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Shelley Duvall, Icon of ‘The Shining’ and Robert Altman Films, Dead at 75
Duvall retreated from Hollywood in the early 2000s but is remembered for great performances in films like “3 Women,” “Popeye,” and the Stanley Kubrick horror movie in which she played Wendy Torrance.
Shelley Duvall, the great actress best known for playing Wendy Torrance in “The Shining” and her performances for Robert Altman, has died. She was 75. Her partner, Dan Gilroy, confirmed the news of her passing first to The Hollywood Reporter. Duvall had been suffering from complications from diabetes, according to Gilroy. They lived in Blanco, Texas, where Duvall had been on retreat from Hollywood since the ’90s, appearing in TV and independent film.
“My dear, sweet, wonderful life partner and friend left us. Too much suffering lately, now she’s free. Fly away, beautiful Shelley,” Gilroy told the outlet.

Maya Rudolph Is Ready to Serve
The actress and comedian on motherhood, studying the lives of billionaires for her show “Loot,” and her “S.N.L.” portrayals of women in the spotlight—from Beyoncé to Kamala Harris.
If you want to take an alpha-and-omega approach to understanding Maya Rudolph, you could look to two songs performed half a century apart. In May, Rudolph returned to “Saturday Night Live,” where she was a cast member from 2000 to 2007, for her third go-round as host. It was the Mother’s Day episode, and Rudolph, now fifty-one, kicked off the show by talking about the four children she shares with the filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson. But no—she wasn’t just a mother. She was mother, in the draggy, “Bow down, bitches” sense of the word. Soon, she had shed her frilly, black-and-white gown to reveal a shimmering bodysuit, sashaying through the halls of 30 Rock and launching into a ballroom-drag rap number.

‘Severance’ Season 2: Everything We Know
Apple TV+’s hit dystopian workplace series is coming back after a long wait.
Cue the music and warm up the waffle maker: Severance is finally coming back. Apple TV+’s workplace thriller, created by Dan Erickson and directed by Ben Stiller, premiered in February 2022 and quickly took over the Internet as viewers were sucked into the world of Lumon Industries. Season 1 ended with a major cliffhanger as the “severed” floor’s Innies (their work selves, who have no memory outside of the office) uncovered a major secret about their Outies (or their outside selves) and their connection to the higher-ups at Lumon.

16 best face serums of *all time* to level up your skincare routine
For every skin concern there is.
As a beauty journalist, testing skincare is my bread and butter, especially when it comes to narrowing down the best face serums. These skin heroes never fail to impress, thanks to their versatile nature and ability to address a multitude of skincare concerns – be it to salvage skin dryness, hyperpigmentation, fine lines, blemishes, clogged pores or a damaged skin barrier.
Plus, when paired with a hydrating moisturiser, a replenishing toner and a broad-spectrum sunscreen, facial serums can supercharge your skincare regimen that much further, one drop at a time.

I was diagnosed with ALS at age 20. Here’s how dark humour is helping me cope
“I have bad days, but I have plenty of good days too.”
Honestly, I didn’t have many hobbies prior to my diagnosis, so from that point forward I decided to take one for the team and make ALS my entire personality and just run with it. (Somewhat kidding.) Seriously, I wanted to raise awareness. A lot of people think this is a disease that only affects old white guys. It can happen to anyone. I don’t want to scare people and make them think, “ALS is coming for you! You better watch out!” but I had no family history of this disease or previous health issues. I got this diagnosis as a healthy person in my 20s.

We Live in Time is Florence Pugh and Andrew Garfield’s ultra tear-jerking movie, and it just dropped an emotional trailer
It’s set to be an “immersive love story”.
Florence posted a cute message about the film on Instagram this week: “Making this movie was such an unbelievably beautiful experience,” she wrote. “I’m thrilled and proud to say that it’s nearly here for all of you to watch soon. In the meantime, here’s some pretty breadcrumbs ;)”.
“Almut (Florence Pugh) finds her life forever changed by a chance encounter with Tobias (Andrew Garfield), a recent divorcé,” a plot synopsis reads. “But after falling for each other, building a home, and starting a family, a difficult truth is revealed.”

