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Five years ago a meme crudely titled "lesbians who look like Justin Bieber" had its brief moment on the Internet. The conceit was simple: photos of women and girls, probably many lesbians among them, with short hair and a little blessing in the bone-structure department, who really did bear a striking resemblance to the boy singer.
Charged this weekend with attempted murder, TV personality and model Nabilla Benattia has a cell in the maison d'arrêt all to herself, after the examining judge deemed the 22-year-old a "sensitive prisoner." Benattia reportedly received treatment for shock after the stabbing of her boyfriend, Thomas Vergara, at a hotel outside Paris last Thursday.
Among the elites of French ballet, the étoile is the star around whom the entire performance revolves. She or he is named in a very public ceremony, in order to generate as much press and gossip as possible. She has survived yearly exams in which half of her classmates were summarily "fired."
Where is Tasmania? It's a question comedian Hannah Gadsby gets a lot, so I'll let her explain: this chilly, windswept island, the size of West Virginia but with a quarter of the population, can be found "hanging out just off the arse end of Australia."
For hundreds of years before Disney adopted her, Cinderella belonged to the peasants, a diversionary tale told around the fire, in the centuries before television and radio. Folklorists have uncovered thousands of Cinderellas in places as diverse as China, Japan, ancient Egypt, and the wilds of Tennessee.
For the tabloid audiences, Blake Fielder-Civil-lately, just Blake Fielder-is an infamous page six villain linked inextricably to his ex-wife, the late, legendary Amy Winehouse. It was a romance so intense that she would reframe her answers in interviews to be about what "Blakey" liked or what "Blakey" thought.
n a 1985 comic strip by cartoonist Alison Bechdel, one character explained to another her criteria for going to see a movie: does it feature 1) at least two women, who have 2) at least one conversation, about 3) something other than a man?
Psst, Hollywood: Why stop with the fictional operative Marion Cotillard plays in Allied? Writer Steven Knight has said that his new film, Allied, is based on a story about World War II spies that he heard third-hand from an old girlfriend.
In 2004, the Black Eyed Peas were in Sydney to present an Australian Recording Industry award. It was for best urban album, the first-ever in a country whose charts were dominated by pub-rock anthems and soap-opera starlets with nice teeth. The winners, a little-known rapper-and-DJ duo called Koolism, dedicated the award to "all the Australians who keep it real".
Letitia Wright, star of AMC's Humans-which returns for a second season Monday-is one of the most promising actresses of her generation, at least if you believe Michael Caton Jones. And you should: he's the director who discovered Leonardo Dicaprio-then a child starring in commercials for fat-free Kraft singles-and cast him in his first serious film, This Boy's Life.