Sydney Sweeney promoted Reality (the movie about Reality Winner) this week. Her dress is Schiaparelli & she wasn’t wearing her engagement ring? [LaineyGossip]
Chris D’Elia is a gross predator and abuser. [Dlisted]
Photos from the Mexico City Fast X premiere. [GFY]
Pom Klementieff wore Versace in Cannes. [Tom & Lorenzo]
Are we into Melissa McCarthy as Ursuala in The Little Mermaid? [OMG Blog]
Tom Hanks’ book is apparently boring? [Pajiba]
I hate what Ted Lasso has done to Keeley, full-stop. [Jezebel]
Hailey Bieber looked great in this silver-grey dress. [JustJared]
People always mispronounce my name and I usually just issue one correction. If they can’t get it right after that, it’s on them. [Buzzfeed]
Hillsong’s scandals are being exposed. [Towleroad]
More photos of the Duchess of Sussex at the Ms. Foundation event. [RCFA]
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Her dress is ill fitting and though her makeup is nice her serving face is never on point.
Yes! I am so confused by that expression. She looks a bit off-kilter, I was actually wondering about bell’s palsy.
I’m still mystified by the push to make Sweeney the next great young thing. She shows promise and acting competence, but, so far, I just don’t see that wow factor that pulls me in — the kind of acting and screen presence that make me look up an actor’s filmography to see more of their leading and/or supporting roles.
I’m so glad reality winner is being acknowledged. She was a true whistle-blower. She should get a pardon in the future. Chelsea manning just leaked documents that outed innocent people. Chelsea got a book deal, and a lot of great stuff.
That dress is ridiculous. She’s trying to be taken seriously and lean into her bombshell image at the same time. One thing at a time. A hip suit would have been so much better.
Also V and Jennie dating. I’m obsessed.
Completely agree. She has an amazing body and that dress does nothing for her and is kinda boring.
That dress is really bad.
Completely agree re this season of Ted Lasso.
My name is always mispronounced, too – and I’m a white girl with a fairly easy Anglo name to boot. It’s more they forget the -a on the end (think Julie vs Julia), but it’s a whole damn syllable and it’s not my name!!! I’ve always determined that the people who continually call me by the wrong name are either idiots or they don’t care, so I only correct them once or twice, but it makes me very mindful of learning the correct pronunciation of anyone else’s name.
I’ve always been really bad at names. After finally getting insurance good enough to have quality mental health care, I had a neuro-psych evaluation done. Turns out I have a far smaller than average working memory, and that my auditory working memory is even worse.
Turning things that fairly large portions of the population find neurologically difficult into an issue of “respect” and “caring” is worsening the lives of neurodiverse people these days. What used to be just me being bad at names is now seen as actively hostile.
And don’t even get me started on how we basically define the symptoms of ADHD as bad moral character.
I get it. I’m neuro-spicy, too. But I genuinely believe that the vast majority of people I know (and interact with on the regular) who can’t be bothered to learn my name correctly are either stupid or indifferent.
People always add a T to my name but it’s not a big deal. I’ve gotten used to it over the years. Some people are just bad with names.
Same, but I’m -e instead of an -a. 9/10 times I’m called Christina.
Haha, I can relate. I’ve been called Christine so much that I stopped correcting people eons ago. It annoys my husband more than it annoys me. Anytime someone says Christine instead of Christina, his eye starts twitching.
My name is similar. It does have different pronunciations depending on where you’re from but I’ve always been clear about mine.
Funny not funny it’s only ever men that consistently mispronounce it. I just finished a job with an american man who got it wrong for the entire nearly 2 years we worked together. He heard me say it correctly goodness knows how many times, he never once said it right. After my job before that where I had to (finally) correct my male boss about two weeks in I think I just gave up.
I’ve also got a fairly simple name that people mispronounce, either by using an alternate pronunciation or dropping a whole syllable.
I remember one guy I dealt with at work that I corrected several times, but he still said it wrong. then one day he got it right and made a big show of patting himself on the back for saying it “the way I liked it” and I flatly replied “you mean, calling me by my actual name?” I was so glad when he got transferred because that was just one of many ways he was annoying.
North of Boston: “the way you liked it” – what an insufferable jerk! We should call people what they ask to be called, and pronounce it the way they do. I use a shortened version of my name (nickname that comes from my name) and it’s so revealing who refuses to use it – it’s become like an acid test of who goes on my OK, Cool list and who does not.
I have a two-name “first name” and many people drop the second name (even if I verbally introduce myself with both names, or in a format like email where my name is right there in my signature for you to see) and it BUGS. My boss is also a two-name first name person and we bond over people getting it wrong.
Additionally, the first part of my name has a silent “e” at the end and the number of people who therefore think they have to pronounce the “e” is astonishing. It is a very, very common name (and common combination of names) and I really dislike it when people get it wrong. I can understand that it’s not deliberate, but in many cases, it feels (to me) like people just DGAF about getting it right and that bothers me.
In summary, I have had to spell and explain my first name my whole life. Every day on the first day of school, “actually, I go by both” and then maybe the teacher would remember, maybe not. Neighbors, coworkers, acquaintances…if I told you my name was Lauren, would you start calling me Karen? Then why is my simple name so hard? Add to that a complicated last name (prior to marriage) and I’ve had to spell it (and just given up) for 40+ years. Thank you for coming to my TED talk.
God, I hate that dress. And there’s something about her expression that always rubs me the wrong way. Don’t know exactly what it is.
She has rbf (resting b’tch face). She always looks dead in the eyes and unhappy. Except when she was with Glen. Positively glowing.
Her PR with Glen Powell really paid off as she’s now the new Hollywood IT girl(as I suspected esp after we keep hearing Madeleine Cline being the It girl during awards season) . And Sydney’s new movie is getting great reviews.
Although, I do admire that she did graduate top of her class in high school.
Schiaparelli gave her the scrap dress
I’m completely over anyone who pretends to overlook Meghan’s body, because they are so polite, because she looks so glowing and happy in this dress, even though they would never, ever put her in it (paraphrase of the RCFA link).
JFC, should everyone who doesn’t look like a stick just stay at home, all of the time? I can promise, on the best day of my life, I have never looked as stunning as Meghan did at the Ms. Foundation awards (or probably how she looks first thing in the morning, she’s Meghan), and that’s also okay. I like myself.
Meghan looks hot as hell in that dress, full stop. Stop acting like there is anything wrong with her body.
It’s extra gross that they then posted what must be the stick model, the designer used for promotional whatever. It’s revolting.
I’m with you Christine-she looks amazing. At first glance I agreed with some of the criticisms that it made her look barrel-bodied. I think what many people don’t realize is that she is so incredibly petite and bird boned. Even on the model, the dress had a very specific look. Meghan looks gorgeous in it, and her overall shine makes this an iconic look.
That dress is not flattering or interesting. Who put her in that?!