Travis Kelce reveals the outrageous price of Taylor Swift’s Super Bowl suite
She’s a billionaire, so… I guess…
This means that either Swift or Kelce paid somewhere in the neighbourhood of $3 million (£2.3 million) for their star-studded Super Bowl suite, and we’re pretty sure it’s the latter who signed the check. Back in February, a source divulged to TMZ that the suites cost “well over $1 million (£772,000)” and that Kelce was paying the tab for Swift and her crew, plus his friends and family, including his brother Jason and Jason’s wife Kylie.

Who is Jasmine Paolini? Here’s everything to know about the Wimbledon 2024 star
The Italian athlete reached the final after a legendary match against Croatia’s Donna Vekić.
A month after reaching a historic final in Paris at Roland Garros 2024, Jasmine Paolini continues to make history at Wimbledon 2024. The 28-year-old Italian – currently seventh in the WTA world rankings – reached the final on Thursday, July 11, after her match against Croatia’s Vekić. It was a dramatic comeback victory that came in the last set (2-6, 6-4, 7-6). There were many moments when everything seemed to be over, but Paolini never gave up.
Of her mum and dad, she said after the victory, “They have always supported me. I will always thank them.”

47 sad songs that will make you ugly cry every single time
Pass us the box of tissues…
Sad songs really do hit differently, don’t they? While music has the ability to evoke emotions in us like happiness, motivation and excitement, it can also make us cry at the drop of a beat.
Whether it’s the lyrics, the melody or the accompanying music video, everyone has that one song (or, in our case, plenty of those songs) that has the power to crush our souls and make the tears stream down our faces.
And let’s face it, we need a sad song for all sorts of different life events, whether it’s navigating heartbreak, feeling lost in life, thinking about the future or reminiscing about past events.
From soulful ballads and gritty rock anthems to deep hip-hop tracks and heartbreaking R&B numbers – sad songs are genre-free, and we’ve created a list to prove just that.
So turn up the volume, get comfy and prepare to cry your eyes out to the following 47 tunes…

Former Dallas Cowboys Cheerleader Victoria Kalina Had a Hard Road Out of Texas
The breakout star of Netflix’s America’s Sweethearts on battling an eating disorder, her complicated relationship with the DCC director, and the pay controversy that was downplayed onscreen.
Victoria Kalina had already had her heart broken once on television when she was approached about appearing in the docuseries that would become Netflix’s America’s Sweethearts: Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders.
Kalina first auditioned to become a Dallas Cowboys cheerleader when she was 18, with the process captured on CMT’s long-running reality show Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders: Making the Team. She was told on camera that she didn’t make the cut—a rejection that was especially crushing because, as the daughter of an ’80s Cowboys cheerleader, she spent her life dreaming of becoming a second-generation “DCC.”

These 3D Flower Nail Looks Make for a Standout Manicure
From raised petals to metallic decals, there are many ways to achieve the look.
Out of all the nail trends we’re seeing right now, 3D reigns supreme. It’s a type of moldable gel that pros use to create super elevated (both literally and figuratively) manicures. We’re especially loving 3D flower nail designs.
“I love 3D florals because they add this wow factor to your nails that will have strangers asking for a second look,” says celebrity manicurist Fleury Rose. “Floral nails can be modified through colors, and design to look cute for every season!”
From raised petals to metallic decals, there are lots of ways to achieve 3D floral looks. Scroll through the designs below to inspire your next mani.

Scarlett Johansson’s 23 Best Red Carpet Looks
The reigning queen of rom-coms gives a masterclass in Old Hollywood elegance.
There’s something undeniably glamorous about Scarlett Johansson. Maybe it’s her penchant for gowns that channel Old Hollywood elegance—or maybe it’s the fact that she has genuinely mastered the art of the bold red lip. Whatever it may be, all signs point to an actress that simply dazzles on the red carpet, no matter the decade.
A Hollywood veteran, Johansson has been a working actress since 1994, when she appeared in the movie North at the age of nine. But it wasn’t until her breakout role in Lost in Translation—for which she won an Academy Award—that Johansson’s star really began its meteoric rise. Since then, she’s been a regular fixture at awards shows around the world. Keep scrolling for our favorite red carpet looks from over two decades of style from Scarlett Johansson.

