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What surprised me most when I became a mother was how unfeasibly demanding the job was.This work was 24/7, three six five, and nobody even acknowledged that it was work, nor that mothers were doing it, that they were doing all of it, all of the time.You're welcome, human race.How had I not seen this coming?

Tina Turner, the unstoppable singer and stage performer who teamed with husband Ike Turner for a dynamic run of hit records and live shows in the 1960s and '70s and survived her horrifying marriage to triumph in middle age with the chart-topping "What's Love Got to Do With It," has died at 83.
Turner died Tuesday, after a long illness in her home in Küsnacht near Zurich, Switzerland, according to her manager.

Some television hosts might hang their heads in shame if their show was dubbed "Worst TV show in history."Jerry Springer wore it like a badge of honor."It's hard for anyone to get upset at our show today," Springer said after receiving that dubious honor from TV Guide in 2002, "when you see the same stuff on social media."

When National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation came out in theaters in 1989, Chicago was about to elect a second Mayor Daley for the first time, Wrigley Field had just hosted its first night game, and Oprah Winfrey debuted her first restaurant, a collaboration with Lettuce Entertain You Enterprises' Rich Melman called the Eccentric.

New York's Levain Bakery, best known for its giant and gooey cookies, is opening its first Chicago location this weekend inside the former Maude's Liquor Bar space in the West Loop.This is Levain's first expansion that goes beyond the east coast.So what's a cookie retailer doing along Randolph Restaurant Row, a strip once reserved for, well, restaurants?

Meta held an employee preview of its upcoming Twitter competitor and a screenshot of the app managed to leak.The internal name for the new social media app is "Project 92" while the rumors suggest the official name may be "Threads".Based on the leaked screenshot we can see the interface looks quite similar to Instagram but without images.

Radio personalities are supposed to be abrasive and controversial.Not so Lin Brehmer of WXRT-FM, whose death at 68 years old this past weekend saddened his regular listeners, many of whom felt like they had lost the most simpatico of friends.That sense of sudden loss, even though Brehmer had been public about his prostate cancer, was also true of many Chicagoans who did not regularly tune in.

Given the many shocking, bizarre, and, in some cases, downright untoward leaks from Prince Harry's memoir Spare before its Jan. 10 publication, readers might open the book expecting the kind of tell-all with no literary merit often churned out by celebrities.Headlines about Harry's frostbitten penis and his physical altercation with Prince William primed us to expect something akin to a Real Housewives episode.

He stares out, his blue eyes unflinching beneath scruffy red brows.His head, with its matching rough-cut hair and beard, almost fills the frame.You can see, just at the bottom edge, a faded gray T-shirt and leather thong necklace.Prince Harry's portrait on the front of Spare, his much debated, much leaked memoir that is currently also pretty much unavoidable, is a picture that its publishers hope will help sell a million-plus books.

John Beasley, who left his job as a railroad clerk in his mid-40s to pursue acting full time, bringing an understated power to films like the inspirational 1993 football movie Rudy and television series like the WB drama Everwood and the TV Land comedy The Soul Man, died on May 30 in Omaha.He was 79.

Mary Tyler Moore, shown here in 1969, won seven Emmy Awards over the course of her career.E. Milsom/Getty Images A new two-hour HBO documentary revisits the life and career of Mary Tyler Moore, an actor most famous for playing indelible, very funny and significantly modern everyday women in two excellent TV sitcoms.

APA, which continues to grow its agency across numerous fronts, announced today that Nick Panella has joined the agency to head the newly established Podcast and Audio Division at the agency, it was announced by Kyle Loftus, Head of Content Development at APA.
Panella comes to APA from powerhouse independent audio company Workhouse Media, where he worked with name brand talent and podcasts such as Shonda Rhimes, Oprah Winfrey, Ellen DeGeneres, Chris Lloyd (co-creator of Modern Family), Dan Patrick, David Harbour, Laverne Cox, Ed O'Neill, Karamo Brown (Netflix's Queer Eye), Jeffery Dean Morgan (The Walking Dead), Sarah Wayne Callies, Terrell Owens (NFL Hall Of Famer), The Try Guys (2B+ views on YouTube), Bob Saget (Full House), top podcasts Cold and The Letter (#1 podcast), and many others.

