All posts tagged: Alex

Alex Margo Arden Gets Up Close and Personal With Amy Winehouse

Alex Margo Arden Gets Up Close and Personal With Amy Winehouse

Published by Jenni Sidey

This summer marked 15 years since the death of British singer-songwriter Amy Winehouse, but her spirit lives on. Now, her life and influence are the subject of “Nothing Personal,” a just-opened exhibition by artist Alex Margo Arden spread across three rooms of the Nicoletta Fiorucci Foundation in London. For the exhibition, Arden has created hundreds of simulacra of Winehouse’s personal items, recreating a pair of ballet slippers signed by fans left outside the singer’s home after her death and a birthday card from the music producer Mark Ronson and Adele that Winehouse never received. To round out this display, Arden purchased exact copies of books found in Winehouse’s library, the makeup and perfume she used, and boardgames and decorative items like mirrors that dotted her house. The display can at times feel like you’re surreptitiously browsing the most intimate parts of someone’s home. Since 2021, Arden has been forensically dissecting pixelated images of Winehouse she’s found online, in catalogues, newspapers and magazines, to determine which items she would need to track down. Source link

Rainbow Boys by Alex Sanchez

Rainbow Boys by Alex Sanchez

Published by Jenni Sidey

In the first chapter of Rainbow Boys by Alex Sanchez, the school’s loudest out kid presses a badge into the hand of the school’s basketball star. The badge announces that nobody knows the wearer is gay. It is a joke, a provocation and a small cruelty at once, and the boy receiving it spends the rest of the book furious about it, mostly because it is accurate. Nothing else here is that neat. What is remarkable about Sanchez’s 2001 debut is not the premise but the machinery: twenty-two chapters, three narrators, one chapter each in strict rotation, with no deviation at all. Three Narrators, Twenty-Two Chapters, No Protagonist Jason, Kyle, Nelson. Jason, Kyle, Nelson. Seven full cycles, then a twenty-second chapter returning to Jason, and stop. Each boy narrates in close first person and sees only what he is present for, so the reader assembles the book from three partial accounts and always knows more than any of the three. The effect is not showy and it works hard. Kyle spends a hundred pages convinced …

Alex Cooper’s Hulu Love Overboard Reality Show Canceled After 1 Season

Alex Cooper’s Hulu Love Overboard Reality Show Canceled After 1 Season

Published by Daniella Wilson

Love Overboard has sunk. The dating reality series executive produced by Call Her Daddy host Alex Cooper has been canceled at Hulu after one season, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed. The series, which premiered March 26, was Cooper’s first step into unscripted television. However, Love Overboard did not garner the same level of attention as some of Hulu’s other unscripted originals, including The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives, The Kardashians and Vanderpump Villa. Hosted by former The Bachelorette co-lead and The Traitors season three winner Gabby Windey, Love Overboard followed 22 contestants competing for love while also navigating challenges to gain access to the yacht’s amenities. Hulu’s official synopsis reads: “Get ready to hit the high seas with Love Overboard! Step aboard the ultimate luxury yacht, where sexy singles are ready to mix and mingle … and find love. But there’s a twist … gaining access to the yacht’s extravagant amenities won’t be so simple. As the journey unfolds, romance ignites; alliances form; and hearts are shattered. In the end, only one couple will reign …

Alex Cooper Departing Talent Agency UTA

Alex Cooper Departing Talent Agency UTA

Published by Daniella Wilson

Alex Cooper is leaving talent agency UTA, amid a busy week for the Call Her Daddy creator, according to sources familiar with the matter.  A source says Cooper is in conversations with other agencies, but nothing is yet signed.  The news comes after Cooper announced an investment on Aug. 12 from WTSL, the Silver Lake-backed firm led by Patrick Whitesell, that valued her Unwell media company at $500 million. The plan is to use the investment to grow the company, which includes a slate of podcasts, as well as live events and a film and TV production arm including through acquisition.  However, a report in Bloomberg last week also said that Cooper’s branded beverage line, Unwell Beverage Co, is shutting down later this year. Cooper has also faced a number of negative headlines after Bloomberg and Vanity Fair both reported claims about staff turnover and uneasiness among the staff. She remains one of the most popular podcast hosts thanks to the success of Call Her Daddy, but is now looking to leverage that into more …

The One Show’s Alex Jones: “There’s no ceiling on what women can do”

The One Show’s Alex Jones: “There’s no ceiling on what women can do”

Published by Daniella Wilson

Alex Jones began presenting The One Show in 2010, and is now a comforting daily presence for more than two million viewers, alongside her rotating team of co-hosts, including Roman Kemp, Vernon Kay, JB Gill, Clara Amfo, Lauren Laverne and Angellica Bell. They bring celebrity interviews, feel-good stories and plenty of banter to weeknight television. Ahead of The One Show’s 20th anniversary on August 14, which the BBC is celebrating with a special hour-long episode, the presenter shares her earliest TV memories, the piece of advice she lives by, and why she has her local drama teacher to thank for her success. What’s the view from your sofa? We live in a home that we call “care home chic.” We bought it from a lady who’d lived there for around 50 years and she last redecorated in 1976, before I was born. We’ve inherited these tapestry sofas. We’ve also got a table that used to be a stretcher in the Second World War, so the living room is not our style at the moment, but …

