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☆ How ‘Russian Math’ Became the Must-Have Extracurricular for Overachieving Parents
  + stars: | 2023-02-16 | by ( Ellen Gamerman | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
American parents are seeking out international alternatives to supplement their kids’ math education, including Singapore math and Russian math. On RussianMathTutors.com, a site promoting a Soviet-era style of math instruction, a sample question involves Masha, a mom who bakes a batch of unmarked pies: three rice, three bean and three cherry. The student must determine how Masha can find a cherry pie “by biting into as few tasteless pies as possible.”While Masha is biting pies, American parents are eating it up.
☆ How ‘Russian Math’ Became a Must-Have Extracurricular for Overachieving Parents
  + stars: | 2023-02-16 | by ( Ellen Gamerman | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
American parents are seeking out international alternatives to supplement their kids’ math education, including Singapore math and Russian math. On RussianMathTutors.com, a site promoting a Soviet-era style of math instruction, a sample question involves Masha, a mom who bakes a batch of unmarked pies: three rice, three bean and three cherry. The student must determine how Masha can find a cherry pie “by biting into as few tasteless pies as possible.”While Masha is biting pies, American parents are eating it up.
☆ For Magic Mike, Channing Tatum Looked for Strippers Moms Could Love
  + stars: | 2023-02-09 | by ( Ellen Gamerman | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: +1 min
MIAMI—Magic Mike Live is a male strip show where men take off their pants the regular way—at the ankles, not ripped down a side-seam of snaps. The full monty is not skin, but a sensitive guy talking to the crowd about consent. “Before you enter a lady’s space, you should always know that you’re welcome.”The language of empowerment and self-care is employed liberally at Magic Mike Live, a dance revue based on the 2012 movie starring Channing Tatum. Mr. Tatum and Oscar-winning director Steven Soderbergh spent $7 million to make that film, an almost-satirical look at the towel-snapping world of male strippers. Just over a decade later, Magic Mike is a more than $500 million brand that spawned two more movies, live shows with yearslong engagements in Las Vegas and London, and a multicity North American tour that recently kicked off in Miami.
☆ Pamela Anderson Isn’t Chasing Her Youth
  + stars: | 2023-01-31 | by ( Ellen Gamerman | Photography Chantal Anderson For Wsj. Magazine | Styling Rebecca Ramsey | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Pamela Anderson Isn’t Chasing Her Youth The star, out with a memoir and the subject of a new documentary, wants to have her say. ‘I could lose everything. I could gain everything. I just have no concept of what’s happening next.’With both a new memoir and a Netflix documentary, Pamela Anderson is drawing the spotlight as she searches for a new chapter.
☆ The 8 Biggest Snubs and Surprises of the 2023 Oscar Nominations
  + stars: | 2023-01-26 | by ( Ellen Gamerman | Sara Bosworth | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Surprise: Andrea RiseboroughThe best actress nomination for Ms. Riseborough, who plays an alcoholic single mother in “To Leslie,” comes after a social-media push featuring celebrities like Gwyneth Paltrow, who said Ms. Riseborough “should win every award there is and all the ones that haven’t been invented yet.”Michael Tran/AFP/Getty Images
☆ Oscar Nominees 2023: See the Full List of Nominations
  + stars: | 2023-01-24 | by ( Ellen Gamerman | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Michelle Yeoh plays an unhappily married laundromat owner who discovers her hidden powers in ‘Everything Everywhere All at Once,’ which led the 2023 Oscar nominations with 11 nods. “Everything Everywhere All at Once,” a martial-arts multiverse love story that plays like a superhero movie on acid, emerged as a front-runner with 11 nominations for the 95th Academy Awards announced early Tuesday. Another movie sneaked into the Oscars conversation at the last minute: “All Quiet on the Western Front,” the harrowing World War I film told from a German perspective that earned nine nominations. The Irish anti-buddy comedy “The Banshees of Inisherin” also scored nine.
☆ Oscar Nominees 2023: ‘Elvis’ and ‘The Fabelmans’ Expect Nominations
  + stars: | 2023-01-24 | by ( Ellen Gamerman | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
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☆ Prince Harry Commits to Narrating His Own Story. Even the Awkward Parts.
  + stars: | 2023-01-10 | by ( Ellen Gamerman | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
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☆ In ‘White Lotus,’ Is Portia the Voice of Gen Z?
