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Charlize Theron on Why She Loves ‘Moonlight,’ Hates Dirty Feet, and the Reason She Still Googles Herself

SoAs.in July 15, 2017 Hollywood , Movie

“Atomic Blonde” star Charlize Theron was featured on Variety‘s cover this week and took some time to answer seven rapid-fire questions. She had to be truthful when asked whether or not she Googles herself, what she’s currently binge watching, and she was even tasked with naming her least favorite thing in the world.

She's been making the rounds, promoting her new film Atomic Blonde, in Berlin.

And Charlize Theron looked delighted to be back in Germany as she arrived into Berlin Tegel airport on Saturday.

The 41-year-old actress dressed for comfort for her flight, but gave her look the usual chic touch as she deboarded her plane.

“I don’t like dirty feet,” Theron admitted. “I don’t like dirty, dry feet. If you want to torture me, tie me in a chair and dirty up my feet and then touch them. There you go. Super weird s–t.”

Theron promoting Mad Max: Fury Road at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival
Born	7 August 1975 (age 41) Benoni, South Africa
Residence	Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Citizenship	South African (1975–present)^[1] American (2007–present)
Occupation	Actress, producer
Years active	1995–present
Partner(s)	Stuart Townsend (2001–10)
Children	2

She beamed as she walked along in a loose black top, with black and charcoal leggings and white converse shoes.

Over this she wore a sporty black and peach jacket which she teamed with a quirky tan fedora and rounded shades.

The Young Adult star slung her black leather carry-on over one shoulder and headed into the Arrivals terminal looking thrilled to be back on German soil.

Directed by David Leitch, Atomic Blonde is an action-packed Cold War thriller starring Charlize as a ruthless and talented British spy on a mission in Berlin.

With a cast also featuring Sofia Boutella, John Goodman and James McAvoy, the movie will be out in American cinemas on July 18.

She was without her children Jackson, now six, who she adopted from her native South Africa in 2012, and August, now almost two, from a family in the USA, adpoted in 2015.

Earlier in the week she was snapped running errands with the latter, August, in Hollywood.

Charlize admits she found her role in upcoming Atomic Blonde challenging as she revealed she ended up cracking her teeth from clenching her jaw too hard whilst learning some of the tough moves she’d have to do in the feature.

She told Variety magazine: 'It happened the first month of training. I had severe tooth pain, which I never had in my entire life. [The dentist had] to cut one of the teeth out and root canals. It was tough.

'You want to be in your best fighting shape, and it’s hard. I had the removal and I had to put a donor bone in there to heal until I came back, and then I had another surgery to put a metal screw in there.'

Ryan Reynolds Action Movie 'Hitman's Bodyguard' Lands New Director, Movie Review, Cost, Story And Trailer

In the August 18 release, the world’s top protection agent (Ryan Reynolds) is called upon to guard the life of his mortal enemy, one of the world’s most notorious hitmen (Samuel L. Jackson). The relentless bodyguard and manipulative assassin have been on the opposite end of the bullet for years and are thrown together for a wildly outrageous 24 hours. During their raucous and hilarious adventure from England to the Hague, they encounter high-speed car chases, outlandish boat escapades and a merciless Eastern European dictator (Gary Oldman) who is out for blood. Salma Hayek joins the mayhem as Jackson’s equally notorious wife.

The Hitman's Bodyguard is an upcoming American action comedy film directed by Patrick Hughes and written by Tom O'Connor. The film stars Ryan Reynolds, Samuel L. Jackson, Gary Oldman, Élodie Yung and Salma Hayek.

The world's top bodyguard gets a new client, a hit man who must testify at the International Court of Justice. They must put their differences aside and work together to make it to the trial on time.

Directed by Patrick Hughes

Produced by David Ellison, Mark Gill, Dana Goldberg, Matthew O'Toole, John Thompson, Les Weldon

Written by Tom O'Connor

Starring Ryan Reynolds, Samuel L. Jackson, Gary Oldman, Salma Hayek, Élodie Yung, Joaquim de Almeida, Kirsty Mitchell, Richard E. Grant

Music by Atli Örvarsson

Cinematography Jules O'Loughlin

Edited by Jake Roberts

Production company Millennium Films Cristal Pictures

Distributed by Lionsgate Films

The Hitman's Bodyguard Release date August 18, 2017

Running time 111 minutes

Country United States

Language English

Jeff Wadlow, who was to have directed the movie, dropped out at the last minute due to a schedule conflict with Netflix.

The plot follows a bodyguard who is hired to protect a hitman who has to testify at the International Court of Justice. It is scheduled to be released in the United States on August 18, 2017.

The world's top protection agent [Ryan Reynolds] is called upon to guard the life of his mortal enemy, one of the world's most notorious hitmen [Samuel L. Jackson]. The relentless bodyguard and manipulative assassin have been on the opposite end of the bullet for years and are thrown together for a wildly outrageous 24 hours. During their raucous and hilarious adventure from England to the Hague, they encounter high-speed car chases, outlandish boat escapades and a merciless Eastern European dictator [Gary Oldman] who is out for blood. Salma Hayek joins the mayhem as Jackson's equally notorious wife

Millennium then scrambled to find a director. WME-repped Hughes, who also helmed the Australian thriller Red Hill, met Reynolds in New York on Tuesday night and got the gig.

Do things go easily as they traipse through Europe? Well, aside from lotsa guns, lotsa explosions, lotsa car crashes (and lotsa gags), not really. Kinkaid’s wife is the equally notorious Sonia (Salma Hayek). “You lost my husband?” she snaps at one poor guy. “Do you have any idea how stupid you sound?”

