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Mandy Moore Just Sang ‘Only Hope’ From A Walk to Remember, and It's What We All Needed


If you’re anything like me, you may be seeking comfort during these unsettling times in the form of nostalgic TV shows and movies. Mandy Moore definitely gets it and is here with the content you need right now as we start another week of isolation.

The singer-actor and her husband, Taylor Goldsmith of Dawes, have taken to performing music sets on Instagram Live from their home. Moore has been doing songs from her latest (excellent) album, Silver Landings, along with many other classic covers. But on Sunday, April 5, Moore brought out the big guns—emotionally speaking—when she sang “Only Hope” from her famous teen tearjerker, A Walk to Remember.

If for some reason you’ve never seen the movie, based on Nicholas Sparks’s hit novel, it follows the love story of Jamie, the sweet preacher’s daughter who’s battling leukemia, and Landon (Shane West), the popular bad boy forced to join the school play after getting into trouble. You can imagine where things go from there. In one of the movie’s pivotal moments, Landon starts to realize the true depth of his feelings for Jamie as he’s on stage with her during the play. Jamie is famously singing “Only Hope” during this scene—so to hear Moore belt it out again on IG brought on all of the feels.

Check it out for yourself below; it’s beautiful.

Fans were beyond excited.

This scene is super meaningful to Mandy Moore as well. “The most memorable scene [in A Walk to Remember] for me is the school play and singing the song ‘Only Hope,’” she told Entertainment Weekly in 2017. “I remember putting on that beautiful ice blue, silk dress and everyone fawning all over it. It was the first time that I wasn’t in a ratty sweater and an oversized housedress.”

In case you’re now jonesing for a Walk to Remember cry, it’s currently available to rent on Amazon Prime.



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Dirty John Review: It's the Break I Didn’t Know I Needed From All the Christmas Cheer on TV


I was 30 minutes into the Netflix movie Christmas Inheritance when I reached a breaking point. Before this, mind you, I’d watched no less than four other holiday movies of the same variety with my mother—and enjoyed them all. From Netflix’s The Princess Switch to Lifetime’s The Christmas Contract, these films were just the cheesy, delightful romps I needed to get excited about December. With low stakes and happy endings all around, these movies really are welcome reprieves from the insanity that is 2018.

But by the sixth Santa cookie consumed in Christmas Inheritance, I’d had enough. Yes, these flicks are fun, but there’s only so much fluff you can watch in a three-day span before you start craving something with teeth.

That’s why I was stoked to check out Bravo’s new limited series Dirty John, based on the podcast of the same name, on Sunday night (November 25). The true-crime show was just the palette cleanser I needed before diving back into another Hallmark marathon—and, boy, did it deliver.

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The series, for the uninitiated, centers on a real woman named Debra Newell (played by Connie Britton) who begins dating a handsome-but-suspect man named John Meehan whom she met on the Internet. John (Erica Bana in the show) seems like a dream at first—he’s a hunky anesthesiologist and a great listener—but Debra’s daughters, Veronica (Juno Temple) and Terra (Julia Garner) quickly notice red flags. Despite his high-paying job, John is a schlubby dresser, he’s combative with Debra’s daughters almost immediately, and seems a little too infatuated by the Newell family’s wealth. By the end of the episode, Terra discovers a nursing diploma in John’s closet, which makes her wonder if he’s even an anesthesiologist at all.

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Connie Britton with the real Debra Newell

If you’ve listened to the podcast, then you know the answer—and you know the story only gets more intense from there. Don’t worry, though: Bravo’s adaptation will still hook you. That’s a testament to Britton, who does a scary-good job at playing aloof to John’s eccentricities while also gaining empathy from the audience. Bana, on the other hand, is brash and creepy as John, yet there’s still something about him that’s completely charming. You 100 percent understand why Debra fell for him, even though her own daughters were imploring her to run in the opposite direction. Both actors give nuanced performances that hopefully aren’t overlooked come awards season next year.

