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Whoopi Goldberg shares poignant life lessons after confessing her serious addiction to cocaine

Whoopi Goldberg shares poignant life lessons after confessing her serious addiction to cocaine

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Whoopi Goldberg delivered a deeply touching message during her appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon this Wednesday, emphasizing the importance of expressing love and gratitude.  The actress and television host, known for her wisdom and wit, opened up about the fleeting nature of life and the regrets that come with unsaid words. “You got to make sure that you tell people while they’re living what they mean to you because our time on the planet goes like that and because none of us have expiration dates on our booties.  “We don’t know when it is. So try…Try to remember to tell people you love them because if they go and you haven’t. You’re gonna regret it. And that’s what I’m so glad I’m not doing,” Whoopi shared, sparking a moment of reflection for viewers and the studio audience alike. Whoopi Goldberg delivers important life lessons Her heartfelt words come at a poignant time as Whoopi has just released her candid new memoir, Bits and Pieces: My Mother, My Brother, and Me.   In her …

South Africa Remembers an Historic Election Every April 27. Here’s Why This Year Is So Poignant

South Africa Remembers an Historic Election Every April 27. Here’s Why This Year Is So Poignant

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CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — South Africans celebrate their “Freedom Day” every April 27, when they remember their country’s pivotal first democratic election in 1994 that announced the official end of the racial segregation and oppression of apartheid. Saturday is the 30th anniversary of that momentous vote, when millions of Black South Africans, young and old, decided their own futures for the first time, a fundamental right they had been denied by a white minority government. The first all-race election saw the previously banned African National Congress party win overwhelmingly and made its leader, Nelson Mandela, the country’s first Black president four years after he was released from prison. Here’s what you need to know about that iconic moment and a South Africa that’s changing again 30 years on: The 1994 election was the culmination of a process that began four years earlier when F.W. de Klerk, the last apartheid-era president, shocked the world and his country by announcing that the ANC and other anti-apartheid parties would be unbanned. Photos You Should See – …

‘Shaving my head became so poignant’: Jonah Hauer-King on The Tattooist of Auschwitz and his extraordinary family story | Television

‘Shaving my head became so poignant’: Jonah Hauer-King on The Tattooist of Auschwitz and his extraordinary family story | Television

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It’s not every day that I meet a real-life Disney prince. It’s even more discombobulating when he tells me he spent the weekend cheering on Clapton CFC women’s team in windy east London. “Before The Little Mermaid, a lot of people told me, ‘This is going to happen! That is going to happen!’” says Jonah Hauer-King, who starred as Prince Eric in last year’s remake. “It’s just really not the case. I wouldn’t say my life has changed much. Honestly.” It’s probably about to, though. Massively. The 28-year-old lifelong Londoner is sharply suited and booted in the capital’s Corinthia hotel, ready to take on a full day of press with the poise and charm that clearly helped him bag that wide-eyed royal part (he even convincingly claims that these interviews are worth missing his beloved Arsenal’s Champions League game in the evening for). His next project, however, is a world away from Disney dreams. The Tattooist of Auschwitz is Sky’s epic drama taken from Heather Morris’s bestselling 2018 novel. The book is based on the …

‘I was trying to create the sound of a really warm hug’: the poignant story behind Monument Valley 2’s music | Games

‘I was trying to create the sound of a really warm hug’: the poignant story behind Monument Valley 2’s music | Games

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‘The part where the mother and child are separated on a red mountain, in a level quite early on in the game where you have to get back to the mother and find her … I was completing the sound design and music for that in a hospital, right beside my mum when she was sleeping, recovering from open heart surgery.” Todd Baker pauses for a second. He is recalling the development process of 2017’s Monument Valley 2, an indie puzzler, the highly anticipated follow-up to the one of the biggest success stories in mobile game history. The second game is more experimental than the first; it has more of a story, which in turn changed its feel. Whereas the first title is all optical illusions and impossible objects, the sequel moves away from MC Escher-inspired towers and spires and towards non-Euclidean geometry and brutalism. At its heart is a mother and daughter, wordlessly weaving in and out of each other’s paths, desperately trying to stay together as the world heaves and undulates and does …

Michael Douglas, 79, has fans rallying around him as he marks poignant day

Michael Douglas, 79, has fans rallying around him as he marks poignant day

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Michael Douglas, the acclaimed actor with a career spanning decades, took to Instagram to commemorate a significant milestone: the 40th anniversary of the classic film Romancing the Stone. At 79, Michael shared a nostalgic clip from the movie, engaging his followers in a moment of reflection. “40 years ago! Great memories!” he captioned, igniting a wave of fan admiration and shared memories in the comments.  One fan exclaimed: “Loved that movie! I was obsessed and watched it all the time.” Another added: “Loved this movie. You nailed the role, so many good memories watching you in films when I was growing up. Epic Legend!” This celebratory post arrives as Michael undergoes a remarkable transformation for his portrayal of Benjamin Franklin in the highly anticipated Apple TV+ limited series titled Franklin.  The series, set to explore the multifaceted life of one of America’s founding fathers, showcases Douglas in a strikingly accurate representation of Franklin, complete with the iconic powdered wig and period attire. © InstagramMichael Douglas as Franklin Catherine Zeta-Jones, Michael’s wife, along with fans and …

