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☆ I always hated my first name and thought it was boring, but I didn't want to insult my parents by changing it
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-20 | by ( Jane Ridley | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

I was never happy about being named Jane. The nasties at school weren't imaginative and inevitably called me "Plain Jane" or "Jane the Pain." The godmother was delighted when her first granddaughter was named Jane. AdvertisementI thought about changing my name but worried what my parents would thinkI spent a good amount of time considering my sister's question. It's not as if they'd named me Lucrezia, one of the infamous Borgia poisoners.

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There's a pretty good chance you've already seen the Harry Potter movies, but it's never a bad time for a rewatch. How to watch Harry Potter in the USAll eight Harry Potter movies are available to stream on Peacock. Shop at Peacock TVHow to watch Harry Potter in the UKIn the UK, all Harry Potter movies are available to stream for free on ITVX, ITV's ad-supported free streaming counterpart. How to watch Harry Potter from anywhereIf you're currently outside the UK and want to watch Harry Potter for free, you might want to try a VPN (virtual private network). Shop at ExpressVPNHow to watch Harry Potter with a VPNSign up for a VPN if you don't already have one.

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☆ 'SNL' has never known what to do with 'hot' guests, and Sydney Sweeney is the latest example
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-04 | by ( Eammon Jacobs | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Sydney Sweeney was the latest host of "Saturday Night Live." AdvertisementChallenge for SNL writers: have Sydney tell jokes that aren’t just about her being hot, and speak to her other qualities as an actor and person. — ahs 🛸 (@imrickdalton) March 3, 2024SNL with Sydney Sweeney ... was surprised to see she's an amazing comedic actress... Gonna call foul on the SNL sketch where all the women at the AA meeting try to get Jacob Elordi to relapse so they can fuck him. But judging by the "Hooters" sketch, things haven't changed too much.

Persons: Sydney Sweeney, —, Sweeney, Viewers, they've, Donald Trump, — Hussain, Trump, They’re, ike, ake Organizations: Service, SNL, — ahs, ust

☆ SumUp, a rival to Jack Dorsey's Block, defies fintech funding slump with $307 million cash injection
▼ + stars: | 2023-12-11 | by ( Ryan Browne | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

SumUp Chief Financial Officer Hermione McKee said the fresh capital gives the company "more firepower to act on opportunities," including acquisitions and new country launches. British payments startup SumUp, known for its small card readers, on Monday announced it has raised 285 million euros ($306.6 million) in a bumper round of funding that values the company north of $8.6 billion. The round predominantly consisted of equity, though a small portion of the funds was raised as debt. Then we look at Asia, how do we think about that region, and then obviously opportunities across Africa. A SumUp spokesperson confirmed the deal is an up round, meaning its valuation is higher than it was previously.

Persons: Hermione McKee, McKee, SumUp Organizations: Monday, Sixth, Bain Capital Tech, Fin, CNBC Locations: SumUp, Australia, America, Asia, Africa

☆ Stuntman Paralyzed While Making ‘Harry Potter’ Tells His Story
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-15 | by ( Rebecca Carballo | More About Rebecca Carballo | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

When David Holmes arrived at rehearsal to perfect a fight scene for the penultimate “Harry Potter” film, he was strapped into a harness that was supposed to send him flying backward. But Holmes was jerked back too fast, hitting a wall and breaking his neck, leaving him paralyzed from the chest down. His career as a stunt performer was over, at age 25. He had portrayed Daniel Radcliffe’s title character and others, including Hermione Granger, Ron Weasley, Draco Malfoy and Neville Longbottom, since the franchise’s first installment. After years behind the scenes, Holmes will now tell his story in a new documentary, “David Holmes: The Boy Who Lived,” which is streaming on Max and will air on HBO on Wednesday at 9 p.m. and on Sky Documentaries and NOW in Britain on Saturday.

Persons: David Holmes, Harry Potter, Holmes, Daniel Radcliffe’s, Hermione Granger, Ron Weasley, Draco Malfoy, Neville Longbottom, “ David Holmes Organizations: Max, HBO, Wednesday, Sky Locations: Britain

☆ A Swift, Opinionated Portrait of Willa Cather (She Would Have Approved)
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-12 | by ( Andrea Barrett | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

CHASING BRIGHT MEDUSAS: A Life of Willa Cather, by Benjamin TaylorDuring the difficult months of 2020, a writer friend and I decided to read Willa Cather’s fiction together. Much of it was rereading, but I’d missed some stories and novels, and I’d never read them sequentially or with a clear sense of Cather’s life. Tonally and politically different, written with obvious adoration or apparent dislike, focusing intently on Cather’s work or scrutinizing her private life — so many biographies! From Edith Lewis’s “personal record” in “Willa Cather Living” (1953) to the massive, almost day-by-day accounting of James Woodress’s “Willa Cather: A Literary Life” (1987) and the detailed critical readings of Hermione Lee’s “Willa Cather: Double Lives” (1989), I learned lots about Cather, and sometimes more than I wanted about her biographers. A fresh perspective on Cather’s sexuality came from Sharon O’Brien’s “Willa Cather: The Emerging Voice” (1986), while Joan Acocella provided a witty, abrasive take on academic analyses of Cather’s work in “Willa Cather and the Politics of Criticism” (2000).

