T LOunge for September 5th 2024

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Travis Kelce makes his dramatic acting debut in the trailer for Ryan Murphy’s Grotesquerie
“You might see some familiar faces,” Kelce teases while introducing the trailer.
Is Travis Kelce pulling a Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson?
The superstar athlete and famous boyfriend of Taylor Swift appears to have his heart set on a future in Hollywood, and that future begins with his first-ever dramatic acting role in Ryan Murphy’s Grotesquerie. The first trailer for the FX series, which stars Niecy Nash as a detective on a gruesome, cult-adjacent mass-murder case, dropped on September 4, giving us our first glimpse of the handsome NFL tight end’s acting chops.

The Nightbitch trailer, featuring Amy Adams as a new mother who thinks she’s a dog, has viewers divided
Critics have suggested that the film looks surprisingly comedic for such a dark story.
Amy Adams is set to star in much-anticipated movie Nightbitch, with the absolutely legendary tagline: “motherhood is a b*tch”. And the trailer has just dropped – with a mixed response.
Adapted from the novel by Rachel Noder – as well as being adapted for screen and directed by Marielle Heller – the project not only tells a very female-oriented story, but the entire producing team is made up of women. We love to see it.

From The Perfect Couple to The White Lotus, why do we love watching rich people behaving badly?
Nicole Kidman’s new Netflix romp is six delicious episodes of wealthy people behaving absolutely atrociously.
We’re telling you now: Netflix’s The Perfect Couple is perfectly addictive viewing.
Starring Nicole Kidman, Bad Sisters star Eve Hewson, Dakota Fanning and The Bold Type’s Meghann Fahy, this star-studded series is adapted from Elin Hilderbrand’s novel, which revolves around the doomed wedding of newcomer to the wealthy Winbury family, Amelia Sacks (Hewson). The matriarch of the family Greer (Kidman) seems to disapprove of Amelia, but all is thrown up in the air when a member of the wedding party dies the night before the wedding – everyone, rich or poor, becomes a suspect.

This legendary perfume brand is considered the best of the best—these are the 9 scents everyone should know
Forever classics
When it comes to the best perfumes, there are a few brands that are guaranteed to make absolutely cracking scents. Some might be niche perfume brands who have the time to make sure their blends are absolutely perfect, and others might be classic perfume brands who have all of the money and resource in the world to create the best. One of those legendary brands is Estée Lauder.

Are social media algorithms turning men against us?
A new BBC Panorama documentary suggests that men and boys are being pushed violent and misogynistic content – without deliberately searching for or engaging with it.
Essentially, your social media algorithm should be directing you towards content that you actually want to see based on the content you’ve previously interacted with. So, the theory goes that when someone ‘likes’ or watches violent or misogynistic content, their social media algorithm will respond accordingly – often directing users towards increasingly extreme content to keep the user engaged.

Hailey Bieber’s Maple Syrup Manicure Is The Ultimate Autumn Nail Inspiration
These burnt honey tones are about to be everywhere.
When it comes to generating a viral manicure moment, Hailey Bieber is no stranger to spearheading trends. From her famed glazed doughnut chrome to her coveted tortoiseshelltips, we’ve been looking to the new mum’s polished fingers for pre-nail appointment inspiration since 2022. Her latest go-to? An official co-signing of the brown nails trend and the ultimate autumnal finishing touch: a ‘maple syrup’ manicure.

Victoria Beckham Just Resurrected Her Signature Nineties Short Bob
The fashion designer just brought back her short crop, but with a new-season twist.
Think of Victoria Beckham and a clean-cut aesthetic (see: a monochromatic wardrobe, signature smokey eye and long, chocolate flowing lengths) probably spring to mind. For years, the fashion designer, mother-of-four and singer has rarely strayed away from her trademark style, but as she stepped out in Los Angeles with her family this week, something was notably different.
Resurrecting one of her most iconic hairstyles from her Spice Girls era, Beckham has sidelined her extra-long hair and brought back her iconic bob, adding a new-season twist to the ever-popular cut.