Entertainment Carter, who grew up in Massachusetts, took home best costume design Sunday night at the 95th Academy Awards for the Marvel sequel "Black Panther: Wakanda Forever."LOS ANGELES (AP) - Ruth E. Carter made history: The costume designer behind the "Black Panther" films became the first Black woman to win two Oscars.

It was a pact the Duke of Sussex and the Prince of Wales made together in their younger days, but it ended, Harry said, in heartbreak.The duke, in his Netflix documentary, said he and William promised never to trade or leak stories or brief against one another after witnessing the fallout of such actions in their father's office.

Supreme Court Justices Amy Coney Barrett, Brett Kavanaugh and Neil Gorsuch were flown to Italy.Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson received a $1,200 congratulatory floral arrangement from Oprah Winfrey.And Justice Sonia Sotomayor received nearly $150,000 in book royalties from her publisher.These are a few of the things detailed in the annual financial disclosure forms released Wednesday by seven members of the Supreme Court.

Michelle Obama broke down shortly after leaving then-President Donald Trump's inauguration, the former first lady candidly shared in a new podcast, as the emotions of leaving their family's home after eight years and resentment over Trump taking office overwhelmed her.When those doors shut, I cried for 30 minutes straight, uncontrollable sobbing, because that's how much we were holding it together for eight years, Obama said, referring to her final trip aboard the presidential airplane.

Turning 50 is rarely easy for a woman, and Sybil is no exception.This tarnished classic the True and Extraordinary Story of a Woman Possessed by Sixteen Separate Personalities, to invoke the most carnival-barker of its various subtitles has since its 1973 publication been critically dismissed; wedged on the best-seller list between Lillian Hellman and Howard Cosell as if at some nightmare dinner party; made into two different television movies; workshopped as a musical; cited in psychiatric literature; debunked, dissected and defended.

Turning 50 is rarely easy for a woman, and Sybil is no exception.This tarnished classic the True and Extraordinary Story of a Woman Possessed by Sixteen Separate Personalities, to invoke the most carnival-barker of its various subtitles has since its 1973 publication been critically dismissed; wedged on the best-seller list between Lillian Hellman and Howard Cosell as if at some nightmare dinner party; made into two different television movies; workshopped as a musical; cited in psychiatric literature; debunked, dissected and defended.

Back in the early aughts, after years as a sitcom star but before she became a MAGA cheerleader and a Tucker Carlson guest, Kirstie Alley committed one of the cardinal sins for women in Hollywood.She gained weight.The tabloids treated this development with all of the nuanced consideration a formerly slender actress could expect at the time.

This past week, a complaint from a single parent in Florida led to a poem by Amanda Gorman being banned from Bob Graham Education Center in Miami Lakes.Not just any poem: The parent took issue with Gorman's "The Hill We Climb," which she recited at Joe Biden's presidential inauguration, making her the youngest inaugural poet in the country's history.

Oprah Winfrey said Tina Turner was our forever goddess of rock n' roll and hailed her courage as a domestic abuse survivor following her death.The US TV talk show host said Turner was a role model not only for me but for the world, as she paid tribute to the singer.Turner, one of rock's most famous voices with hits including Proud Mary and The Best died at the age of 83 at her home in Switzerland on Wednesday after a long illness.

Piers Morgan has said he has never told anybody to hack a phone amid an ongoing court case over alleged unlawful information gathering at the Daily Mirror.The Duke of Sussex and other high-profile figures have brought claims of phone hacking against the titles of Mirror Group Newspapers (MGN) in a seven-week trial which began on Wednesday.

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sarah, the Duchess of York, said she wouldn't judge the Duke and Duchess of Sussex on their decision to move to the US and publicise their lives.The couple quit as senior working royals in 2020 in favour of more freedom and the ability to earn their own money in the US, before giving a bombshell interview with Oprah Winfrey in March 2021.

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have been asked to vacate their UK home just weeks after Harry's damning book Spare was released, the couple have confirmed.

Members of the royal family have been omitted from the acknowledgements section of the Duke of Sussex's new book.Harry's autobiography Spare, due out on Tuesday, has sparked a furore, with revelations including how the Prince of Wales physically attacked him, how he killed 25 Taliban members during the Afghanistan conflict, and a recounting of taking cocaine and magic mushrooms.

