June 30, 2016 12:41 PM EDT
It’s been 10 years since The Devil Wears Prada, the tell-all film about the inner workings of fashion (adapted from Lauren Weisberger’s best-selling roman á clef novel about her experience as Anna Wintour‘s assistant) debuted, but it’s hard to imagine thinking of fashion without conjuring up Meryl Streep’s icy Miranda Priestly and her shady one-liners (“Florals? For spring? Groundbreaking.”) or the eager fashion assistants played by Emily Blunt and Anne Hathaway. Read More...
I’m a short-fingered vulgarian. Or at least I’m short-fingered—along with my digits, my wealth and power are minuscule, and I like to think of myself as somewhat refined. Yet I do have small hands and, to match, feet sized six-and-a-half. (A lot of companies don’t offer men’s shoes that low.)
Up until Trump was shown in an unearthed 2005 video to have said that he believed he can grab women “by the p-ssy,” while detailing his attempts to seduce a married woman, “short-fingered vulgarian” was what seemed to bedevil Trump the most, at least in his own head. Read More...
Correction appended, 4/22/14.
Back in 1940, when Hattie McDaniel took home the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for her portrayal of Mammy in “Gone With The Wind,” Hollywood was incessantly proud of itself. The Academy indulged in feel-good self-congratulations that night because McDaniel was the first black person to win any of its acting honors.
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“It opens the doors of this room, moves back the walls, and enables us to embrace the whole of America, an America that we love, an America that almost alone in the world today recognizes and pays tribute to those who give her their best, regardless of creed, race, or color,” explained the actress Fay Bainter before calling McDaniel up from her segregated table in the back of the Ambassador Hotel ballroom where she sat far from her white co-stars. Read More...
