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manic-maniac-man · 6 months ago

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HUgE April 2012

Truth of trends

Who's behind it

There was a person who inspired designers and even influenced their creations.

- What is the appeal behind these trends?

Arthur Rimbuad--Ann Demeulemeester

George Harrison--Junya Watanabe Comme des Garçons

Eartha Kitt--Thom Browne

ARTHUR RIMBAUD

The decadent fashion of a beautiful genius

Arthur Rimbaud was a precocious genius who passed away at the age of 37. Although the French poet only produced works in his 20s, he had a huge influence on subsequent poets, including Allen Ginsberg and Vladimir Nabokov, across borders. Outside of poetry, Pablo Picasso and Jean-Luc Godard have paid homage to his unconventional, decadent way of life, as well as his works.

"Against the Sun and the Moon" (1995), directed by leading Polish director Agnieszka Holland, depicts the process by which Rimbaud meets the contemporary poet Paul Verlaine and the forbidden love they develop (Rimbaud is played by a young Leonardo DiCaprio). They meet in the early 1870s, a time of great upheaval in France with the Franco-Prussian War and the birth of the Paris Commune. Under the restored republican government, innovative policies such as the establishment of women's suffrage and the separation of church and state were attempted, and hope was in the hearts of the people. The film depicts the relationship between Rimbaud, who has a free-spirited charm, and the talented and spirited poet (married with children), who is a young man with a strong sense of humor.

Perhaps the atmosphere of the times helped Verlaine's relationship with him to become so heated.

However, at the time, homosexuality was a crime, and their relationship ended after just two years.

At the end, Verlaine shoots Rimbaud, wounding him in a daytime soap opera.

That was the end of it. A few years later, Rimbaud stopped writing poetry and became a wanderer.

He later became a merchant in Africa. He seems to have been fairly successful, but his relationship with Verlaine

What continues to attract people is the self-indulgence of the film, including the one I mentioned earlier,

Rimbaud is a poet blessed with beauty and talent.

The runway of the “Ann Demeulemeester” collection also featured a motif reminiscent of the precocious poet who lived at the end of the 19th century.

There were many glamorous looks that had a literary feel to them.

It is also interesting to note that Patti Smith, the muse of Rimbaud, is a passionate fan of Rimbaud.

But maybe it's one of the reasons.

Leonardo DiCaprio plays Rambo in "Avengers". His bad-boy vibe at this time was a perfect fit for the character.

EARTHA KITT

A one-of-a-kind diva who remained active her whole life

Thom Browne's eccentric Spring/Summer 2012 collection was shown at the venerable Parisian restaurant Maxim's. This beautiful restaurant, decorated in Art Nouveau style, is now owned by Pierre Cardin, and has protected the famous restaurant, which was once visited by Jean Cocteau and Marcel Brust, from the harsh world situation.

As the heavy red coins were illuminated by clouds and orange light, models dressed in avant-garde outfits walked slowly... This alone was impactful enough, but at the end of the show, a sequined outfit with a red poppy flower appeared, stunning the people who had packed the venue. The singing voice playing in the background music contained a little hint to "solve" the mystery of the outfit.

The voice behind the song is Eartha Kitt. The singer is known for his sensual singing style and dance-trained performances, including the 1953 hits "C'est si Pon" and "Santa Baby." After making his debut as a dancer at the age of 16, he moved to Paris and

She became a singer in nightclubs. The American singer with a unique voice quickly became the center of attention in Paris, and Kit released the hit songs mentioned above one after another. It was probably at this time that Tom Browne had her in mind.

Her sexy charm soon made her a popular choice on the silver screen and television, and she appeared in many Western media outlets in the 1950s and 1960s, reaching the peak of her career. However, in 1968, Kit was invited to a White House luncheon and spoke out against the Vietnam War in front of First Lady Johnson. She quickly lost her job in the United States and was forced to spend the next 10 years in Europe.

But it seems that this side of her also struck a chord with the fashion world's maverick. Kit was born and raised in difficult circumstances, but made her way on her own. Is it too much of a stretch to think that she has something in common with Brown, who is consistent in her unique creations?

Eartha singing on TV, age unknown, her hands and sexy singing style are very much like her.

