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☆ Bradley Cooper said he didn't know if he loved his daughter at first. Dads struggling to connect with their kids is more common than you might think.
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-29 | by ( Ayomikun Adekaiyero | Serafina Kenny | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Bradley Cooper said he struggled to love his daughter, Lea De Seine Shayk Cooper, as a newborn. AdvertisementBradley Cooper opened up about struggling to love his baby daughter at first, dividing fans. But experts say dads taking a while to bond with a newborn is more common than you might think. Cooper shares a six-year-old daughter, Lea De Seine Shayk Cooper, with his ex-partner, Irina Shayk, whom he dated from 2015 to 2019. AdvertisementCooper said his feelings changed when Shayk Cooper was eight months old.

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☆ When Ruthless Cultural Elitism Is Exactly the Job
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-12 | by ( David Marchese | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +13 min

Talk When Ruthless Cultural Elitism Is Exactly the JobI wonder if any of the many literary greats represented by Andrew Wylie ever considered using his story. I don’t think that’s ever happened. I think that’s the wrong way to look at it. Do you think that’s a phony attitude? Is there some defense of cultural elitism that you want to make?

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☆ Marina Abramovic Thinks the Pain of Love Is Hell on Earth
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-29 | by ( David Marchese | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +13 min

Talk Marina Abramovic Thinks the Pain of Love Is Hell on Earth“I’m all for heroism,” Marina Abramovic says. You can find bliss and be happy; you don’t need to be with somebody you don’t love. But if you have unconditional love, general love for the planet, human beings, the rocks, the trees, everything else, this is the love that nourishes. It is important not to fear pain, to understand pain and accept it. You ever have love pain?

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☆ A Hospice Nurse on Embracing the Grace of Dying
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-22 | by ( David Marchese | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +8 min

Talk A Hospice Nurse on Embracing the Grace of DyingA decade ago, Hadley Vlahos was lost. I’ve been in more situations than you could imagine where people just don’t know. I totally get it: People are like, I don’t know what you’re talking about. But I think there must be subconscious cues that we’re picking up that we don’t know how to measure scientifically. There have been times when patients have shared with me that they just don’t think anyone cares about them.

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☆ Marie NDiaye Raises Questions She Has No Intention of Answering
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-18 | by ( Laura Cappelle | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

In 2008, Pap Ndiaye published “La Condition Noire” (“The Black Condition”), an essay on Black history and discrimination in France. NDiaye wrote a foreword for the book in the form of a short story about two sisters of different races. “I liked the idea that at school people didn’t ask you to define yourself by this,” she said of her youth. Until a work trip last year, NDiaye had been to Senegal, her father’s home country, only once, when she was 19. “I was doing what I thought I was made for, what I loved, but I didn’t really consider the future.”

Persons: Pap Ndiaye, NDiaye, Victoire, “, ” NDiaye, Paula, didn’t, ”, Joyce Carol Oates, Les, hadn’t Locations: France, Senegal, Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast, Minuit

☆ Errol Morris Did Not Like This Q&A About His le Carré Film
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-08 | by ( David Marchese | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +12 min

Talk Errol Morris Did Not Like This Q&A About His le Carré FilmJohn le Carré’s spy novels traffic in the philosophical, emotional and practical ambiguities complicating concepts like truth, deceit and self-awareness. “The reason that I made ‘The Pigeon Tunnel,’” he said about le Carré, “is that he is interested in philosophical questions. I say to le Carré that for him the world divides into two groups: string-pullers and dupes. Mark Lipson, via Fourth Floor ProductionsWhat does John le Carré say about your position as an interviewer at the beginning of the film? I have a question about this idea that le Carré has: that the world divides into string-pullers and dupes.