Bodyguard centers on the world's top protection agent (Reynolds) who has a new client: a hitman who wants to turn in evidence. Unfortunately, the two have been on the opposite ends of their scopes for years and are not too happy about the pairing. But now they have to work together as villains come out of the woodwork to stop the hitman from testifying in the Hague.

Synopsis

A special protection agent (Ryan Reynolds) is tasked with guarding the life of his mortal enemy, who is one of the world's most notorious hitmen (Samuel L. Jackson), and taking him from England to the International Court of Justice. On their way, they are on high-speed car chases and boat escapes as deadly assassins are pursuing them and they are forced to work together in order to defeat a ruthless, powerful and bloodthirsty Eastern European dictator (Gary Oldman)

Cast

Ryan Reynolds as Michael Bryce, a triple A rated executive protection agent
Samuel L. Jackson as Darius Kincaid, one of the world’s most notorious hitmen and Sonia’s husband
Gary Oldman as Vladislav Dukhovich, a merciless Eastern European dictator
Élodie Yung as Amelia Ryder, an Interpol agent
Salma Hayek as Sonia Kincaid, Darius’s equally notorious wife
Joaquim de Almeida as Jean Foucher
Kirsty Mitchell as Rebecca Harr
Richard E. Grant as Seifert
Sam Hazeldine as Garrett

Helmer Jeff Wadlow has exited The Hitman’s Bodyguard, the action thriller from Millennium, the company behind London Has Fallen. He has been been replaced by Patrick Hughes, director of Millennium's The Expendables 3.

The film company is now breathing a little easier in regards to its project, which has Reynolds, Samuel L. Jackson, Gary Oldman, Selma Hayek and Elodie Yung (Daredevil) on the roll call.

The movie has a start date of April 2, with a shoot that calls for locations in London, Amsterdam and Bulgaria.

Wadlow, who has been in developing the project for years, got caught in a schedule collision, sources told The Hollywood Reporter.

Patrick Hughes directs from a script by Tom O’Connor. Summit Entertainment will release the buddy-actioner on August 18. It comes from Millennium Media in association with Cristal Pictures and East Light Films. Have a look at the trailer above, and let us know if you plan to witness the mayhem.

War for the Planet of the Apes (2017) - Release Info, Soundtrack listing, Box office, Movie Review

SoAs.in July 13, 2017 Entertinment , Hollywood , Movie

War for the Planet of the Apes is the summer’s most essential blockbuster

War for the Planet of the Apes (2017) - Release Info, Soundtrack listing, Box office, Movie Review

Elsewhere, supernatural horror film 'Wish Upon' could have trouble scaring up much business, while 'The Big Sick' expands nationwide after an impressive limited run at the specialty box office.

On Friday, the critically acclaimed War for the Planet of the Apes, the final installment in 20th Century Fox's refurbished trilogy, opens everywhere in North America. Prerelease tracking suggests the tentpole will launch to $55 million or more, but that might not be enough to beat holdover Spider-Man: Homecoming.

If Sony and Marvel Studios' Spider-Man reboot falls only 50 percent in its sophomore outing, that means a weekend tally of $58.5 million. But if it declines 55 percent or more, it will land in the low-$50 million range.

Amid a summer strewn with tentpoles panned by critics before disappointing at the domestic box office, War for the Planet of the Apes and Spider-Man: Homecoming both boast the identical certified fresh rating of a stellar 93 percent on Rotten Tomatoes. That's slightly ahead of Wonder Woman (92 percent) and Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, the other two summer tentpoles bronzed by glowing reviews.

War for the Planet of the Apes, having decoupled itself from the obligation to be faithful to any holy text in particular, is able to do all kinds of things recent Biblical blockbusters couldn’t pull off. It can reference other kinds of movies and other genres. It can layer symbols and code into its characters and settings to evoke several historical narratives at once. It can crack jokes and stage breathtaking action scenes and imagine narrative twists, with no purists coming after them with lit torches crying foul

The latest Planet of the Apes installment, costing $150 million to produce before marketing, sees Matt Reeves once again sitting in the director's chair after helming sequel Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, which debuted to $72.6 million domestically in July 2014. Rupert Wyatt directed the first title in the trilogy, Rise of the Planet of the Apes, which bowed to $54.8 million in August 2011.

I’m half-kidding. It’s a movie about talking apes, after all, led by a chimpanzee named Caesar, and it’s set in a post-apocalyptic future America, where Woody Harrelson is running a rogue paramilitary force. None of those things appear in the Holy Writ.

But then again, that paramilitary force rallies beneath a tattered American flag spray-painted with the call sign ΑΩ — Alpha Omega, the first and last letters of the Greek alphabet and a name used for God in the Biblical book of Revelation. They force captive apes into servitude in a manner that recalls images of the enslaved Israelites in Egypt being forced to build pyramids. Several scenes — including the final one — clearly paint Caesar, leader of the apes, as a Moses figure.

War for the Planet of the Apes Information

Directed by Matt Reeves

Produced by Peter Chernin, Dylan Clark, Rick Jaffa, Amanda Silver

Written by Mark Bomback, Matt Reeves

Based on Characters created by Rick Jaffa Amanda Silver Premise suggested by Planet of the Apes by Pierre Boulle

Starring - Andy Serkis, Woody Harrelson, Steve Zahn, Amiah Miller, Karin Konoval, Judy Greer, Terry Notary

Music by Michael Giacchino

Cinematography - Michael Seresin

Edited by William Hoy, Stan Salfas

Production company - Chernin Entertainment

Distributed by 20th Century Fox

War for the Planet of the Apes Release date July 14, 2017

Running time 140 minutes

Country - United States

Language - English

War for the Planet of the Apes is an upcoming American science fiction film directed by Matt Reeves and written by Mark Bomback and Reeves. It is a sequel to the 2014 film Dawn of the Planet of the Apes and the third installment in the Planet of the Apes reboot series. The film stars Andy Serkis, Woody Harrelson, Steve Zahn, Amiah Miller, Karin Konoval, Judy Greer and Terry Notary. Principal photography began on October 14, 2015, in Vancouver.