  + stars: | 2022-12-11 | by ( Ellen Gamerman | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
When “The White Lotus” season finale airs on Sunday night, viewers may come away a little wiser about Sicily, couples vacations and modern love. But perhaps the biggest lesson of all will be in the ways of Gen Z, whose personalities series creator Mike White writes with gleeful zeal and dead-on precision. Their leader of sorts is Portia, a personal assistant from San Francisco who is at loose ends during her boss’s luxury resort vacation on the Italian coast. The character, the embodiment of Gen Z angst and attitude, is played by Haley Lu Richardson. Portia’s employer Tanya, a loopy rich lady in perpetual crisis played by Jennifer Coolidge, is at her most lucid when trying to hand down older-woman wisdom to her young charge.
☆ The (Very) American Bits of ‘Harry & Meghan’
  + stars: | 2022-12-09 | by ( Ellen Gamerman | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Meghan Markle leans into her identity as a wide-eyed American in “Harry & Meghan,” the new series from Netflix chronicling the lives of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex. In it, Harry is her British straight man. And theirs is an untold love story, audiences are told, again and again. “This is a great love story,” Harry says. “And the craziest thing is, I think this love story is only just getting started.”
☆ In ‘The Fabelmans,’ Michelle Williams Is a Jewish Mother Like No Other
  + stars: | 2022-11-23 | by ( Ellen Gamerman | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
In “The Fabelmans,” the new semi-autobiographical movie from director Steven Spielberg , Mitzi Fabelman is the mother of all Jewish mothers. She is an uber influence on her family without whom, the movie argues, a filmmaker like Mr. Spielberg would never have been possible. While Jewish mothers have often appeared on screen as finely tuned guilt machines, Mitzi is an argument against the stereotype. “Guilt is a wasted emotion,” she says. The exact sentence is drawn from the filmmaker’s childhood.
☆ Now at a Theater Near You: Cannibalism, Vomit and Severed Fingers
  + stars: | 2022-11-20 | by ( John Jurgensen | Ellen Gamerman | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: +1 min
At first, film programmer Ben Delgado felt a little squeamish about the picture he’d selected to open a new festival in Iowa City. On one hand, the coming-of-age story was being praised for its beauty and had already won awards at the Venice Film Festival. On the other hand, would the flesh-eating in “Bones and All” be a deal breaker for older-skewing cineastes in his area? “That’s not exactly the audience you expect to come out to a cannibal love story,” said Mr. Delgado, programming director of the FilmScene nonprofit cinema. The movie ended up being the talk of the inaugural Refocus Film Festival, he said.
☆ Candace Cameron Bure Wants to Put Christianity Back in Christmas Movies
  + stars: | 2022-11-14 | by ( Ellen Gamerman | Photography Daniel Dorsa For Wsj. Magazine | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
CLAREMORE, Okla.—Candace Cameron Bure is on a fake-snow-covered set shooting a church scene for her new holiday movie, “A Christmas…Present,” when it comes time for her character to feel the sudden presence of God. A tech guy stands on a ladder, waggling two plates of glass in front of a light to create a shimmering effect on her upturned face. The crew uses black electrical tape to outline the church’s stained-glass cross so it will pop on-screen. Ms. Bure works herself into tears for each take, asking the crew to play an emotional Christmas song again and again so she stays in the mood. Ms. Bure isn’t just selling a made-for-TV moment, but a Christian epiphany for the masses.
☆ With Prince Harry’s Memoir Cover, a ‘Spare’ as He Wishes to Be Seen
  + stars: | 2022-10-28 | by ( Ellen Gamerman | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
The cover of Prince Harry’s coming memoir, “Spare,” forces its audience to look at him. Viewers may find traces of Princess Diana’s features in his face. The desert color palette, far from the rainy isle of his youth, washes him in a California glow. The prince, a person who well understands the power of a photograph, forgoes formal regalia and instead gives endless summer vibes with his T-shirt and leather-cord necklace.
☆ Did Harry Styles Just Save ‘Don’t Worry Darling’?
  + stars: | 2022-09-26 | by ( Ellen Gamerman | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Harry Styles delivered at the box office—his new film ’Don’t Worry Darling’ brought in $19.2 million in its opening weekend. It’s hard to keep fans from a movie date with Harry Styles. The pop star’s devotees hit theaters this weekend to see “Don’t Worry Darling,” a psychological drama set in a creepy 1950s utopia that offered Mr. Styles his biggest screen role to date. The film from director Olivia Wilde had been beset by so many off-screen controversies that the question of its box-office fate loomed large heading into opening weekend.
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