Why Your Breakfast Should Be Savory, Not Sweet
We’ve all heard that breakfast is “the most important meal of the day”—but we don’t often stop to consider why. Here’s a quick crash course: Because the foods we eat first thing in the morning are also the first to enter our system after a long period of fasting overnight, they are responsible for stimulating the metabolism, balancing the blood sugar, and providing energy. In other words, breakfast prepares our entire system to take on the day.

All the Benefits of Bathing in Salt, Whether at Home or In the Sea
“The sea is health,” was my mother’s favorite thing to say each summer of my childhood. She’d use it to encourage me to swim and float in the sea—especially during my teenager years when all I wanted to do was sulk under an umbrella on the beach with my Walkman and magazines. It was her mantra, her unending belief: “The sea is health,” she’d repeat.
Of course, I know now that my mother was right. Though her eternal faith in the healing powers of the sea was based on generational wisdom, there’s now a whole therapeutic philosophy based on the age-old belief. It’s the basis for treatments at coastal spas and even has a special name: thalassotherapy, which comes from the ancient Greek word thalassa, meaning both “ocean” and “primordial goddess of the sea.”

Don’t Laugh, the Midori Sour Is Having a Comeback
The Midori Sour is a classic cocktail dating to the late 1970s or early 1980s. While variations exist, at its core is a combination of Midori melon liqueur and lemon or lime juice, sometimes incorporating seltzer, egg white, or additional spirits like vodka or gin.
The cocktail’s key ingredient, Midori, is produced by Suntory, the Japanese beverage company mostly known for Japanese whiskies. After introducing the product in Japan in 1964 where it was originally known as Hermes Melon Liqueur, the melon liqueur was rebranded as Midori, which translates roughly to the color green, or that of fresh plant shoots, leaves, or grass, and debuted in the U.S. in 1978 at the legendary Studio 54 in New York City.

10 Lemonade Recipes That Taste Like Summer
Quench your warm weather thirst with our favorite lemon drinks.
Bright, tart, sweet sunshine in a glass, refreshing lemonade has been quenching thirsts for generations.
Sweetened lemon water was most likely developed in Asia, where lemons themselves originated, but the earliest documented beverage that resembles the lemonade we drink today was recorded in ancient Egypt.
By the early 17th century, as international trade brought lemons across Europe, lemonade vendors in Paris established a union called Compagnie de Limonadiers because of its widespread popularity.

Coffee Experts Agree, Freezing Your Coffee Beans Keeps Them Fresher for Longer
Freezing may be the best way to store your coffee beans. Doing it properly is key.
While sipping an espresso with coffee consultant Jaymie Lao, I expressed my worry about beans from a recent trip to Panama going stale before I would have the chance to use them up. She offered this advice: “Just freeze it.”
“Did you say freeze it?” I asked, eyes wide. “Yes,” she said, “You just can’t have any air or moisture in the bag.”
For years, conversations around storing coffee made it seem as if putting beans in the freezer was taboo, a rookie mistake, that would degrade the quality of precious beans.

Van Leeuwen Is Celebrating Hello-Kitty’s 50th Anniversary With a New Limited-Edition Flavor
Raspberry jam swirls FTW!
Forty years ago, then-President Ronald Reagan created an ice cream-centric annual observance, declaring that National Ice Cream Day would be celebrated on the third Sunday of July every year. Why? Because he said that ice cream was a “nutritious and wholesome food enjoyed by over ninety percent of the people in the United States.” And honestly, creating a day just for ice cream is probably one of the best uses of Presidential power.
We obviously enjoy National Ice Cream Day every year, and this time, Van Leeuwen Ice Cream is celebrating it in tandem with Hello Kitty’s 50th anniversary. The New York City-based ice cream maker now has created a limited-edition flavor inspired by everyone’s favorite cartoon cat.

The false promise of the “timeless” wedding
Sorry, but we’re all going to be embarrassed by our “rustic chic” and “garden party” weddings eventually.
Like many delusional brides-to-be, I aspire to create a wedding that is, to use perhaps the most overused adjective in the wedding industry right now, “timeless.” Weddings have always been conspicuous displays of wealth and taste, but now that more of us are sharing the evidence online, there’s far more incentive to hold an event that stands the test of time — or at least the ability to post one’s wedding photos for years without feeling kind of embarrassed. That’s more of a difficult needle to thread than ever: Social media, which has the tendency to speed up beauty and fashion trends, rewards newness above all else. A wedding that looks trendy right now, then, will end up looking dated all that much faster.