The film is scheduled to be released in the United Kingdom on July 11, 2017 and in the United States on July 14, by 20th Century Fox.

In War for the Planet of the Apes, the third chapter of the critically acclaimed blockbuster franchise, Caesar and his apes are forced into a deadly conflict with an army of humans led by a ruthless Colonel. After the apes suffer unimaginable losses, Caesar wrestles with his darker instincts and begins his own mythic quest to avenge his kind. As the journey finally brings them face to face, Caesar and the Colonel are pitted against each other in an epic battle that will determine the fate of both their species and the future of the planet.

War for the Planet of the Apes Is an Adventure Humans Almost Don't Deserve

The bigger movies get, somehow the smaller we get. Increasingly elaborate special effects, marathon-length runtimes, plots that sprawl off the rails within the first 20 minutes: Pictures built to entertain us don’t necessarily make us feel more human. But Matt Reeves’ War for the Planet of the Apes is something else, a summer blockbuster that treats its audience as primates of a higher order. It’s not going to change the summer-blockbuster landscape single-handedly, but at least it comes by its thrills honestly: This is a spectacle that trusts us to think.

War for the Planet of the Apes Release Info

UK, Ireland on 11 July 2017 Belgium, New Zealand, Sweden on 12 July 2017 Chile, Czech Republic, Denmark, Georgia, Greece, Hong Kong, Croatia, Hungary, Israel, Italy, Cambodia, Kuwait, Netherlands, Portugal, Russia, Singapore, Ukraine on 13 July 2017 Bangladesh, Bulgaria, Canada, Estonia, Spain, Lithuania, Norway, Turkey, USA on 14 July 2017 Indonesia on 26 July 2017 Australia on 27 July 2017 Poland on 28 July 2017 France on 2 August 2017 Argentina, Brazil, Germany on 3 August 2017 Austria on 4 August 2017 Japan on 13 October 2017

In the first movie in the rebooted franchise, the 2011 Rise of the Planet of the Apes (directed by Rupert Wyatt), a bunch of superbright chimps—the virus that has made them so smart is lethal to humans—break out of a Northern California research facility and scamper over the Golden Gate Bridge to freedom in the redwood forest. In the Reeves-directed Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014), set some 10 years later, the apes have built a world of their own, but it’s threatened by the relatively few surviving humans—tensions escalate into an all-out war between ape and man. The anchor character of those two movies, and of this one, is the chimp Caesar, played, via motion-capture technology, by Andy Serkis. His simian brow is noble. His eyes carry both shadows of sorrow and flickers of hope. He’s a leader of apes, and men could learn a thing or two from him too. But in Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, a hate-filled bonobo named Koba (Toby Kebbell) instigated a war Caesar was unable to stop.

War for the Planet of the Apes Soundtrack listing

1. "Apes’ Past is Prologue (Written By Griffin Giacchino)"
2. "Assault of the Earth"
3. "Exodus Wounds"
4. "The Posse Polonaise"
5. "The Bad Ape Bagatelle"
6. "Don’t Luca Now"
7. "Koba Dependent"
8. "The Ecstasy of the Bold"
9. "Apes Together Strong"
10. "A Tide in the Affairs of Apes"
11. "Planet of the Escapes"
12. "The Hating Game"
13. "A Man Named Suicide"
14. "More Red Than Alive"
15. "Migration"
16. "Paradise Found"
17. "End Credits"

As War for the Planet of the Apes opens, Caesar and his cohorts defend their forest world against a battalion of human intruders. They're able to corner this particular group of soldiers, though instead of killing them, they send the troops back alive to their colonel, as a message of peace. But the Colonel (Woody Harrelson), a war-hardened loon with rogue ambitions of his own, will have none of it. He unleashes more violence against the peaceful apes, who are simply trying to rebuild their war-torn home. Caesar realizes he must fight back, though the real demon he struggles against is the angry legacy of Koba. (Koba, killed off in the last film, reappears in spirit in this one.)

There’s ape betrayal, ape bravery, ape joy and lots of ape action in War for the Planet of the Apes. Yet the picture’s plot mechanics aren’t nearly as significant or as memorable as its characters are: The way they move and interact invites curiosity and sometimes even wonder. The apes who have had contact with humankind speak English, but most communicate via sign and body language—their interactions constitute a ballet of interpretive dance and knowing looks. In addition to Caesar, many old favorites from the other movies return, the loveliest among them the empathetic orangutan Maurice (Karin Konoval): His gentle soul shines through his luminous pie plate of a face. He’s a calming influence on Caesar and a watchful maternal stand-in for the mute, though never excessively cute, orphan girl who’s adopted by the apes (Amiah Miller). Best of all, though, is the chimp played by Steve Zahn, an old-man loner who goes by a name some humans gave him long ago: Bad Ape. Bad Ape is actually a great ape, a marvelous, semi-forgetful senior citizen whose doddering generosity is the sort that can save the day. (When he holds a pair of binoculars to his eyes the wrong way around, the “oooooohhhh” of disappointment that escapes his lips is one of the movie’s goofiest little pleasures.)