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☆ Arnold Schwarzenegger Is Here to Pump You Up (Emotionally)
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-01 | by ( David Marchese | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +11 min

As improbable as his achievements are, Schwarzenegger believes his life and outlook can be a model for others. Then I realized that that’s funny. If they want to be stuck in the ideological corner, then I say, I think I’m freer if I’m not, and I can work with more people. Schwarzenegger in the documentary series “Arnold.” NetflixWhat do you think of the different sides’ positions on the issues? “You’re terminated.”“If it bleeds, it leads.” That’s funny.

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☆ Modern Masculinity Is Broken. She Knows How to Fix It.
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-24 | by ( David Marchese | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +5 min

Talk Modern Masculinity Is Broken. Now, with her new book, “What About Men?” Moran turns her eye to what she sees as the limited and limiting discussions around modern masculinity. If I’m going to start talking about a difficult idea, I want to approach it in the most successful way possible. Part of the framing of your book is that there’s not enough discussion about young men’s struggling to adapt to changing ideas about masculinity. Men going: “Our lives have gotten materially worse since women started asking for equality.

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☆ Roz Chast Knows You’ll Always Regret Leaving the City for the Suburbs
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-10 | by ( David Marchese | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +7 min

Now she has turned her gaze away from the streets and characters of her beloved New York City and toward her own sleeping mind. I don’t know, I don’t know, I don’t know. Artwork from Chast’s book “Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant?” From Roz Chast and BloomsburyYou’re talking about death? The cover art for Roz Chast’s “I Must Be Dreaming.” From Roz Chast and BloomsburyWill my own lingering sense that somehow moving to the suburbs represents a personal failing ever go away? Now I know I have picked up that horrible disease that you can get from mosquitoes.”I know you’re a bit of a hypochondriac.

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☆ Anderson Cooper Is Still Learning to Live With Loss
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-03 | by ( David Marchese | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +8 min

Talk Anderson Cooper Is Still Learning to Live With LossFor decades, Anderson Cooper, 56, has been a steady, humane and comparatively calm presence on TV news. I could write maybe a little essay about my gay — I don’t know what. Cooper reporting for CNN’s “Anderson Cooper 360°” in Ghana in 2009. So I don’t think you can paint with quite as broad a brush. I don’t know.

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☆ Joyce Carol Oates Figured Out the Secret to Immortality
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-16 | by ( ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +8 min

Talk Joyce Carol Oates Figured Out the Secret to Immortality“I have,” Joyce Carol Oates says, “so many ideas.” That’s putting it mildly. “The one I’m doing now, the reader’s going to be surprised.”Joyce Carol Oates in 1970. I don’t think about it too much. I thought, Wow, it’s so funny and weird and wonderful, and I don’t think there’s almost any readership for that. There’s Emily Dickinson over here, there’s Faulkner, there’s Cormac McCarthy, and I feel I’m in that territory.

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☆ Joyce Carol Oates Examines a Dystopian Future
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-23 | by ( Antonia Hitchens | Photography Miranda Barnes For Wsj. Magazine | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

“Whenever you are writing, it seems like it’s the first time,” says Oates, whose forthcoming book ‘Zero-Sum’ attends to the sinister undercurrents of home life. “I have so many ideas, and I have so many notes here at my study. I just won’t live to write them all,” Joyce Carol Oates said recently. Her oeuvre spans novels, novellas, short stories, plays, poetry, nonfiction and, occasionally, viral tweets, not to mention a Substack. When it comes to her books, the 85-year-old author has often taken on the sinister and the tragic, as with 2022’s Babysitter, a novel about a serial killer in Detroit who chases children, and Blonde (2000), a fictionalized memoir of Marilyn Monroe, which last year was adapted into a film of the same name.

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☆ Riding Into a Bloodred Sunset
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-14 | by ( A.O. Scott | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

A page of Cormac McCarthy might sometimes be taken for poetry or scripture: the lean lines; the sparse punctuation; the jagged right-hand margin. They must have flown as they were riding up. If they’s a dead cow in the pasture will the rest of the cattle stay there? McCarthy, like every writer, belonged to his time, even as, perhaps more intently than most writers, he labored to create work that would outlast it. Not that they remotely resemble one another: Each represents a singular sensibility and an original voice, a personality on the page that is unmistakable and inimitable.

