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With Miss Universe's Win, Black Women Hold Every Major Pageant Title in the World Right Now


Pageants often get a bad rap for being regressive leftovers from a different time. While some of that criticism is fair, the organizations that run them have made changes in recent years to become more modern. (Case and point: the elimination of the swimsuit competition at Miss America.) And there’s no question that their reach is still enormous, with competitions running in all 50 states and in countries around the world.

Now, for the first time ever, all four major pageant titles—Miss America, Miss USA, Miss Teen USA, and Miss Universe—are held by black women. Last night, the newly-crowned Miss Universe, Zozibini Tunzi of South Africa, joined Miss America Nia Franklin, Miss USA Cheslie Kryst, and Miss Teen USA Kaliegh Garris to become the fourth black woman to currently wear a major pageant crown.

“I grew up in a world where a woman who looks like me, with my kind of skin and my kind of hair, was never considered to be beautiful,” Tunzi said, according to the BBC. “I think that it is time that that stops today.”

“It is important to little brown and black girls to see three strong figures, three strong women, African-American women that are doing so much great work,” Ms. Franklin told the New York Times in May. “People will argue that race doesn’t matter. But race does matter in America, because of the history, because of slavery.”

“Nia, Cheslie, and Kaliegh: you are trailblazers, creating your own path on your own terms. Congratulations,” Senator Kamala Harris tweeted in May. Now, Tunzi joins the group (defeating Kryst).

None of the women are the first black woman to wear their particular crown. Vanessa Williams was the first black Miss America in 1984; Carole Gist won Miss USA in 1990; Janel Bishop won Miss Teen USA in 1991; and Janelle Commissiong was crowned Miss Universe in 1977. But on social media, enthusiasm for this particular clean sweep was undeniable.

Even Oprah weighed in, tweeting, “Congratulations Miss South Africa, the new Miss Universe @zozitunzi! Agree with you…leadership is the most powerful thing we should be teaching young women today. We welcome your visit to #OWLAG, our Leadership Academy for Girls ??????.”

The significance of all four women wearing the crowns at the same time was also a much-discussed topic.

This is yet another example of how much representation matters—in the world of pageants and beyond.



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Ilana Glazer and Jameela Jamil Are Using Humor to Change the World


Ilana Glazer and Jameela Jamil have each had quite the year. Glazer’s hit TV series Broad City came to a hilarious, sentimental conclusion this past spring. Meanwhile, Jamil is only a few episodes away from saying goodbye to NBC’s The Good Place for, well, good. These two women are unique and talented in their own right, but they do share a commonality: They’ve used their authentic voices to effect real change, both in Hollywood and beyond. Whether it’s the body positivity movement or politics, Ilana Glazer and Jameela Jamil frequently use humor and genuine communication to move the needle forward. At Glamour‘s 2019 Women of the Year Summit on November 10, they taught us how we can do the same.

Jamil, who created I Weigh after being long-frustrated with women getting reduced to a number on the scale, began the conversation by opening up about her own journey to self-acceptance. The actor pinpointed a time when she was first bullied in school, which she says led to her developing an eating disorder. “My teacher made the stupidest fucking decision of all time…in order to teach us about charts, [she] weighed everyone,” she says. “I was the fattest, and my name was at the top of the chart. That’s when the bullying began about my weight, which led very quickly to my anorexia. That was the first time I realized I was a bit chubby.”

Glazer has also created a platform for social change, with hers connecting people to political policy. The actor and activist is the founder of Generator Collective, which was born out of her desire to learn more about our governmental systems. “I didn’t know what was coming up in the local elections. I didn’t realize that the primaries are different for states, you know, things like that,” she says. “It’s just saying, ‘I don’t know. I just want to learn the basic minimum.’ And it’s about finding minimal civic engagement and embodying that, which is voting whenever there’s an election and God forbid, canvasing once every four years.”