War for the Planet of the Apes Box officeIn North America the film is projected to gross $50–60 million in its opening weekend, with rival studios having it debut to as high as $70–80 million.

War for the Planet of the Apes is hardly all joy and light: Harrelson’s loose-cannon Colonel is a sadist and a dictator wannabe, and the movie contains some harrowing scenes of ape suffering. Be forewarned if you’re thinking of taking really little kids. But there’s plenty of vital poetry in the picture, particularly of the visual sort: The sight of apes sitting upright on horseback, riding off to battle or just trotting along a beach, is strangely stirring, a picture of animal dignity that isn’t quite right yet makes all kinds of sense. The special traits of these creatures—their eagerness to do the right thing and their impulse to look out for one another—are qualities to which real humans should aspire. In the words of Bad Ape, a kind of broken English-as-a-second-language that nevertheless gets the message across: “New friends. Special day.”

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Actress Melissa Rauch Announces Her Pregnancy and Reflects on the Heartache of Miscarriage

SoAs.in July 12, 2017 Business , Entertinment , Hollywood

Born: 23 June 1980, Marlboro, New Jersey, United States

Height: 1.5 m

Spouse: Winston Beigel

Siblings: Ben Rauch

Parents: Susan Rauch, David Rauch

Actress Melissa Rauch and her husband Winston are expecting their first child in the fall of 2017. In her own words, here is Melissa's emotional and heartfelt story of the long road to parenthood.

Here is the only statement regarding my pregnancy that doesn’t make me feel like a complete fraud: “Melissa is expecting her first child. She is extremely overjoyed, but if she’s being honest, due to the fact that she had a miscarriage the last time she was pregnant, she’s pretty much terrified at the moment that it will happen again. She feels weird even announcing this at all, and would rather wait until her child heads off to college to tell anyone, but she figures she should probably share this news before someone sees her waddling around with her mid-section protruding and announces it first.”

During the time when I was grieving over my pregnancy loss or struggling with fertility issues, every joyful, expectant baby announcement felt like a tiny stab in the heart. It’s not that I wasn’t happy for these people, but I would think, “Why are these shiny, carefree, fertile women so easily able to do what I cannot?” And then I’d immediately feel guilt and shame for harboring that jealousy—one might call this “the circle of strife.” (A song I imagine is somewhere deep in the extended director’s cut of The Lion King.) I’ve always been one to keep my eyes on my own paper, but when it came to having a baby, that proved to be a challenge. So when I thought about having to share the news about expecting this baby, all I could think about was another woman mourning over her loss as I did, worried she would never get pregnant again, and reading about my little bundle on the way. It felt a bit disingenuous to not also share the struggle it took for me to get here.

(Just to be clear, I’m not saying everyone who publicly announces cheerful news should also report the crummy journey they embarked on before getting to the other side of it. I personally just wanted to express what I’ve experienced in the hopes that it could—in some small way—help someone going through a similar pain. Ideally, the more we talk about this issue, the more we can chip away at the unnecessary stigma around it, with the end result being that those of us struggling with loss and infertility will feel less alone. Perhaps with increased overall awareness, women dealing with these extremely challenging circumstances won’t feel like they’re getting sucker punched in the uterus by well-intentioned people.)

2006 Delirious

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LOS ANGELES (AP) - "Big Bang Theory" star Melissa Rauch is expecting her first child with her husband, screenwriter Winston Beigel.

Rauch has revealed her pregnancy in an essay for Glamour magazine in which she also opens up about a miscarriage she suffered. She writes that she's "terrified at the moment that it will happen again," but is making the news public before someone sees her pregnant and announces the news first.

She says the miscarriage "was one of the most profound sorrows" she has ever felt and led to a bout with depression.

Grief, Guilt, Hormones and Hardcore Sobbing to HGTV

The miscarriage I experienced was one of the most profound sorrows I have ever felt in my life. It kickstarted a primal depression that lingered in me. The image of our baby on the ultrasound monitor—without movement, without a heartbeat—after we had seen that same little heart healthy and flickering just two weeks prior completely blindsided us and haunts me to this day. I kept waiting for the sadness to lift...but it didn’t. Sure, I had happy moments and life went on, but the heartbreak was always lurking. Inescapable reminders, like the unfulfilled due date, came around like a heavy cloud. A day I had once marked on my calendar with such excitement was now a memorial of a crushed dream. I was constantly wishing that the feeling of being desperately lonely in my own body would dissipate. It didn’t help that I was also fighting against these feelings with thoughts like, “You should be over this by now,” and “People go through a heck of a lot worse, you miserable sad-sack!” (Can you tell that I am awesome at self-compassion?) What I realized, though, is that because this kind of loss is not openly talked about nearly as much as it should be, there really is no template for how to process these emotions. You’re not necessarily going to a funeral or taking time off from work to mourn, but that doesn’t change the fact that something precious has been unexpectedly taken from your life.

The miscarriage resulted in "one of the most profound sorrows I have ever felt in my life," Melissa then added. "It kickstarted a primal depression that lingered in me.

"The image of our baby on the ultrasound monitor - without movement, without a heartbeat - after we had seen that same little heart healthy and flickering just two weeks prior completely blindsided us and haunts me to this day. I kept waiting for the sadness to lift... but it didn't."

Melissa wrote that she dislikes the term miscarriage because she be believes it "deserves to be ranked as one of the worst, most blame-inducing medical terms ever".

