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☆ The I.V.F. Ruling by the Alabama Supreme Court Should Not Be a Surprise - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-29 | by ( Linda Greenhouse | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

I never thought I’d be grateful to the Alabama Supreme Court for anything, but now I am. With its decision deeming frozen embryos to be children under state law, that all-Republican court has done the impossible. It has awakened the American public, finally, to the peril of the theocratic future toward which the country has been hurtling. The fact that religious doctrine lay at the heart of Justice Samuel Alito’s majority opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization was perfectly clear, as I observed then. But there’s no avoiding the theological basis of the Alabama court’s solicitude for “extrauterine children,” to use the majority opinion’s phrase.

Persons: I’d, Samuel Alito’s, Dobbs, “, ” Tom Parker, Alabama’s, Jeremiah, ’ Organizations: U.S, Jackson, Health Organization, Alabama Locations: Alabama, Dobbs v

☆ In Alabama, patients are praying for a change of heart on access to IVF
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-25 | by ( Meg Tirrell | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

“It’s just frustrating, and it’s sad, and it’s heartbreaking,” Hardin said Thursday, the same day her clinic, Alabama Fertility Specialists, said it was temporarily stopping in vitro fertilization, or IVF, treatments because of legal risk. “I am a huge follower of Jesus,” said Hardin, who leads a group at her church for people who’ve had fertility issues. Those embryos are kept frozen in storage until they’re transferred in hopes of leading to a new pregnancy, or donated or discarded. The legal limbo has drawn the members of Hardin’s church group to lean on each other even more, she said. In July, she and her husband started the process for IVF, going through egg retrieval and freezing embryos, before she had hip surgery for a genetic condition.

Persons: Paula Jean Hardin, Wes, Hardin, “ It’s, ” Hardin, Jay Mitchell, Tom Parker, ”, Jesus, who’ve, “, –, ” Lauren Pleitz, ” Pleitz, Pleitz, Dr, Sanjay Gupta, ” CNN’s Isabel Rosales, Amanda Musa Organizations: CNN, Alabama Fertility, University of Alabama, Center for Reproductive, CNN Health Locations: Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Birmingham

☆ What Christian Traditions Say About I.V.F. Treatments
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-24 | by ( Elizabeth Dias | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

“Human life cannot be wrongfully destroyed without incurring the wrath of a holy God,” the court’s chief justice, Tom Parker, wrote in his decision. Among conservative Christians, the belief that life begins at conception has been a driving force behind anti-abortion policies for years. Among the most ardent abortion opponents, that thinking has also led to uncompromising opposition to in vitro fertilization. “That is the fundamental premise of our entire movement,” said Kristan Hawkins, president of Students for Life, which opposes abortion. I.V.F., she said, “is literally a business model built on disposable children and treating children as commodities.”

Persons: Tom Parker, ”, Kristan Hawkins, “ Organizations: Alabama, Life

☆ Opinion: I’m a Christian who underwent IVF in Alabama. The state supreme court decision is devastating
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-23 | by ( Opinion Rebecca Mathews | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

CNN —Having struggled with infertility, I’ve spent nearly all of the past 10 years focusing solely on creating life. Our two children were conceived in Alabama through in-vitro fertilization (IVF), the science of creating, freezing and attempting to implant embryos in my womb. And although IVF is very much a wonder of modern science, as a Christian, I believe it is a gift from God. Women who miscarry an embryo implanted through IVF may wonder if their actions are illegal, and if so, whether they will be prosecuted. I’d like to know how many of the justices who conferred personhood on embryos know someone who had to create and miscarry multiple embryos in order to finally have a child.

Persons: Rebecca Mathews, CNN —, I’ve, Ivan Couronne, Tom Parker, Jeremiah, ’ ”, Parker, “, God Organizations: CNN, Alabama, Virginia Center for Reproductive Medicine, Getty Locations: Alabama, Colorado, AFP, Birmingham

☆ The Alabama Chief Justice Who Invoked God in Deciding Embryo Case
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-22 | by ( Rick Rojas | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

In an Alabama Supreme Court decision that has rattled the world of reproductive medicine, a majority of the justices said the law was clear that frozen embryos should be considered children: “Unborn children are ‘children.’”But the court’s chief justice, Tom Parker, drew on more than the Constitution and legal precedent to explain his determination. “Human life cannot be wrongfully destroyed without incurring the wrath of a holy God,” he wrote in a concurring opinion that invoked the Book of Genesis and the prophet Jeremiah and quoted at length from the writings of 16th- and 17th-century theologians. “Even before birth,” he added, “all human beings have the image of God, and their lives cannot be destroyed without effacing his glory.”

