DÉCOUVREZ les articles les plus lus sur ZINIO

What’s striking about Brad Hunstable’s final day with his son is how unremarkable it seemed when it began. It was April 17, a beautiful, sunny Friday in Aledo, Texas, a small town outside Fort Worth, one month after the pandemic had shut down the country. Hunstable and 12-year-old Hayden, a boy with an infectious smile who was only four days away from his 13th birthday, had just returned from fixing a well on their nearby property. Feeling the satisfaction of a job well done, Hunstable grabbed his son in a tight hug and gave him a kiss on the head. Then Hunstable went to his home office to take a call, and Hayden headed upstairs to his room. Less than half an hour later, Brad’s daughter Kinlee, then 8, ran up…

PEACOCK | Girls5eva This new sitcom oughta be, gotta be a hit! COMEDY Girls5eva arrives like a gift—a present, a surprise, not just something you ordered from Amazon out of necessity or boredom while you’ve been keeping to the house. With Tina Fey as one of its executive producers, it’s very much in line with NBC’s 30 Rock and Netflix’s Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt. The ridiculous, teasingly sarcastic one-liners never let up: They land with the light, firm ping of raindrops on an umbrella. This makes for a happy experience. Girls5eva, we learn at the start, were a five-member pop group—as they sang in their signature anthem “Gonna be famous 5eva, ’cause 4eva’s too short.” They enjoyed painfully limited success with a string of stupendously inane songs (another typical lyric: “We’re dream girlfriends ’cause…

AMAZON | the Underground Railroad An extraordinary journey DRAMA In this adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer-winning novel by Moonlight director Barry Jenkins, the Underground Railroad is an actual train, chugging along beneath the surface of the earth on an unpredictable path—it’s not clear how all the rails are connected, why at some points Blacks making their way to freedom enter at a gleaming station and at other points exit through a hole in the ground. While never stinting on the historic horrors of slavery, this remarkable 10-hour epic unfolds like a dream—a nightmare that keeps reinventing itself beyond the dreamer’s control. Cora (Thuso Mbedu), a runaway slave from Georgia being pursued by an unstoppable slave hunter (Joel Edgerton), repeatedly embarks and disembarks, expecting liberty but instead encountering racism reconfigured for a new setting.…

HBO MAX | in the Heights It’s a beautiful day in the neighborhood MUSICAL This version of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Tony-winning musical begins with a child asking the meaning of sueñito. Well, she’s told, it means “little dream”—and with that we float off into a world filled with little dreams, all of them waiting to come true in the Latin community of New York City’s Washington Heights. With its score—a lively fusion of rap, salsa and more—and a refreshing, great-looking young cast, Heights is an urban fairy tale, complete with a lottery ticket that magically paves the way for a happy ending. Its central character, Usnavi (Anthony Ramos), runs a bodega but fantasizes about a life of tropical ease in the Dominican Republic. Benny (Corey Hawkins), a car dispatcher, wants nothing more than to…

FX Impeachment: American Crime Story Stars re-create one of the 20th century’s political earthquakes—which rocked the White House and nearly destroyed an intern named Monica DRAMA History hasn’t always been kind to Monica Lewinsky—in 1998 she was referred to by New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd as “a ditsy, predatory White House intern” as well as “the girl who was too tubby to be in the high school ‘in’ crowd”—but it’s finally starting to be kinder. Lewinsky, now 48, is one of the producers of this crackling new installment of Ryan Murphy’s American Crime series, which is informed by the perspective of the #MeToo era. Impeachment focuses on the women who were caught up in the destructive morass of the Clinton Administration, particularly what were referred to as “bimbo eruptions.” There’s Lewinsky, of…

Through a steady London rain on the morning of May 6, the pomp and ceremony of King Charles III’s coronation began with a ride in the Diamond Jubilee State coach. The carriage, first used in 2014 to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the accession of his late mother, Queen Elizabeth II, departed from Buckingham Palace at 10:20 a.m. Escorted by more than 150 members of the British armed forces and cheered on by thousands of damp but decidedly enthusiastic well-wishers, the enclosed horse-drawn coach rolled its way to Westminster Abbey. For Charles, 74, accompanied by his wife of 18 years, Queen Camilla, 75, the ride followed a carefully charted course, winding past landmarks like Trafalgar Square, the Palace of Westminster and Big Ben. At only 1.4 miles, the King’s procession…

L’EQE SUV est plus compact que la berline du même nom. Il mesure 4,87 m contre 4,94 m, mais il s’étire en hauteur jusqu’à atteindre 1,69 m, soit une quinzaine de centimètres supplémentaires. Son design reste très sage, comme s’il souhaitait plaire au plus grand nombre, avec une face avant qui reprend les canons de la marque, mais un profil plus arrondi qui donne un peu plus de place à la surface vitrée. Chez Mercedes, on explique aussi ce design par une recherche aérodynamique travaillée, domaine traditionnellement défavorable aux carrosseries de type SUV. L’EQE SUV affiche 0,25 de Cx, ce qui constitue un beau résultat pour l’espèce, même si nous sommes encore loin des 0,20 de la berline. Benjamin Arnold, responsable aérodynamique, n’hésite pas à défendre ce résultat en le…