24 Outstanding Men’s Skincare Products To Fill Your Bathroom Shelves
Men’s skincare products: arguably the biggest shift in the skincare world in the last decade. Gone are the days when exfoliators and serums were reserved for women only. Nowadays, skincare products are increasingly unisex, with a whole host of great, gender-neutral offerings that rank up there with the best women’s skincare products, doing everything from nourishing and hydrating tired skin to de-clogging pores.

Inside Eden’s Star-Studded Fight for Survival: Ana de Armas, Jude Law, and More on Their Wild New Thriller
Ron Howard’s new movie investigates a near-century-old mystery by plopping a bunch of decorated actors on an uninhabited island and seeing what happens. One of them calls it “the scariest thing I’ve ever done.”
There’s a scene in Eden, Ron Howard’s wacky survival film premiering Saturday at the Toronto International Film Festival, in which Sydney Sweeney gives birth in a remote cave surrounded by wild dogs. It’s the early 1930s and Sweeney’s Margret Wittmer, a German housewife who’s relocated with her husband to the uninhabited Galápagos island of Floreana, cannot find a single soul around her when her water breaks. On the days that Sweeney shot the scene, the temperature hovered around 100 degrees. The performance verges on feral. “She got it,” Howard says. “It was raw and she was all in, just like her character had to have been at that moment.” The strangest part of all of this? The scene, like the film as a whole, is based rather precisely on actual events.

10 Mistakes to Avoid When Picking Wedding Wines, According to Ray Isle
Our executive wine editor has some excellent advice about selecting wine for your big day.
Selecting wines for your wedding may seem easy. Pick a crowd-pleasing white wine, some decent bubbles, notify the caterer, and off you go. But, in most cases, this isn’t going to be an intimate dinner party. You’re likely picking bottles for potentially hundreds of people, and pairing them with a range of activities — celebratory toasts, long dinners, and late-night dance parties.
We asked Food & Wine executive wine editor Ray Isle, who has weighed in on wine selections at his fair share of weddings, to advise on the best practices and biggest mistakes to make when picking your big-day bottles.

Do Corks vs Screw Caps in Wine Still Matter? This Is What the Experts Say
Screw caps provide accessibility and corks bring tradition. But what do each actually do to the taste of your wine?
Corks and screw caps have similar functions: to keep wine from going bad. But choosing one or the other can be divisive. Many argue that corks are the key to excellent aging. Others say that twist-top wines are easier to open and keep faults like cork taint out of a wine.
What do you need to know about the two most common wine enclosures? We asked winemakers and sommeliers their stances on both.

These 6 Food Dyes Could Soon Be Banned in California — Here’s What to Know
This could be the end of Cheetos for recess.
Lawmakers in California have passed a bill that will ban six chemicals from foods served in schools in the state. The bill, which is called the California School Food Safety Act, targets artificial dyes that have been linked to behavioral problems in children.
This isn’t the first time state lawmakers have worked to ban certain artificial food dyes. More recently, Governor Gavin Newsom signed the California Food Safety Act, which forbids the sale of foods containing brominated vegetable oil, potassium bromate, propylparaben, or red dye 3 in the state.
But which dyes are under fire with the latest bill and where do things stand? Here’s the deal.

Danielle Deadwyler Struck All the Right Notes With Denzel’s ‘The Piano Lesson’ (and She Won’t Be Snubbed Again)
The former schoolteacher-turned-actors’ actor got Hollywood’s attention – but no nominations — last year with ‘Till.’ This year will likely be a different story.
Though not yet a household name, Deadwyler has been delivering the type of performances that garner rapturous praise from critics, co-stars and fans alike. An actor’s actor, she shined as the tortured graphic novelist in HBO Max’s dystopian drama Station Eleven and stole scene after scene in Netflix’s star-studded Western The Harder They Fall, playing Cuffee, a butch saloon bouncer whose sharp tongue is as lethal as her ever-present pistol. Her tour de force performance in Till should’ve earned her an Oscar nomination last year, but, shockingly, Deadwyler was denied a nod.