GEORGE HARRISON

A former Beetle drivers's thoughts dedicated to a magnificent garden

There is probably no one who doesn't recall George Harrison's legendary triple LP album All Things Must Pass when they see the Junya Watanabe Comme des Garcons Spring/Summer 2012 collection. This is especially true when you consider that "My Sweet Lord" is playing in the background music. This song, which is also included in the album, was the first single by a former Beatles member to reach number one on the British and American hit charts. All Things Must Pass is a memorable work that made the world aware of George's talent as a songwriter, who had been overshadowed by Paul and John in The Beatles.

The album was released in 1970, the same year that The Beatles broke up. In this era of hippie culture, the portrait of George on the album jacket shows him with long hair and a beard. He is sitting in front of a garden gnome in the garden of a vast Victorian mansion that he purchased himself in 1970. Before George, the mansion was owned by a lawyer called Sir Frank Crisp.

His client list included the Imperial Japanese Navy. He was also an avid gardener, and his hobby led him to create a magnificent public garden in the grounds of his house. In other words, the garden on the cover of "All Things Must Be Done" is Crisp's garden.

It is unclear whether the designer was aware of George's affection for Crisp (he wrote several songs in tribute to the former owner and the mansion), but the combination of George and the garden couldn't have been more perfect under the clear, sunny skies of Paris. With his long hair, big hat, boots, and work clothes, his look was very much like George's after leaving the Beatles and living a carefree(?) life.

As an aside, Barry Feinstein, the master photographer who took this jacket photo, passed away in October 2011, four months after the Junya show. I wonder if he had heard of this collection somewhere.

The Beatles' album "All Things Must Bus" released by George Bush is a 3-disc set with a poster, and will be released in its original form.

#my scans #fashion #archive fashion #avantgarde #2010s fashion #japanese fashion #thom browne #junya watanabe #comme des garçons #ann demeulemeester #george harrison #eartha kitt #arthur rimbaud

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soap100drabbles · 1 year ago

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Rules

Rules below cut:

Hello everyone and welcome to Soap Drabbles! Here are the rules of the game:

3 days a week at around 2 pm PST/5 pm EST, we will post a new challenge consisting of 3 words that anyone can use to write a soap opera-themed drabble.

Any soap opera is applicable, whether it is currently on the air or not. Any soap couples or characters can be written about. Couples do *not* need to be canon. Use your imagination, we say!

**Note: Original characters are welcome as long as at least one of the other characters in the story is a canon character.

If you plan to write a drabble, please know that you must include at least one of the three prompt words in your story. However, the word doesn’t need to be used exactly the way it is posted. For example, if the word is fly, it can be used as flies, flew, flying, butterfly, etc.

@ us when you post on Tumblr and tag your story with #soapdrabbles so we can read it and RT you.

Be sure to let us know what word group you are using, either in your post or in the tags. This is especially important for older challenges. We do not have a time limit on challenges. You can write them at your leisure though the sooner you write, the sooner we can all enjoy your stories, but no pressure, right?

In short, this is how the challenges work:

We post the three words.

You write a drabble containing at least one of those words.

You make sure we get/can find your drabble.

We make sure it follows our rules.

We reblog and tag the author’s username and the word group.

In the future, we hope to open a special Twitter account to help spread the word about our challenge and reach new writers and readers, but for now, we encourage you to bookmark this page and share the link with your friends.

Writing Awards (AKA Bragging Rights, only for fun!): - Post a story using one prompt word - Inguenue - Post a story using two prompt words - Daytime Diva - Post a story using all three prompt words - Emmy Winner

Let’s start writing today!

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league1news · 2 years ago

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See the Daytime Star Through the Years – League1News

Susan Lucci is still stunning as ever as she celebrates her 77th birthday on December 23. See why Susan is still the “Queen Of Daytime TV” in photos spanning her six-decade-long career! A Hollywood legend! Susan Lucci began her reign as the “Queen of Daytime” back in 1970, when she was introduced by Erica Kane on ‘All My Children‘. She would play the sharp-tongued, alpha-diva on the soap until…

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#Daytime #League1News #Star #Years

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1lilspark · 5 years ago

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With the announcement of “Let’s Get Dangerous” here is my Drake backstory for my AU

(Will edit with a read more when I’m not on the mobile app)

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Drake didn’t have the best childhood but watching Darkwing was always a bright spot... he was inspired by the way the hero stuck up for the little guy and always picked himself back up

Since becoming a vigilante wasn’t something he even thought to consider he became an actor to hopefully one day portray a character that inspired a kid as much as Darkwing inspired him (in the meantime any $$ not going to food and rent was going to his habbit of browsing thrift stores and internet auctions for Darkwing memorabilia)

At first Drake mostly gets commercial gigs or roles as victim of the week on procedurals as well as becoming a fixture on the St Canard community theater stage until he gets his big break...

