Ava Gardner in 1960
Marilyn Monroe in 1951
Elizabeth Taylor in 1955
Kim Novak in 1956
Lana Turner in 1955
Audrey Hepburn in New York on December 21 1953
Sophia Loren in 1958
Dr. MARTENS BOOTS AND ITS STRANGE HISTORY
How do you wear your Dr.Martens?
by Kent Basson
April fools day in 1960 marks the launch of Dr.Martens 1460 model cherry red, Napa leather design boot by British shoe manufactures, R. Griggs Group.
In less than a decade, the Dr. Martens 1460 was associate with street hooligans and skinhead culture. Why? Because it became popular among violent and racist skinhead culture.
In the early seventies, young soccer fans began painting team colors on their boots, although boots painted white were more popular. It was also common for soccer hooligans to remove the leather from the toes of their boots to expose steel toecaps for additional intimidation
U.K. police forces determined that boots with exposed steel toecaps were “an offensive weapon” and barred them from soccer matches. With soccer hooligans continuing to use their Dr. Martens to batter fans of opposing teams, police developed a new tactic of insisted that anyone wearing Dr. Martens remove the laces from the boots, reasoning that loose boots could do less damage. This move was met with fans’ smuggling in spare laces, with hooligans sometimes enlisting their girlfriends to sneak the laces into stadiums.
The problems with soccer hooligans using their Dr. Martens to kick the fans of opposing teams became so severe that fans were sometimes forced to remove their boots for the duration of games. Boots could not be reclaimed until opposition fans left the stadium, at which point the barefoot fans would dash to reclaim their boots or, hopefully, a newer pair previously belonging to another.
Dr. Martens boots also became associated with British nationalism, which is ironic in that Dr. Klaus Maertens (The first “e” was dropped to Anglicize the name of the boots.) himself was a physician in the German army during World War II, and the shoes that bear his name were originally manufactured in post-war Germany. Dr. Maertens’ business partner was Dr. Herbert Funck. The R. Griggs Group wisely decided against using Dr. Funck’s name on the boots for obvious reasons.
Dr. Martens also became associated with some music subcultures originating in the U.S. One of the most prominent examples of this was the grunge band Nirvana, which helped popularize blue collar chic uniforms of flannel lumberjack shirts and Dr. Martens boots.
By the start of the nineties, Dr. Martens had become wildly popular with young women, with some brides even wearing white patent leather pairs of the boots to their weddings. As a result, a bridal version of Dr. Martens was introduced in gold with white lace.
Dr. Klaus Martens, when he first created a pair of boots with air-filled soles to relieve the pain in his own feet, surely had no idea that a multitude of subcultures would adopt them and customize them as part of their uniform. There can be no doubt that he never imagined that thousands of young women would wear the boots bearing his name to their own weddings.
GEORGINA CHAPMAN DESIGNER BEHIND MARCHESA LEAVES HER HUSBAND HARVEY WEINSTEIN
The fashion industry is behind Marchesa designer Georgina Chapman after her decision to leave husband Harvey Weinstein
Harvey Weinstein’s wife, Georgina Chapman announced announced this week that she left her husband Hollywood producer, Harvey Weinstein after reports detailing Weinstein’s alleged sexual misconduct toward multiple women.
“My heart breaks for all the women who have suffered tremendous pain because of these unforgivable actions. I have chosen to leave my husband. Caring for my young children is my first priority and I ask the media for privacy at this time,” she told People in a statement Tuesday.
Chapman, 41, founded the luxury brandknown for it's red carpet gowns. She met Weinstein at a New York City party in 2004 when she started the brand with design partner Keren Craig.
They have two children: 7-year-old India Pearl and 4-year-old Dashiell.
Weinstein assisted in getting celebrities to wear Chapman's fashion label. Among other big films, The Weinstein Company produces "Project Runway".
Weinstein has also reportedly assisted in getting celebrities to wear Chapman's fashion label.
“I support her decision, I am in counseling and perhaps, when I am better, we can rebuild. Over the last week, there has been a lot of pain for my family that I take responsibility for,” the producer told People in a statement on Tuesday.
