Category: 5. Entertainment

Ayo Edebiri‘s response to a question about the #MeToo and Black Lives Matter movements, posed to her After the Hunt colleagues, Julia Roberts and Andrew Garfield, in a recent interview, has gone viral, as the reporter behind the inquiry is defending her line of questioning.

Federica Polidoro asked Roberts and Garfield, in an on-camera interview where they were joined by fellow star Edebiri, “Now that the #MeToo era and the Black Lives Matters are done, what [do] we have to expect in Hollywood and what we lost if we lost something with the politically correct era?” Polidoro stated her question was specifically directed at Roberts and Garfield, but Edebiri, who looked confused, responded.

After raising her hand, she began, “I know that that’s not for me and I don’t know if it’s purposeful that it’s not for me but I just am curious.”

She continued, “I don’t think it’s done. I don’t think it’s done at all. I think maybe hashtags might not be used as much, but I do think that there’s work being done by activists, by people, every day, that’s beautiful, important work that’s not finished, that’s really, really, really active for a reason, because this world is really charged. And that work isn’t finished at all. Maybe there’s not mainstream coverage in the way that there might have been, daily headlines in the way that it might have been eight or so years ago, but I don’t think it means that the work is done. That’s what I would say.”

Garfield agreed, saying, the “movements are still absolutely alive, as you say, just maybe not as labeled or covered or magnified as much.”

Two days after the interview was posted to ArtsLifeTV’s YouTube channel, Polidoro, who previously contributed to The Hollywood Reporter‘s now-defunct Italian publication, THR Roma, defended her line of questioning and said she had “been subjected to personal insults and attacks because of a question that, for some reason, was not well received by some members of the public.”

“I am not aware of any protocol that dictates the order in which questions must be asked in an interview,” she wrote in part on her Instagram account. “Censoring or delegitimizing questions considered ‘uncomfortable’ does not fall within the practice of democracy.”

She continued, suggesting that she’s neither racist nor xenophobic, and cited her extensive, long career.

“To those who unjustly accuse me of racism, I would like to clarify that in my work I have interviewed people of every background and ethnicity, and my own family is multi-ethnic, matriarchal, and feminist, with a significant history of immigration,” she wrote. “I have collaborated for over 20 years with numerous national and international publications of all political orientations, always approaching my work with openness and professional rigor. In my view, the real racists are those who see racism everywhere and seek to muzzle journalism, limiting freedom of analysis, critical thinking and the plurality of perspectives.”

Charlie Sheen wants to free himself from feeling like he’s being held hostage by his private life.

To shed that sensation, the “Wall Street” star decided to talk about his sexual past in his memoir, “The Book of Sheen,” which comes out Tuesday.

People from his past “had video things or whatever and had stuff over me,” the actor told Michael Strahan on “Good Morning America.” “So I was kind of held hostage, you know, and that’s just a bad feeling.”

Sheen talked Friday on the morning show about how his drug addiction led him to have sex with men — he called it “the other side of the menu” — and how he was forced to pay people to keep those sexual encounters out of the public eye.

He also hit on less salacious revelations like the connection between his stutter and his drinking. In the book, Sheen writes about masking his inability to pronounce certain words and sounds with drinking alcohol. “Drinking soften the edges,” he told Strahan. “It gave me freedom of speech.”

After joining the ABC show “Spin City” in 2000 and reading the script, he said, Sheen stopped hiding his speech impediment and asked for help.

“When in doubt, just be human enough to be vulnerable,” he told “GMA.”

Sheen also reveals in the book that some folks wanted to expose his HIV-positive diagnosis before he went public with it in 2015, according to People. Sheen said on “GMA” that finally revealing his diagnosis was a “tremendous relief.”

The “Two and a Half Men” actor — whose paycheck for the sitcom was estimated at as much as $2 million per episode — infamously landed in rehab in 2010 after threatening his ex-wife Brooke Mueller with a knife, trashed his room at the Plaza Hotel in New York and in 2011 was fired from his CBS sitcom amid a meltdown of epic proportions.