“Unnerving” is the perfect word to describe Dirty John. We know that Debra and John’s relationship implodes at some point, but the journey there is uncomfortably sunny and happy. All the good times John and Debra share have this dark, ominous cloud over them—a cloud Debra herself doesn’t even know is there, but the audience does. It’s the polar opposite of the Christmas movies you’ll consume in mass quantities this season, which are all sun with absolutely no thunderstorms in sight. Dirty John, in its own dishy, gritty way, will make you appreciate the whimsicality of those Hallmark movies even more.

The show airs Sunday nights at 10 P.M. ET on Bravo.

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Colton Underwood Admits He Wanted Tia Booth to Be The Bachelorette: 'We Needed More Time'


The Bachelorette‘s Colton Underwood had one of the more emotional moments on tonight’s Men Tell All, with the focus less on his feelings for former contestant Tia and more about his decision not to have sex. “People think I’m less of a man because I haven’t had sex, and that’s hard for me to hear,” he said as he teared up. “I feel like a normal guy, so it’s hard when you hear all the negative things. It’s my choice and hopefully it’s something that’s respected from women and in the public.”

After the show taped, it was clear that Underwood was still affected by what happened on stage—especially because of a comment fellow contestant Jean Blanc made about Underwood’s virginity. “I will never talk to him again,” Underwood tells us. “His comment was disgusting and uncalled for.”

But with his journey about to continue on Bachelor in Paradise, there’s obviously more drama in store for the former football player. After all, his former fling Tia Booth will joining him in Mexico. “It’s emotional,” he says of the experience. “It’s full of unexpected surprises.”

Until then, Underwood shares more about his experience on The Bachelorette. Read on.

Things got emotional on Men Tell All tonight. How do you feel now that it’s over?

Colton Underwood: I still obviously feel a little emotional. I didn’t have plans to talk about my virginity because I feel like it was played out and it’s been a hot topic for the last couple weeks. [My virginity is] never easy to talk about, but anytime I do, it helps me grow as a person. So, I do feel good about that. It was hard for me to even bring it up at first on the show. I kept beating around the bush by saying I’m not that experienced. Now I can finally say, “I’m a virgin. I haven’t had sex” without a tremble in my voice.

Before you filmed the season, did you know this was going to become a topic of conversation?

Colton: I didn’t have a game plan with my virginity going into the show. I didn’t know if I was going to bring it up. When I did bring it up in the Bahamas, I wanted to make sure that [Becca] knew before she made her decision on whose family she wanted to meet. As hard as that conversation was, it was so good for me to actually say it out loud and go from six people to now six million people knowing it. People can agree or disagree with me, but hopefully some of them have a respect for me and my choice.

You and Jean Blanc had a tense moment during Men Tell All after he insulted your virginity. Did you address him after?

Colton: Jean Blanc is one of the guys that I never talked to after the show and, moving forward, I will never talk to. I think his comment was disgusting and uncalled for. It was so inappropriate in 2018—in the year of the women—and [he’s] going to be disrespectful to a whole gender? He’s going to use that word to describe the female anatomy and to call me out? And think he’s doing something positive [by saying that]? It is what it is, but I’m never going to talk to the dude again, so I don’t care.

Moving on: Was there any part of you that had hoped Tia would be the Bachelorette?

Colton: I’m not going to lie, yeah. The one thing that hindered Tia and I’s relationship and played a factor into it…it was hard for me to get a read off of that weekend that we spent together, whether we could be good for each other. She was going back to Arkansas, and I was going back to Colorado. We needed more time. I needed more time in that relationship to see [where things could go]. I was very up and front and honest, like, “I hope it’s you. I’m just letting you know I’m going on.” She knew from day two of us talking that I was a finalist for the show, and I said how cool would it be [if it was Tia]. When I found out it was Becca, [Tia] said, “Becca’s a great person, and I can’t wait for you to see your journey and hear about your experience. I’m so jealous. That’s awesome. You’re going to be with my friends.” That was it. It was very supportive. Tia and I’s relationship moved more into a friendship those last two weeks leading up to me leaving for filming.

You’ll be on Bachelor in Paradise with Tia. How did that go?

