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How Nicholas Galitzine became the ultimate on-screen heartthrob – as he appears in Sky’s steamy new drama Mary and George
The British actor, who grew up in London, has wracked up film and TV credits in recent years
Hollywood’s newest heartthrob? None other than Britain’s own Nicholas Galitizine, whose star is set to skyrocket even higher as he appears in the new Sky Drama Mary and George.
The 29-year-old, who previously graced the pages of Tatler, appears as George Villiers in the queer period drama, which premieres on the streaming platform on 5 March, alongside Julianne Moore.
Based on the book The King’s Assassin by Benjamin Woolley, the series promises a tantalising, sexy and provocative take on the private life of King James I, played by Tony Curran.

No one wants an Oscar as badly as Bradley Cooper
Maestro’s Oscar campaign has shown us the real Bradley Cooper: He’s a try-hard.
What’s perhaps strange to some is that Bradley Cooper is a man who became famous for being cool and hot, and for starring in movies — Wet Hot American Summer, Wedding Crashers, The Hangover, Guardians of the Galaxy — that aren’t Oscar stuff.
When did the guy who voices a machine gun-toting space raccoon start caring about the interior life of Leonard Bernstein? When exactly did the bro in Wedding Crashers become a method actor? Why is a guy who is so good at being likable in some movies so unbelievably bad at being likable in real life?

As we gear up for the Oscars, here are the most major red carpet dresses of all time
We just live for this level of fashion drama.
While fashion fans have, of course, lapped up the last month of runways, we can’t help but feel excited about the return of some good old-fashioned red carpet excitement this weekend.
You know the type – the result of actresses, musicians, models and occasionally even royalty having spent months liaising with designers debating the right gown, weeks perfecting their skincare routines and hours (at least) ensuring that their full makeup/hair/dress look come together in exactly the way their team envisaged.

Nipples are fashion’s hottest accessory right now, if Paris Fashion Week is anything to go by
Are you influenced?
Sheer dresses have been big news on the red carpet for as long as we can remember, but the style set at Paris Fashion Week right now are making a surprisingly convincing case for the risqué look IRL.
Everyone from designers to models and celebrities seem to have got the memo r.e. freeing the nipple in Paris right now, with brands such as Courrèges, Chloé, Saint Laurent and Acne Studios all sending entirely sheer looks down their Autumn/Winter 2024 runways.

The Last of Us star Melanie Lynskey has been cast in the Tattooist of Auschwitz TV series
The show will bring the devastating, bestselling novel to small screens.
Another day, another exciting development for a bestselling book to TV series adaptation.
Popular novel The Tattooist of Auschwitz is coming to small screens, and it’s just added a fabulous member to its cast. Melanie Lynskey – star of The Last Of Us, Yellowjackets, Two And A Half Men and, most importantly, Coyote Ugly – has been cast in the six-episode series, which will bring the popular novel to the screen.
Lynskey will play author Heather Morris, who wrote the bestselling story in real life. The Tattooist of Auschwitz follows the story of Lale Sokolov, a Slovakian Jewish prisoner of war who is imprisoned at Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp during World War Two and whose job is to tattoo identification numbers onto the arms of fellow prisoners.

One Day star Ambika Mod is processing the Emma Morley criticism in therapy
The 28-year-old Netflix star digs into double standards in the romance genre, backlash to her One Day character, and whether or not Emma and Dexter would make it in today’s world.
Despite One Day’s popularity among viewers and critics, a vocal minority on social media are criticising Emma for, well, everything really. Even before the series dropped, Mod braced herself for backlash as a woman of colour taking on a role previously played by white actor Anne Hathaway in the 2011 film adaptation. (Unlike the American actor, Mod was born and raised in England after both her parents emigrated from India.)
“I had a lot more to prove,” Mod said of playing Emma — and while she’s loved the novel since she was 13 years old, Mod initially struggled to see herself as a romantic lead and turned down the audition.