The Legacy Of Beyoncé
The iconic singer’s music has paralleled her growth as an artist and as a woman.
Often when one thinks about legacy, it’s understood to be a gift or bequest that’s handed down, endowed, or conveyed, from one person to another, after they’ve passed. However, legacy is more about sharing the things that were learned – not earned – and instilling values as opposed to material wealth. Influence and inspiration are also a part of a person’s legacy, and that can be put into play while still one is still alive.
September 4, 1981 brought about a new legacy, one that would ultimately impact the entertainment industry and permeate popular culture for years to come. On that summer morning, Beyoncé Giselle Knowles was born in Houston, Texas. Since then, she has created a legacy that is unparalleled.

iPad kids speak up
Inside Gen Alpha’s relationship with tech.
If there’s one word that’s most associated with Gen Alpha right now, it might be “brainrot.”
According to countless trend pieces and innumerable TikToks, kids from this generation, born between 2010 and 2024, have purportedly “rotted” their brains by scrolling too much on their devices.
“Brainrot” has become a way to describe anything associated with young people’s online culture. But it’s based on the idea, promulgated largely by adults, that children 14 and younger are addicted to their technology and that it has fundamentally destroyed their ability to interact in the real world.

A royal retrospective! Marie Antoinette’s iconic fashion will be explored at the V&A in a myth-busting exhibition
The clothes, habits and influence of the archetypal ‘glamorous villainess’ will paint a new picture of the divisive monarch
When you think of Marie Antoinette, what comes to mind? Perhaps an image of the 18th century monarch surrounded by gilded luxury, telling her impoverished subjects to eat cake? Or of the disgraced Queen in the Place de la Révolution, ready to be guillotined for high treason?
Whatever you think you know about Marie Antoinette, however, prepare to put it aside – because the Victoria & Albert Museum is to hold the first show in Britain (and only the third outside France) dedicated to this most divisive of queens. And what it uncovers will, says the exhibit’s curator, upend all our long-held opinions.

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In “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice,” the actor returns to a role now enshrined in pop culture — with 35 years of ups and downs and an Oscar nomination under his belt.
And it’s the same sense of unpredictability, a certain wild-card gleam, that has compelled the filmmaker Tim Burton to cast Keaton in five movies over nearly four decades, including, most recently, “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice.” “When you just look at Michael in ‘Beetlejuice’ or even ‘Batman,’ he has this sort of look in his eye,” Burton said. “That’s why I wanted him to be Batman, because you just look at him and go, ‘This is a guy who would dress up like a bat.’ You know what I mean? There’s something behind the eyes that’s just very intelligent, funny and dangerous and kind of crazy.”

100 Easy Dinners for Right Now
Meal planning can be a slog. Let us help.
Summer is hot dogs and ice pops, shaggy dinners at dusk, the melting mixture of energy and malaise that gives the season its shape. But that’s not fall. Fall is crisp. Fall is orderly. There’s no malaise and no melt. Those anything-goes August dinners give way to meal plans sketched out on Sunday and empty lunchboxes waiting to be filled.
I’m guessing the last thing you want to do is figure out those meal plans (and don’t even get me started on those lunchboxes). Maybe you even want to reboot your cooking altogether? Let me help you.

Sade sings heartfelt ode to her trans son on upcoming benefit album
The song titled ‘Young Lion’ is set to appear on the upcoming compilation album Transa, which aims to celebrate the role of trans people in contemporary society
Breaking her six-year hiatus from music, British-Nigerian legend Sade is set to contribute to upcoming transgender awareness album Transa, produced by Red Hot. Her track, titled “Young Lion”, is dedicated to her son Izaak and his journey as a transgender man.
“You must have felt so alone, I should have known,” Sade reportedly sings on the track, expressing both sympathy for Izaak’s struggle for gender affirmation, as well as guilt for not noticing sooner. The “Smooth Operator” singer’s only child documented his transition on Instagram.
“It’s amazing to hear a legendary musician like Sade sing about her heartfelt experience as the parent of a trans child,” says album co-producer Massima Bell, who is both a model and transgender activist. “It’s incredibly powerful.”

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