Colton: Paradise is emotional. I think there’s a lot of conversations that need to be had. It’s full of unexpected surprises that are both good, happy, sad, funny, all the emotions. I felt everything in Paradise.



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The Ugly Holiday Sweaters You Didn't Know You Needed Until Right Now


Once you start stocking up on gifts during the Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales, it’s pretty much officially the holidays. Before you know it, you’ll be picking out seasonal movies to binge on Netflix, queuing up Mariah Carey on Spotify, and, of course, start receiving invitation for ugly sweater parties. And this year’s selection of cheeky-festive knitwear is better than ever—and by “better,” we obviously mean even over-the-top tacky in the best way possible. You can find an ugly holiday sweater with just about every pop culture reference done up for the holidays this year, from Stranger Things to Grumpy Cat. If you’re a traditionalist, you can still partake in the standard pom-pom snowflakes and wintry puns that make these sweaters so loveably ugly in the first place. No matter your taste, there’s an ugly holiday sweater in our upcoming selection to make you the best-worst dressed at every holiday party this year. See some of our favorites, below.



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I Was Fighting Breast Cancer as an Underinsured Woman, and I Couldn't Get the Care I Needed to Live


“I’ll do whatever I have to do to get out of here,” Nikki “Trip” Triplet, 39, remembers thinking when she showed up at one clinic for breast cancer testing. But the self-employed, under-insured Texan wasn’t talking about fighting and surviving breast cancer. She was talking about getting out of that particular run-down facility. She was determined to receive her care in a cleaner, better-managed medical center than her bare bones government-issued insurance allowed.

“I needed chemo once a week but they had it scheduled every six to eight weeks because that was how long it would take to get an appointment,” Triplet tells Glamour. “When I tell you ‘sometimes you almost die before you get treatment,’ it’s not a joke. When it comes to cancer and the medical world, you’re poor unless you’re rich.”

Triplet says that financial discrimination was her toughest fight when she was battling breast cancer. Tougher than the white women who wouldn’t move their purses so a black woman—accompanied by her girlfriend, no less—could sit down next to them in a waiting room. Tougher than the doctor who said, “I’m pretty sure you’re not going to be milking any babies with those.”

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“If you are not insured, then you might as well be Black or Hispanic or gay or a lesbian because you will be treated just like we are treated every day,” she says. “But being insurance-less is the new black.”

Once she was diagnosed, Triplet, a real estate agent, says she and her girlfriend called medical offices endlessly, trying to find the right words to say in order to get her the help she needed. When she heard, “We don’t take your insurance,” she’d say, “I’m sure somebody else there does.” When she heard, “Your girlfriend can’t come in the room,” she’d say, “Oh, good thing she’s my best friend, so now she can come in.”

“We would put on the pressure on anyway that we could,” Triplet says. It paid off—eventually, she landed in the hands Jamie E. Terry, MD, who specializes in breast surgery at Texas Breast Specialists-Houston Medical Center, and received excellent care. Triplet can’t rave enough about Dr. Terry. So now she advocates for others to stand up for themselves and get the physicians they deserve.

“I want all Black people, all broke people, all gay people to know: you gotta take a whole bunch of nos to get to yes,” she says. “But I don’t want anybody giving up.”

And words matter. That’s one of the most important lessons Triplet learned on her cancer journey. But she also learned how to speak without saying anything at all. She just smiles—to reveal a gold grill that says “FUCK CANCER.”

“It’s offensive awareness,” she says. “I want as many people who can be offended to be offended by it. Because I was offended when cancer picked me. I was offended that I was going to lose my hair. I was offended by the things that I was about to go through that I wasn’t prepared for.” It’s a reminder to everyone that cancer can happen to anyone.

After multiple surgeries, chemotherapy and radiation, Triplet will continue to take a once-a-day pill for three more years as part of her battle. “Cancer broke me down,” admits the advocate for Avon (she’s also a state leader for the Young Survival Coalition in Texas). “But at the same time it built me up. I became the person I didn’t know that I was supposed to be.”

“Never for one minute believe that you must defend [what happens in] your bedroom or [what’s in] your bank account in order to defend your breasts—or your life.”



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