Alix Earle Reveals When She’ll Address Alex Cooper Feud

Alix Earle Reveals When She’ll Address Alex Cooper Feud

Published by Daniella Wilson

Three months after the feud between Alex Cooper and Alix Earle reached a new peak, the latter finally revealed when she plans to address the drama. After Cooper called out the social media star in April, Earle teased at the time that she was working on a response. However, a video never came to fruition. That’s because the Dancing with the Stars alum shared during a recent interview with Time magazine that she’s going to unpack her side on season one of her upcoming Netflix reality show, Earle Meets World. “It’s something I’m going to talk about on the show,” Earle said. “That was one of the things in the beginning they wanted me to talk about, and I really wasn’t comfortable sharing.” She continued, “Then everything unfolded the way it did while we were filming. There was a serious struggle behind the scenes of emotions, and my family showed up for me. Those moments that sometimes seem so fun for people online, but are hard behind the scenes — I am happy that we …

Alex Freeman anota un gol dramático para Estados Unidos que tuvo que ser validado por el VAR

Alex Freeman anota un gol dramático para Estados Unidos que tuvo que ser validado por el VAR

Published by Sam Flores

IE 11 no es compatible. Para una experiencia óptima, visite nuestro sitio en otro navegador. SIGUIENTE El USMNT se hace cada vez más fuerte y Brasil se reafirma como favorito en el Mundial 06:05 Los jugadores brasileños se mostraron felices con la goleada 07:35 Estados Unidos volvió a ganar y está en 16vos: ¿puede levantar la Copa? | Puesta a Punto 13:31 Estados Unidos avanza; Brasil cumple y Haití queda eliminado: Radar Mundial 02:49 Paraguay pega temprano y la expulsión de Almirón marca el partido | Todo el Mundial 03:18 ¡Sufrieron hasta el último minuto! Paraguay consigue victoria ante Turquía 09:56 Julio Enciso: “¡Qué partido! Terriblemente intenso” 02:27 Aficionados de Paraguay y Turquía pusieron el ambiente en San Francisco 04:42 Andrés Cubas destaca la reacción y el carácter de Paraguay 01:29 Matías Galarza: “Hoy fuimos Paraguay más que nunca” 01:40 Jorge Valdano: “A Estados Unidos ya me lo empiezo a tomar en serio” 06:24 Estados Unidos sigue sorprendiendo al mundo con su nivel y con su afición en el Mundial 05:55 ¡Expulsión histórica! Almirón ve …

Nat and Alex Wolff were Beatles fans before they were born

Nat and Alex Wolff were Beatles fans before they were born

Published by Sam Flores

Actors, musicians and self-proclaimed “Beatles fanatics” Nat and Alex Wolff joined host Kenneth Womack to discuss being introduced to Beatles music before they were born, their new album and tour and much more on “Everything Fab Four,” a podcast co-produced by me and Womack (a music scholar who also writes about pop music for Salon) and distributed by Salon. The Wolff brothers were raised in a show business family and first became household names in the film (and later hit Nickelodeon TV show) “The Naked Brothers Band,” which was created and produced by their mother, actress Polly Draper of “thirtysomething” fame. Their father, jazz pianist Michael Wolff, taught them music early on, but Nat said that even before that “he would play Beatles music on a little tape recorder and hold it up to our mom’s belly” while she was pregnant with each son. As he told Womack, “As soon as I knew what music was, I immediately became obsessed with The Beatles. Within a few years we had completely outdone our parents in terms …

Alex Hassell: ‘A wasp flew in my ear in front of Jude Law – he couldn’t see the wasp so just saw me freak out’

Alex Hassell: ‘A wasp flew in my ear in front of Jude Law – he couldn’t see the wasp so just saw me freak out’

Published by Sam Flores

Born in Essex, Alex Hassell, 45, trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama. He co-founded an experimental theatre group and was noticed by the RSC where he went on to star in Henry IV Parts 1 and 2, Henry V and Death of a Salesman. On TV, he appeared in His Dark Materials and Rivals. He reprises the role of Rupert Campbell-Black in season 2 on Disney+. He is married to actor Emma King and lives in London. What is your greatest fear?Loneliness. What is your earliest memory? Kissing a girl through the window of a wendy house. What is the trait you most deplore in yourself?Obsequiousness. What is the trait you most deplore in others?Careless cruelty. What was your most embarrassing moment?On one of my first jobs, Cold Mountain, I got a wasp in my ear in front of Jude Law. He couldn’t see the wasp so just saw me freak out. What is your most treasured possession?My dad’s chair. He sat in it every single day and now I sit in it at my desk. I’ve realised the …

The Anniversary by Alex Finlay

The Anniversary by Alex Finlay

Published by José Betancourt

Some thrillers live and die on a single twist. The Anniversary by Alex Finlay is not one of them. This is a book that asks for your patience, then rewards it by stretching its tension across a calendar of May Days. Each chapter is a stamp on a map of grief, growth, guilt, and a serial predator who refuses to stop hunting small-town girls in the American Midwest. Finlay, who has built a steady reputation with Every Last Fear, The Night Shift, What Have We Done, If Something Happens to Me, and most recently Parents Weekend, leans into a real structural risk here. The whole novel hinges on a single recurring date. He pulls it off, mostly. Where it falters, it falters in the way many ambitious thrillers do: a few coincidences too tidy, a few side characters too thin. The Setup: One Date That Burns for a Decade It is May 1, 1992. Two seventeen-year-olds in Monarch, Nebraska are about to lose the lives they were going to live. Quinn Riley is the smart, …