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Every Nicole Kidman Reference In Adéla's New Music Video

Every Nicole Kidman Reference In Adéla's New Music Video

Published by Sam Flores

Nicole Kidman In the lead-up to the release of her debut album, Slovak pop sensation Adéla got the seal of approval from Nicole Kidman herself when she announced she’d named a song after the Australian screen icon. When the actual song was released, she revealed it wasn’t just the song that paid homage to Nicole, though, also debuting a music video that celebrated some of the Oscar winner’s most iconic movie moments. From loud tributes to the more subtle nods, here’s our quick guide to all of the references in Adéla’s Nicole Kidman video… Eyes Wide Shut After a rapid-fire montage, the Nicole Kidman video really kicks off with the image of Adéla being shot from behind, taking off her dress in a messy bedroom to reveal purple thong lingerie. This alludes to the opening scene of Eyes Wide Shut, in which Nicole’s character does the exact same, while it’s also been suggested that the shots of Adéla dancing in the same underwear reference the actor’s work in the cult film To Die For. Babygirl …

When Nicole Kidman and Sandra Bullock First Made Magic: Flashback

When Nicole Kidman and Sandra Bullock First Made Magic: Flashback

Published by Daniella Wilson

A sequel is brewing for Practical Magic despite the original seeming a bit cursed when it launched 28 years ago. After making his feature directorial debut with 1997’s Addicted to Love, Griffin Dunne — whose acting credits include An American Werewolf in London — was hired to direct Warner Bros.’ adaptation of Alice Hoffman’s 1995 novel about two witch sisters. Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman starred as Sally and Gilly Owens, who were raised by their aunts in a small town before facing a curse that threatened to prevent them from finding love. Dianne Wiest, Stockard Channing and Aidan Quinn rounded out the cast. The film’s team constructed the Owens’ Victorian home on San Juan Island in Washington as a hollow facade that was later torn down, while interior filming took place in L.A. Dunne hoped to maintain the book’s darker tone; screenwriter Akiva Goldsman once recalled that the director assembled a cut before reshoots that was “stunningly beautiful” and “more of a ghost story” before the studio pushed to go lighter. “It was darker …

Adversary to the Villain by Hannah Nicole Maehrer

Adversary to the Villain by Hannah Nicole Maehrer

Published by Jenni Sidey

Most workplace comedies end when somebody quits. This one ends when the workplace itself is put on notice, and the notice comes from the universe. The fourth Villain book, Adversary to the Villain, asks a question the series has been dodging with cake and severed heads for three volumes: what happens when the sunshine assistant is the one the prophecy warns about? A quick housekeeping note before anything else: this is book four, and its premise is built directly on the revelation that closed the previous novel. If you are not caught up, stop here, because even a careful summary gives that game away. Adversary to the Villain by Hannah Nicole Maehrer opens with Evie Sage and Trystan Maverine living inside the wreckage of everything they thought they knew about themselves, while King Benedict plasters the kingdom with WANTED flyers and a curse deadline ticks toward Hallows’ Eve. The stakes are the biggest the series has attempted. The jokes, mercifully, have not gotten the memo. An Office Comedy Wearing Epic Fantasy Armor Maehrer’s signature trick …

Beirut and Beyond | Nicole Rudick

Beirut and Beyond | Nicole Rudick

Published by Jenni Sidey

In a self-portrait from 1980, the Lebanese artist Huguette Caland’s head and upper body are posed against a thinly painted teal background. Her face is blank like an unfinished canvas—a pale green surface empty of features. The white garment blanketing her round shoulders plunges into a vee in the middle of her chest. A black shirt blooms from the valley of the neckline. She is landscape, artist, art. The idea of home—in a city, in one’s body, in a corpus of visual art—is the thematic link for the twenty-three works in “Huguette Caland: My Home,” which breezily surveys her five-decade-long career. She was born in Beirut in 1931 to a wealthy Maronite Christian family; her father, Bechara el-Khoury, became Lebanon’s first president after independence from France in 1943. She married at twenty-one and had three children, but after her father’s death in 1964, she sought liberation from patriarchal expectations. She began to wear loose caftans over then-fashionable Western couture and enrolled in the fine arts department at the American University of Beirut. In an untitled …

Nicole Kidman Stars in a Christie’s Video with a Brancusi Sculpture

Nicole Kidman Stars in a Christie’s Video with a Brancusi Sculpture

Published by José Betancourt

Five days before a trove of 16 masterpieces from the late media magnate S.I. Newhouse is set to hit the block as part of Christie’s New York evening sales, the auction house has released a two-minute video promoting one particular sculpture in the sale. The short film, as Christie’s refers to it, was filmed in early May and features none other than Academy Award–winning actress Nicole Kidman starring alongside Constantin Brancusi’s bronze sculpture Danaïde (1913). The sculpture, expected to be one of the top lots this season, carries a pre-sale estimate of $100 million, well above the artist’s $71.2 million record, though below the three most-expensive sculptures ever sold at auction, all by Alberto Giacometti. Source link