Amanda Gorman says she wrote "The Hill We Climb" which she read at President Biden's inauguration "so that all young people could see themselves in a historical moment."Gorman is seen here in February, at the Grammy Awards.Frazer Harrison/Getty Images Amanda Gorman's poetry has heralded a presidential inauguration and a U.N. General Assembly but access to it is now restricted at a Miami-Dade County school, the latest casualty in the fight over library books.

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, Duke and Duchess of Sussex, leave after a service of thanksgiving for the reign of Queen Elizabeth II at St Paul's Cathedral in London on June 3, 2022.Matt Dunham/AP LONDON Prince Harry and his wife Meghan announced Wednesday that their daughter had been christened in a private ceremony in California, publicly calling her a princess and revealing for the first time that they will use royal titles for their children.

When Prince Harry and the former Meghan Markle purchased a sprawling estate in Montecito for nearly $15 million in 2020, they didn't have this in mind.An order Monday from the Santa Barbara County Office of Emergency Management told all residents of the tony seaside town to "leave now."Powerful rains have caused flooding in the area, and strong winds have hurled debris onto roadways.

These days in Britain, very little unites the right and left.Harry & Meghan, the intimate Netflix series released Thursday, is quickly shaping up to be the exception.The first three episodes of the docuseries, directed by Liz Garbus and produced in conjunction with the production company of Prince Harry and his wife, Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, were quickly skewered by a bipartisan group of critics, from The Sun to The Guardian.

Harry and Meghan, the Netflix series released Thursday, has been one of the most anticipated television spectacles of the year  more media event than documentary.Royal watchers have been eagerly anticipating the series, which is directed by Liz Garbus, although Prince Harry and his wife Meghan Markle, the Duchess of Sussex, already gave a tell-all interview to Oprah Winfrey, last year: In that interview, they discussed their fraught relationship with Britain's royal family, and Meghan said she once contemplated suicide.

Over more than six decades in television, Barbara Walters, who died Friday at 93, became best known for her one-on-one interviews.An integral part of whichever news show she was anchoring at a given time  or of her own Barbara Walters Specials  her interview style became one of the best known in broadcast journalism.

Kirstie Alley, who died this week, was a knockout beauty with real comedy chops  qualities often assumed (wrongly) to be incompatible  whose self-ironic humor softened the kapow of her glamour-girl looks.Whether playing a fictional character (as in Cheers), playing herself (in interviews or in her reality TV series, Kirstie Alley's Big Life) or some version in-between (like the fictionalized version on Fat Actress), Ms. Alley infused every performance with a sly self-awareness.

Danielle DowlingReporting on the arts Danielle DowlingReporting on the arts Focus Features For Armageddon Time, the filmmaker James Grey drilled deep into memories from his childhood in 1980, when he learned a searing lesson about power and prejudice in America.Here's more on that movie and other entertainment highlights this weekend  Danielle DowlingReporting on the arts Armageddon Time, a tender and lacerating film that stars Anthony Hopkins, Anne Hathaway and Jeremy Strong, is  astutely, uncomfortably and in the end tragically  about privilege, A.O. Scott writes.

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It's been over a year since the cast was revealed for this year's remake of The Colour Purple, directed by Blitz Bazawule.Based on the iconic novel, movie and, more recently, stage musical, the film is produced by Oprah Winfrey - one of the stars of Steven Spielberg's 1985 film.

It's no secret that Ni'Jah, the pop star at the center of the new Prime Video series Swarm, is a fictional version of Beyonce.Every episode of the show, Donald Glover's first since Atlanta, opens with text that reads: This is not a work of fiction.Any similarity to actual persons, living or dead, or events, is intentional.

Matthew McConaughey has proven time and time again that he can do pretty much anything, and now hairdressing is a skill to add to the list.The actor, who starred opposite Kate Hudson in How To Lose A Guy In 10 Days, shares three children with his wife Camilla Alves.And there is obviously a lot of trust between him and his sons, as they trusted the actor to give them a hair cut.

WASHINGTON Bestselling self-help author Marianne Williamson, who brought quirky spiritualism to the 2020 presidential race, has announced she's running for president again, becoming the first major Democrat to challenge President Joe Biden for his party's nomination in 2024.Williamson is formally kicking off her campaign with an event in Washington on Saturday.