Weight-loss advice is constantly coming at you—whether you ask for it or not. You might hear about it via the latest wacky plan some influencer tweets out, a buzzy best-selling book, or your judgy sister-in-law who has been eyeballing your body at every family gathering since your brother first brought her home. There is certainly no shortage of tips on how best to slim down. The problem is, of course, that most of them are (low-fat) baloney and won’t result in long-term, lasting weight loss. Biologically speaking, losing and then keeping off weight is something your body is built to resist: A meta-analysis of 29 long-term studies on dieting showed that more than half the weight people lost had been regained at the two-year mark, and by five years, folks had…

When I started working for MacUser magazine in 1993, I was assigned to a gray cubicle with an old Mac IIci inside. (The summer intern didn’t get the latest and greatest.) I don’t know how that was nearly 30 years ago, but here we are. Over the last few years, I’ve spent a little time buying a few old Mac models and getting them up to speed. Within five feet of me as I write this are a working G4 Cube, G4 iMac, Mac Plus, PowerBook 170, and even a Power Computing Mac clone. As much as using old computers can be a fun nostalgia trip, it also makes me appreciate what we have today all the more. You remember the good times, but forget the bad! As someone who recently had…

Luberon, été 2022 : canicule oblige, le mercure affiche 41 °C. Gilet en fausse fourrure orange et talons de 14 centimètres plantés dans un gravier mouvant, Lily Collins enchaîne les prises, bête de mode impassible sous un soleil de plomb. Autour d’elle, accessoiristes, maquilleurs ou preneurs de son bourdonnent comme un essaim. « Moteur. Action… Coupez ! » ordonne-t-on en français. Depuis la terrasse du lieu – une bastide typique – Darren Star, showrunneur au nom prédéstiné, veille au grain. « Lui, ses auteurs, les réalisateurs et chefs opérateurs sont les seuls Américains présents ici, précise Raphaël Benoliel, le coproducteur. Le reste de l’équipe est 100 % français : c’est un plaisir de montrer qu’on a de vrais talents sur lesquels s’appuyer. » Le phénomène n’en finit pas de jouer avec…

Idée fausse n° 1 Moins je mange, plus je vais maigrir C’est sans doute l’idée fausse la plus répandue! Certes, si on mange de la salade verte, du concombre et du surimi à tous les repas, on risque de perdre du poids rapidement. Dans un premier temps. Parce que, dans un second temps, on risque fort d’arrêter de maigrir à cause d’un ralentissement de notre métabolisme! Eh oui, Dame Nature est bien faite. Alerté, notre corps va se mettre en mode « économie d’énergie » et brûler moins de calories: ce qui va ralentir notre amaigrissement. Idée fausse n° 2 Je vais éviter de trop boire pour dégonfler Très mauvaise idée. Et ce, pour plein de raisons! D’abord, parce que l’eau est un coupe-faim naturel. Ensuite, parce que quand on est déshydraté, on n’élimine pas…

Elle galvanisait les foules et avait surmonté des tragédies. La rayonnante chanteuse s’est éteinte chez elle en Suisse, à 83 ansAvec Ike, mentor et tortionnaire, elle apprend le métier… et l’indicible souffrance « Je l’idolâtrais, racontait-elle. C’est lui qui m’a fait démarrer. » Le musicien de génie commence par la rebaptiser. La jeune Anna Mae Bullock devient Tina Turner. En 1961, il lui fait enregistrer son premier single, « A Fool in Love », et l’épouse deux ans plus tard. Le début d’un triomphe artistique et d’un désastre intime. Le couple multiplie les titres à succès et les concerts ébouriffants. Mais en coulisses, comme sa mère avant elle, Tina est victime de coups, d’humiliations. Ike est accro à la coke, paranoïaque, et toujours armé. En 1976, après une énième raclée, la…

After two weeks apart, Jennifer Lopez and Alex Rodriguez had an emotional reunion on March 14. “Alex flew to the Dominican Republic, and Jennifer was excited to see him in person,” says a source close to Lopez, who headed to the Caribbean nation last month to shoot her upcoming romantic comedy Shotgun Wedding. Hopping on a jet for a romantic rendezvous may seem par for the course for the superstars, but Rodriguez’s gesture followed an explosive weekend that saw the once-giddy couple confirm news that their relationship has been on shaky ground. In a brief statement on March 13—hours after a swirl of breakup rumors hit the Internet—Lopez and Rodriguez admitted they’ve been “working through some things” in their relationship. But after four years together, neither is willing to call…

NETFLIX | Red Notice Ryan Reynolds, Gal Gadot and Dwayne Johnson make a powerhouse team ACTION We are informed, at the start of this cockamamie A-list caper, that back in the day Mark Antony gave his beloved Cleopatra three exquisitely bejeweled eggs. (Apparently the ancients were way ahead of Fabergé.) Now, in 2021, one of those prized eggs is the target of two thieves, one named Nolan Booth (Reynolds) and the other an elusive figure known only as the Bishop (Gadot). Trying to head off any kind of heist is broad-shouldered FBI agent John Hartley (Johnson). The movie, which hops across continents, will ultimately throw these three together in a high-gloss adventure that at times suggests Ocean’s Eleven with a tinier crew. Everything here depends on the relaxed, bantering give-and-take of the film’s…