Seeing by Hand | Nicole Rudick

Seeing by Hand | Nicole Rudick

Published by José Betancourt

At the age of about three, the artist June Leaf was sitting under a sewing table, watching her mother’s feet on the treadle. Her mother had given her a piece of gauzy blue dotted swiss fabric that seemed to be “the starry night,” and she wrapped herself in it. Then she decided to draw her mother’s shoe. Dissatisfied with the result, she asked her mother to try: “I remember thinking, it’s wrong. She doesn’t care how the toe goes on the ground. I care.” In this moment, Leaf knew she wanted to work with her hands. “I feel my fingers have eyes,” she explained in an interview. “I don’t see anything until I touch [it]. And then all of a sudden, my fingers see—they see.”* Leaf, who died in 2024 at age ninety-four, made paintings, sculptures, drawings, and collages. For her, one form fed another—none was primary. “I act like [carving is] painting,” she once told the artist Joan Jonas. “When I work in my forge, I get to know the object and then I …

Obama, Nicole Kidman, Tina Fey, Jason Kelce Attend HISTORYTalks 2026

Obama, Nicole Kidman, Tina Fey, Jason Kelce Attend HISTORYTalks 2026

Published by Daniella Wilson

Barack and Michelle Obama, Joe and Dr. Jill Biden, Bill and Hilary Clinton and George W. Bush convened in Philadelphia on Saturday alongside leaders in media, sports and entertainment as part of a celebration of the 250th anniversary of the United States.  The historic convening of every living former U.S. president and three out of four former first ladies was accompanied by conversations with actors like Nicole Kidman, current and former Saturday Night Live head writers Tina Fey and Colin Jost, Super Bowl champion Tom Brady and future NFL player Joshua Fernando Mendoza and musician Garth Brooks. Conversations were moderated by actor Ted Danson, former SNL cast member Kate McKinnon, former Philadelphia Eagle and Super Bowl champion Jason Kelce, Today show hosts Jenna Bush Hager and Hoda Kotb, TV Guide Magazine’s Damian Holbrook, On Purpose podcast host Jay Shetty and more.  Outside the Kimmel Center, where the event took place, black SUVs lined the block, with police shutting down side streets as part of a concerted security effort, highlighting the rare and high profile nature …

Nicole Kidman on Becoming a Death Doula, ‘Harrowing’ Passing of Mother

Nicole Kidman on Becoming a Death Doula, ‘Harrowing’ Passing of Mother

Published by Daniella Wilson

Nicole Kidman says she’s seen the public response to her training to become a death doula, but she finds the act of supporting people and their families in their final moments together “beautiful” and “very important to me.” “I did this talk recently where I said I’m expanding into learning to be a death doula, which seemed to have people confused or intrigued,” the actress and producer told a Philadelphia audience at the Marian Anderson Hall at the Kimmel Center on Saturday as part of HISTORYTalks 2026, a live speaker series produced by The History Channel.  After describing wanting to help people and families be present and navigate their final moments together, she described the work of a death doula as “really fascinating. It’s very beautiful, and you have to be a certain personality to be able to do it. But I found out that I’m actually that personality. It’s very important to me. There is always suffering, but if there are people there who can help with that, help those final stages be less …

Nicole and Natalie Appleton look back: ‘She was my home away from home during the craziness of All Saints’

Nicole and Natalie Appleton look back: ‘She was my home away from home during the craziness of All Saints’

Published by Sam Flores

Nicole (left) and Natalie Appleton standing with bicycles in 1982 and 2026Nicole (left) and Natalie Appleton in 1982 and 2026. Later photograph: Pål Hansen/The Guardian. Styling: Andie Redman. Hair: Ciler Peksah. Makeup: Karin Darnell. Archive photograph: courtesy of Nicole and Natalie Appleton Born in Canada, Natalie and Nicole Appleton are singers best known as members of the group All Saints. Raised between Ontario, London and New York, the sisters joined the band in 1996 alongside Shaznay Lewis and Melanie Blatt. After the success of their self-titled 1997 debut and a string of hits including the chart-topping singles Never Ever and Pure Shores, All Saints split in 2001. The sisters released music together as Appleton in 2002, and have since reunited with All Saints for three albums. Appleton’s new single, Falling Into You, is out now. Nicole If I had to revisit one moment from my life, it would be this – riding my bike around London with my sister during what felt like an endless summer holiday. Not only because it was great fun, but because …

Where else you might know Simon Baker from beyond the Nicole Kidman starrer Scarpetta

Where else you might know Simon Baker from beyond the Nicole Kidman starrer Scarpetta

Published by Daniella Wilson

Simon Baker is a face that many in Hollywood may recognize, one that’s getting another career upswing thanks to his role in Scarpetta. The Australian actor, 56, plays Benton Wesley, an FBI profiler with a dark childhood and the husband of Dr. Kay Scarpetta, the series’ title role, played by Nicole Kidman. However, for those just discovering the suave Aussie star for the first time on the Prime Video crime-thriller, we guarantee you’ve seen him on your screen, at least once. From Emmy and Golden Globe-nominated performances in TV dramas, to roles in some of the most iconic comedy films of all time, here are our five favorite Simon Baker roles that we’re sure you’ve seen at least one of… © Alamy Stock Photo Matt Reynolds in L.A. Confidential Can you believe Simon’s first movie role was back in 1997 with the Oscar-winning L.A. Confidential? While the film is now primarily remembered for a searing supporting turn from Kim Basinger, who won an Academy Award for her work, it gave Simon his first Hollywood break. …