Weinstein later told Page Six on Wednesday, "I am profoundly devastated. I have lost my wife and kids, whom I love more than anything else."
Fashion industry stands behind Georgina in this difficult time.
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List of women accusing Harvey Weinstein is long and growing. Here are some of the names we know of so far.
The "Underworld" star said she first took a meeting with Weinstein when she was 17.
"I was called to meet Harvey Weinstein at the Savoy Hotel when I was 17. I assumed it would be in a conference room which was very common. When I arrived ,reception told me to go to his room. He opened the door in his bathrobe," she wrote. "I was incredibly naive and young and it did not cross my mind that this older, unattractive man would expect me to have any sexual interest in him. After declining alcohol and announcing that I had school in the morning I left, uneasy but unscathed."
"A few years later he asked me if he had tried anything with me in that first meeting. I realized he couldn't remember if he had assaulted me or not. I had what I thought were boundaries - I said no to him professionally many times over the years-some of which ended up with him screaming at me calling me a cunt and making threats, some of which made him laughingly tell people oh 'Kate lives to say no to me,'" she continued.
"Let's stop allowing our young women to be sexual cannon fodder, and let's remember that Harvey is an emblem of a system that is sick, and that we have work to do," she added.
-Kate Beckinsale
The "Meet Joe Black" star detailed her encounters with Weinstein on Twitter, after confirming Ronan Farrow had contacted her for his initial New Yorker piece.
"You see nothing happened to me with Harvey, by that I mean, I escaped 5 times," she wrote in a lengthy note. "I had two Peninsula hotel meetings in the evening with Harvey and all I remember was I ducked, dived and ultimately got out of there without getting sobered over, well just a bit. Yes, massage was suggested… I remember him telling me all the actresses who had slept with him and what he had done for them."
-Claire Forlani
In the lengthy statement, Delevingne recalled an "odd and uncomfortable" call she had with Weinstein in which he told her she'd "never get the role of a straight woman or make it as an actress in Hollywood" if she was gay.
She the detailed being invited up to his hotel room, where he asked her to kiss another woman waiting inside the room. She declined and left, after he tried to kiss her as well.
"I still got a part for the film and always thought that he gave it to me because of what happened," she explained. "Since then I felt awful that I did the movie. I felt like I didn't deserve the part."
"In every industry and especially in Hollywood, men abuse their power using fear and get away with it," Delevingne continued. "This must stop. The more we talk about it, the less power we give them."
-Cara Delevingne
Heather Graham told Variety that she was called to his offices in the "early 2000s."
"There was a pile of scripts sitting on his desk," she explained. "'I want to put you in one of my movies,' he said and offered to let me choose which one I liked best. Later in the conversation, he mentioned that he had an agreement with his wife. He could sleep with whomever he wanted when he was out of town. I walked out of the meeting feeling uneasy. There was no explicit mention that to star in one of those films I had to sleep with him, but the subtext was there."
She said she was invited to his hotel room a few weeks later, but didn't show up when she realized she'd be the only other person there.
-Heather Graham
Angelina Jolie told The New York Times that Weinstein made unwanted advances on her in a hotel room in the '90s, during the release of "Playing by Heart." She rejected him.
"I had a bad experience with Harvey Weinstein in my youth, and as a result, chose never to work with him again and warn others when they did," she explained. "This behavior towards women in any field, any country is unacceptable."
-Angelina Jolie
After being hired for the 1996 film "Emma," Paltrow says she was called to a meeting in Weinstein's hotel room at the Peninsula hotel in Beverly Hills. Once there, he suggested they go to his bedroom for massages, according to her account in The New York Times.
"I was a kid, I was signed up, I was petrified," she explained. "I thought he was going to fire me."
She said she told then-boyfriend Brad Pitt about the incident and he confronted Weinstein.
-Gwyneth Paltrow
Ashley Judd was one of the first women to speak out about Weinstein, detailing an incident that occurred in his hotel room in the '90s as well. Once there, he allegedly asked if he could give her a massage or if she would watch him shower.
"I said no, a lot of ways, a lot of times, and he always came back at me with some new ask," Judd told NYT. "It was all this bargaining, this coercive bargaining."