Jamil is just as fired up about American politics, particularly when it comes to women’s rights. “I’m really upset about abortion not being considered a woman’s right. I’ve had an abortion before. It was brilliant. I mean, it was also painful, but it was an excellent decision. And it wasn’t because of an emergency. It was just something that I needed to do because my life is as important as someone who was not yet born,” she told the audience.

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Aside from their activism, the two share a similar philosophy on life. Jamil considers herself a work in progress, and neither are obsessed with perfectionism, or portraying a persona online or in the press that’s anything other than their authentic selves. “In the 90s, when it was actually just TV and film and standard forms of media, [there was] a movie star image and this mystery behind it,” Glazer says. “The mystery is gone. I like it. I prefer it. Women are able to narrate their own stories.”





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Decades Later, the World Is Catching Up to Elaine May


And that worked, for a while. May and Nichols soon outgrew the New York nightclub scene, catapulting into the national consciousness. But after May and Nichols split in 1961, their paths diverged. Both went on to direct films. Nichols became famous for Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, The Graduate, Silkwood, and Working Girl, helming 21 films in his career. May directed just five, to decidedly lukewarm critical reception.

Elaine May and Mike Nichols

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Elaine May and Mike Nichols
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Since then it has been “close to impossible to see her movies,” as the critic Alexandra Heller-Nicholas, who coedited the recent ReFocus: The Films of Elaine May, puts it. But even so, May has not faded.
Quite the opposite; she’s resurgent.

In 2013, President Barack Obama awarded May a National Medal of Arts. In 2016 the Writers Guild of America honored her with a lifetime achievement award. A few months later she returned to acting for the first time in 16 years in the Amazon series Crisis in Six Scenes. She has no social media presence, but on Twitter, fandom for May is a constant, whether it’s writer Rachel Syme proposing an “anthology series, but every season is Elaine May” or viral appreciations of her Playbill headshot—a grainy, low-res iPhone selfie. The actor and author Marlo Thomas, who’s known May for decades, notes, “It’s no accident that Elaine was name-checked several times on the first season of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel. That’s the kind of historical and cultural impact she’s had.”

If May commented on such matters (and she turned down a request to comment for this article), she might have noted that she achieved all that despite the media, not because of it.

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A poster for A New Leaf, 1971.

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In 1968, May secured a landmark deal to write, star in, and direct A New Leaf—a film in which Walter Matthau plays a man who plots to marry a bookish, socially awkward heiress, kill her, then inherit her wealth. With that movie, May became only the third woman ever in the Directors Guild of America. But reports piled up about her decision to take Paramount to court over A New Leaf—the studio had wanted something shorter and cheerier than her murder-filled three hour-long cut. She lost.

In 1972 she released her second film, The Heartbreak Kid, to greater acclaim, but critics seemed to attribute its positive reception to the strength of writer Neil Simon’s script. In a review for The New Yorker, film critic Pauline Kael said the film was “in a different league from her first wobbly movie,” suggesting May was better at interpreting others’ work than executing her own.





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World Market is Having a Major Home Sale—and It's So Good


It’s November, which is basically December, which means it’s already 2020 and you’re behind on your New Year’s resolutions. But really, one great thing about this time of year is that there are so many incredible deals to shop (like the World Market sale we’re about to get into) that are perfect for gifting your friends and family—or getting for yourself because that counts, too.

But before you start bookmarking all the best Black Friday and Cyber Monday deals, make sure to check out World Market’s can’t-miss home sale. The retailer is offering 40% off on all its home furniture throughout the end of November—think comfy couches to watch your favorite rom coms on, space-saving shelves to store your growing collection of books, and cool living room accents to zhoosh up your space. No coupon code is needed to take advantage of the 40% off discount, and the retailer is offering free shipping on all orders over $75. Some of these deals are so good they’re practically begging you to swap out that frayed ottoman your cat has claimed ownership of as her throne-slash-scratching-pole.

Whether you need an extra chair or a spot to prop up your feet, we did a first pass on all the sale items at World Market so you don’t have to (you’re welcome). Ahead, find out which 17 pieces we’re adding to our carts ASAP, because it doesn’t matter if you’re into layering neutrals or mixing tropical prints—home deals these good don’t last for long.