During the “GMA” interview, Strahan asked the actor if he had any regrets.

“I do,” Sheen said, “but there’s no value in them.”

A documentary about the actor’s life, “aka Charlie Sheen,” will premiere Wednesday on Netflix. Sheen, who has been sober for eight years, told People he decided to be vulnerable about his past because he wants to own his truth and his stories.

“The stories I can remember anyway,” he said.

Angelina Jolie, 50, recently revealed how her late mother felt during her battle with multiple types of cancer.

Jolie’s mother, Marcheline Bertrand, died from complications of ovarian and breast cancer in 2007.

During a recent Q&A at the Toronto International Film Festival for her new film, Couture, Jolie responded emotionally to a question about how people can find hope through their struggles.

Jolie plays a film director named Maxine who is simultaneously dealing with both a divorce and a breast cancer diagnosis.

“I think I will say that one thing I remember my mother saying when she had cancer, she said to me once, we had had a dinner and people were asking her how she was feeling, and she said, ‘All anybody ever asks me about is cancer,’” she explained.

The Oscar winner also said, “If you know someone who is going through something, ask them about everything else in their life as well, you know? They’re a whole person and they’re still living.”

After testing positive for the BRCA1 gene mutation, which increases the risk of developing breast and ovarian cancers, Jolie had a preventive double mastectomy in 2013.

That same year, the Tomb Raider star published an op-ed in The New York Times about her experience with the procedure, which led to a nearly 40 percent increase in BRCA testing rates, according to a 2015 study by the AARP Public Policy Institute.

Jolie isn’t the only celebrity who’s openly discussed a parent who’s dealt with cancer.

In July, actor and model Kate Beckinsale, 52, shared the heartbreaking experience of losing her mother, Judy Loe, to cancer.

“She died the night of July 15th in my arms after immeasurable suffering,” Beckinsale posted on Instagram along with several pictures of her mother from over the years.

Actor Patrick Dempsey, 59, was a caregiver for his mother, Amanda Dempsey, who died after living with ovarian cancer for 17 years. ​​

“In my mother’s case, she was diagnosed with ovarian cancer in the late ’90s,” Dempsey said in an Instagram video in June. “Then over the next 14 years, she would have 12 reoccurrences, so it had a profound impact on our family, and everybody in the family handles it differently.” ​​

AARP has resources on both ovarian and breast cancer, including five warning signs of ovarian cancer you shouldn’t ignore and six warning signs of breast cancer.

Breaking news (well, for a certain subset of people anyway): The White Lotus season four will take place in France.

But where, exactly? That is still unconfirmed—and France, famously the world’s most visited country, has a number of high-profile tourist destinations that would make a juicy setting for the hit HBO show. However, just as in prior seasons, we do know that it will likely be filmed at a Four Seasons hotel. (The show and the luxury hotel group now have an official partnership.)

For us prestige TV sleuths, that narrows it down quite a bit: there are only three Four Seasons located in the European country. So without further ado, the shortlist of locations.

Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat

Not to be confused with the Hotel du Cap-Eden-Roc in Antibes, Hôtel du Cap-Ferrat is a grand dame hotel on the peninsula of Cap Ferrat near the town of Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat. Cap Ferrat has long been a stealth-wealth European getaway, famous for its Belle Époque estates owned by the Rothschilds and Belgian royals. The Hotel du Cap is of equal grandeur: originally built by the son of a carriage operator in the early 1900s, it was soon bought by a wealthy widow who sold it to a pair of hoteliers in 1922. After shuttering in WWII, it emerged as a glittering destination for the world’s elite, such as Picasso and Winston Churchill. While F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Tender Is the Night took place at Hotel du Cap-Eden-Roc an hour away, The White Lotus could put the second most famous hotel on the Côte d’Azur in the spotlight.