Persons: ’, Tom Parker, ”, Jeremiah, “ Organizations: Alabama Supreme Locations: Alabama

☆ An Alabama judge ruled that frozen embryos are people, and reproductive rights advocates are sounding the alarm
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-20 | by ( Alex Nicoll | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

In its decision, which has already drawn criticism from reproductive rights advocates, the Alabama Supreme Court ruled that frozen embryos have the same rights as living children under Alabama's Wrongful Death of a Minor Act. AdvertisementSome experts on reproductive rights are already sounding the alarm over the new ruling. "This is a cause of great concern for anyone that cares about people's reproductive rights and abortion care." AdvertisementThe case reached the Alabama Supreme Court after a lower court dismissed the couples' claims, though they later appealed. Later this year, the Supreme Court is expected to rule on access to mifepristone, a drug that can terminate a pregnancy alongside misoprostol.

Persons: —, Alabama that's, they're, Tom Parker, Roe, Wade, Dana Sussman, Sussman, they'll, misoprostol Organizations: Service, Business, Pregnancy, Washington Post, The Center, Reproductive, Center for Reproductive Medicine, Mobile Infirmary Medical Center, Medical Association of Locations: Alabama

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Last year, Dolly Parton was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame — against her wishes. Now, almost exactly a year later, she's releasing her first rock ‘n’ roll album, appropriately titled “Rockstar," on Friday. Parton once thought she'd record a “Linda Ronstadt-type rock album,” but had felt she was getting too old. “I care about people, human suffering and all of that.”“World On Fire,” she says, was written after she thought the album was completed. For now, Parton says “Rockstar” is her first and last rock album.

Persons: Dolly Parton, she's, Parton, “, ” Parton, ”, Linda Ronstadt, Sting, Peter Frampton, Debbie Harry, Pat Benatar, Brandi Carlile, Chris Stapleton, Mick Jagger, Lionel Richie, Long, Paul McCartney, I’ve, Ringo Starr, Starr, Rockstar ”, Porter Wagoner, Elvis, Ronnie McDowell, Elvis Presley, Tom Parker, “ I'm, She's Organizations: ANGELES, —, Roll Hall, Fame, Roll Hall of Fame, Associated Press, “, AP, Rockstar

☆ ‘Priscilla’ Review: All Shook Up
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-26 | by ( Ben Kenigsberg | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

Eventually, he invites Priscilla to visit him, only to knock her out for two days with insomnia meds and then whisk her to Las Vegas, where, in a montage of gambling and boozing, Coppola shows Priscilla start to extend her hand for pills herself. For Priscilla, living with Elvis means living with his entourage. Coppola frames a shot of the actress looking out Graceland’s windows as if Priscilla were a Douglas Sirk heroine, trapped. It also brings “Priscilla” closer to Coppola’s aesthetic, freeing her from the literalism of a conventional biopic. The opening credits, which show Priscilla setting foot on a plush carpet and prepping her makeup, bounce along to a 1980 Ramones song.

Persons: Elvis, “, Priscilla, mouthing Humphrey, Marlon Brando, meds, Coppola, ”, Tom Parker, Tom Hanks, Baz Luhrmann’s razzmatazz, Douglas, Priscilla ” Locations: United States, Las Vegas, Graceland

☆ Priscilla Presley’s Emotional Reaction to Sofia Coppola’s New Elvis Film
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-04 | by ( Kyle Buchanan | More About Kyle Buchanan | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

Priscilla is also 14, a fact the film doesn’t shy away from. That aesthetic choice smartly steers “Priscilla” away from Luhrmann’s movie (which was much more interested in Elvis the performer) and further grounds the film in Priscilla’s perspective. The movie may also lack big musical scenes because Presley’s estate was unwilling to support the film or authorize the use of his songbook. Luhrmann’s hagiography was estate-approved and portrayed the singer as the innocent pawn of his craven manager, Col. Tom Parker. “Priscilla” shows how manipulative Elvis himself could be.

Persons: Priscilla, Elvis murmurs, ”, Nancy Sinatra, Ann, Margret, “ Marie Antoinette, Elvis, sensitively, Cailee Spaeny, Jacob Elordi, Austin Butler’s, lister, Elordi acquits, Coppola isn’t, Elvis midsong, he’s, Priscilla ”, I’m, craven, Tom Parker, “ Priscilla ”, wouldn’t Locations: Germany, Graceland, “

Jeremy Selwyn/WPA Pool/Getty Images Camilla stands next to Queen Elizabeth II during a Diamond Jubilee pageant on the River Thames in June 2012. Chris Jackson/Getty Images From left, Camilla, Charles, Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip attend the state opening of Parliament in May 2013. From left are Camilla, Charles, Queen Elizabeth II, Prince Louis, Duchess Catherine, Princess Charlotte, Prince George and Prince William. Frank Augstein/WPA Pool/Getty Images In pictures: Britain's Queen Camilla Prev NextShe reportedly met Prince Charles at a polo match in Windsor in 1970 and they became friends. From left are Camilla, Charles, Queen Elizabeth II, Prince Louis, Duchess Catherine, Princess Charlotte, Prince George and Prince William.