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☆ Warner Bros, NetEase launch 'Harry Potter: Magic Awakened' video game
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-27 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: 1 min

June 27 (Reuters) - A Warner Bros Discovery Inc (WBD.O) unit and China's NetEase Inc on Tuesday announced the worldwide launch of role-playing video game "Harry Potter: Magic Awakened". The free-to-play title will let players experience life as a student at Hogwarts, the fictional school of wizardry in the popular "Harry Potter" series of books by J.K.Rowling. Players can learn magic spells and summon "Harry Potter" characters such as Hermione Granger and Rubeus Hagrid as allies to aid in their battles. The game can be downloaded for free on iOS and Android platforms from Tuesday, the companies said. Reporting by Tiyashi Datta in Bengaluru; Editing by Saumyadeb ChakrabartyOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

Persons: Harry Potter, J.K.Rowling, Hermione Granger, Rubeus Hagrid, Tiyashi Datta, Saumyadeb Organizations: Warner Bros Discovery Inc, Inc, Tuesday, Thomson Locations: Hogwarts, Bengaluru

☆ Emma Watson’s ‘levitating’ dress is confusing the internet
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-21 | by ( Lianne Kolirin | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +1 min

CNN —Did someone say Wingardium Leviosa? “Harry Potter” fans are asking whether Emma Watson’s new dress may be the result of some Hogwarts wizardry. The star, who played Hermione Granger in the blockbuster movies, posted a picture of herself wearing the gravity-defying sky-blue gown on Instagram on Monday. The dress is not ‘hanging from her ears’ or ‘Photoshopped’, the dress is designed to have ‘bones’, it’s just couture. Renais is our love letter to Chablis; is carbon-neutral, lovingly made from upcycled grapes.

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☆ ‘Never Have I Ever’ star Maitreyi Ramakrishnan jokes Mindy Kaling has ‘spoiled’ Hollywood for her
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-09 | by ( Harmeet Kaur | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

CNN —Maitreyi Ramakrishnan was a high school student who had never acted professionally when in 2019, she responded to an open casting call from Mindy Kaling for a TV series about an Indian American teenager. That’s one thing I don’t think I’ll ever comprehend: This was my first opportunity? I couldn’t ask for a better boss than Mindy Kaling. Mindy Kaling screwed me over. The first Tamil person I knew on TV was Mindy (Kaling) in “The Mindy Project.” That was probably the first South Asian person I saw on TV.

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The company showed a preview of a new “Harry Potter” studio tour in the Japanese capital on Wednesday, its first outside the United Kingdom. “We’ve kept it all,” Jeff Nagler, president of worldwide studio operations at Warner Bros., told CNN in an interview in Tokyo. Warner Bros. and CNN share the same parent company, Warner Bros. The films “provided a lot of the profits of Warner Bros. Motion Pictures over the last 25 years,” he told analysts in a November results presentation. “We are very fortunate to have a huge share of the most beloved and globally recognized storytelling IP in the world, including ‘Harry Potter,’” he said.

☆ 'Harry Potter' stars Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson pay tribute to Robbie Coltrane
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-14 | by ( Sandra Gonzalez | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

CNN —Stars from the “Harry Potter” universe are paying tribute to Hogwart’s resident gentle half-giant, Robbie Coltrane, who died on Friday. “I feel incredibly lucky that I got to meet and work with him and very sad that he’s passed. “Robbie was the most fun uncle I’ve ever had,” she wrote, underneath a photo of the pair. “His talent was so immense it made sense he played a giant – he could fill ANY space with his brilliance,” she later added. “I was always astonished at how fearless they were.”“Harry Potter” author J.K. Rowling wrote on Twitter: “I’ll never know anyone remotely like Robbie again.

☆ artistul care redă prin pictură viață păpușilor
▼ + stars: | 2015-08-08 | by ( Onixmedia Srl | ) diez.md time to read: 1 min

Noel Cruz ia păpușile simple, le spală machiajul și le redesenează. Astfel, păpușile pictate de el devin izbitor de asemănătoare cu personajele din realitate. În procesul său de lucru, Noel este ajutat și de soția sa, care le coase păpușilor haine și le adaugă accesorii. Păpușile Meryl Streep și Anne Hathaway ca eroine ale filmului „The Devil Wears Prada”:Păpușile Johnny Depp și Angelina Jolie în imaginile eroilor filmului „The Tourist”:Păpușile Keira Knightley și Orlando Bloom în imaginea eroilor din saga „Pirații din Caraibe”:Păpușile Robert Pattinson și Kristen Stewart în imaginea eroilor din saga „Twilight”:Păpușile Harry Potter și Lord Voldemort:Păpușa Emma Watson în rolul Hermione Granger din „Harry Potter”:Păpușa interpretei Cher:Păpușa Michael Jackson:Noel Cruz în proces de lucru:

Persons: Noel Cruz, Noel, Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway, Johnny Depp, Angelina Jolie, Orlando Bloom, Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart, Harry Potter, Lord Voldemort, Emma Watson, Hermione Granger, Michael Jackson Locations: Caraibe

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