Shelley Duvall: A Life in Pictures
With her gossamer frame and toothy smile, she was one of the biggest film stars of the 1970s.
Shelley Duvall, who died on Thursday at the age of 75, captivated Hollywood with her raw honesty, intuitive acting and winsome Texas drawl. She was nicknamed “Texas Twiggy” for her sharp fashion sense and became a regular presence in 1970s celebrity photos.
Though she retired from show business in 2002, a new generation has remade her as a cult figure for the quirky and misunderstood. Here are some snapshots from her life and career.

What Your Grocery Cart Says About You
We combed through a month’s worth of receipts from more than two dozen people across the U.S. to better understand our relationship to the food we buy.
We’ve all peeked into the cart next to ours in the checkout line and tried to piece together a person’s life from its contents. How you grocery shop says a lot about who you are.
Grocery runs have changed a lot in recent years. Prices have soared and packages have shrunk. The pandemic normalized the presence of in-store shoppers for services like Instacart and Amazon Grocery. Consumers are spoiled — and perhaps paralyzed — by a staggering array of choices.

Remembering Shelley Duvall: In ‘The Shining’ and the Movies of Robert Altman, She Showed Us the Quirkiness of Our Normality
When Shelley Duvall was cast to play Wendy Torrance in Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining” (1980), the film she would become most famous for, it was overwhelmingly the most mainstream movie she’d ever done — but more to the point, it was the most mainstream character. Duvall, who died July 11 at 75, had spent the better part of a decade playing vibrant kooks and eccentrics in Robert Altman movies (and in case you think “kook” sounds pejorative, there was never anything pejorative about it when Shelley Duvall played one). She had also rocked that cameo in “Annie Hall” as a Rolling Stone reporter who dates Alvy Singer and says, “Sex with you is really a Kafakesque experience.”

Hold on to your kilts, we’ve got your first look at Outlander prequel, Blood of My Blood
The first images from the prequel series feature the young versions of both Claire and Jamie’s parents.
Get ready for your new favorite kilty pleasure.
Entertainment Weekly can exclusively debut the first images of Outlander: Blood of My Blood, the highly anticipated prequel to Starz’s hit series, Outlander.
The first images give us a glimpse of the show’s two central couples — Jamie’s parents, Ellen Mackenzie (Harriet Slater) and Brian Fraser (Jamie Roy), and Claire’s parents, Julia Moriston (Hermione Corfield) and Henry Beauchamp (Jeremy Irvine).

How to Make Iced Coffee Like a Barista
We spoke to coffee experts to learn the best methods for creating delicious java drinks.
As the dog days of summer hit, it’s time to trade that hot jolt of java for cold caffeinated drinks built to beat the heat—and that means knowing how to make iced coffee. Or, if you’re already an iced coffee aficionado who pays a morning visit to a cafe for cold brew, it’s time to switch to homemade. And once you get the method and proportions down, you can experiment with flavor-enhancing ingredients. You’ll be rewarded with a rich, delicious cooler so craveable you may be sipping it through fall—and beyond. We connected with coffee pros to learn how they recommend you make iced coffee at home and share their tips for stirring up the best buzz-worthy beverages imaginable.

T+L Readers Just Rated This Historic Amalfi Coast Resort As the Best in Italy
The Grand Hotel Excelsior Vittoria is the living embodiment of timeless elegance.
As music wafted out onto the terrace, servers proffered bubbly to the elegantly dressed guests who clinked glasses as the sun set over the Bay of Sorrento. Guido Fiorentino (the hotel’s fifth-generation owner), his wife, Ornella, and their sons Luca and Peter mingled with the guests. I was there for the Grand Hotel Excelsior Vittoria’s 190th-anniversary celebration, but the scene I’m describing could happen any evening at this historic grand dame that’s been continuously run by the Fiorentino family since 1834 and was just voted the number one resort in Italy in Travel + Leisure’s 2024 World’s Best Awards. Guido, Ornella, and their sons take great pride in the hotel and can often be found overseeing the property and welcoming visitors to the grounds.

[Photo Credit: fourseasons.com]

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