I’m the kind of person who goes to the gym once a year. It’s not because I don’t like to exercise—quite the opposite, actually—but when given the choice, I’d much rather go for an outdoor run or a yoga class with my best friend. The thing about the gym is that, well, I hate it.…
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There’s a photo I just adore. It’s of my daughter taking her first real steps out in the wild — not just the ones where she teetered inside of our home and then quickly fell. One knee is up high and wide because she doesn’t quite know where to plant her foot, and walking next…
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“Cheerleaders tend to be the cool people in school,” Meghan Hooper, Lifetime’s SVP of original movies, co-productions, and acquisitions, told Glamour earlier this year. “It’s just this weird cultural thing we have. I think a lot of people weren’t necessarily part of that or resented it or maybe didn’t even care about it. But there’s…
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She did. And so do the Marches, who can never decide if their passions and desires are sacred or sacrilegious. They each have flaws, or at least challenges: Meg is vain, Jo is tactless, Amy is selfish, and Beth is timid. And they each have ambition: Meg wants to run a beautiful home, Jo wants…
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Some people are side sleepers; others are stomach sleepers. I am a smoosh sleeper. That’s not a technical term for a sleep position, but it’s the only way to describe what happens when I reach REM cycle: My body twists at an angle that’s just past side sleeping, but not quite stomach sleeping. My face…
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With Kelly as narrator, Bombshell breaks the fourth wall with asides to the audience (of a colleague who lasciviously compliments her dress as she walks through the Fox newsroom, Kelly says he’s not a creep, he’s just “ambitious”). That, along with the brusque, overly-explanatory style—a signature of writer Charles Randolph—falls flat. The device works in…
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