...as a day player on a soap opera. He plays the personal assistant to the shows leading lady (and honestly Morgana isn’t as big a diva as the tabloids say) and after two years and a steady fan following the writers decide to edge him into the “Young Adult” scene with the vaguely 20something characters.

The plot is that Drake’s character among others are fighting for the affection of some girl... audiences don’t connect to her and Drake and instead of giving him something new to work with they kill him off in the next let’s clean house with a serial killer plot stunt

Despite being let go he’s dragged to a Daytime Emmy After Party where one of the soaps stylists introduces him to Alister Boorswan. It’s not gone public but Alister is casting for a Darkwing Duck reboot movie... “Whenever Mallard’s come into hair and make up I’ve always thought he kind of looked like a young Jim Starling”

Drake gets cast and the rest... well 😉

#ducktales #darkwing duck #ducktales au #identical cousins au #drake mallard #head cannon

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lethesomething · 5 years ago

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An otome lover’s guide to A3

So. A3.

Not an actual otome, but the actor management game and anime from Cybird (of Ikemen All the Things fame) has a bunch of boys. Ok, so a Lot of Boys. All the Boys, in fact. And men. Some of them are like thirty. Which is refreshing.

Where do you even begin telling them apart? Here is an Attempt, based on the first season of the game.

Spring troupe: The Vanilla boys

Bright, youthful, mostly kinda normal. This troupe stands out for its overall lack of experience and its anime protag willingness to overcome hurdles. Most resembles the main team in a sports anime.

Sakuya Is baby. This boy is a golden retriever puppy that has yet to realize he's ended up in human form. Orphan street urchin with a heart of gold. He's kinda useless as an actor but he will ganba all the way until he makes it. Protect him. Mostly from himself.

Masumi A Giant Friggin Red Flag. Weirdly obsessed with MC. His personality apart from stalker syndrome is what I like to call 'the Kageyama Tobio': genius at one thing and uninterested or terrible at everything else. He is seemingly incapable of social interactions and at best uninterested in any of them apart from MC. Also really harsh on people who don't perform to his standards, which is almost everyone.

Tzuzuru The Self Sacrificing One. Look, this dude gave up most of his dreams to look after his siblings, and he literally joined you because otherwise he'd be sleeping in a cardboard box (Why are all these dudes street urchins?) Wants to be a playwright so he foregoes any semblance of sleep to finish scripts. Has the spinal cord of a jellyfish unless in Very Specific Cases. Cute when he pouts. Pouts a lot. Someone save him.

Itaru Jekyll and XxHydexX. Super cordial professional by day, game addict that will murder you for messing up his kill streak by night. He's So Friggin Pretty why is he a dick?? Doesn't really know if he's even into this theatre thing. You know he is. Of course he is. Calms down tremendously over the course of the arc, just don't, you know, get between him and his gamer score I guess.

Citron What the Foreigner. Mysterious foreign prince possibly on the run from his parents/the cops. Your theatre is a convenient hiding place for him, because obviously getting into showbiz is what you do when you want to remain anonymous. Speaks Japanese in a weird way. In fact, he sounds Exactly Like Utapri's Cecil despite having a different VA. Quirky to a fault. Has potentially been trained as some kind of covert operative but is surprisingly cheerful about everything.

Summer Troupe: The Diva's

A group of highly talented dudes with varying degrees of social issues. Most resembles the cast of a smaller indie otome game.

Tenma The Arrogant One. A child actor from tv wanting to learn stage work. Has zero social skills. He's brash, completely full of himself and extremely critical of everyone else. Needs to learn the Power of Friendship which, spoiler, he obviously does, albeit in a very tsun kindof way. Can't let them know you care, ever.

Yuki Salt Personified. This kid is friggin 14 years old and wears dresses but he will rip you to shreds with his words. Winner of the most deadpan delivery of burns. He's in middle school ffs. Really into fashion. Resident costume designer. Potentially serves as a representation on gender roles in theatre, but the whole thing is fairly lowkey. The team, bless them, just accept him for who he is, sharp tongue and all.