Paris

Photo: Courtesy of Four Seasons Hotel George V

As of late, Lady Gaga has taken a monochromatic approach to style: All black all the time. Today proved no exception. The singer arrived for a taping of Late Night with Seth Meyers dressed in head-to-toe black (literally—her recently blonde hair has now taken on a raven hue).

While she’s previously embraced a summertime Gothic look, Gaga today opted for a more rock’n’roll ’fit, styling a black pebbled leather sleeveless vest over a pair of black leggings, and her beloved towering knee-high black platform boots. She finished off her look with a pair of black leather opera gloves—over which she wore her impressive engagement ring—a pair of oversized wraparound shades, and a black mini Hermès Kelly, worn with a crossbody strap.

Early last month in Los Angeles, Gaga affixed a red and black Labubu to her Kelly, the little doll weighing down her even smaller bag. (It wasn’t just any Labubu, but dressed in a replica of her “Abracadabra” costume—a custom job by LA artist Marko Monroe.) But today, Gaga’s Labubu was nowhere in sight, a full return to her all-black look.

As the Labubu craze continues to seep into every aspect of pop culture, is Lady Gaga already moving on? Or is she just waiting on her next custom?

When Michaela Coel headed to the 2025 Toronto International Film Festival to promote her latest film—Steven Soderbergh’s The Christophers—she wanted to use her red carpet fashion to make a statement. “Sudanese women have been on the frontlines of every revolution in Sudan—2019 was even called a women’s revolution. I’m inspired by their resilience and determination, and wanted to pay tribute to them and help give their stories a platform for recognition,” Coel tells Vogue.

For the premiere, Coel donned a toub, a traditional Sudanese garment worn draped over the body and around the head. “The toub made me feel elegant and powerful,” she says. “I chose espresso because dark-skinned women face prejudice and persecution in Sudan. The color is beautiful, and this hue needs to be seen as such.”

When it came to her jewelry, she turned to Nisreen Kuku for her earrings and necklace. The necklace was inspired by West Sudanese jewelry, which Coel notes “is the epicenter of the world’s largest famine and genocide.” “These earrings are called Al Qamar Boba or Fidwa, from the word ‘fidya’—ransom or sacrifice,” she adds. “For Sudanese women, gold has always carried that meaning, not just beauty but protection. In this war, that symbolism has turned tragic. Wearing this is about honoring their sacrifice and the immense suffering Sudanese women are enduring.”

Coel also commissioned custom grills from London jewelry brand Alighieri—who only works with recycled gold—for the occasion. “I went to visit Rosh [Mahtani, the CEO] in Hatton Gardens at her shop. We spoke for hours, sometimes very poetically, about tectonic plates,  tension and creating volcanic change,” she says. “She had never [made grills] before. It took 4 hours with Rosh and the grillz technician to design them.”

Coel’s henna was also a labor of love. “It took five hours to do. The artist came to visit me two weeks ago to test the henna on my skin. On the day she came with her daughter, Sonia, a 20-year-old girl who moved from Sudan at eight years old,” Coel says. “I spoke about her journey to the UK, being dark skinned, and the different facets of colorism that she has faced both in Sudan and in the UK. We cried, we laughed, we ate sambosa that her mum made.”

Every last detail of Coel’s look was highly considered. She credits Ebaa Elmelik, co-founder of Media for Justice in Sudan, with helping her bring it all together. “I told her I wanted to wear a Sudanese toub, and she helped connect me,” she says. “She also introduced me to the henna artist as well as the jewelry designer, Nisreen.”

Here, Michaela Coel takes Vogue behind the scenes as she gets ready for the 2025 Toronto International Film Festival.

Do you feel it? There is a ripple in the firmament, a vibration in the foundations, a bracing of the cosmos … yes, Mark Ruffalo is preparing to Act again. This time, he stars in crime drama Task, created by Mare of Easttown’s Brad Inglesby, as a former priest turned FBI agent nursing a great sorrow in the suitably grey environs of suburban Philadelphia. Tom Brandis ends every day in a drunken semi-stupor and begins every morning with prayer and a head-dunk into an ice-filled sink. Do you think we might be in for a meditation on guilt, sin and the possibility of redemption? Yes, I wearily agree.