Judd also said she felt "panicky" and "trapped" during the situation. "There's a lot on the line, the cachet that came with Miramax," she added.
-Ashley Judd
The Oscar winner, who starred in a few of Weinstein's movies, said she was alone with Weinstein in a hotel room at the Toronto International Film Festival in 1995 when he began massing her shoulders.
"He started massaging my shoulders, which made me very uncomfortable, and then tried to get more physical, sort of chasing me around," she said and explained she left the room. A few weeks later, Weinstein called her in the middle of the night and told her he was coming to her apartment to discuss marketing ideas for the movie they were working on together. When he showed up at her door, she told the producer her boyfriend would be joining them, which was apparently enough to ward Weinstein off. She believes her rejection led to being "iced" out of future work.
"There may have been other factors, but I definitely felt iced out and that my rejection of Harvey had something to do with it," she said.
-Mira Sorvino
Actress Rosanna Arquette told the New Yorker she said no to a massage as well and left his hotel room, but not before he grabbed her hand and pulled it toward his erect penis. "I will never do that," she told the producer, who was offended and warned she was making a mistake.
"I'll never be that girl," she said.
She also felt the after effects of rejecting Weinstein, and believes she lost out on at least one job because of it.
"He made things very difficult for me for years," she said, and explained she stayed quiet in fear of him doing further damage to her career.
"He's going to be working very hard to track people down and silence people," she said. "To hurt people. That's what he does."
-Rosanna Arquette
Lucia Evans, a once-aspiring actress who met Weinstein at a New York City club in 2004, said the producer "forced me to perform oral sex on him" during a daytime meeting at his Miramax office in Tribeca, where he took his penis out and forced her head down on it.
"I said, over and over, 'I don't want to do this, stop, don't,'" she said. "I tried to get away, but maybe I didn't try hard enough. I didn't want to kick him or fight him."
"He's a big guy. He overpowered me," she added.
"I just sort of gave up. That's the most horrible part of it, and that's why he's been able to do this for so long to so many women: people give up, and then they feel like it's their fault."
-Lucia Evans
The Bond Girl detailed her interaction with Weinstein in a guest blog for The Guardian.
"We were talking on the sofa when he suddenly jumped on me and tried to kiss me," she said of a hotel room meeting. "I had to defend myself. He's big and fat, so I had to be forceful to resist him. I left his room, thoroughly disgusted. I wasn't afraid of him, though. Because I knew what kind of man he was all along."
"Everyone knew what Harvey was up to and no one did anything," she added. "It's unbelievable that he’s been able to act like this for decades and still keep his career."
-Lea Seydoux
Donatella Versace Lip Syncs to Bruno Mars 'Versace on the Floor'
Versace on the floor
Oooh take it off for me, for me, for me, for me now, girl
Versace on the floor
Oooh take it off for me, for me, for me, for me now, girl…
Here is something that will make your weeks a bit cheery. American singer and songwriter Bruno Mars recorded a song for his third album and it's called "Versace on the Floor". But the best part of this is Donatella Versace lipsynching in this impromptu video recorded to support and congratulate Bruno Mars for achieving #1 artist to have Four multi-platinum singles. The video includes Donatella Versace along with supermodels Candice Swanepoel, Hana Soukupova, Natasha Poly all dressed up in Versace (naturaly) and singing along to the song. Groove on baby!
THE CARTER PUSH PARTY
Inside Beyonce's star-studded baby shower
Beyonce's Africa-themed baby shower, filled with tribal prints, traditional music and one henna-tattooed belly was amazing. Beyoncei who is pregnant with twins is due later this year.
All of Beyonce's closest friends were in attendance: Kelly Rowland wore an off-the-shoulder berry-toned top and skirt, pregnant Serena Williams in a bold, printed mini, sister Solange, mom Tina Lawson, Lala Anthony and Michelle Williams. Queen mom Tina Knowles shared some video and pictures from the party, as well.
Husband Jay-Z was present appropriately wearing a kufi cap. Couple danced and smiled at each other as their instagram photos prove the total happiness they are in. The Carters have not publicly shared their due date, but the hive is buzzing it will be soon.
