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Star Sightings: Sutton Foster Attends Opening Night of ‘Once Upon a Mattress’, The Weeknd Performs in L.A.

Star Sightings: Sutton Foster Attends Opening Night of ‘Once Upon a Mattress’, The Weeknd Performs in L.A.

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Here’s a look at what celebrities have been up to as of late! Sutton Foster celebrated the opening night of Once Upon a Mattress at Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles, California, where it is running through Jan. 5. Oprah Winfrey filmed Oprah’s Book Club with Claire Keeganon while wearing the VIVAIA Regina Pro Square-Toe Water-Repellent Heeled Boots in Dark Caramel.  Sofia Richie celebrated the launch of Amazon Essentials x Sofia Grainge at Hotel Bel Air in Bel Air, California. Emily Ratajkowski posed on Instagram in the Intimissimi Menswear Cut Silk Jacket, Silk and Lace G-String and Emma Refined Everyday Bralette Triangle Bra in Silk. Gigi Hadid attended the Guest In Residence store opening in Beverly Hills, California in Calzedonia Invisible 20 Denier Sheer Tights. Taylor Swift enjoyed dinner at The Waverly Inn in New York City in the Simkhai Kenlie Dress. Zooey Deschanel attended the premiere of A Complete Unknown at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles, California in the Scanlan Theodore Leather Pencil Dress. Dua Lipa shared her love for Augustinus Bader’s The Rich Cream …

Barry Keoghan on How Growing Up in Foster Care Gave Him Trust Issues

Barry Keoghan on How Growing Up in Foster Care Gave Him Trust Issues

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Barry Keoghan gave insight into his experience growing up in foster care and how it affected his life for a while afterward. The Oscar-nominated actor stopped by This Life of Mine with James Corden amid production on the upcoming Peaky Blinders film, in which he stars opposite Cillian Murphy. While speaking with the former late night host, he got candid about what he and his brother went through after their mother was unable to care for them due to struggles with addiction. “As a kid, you don’t know what’s going on,” he said. “You have no kind of gauge on, ‘This is a process, and we’re going to go to a next home.’ You arrive and like, ‘This is it.’ And then you get took and you go to another one and that starts to affect you as you grow up and wherever. … You don’t trust the process of anything. You have a problem with attachment and abandonment.” He explained that he’s worked on a lot of this with several therapists over the years, …

Family-based foster care reduces irritability in teens exposed to early psychosocial deprivation, study finds

Family-based foster care reduces irritability in teens exposed to early psychosocial deprivation, study finds

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A recent study published in the journal Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology has found that adolescents with a history of early psychosocial deprivation exhibit lower levels of irritability when placed in high-quality, family-based foster care. The study also found that adolescents who spent more time in institutional care or were not placed with a family by the age of 16 showed higher levels of irritability. These findings underline the importance of stable, family-based placements in mitigating the effects of early adverse experiences on irritability, a condition that can lead to various negative outcomes during adolescence. Irritability is a common issue among adolescents and is characterized by frequent and intense anger and frustration. It is associated with a range of negative outcomes, including difficulties in relationships, academic challenges, and an increased risk of mental health problems. Understanding the factors that influence irritability is crucial, particularly because it is linked to both external behaviors, like aggression, and internal struggles, such as anxiety and depression. Researchers have long known that early adverse experiences, such as neglect or …

Harlow Collinge: Childminder Karen Foster jailed for 12 years and seven months for killing baby boy with ‘forceful shaking’ | UK News

Harlow Collinge: Childminder Karen Foster jailed for 12 years and seven months for killing baby boy with ‘forceful shaking’ | UK News

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A childminder has been jailed for 12 years and seven months for killing a nine-month-old boy by shaking him to death in frustration. Karen Foster, who was due to go on trial for the murder of nine-month-old Harlow Collinge, pleaded guilty to the charge of manslaughter last Friday after discussions with the child’s family. The basis of the 62-year-old’s plea was that “forceful shaking” of Harlow caused his death after he had toppled over out of his high chair, started crying and she shook him in frustration, Preston Crown Court heard. Mr Justice Barry Cotter said in court that Harlow was a “happy, healthy, much-loved” boy, but said Foster chose to continue childminding despite ill health and pain in her hip. He noted she worked more than she should have under Ofsted rules and said this contributed to her “loss of temper”, before adding: “You should have been a safe pair of hands to which Gemma Collinge could ensure her precious child. “I have no doubt you snapped on the 1 March 2022, in part …

Two L.A. foster kids defied the odds when they ‘aged out’

Two L.A. foster kids defied the odds when they ‘aged out’

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Alex Ballantyne thought he’d finally found some stability after spending much of his adolescence searching for a home where he felt safe and accepted. Then, shortly after he collected his high school diploma, his longtime foster family in the Santa Clarita Valley kicked him out. He found himself homeless, aging out of the Los Angeles County foster care system — which cuts off many services at 18 — and unsure where to turn. “It was rough, and I guess it still is,” Ballantyne says in an intimate new documentary that follows two Los Angeles teens in foster care from age 14 to 20. “Possible Selves,” directed by Shaun Kadlec, will make its streaming debut this month on PBS SoCal Plus. Ballantyne’s struggle to get back on his feet after high school is one of the most heartbreaking moments in a film that provides a rare, insider’s perspective on the challenges facing foster youth — including childhood trauma, looming insecurity, parents struggling with addiction and the stigma attached to the foster system, all of which are …

