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6 days ago | 
msnbc.com | Hannah Holland
This week, E.L.F. Beauty acquired model and mega influencer Hailey Bieber’s beauty brand Rhode for $800 million in cash and stock, with another $200 million dependent on growth. Rhode, which launched just under three years ago and has just 10 products, reported net sales of $212 million at the end of March. Bieber will stay with Rhode as the chief creative officer and as a strategic adviser to both E.L.F. and Rhode. The deal shocked much of the cosmetics world.
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1 week ago | 
msnbc.com | Hannah Holland
Margaret Atwood is often asked where she got the inspiration for her magnum opus, “The Handmaid’s Tale.” In interviews, she tends to answer the same way: “The Handmaid’s Tale” comes from real events. Everything in the novel, she’ll say, looking straight into the camera or squarely into the face of a fan, has already occurred. History repeats itself; that much we know. Everything in the novel is still occurring. It happened on the MSNBC franchise I write and produce: the Velshi Banned Book Club.
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1 week ago | 
yahoo.com | Hannah Holland
Margaret Atwood is often asked where she got the inspiration for her magnum opus, “The Handmaid’s Tale.” In interviews, she tends to answer the same way: “The Handmaid’s Tale” comes from real events. Everything in the novel, she’ll say, looking straight into the camera or squarely into the face of a fan, has already occurred. History repeats itself; that much we know. Everything in the novel is still occurring. It happened on the MSNBC franchise I write and produce: the Velshi Banned Book Club.
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1 week ago | 
flipboard.com | Hannah Holland
14 hours agoThe FBI Decides What We Really Needs Right Now Is Another Investigation Into The Dobbs LeakSince the moment that the Supreme Court’s draft decision in Dobbs v.
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1 week ago | 
cnn.com | Hannah Holland
Ad Feedback Video Ad Feedback ‘Our inaction is the story’: Historian Timothy Snyder on Trump’s role in Ukraine peace process Amanpour Historian and 'On Tyranny' author Timothy Snyder joins Paula Newton to discuss democracy, freedom and foreign policy in Trump's America.
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2 weeks ago | 
cnn.com | Hannah Holland
Ad Feedback Video Ad Feedback Why Romania rejected the far-right in presidential election, a political scientist explains Amanpour Romanian political scientist and Oxford University lecturer Vladimir Bortun joins Bianna Golodryga to discuss the Romanian election and how Nicușor Dan defeated hard-right favourite George Simion.
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3 weeks ago | 
msnbc.com | Hannah Holland
This week, the Cannes Film Festival issued a new dress code forbidding “voluminous outfits” and “nudity” from the red carpet and theaters. Cannes is one of the most prestigious film festivals in the world. It is also one of the most culturally impactful events of the year. The cultural cachet provided by walking Cannes’ red carpet rivals that of a film winning the coveted Palme d’Or.Cannes’ dress code is notoriously strict.
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4 weeks ago | 
msnbc.com | Hannah Holland
The love story at the center of Netflix’s new show “Forever” begins the same way Judy Blume’s 1975 novel, the inspiration for the series, does: at a New Year’s Eve party over pots of fondue. Told to us from high school senior Katherine’s perspective, Blume’s “Forever…” is a groundbreaking and frank examination of teenage sex and first love. Since its initial publication in the 1970s, many parents have been outraged over the book, demanding its removal from library shelves.
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1 month ago | 
msnbc.com | Hannah Holland
Many news programs, including the one I write and produce for, often interview historians, professors and authors who can skillfully draw parallels between the past and the present, to help contextualize a particular moment or experience. In the relentless news cycles of recent years, it is helpful to orient yourself in the cultural discord of the 1960s, the Spanish flu, in Nixon’s calamitous politics — or even in the Kentucky Derby, which celebrates its 151st year on Saturday.
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1 month ago | 
flipboard.com | Hannah Holland
NowAnna Nicole Smith's Daughter Dannielynn Birkhead Wears Her Plunging LBD 21 Years LaterThe 18-year-old teen stepped out in a familiar look ahead of her Kentucky Derby appearance. Dannielynn Birkhead stepped out at a pre-Kentucky Derby gala on Friday night wearing her late mom Anna Nicole Smith's plunging bedazzled black dress.