“I Deserve This”: Shirley MacLaine’s Unforgettable Oscar Speech Turns 40
Alluding to her on-set feud with Debra Winger and the “middle-aged joy” of sharing a bed with Jack Nicholson, MacLaine entered the history books with her best actress win for Terms of Endearment.
MacLaine’s speech was one for the clip reels, though she neither wept nor screamed nor talked politics. She nodded toward Oscar history (a joke about Maureen Stapleton’s famous line about thanking everybody she’d ever met in her whole life), and her own recent, much-discussed turn toward transcendentalism. […] But there are two parts that everyone remembers best: her tribute to the “turbulent brilliance” of her costar and fellow best actress nominee, Debra Winger, and her iconic closer: “I deserve this, thank you.” And to understand how those things are connected, you have to go back to one of the most eagerly discussed on-set feuds of the past 50 years.

Taylor Swift and Emily Dickinson are related, Ancestry.com reveals
The truth is the two share a bit more than just a smidge of DNA.
What do Taylor Swift and Emily Dickinson have in common? Well, according to Ancestry.com, it’s a little more than just a thing for words. As revealed on the Today show on March 4, Taylor Swift and Emily Dickinson are actually related — to be exact, they are sixth cousins, three times removed.
The popular ancestry site traced back Taylor Swift’s and Emily Dickinson’s DNA and found a common ancestor in an English man named Jonathan Gilette. According to the site’s data, Gilette is Swift’s ninth great-grandfather and Dickinson’s sixth great-grandfather.

The Problem With Seeing Our Children’s Success As Our Own
“I will never, ever put my dreams on hold to support a man’s again.” I made this vow to myself upon divorcing, and meant it. But when it comes to breaking vows, I’m a serial offender and seven years later, I find myself doing it again – only this time the “man” in question is eight, and shares half my DNA.
Of course, the image of the self-sacrificing mother is nothing new, particularly the “superhero single mother”, (“I don’t know how she does it!”), an identity on which I’ve placed such importance in my life, it’s become a main focus of my writing career. And women who put their own lives on hold to focus on their children’s pursuit of happiness are the best type of women, aren’t they?

Playing Mariko on Shōgun Changed Anna Sawai’s Life
The new period drama, Sawai says, is the first authentic portrayal of Japanese history she’s seen.
Anna Sawai is having a breakthrough moment.
Fresh off starring in Pachinko and Monarch: Legacy of Monsters, Sawai takes on the role of Lady Mariko (also referred to as Toda Mariko) in FX’s Shōgun remake, anchoring the series as the female lead. Mariko is one of the few characters in the show who speaks both Japanese and Portuguese (which is rendered as English for the American audiences), so she acts as a translator between John Blackthorne (Cosmo Jarvis) and Lord Yoshii Toranaga (Hiroyuki Sanada). While Shōgun is not a historical drama—it’s adapted from James Clavell’s bestselling novel—Sawai’s Mariko is based on the true story of Hosokawa Gracia, also known as Akechi Tama, a member of the aristocratic Akechi family. (If you don’t want the show spoiled for you, do not look up the fate that befalls Gracia in real life.)

Heroes: Isabella Rossellini
The Italian icon settles into farm life
Sitting in a sun-soaked reading corner of the B&B while the 71-year-old Lancôme ambassador gets her makeup done and her three dogs lick at my ankles and tug on my pants, Rossellini tells me she decided to dedicate herself to this venture because she was interested in animals. “Instead of having a house with a tennis court or a swimming pool,” she thought, “I’ll have a little farm like the one we used to have in Italy. ”

The Babe Paley in ‘Feud’ Is Not the Woman I Knew
The first time I saw Naomi Watts playing my grandmother Babe Paley in “Feud: Capote vs. the Swans,” she was in tears. She had just discovered her husband’s affair with Happy Rockefeller, the governor’s wife, finding him on the bedroom floor, scrubbing a stain of menstrual blood from their plush carpet. Babe summons Truman Capote to her Fifth Avenue apartment, her face set in distress, her mascara running. He tries to comfort her, handing her a Valium, reminding her that her marital arrangement is still worth it; she can buy a Matisse to soothe her broken heart. None of this happened.

The Privileges and Pitfalls of Making Movies About Real People
The Oscars slate this year is packed with films rooted in historical events and biographies. How much influence should the subjects have?
Historical or biographical conceits have long been fodder for the Oscars, lending an air of significance and gravity to film projects, and a tantalizing challenge to actors. But adapting real stories comes with real people, presenting filmmakers with a delicate choice: How much should they involve their subjects — or their subjects’ families — in the productions?

