The long, spangly relationship between the singer and Bob Mackie.The cardinal rule of dressing Tina Turner, the designer and costumer Bob Mackie said Wednesday night, was “you couldn’t cover anything up.”Her legs were simply “too beautiful.”Mr. Mackie, 84 and working on costumes for Pink’s upcoming tour, met Ms ...
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A new documentary examines the life of an actress who personified a certain kind of hopeful feminism.To those of us who grew up in the wake of second-wave feminism, Mary Tyler Moore is a powerfully evocative figure. For this group, watching the HBO documentary “Being Mary Tyler Moore” ...
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David Zaslav, who is now one of the top executives in the entertainment world, mingled with Scarlett Johansson, Leonardo DiCaprio and Martin Scorsese at a lavish soiree.For a few hours on Tuesday evening, David Zaslav seemed like the happiest man in the world.“Look at this!” the 63-year-old media ...
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A new documentary chronicles the TikTok-fueled phenomenon of sorority rush at the University of Alabama. Those who lived through it have thoughts.Last year, as rumors of a secret documentary swirled at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, many students taking part in sorority recruitment were on high alert.There ...
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With an eye to the Kennedys, and the Trumps. Sometimes, a wardrobe is a strategy.Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida has finally, officially, entered the presidential race. The long-anticipated Trump-DeSantis matchup is about to hit prime time. Which means that so, too, is what Mr. DeSantis himself called in ...
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The noted designer of the High Line has wisdom to share with other gardeners: “I put plants on a stage and let them perform.”There is a transcendent quality to the gardens of the Dutch designer Piet Oudolf, which overtake us with the sense that we have arrived at ...
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The host of “Taste the Nation” talks about the do-it-yourself nature of shooting her show.In “Taste the Nation,” which debuted its second season this month on Hulu, Padma Lakshmi, the longtime host of the reality-television competition “Top Chef,” visits various immigrant communities throughout the United States, not only ...
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The host of “Taste the Nation” talks about the do-it-yourself nature of shooting her show.In “Taste the Nation,” which debuted its second season this month on Hulu, Padma Lakshmi, the longtime host of the reality-television competition “Top Chef,” visits various immigrant communities throughout the United States, not only ...
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Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words.Blinking With LoveGrowing up in the ’50s, I never saw my parents kiss, hug or say “I love you.” Instead, their marriage, like my childhood, was steeped in sarcasm and silence. After my father’s winter death, ...
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Button-up shirts can be tucked, untucked, half-tucked or French tucked. A reader wonders where to begin.Lately I’ve seen an explosion of half-tucked button-up shirts. How do you know what side to tuck in, and what do you do about the back? More broadly, whatever happened to the French ...
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“These days, my role as an innkeeper occupies me almost as much as fiction,” writes Joyce Maynard, who, during the pandemic, hired locals in a Guatemalan village to turn her writing retreat into a guesthouse.It’s close to midnight, two weeks into a precious writing residency in New Hampshire ...
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At Atlantic College, a school in a 12th-century castle clinging to the windy Welsh coastline, teenage royals take classes on world peace.The rolling green lawns of a 12th-century castle perched on a windy stretch of south Wales coastline usually dotted with sheep hosted not one but two kings ...
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Button-up shirts can be tucked, untucked, half-tucked or French tucked. A reader wonders where to begin.Lately I’ve seen an explosion of half-tucked button-up shirts. How do you know what side to tuck in, and what do you do about the back? More broadly, whatever happened to the French ...
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Marcia looks “chic” for the funeral, and Matsson follows decorum for once, but the wives and mistresses steal the show.This article contains spoilers for Episode 9 of the final season of “Succession.”We knew it was coming: the funeral service for Logan Roy. After several episodes of planning and ...
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