Then there’s the guilt. As a Jewish mother-to-be, this was something I was expecting to be instinctually good at. But I was supposed to be harnessing this power to guilt my future child, not using it on myself! I knew in my heart there wasn’t anything I could have done to prevent what happened, but that didn’t stop me from the futile exercise of mentally replaying every day of the pregnancy up until that point over and over again, wondering if there was something I did that could’ve caused the miscarriage.

"Miscarriage" by the way, deserves to be ranked as one of the worst, most blame-inducing medical terms ever. To me, it immediately conjures up an implication that it was the woman’s fault, like she somehow “mishandled the carrying of this baby.” F that so hard, right in its patriarchal nut-sack. It’s not that a better name would make it less awful to go through. But for a while, my husband and I just started saying to each other—without any judgment or acrimony to the baby, of course—that the baby "bailed” instead.

When even the perversely stupid medical term involved felt like an endorsement for the blame game, it was hard for me not to take the bait. If you’re doing that to yourself, please take these words in (as I also reminded myself many times): You did nothing wrong. Babies are born in all sorts of extreme conditions. If it was a viable pregnancy, it would have made it. Due to reasons beyond anyone's control, miscarriage is estimated to occur in anywhere from 15 to 20 percent of recognized pregnancies. There was nothing you could’ve done to change the situation. Most importantly, please be kind to yourself. As much as I wanted to “move on” and gain some sense of control over what happened by beating myself up, I came to understand that thoughts like that have no productive place in grief. Our pain is something to be worked through until it isn’t anymore. So on my better days, rather than being a big jerk to myself, I just started saying: It is OK to not be OK right now.

She continued: "To me, it immediately conjures up an implication that it was the woman's fault, like she somehow 'mishandled the carrying of this baby'."

The actress said while she was grieving for the loss of her pregnancy and struggling with fertility, every other baby announcement "felt like a tiny stab in the heart".

Melissa went on: "It's not that I wasn't happy for these people, but I would think, 'Why are these shiny, carefree, fertile women so easily able to do what I cannot?'

"And then I'd immediately feel guilt and shame for harboring that jealousy - one might call this 'the circle of strife'."

During this time, I was continually surprised by the constant assault of emotions—and how severely unlike myself I felt. In addition to the intense grief, the hormonal drop-off is something I was not prepared for in the least. I wish I had known that this physiological response is an extremely prevalent and real component of pregnancy loss. In retrospect, it would’ve helped me to be aware that many women essentially go through a form of postpartum depression after a miscarriage, without a baby to show for it. If nothing else, having this knowledge may have put some of my darker “what the shit is happening” moments in context for me.

I remember watching House Hunters International one night about three weeks after my miscarriage. Out of the blue, I began what I can only describe as “projectile crying.” Like tears were literally spurting out of my eyeballs towards the TV, and they would not stop. Nothing in particular set it off. I surely wasn’t crying about whether or not the young ex-pat couple would find a flat close enough to the city center in Lisbon. It was just something going on hormonally. I didn’t know it at the time, but I’ve since been informed there are small doses of estrogen, progesterone, or herbs that can be taken under the guidance of your doctor to help. Acupuncture can potentially offset these hormonal changes as well. The sadness on its own is hard enough; the least we can do for ourselves is talk with the medical professionals in our lives about ways to alleviate the hormone plunge that occurs after pregnancy loss.

The Great Baby Inquisition

One of the perks to sadness is the time it gives you to think when you’re somberly staring at a wall. Something that kept coming to mind is how arbitrarily we all talk about baby-making. I know I’ve asked women about their reproducing situation in the past (as most of us unintentionally have at some point or another). It comes from a well-meaning, good place. My hope is that if we as a society become more aware of how common fertility struggles are, perhaps we won’t be so cavalier in questioning females about what's on their baby agenda. There are so many other things to ask women about other than procreating…ya know, like what we’re wearing. I kid!

Ovary-probing like the following constantly happens to childless women of a certain age: “Are you pregnant?” “When are you going to have a little one?” “You’re getting up there, you worthless old empty baby dispenser...isn’t it time you breed already?!” Okay, maybe the last one isn’t as common, but the sentiment is there. And I have friends with kids who tell me it doesn’t stop there. It transitions to: “When is Lyla getting a sibling?” (And yes, if you’re wondering, all of my friend’s kids are named Lyla.) Yet, on the flip side, we’d never inquire of a man: “When are ya going to shoot a virile load up in someone and create human life?” So, before any of us ask a woman about popping out a baby, let’s think to ourselves: We don’t know what she’s going through, what her body is capable of, or what she personally desires. Whether a woman wants to have children or not, if she wants to share that information, she will.

Bottom line: I’ve come to the conclusion that unless I clearly see an infant emerging from its uterine homeland and its mother is shouting at me: “Over here! Look at me! I am birthing a baby right now in the back of my 2007 Saturn!” it’s probably best not to ask her about reproduction. Incidentally, if anyone does see a baby being birthed in the back of a 2007 Saturn, congrats to you on that awesome and rare sighting!

In My Heart Until It’s In My Arms

Many times in my life I’ve been able to get through difficult situations by reminding myself of the classic adage: “Everything happens for a reason." But as it turns out—for me, anyway—miscarriage was more of a “this straight-up f*cking sucks” situation. Some things just are. The simple acceptance of this reality actually proved to be the most helpful course of action for me. This was a below sea-level moment amongst the proverbial peaks and valleys of life. There was something very healing about simply acknowledging where I was, rather than trying to completely make sense of it or wrap my head around some cookie-cutter rationale. We all process grief differently. If you are dealing with prenatal loss, I hope you find something, anything, to bring you comfort (whether it’s planting a tree, having a small ceremony, or giving a big double middle finger to the universe). The unknown is a scary place, but it's also where hope and possibility live. I’m trying as much as I can to embrace the reality of that uncertainty.