Story of Uma Thurman and Quentin Tarantino
20 YEARS OF PURE LOVE
He promised to be friends with her for the rest of his life and did not keep his promise. Quentin Tarantino and Uma Thurman could not stay friends. They are in love and happy. They found a second youth and each other.
Quentin Tarantino always said that most attractive part of the body in a woman is her feet. Uma Thurma is size 42 and has gorgeous ankles. Tarantino just could not help but pay attention to such original beauty.
Quentin knew for sure that Mia's role should be played by Uma Thurman in the famous "Pulp Fiction". The actress herself was not at all sure that she liked Mia. She denied the role at first.
But Quentin was not about to give up. Tarantino called the actress, he read to her parts of the script, told how interesting and original this role will play in her performance and Uma surrendered.
Uma Thurman, who was shy about the size of her feet, performed "Barefoot Twist" with John Travolta. In fact it was so good, that this dance became a real highlight of the film.
Ever since then the friendship of Uma Thurman and Quentin Tarantino became stronger. He, admiring her talent and beauty, promised to be friends with her all her life. And he honestly tried.
Although there was a spark between them, none of them paid much attention to it. Soon after the "Pulp Fiction" began Uma Thurman gave up on unsuccessful marriage to Gary Oldman and met Ethan Hawke.
Uma spoke little of her personal life. But she was quite happy in her cozy world. In this marriage, Maya Ray and Leon Roan, the eldest children of the Hollywood diva, were born.
Soon she began experiementing the most severe disappointment in love. He husband was not faithful to her, and Uma could not forgive him. She did not save the marriage but she was able to save the father for her children.
She did not throw stormy scenes and loud scandals. She decided that the children are not to blame for anything, they must have a father who also loves them endlessly. Uma Thurman did not forbid Ethan to meet with the children and allowed him to spend as much time with them as he wants. Even when he got married and had children.
The long-standing romance of the actress with Arpad Busson gave her the youngest daughter and another break, and then a long legal battle, thanks to which the little girl stayed to live with her mother.
Restrained and at the same time endlessly charming actress rushed about in search of love and could not find solace in anyone's arms. Three marriages, three children, world glory but not the most important: simple happiness and calm family life.
Quentin Tarantino was never married. He always guarded his peace of mind, not risking to bind himself by marriage. Moreover, he already knew that there was a lady who inspired him and made his heart beat more often.
For the sake of her, he postponed shooting the movie Kill Bill for a whole year, because Uma was expecting a child. Tarantino called Uma his muse. She inspired him to create masterpieces.
Uma Thurman generously inspired, supported, consoled. He always came to her after a break with another Hollywood beauty. And she always found the right words for her artist. Tarantino led a very turbulent life, Hollywood celebrities constantly circled around him, and he was still in no hurry to limit his freedom. Tarantino often said he sees his future companion in life someone similar to Uma Thurman.
Quentin Tarantino and Uma Thurman appeared together at the Cannes Festival in 2014 and shocked the fans. The couple did not notice anyone around and looked at each other. Every gesture, every fleeting touch and turn of the head spoke of feelings.
It seems these two have finally found each other. The great master held his Muse by the hand and was truly happy. The gentle Uma Thurman accidentally put her head on the shoulder of her genius, and there was something so sensual in it that the sparks scattered by millions around this pair.
Tarantino always wanted his woman to see him as a creator, so that she could appreciate his art, so that she could understand how difficult and long the creative search was.
Uma always thought they were too different. They feel differently, they look at life differently. Love is not born from these differences, a strong friendship is, and it has the right to exist. But the romantic love of twenty years ago suddenly flashed in them with renewed vigor. Uma Thurman admiresly admits that she has goosebumps all over her skin at the thought of Tarantino. He only needs to look at her and understand that from now on it belongs only to him.
SAN FRANCISCO BALLET - CINDERELLA
A Modern Twist.
The heart of the old, the spirit of the new. Christopher Wheeldon's Cinderella tells the same uplifting story people have heard for centuries, but this is a ballet full of innovations and modern twists. A co-production of San Francisco Ballet and Dutch National Ballet, Cinderella premiered in Amsterdam in 2012, then flew across the Atlantic to make its US premiere in San Francisco in 2013.