By Will Weissert | Associated Press WASHINGTON Bestselling self-help author Marianne Williamson, who brought quirky spiritualism to the 2020 presidential race, has announced she's running for president again, becoming the first major Democrat to challenge President Joe Biden for his party's nomination in 2024.

Democratic presidential candidate Marianne Williamson speaks in Des Moines, Iowa, on January 9, 2020.Andrew Harnik (AP) Bestselling self-help author Marianne Williamson, who brought quirky spiritualism to the 2020 presidential race, has announced she's running for president again, becoming the first major Democrat to challenge President Joe Biden for his party's nomination in 2024.

Approximately 1 million women experience the start of menopause every year, yet many are surprised and bewildered by its arrival, so much so that they can't even help themselves.According to a 2021 survey of 1,000 U.S. women, more than 70% of women don't treat their menopausal symptoms because they don't even understand what's happening to their own bodies.

What saturates this series with significance is not simply the comprehensive documentation of our history, but the expertly threaded connections to modern forms of the same systemic oppression in disguise.The episodic format gives each chapter its own topic, allowing for pinpoint focus on a variety of issues, allotting each one a full hour in search of clarity and exploration.

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Los Angeles folk-pop singer-songwriter Natalie Mering, who performs as Weyes Blood, will bring her otherworldly melodies to DC. Expect to hear a collection of love songs and hymns from her fifth album, And in the Darkness, Hearts Aglow.Comedy
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Veteran DC radio host Joe Clair and a squad of funny people gather for a night of Valentine's joke-telling.

You get a governor!You get a governor!You get a governor!Oprah Winfrey is in Annapolis attending Maryland Governor Wes Moore's inauguration.The media mogul and former talk show host played a role in the ceremonies earlier today, presenting Moore ahead of his inaugural address.#Spotted the one, the only ⁦@Oprah⁩ at the ⁦@iamwesmoore⁩ inauguration pic.twitter.com/UWcghe4SWN

The Duchess of Sussex upset the Duchess of Cambridge by saying she must have baby brain in the run up to the royal wedding in 2018.In his bombshell autobiography Spare, the Duke of Sussex said his wife made the comment during a phone call about wedding rehearsals, according to The Sun's translation of a Spanish copy of the book.

No further action will be taken against a man suspected of sending death threats to Piers Morgan, the Metropolitan Police has said.The TV host, 57, reportedly received messages earlier this year telling him he was a marked man and promising he was getting killed.A 43-year-old man was subsequently arrested in Manchester on suspicion of making threats to kill.

The royal family are bracing themselves for bombshells from the Duke and Duchess of Sussex's Netflix documentary as it streams across the world on Thursday morning.As the King and the Queen Consort breakfast in their own home and the Prince and Princess of Wales deal with the school run, royal fans, commentators and the British media will be binge watching the first three episodes of Harry and Meghan's already controversial tell-all take on royal life.

Do you remember what they said?Of course, Buckingham Palace was saddened to learn of the concerning allegations of racism leveled at it by Meghan Markle when she spoke to Oprah Winfrey.But the kicker  the real poke in the eye  came in the first five words of the next sentence: While some recollections may vary, they are taken very seriously and will be addressed in private.

KITTANNING, Pa.Did John Fetterman just show Democrats how to solve their white-working-class problem?Mr. Fetterman's decisive victory in Pennsylvania's Senate race  arguably Democrats' biggest win of the midterms, flipping a Republican-held seat  was achieved in no small part because he did significantly better in counties dominated by white working-class voters compared with Joseph R. Biden Jr. in 2020.

Among the factors that helped John Fetterman to pull off a win over Mehmet Oz was a late endorsement from Oprah Winfrey.The endorsement mattered not just because of who she is, but because Oz came to national attention on her show.Which means that in the highest profile Senate race of the night, Oprah's endorsement proved more valuable than Trump's.

The royal family will be bracing itself for revelations from the Duke of Sussex's memoirs which could plunge the monarchy into crisis.With the King just weeks into his new role as head of state, his son Harry is likely to bring up their troubled relationship, airing potentially damaging matters.Harry, in his interview with Oprah Winfrey, said Charles stopped taking his calls when he was trying to discuss stepping down as a working royal in 2019.