Muku The Soft One. Another middle schooler, this one is way less sharp with his words. Into shoujou manga. Has severe insecurities and a propensity to start sentences with 'um'. Shaking leaf, what is he doing on a friggin stage. He actually has pink hair, could he BE any more squishy. Protecc.

Misumi The Weird One. I realize several characters fit that description, but Misumi is obsessed with triangles and lives in a liminal space between realities so I don't know what to tell you. Also he's like… spiderman. Inhuman amount of acrobatics. Another homeless street urchin (Tokyo - is it Tokyo??? - appears to have an issue, guys). Sweet dude though. Chill and positive about everything, as long as it is triangular.

Kazunari The Influencer. Resident designer and bigshot on social media. He's down with Literally Everything. Likes everyone, is cool about every instance. Unerringly positive to an unhealthy degree. Really, Really conflict averse, even. You could call him painfully insecure, but that's like most of the cast. Wearer of hats in a non-ironic way.

Autumn Troupe: The Delinquents

This troupe consists almost entirely out of (ex) violent delinquents and (ex) criminals. The tough guys, no one here is totally innocent. Most resembles the cast of a beat-em-up.

Banri The Number One. Hotshot teenager who's never tasted defeat in his life. Good at anything without trying, so he never tries. Obsessed with outperforming Juza because he's like the one dude Banri can't beat at fisticuffs. Honestly kinda insufferable for most of their arc.

Juza The Lone Wolf. Cursed with a resting bitch face and an inability to perform in social settings. Considered a delinquent and constantly challenged to fights. Is actually sweet lamb, just with lots of muscles. Cripplingly low self esteem. Wants to act to be someone else. Protect at all costs.

Omi The Responsible one. Wait, that was an option?? Big brother type. Perfect son in law. A keeper. This guy is mature and he cooks and it makes me wonder what's wrong with him. There's probably a dark secret (narrator voice: there was a dark secret).

Taichi The Sunshine Child. Really into yoyo's. Like the toy, not the male subspecies. Has the hair colour and the vocal volume of a shonen jump protag. Bouncy and very loud. Feels way younger than the middle schoolers, though he's in high school.

Sakyo The Debt Collector. Actual yakuza agent. The one the theatre owes a lot of money too. Secretly really loves the performing arts, because of course he does. Massive tsun. I wasn't looking at you, baka. Should have been an accounting professor in another life. Wordy.

Winter troupe:The Drama Team.

No really, most of them have drama and angst written all over them. Only team that consists entirely out of actual adults. Angsty adults, but still. Most resemble the cast of a daytime soap opera.

Tasuku The Defector. The top actor from the rival gang troupe that joined Mankai instead. Fitness buff. Pretty clear about his boundaries for right and wrong. Sweet bean, really. Has a lot of emotions about his childhood friend Tsumugi. Seems to have a lot of feelings in general. Red oni type.

Tsumugi The Subdued one. Talks like a wallflower, looks like he got his fashion choices out of a high end french magazine from the eighties. One of the boring ones. Cinnamon roll. Blue oni. Massive self esteem issues due to past trauma. Weird relationship with his childhood friend Tasuku. They'll work it out, you know they will.

Hisoka The Narcoleptic. Literally washed up and adopted by the theatre group that found him. Weirdly good at acting. Sleeps about 80 percent of the day. Needs to be poked and cajoled with treats. Might actually be a cat. Has no recollection of his life before he was picked off the street by a desperate director.

Homare The 'Extra AF'. A poet who dresses in loud costumes and has really stupid hair. Loud, overtly confident in his bad poetry and just generally confusing to watch. A Gentleman. Flamboyant. Kinda gay coded. Hisoka's crutch and the only reason that man is able to perform like a human being.

Azuma The Flirty One. A Cuddling Professional, because this is a teen rated game and we can't put in an actual prostitute or host. Unnaturally pretty. Indeterminate age. Sensitive. At least one of these dudes has empathetic abilities, may as well be the cute one. Extremely flirty and Experienced (tm) at life.