Frances Chung and Joseph Walsh in Wheeldon's Cinderella©.
(© Erik Tomasson)
"Each of Christopher's works has something unique," says Helgi Tomasson, SF Ballet's artistic director and principal choreographer. Wheeldon is an acclaimed dancemaker, in demand at companies worldwide.
Windeldon's Cinderella is all about originality. You'll find no fairy godmother, no pumpkin coach, no clock stricking midnight - but you won't miss them a bit when a tree comes alive and "dances", or when Cinderella shows backbone and her Prince's charm runs deep. And you won't miss them when the dancing and the storytelling comes from Christopher Wheeldon. "What I wanted to do," the choreographer says, "was echo the darkness in the music by taking some of the themes from the Brothers Grimm version rather than the {Charles} Perrault version," with its fairy godmother and pumpkin coach. " The Grimm version is more serious and a bit darker, centered around nature and the spirit of mother." That's where he got the idea of a tree that grows from the grave of Cinderella's mother, "the deliverer of all things magic, which I think is more poetic {than a fairy godmother}and quite beautiful," he says. "There are ocmic moments because there's comedy written into the music, but ti's a more serious Cinderella in a way."
San Francisco Ballet in Wheeldon's Cinderella©.
(© Erik Tomasson)
Music, written by Russian composer Sergei Prokofiev in 1940 but shelved for several years during World War ||, made its first appearance when Bolshoi Ballet premiered Cinderella in November 1945, choreographed by Rostislav Zakharov. "I love it," says Music Director and Principal Conductor Martin West about the score. "It's immediately striking, and astonishingly clever the way the themes come around, the way he could create an atmosphere out of something very simple."
But what's a story without a setting? Wheeldon chose Julian Crouch to do the sets and costumes because of his "very fantastical approach to design. He always seems to embrace the darker side of the fairy tales he's done," he says. "It needs to be fluid. It moves scene to scene more rapidly; it has more locations. So fo rme it's been an exercise in suggestion, really - I've had to suggest a location and spport the atmosphere and then move fluidly to the next one." As for the costumes, he says there's "a looseness about them. Fairly tales are 'once upon a time,' not 'once upon 1870.'" The period is the 180s "but spread over the century," he says. " Each character is allowed to drift a bit in time. I'd say it's timeless; in that sense it has a fluidity as well."
This Cinderella is for adults, not children. Christopher Wheeldon's first narrative ballet for SFB takes not only the fairy out, but just about everything else that a fairy tale entails. It's a bit difficult to follow his narration. Why do those mystic creatures appear at the tree in the cemetery? Why does Cinderella need dancing lessons from the Seasons when she did just fine with the beggar/prince? Why does the more evil of the sisters get away scot-free? The production which include the magically growing tree, the dancing chandeliers and flying chairs are still impressive, spectacular in fact. But what you want to see is choreography that looks fresh and tells its story.
San Francisco Ballet in Wheeldon's Cinderella©. (© Erik Tomasson)
San Francisco Ballet, Program 4: Christopher Wheeldon's "Cinderella," through 2 p.m. March 23. $40-$340. War Memorial Opera House, 301 Van Ness Ave., S.F. (415) 865-2000. www.sfballet.org.
Text: Olga Belkina Images courtesy San Francisco Ballet
Museum Donors Are Not Happy Finding Celebrities Smoking in the Met Gala Bathrooms
REBELS WITHOUT A CAUSE
Like the cool kids in high school, these celebrities are pictured smoking in the bathrooms of the Metropolitan Museum of Art during the night's Met Gala. But Museum's donors do not find it cool. #CoolKids gang is reportedy making museum board members and donors complain to Anna Wintour.
One board member was “horrified to go into the ladies’ loo” to find a “host of celebs messing around,” including Sean “Diddy” Combs, Kendall Jenner, and Kim Kardashian. Bella Hadid, Marc Jacobs, and Dakota Johnson, were also caught smoking in the bathroom (as seen in pictures shared on social media).
A source told the gossip column "Page Six", “The board member stormed right out and complained right away to Anna Wintour’s team. It is so disrespectful to the museum.”
