”Where to, miss?” Celine Dion‘s stylist asks the French Canadian diva while picking out looks in her walk-in closet. “To the stars,” she replies, pointing to her favorite oversized “Titanic” sweatshirt.
We can only assume that’s the conversation that took place on Thursday before Dion exited her hotel during Paris Couture Week wearing a throwback jumper. The hoodie in question features the black-and-white faces of a young Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio as the titular ship sinks before them. Augmenting the allure are the words “Coming Soon” running down the sides of each of the sleeves.
For all those digging through their closets for retro “Titanic” memorabilia, be forewarned. Celine’s sweatshirt reportedly costs a (Billy) in-zane $885. In an iceberg-like twist, the hoodie, designed by couture clothing brand Vetements, is currently sold out online.
Now we challenge you all to one-up Celine with your own “Revolutionary Road”-themed apparel. It’s the next big thing.
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Queen Adele, who can do no wrong in our book, proved she’s a normal human who burps — just like the rest of us.
During her show at the Glastonbury Festival in the U.K. on Saturday, the singer brought a lucky fan named Maria onstage for a selfie. The two were standing side by side and Adele took Maria’s phone into her own hands to snap the pic. While doing so, the “Hello” singer let out a burp — and made sure to tell the entire crowd.
“Oh my God, I just burped!” she shouted before bursting into laughter. “I’ll see you later Maria.”
Adele then let the audience know that the “dirty burger” she had for dinner was to blame for the untimely belch, which some reportedly dubbed #Glastonburpy.
But of course, Adele’s burp was just a minor part of her incredible set at the music festival. At one point, the Oscar-winning singer had the entire crowd join in while she performed “Someone Like You.” It really was a beautiful moment worth watching.
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He’s belted with Adele, rapped with Hathaway and roared with Chewbacca Mom, but what do we really know about James Corden?
Vogue turned the tables on the “Late Late Show” host to ask him 73 questions in quick succession. A man who’s met so many A-Listers is bound to have some good stories, right?
When asked whether there’s a celebrity who’d never make it into his carpool crew, the late-night star said his “History Boys” co-star Dominic Cooper should find another ride.
“He can walk,” Corden joked.
There is, however, one person who will forever have an open invitation. Corden made it clear that his bucket list “Carpool Karaoke” guest would be Beyoncé, well, for obvious reasons.
Watch Corden’s other confessions in the video above.
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Today would have been Prince’s 58th birthday, and so as we celebrate his life and musical contributions, I wonder how this tragedy could have been prevented, how we, as advocates for compassionate and health-based drug policies, can do better to educate people, end stigma around opioid use, prescription and otherwise, and prevent overdoses.
Like most, when I first heard the reports of Prince’s death, I was in shock and disbelief. The purple iconoclast, performer, guitar god, activist, fashion provocateur and musical genius was the driving soundtrack of my youth, and a part of the fabric and landscape of all things culturally powerful, sexually explicit and unapologetically funky.
What happened?
Amid longstanding speculation that Prince died of an overdose, last week, toxicology results confirmed that Prince tragically died from an accidental overdose of fentanyl. He is now one of nearly 19,000 Americans who die from opioid-based medication each year.
As more details emerge surrounding his final days and the help his people sought, his established use of opioid medication to treat chronic pain stemming from decades of demanding performances, Prince’s death, one highest profile cases to date, serves as reminder that we need to do better to educate people on drug use, legal and otherwise, misuse and how to prevent and decrease the probabilities of having an overdose.
Enact 911 Good Samaritan immunity laws at all jurisdictional levels to protect overdose witnesses from arrest and prosecution for minor drug law violations.
Expand access to naloxone among people who use opioids, as well as their friends, family members, caretakers and doctors.
Promote fact based drug education for young people about potentially dangerous drug combinations and how to prevent and respond to an overdose.
And finally, best said here, by my colleague Kevin Franciotti, “The harms associated with drug use, including fatal overdoses from opioids, need to acknowledge the role of stigma surrounding people who use them. Prince was known as an advocate for clean living, and if fear of being stigmatized as a drug addict was a contributing factor to his untimely death, just like it is for many others, serious consideration needs to include an end to the stigma around drug use.”
And here’s what we don’t do: Prince’s death should not lead to bad drug policies. What we should learn from this tragic event is that overdose is preventable and addiction is treatable. Let our compassion for one another and research grounded in science drive our drug policies. Otherwise punitive prohibition and stigma will continue to destroy lives.
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On Monday, new footage of Blake Lively’s shark thriller, “The Shallows,” was released online, leaving us with so many questions. The new clip, combined with the film’s trailer, really builds up the suspense. But we want answers! Until we get them — hopefully on June 29 when the film hits theaters — we’ll ponder the 24 questions below.
1. Who is that little boy playing soccer?
2. Will he be safe?
3. Where did Blake get that apple?
4. And how is it so crunchy, after what was probably a major trek to get to this island?
5. Isn’t it against the rules to bring fruit on planes to different countries?
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Never underestimate a woman’s ability to clap back — especially a heavily-scrutinized woman in the public eye.