So. Brandis is taken off the desk duties he has been assigned since his great sorrow. This is evidently connected to the sentencing hearing for a third-degree murder conviction he is due to attend next week, where his daughter Emily may be giving a family impact statement – but we will have to wait just long enough for it to feel outright manipulative before we get the full explanation of who killed who and how. Brandis is assigned to a new taskforce to investigate a series of armed break-ins at drug houses owned by the Dark Hearts biker gang, in the hope that arrests can be made before Philly is consumed by a turf war. He has three youngsters to help him: the charmingly arrogant, Catholic-raised Anthony (Fabien Frankel); the supremely competent Aleah (Thuso Mbedu); and the supremely incompetent Lizzie (Alison Oliver). Their single characteristics allow Brandis to prove his priestly credentials (God-talks with the lapsed Anthony), his generosity of spirit (this middle-aged man is not threatened by youthful ability!) and patience (I would return her to Quantico instantly, bearing a large label that read “Not fit for purpose”) and not much else.

The raids are being conducted by garbagemen and best friends Robbie (Tom Pelphrey) and Cliff (Raúl Castillo), who can tell from the trash cans on their route which dealers’ houses have recently disposed of drugs and filled up with cash. How they know which are Dark Hearts facilities and why they are specialising in those will again become clear in the fullness of time. They are accompanied on the raids by younger friend Peaches (Owen Teague), who you might suspect is marked for death the moment he expresses his joy at the fact that he has just become engaged. I couldn’t possibly comment.

Apropos nothing, Task ticks all the expected boxes. There are bloody shootouts, corpses and bags full of fentanyl instead of cash grabbed in chaotic getaways which will then require selling. Which requires finding a buyer. Which requires becoming further enmeshed in the drugs world – and more identifiable to those seeking to destroy you for killing their men and taking their 12 kilos of fentanyl in the first place. Especially as you also kidnapped a child witness in the process.

Now, Mare of Easttown was no picnic. But it had plenty of black humour and was full of vividly drawn, wholly believable family relationships and friendships that gave it a sense of life in the round. The criminality mattered because it affected people in all walks of life. Task, by contrast, is relentlessly bleak, humourless and narratively airless. It is not just the Brandis family that is crushed by terrible griefs and burdens. Robbie’s wife has left him and he is mourning the death of his brother Billy. His niece Maeve (Emilia Jones), Billy’s daughter, is dying by inches under the strain of looking after Robbie’s motherless children, which does not seem a fair trade for letting him move in with her after her father’s death left her with a house.

It flattens the characters into ciphers, deadens the story and as time goes on, makes the whole thing inescapably boring. It is not as if we haven’t seen everything on show before. Let’s find another way to propel a plot – or maybe even find another plot entirely – especially in Philadelphia.

But if formulaic yet weighty stuff is your bag, if gestures towards bigger issues rather than actual interrogations of them are all you’re up to at the moment, then a relatively enjoyable Task lies before you. For anything else, you can always rewatch Mare of Easttown.

The contest lasted over an hour and the audience remained interactive throughout. The judging was based on applause, so contestants did their best to add their own flair during their turn. Some empathized with the female experience while others played popular indie songs like “Riptide” by Vance Joy.

“I’ve never heard so many men talk about menstruation before,” onlooker Lily Gray said.

One participant took another approach during their turn, holding a sign reading “My culture is not your costume,” feigning protest and emphasizing the real existence of performative men.

Despite the contest’s goal of acting like a man, it was open to participants of all genders.

Gray attended the evening’s contest in support of her friend, Vivian, who was competing. She said she thought a girl should win the contest because only a woman would understand the true peak performative male, as the goal is to appease women.

“I guess you could be a performative male, but you can’t be a performative male as well as you can be a performative woman pretending to be a performative male,” Gray said.

