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‘Allowed me to accept my own taste’: why Bridesmaids is my feelgood movie
At this year’s Oscars ceremony, Kristen Wiig, Maya Rudolph, Melissa McCarthy, Rose Byrne and Ellie Kemper lined up on stage to celebrate 15 years of Bridesmaids. Frankly, as awards bits go it was a little hard to watch, and the lineup was missing Wendi McLendon-Covey (recovering from a neck lift, naturally), but I had a small thrill seeing them together anyway: Bridesmaids has been my comfort film for almost half my life.
8 Books About the Excesses and Intrigues of Celebrity
Reading Lists These books take a critical look at fame, without sacrificing the glamour and complexity of life in the limelight Being interested in celebrity is not something most people like to admit.
Hannah Beer’s Book Notes music playlist for her novel I Make My Own Fun
In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book. Previous contributors include Jesmyn Ward, Lauren Groff, Bret Easton Ellis, Celeste Ng, T.C. Boyle, Dana Spiotta, Amy Bloom, Aimee Bender, Roxane Gay, and many others. Hannah Beer’s novelI Make My Own Fun is darkly humorous and exceedingly clever, and possibly the year’s most entertaining debut.
Labour and Employment UK Webinar Programme: Settlement Agreements
Watch the fourth webinar in our 2025 Labour & Employment UK Webinar Programme, the key legal and practical issues to consider when entering into settlement agreements in the workplace.
Hannah Beer On The Costs and Consequences of Celebrity Culture
I suppose, if I were to try to neatly sum up my novel in two quotes, I’d turn to Almost Famous and Gwyneth Paltrow. For the former, I’d choose this, said by Philip Seymour Hoffman’s character about rock stars: “friendship is the booze they feed you. They want you to get drunk on feeling like you belong”. And for the latter, I’d go with something Gwyneth said about the nineties on a late-night talk show: “it was great! I mean, talk about doing cocaine and not getting caught!”.
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