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2 weeks ago | 
usmagazine.com | Polly Hudson |Amanda Williams
Marlee Matlin has the word “perseverance” tattooed on her left wrist. On her right, “warrior.” They perfectly sum up the life and career of the talented actress — deaf since the age of 18 months — and courageous advocate. “I look at them often,” she says in a moving scene from the documentary Marlee Matlin: Not Alone Anymore, produced and directed by Shoshannah Stern, who is also deaf. Matlin, 59, has defied the critics.
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1 month ago | 
freitag.de | Polly Hudson
Zum ersten Mal habe ich vor zwei Jahren Betablocker genommen. Man hatte mich gebeten, eine Trauerrede zu halten. Schon an guten Tagen fällt es mir schwer, in der Öffentlichkeit zu sprechen, geschweige denn bei einer Beerdigung. Daher war meine erste instinktive Reaktion, die Bitte abzulehnen. 15 Jahre vorher hatte ich bei der Hochzeit von Freunden eine Rede gehalten. Meine Beine zitterten währenddessen so stark, dass ich dachte, ich würde zusammenbrechen.
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1 month ago | 
usmagazine.com | Polly Hudson |Sarah Hearon
There are a few signifiers that immediately let you know you’re watching Bravo’s Summer House: the most extravagant costume parties imaginable, which finish weirdly early; a front door everybody struggles to open; and relationships that viewers can tell are doomed from the start but the people in them somehow never can.
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1 month ago | 
yahoo.com | Polly Hudson
Yahoo is using AI to generate takeaways from this article. This means the info may not always match what's in the article.
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1 month ago | 
usmagazine.com | Christina Garibaldi |Polly Hudson
Once upon a time, actresses past a certain age were forced to accept small, dull background roles. Their best years were behind them, right? Thank goodness those days are over — and if you want living proof of that, here’s Nicole Ari Parker. The 54-year-old’s career has never been hotter, starting with her role as vibrant Lisa Todd Wexley on the Sex and the City spinoff And Just Like That… (HBO Max, May 29, 9 p.m.).
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1 month ago | 
theguardian.com | Polly Hudson
I first took beta blockers two years ago, when I was asked to give a eulogy. Terrible at public speaking on a good day, let alone at a funeral, my first instinct was to refuse to do it. I had made a speech at a friend’s wedding 15 years before and my legs shook so violently throughout that I thought I would collapse. This isn’t a case of being overcritical or dramatic: I find it almost impossible to stand up in front of a crowd and talk.
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1 month ago | 
theguardian.com | Polly Hudson
Everyone talks about Prince Andrew’s “fall from grace” but that raises an awkward question. When exactly was his grace period? Admittedly, even the most cynical among us aren’t immune to royal wedding fever, and when he married Fergie the nation was still high on the fumes from Charles and Diana’s nuptials, so perhaps he was briefly popular in 1986. But other than that? Pretty confident recollections wouldn’t vary here. Nada.
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1 month ago | 
theguardian.com | Polly Hudson
It is a truth almost universally unacknowledged in the UK that wearing shoes in the home is gross. More than gross, actually – there’s scientific evidence it could have serious health consequences and even, if you want to come over all dramatic about it, be life-threatening. And yet I can count on the fingers of no hands the people I know who ask me to remove my shoes when I visit. Until now this has been an uncomplicatedly divisive subject: you were either a Shoes Off household, or you weren’t.
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2 months ago | 
usmagazine.com | Polly Hudson
There are many ways to make your mark in the world of reality TV: You can be confrontational or outspoken. You can be utterly adorable. You can say something shocking, hilarious or offensive. Or you can wear an outfit that is so attention-grabbing it becomes instantly iconic.
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2 months ago | 
usmagazine.com | Christina Garibaldi |Polly Hudson
On her seventh season of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, Lisa Vanderpump’s tagline was “The crown is heavy, darlings. So just leave it where it belongs.” This was a knowing wink to being the leader of the pack on that hit, but today it’s more relevant than ever for the undisputed queen of not just Bravolebrities but all of reality TV. “It’s been an incredible journey,” she tells Us Weekly. “I’ve done hundreds of episodes.