The heart-wrenching horror played out in the hallways of Oxford High School on the afternoon of Tuesday, Nov. 30, with sickening familiarity. Crackling, echoing blasts and terrified screams, dozens of feet hitting the floor running, classroom doors slamming and students huddled together under desks in the dark, whispering to one another, crying on calls to parents and loved ones to say goodbye in case they were about to die. By 12:51 p.m., as dispatchers began fielding more than one hundred 911 calls, panicked students were climbing out of icy windows, trying to get away from the shots. Some students never made it out. Others were rescued, only later to succumb to their wounds, like senior Justin Shilling, 17. “Our hearts are broken,” his family wrote in a statement. “We would…

With a fire crackling in the hearth and photos of many of her 12 great-grandchildren nearby, Queen Elizabeth stood in Windsor Castle’s Oak Room on Feb. 16 to do her job—but on this day the 95-year-old was less sure-footed than usual. “I’m here,” she told outgoing rear admiral James Macleod and his replacement, Major General Eldon Millar, beckoning as they entered the room. “As you can see, I can’t move,” she said self-deprecatingly, holding the cane she began using in October. But despite her discomfort, she carried on as always. “What was striking is that not only was she indefatigably going about her duties as she would be expected to, but that she acknowledged that she couldn’t move,” says her biographer Sally Bedell Smith. “We’re so accustomed to seeing her…

Hayden Panettiere dances with abandon as Britney Spears songs blast at her People photo shoot, her energy light, her spirit indicative of someone who has been through it all—and come out the other side. After years of personal upheaval and pain, she’s ready to tell her story for the very first time. “I’m finally living in my truth,” says Panettiere, 32, “and it’s like a weight coming off of my chest.” Her truth is more harrowing than anyone who followed the young star’s rise and mysterious fall from fame could have known. A performer since before she could walk, Panettiere achieved smash success with roles on the TV hits Heroes and Nashville. But as she navigated life in the intense spotlight, she says, she began drinking at 13 and using drugs…

In the week after Chris Rock was slapped in the face by Will Smith onstage at the 2022 Oscars over a joke he made about Smith’s wife, Jada Pinkett Smith, Rock was in no rush to discuss the shocking incident. “I’m still processing what happened,” he said during the first of two sold-out stand-up comedy shows in Boston on March 30. “I’ll talk later, and it’ll be serious and everything.” Later he added, “Except for a couple weird things, life is pretty good right now.” During his initial shows, Rock, 57, refused to acknowledge hecklers who repeatedly yelled Smith’s name, until the following night in Boston when one audience member shouted “F--- Will Smith.” He immediately shut down the negativity, shaking his head and saying “No, no, no…” While Rock…

As a young actor in New York City, Sara Ramirez dreamed of landing a part on Sex and the City. Now, more than two decades later, they’re starring on HBO Max’s SATC revival series And Just Like That … “I am definitely floating on air,” says Ramirez. “When the [original] series ended, I thought, ‘There goes that dream.’ So when I was offered a role, I was shocked, I was elated, I was thrilled, and now I’m just so grateful.” The new iteration, in which Ramirez, 46, plays Che Diaz, an outspoken podcast host and stand-up comic who is nonbinary, comes at a fortuitous time for the former Grey’s Anatomy star, who came out as nonbinary last year. (Ramirez uses the pronouns they/them.) “I found Che so inspiring,” says Ramirez. “I…

He’s known as the National Football League’s pretty much undisputed GOAT, but lately, Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback Tom Brady isn’t racking up the wins. His team has lost five of their first eight games, a career worst for the seven-time Super Bowl champ, now in his 23rd season in the NFL. And Brady hasn’t been hiding his frustration. During a week 5 game against the Atlanta Falcons, he got in the face of an official and dropped an F-bomb. And after getting sacked twice during an Oct. 17 game against the Pittsburgh Steelers (which the Bucs lost 20-18), he unleashed a tirade against his offensive line. Then during an Oct. 23 face-off with the Carolina Panthers (another loss) in Charlotte, N.C., Brady uncharacteristically kept to himself on the sideline. “Every…

For all the great and revolutionary products and features Apple has released over the years, there are just as many head-scratching decisions that have taken away or ruined things we love. They’re usually gone forever, like USB-A ports or headphone jacks, but every so often Apple hears our wails and reverses course. It happened most recently with the butterfly keyboard. Way back in 2015, Apple shifted away from its very excellent scissor-switch keyboards to a proprietary “butterfly” model that was thinner than its predecessor. Apple claimed it was superior, but unhappy users loudly complained about the keyboard, which was so prone to sticking and unresponsive keys that Apple launched a service program extending to every butterfly MacBook ever made. Apple finally retired the butterfly keyboard once and for all in 2019, and…

Adam Levine and his wife, Behati Prinsloo—with her growing baby bump on display—looked blissful as ever when they stepped out for a family lunch with their two daughters in Santa Barbara on Sept. 4. But just two weeks later, fans were shocked when cheating accusations emerged against the Maroon 5 frontman on social media. In a viral TikTok video, model Sumner Stroh, 23, claimed she had a yearlong affair with Levine, 43, and shared screenshots of apparent Instagram messages from the musician, including a note in which he asked how she would feel if he were to name his new baby Sumner. “At the time, I was young, I was naive, and, quite frankly, I feel exploited,” said Stroh, who told the New York Post’s Page Six they had a…