From body-shaming and slut-shaming to straight up bullying, famous and visible women have to deal with a consistent onslaught of public insults. But in true badass form, many have mastered the art of telling their haters exactly where they can stick it.
Here are 10 times that famous women took inherently misogynistic insults and turned them into comeback gold.
1. Beyoncé
After Beyoncé’s Super Bowl 50 halftime performance of “Formation,” she was accused of being “anti-cop,” and police forces all over the country threatened to boycott her Formation World Tour. Beyoncé dropped some truth bombs in her interview with Elle magazine following the performance — “If celebrating my roots and culture during Black History Month made anyone uncomfortable, those feelings were there long before a video and long before me,” she said. But she also made a profit off of her haters by selling “Boycott Beyoncé” merchandise at her concert in Miami, where president of the Miami Fraternal Order of Police had called for a security boycott of the singer’s concert.
Self-described “Bad Bitch” Amber Rose is no stranger to slut-shaming, and somehow she manages to keep her cool despite the trolls she so often puts up with. But earlier this year, when ex-boyfriend Kanye West had Twitter beef with her ex-husband and the father of her child Wiz Khalifa, she had no choice but to step in and remind everybody who’s in charge.
Rose stayed quiet as West dragged her through a slut-shaming whirlpool, telling Khalifa in a now-deleted tweet that he “let a stripper trap” him. But she couldn’t stay out of the conversation when West brought her son into the conflict. Rose tweeted:
The comment shut West up — at least temporarily — and inspired him to apologize to Khalifa. Rose had a friendly meeting with West’s wife, Kim Kardashian, a few days later, in a stunning moment between two of America’s most consistently slut-shamed women.
Speaking of Ambers, the former “Glee” star recently used a post-dental surgery dose of novocain to articulate how ridiculous it is when people ridicule and try to police her body.
“Do my thighs offend?” she asked. “Does my big juicy ass offend?”
One frustrating reality of being a woman is that men often feel entitled to our smiles. But tennis champion (and “Lemonade” star) Serena Williams has no time for that bullshit. At a September 2015 press conference, a male reporter asked Williams why she wasn’t more cheerful and excited after winning a match. Her concise response was absolute perfection: “You’re not making this super enjoyable.”
5. Ruby Rose
Earlier this month, Rose was trending online for being “booted” and “kicked out” of a New Orleans restaurant after allegedly throwing French fries at a bartender, with the manager of the establishment saying that Rose was both “awful,” and a “horrible person.”
A few days later, Rose cleared everything up by explaining that the service at the restaurant was horrible, and that the bartender mocked her for her years-long sobriety. Most importantly, though, she apologized to the singular French fry.
In 2009, Kanye West infamously hijacked Taylor Swift’s acceptance speech for Best Female Video at the MTV Video Music Awards. The two had seemingly patched things up, but with the release of West’s album “The Life of Pablo,” came one misogynist lyric that did not sit well with Swift: “I think me and Taylor might still have sex / I made that bitch famous.”
One week later, Swift picked up three Grammy Awards and, in her Album of the Year acceptance speech, said:
“As the first woman to win album of the year at the Grammys twice, I want to say to all the young women out there: There are going to be people along the way who will try to undercut your success or take credit for your accomplishments or your fame. But if you just focus on the work and don’t let those people sidetrack you, someday when you get where you’re going, you’ll look around and you’ll know that it was you and the people who love you who put you there. And that will be the greatest feeling in the world.”
When supermodel Tyra Banks had a series of unflattering photos taken of her at the beach in 2007, she used her platform as a talk show host to give an impassioned speech, and tell her haters exactly what she thinks they should do — all while wearing the same swimsuit in which she had been photographed.
(Spoiler alert: You can kiss her fat ass.)
8. Hillary Clinton
Former secretary of state and current democratic nominee for president Hillary Clinton has faced her fair share of sexist commentary throughout the primary election cycle. But when Republican frontrunner Donald Trump accused her of playing the “woman card,” she struck campaign gold. The Clinton campaign created a “woman card,” and proceeded to gain 2.4 million dollars in donations following Trump’s comment.
Supermodel and author Chrissy Teigen gave birth to her and husband John Legend’s (adorable) baby daughter last month. But when she dared go out to dinner 10 days later, she received a barrage of judgement from her Instagram followers.
After Oscar-nominated actress Gabourey Sidibe made the grave mistake of being a woman attending an awards show while wearing a dress, she received a storm of criticism about her weight. Sidibe, who wore a stunning Michael Costello Couture dress at the 2014 Golden Globe awards, had the perfect response to her haters. She casually reminded them that her charmed life as a successful actress is infinitely better the one they spend criticizing a woman’s weight from behind their screens.
To people making mean comments about my GG pics, I mos def cried about it on that private jet on my way to my dream job last night. #JK
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“You were worrying for my career. You were worrying for the children,” Dion recalled saying to him in an interview with ABC News’ Deborah Roberts. “You were worrying for everything. It’s enough. Do you trust me? Please do. Trust me.”
The singer said that she also told Angélil, “The kids are fine. I’m fine. I promise you, we’re gonna be OK. Please leave in peace. I don’t want you to worry.”