Why Easter will be particularly poignant for Prince Harry as he celebrates away from dad King Charles

Why Easter will be particularly poignant for Prince Harry as he celebrates away from dad King Charles

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Prince Harry will soon be busy making special memories with his wife Meghan Markle and their two children Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet during the Easter weekend at their home in California. Across the pond, his father, King Charles, will attend church for the annual Easter Mattins Service at St George’s Chapel at Windsor Castle on Easter Sunday.  © NetflixPrince Harry and Meghan will spend Easter with their children Archie and Lilibet in California The weekend will no doubt be poignant for Harry, who previously mentioned in his memoir, Spare, that his dad would “always make a big deal about Easter”.  In one of his chapters, in which he details the fractured relationship between him and his brother Prince William, the Duke of Sussex recalled a moment when the Prince and Princess of Wales were left upset over “Easter presents”.  “Willy and Kate were apparently upset that we hadn’t given them Easter presents,” he wrote. “Easter presents? Was that a thing? Willy and I had never exchanged Easter presents. Pa always made a big deal …

Electric, poignant, exquisitely written: inside the inaugural Women’s prize for nonfiction shortlist | Books

Electric, poignant, exquisitely written: inside the inaugural Women’s prize for nonfiction shortlist | Books

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As chair of judges for the inaugural Women’s prize for nonfiction, it has been a privilege to read some of the best work produced in English by women in the last year. From our longlist of 16 fantastic titles, my fellow judges Venetia La Manna, Nicola Rollock, Anne Sebba, Kamila Shamsie and I have chosen a shortlist of six must-read books. The first (in order of author’s surname) is Thunderclap, by Observer art critic Laura Cumming. The author draws attention to the genius of an overlooked artist, Carel Fabritius and, by extension, makes us look anew at the whole of Dutch art. Amid this she weaves in sections of memoir about her artist father. Deeply researched and meticulously wrought, this is tender, electric and highly original. Cumming has a real gift for putting paintings into words: she helps the reader to see things that they might have otherwise missed. She is a master of structure, and her diction is gorgeous, while the revelation on the last page is breathtakingly poignant. Quick Guide Women’s prize for …

Our Son review – Billy Porter and Luke Evans are gay dads in poignant custody battle | Film

Our Son review – Billy Porter and Luke Evans are gay dads in poignant custody battle | Film

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This poignant drama is practically a remake of Kramer vs Kramer from 1979 – though this time with two divorcing New York-based dads fighting for custody of their kid instead of K2’s traditional pairing of a husband and wife. And like the older Dustin Hoffman-Meryl Streep vehicle, Our Son is a bit soapy and middlebrow, but impeccably performed all-round, led by a trio of terrific turns from Luke Evans and Billy Porter as the two fathers, with winning, winsome support from Christopher Woodley as Owen, their eight-year-old son. The script, co-written by Peter Nickowitz and director Bill Oliver, delivers an acute, subtly shaded group portrait of current gay lifestyles, from married-with-children types like Nicky (Evans) and Gabriel (Porter), who are monogamous until Gabriel strays without pre-agreement into another’s man’s arms, to older men who never wanted that kind of domesticity, to young ones still having one-night hook-ups out on the scene. And that’s just the guys – there are also some lesbian characters represented, not least Pam (Robin Weigert), Nicky’s family law attorney who is …

Sweet reason Thomas Kingston’s funeral was today and poignant meaning for Lady Gabriella | Royal | News

Sweet reason Thomas Kingston’s funeral was today and poignant meaning for Lady Gabriella | Royal | News

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The funeral of Thomas Kingston has taken place today, March 12, at the Chapel Royal at St James’s Palace in central London, with members of the Royal Family in attendance. The date is especially poignant for his widow, Lady Gabriella Windsor, as it was exactly nine years ago today that they made their first public outing as a couple. Back in 2015 the pair attended the Cheltenham Festival together, four years before they married on May 18 2019 at St George’s Chapel in Windsor, one year after Prince Harry and Meghan Markle tied the knot at the same venue. Lady Gabriella is a member of the Royal Family but is not a working royal, as her father Prince Michael is a cousin of the late Queen Elizabeth II. Mr Kingston worked in “frontier market investment”, having previously worked in diplomacy and as a hostage negotiator in Iraq. He was 45 when he died. Mr Kingston was found dead at his parents’ home in Gloucestershire on February 25 in an outbuilding on the property, with an …