Some days the joy of watching their 14-month-old daughter Olivia discover the brilliant colors in a blossoming flower or notice the trilling of a nearby bird nearly overwhelms parents Denise Huskins and Aaron Quinn, enveloping them in what Denise calls “our happy little bubble.” Other days something as mundane as seeing a security-surveillance camera can trigger panic, giving them an unwelcome feeling of being watched. And they both know that one day they will have to tell their daughter the shocking story of what happened to her parents before she was born: how they were attacked and terrorized in a bizarre kidnapping plot—then accused by authorities of making it all up. “When I was kidnapped, I didn’t know if I was going to live to see another day,” remembers Denise.…

Paul Rudd is having a hard time acknowledging that he’s People’s 2021 Sexiest Man Alive. The actor, 52, has heard before how he’s not the stereotypical Hollywood leading man—he’s kind, self-deprecating, affable, hardworking, all labels he’s embraced to some degree. But sexy? That’s a little outside his wheelhouse. “I do have an awareness, enough to know that when people hear that I’d be picked for this, they would say, ‘What?’” says Rudd, sitting in a brownstone on a rainy day in New York City to discuss his coronation before jetting back to London for his next Marvel installment, Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania. “This is not false humility. There are so many people that should get this before me.” Such humble deflection—coupled with those gorgeous green eyes and easy grin—is exactly…

Reboots and revivals are everywhere you look in Hollywood—but who could have guessed that the most talked-about love story of summer 2021 would be an emotional real-life sequel? Part 1: Back in 2004 Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez broke off their engagement after an intense relationship that played out in a swirl of diamonds, red carpets and tabloid headlines. Part 2: Older, wiser and still passionate about each other, the superstars have rekindled their romance—and they’re determined to make it last. “They want a future together. Jennifer never thought she’d end up with Ben, but she’s thrilled that she did,” says a Lopez source. The feeling is mutual for Affleck, who first sparked buzz about their renewed bond when he praised Lopez’s “extraordinary work ethic” and “humility” in her May…

Prince Harry and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, departed the United Kingdom more than a year ago to start a new life in California, but they have always said they were just stepping back from their roles as working royals rather than leaving the royal family itself. And when they announced the June 4 birth of their daughter, the baby girl’s name—Lilibet “Lili” Diana Mountbatten-Windsor—spoke volumes. A tribute to both Harry’s grandmother Queen Elizabeth, 95—whose childhood nickname was Lilibet (pronounced “LIL-eh-bet”)—and Harry’s beloved mother, Princess Diana, the name reflected the close ties Harry feels with the two women who have made the strongest mark in modern royal history. “She is more than we could have ever imagined, and we remain grateful for the love and prayers we’ve felt from across the…

For Willie “Timmy” Donald, Feb. 27, 1992, was just an ordinary Thursday. Then 23, he spent a carefree afternoon with his older sister and her fiancé, tagging along as they went car shopping at multiple dealerships in the suburbs around their Gary, Ind., hometown. Meanwhile in Gary, a robbery spree was underway. A man with a gun was attacking six different families in their homes, demanding cash and fatally shooting one of his victims when he tried to resist. The attacks occurred in Donald’s neighborhood, but he didn’t even know they’d happened until five days later, when police appeared at his door. Two witnesses had selected Donald’s photo—erroneously in the system after he was a passenger in a car mistakenly reported stolen—and then identified him as the gunman in a lineup. Though…

Flight Attendant star Kaley Cuoco has a baby on board! The Emmy-nominated actress is pregnant with her first child, whom she’s expecting with her boyfriend, Ozark actor Tom Pelphrey, Cuoco revealed on Oct. 11. “Baby girl Pelphrey coming 2023… Beyond blessed and over the moon,” Cuoco, 36, captioned an Instagram post of photos of her growing baby bump and the father-to-be. “I [heart] you @tommypelphrey.” In his own post, Pelphrey, 40, wrote: “And then it was even MORE BETTER… Love you more than ever @kaleycuoco.” A source close to the actress says she “couldn’t be happier” with Pelphrey—“and she is very ready to be a mom,” adding, “She is so excited that it’s happening.” ‘KALEY HAS BEEN DREAMING ABOUT THIS FOR AWHILE. SHE IS SO HAPPY’—AN INSIDER ON CUOCO’S PREGNANCY It’s been…

Décidément, on ne les arrêtera pas ! En dépit d’un contexte international sous haute tension, les Allemands restent de (très) loin les premiers acheteurs de voitures en Europe. Côté production, l’Allemagne donne également le ton puisqu’elle caracole aisément en tête du continent avec 3,05 millions de véhicules fabriqués sur l’année 2021 malgré une crise des semi-conducteurs assassine. Dans le lot, 75 % des modèles sortant des chaînes de production allemandes sont destinés au marché international, constituant une fois de plus un record. Et en matière d’innovation, le pays de Goethe fait là encore figure de locomotive, étant donné que plus de 40 % des brevets déposés proviennent du secteur automobile. De ce fait, malgré les récents déboires rencontrés par l’industrie, l’Allemagne reste bel et bien la patrie de la voiture,…

MOMENT OF THE WEEK J.LO & BEN IN PARIS July 22-24 After eloping in Las Vegas on July 16, newlyweds Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck jetted off to the city of love for a romantic getaway. During their stay the pair were spotted on July 22 showing some sweet PDAs in a park, where they also enjoyed an impromptu photo shoot. “They were like two teens on a park bench—very loving, very attentive,” says a source. While in town, the couple went for a cruise on the Seine and did some sightseeing by the Louvre. Then on July 24 they glammed up to celebrate Lopez’s 53rd birthday—complete with cake, candles and a balloon!—at La Girafe restaurant, which overlooks the Eiffel Tower. “They embraced one another a lot,” says an observer, who adds the…