Angélil died at 73 after a long battle with throat cancer on January 14, leaving behind Dion, three children from previous marriages, and the couple’s three kids, René-Charles, 15, and twins Eddy and Nelson, 5. Dion told Roberts that she used the Disney movie “Up” to help explain their father’s death.
“Before I told them that their dad was not there, I talked about when we, everybody, gets sick. Then I said, ‘Do you remember the movie “Up”?'” the singer said.
“It’s one of our favorite,” Dion recalled. “‘Oh,’ they said. ‘Yes, Ellie went up. You know, she, with the balloons.’ And I said, ‘Well, yeah … You know, today Papa went up.'”
In 2015, Dion told “Good Morning America” that her husband’s cancer left him unable to talk or swallow and that she had to feed him three times a day with a feeding tube. A few months prior to his death, the singer revealed she and her husband had already discussed his funeral and what would happen when he died.
“I’ll say, ‘You’re scared? I understand. Talk to me about it,'” Dion said in an interview with USA Today. “And René says to me, ‘I want to die in your arms.’ OK, fine, I’ll be there, you’ll die in my arms.”
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Rumer Willis loves her jawline just the way it is.
After an outtake from a Vanity Fair photo shoot appeared online, Willis took to Instagram to express her disappointment over what she seems to think was a Photoshopping job gone wrong.
The 27-year-old actress wrote that the size of her jawline was reduced in the high-fashion spread, but photographers Mark Williams and Sara Hirakawa quickly responded to Willis’ claim, explaining that the photo was not retouched “to alter or modify anyone’s face.”
“The photographer Photoshopped my face to make my jaw smaller and I find it really offensive for anyone to try and change the way you look so drastically,” Willis captioned the photo on Instagram.
“I love the way I look and I won’t support anyone who would feel a need to change the way I look to make me beautiful. Whether or not they realize it, it is a form of bullying, which I won’t stand for,” she continued.
After Willis posted the image, the photographers issued a statement to The Cut to explain their editing choices, claiming that “there was never any intention … to alter her appearance.”
Read their response below:
The retouching that was done to the photograph was only done to resolve some distortion with using a wide angle lens for a group shot, and not to alter or modify anyone’s face. We used a wide angle lens, and it might’ve made Rumer’s chin look smaller from the higher angle that we shot the image. We did correct for the optics of the lens slightly as people’s heads get distorted through the wide angle lens. We certainly did not intend to change the way she naturally looks. Our intention was to capture the special bond between Rumer and her sisters.
It saddens us that Rumer feels the way she does about the image and hope she understands that there was never any intention with it to alter her appearance.
We should make clear that this image was an outtake and was not published in Vanity Fair or vf.com nor did they ever see it.
Regardless of the motivation behind the retouching, Willis, the eldest daughter of superstars Bruce Willis and Demi Moore, has been routinely criticized for her appearance from a young age. She’s been vocal about her battle with insecurity and the pressures of fame in the past, penning a powerful essay in Glamour after taking home the Mirror Ball trophy on “Dancing with the Stars” last year.
“When you grow up in the public eye the way that I did, everyone’s looking at you and waiting for you to do something crazy or say something wrong or have a meltdown,” she wrote. “I was constantly bullied because of my looks, so I struggled a lot with my body image.”
“After I finished [the show] I felt more beautiful than I had in my entire life … because of what I’d accomplished and worked so hard for,” she continued. “What it comes down to is this: We all need to stop bullying ourselves and being cruel to other women.”
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Rosario Dawson made headlines after she was arrested on April 15, in Washington, D.C., during a protest against money in politics. But the incident doesn’t seem to have fazed her much.
The actress was one of the hundreds who marched on the Capitol as part of “Democracy Spring,” a movement fighting against voter suppression and big money corruption. The “Daredevil” actress was detained after she and other activists crossed a police line to stage a sit-in. Dawson was back in D.C., for Saturday’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner where she casually told USA Today she was partly back in town due to her arrest.
“I’m really well,” Dawson said. “I came, I had to go and get fingerprinted yesterday from getting arrested at ‘Democracy Spring,’ so it was really good. We had lunch, actually, at the Capitol. It was really interesting to be there for a different reason. But luckily all is good with that.
At the time of her arrest, outlets reported the actress was detained briefly and penalized with a $50 fine. Dawson recently told USA Today after her arrest that she was simply given a ticket and told to “come back within 15 days.”
As a far as why the actress decided to join the protest in the first place, Dawson spoke to online news show “The Young Turks” shortly after her arrest to explain her involvement.
“I wanted, for me personally, to be in solidarity with the other folks who put themselves on the line and just to bring attention to this,” she said. “We’re putting ourselves on the line for what a lot of people across America and across the planet really want to be able to see happen in America, which is one person one vote.”
Watch USA Today’s interview with the actress above.
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There is nothing in life that will guarantee your success aside from not being able to rise above your failures and learn from your previous errors. As long as you remain in forward motion, there is no way you can fail. Success is all in your hands. It is all in your state of mind.
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