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☆ Joan Didion’s Life in Objects
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-28 | by ( Anna Kodé | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +15 min

(Ms. Didion’s death was the result of complications from Parkinson’s disease.) Ms. Didion’s stylish Corvette Stingray isn’t in the sale, but the photos that made it famous are. Quintana eventually pulled through, but died in 2005 at 39, a few months before Ms. Didion’s 2005 book, “The Year of Magical Thinking,” was published. In the book, Ms. Didion wrote about the heartbreak and challenges of that era of her life: “I learned to find equal meaning in the repeated rituals of domestic life. Following Ms. Didion’s passing, Ms. Smith, an artist and singer known as the “godmother of punk,” posted a tribute on Instagram, articulating what many felt.

☆ ‘Blonde’ Review: More Marilyn Mythologizing
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-28 | by ( John Anderson | ) www.wsj.com time to read: +1 min

The public’s endless fascination with Marilyn Monroe might not be exhausted, finally, by “Blonde,” but the viewer will be. At two hours and 47 minutes, Andrew Dominik ’s pseudo-biography is one long slog into sadness and more-than-predictable tragedy, despite a touching portrayal by Ana de Armas and the deliberately artful and often startling filmmaking of Mr. Dominik. If you’re wondering if men are swine, they are, at least according to his adaptation of the Joyce Carol Oates novel. In some ways, Monroe was the human exemplar of the observer effect in physics: When we look at a thing, the thing changes. No one in the history of Hollywood has been looked at more intensely than Monroe.

☆ Ana de Armas’ fearless performance deserves a better movie than ‘Blonde’
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-28 | by ( Review Brian Lowry | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

It’s not a fresh take or a wrong one, but the tone is so self-conscious and surreal as to blunt those insights. Dominik also distastefully deals with Monroe’s lost pregnancies by peeking at the fetus inside her, which becomes symbolic of just how overdone much of the movie is. Still, “Blonde” is almost wholly de Armas’ show, and to the extent it’s worth sitting through at all give her every ounce of credit. Indeed, once you get past admiring de Armas’ immersion into the role, that’s the only itch that “Blonde” seems to know how to scratch. “Blonde” premieres September 16 in select US theaters and September 28 on Netflix.

In 2010, three of Marilyn Monroe’s chest and pelvis X-rays sold for $45,000. The real-life Monroe was gutsy enough to break a contract with 20th Century Fox and start her own production company, which she named Marilyn Monroe Productions. American actress Marilyn Monroe in Times Square, New York City, on December 12, 1955. I’m not saying films about Marilyn Monroe must be filled with butterflies and sunshine, or that art should never be difficult or emotionally disturbing. We are ultimately left with a bleak vision of Monroe’s life, albeit one that, perhaps due to de Armas’ acting more than the script itself, is still affecting.

☆ 'Blonde' review: Ana de Armas stars as Marilyn Monroe in a pretentious, overlong, NC-17 Netflix movie
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-15 | by ( Review Brian Lowry | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

Netflix will surely get its money’s worth attention-wise thanks in part to its restrictive NC-17 rating, but the film’s merits burn out long before its credits ever roll. It’s not a fresh take or a wrong one, but the tone is so self-conscious and surreal as to blunt those insights. Norma Jeane is eventually transformed into Marilyn Monroe, but even then she consistently speaks of her star persona in the third person, as if the image stands apart and utterly separate from the human being behind it. Still, “Blonde” is almost wholly de Armas’ show, and to the extent it’s worth sitting through at all give her every ounce of credit. Indeed, once you get past admiring de Armas’ immersion into the role, that’s the only itch that “Blonde” seems to know how to scratch.

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