Contestant Esther Yu found out about the contest after seeing one of the posters on her walk back from class. 

“I was really just going to watch, and then 10 minutes before, I was like, what if I just compete instead?” Yu said. “I feel like I have all the qualities of [a performative male].”

Yu came ready to compete in a t-shirt from an indie music festival and “Adam’s Curse: A Future Without Men” by Bryan Sykes, a book describing a scientific theory about the possible extinction of men.

Though the aim was to win the embroidered sash that would offer the highest honor of the best “performative male,” there was little animosity between contestants, as they offered each other high-fives and fist-bumps in between turns.

While the contest was meant to poke fun at an internet trend, the positive turnout suggested genuine interest in student-based events. Gray said she thinks it should be a yearly tradition.

“It’s fun when we have student-run, non-UNC events like this,” Yu said. “And it’s just purely word of mouth.”

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The matches have been played, the Honey Deuces have been sipped, the Secret Service has left the premises—and with that, the US Open 2025 comes to a close. Aryna Sabalenka defeated Amanda Anisimova for the women’s singles title on Saturday, while Carlos Alcaraz bested Jannik Sinner yesterday in a buzzy men’s final attended by many well-dressed celebrities and also President Trump.

Over the past two weeks in Queens, scores of famous people watched from the Arthur Ashe stands in their best tenniscore cosplay, while a select few managed to make the look all their own. Meanwhile, we also saw some major style moments unfold on the court. Early on, Alcaraz became a victor in our hearts by debuting the best buzz cut to hit the tennis world in years. A resurgent Naomi Osaka clipped various bejeweled Labubus (each with their own name, such as “Billie Jean Bling” and “Andre Swagassi”) onto her duffle bag, while Venus Williams carried her racquet in a fuzzy case custom-made by the Venice Beach brand ERL.

From Osaka’s sparkly charms to Jeremy Allen White’s perfectly worn-in Wrangler denim shirt, here are a dozen of the finest looks to grace the US Open 2025 tournament.

12. John Mulaney and Olivia Munn

Looks like somebody caught up on our “old money style” explainer!

11. Gunna

As of late, Gunna has reinvented himself into a 5K runner—and a Miu Miu man. The rapper wore a dainty sweater from Prada’s little-sister brand with the main label’s America’s Cup sneakers. Looks great.

Sweater by Miu Miu, sneakers by Prada.

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10. Bruce Springsteen

Is it just us, or does it feel like the blazer-and-jeans combo is hitting especially hard these days? Shoutout to the boss, who found the pairing’s perfect accessory: three tiny hoop earrings pierced into a single earlobe.

Selena Gomez must mean serious business today, because she was spotted out and about in New York City wearing not one, but two statement outfits. Is she pulling off a busy day of Rare Beauty-related meetings? Or perhaps she is taking top-secret Hollywood meetings for her next big acting gig. Whatever the jam-packed schedule might entail, Gomez was sure to bring an impeccably-chic wardrobe along with her for the ride. And her two looks had a cohesive focus: Gomez sported minidresses that felt both polished and timeless.

For Gomez’s first outing, styled by Erin Walsh, the star stepped out in a bright red short-sleeves mini dress. (Clearly, tomato girl summer is still going strong.) She accessorized the piece with matching pointed red slingbacks. Later in the day, Gomez wore another short dress—in black and marked by a draped asymmetric sleeve detail. She again took the monochromatic route, pairing the dress with with a discrete pair of black peep-toe mules.

Given Gomez is always one to favor a more elegant silhouette (see: her many Old Hollywood red carpet dresses), it’s only natural that her take on a minidress is more demure, too. With the addition of high necklines and sleeves, her above-the-knee hemlines still managed to feel modest and work-appropriate. The two dresses are also the perfect transitional piece—just short enough for a hot summer day, yet covered enough to work with a jacket come fall. Though, given her impeccable street style record, something tells us Gomez will move on and be rocking an entirely new lineup of chic items next season.