ANNIVERSAIRE ELLE DÉCORATION OFFREZ-VOUS UNE ŒUVRE D’ART ! Au programme : un numéro collector édité en grand format et des œuvres d’art exclusives. Al’occasion de ses 35 ans, ELLE Décoration voit les choses en grand. D’abord, en éditant son numéro collector en format XXL avec une couverture originale imaginée par Benjamin Guedj, artiste multidisciplinaire renommé. Seuls deux mille exemplaires de ce numéro hors norme sont disponibles à la vente. Ensuite, en sélectionnant les œuvres de huit artistes représentés par la galerie parisienne Amélie Maison d’Art. Celles-ci existent dans deux versions : digigraphie simple (estampage numérique sur papier d’art) ou rehaussée par l’artiste, et donc unique. A découvrir et se procurer en flashant le QR code ci-contre. Happy birthday ! Plus d’infos : kisskissbankbank.com/fr/projects/elle-decoration-35-ans De g. à dr. : “Profondeur” de Naomi Katsu,” La Maison du…

Pas vraiment réputés pour être les rois de la gaudriole, les maires de nos communes et les juges de la République ont, parfois et contre toute attente, la plume hautement satirique. En attestent les arrêtés municipaux délirants que les premiers sont capables de prendre, et certaines décisions de justice gondolantes rendues par les seconds. Compilés par Raphaël Costa, chercheur en droit et fondateur, avec l’avocat Théo Renaudie, du compte Twitter Curiosités Juridiques, ces textes 100% authentiques touchent parfois à l’automobile et aux déplacements. Avec l’aide des deux compères, nous avons rassemblé ici les plus mémorables. Attachez votre ceinture, c’est parti ! n Objet volant non invité Article 1 Le survol, l’atterrissage, et le décollage d’aéronefs dits “soucoupes volantes” ou “cigares volants” de quelque nationalité qu’ils soient sont interdits sur le territoire de la…

Les légendaires années Elite, un défilé... de dénonciations C’est la plus belle affiche des années 1990. Les supermodels embrasent la planète. Un succès qu’elles doivent en partie à Gérald Marie. Quand il ne veille pas sur ces icônes, il sélectionne les nouvelles perles rares dans des bataillons de débutantes. Dans cet univers trouble, le silence a longtemps été gage de réussite. Mais le monde de la mode ne résiste pas au vent de révolte qui secoue tous les milieux. Aujourd’hui Carla Bruni, Helena Christensen et jusqu’à son ex-femme, Linda Evangelista, soutiennent publiquement les accusatrices. Carré Otis, ex-top model : « Nous étions de très jeunes filles dépendantes d’hommes puissants. On nous laissait penser que ces comportements étaient normaux » Elle livre sa vie d’une voix brave. En 1986, Carré Otis arrive…

An on-the-go gaming rig with ray-tracing chops that won’t break your budget or your back, the Acer Predator Triton 300 SE serves up an enticing mix of value and performance. With a list price of $1,400 but currently on sale at Best Buy for just $1,300, the Predator Triton 300 SE arrives with Intel’s cutting-edge Tiger Lake H35 “ultraportable gaming” CPU, along with GeForce RTX 3060 graphics and a slim 3.8-pound design. The Triton’s understated silver chassis gives the laptop a corporate look, but if you crack open the lid, you’ll find a 14-inch, 144Hz Full HD display, three-zone RGB keyboard backlighting, and one-touch overclocking. Thunderbolt 4 and solid battery life make a good thing even better. CONFIGURATION The Acer Predator Triton 300 SE is one of the first laptops to pack Intel’s…

King George VI famously declared of his two beloved daughters—the dutiful firstborn Elizabeth, nicknamed Lilibet, and her free-spirited younger sister, Margaret—“Lilibet is my pride; Margaret is my joy.” The contrast between the sisters’ temperaments would only grow more pronounced as they assumed the roles prescribed for them since childhood: Elizabeth the future Queen and Margaret the backup. Yet despite their deep differences, the sisters were fiercely loyal to each other. “Margaret was someone who understood the Queen in a way no one else could,” says Andrew Morton, who examines the women’s unbreakable bond in his new book Elizabeth & Margaret: The Intimate World of the Windsor Sisters. “They knew each other intimately from the day they were born. There is a unique intimacy between two siblings brought up together, and…

oscar buzz! HBO MAX | Judas and the Black Messiah The FBI orchestrates an assassination DRAMA Directed by Shaka King, this terrific new film lays out its true-life story with bold, visceral confidence: In 1969, Black Panther leader Fred Hampton (Get Out’s Daniel Kaluuya) was killed in a raid by Chicago police. They were acting on intelligence provided by one William O’Neal (Sorry to Bother You’s LaKeith Stanfield), who was both Hampton’s head of security and an informant for the FBI. One of the best movies of 2021 so far, Judas and the Black Messiah is a civil rights Passion Play, the story of a savior and a traitor—with key moves dictated behind the scenes by J. Edgar Hoover (Martin Sheen), giving orders to Agent Roy Mitchell (Jesse Plemons). Mitchell is O’Neal’s handler and…

