“I love to take bites out of the very confrontational nature of Payton and the over-confidence and the sort of lack of empathy and lack of regard for anyone else’s motives and feelings, because I’m very much not like that,” Platt tells Glamour about his character, who, at one point in the pilot, literally ponders…
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It’s a new day for the Miss America pageant. The 97-year-old entity recently announced plans to nix the swimsuit competition, a move widely viewed as a pivot toward modernization in a post-#MeToo world. Still, one person’s progress may be another person’s skepticism. Following the big announcement, responses were predictably mixed: Some said scrapping the swimsuits…
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Saturday was packed with royal activities for a certain Meghan Markle. She attended the Invictus Games Sydney reception in London early in the day with fiancé Prince Harry, and then the royal-to-be headed to her second official event with Queen Elizabeth II: the monarch’s 92nd birthday party. On Saturday night, the royal family gathered for…
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Raise your hand if the following movie storyline feels familiar: cool, hot guy discovers less-cool (but secretly hot) girl. It was practically a paint-by-numbers plot for the scores of teen-centric titles that experienced a late-nineties renaissance. And though films like Drive Me Crazy, Can’t Hardly Wait, and Bring It On were typically low-budget productions, they…
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