All I really know for sure is that this experience has changed me forever. I know it’s made me grateful for every moment of my current pregnancy, and I hope it will make me a better mother in some capacity when I can finally hold the child that has been in my heart in my arms. Although I can’t categorize these lessons of humble appreciation and gratitude as “reasons for this happening,” I will consider them a silver lining. (But to be honest, I would’ve much preferred to learn said lessons from either a fortune cookie or by watching a few heartfelt reruns of Full House.) So, to all the women out there who are dealing with fertility issues, have gone through a miscarriage or are going through the pain of it currently, allow me to leave you with this message: You are not alone. And, it is perfectly OK to not be OK right now.

Milana Vayntrub lands Squirrel Girl role in Marvel's 'New Warriors'

SoAs.in July 11, 2017 Entertinment , Hollywood , Top Trending People

Milana Vayntrub

Born Milana Aleksandrovna Vayntrub March 8, 1987 (Tashkent, Uzbek SSR, USSR)

Nationality American, formerly Soviet/Uzbek

Alma mater UCSD (BA)

Occupation actress, comedian

Years active 1995–present

Known for Playing saleswoman Lily Adams in a series of AT&T television commercials

Milana Vayntrub has been cast as Squirrel Girl in the forthcoming Marvel series New Warriors, and people are freaking out (with mostly positive reactions). The show’s storyline will follow a group of six young adult superheroes, but the hype has been pretty much all about Squirrel Girl from the beginning, so this casting choice is big news.

Milana Vayntrub lands Squirrel Girl role in Marvel's 'New Warriors'

Milana Vayntrub has gone from the perky AT&T salesperson on the ubiquitous TV commercials, to landing the role as Squirrel Girl in Marvel's New Warriors.

Freeform, Disney’s young adult television and streaming network, confirmed Monday that Vayntrub had been cast in Marvel's first live-action script comedy.

The duo lead the ensemble cast in the 10-episode series about six young people learning to cope with their abilities in a world where bad guys can be as terrifying as bad dates. Joining Vayntrub and Theler are Jeremy Tardy as Night Thrasher, Calum Worthy as Speedball, Matthew Moy as Microbe and Kate Comer as Debrii.

"I am thrilled beyond belief to be working with this incredible group of actors. They are funny, sincere, eager, charming and perfectly embody these characters. It'll be a blast and an honor to create this show with each of them," said showrunner - and longtime Squirrel Girl superfan - Kevin Biegel (Enlisted).

She plays a "totally empowered fangirl who has the incredible powers of a … squirrel," according to a Freeform release. "Her greatest quality is her optimism and her best friend is a pet squirrel, Tippy Toe."

Derek Theler has been cast in the role of Mister Immortal in the series slated to debut in 2018 on Freeform.

Marvel's New Warriors features six young people "learning to cope with their abilities in a world where bad guys can be as terrifying as bad dates," says the release.

Vayntrub shot to fame as the recurring character of “Lily” in the AT&T commercials and has recently begun playing Sloane Sandburg in This is Us. She’s originally from Uzbekistan; when she was three, she fled to the United States with her family because they couldn’t openly practice Judaism in the Soviet Union.

The online reaction to the casting news has mostly been ecstatic. Fans can totally Vayntrub as the “wonderful heart” of New Warriors; they think that her performance as the sweet, slightly awkward “Lily” bodes well for her pulling off Squirrel Girl.

"We’re so lucky to have assembled such a diverse and incredibly talented cast," Loeb said. “We can’t wait for the fans to see what’s in store when we unleash these iconic characters into the world!"

Maia Campbell

SoAs.in July 10, 2017 Hollywood , Movie

Maia Chinassa Campbell (born November 26, 1976) is an American film, television actress and model. She is best known for her role as Nicole on the 1994 FOX comedy-drama series South Central and her portrayal of Tiffany Warren in the NBC/UPN sitcom In the House for three seasons (1995–1998).

Maia Campbell
Born Maia Chinassa Campbell November 26, 1976 (Takoma Park, Maryland, U.S.)
Alma mater Spelman College
Occupation Actress Model
Years active 1993–2007
Known for Tiffany Warren – In the House
Spouse(s) Elias Gutierrez (m. 1998–2002)
Children 1
Parent(s) Bebe Moore Campbell, Tiko Campbell

LL Cool J Wants to Find Actress Maia Campbell After Video of Her Goes Viral
In the mid/late 1990s, actress Maia Campbell starred alongside rap legend LL Cool J in the hit TV series In The House. Very recently, a viral video of her looking strung out in the streets of Stone Mountain, Ga. has spread across the internet. Now, LL’s taken steps to find the troubled actress, using his social media accounts to do so.

Maia Campbell: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know

Maia Campbell Best Known for Starring in the ’90s Sitcom ‘In the House’.

Maia Campbell Was Diagnosed With Bipolar Disorder & Sentenced to a Mental Health Facility in 2010.

Maia Campbell Has a Teenage Daughter Named Elisha.

Former Co-Star LL Cool J Is Asking Fans to Help Him Find Maia Campbell.

Maia Campbell - This Isn’t the First Time a Video of Campbell Has Gone Viral.

For obvious reasons, LL, who’s now been in the rap game for 30 years, is disheartened by the way things have turned out for his former co-star. After posting an image of Campbell, along with instructions to contact him if you’ve seen her, LL used his Twitter account to condemn people supporting the video instead of getting help for Campbell.