Judy Sheindlin doesn’t mind waking up to a rainy day now, but 40 years ago a little precipitation always meant one thing: car trouble. “We had an old Maxima that didn’t start in the rain,” recalls Sheindlin of leaner times when she was working as a family court judge in New York City in the 1980s. “The wires would get wet, and I would have to go from our apartment to First Avenue, hail a cab and give the driver five dollars to come down the street to where I had parked the car and give it a boost.” For Sheindlin, the days of jump-starting finicky old sedans are now a distant memory. It’s been more than 25 years since the premiere of Judge Judy, the small-claims court series that introduced the…

At first Nathalie Vanderstay thought she was hearing firecrackers. Then came the screams rising above the music at the Route 91 Harvest festival in Las Vegas, where she and her friends had been enjoying headliner Jason Aldean in a crowd of more than 20,000. Again: pop, pop, pop. “I’m seeing people drop in front of me,” she recalls. “I’m trying to cover my head, but I’m getting trampled on by boots and people trying to escape.” Flat on the ground, she glanced down and saw she’d been shot in the leg. As a licensed vocational nurse, she knew to grab her flannel shirt and tie a tourniquet. But as she finished, a bullet hit her stomach, and pain seared through her. In that moment, she says, “I realized, if I don’t…

It’s only 8:45 on a typically busy Thursday morning, and Jenny Burrows, 24, has already had a full day. She’s awakened younger sisters Zoe, 15, and Sierra Clarke, 12, thrown together a healthy fruit-and-yogurt breakfast, sat them down to actually eat it and then hustled the pair out the door of their Boynton Beach, Fla., apartment—with their assignments, homework and books in their backpacks—in time to catch their ride to school. She flops down on the sofa wearing the puppy dog slippers that once belonged to her mom, Cindy Dawkins—who died of COVID-19 at age 50 this past August—and grabs her cell phone for a remote video linkup to a judge in the Palm Beach County family court. “You’re willing to step up and take care of [Sierra and Zoe] until…

Just hours after giving an impassioned 23 minutes of testimony during a conservatorship hearing in a Los Angeles court on June 23, Britney Spears jetted off to Hawaii with her actor-model boyfriend Sam Asghari for some much-needed R&R. On the plane ride Asghari, 27, shared a sweet Instagram video of himself and the singer, 39, goofing around—but their giggles belied the stress that sources say the couple have been feeling for weeks. “They’re trying to enjoy a few quiet days together in Hawaii, which is Britney’s favorite place,” says a source close to the Spears family. “She and Sam have been through so much together. Britney was very nervous about speaking in front of the judge, but this is her life—and she wants big changes.” Britney’s emotional—and at times shocking—speech came…

MOVIE | Amsterdam Director David O. Russell’s rambunctious all-star outing COMEDY-DRAMA If space aliens had ever wanted to start a movie studio, they missed their chance by not beaming up the cast and crew of Amsterdam. It’s a solid chunk of Hollywood: Directed by David O. Russell (American Hustle), the film stars Christian Bale, John David Washington and Margot Robbie, supported by Robert De Niro, Chris Rock, Zoe Saldaña, Rami Malek, Anya Taylor-Joy and Taylor Swift. And more! Set in Manhattan in 1933, the film hums with eccentric humor—Mike Myers is a glass-eye specialist and bird-watcher—and at times it’s exhilarating. These brilliant performers seem to be having so much fun whirling around in a dense jumble of plot. Then again, you may begin to think the aliens were smart to ignore Amsterdam. We’ll…

The metaverse is in the air. Mark Zuckerberg won’t stop talking about turning Facebook into one. Zombie-strewn Fortnite says it’s on the way to becoming one. Microsoft is going to develop an enterprise one, which sounds fun. But what is it? If you’ve been nodding along and hoping that eventually people will stop talking about it, we have good news and bad news. Metaverse news is only going to increase. This is obviously the bad news. In better news, we have a quick primer to help you with the basics. So here are your questions (hopefully) answered. Hi. Hi. This is going to sound weird, but are you really here? Sure. Let’s say yes. I ask because I was just reading about Mark Zuckerberg and this metaverse thing, and it has thrown me into an existential…

Babies The Masked Singer host Nick Cannon, 40, is expecting twin boys with deejay Abby De La Rosa, 30. The news comes four months after Cannon welcomed daughter Powerful with Brittany Bell, with whom he also has son Golden, 4. Cannon also shares 9-year-old twins, son Moroccan and daughter Monroe with ex-wife Mariah Carey. • American Beauty actress Mena Suvari, 42, welcomed her first child, son Christopher Alexander, with husband Michael Hope. • Actor Will Forte, 50, welcomed his first child, a daughter named Zoe Douglas, with fiancée Olivia Modling, 31. • Catfish host Nev Schulman, 36, and wife Laura Perlongo, 35, are expecting their third child together. They also share son Beau, 2, and daughter Cleo, 4. Health Beloved zoologist Jack Hanna, 74, also known as “Jungle Jack,” from his many memorable…

