Entries in Holidays (211)
HAPPY PRIDE 🏳️🌈
Sunday, June 27, 2021 at 10:46AM 
It's Pride Sunday here in NYC so we're taking the afternoon off for the Queer Liberation march and to get a sunburn. The latter is assumed from past experience no matter how much sunscreen we lather on (thanks Danish ancestry). On a more serious and celebratory note, isn't it positively inspiring how many out celebrities we have now? We grew up in the 80s when we had only a handful (Rupert Everett, Martina Navratilova, Harvey Fierstein, Jimmy Sommerville, Boy George, and maybe a couple of others). In the 1990s 'coming out' became a more regular but still 'controversial' celebrity occurrence. Today the news cycle moves on pretty quickly from a celebrity's admission of queerness and that's healthy! Today's young people have hundreds of LGBTQ celebrities to pick and choose from to enjoy or relate to or be inspired by during their formative years.
As movie fanatics we knew in our hearts all along (despite protests to the contrary, sometimes frustratingly from the queer community) that once enough actors came out the myth that it would ruin acting careers would be exposed as just that: a total myth. Strength in numbers! Happy pride to all the queer artists and entertainers and Happy Pride to all our LGBTQ+ readers and allies!
Juneteenth is finally an official US holiday. Will we get more movies about it?
Saturday, June 19, 2021 at 11:11AM 
Following recent voting in Congress, Juneteenth is finally a federal holiday. It's been too long in coming. And speaking of since this is a film site ... Have you caught up with last year's Miss Juneteenth yet? It's so good and Nicole Beharie is just perfect in the leading role, as a former beauty queen who has to learn to let go of trying to strictly mold her daughter into a new version of herself. She won the Gotham Award and was a medalist here at TFE as well. For our money she was better than the bulk of Oscar's acting nominees last season...
Holidays, Lincoln, Miss Juneteenth, News of the World, Nicole Beharie, Texas, politics Beauty Break: Celebrity Bunnies
Sunday, April 4, 2021 at 4:41PM 
Something that just occurred to us on this Easter Sunday. You know what the pandemic robbed us of? Dolly Parton recreating this 1978 photoshoot for Playboy. She was in talks to do it for her 75th birthday at some point according to various news sources. But her birthday came and went in January with no news of the sort. Obviously this did not come to pass!
After the jump other film and tv and music stars as beautiful bunnies...
Beauty Break, Bunnies, Easter, Holidays Happy Valentine's Day!
Sunday, February 14, 2021 at 12:01AM 
Whose heart are you after this weekend?
Do tell in the comments.