Actress Maia Campbell made headlines on Sunday after a video of her went viral. In the video, it appears that Campbell is wearing only a bra and underwear, while she can be heard saying she wants some crack, and telling a story a tale about an experience she had with a Persian stripper.

This comes as a shock to many who have followed Campbell’s career, as she was believed to have kicked her substance abuse habit in the past few years, following her appearance on an episode of Iyanla: Fix My Life. To learn more about Campbell and her struggles with addiction and bipolar disorder, here are five fast facts you need to know.

Legendary rapper LL Cool J reached out to fans on Instagram Sunday night with a heartfelt plea for their help locating his troubled former “In the House” co-star Maia Campbell.
The rapper and actor made the plea Sunday after video surfaced online of Campbell, scantily dressed, apparently under the influence of drugs and telling a man on camera “I want crack.”
The video, which contains graphic language, was reportedly taken at a Stone Mountain, Georgia, gas station while Campbell, who has had a very public battle with substance abuse and mental illness, was pumping gas. The footage posted by online gossip site Straight from the A has been viewed more than 223,000.

“Instead of pulling out your phone and filming someone who’s obviously having trouble. Maybe lend a helping hand? A kind word? @MaiaCampbell,” LL wrote on Twitter Sunday (July 9).

There doesn’t appear to be any definite confirmation that LL’s reached his goal, but he did upload an image of the words “Thank you” to his Instagram post yesterday. We hope that means he’s found Campbell safe and sound.

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Jennifer Lopez, Lady Antebellum & Charlie Puth Lead Macy's 4th Of July Festivities

SoAs.in July 05, 2017 Entertinment , Hollywood , Songs

Jennifer Lopez gave fans a taste of her new music on Tuesday, when she premiered her new single, "Ni Tu Ni Yo," during Macy's Fourth of July Fireworks Spectacular.

The pop superstar taped her performance several days prior to the live NBC special in New York City. She rocked a sexy black gown with shimmering gold and silver embellishments, which showed off her super toned legs with two waist-high slits.

Lopez dominated the stage as she performed the high-energy Spanish-language track alongside Alexander Delgado and Randy Malcom Martinez of the Cuban reggaeton duo Gente de Zona, who feature on the single.

Lopez, who also opened the Fireworks Spectacular with a pre-recorded performance of her 2002 megahit "Jenny From the Block," took to Instagram after her performance aired to announce that "Ni Tu Ni Yo" was "available everywhere NOW for download and streaming."

Lopez returned to her hometown of New York City on June 30 to tape the performance at Hunters Point Park in Long Island City, and the 47-year-old pop diva was joined by her boyfriend, former Yankees slugger Alex Rodriguez.

Following her set, the cute couple were spotted holding hands and strolling around the Big Apple while Lopez was still rocking her revealing black gown. Check out the video below for more on the pair's night out on the town.

Jennifer Lopez Releases New Song 'Ni Tu Ni Yo': Listen

Jennifer Lopez has officially dropped her new single, "Ni tú ni yo" featuring Gente de Zona.

The singer released the song the same night she performed it at Macy’s 4th of July celebration in New York City.

"Ni tú ni yo" is set to appear on Lopez's upcoming Spanish-language album, to be released in September. A music video for the single will premiere July 10 at 9 a.m. on Telemundo.

Jennifer Lopez, Lady Antebellum & Charlie Puth Lead Macy's 4th Of July Festivities

Macy’s 4th of July Fireworks Spectacular in New York City went off with a bang as Jennifer Lopez, Lady Antebellum and Sheryl Crow led this year’s concerts lineup.

Lopez premiered her new song "Ni Tú Ni Yo,” while the likes of Brad Paisley, Charlie Puth and Hailee Steinfeld filled the bill for the 41st annual Independence Day show, which aired Tuesday night on NBC.

JLo delivered the final performance of the night before the glorious fireworks display closed out the evening.

"Ni Tú Ni Yo" is set to appear on Lopez's upcoming Spanish-language album, to be released in September. A music video for the single will premiere July 10 at 9 a.m. on Telemundo.

‘Descendants of the Sun‘ stars Song Joong Ki, Song Hye Kyo are engaged

SoAs.in July 05, 2017 Entertinment , Hollywood , Songs

Wedding bells will be ringing in October for ‘Descendants of the Sun’ stars Song Joong Ki and Song Hye Kyo.

Blossom Entertainment and United Artists Agency (UAA) issued a joint statement on Wednesday to share the news with the fans of the Korean stars.

"Song Joong Ki and Song Hye Kyo will be holding a wedding ceremony on the final day of October, 2017," the statement read, as published by entertainment website Soompi.

The full statement reads:.

Hello. This is Blossom Entertainment and UAA.
First of all, we give our thanks to the Korean and international fans who have shown a lot of interest in and love for Song Joong Ki and Song Hye Kyo. Also, we ask for your understanding as we convey this surprising news.
Song Joong Ki and Song Hye Kyo will be holding a wedding ceremony on the final day of October, 2017. A marriage is not only a private matter but also a meeting between two families, so it was a delicate situation in many ways.
There was no choice but to be cautious prior to marriage, and so we are at last conveying this message. We ask for everyone’s understanding.
We ask for you to send the couple best wishes for their beautiful future together, and the two actors will be conveying the news to their fans separately. Thank you.

Song Joong Ki and Song Hye Kyo played the roles of Captain Yoo Si-jin and Doctor Kang Mo-yeon in the hit K-Drama, which aired in the Philippines on GMA in 2016.

News of South Korean stars Song Joong Ki and Song Hye Kyo’s surprising marriage announcement has spread like wild fire.

