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Mama Tried | Hannah Gold

Mama Tried | Hannah Gold

Every Kenneth Lonergan production is, at its center, a story of nihilism resisted or indulged. Usually the characters engaged in these struggles haven’t yet made it out of their twenties. In his breakout play, This Is Our Youth (1996), about newly minted high school graduates wallowing around the Upper West Side, nineteen-year-old Jessica Goldman flirts at once with her crush and with the void. The fact that people change, sometimes dramatically, as they age distresses her to no end. “It just basically invalidates whoever you are right now,” she tells her love interest, local fuckup Warren Straub. “It just makes your whole self at any given point in your life seem so completely dismissable. So it’s like, what’s the point?” Lonergan gave himself a bit part in his first feature film, You Can Count on Me (2000), as a chill small-town priest named Ron who makes house calls in a plaid shirt. Dropping in one day on aimless, troublemaking Terry (Mark Ruffalo), at the behest of his concerned older sister (Laura Linney), Ron urges the faithless young man not …

Rumer Willis is all legs in thigh-split dress after embracing her ‘mama curves’

Rumer Willis is all legs in thigh-split dress after embracing her ‘mama curves’

Rumer Willis looked pretty in pink at the Jhpiego Laughter Is The Best Medicine Gala on Thursday.  The 35-year-old has recently returned from a “jungle” vacation and showed off her pre-summer glow in a vivid pink strapless dress that made her look like a Grecian goddess.  You may also likeWATCH: Rumer Willis shares powerful message about her health Rumer stood out from the crowd as she posed for photos at The Beverly Wilshire in Beverly Hills.  Her eye-catching dress boasted a strapless, sweetheart neckline and softly draped over her self-penned “mama curves”.  The romantic frock also highlighted Rumer’s long legs thanks to a thigh-high split that revealed her matching pink, peep-toe heels.  She kept her accessories simple with a pearl necklace, gold bracelet, and a gold nose ring, and added subtle gold earrings too.  © Getty ImagesRumer exposed her toned legs in her thigh-split dress Her sun-highlighted hair cascaded down her back in soft beach waves, and she kept her makeup natural to highlight her radiant skin.  Rumer’s outing comes after she revealed that she …

Mama Bear Saves Cub After Plummet Into River

Mama Bear Saves Cub After Plummet Into River

A mama bear sprang into action to rescue her cub after it fell from a railway bridge into a river in Plymouth, Connecticut, footage posted on April 17 shows. Tyler Nolan and his family captured this dramatic video that shows the bears atop a railway bridge over the Pequabuck River in the village of Terryville. “While walking our dog in a field nearby my house, we noticed the dog acting erratically,” Nolan told Storyful. “After noticing this behavior change, we saw a mama bear. To be safe, we returned to the house and grabbed the car to get a better view from a safer spot. When we returned, we noticed the mama bear had a cub,” he said. The adult bear can be seen interacting with her cub before the baby drops off the bridge into the river below. “We kept recording. You can hear the mama bear in distress, making grunting sounds and worried. It finally jumped into the river. It got the cub, and retreated back on to the shore.” Nolan said the …

‘Mama June: Family Crisis’: Honey Boo Boo Questions Her Mom About Missing Money (Exclusive)

‘Mama June: Family Crisis’: Honey Boo Boo Questions Her Mom About Missing Money (Exclusive)

The drama continues for Mama June Shannon and her kids as daughter Alana “Honey Boo Boo” Thompson has some questions about missing money. In this exclusive sneak peek from a new episode of Mama June: Family Crisis, Alana’s sister, Lauryn, is looking at the money in a special Coogan account — containing the money Alana was paid as a child actor — which has matured now that she is 18. “That’s The Masked Singer and part of the Dancing With the Stars money,” June tells Lauryn, who discovers that the account contains $33,000 — far less than Alana and Lauryn expected. “There should at least be six figures in that account!” Alana says in a solo interview. “Something’s not adding up. My money is somewhere. It needs to be found right now, ASAP. Because this is not gonna work.” After being grilled on why the account is so low, June gets defensive and says it’s the result of taxes. “I can’t help that there’s not more money,” June argues. “Taxes were took out automatically — 50 …