While making a virtual appearance during the NFL Honors broadcast on Feb. 6, Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers stunned the audience when he dropped some unexpected information into his acceptance speech for the NFL MVP award. “2020 was definitely a crazy year filled with lots of change and growth,” the star athlete said before revealing the big news: “I got engaged.” Later, after thanking his team, Rodgers, 37, thanked “my fiancée” for her support. It was a surprising announcement from the man who hadn’t publicly stepped out with anyone since his relationship with former race-car driver Danica Patrick abruptly ended last June. Just days before the revelation, multiple sources confirmed that Rodgers had been quietly dating Big Little Lies actress Shailene Woodley, 29, since last summer, after she split…

Dressed in a black three-piece pinstriped suit and bowler hat and flanked by his attorneys, Anthony Broadwater sat inside a Syracuse courtroom this Nov. 22, nervously anticipating the decision of State Supreme Court Justice Gordon Cuffy. This was the fifth time in the past 40 years that Broadwater had waited to see if a judge would overturn his 1982 conviction for raping then-college freshman Alice Sebold, author of the bestselling novel The Lovely Bones. After dabbing the corners of his eyes with a handkerchief, the 61-year-old handyman began fidgeting with his pocket square, looking up at Cuffy as he began to speak. As soon as the judge uttered the word “granted,” Broadwater’s sobs almost drowned out the rest of the judge’s statement, though he didn’t really need to hear any…

For Prince William and Princess Kate, the morning of March 11 unfolded like so many days filled with royal engagements that had come before: thanking teachers at a public school in east London, cheering on children and launching the latest stage of Mentally Healthy Schools, one of Kate’s key initiatives. But the carefully organized event came to a dramatic halt when, for a few seconds, William stopped to address the subject that had been making headlines around the world: the interview his brother Prince Harry and sister-in-law Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, gave to Oprah Winfrey four days earlier. Echoing the most incendiary claim made by the couple, a reporter shouted at William, “Is the royal family a racist family, sir?” The future King—who rarely answers off-the-cuff questions, let alone…

HBO | the Princess How the Windsors, and the world, lost Diana DOCUMENTARY Timed to the 25th anniversary of Princess Diana’s death, this fascinating but somber film—culled from archival footage, with no talking heads—is chiefly an examination of how the media shaped its narrative about and around her brief, glamorous, troubled life. The footage that rolls past, showcasing her marriage to and then breaking away from Charles, is mostly familiar (occasionally you think, “I remember that on The Crown”). But the images matter less than the story being voiced through the vintage off-camera commentary. It’s the tale we’ve accepted—the fairy-tale romance ascends like a fancy balloon, braided with silk, then sinks (love, not air, was needed to keep it aloft). Charles becomes jealous, Camilla looms into view, Diana grows disillusioned and wise. But what…

When Dean Stott arrived for specialized military training one August day in 2007, he sensed something was different at the airfield in North Yorkshire, England. There seemed to be a greater number of vehicles around the base and more senior staff than usual. Stott soon learned why: Among their ranks was a young officer named Second Lieutenant Wales—aka Prince Harry. Like Stott, Harry, then 22, was undergoing training to be a forward air controller in the British Army, and when, at their first session, the royal raised his hand to ask if he would get a call sign, or code name, if he was successful in the course, Stott couldn’t resist a quip. “I sort of made a jokey comment, much to the dismay of the rest of the staff,”…

AMAZON | Tom Clancy’s Without Remorse Michael B. Jordan takes on the big guns ACTION “Kelly wasn’t worried—at least not about the storm—but he wasn’t casual about things, either.” This is Tom Clancy’s description of Navy SEAL John Kelly (People’s Sexiest Man Michael B. Jordan) early on in the 1993 novel Without Remorse. By the end of this Amazon film, Kelly has been through hell and back—and possibly back again, if you’re keeping score—and been rewarded by the CIA with a new name (John Clark, purposefully bland) and mission. He’s also been established as a player in the Clancy universe. Not worried yet not casual, no matter the severity of the storm—that’s the key to Kelly, and to Jordan’s performance, which is equal parts adrenaline, cool patience and brute force. The part has…

Josh Duggar remained under home confinement last week at a rural Arkansas residence belonging to his father’s church friends while his attorneys filed the latest in a barrage of attempts to persuade a judge to toss out his felony child-porn case. Forbidden from seeing his six children without his wife, Anna, present, banned from accessing the Internet and tracked around the clock by a GPS ankle monitor, Josh has been holed up on the 9-acre property since shortly after his April 29 arrest on charges of downloading hundreds of disturbing child sex abuse videos. The latest maneuverings by his lawyers—whose court filings weeks earlier were described by prosecutors as a “fishing expedition” for nonexistent evidence—were a shocking reminder of just how low the former reality TV star has sunk. “He really…

WHY WALK AT ALL? WALKING IS PRETTY UNPARALLELED in terms of simplicity and return on investment. National guidelines recommend 150 minutes of moderateintensity exercise (like brisk walking) every week, but some research shows that even 60 to 90 minutes can make a difference in your health, says David Bassett, Ph.D., a professor in and head of the department of kinesiology, recreation, and sports studies at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Things walking can do for you: ▶ It may help you live longer. “Walking does a very good job of lowering the cardiovascular risk factors—cholesterol levels, blood pressure, excess fat—and prevents plaque buildup in arteries,” says Bassett. Plus, he notes, walking can improve insulin resistance. ▶ It keeps your brain sharp. “Walking has effects on the brain and increasing brain blood flow, so…