Jodie Foster celebrates wedding anniversary and hand and footprint ceremony on same day

Jodie Foster celebrates wedding anniversary and hand and footprint ceremony on same day

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All smiles for Jodie Foster this Friday when she was honored outside the TCL Chinese theatre in Hollywood — five blocks from where she grew up — as part of the 2024 TCM Classic Film Festival. Foster, who most recently starred in “True Detective: Night Country,” has been polishing her natural talents for what seems like forever. Rising to stardom in the 1976 version of “Freaky Friday,” she was honored at the ceremony by her best friend, Jamie Lee Curtis, who acted in the 2003 reboot of the movie. Curtis listed particular curiosities about the actor that will soon appear alongside her name on Google. Highlighting that Foster loves holidays and caroling, hosts Christmas pageants in costume as Mary, wears foam cheese-heads in support of the Green Bay Packers, and compiles and sends out a researched list of her recommended candidates before elections. “She is also soft, and funny, and romantic, and beautiful,” Curtis said, punctuating each adjective with an adoring look at her friend and colleague. “And I could and would go on and on and on and on, but …

Jodie Foster brings famous wife to tears with rare comment about their 10-year marriage

Jodie Foster brings famous wife to tears with rare comment about their 10-year marriage

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Jodie Foster had a very special guest at her hand and footprint ceremony at the TCL Chinese Theatre in Hollywood on Friday – her wife, Alexandra Hedison.  The 61-year-old actress has been married to the photographer and director since 2014, and her presence at the coveted event meant even more to Jodie as it fell on their tenth wedding anniversary.  During her speech, the True Detective: Night Country star brought her wife to tears as she made a rare comment about their private life together.  “The person that I have to thank the most, really, is my wife Alex, who I cannot believe was so generous to give up our 10-year anniversary day to come and do this with me,” she said.  © Getty ImagesJodie and Alexandra’s 10th wedding anniversary was the same day as the ceremony “Like what are you thinking? How come we didn’t say no?” Jodie jokingly added.  In footage taken by NBC LA, Alexandra could be seen wiping tears away from her eyes as Jodie told her: “I love you so much and …

Jodie Foster Opens Up About 10-Year Wedding Anniversary and Her Legacy of ‘Normal’ Roles (Exclusive)

Jodie Foster Opens Up About 10-Year Wedding Anniversary and Her Legacy of ‘Normal’ Roles (Exclusive)

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It’s a great year to be Jodie Foster. Not only is the two-time Oscar-winning actress celebrating her 10th wedding anniversary with her wife, Alexandra Hedison, this year, but the 61-year-old has officially cemented her legacy with a hand and footprint ceremony during the TCM Classic Film Festival. On Friday, Foster left her mark in cement in the courtyard of the iconic TCL Chinese Theatre on Hollywood Boulevard during the 15th annual event.  “It’s just surreal to be on the Boulevard, you know? When I was kid, my mom said that if she found us on Hollywood Boulevard that we shouldn’t bother coming home ’cause that’s how dangerous it was in the ’70s and we grew up five blocks from here,” Foster tells ET’s Cassie DiLaura after the ceremony.  The Silence of the Lambs star was almost overwhelmed by the contrast between how her mother would caution her against walking the Boulevard streets and now having her hand and footprints displayed along the sidewalks.  While many celebrities opt to keep their shoes on when stepping into the wet cement, …

Rusty Foster Tracks Media Gossip From an Island in Maine

Rusty Foster Tracks Media Gossip From an Island in Maine

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In a time when the headlines are dominated by wars and a divisive presidential campaign, the magazine-world rivalry between The Atlantic and The New Yorker doesn’t amount to much. So you might have missed it when, on April 2, The Atlantic beat The New Yorker in three big categories at the 2024 National Magazine Awards. But to Rusty Foster, who chronicles the media industry and internet culture in his daily newsletter, Today in Tabs, The Atlantic’s victory was big news. Shortly after the awards ceremony, which took place at Terminal 5 in Manhattan, Mr. Foster tapped out a fanciful report for his audience of media obsessives. Under the headline “Shutout at the TK Corral,” he wrote that David Remnick, the editor of The New Yorker, “solemnly folded up and ate each of his prepared speeches as he watched The Atlantic win every category.” Mr. Foster then turned his attention to Anna Wintour, the editorial director of Condé Nast, the publishing giant that owns The New Yorker, Vogue and other publications, writing that she “donned an …

David Foster Wallace: If Screens Are Your Main Media Diet, You’re Going to Die

David Foster Wallace: If Screens Are Your Main Media Diet, You’re Going to Die

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Peter Biles <!– –> April 8, 2024 2 Addiction The novelist warned about the pitfalls of the online life Peter Biles <!– –> April 8, 2024 2 Addiction “If we ate like this all the time, what would be wrong with that?” So asks David Foster Wallace, compellingly played by Jason Segel, in the 2015 film The End of the Tour. Wallace is in the car with a Rolling Stone reporter, David Lipsky, cramming down sweets from a gas station when he says that. After Lipsky quips back about obesity, Wallace says, “It has none of the substance of real food, but it’s real pleasurable.” The End of the Tour is set in 1996 shortly after Wallace’s gargantuan novel Infinite Jest hit the literary scene and impressed the nation with its length, wit, tragedy, and insight. A massive book about loneliness, Infinite Jest takes place in a semi-futuristic America where technology and entertainment have merged so fearfully well that it’s nigh impossible to look away from it. Sound familiar? Wallace foresaw the rise of the …