☆ Queen Camilla’s son, Tom Parker Bowles, says his mother ‘married the person she loved’
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-21 | by ( Issy Ronald | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

London CNN —Tom Parker Bowles, the son of Britain’s Queen Camilla and her first husband, Andrew Parker Bowles, has said that his mother “married the person she loved.”Speaking two weeks before his mother is due to be crowned alongside King Charles III, food writer Parker Bowles told the News Agents podcast: “I don’t care what anyone says, this wasn’t any sort of endgame. She married the person she loved and this is what happened.”Camilla and Charles have been married since 2005. Tom Parker Bowles is a food writer and critic. “I think anyone would be anxious in an occasion of this sort of importance,” Parker Bowles said. “I don’t think he knows quite how big it’s going to be,” Parker Bowles said when asked about his son’s reaction.

LOS ANGELES, March 11 (Reuters) - In the 2022 "Elvis" film, Tom Hanks' depiction of Elvis Presley's real-life former manager, Colonel Tom Parker, is cruel, corrupt, and according to the 2023 Razzie award results, deserving of worst supporting actor and worst screen combo awards. loadingBefore celebrating the best films of the season during the Oscar ceremony on Sunday, the Razzie Awards called out the worst on Saturday. The Razzies named Hanks worst supporting actor and worst screen combo for the actor and his "latex face" in the film. Joining Hanks, biographical drama "Blonde," starring Ana de Armas as Hollywood icon Marilyn Monroe "won" Razzies for both worst picture and screenplay. Both win for worst actor and worst supporting actress.

☆ Netflix movie ‘Blonde’ roasted with eight Razzie nominations
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-23 | by ( Danielle Broadway | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

[1/2] Cast member Tom Hanks poses as he arrives at the London screening of 'Elvis' in London, Britain May 31, 2022. REUTERS/Maja SmiejkowskaLOS ANGELES, Jan 23 (Reuters) - “Blonde,” a biographical film that explores the exploitation of Marilyn Monroe, led this year's Razzie nominations with eight nods, including one for worst picture, while multiple Oscar winner Tom Hanks landed in the worst actor and worst supporting actor race. In their 43rd year, the Razzies deliver some tough love to movies, screenplays, directors and more with critical jabs meant to offer a humorous counterpoint to the Oscars. "Blonde" received a Razzie nomination for worst picture, two nominations for worst supporting actors, two for worst screen couples, as well as nods for worst remake, worst director and worst screenplay. Director Andrew Dominik and Netflix already have faced harsh judgment for what critics called a sexist and cruel depiction of Monroe, who was portrayed by Ana De Armas.

☆ ‘A Man Called Otto’ Review: Forrest Grump
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-30 | by ( Kyle Smith | ) www.wsj.com time to read: +1 min

This was the year Tom Hanks decided to stretch himself: Lately seen portraying Col. Tom Parker as a Mephistophelean con artist in “Elvis,” he’s back as the world’s grumpiest man in “A Man Called Otto,” which attempts to disguise the famously sunny actor as a walking cloud bank. Set in a condominium development in Pennsylvania in the winter, the remake of 2015’s Swedish film “A Man Called Ove” (which was based on a novel of the same name) casts Mr. Hanks as a lonely and humorless widower who isn’t so much fighting depression as surrendering to it. He’s an inveterate rule-enforcer, whistle-blower and manager-caller who snarls and grumbles at everyone who crosses his path. But given Mr. Hanks’s history of role choices, it seems only a matter of time before Otto’s heart of gold starts to shine through his miserable façade. And without even a warning from the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come.

☆ Take a look inside Elvis Presley's 1962 Lockheed 1329 JetStar private jet that's up for auction
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-04 | by ( Jyoti Mann | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Elvis Presley's 1962 Lockheed 1329 Jetstar private jet is being auctioned in January. It has red velvet seats, a TV, cassette and VCR player, but needs repairs – and an engine. The King of Rock and Roll paid $840,000 in 1976 and the jet last sold at an auction for $430,000. The 1962 Lockheed 1329 Jetstar, which comes with red velvet seats, a TV, cassette player, and microwave, was bought for $840,000 by the King of Rock and Roll in 1976. Elvis kept several pilots on retainer that were ready to fly him to adoring fans at a moment's notice," Mecum Auctions' listing says.

☆ De ce a fost nevoit actorul Tom Hanks să se radă în cap
▼ + stars: | 2020-12-31 | by ( ) www.jurnal.md time to read: 1 min

În cadrul unei intervenţii video în emisiunea Graham Norton Show, Hanks a apărut cu o şapcă pe baseball pe cap. „Daţi-mi voie să vă arăt tunsoarea oribilă pe care a trebuit să o fac pentru a-l putea juca pe Colonelul Tom Parker”, a spus Hanks. Ia uitaţi!”, a continuat actorul, în timp ce stătea în aşa fel în faţa camerei încât să nu i se vadă exact tunsoarea. La un moment dat, Tom Hanks s-a lăsat în jos o secundă, exact cât să reintre în cadru şi să i se vadă chelia, scrie Digi24. „Cred că tocmai i-am speriat pe copii, îmi cer scuze”, a continuat Hanks, în uralele şi hohotele de râs ale audienţei.

Persons: Graham, Hanks, Elvis Presley, Tom Parker, Elvis, Colonelul Tom Parker, Vedeţi, Tom Hanks Organizations: Graham Norton Locations: Australia

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