En France, depuis sa sortie en 2007, la 308 est une star, mais c’est surtout avec la deuxième génération, dévoilée en 2013, que Peugeot a frappé fort ! Saluée tout d’abord par nos essayeurs et validée ensuite par les acheteurs, elle est très vite devenue la reine de la catégorie des compactes. Son style plus élégant, son habitacle inédit, la qualité de ses matériaux et son dynamisme lui ont permis de dominer la concurrence. Et, en premier lieu, sa rivale historique, la Renault Mégane, qui n’a jamais réussi à revenir l’inquiéter. Cette deuxième 308 s’est même permis d’aller titiller la référence allemande dans nos comparatifs, la Volkswagen Golf. L’année dernière encore, alors qu’elle était en fin de carrière, elle est restée dans le top 10 des ventes en France, toutes…

Inséparables depuis soixante-dix ans Dans ce parc, ils remontent le temps. En 1947, le couple choisissait de passer sa nuit de noces ici, à Broadlands, propriété de lord Mountbatten. L’oncle de Philip avait déjà été pour le jeune prince une figure paternelle, il sera le plus sûr allié des jeunes mariés. Ensemble, Elizabeth et Philip auront été les témoins d’un siècle lancé à folle allure. Dans un monde en perpétuelle métamorphose, leur amour sera plus qu’un repère, leur refuge. À l’École navale, un jeune officier tape dans l’œil d’une petite princesse Ils se sont déjà rencontrés, mais c’est la première fois qu’elle le remarque vraiment. Elizabeth a 13 ans, et c’est un bel élève de 18 ans au physique de «Viking», confiera-t-elle plus tard, qui a été choisi pour l’accompagner. Philip expliquera n’avoir qu’un…

For five hours, maybe six, on a Friday afternoon in April 2006, Donald Antrim paced the rooftop of his four-story Brooklyn apartment building, doing battle with death. Over and over again, as New Yorkers on nearby roof decks enjoyed afterwork cocktails, the acclaimed novelist—who had lived for years with what he calls suicidal illness—ventured onto the roof’s ledge. “I was in my socks, no shoes, leaning out and keeping one foot on the fire escape and one hand, and then letting go and catching and letting go and catching,” Antrim recalls. Thinking back, he wonders what his neighbors might have thought, if they had noticed the man struggling on the roof: “Would they have understood he was about to die? Or would they have imagined that he was trying to…

‘If there were any time they were going to come together, it’s now’—ROYAL INSIDER The day of Prince Philip’s funeral dawned crisp and bright, with hundreds of British service members gathered on the grounds of Windsor Castle by early afternoon to honor the former Royal Navy officer and husband of 73 years to Queen Elizabeth. Philip’s carriage sat nearby, his driving gloves and a small red pot—containing sugar lumps for his beloved Fell ponies—situated poignantly atop the seat. Just before 3 p.m., as a custom Land Rover hearse carried Philip’s flag-draped casket toward St. George’s Chapel, several members of the royal family took their places in a solemn procession behind, including sons Charles, Andrew and Edward and daughter Anne. But all eyes were primarily focused on two of Philip’s grandsons: Prince…

HBO | Mare of Easttown Kate Winslet is superb as a detective in a tough spot DRAMA For those of you who got tired of the gleaming, high-end Manhattan luxury of Nicole Kidman’s The Undoing—the designer clothes, the trust-fund lifestyles, the Hugh Grant—HBO has a treat for you: an impressively grim new mystery set in a small, working-class Pennsylvania town. It’s about as glamorous as a baked potato. Kate Winslet plays Mare Sheehan, a sour detective who’s basically Frances McDormand’s Marge from Fargo without the constitutional pep. Mare has a difficult personal life, and now she has a troubling murder case: a teenage girl found lifeless on the rocks in a stream deep in the woods, where spring never seems to touch the trees. Everyone in Easttown—and this is a place where everyone…

HBO MAX | the Flight Attendant Kaley Cuoco is up in the air—again COMEDY-DRAMA “It literally feels as if you’re living in a John le Carré spy novel!” That’s what Cassie Bowden (Kaley Cuoco), flight attendant and CIA asset, is told by her admiring friend Ani (Zosia Mamet). The difference is that the characters in le Carré tend to be human dust bunnies—dull, vague, ground-dwelling entities, depressing to contemplate—while Attendant is like a fully booked flight on which everyone is fun and briskly sexy (even while dealing with assassins). If le Carré were still alive, maybe he’d smile to himself as he marked Attendant on his calendar. In these new episodes we find Cassie in a good place: Relocated to California and sober, she’s eager to tackle an assignment from her CIA handler…

AMAZON | Being the Ricardos Nicole Kidman plays Lucille Ball, a funny lady in a serious mood COMEDY-DRAMA One of the greatest comic actresses in the history of TV, I Love Lucy star Lucille Ball earned her laughs—you could even say she drove a hard bargain. A minor success in movies, she wasn’t a natural charmer. Unlike Mary Tyler Moore, she couldn’t turn the world on with her smile. But she had a remarkable gift for physical comedy, and it became her powerful, crowning glory: She didn’t make comedy look easy—but she made it work. It’s this Lucy, too driven and preoccupied with being hilarious to waste much time actually smiling or laughing, whom Nicole Kidman plays extraordinarily well in writer-director Aaron Sorkin’s film. Kidman isn’t a particularly funny actress, either. You’re always…