This doesn't end here. They want the smoking celebs to be punished, as second hand smoking kills museum’s art. “As a donor to the Met, I was so insulted to see all these ‘celebrities’ smoking and taking selfies of themselves in the bathroom,” the donor said. “Mostly, it’s disrespectful to the art collection which needs to be kept 100 percent smoke-free. I would honestly like to see these people fined by the city.”
IKEA'S HILARIOUS RESPONSE TO $2000 BALENCIAGA BAG
Creative agency Acne crafts a cheeky response ad
French fashion house, under the direction of Demna Gvasalia, who is known for turning cheap into a high fashion accessory, released an "Arena Extra-Large Shopper Tote Bag" which resembles a fancy version of the 99c blue Ikea shopping bag.
Balenciaga's bag made its first apprearance back in the fall and is available for purchase for a mere $2,145.
Thumbs up to Ikea's marketing team, who used this opportunity to respond in the most hilarious way possible. Company's creative agency posted the following on Instagram, explaining how to identify the original Frakta bag from the "fake" one.
HOT FELON JEREMY MEEKS LANDS HIS FIRST COVER SHOOT
'Hot felon' Jeremy Meek's past is hard to face for him. It is something he is wanting to hide. Hide away from himself as well as his two stepkids and one biological son. But his body ink includes multiple references to the Crips. Meeks was raised in a poor household, Meeks was exposed to crime from an early age, joining the Northern Crips gang. His father is doing life in prison and his mother is a heroine addict.
Since being released from jail in March 2016, Meeks, 32, of Stockton, California has embarked on a career as a model and appeared on the catwalk at Phillip Plein during New York Fashion Week in February. He has also completed his first cover shoot – for British magazine Man About Town, with the issue featuring the felon due to launch this Thursday.
"Most of my tattoos are from my past which I am trying to shed and remove," he told the magazine. "You can quit, to a certain extent I have, I am very extremely non-active. I'm grown now."
"They ask me a lotta questions that are really hard to answer. All they gotta do is type in my name, Google it. It tells about crimes and my background and my gang affiliation. There comes a million questions, " he said. "They want to be just like me – I don't want to tell, yeah I'm a Crip and I'm this and I'm that and I've done this and I've done that. And it's nothing to boast about or even something you even want to talk to your kids about because next you know, they say, 'OK well my dad's a Crip so that's what I'm going to be.'"
Meeks is listed as a defendant in Washington courts in at least five cases between these dates. In 2005 he was jailed for theft, in 2007 he was jailed again for forgery. He served less than 75 days for each offense In June 2014 Meeks is arrested and charged with felony weapons possession as part of a crackdown on gangs in Stockton.
On June 19, 2014 Stockton Police post his 'hot' mugshot on their Facebook page, where it has since attracted more than 100,000 likes and tens of thousands of shares. This brings attention of many modeling agencies. But in February of 2015: Meeks is sentenced to two years in jail for weapons violations.
Anne Hathaway wore $15 dress to promote 'Colossal'
Actress Anne Hathaway proved fashion doesn't always have to come at a price
Good Morning America welcomed AnneHathaway to discuss her role in a new film, “Colossal,” in which she co-stars with Jason Sudeikis. The actress plays a drinking problem woman, Gloria, who channels a Godzilla-like monster in Seoul.
We got this from the trailer, however Hathaway and the movie’s director, Nacho Vigalondo, prefer viewers know nothing else before seeing the film.
“This one has a few plot twists in there, and people that have gone in without any knowledge of what it’s about seem to enjoy it the most,” Hathaway, 34, explained.
Anne also proved fashion doesn’t always have to come at a price. She wore a $15 vintage dress for a U.S. TV interview. As she sat down for a chat with newswoman Robin Roberts on Good Morning America on Monday Anne admitted that her outfit was a really thrifty find.
“This is a $15 flea market dress,” she smiled. "I’m trying to be more sustainable with my fashion choices so I’m trying to wear vintage wherever I can,” she said.
A multicolored knee-length dress with a floral pattern that she matched with a belt around her waist and a checkered Mansur Gavriel clutch. Completing it all with red stilletos. So chic Anne!
"Colossal" is in theaters now.
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