The couple released a statement via their agencies Blossom Entertainment (which represents Song Joong Ki) and UAA (Song Hye Kyo) in the morning of July 5. News outlets all over the world picked up on the story shortly after, while fans quickly spread the word on social media.

The statement, as quoted by Soompi, reads: “Hello. This is Blossom Entertainment and United Artists Agency. First of all, we give our thanks to the Korean and international fans who have shown a lot of interest in and love for Song Joong Ki and Song Hye Kyo. Also, we ask for your understanding as we convey this surprising news.

“Song Joong Ki and Song Hye Kyo will be holding a wedding ceremony on the final day of October 2017. A marriage is not only a private matter but also a meeting between two families, so it was a delicate situation in many ways. There was no choice but to be cautious prior to marriage, and so we are at last conveying this message. We ask for everyone’s understanding.

“We ask for you to send the couple best wishes for their beautiful future together, and the two actors will be conveying the news to their fans separately. Thank you.”

Not just rumours after all

Song Joong Ki, 31, and Song Hye Kyo, 35, were rumoured to be dating while filming Descendants Of The Sun. The series was one of 2016’s biggest K-dramas and earned the duo a Best Couple trophy at the recent KBS Drama Awards.

Before the show’s finale aired in March 2016, the two were spotted having dinner together in New York City.

Reports of the “couple” going on holiday in Bali, Indonesia also surfaced sometime in June 2017. However, the actors, their agencies and representatives have fervently denied those rumours.

BENNELONG REVIEW (BANGARRA, SYDNEY OPERA HOUSE)

SoAs.in June 30, 2017 Entertinment , Hollywood

Under the sails of the Sydney Opera House, on the same harbour point where Governor Phillip once built him a brick hut, Bangarra now stages this remarkable dance theatre tale about Bennelong. Snatched away to be the colony’s ambassador to his people, Bennelong was reportedly the first Aboriginal man to learn and write English, take up European ways and sail to London.

But was he an appeaser seduced by vanities of white power or a realist negotiator? A father of reconciliation, a fighter or a victim? Or all of these?

Director Stephen Page’s Bennelong certainly tells a vivid story of cultural shock, disease, survival and adaptability – but also suggests necessarily there’s a Bennelong in every Indigenous Australian. And it didn’t end well for him. Perhaps that’s why many talk less of Bennelong and more of the resistance warrior Pemulwuy.

Page though is well qualified to dance into this cauldron of contested histories with this, his 26th production. After those stunning first elemental works in the 1990s around country, and later contemporary portraits of urban dispossession, Bangarra more recently has told histories both black and white. Among others, Patyegarang (2014) was the story of that young Aboriginal woman and her intimacy and exchange of language with Lt William Dawes in this same colonial Sydney.

Bennelong is darker and less optimistic than Patyegarang, but is the more successful dance work, with its charged narrative beautifully supported by words in song. With dramaturg Alana Valentine, Page tells his story chronologically through 16 vignettes from Bennelong’s birth to his death, alcoholic and abandoned by all in a backyard in Putney.

While this linear structure threatens to be repetitive and could so easily degenerate into historical pantomime, it never does. Page and his creative team, so practised now as collaborators, keep the narrative driving and its thematic handling powerfully impressionistic.

Steve Francis’ score, with additional music and lyrics in language by Matthew Doyle, is a masterpiece collage of emotional power, melodies, techno assault, sounds of sea, wind and country, old racist shanties, Rule Britannia and a touch of Haydn when Bennelong and his mate stumble into London society.

When Yemmerawanya dies in London, his body is hauled from the stage, forgotten, on the back of an aristocrat’s long purple cloak. Jennifer Iwin’s artful costumes, across time and cultures, here make no disguise that these nightmare figures are seen through Aboriginal eyes. And the next scene, Repatriation, equally avoids pantomime as Bennelong and the powerful ubiquitous spirit, dance elder Elam Kris, mourn Yemmerawanya, dancing to Valentine’s whispered horror words of body parts.

Jacob Nash is well known for Bangarra’s richly textured, painterly backdrops which are here confidently fused with iconic elements like the suspended opening circle of light and smoke, a huge figure abstraction of “1788” and the silver prison walls slowly being built around the dying spirit of Bennelong. Nick Schlieper evocatively lights these elements and with his signature side-lighting picks out the dancers with sculptural precision.

Bennelong is Bangarra at the height of its powers and collaborative storytelling. It’s now 18 dancers number what was – and is no longer – the size of the Sydney Dance Company.

Not unlike Graeme Murphy, who at the SDC helped groom him as a dancer and young choreographer, Stephen Page draws on these dancers and collaborations to direct compelling dance theatre stories.

While this strength underpins a choreography which can run into generalised movement, Bennelong has some outstanding signatures, especially in the group work of Page’s dancers. Like kangaroos, over their shoulders they sniff with alarm the arrival of the settlers. Later they curl and stretch long in the death throes of small pox. And again, dramatic and abstracted production elements lift these scenes beyond the obvious. Page’s choreography is particularly striking when the tribes interact, together and in pairs, with the new arrivals, as these white ghosts with crooked arms semaphore their march across the stage.

Dancer Beau Dean Riley Smith is an amazingly agile and yet nuggetty Bennelong, intense and yet enigmatic as to what motives him. I missed the details of Bennelong’s supposed character – his charm, humour and manipulating self-interest – but perhaps that must wait for the epic film which begs to made about this landmark story.

Daniel Riley too has little room for character subtlety but he dances an interesting Phillip, striving and anxious. And Jasmin Sheppard is notable as one of Bennelong’s wives, Barangaroo.

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