Royal Family in Turmoil as Demands Mount for More Transparency: ‘There Is Too Much Uncertainty’
“The monarchy needs to be that anchor in times of trouble,” royal biographer Sally Bedell Smith tells PEOPLE in this week’s cover story
“The monarchy needs to be that anchor in times of trouble, and any sense of instability, which is inevitable when you have two of the key players out of action, is understandable,” says Bedell Smith.
Adds Catherine Mayer, who authored the biography Charles: The Heart of a King: “This is massively exposing how the royal family has gone from too many people to too few in a short space of time.”

What Everyone Gets Wrong About Women in Ancient Rome
Podcaster and historian Emma Southon shares what you probably didn’t learn in history class
The main misconception is that women in the Roman Empire were universally, horribly oppressed. Or that they were locked inside and not allowed any access to life outside of the kitchen, or some 1950s imagined version of what Roman femininity is. This massively homogenizes the Roman female experience by basically making it into an elite Roman female experience. Because as soon as you say, “All women just stayed in the kitchen,” you’re only talking about women who could afford to stay in the kitchen. You’re automatically erasing all the women who worked, and all the enslaved women. You’re also erasing all the very real freedoms that free Roman women had. They were disenfranchised legally, but for a large amount of time they could do a surprising amount of what they wanted, and they could be enormously rich or enormously poor.

4 anonymous Oscar voters get very candid about secret ballot picks: Maestro is ‘vanity show,’ ‘hated’ Poor Things
“It’s so sad that our country has gone so far backwards that ‘Barbie’ is considered radical feminism. It’s still a movie about a doll,” a director tells EW.
Before Sunday’s ceremony — which will include likely Oscar victories for front-running contenders including Oppenheimer, Christopher Nolan, Cillian Murphy, Lily Gladstone, Da’Vine Joy Randolph, and Robert Downey Jr. — EW polled a group of working Hollywood professionals and current Academy members (whose identities will remain a secret) on who they voted for to win this year. And while their answers might not shock you, what they have to say about some of this year’s biggest competitors may.

15 Types of Bonsai Trees That Are Perfect for Beginners
These varieties are some of the easiest to train using the art of bonsai.
If you’ve ever marveled over a bonsai tree, you probably assumed it’s an art best left to the experts. And while it does take some patience and rule-following, bonsai is absolutely beginner-friendly, especially when you start with the right type of bonsai tree.

Should You Refrigerate Avocados?
Here’s what you need to know about when to refrigerate avocados and for how long.
A perfectly ripe avocado is a beautiful thing—but how do you get to that point? The avocados you buy at the store might be as hard as footballs or meltingly soft. In either case, should they be stored in the refrigerator? It depends. If you’ve been refrigerating every avocado you bring home, it’s time to think again. Learn when avocados should be refrigerated—and when they shouldn’t, according to food professionals.

How to Clean a Griddle, From Built-In Stovetop Pans to Small Appliances
Say good-bye to greasy residue and food tidbits.
Maintaining and cleaning the large and small kitchen appliances you rely on daily is part and parcel of being an efficient home cook. That means eradicating those crusty bits of mystery food and build-up that may accumulate on the surface of your stove—including the built-in griddle—or the griddle component of your indoor countertop grill. After all, tackling a dish, be it fish kebobs or a croque monsieur, on a grease-splattered griddle is as unappealing as prepping dinner while staring down a sinkful of brunch dishes. Here’s how to make sure those cooking surfaces are spotless.

This Storybook Village in Italy Cooks Fish for Thousands in the World’s Largest Frying Pan
Food, fireworks, fairy-tale views, and friendly competition — what more can you ask for in a festival?
The flames felt dangerously close as I leaned out of my hotel window. It was the night before the main event, but the largest bonfire I’d ever been privy to made me wonder if the pre-celebratory evening was the actual star attraction. Suspense had been building for two days as I watched the construction of the giant structures on the village’s side-by-side beaches. They were crafted from old furniture, scrap wood, and other used flammable materials that would otherwise be discarded. Ignited by a long firewire from the church steeple, a massive alligator and Titanic replica burned bright, illuminating the large crowd of onlookers crammed onto the promenade.

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