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The World Is Finally Catching Up With Tory Burch


Burch has been able to best the competition by eyeing a void (or voids) and owning it completely. “I’ve always been obsessed with the concept of reinvention and evolution, and being at the forefront of technology,” she says. “Evolution has helped us keep up with the macro environment, and also take our customer with us. We are not a designer price point, but we look through a luxury lens. We try to give our customer the best possible quality for the best possible price.”

And where Burch goes, the masses follow. A year after she launched the brand, Oprah Winfrey dubbed the newcomer with no design experience “the next big thing in fashion.” (A fashion executive turned stay-at-home mom, Burch had spent nearly four years “coming up with idea after idea of what I could do to start a business.”) Seemingly overnight her refined-prep aesthetic—an homage to her mom and a feminist take on the randy, rugby-inspired fast fashion of the era—became the new normal. “Tory appeared as if she came out of nowhere with her label that put women at the center of everything,” says Condé Nast global content adviser and Vogue editor in chief Anna Wintour. “I think what Tory understands is that as you get bigger and bigger, the scale of the conversation shouldn’t change. You need to keep the sense of personal connection. And she has.”

As Burch grew the business, she also weathered her fair share of personal and professional setbacks, including a public divorce from investor Chris Burch in 2006. (The two have continued to coparent their three sons and his three daughters from a previous relationship, two of whom currently work at Tory Burch.) Then, in 2008, economic decline all but toppled traditional brick-and-mortar business models. “Our business had been on such a fast trajectory, and overnight it changed,” she says. Burch stayed nimble, leaning into e-commerce and accessory sales in lieu of outlet stores and quick-return licensing deals. She also leaned into her own temperament. “When things get frenetic, I get more focused,” she says. “And I get that from my dad. I take a step back, and I would say I’m very calm. People often check to see if I have a pulse.” She’s joking, but it’s something to consider. For Burch, one of the few women in the highest echelon of business, being inscrutable isn’t an edge—it’s a necessity. “I don’t want to act on emotion,” she says. “The word restraint is something that I always think about. And patience. We’re a patient brand. I’ve never necessarily wanted to be the biggest company. I wanted to be, obviously, the most profitable—but also the most inspiring place to work.”



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Watch Simone Biles Throw Out the First Pitch for Last Night's World Series Game


Seeing as Simone Biles has already completely dominated the world of gymnastics (and shows no signs of stopping), it makes sense that she’d take her wildly impressive abilities to a different sport and completely change that game, too.

For those who are not familiar, it’s a tradition at big baseball games to have a celebrity or public figure throw out the ceremonial first pitch before the game starts. This occasionally goes very poorly—see: Cent, Fifty. But it’s typically a nice, if fairly uneventful, moment. But not when the greatest gymnast of all time is involved.

Biles, a Houston native, took to the mound ahead of Game 2 of the World Series between the Houston Astros and the Washington Nationals at Minute Maid Park. Instead of just throwing the ball to Astro Jake Marisnick behind home plate, she did a twisting flip first—and it was awesome.

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She’s also got a decent arm. Watch the entire moment for yourself below:

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Fans in the stands and online loved every second. “Simone Biles just did a casual flip and threw a near-strike in front of 40,000 people so like Olympians are just like us or something,” one person tweeted. “A standing full… in jeans… as a first pitch?! Just @Simone_Biles things. Goodness,” another said.

“I think I’ve looked at @Simone_Biles make that flip before the first pitch fifty eleven times. Highlight of the #WorldSeries thus far. #Salute,” a fan wrote.

Biles herself tweeted a shot of her family along the baseline, writing, “WORLD SERIES BBY.”

The home team ended up losing the game, but it was high fives all around for the most decorated gymnast in history. What’s next? We vote for an appearance on the USWNT. Bring the world the Rapinoe-Biles combo we deserve, please.

Simone Biles throws World Series first pitch
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