Woman Won’t Let Her Son’s Baby Mama Move Into Her Mansion

Woman Won’t Let Her Son’s Baby Mama Move Into Her Mansion

Few things are as universal as family drama. Everyone has experienced it at some point. However, one family took it to a new level with their living situation. One woman refused to let her son’s ‘baby mama’ move into her mansion despite her being homeless. An anonymous woman took to Reddit to share what she experienced because of her son and his ex-girlfriend. She provided background information, explaining that she has two grandchildren, with two more on the way. One of her grandchildren is her son’s wife’s child, and the other is his ex-girlfriend’s. Her daughter-in-law is currently pregnant with twins. RELATED: Man Wonders If He’s Wrong To Refuse To Help His Dying Father After Years Of Abuse Despite going through a breakup, the woman’s son and his ex-girlfriend are on good terms. She now has a total of four children, as she “started dating another man and had three more kids… with him.” Unfortunately, the situation with the new boyfriend was not a good one. “To put it briefly, her new partner was an awful person,” …

‘Mama June: Family Crisis’: Mama June Reclaims Her Power After Past Abusive Relationships (Exclusive)

‘Mama June: Family Crisis’: Mama June Reclaims Her Power After Past Abusive Relationships (Exclusive)

Mama June isn’t letting any man tell her what to do!  In an exclusive clip from the upcoming episode of Mama June: Family Crisis, the family matriarch rides with her daughter, Anna “Chickadee” Cardwell, and husband, Justin Stroud. As the trio make their way back home, the topic of Chickadee’s affairs come up, with June expressing how her daughter, Pumpkin, has suggested the family jump start the planning process as Anna’s condition progresses.  “I understand that Pumpkin wants Anna to get all of her affairs in order and so do I, but with her just now finishing chemo, I don’t think this is a good time to bring up like, ‘Hey, we need to do this. Hey, we need to do that. Hey, we need to do this.’ It’s a lot,” June says in an interview. Back in the car, June and Justin have a discussion about their living arrangements and June’s decision to not renew the lease on their property in Alabama, while they are looking for a house in Georgia to be closer …

Ana Ofelia Murguía, voice of Pixar’s Mamá Coco, dies at 90

Ana Ofelia Murguía, voice of Pixar’s Mamá Coco, dies at 90

Add to your saved stories Save Mexican actress Ana Ofelia Murguía, best known internationally for voicing the character of Mamá Coco in Pixar’s 2017 film “Coco,” died at the age of 90. The country’s National Institute of Fine Arts and Literature confirmed Ms. Murguía’s death in a statement Sunday, without citing a specific cause. “She leaves an enormous void on our country’s stages,” Culture Secretary Alejandra Frausto Guerrero said in the same statement. Mexico’s National Theater Company described her as “one of the greatest actresses Mexico has had.” Born in 1933, Ms. Murguía’s career in Mexican film, theater and television spanned 60 years, according to the National Institute of Fine Arts and Literature. She graduated from institute’s National School of Theater Arts in 1957 and went on to appear in more than 70 plays and over 90 films — often as a villain. The actress won three Ariel Awards, Mexico’s equivalent of an Oscar, for “Cadena Perpetua” (1979), “Los Motivos de Luz” (1986) and “La Reina de la Noche” (1994). In 2011, she was honored …

From the archive: ‘Mama Boko Haram’: one woman’s extraordinary mission to rescue ‘her boys’ from terrorism – podcast | News

We are raiding the Guardian Long Read archives to bring you some classic pieces from years past, with new introductions from the authors This week, from 2020: Aisha Wakil knew many of Boko Haram’s fighters as children. Now she uses those ties to broker peace deals, mediate hostage negotiations and convince militants to put down their weapons – but as the violence escalates, her task is becoming impossible How to listen to podcasts: everything you need to know Source link