#a3!#a3 #mobage

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marcloveskylie · 6 years ago

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Kylie Minogue Sunday Times interview in full. (Thanks to Darren Nixon)

Kylie Minogue interview: the pop star talks love, regret and new beginnings ahead of playing the Glastonbury ‘legends’ slot

Kylie Minogue is glowing. Of course she is. As the blue-eyed, blonde princess of pop music and golden girl of pop culture, idolised by millions since the 1980s, Minogue, I imagine, floats around in a perpetual state of looking luminous. She has also been dancing in front of our photographer for an afternoon and, as she puts it, “should be glowing after all that make-up!” It’s not just the make-up. On the brink of releasing a new album, the gig of her career, her 51st birthday and with the thrill of a new man, she is happy. “I could say nothing and you could read everything,” she laughs, pointing to her smiling face. “I’ve met someone who I feel good with. It feels right.”

Post-shoot, Minogue sits upright and cross-legged on a sofa in our east London studio, her 5ft frame wrapped in a barely-there slip dress. Much has been written about her dabbles with Botox, something she admitted in 2009, but today she looks beautiful and natural — faint lines on her face, yet still miles younger than 50. She speaks so softly that I strain to hear her and she answers many questions with a giggle. On the surface, dainty and delicate. Underneath, nerves of steel. “None of this was handed to me,” she says, “but this was my destiny. I was meant to do it.”

The first music I remember was a 1989 VHS tape of Kylie’s videos. Aged five, I watched nothing else for months. Fever (2001) and Aphrodite (2010) — the CDs scratched from overuse — made up much of the soundtrack to my clubbing twenties. Interviewing her is an excruciating test, as I attempt to maintain professionalism while trying not to touch her face. (Full disclosure: when we hug at the end, I scream a bit. She doesn’t mind.) But aren’t we all Team Kylie? In 2005, when, at the age of 36, she revealed her breast cancer diagnosis, support from fans and the press came in floods. When her highly public relationships end, it is always her the world sides with. She is, perhaps, the only non-Brit considered a “national treasure” by the tabloids — The Sun ran a campaign in the early Noughties to have her bottom listed as a World Heritage Site on the grounds it was an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. Brand Kylie has mastered the near impossible: triumphing for three decades, with gold- and platinum-certified records, scandal-free and to global adoration. She’s still considered both a reigning disco diva and a bubbly, Aussie girl next door. Underestimate her at your peril, though. Being Kylie, she says, “takes a lot of work, graft and insecurity — not always what the wrapped-up end product looks like. There have been times when I’ve thought, ‘I just can’t.’ But you’ve got to take the knocks because they’re always coming. It ain’t all roses.” A pause. “But maybe otherwise it wouldn’t be as sweet in the end.”

She values her private life as “precious”, and admits that she has “sacrificed some anonymity”, no doubt because her romances have been tabloid fodder for years. Her most high-profile relationship was with INXS frontman Michael Hutchence from 1989 to 1991. In 1997, long after they broke up, he committed suicide. For four years, she dated the French actor Olivier Martinez, who supported her through her cancer diagnosis and chemotherapy (“Olli was there all the time,” she said in 2006). They broke up in 2007, but were rumoured to have reignited their romance in 2017, claims that she has never addressed. Then there was an engagement to the British actor Joshua Sasse. The two started dating in 2015 and that December she told Desert Island Discs that Sasse, then 28, was “my love”. They announced their engagement in February 2016, but broke up 12 months later; last September, he married an Australian entrepreneur. It strikes me as sad, but her steeliness quickly reappears.

You’ve had your heart broken, I begin. “I don’t know about heartbroken,” she flashes. “I’ve made mistakes.” Such as? “I regret lying to myself. Like, ‘This is OK,’ and doing the merry dance. When that honest bit inside of you knows, but you’re busy covering it up? I regret doing that. It’s not fair on yourself. And yet I think we’ve all been there, we’ve all done it. But I don’t see myself doing it again. I’ve met someone who I feel good with.” She has been dating Paul Solomons, the 45-year-old creative director of British GQ, for just over a year. When talk turns to him, she lights up. “I can feel my face going,” she says. “People say, ‘Your face changes when you talk about him,’ and it does. Happiness. He’s an inspiring, funny, talented guy. He’s got a real-life actual job! It’s lovely.”

Their weekends are generally spent in her Knightsbridge home, watching documentaries on Netflix — “We liked the Ted Bundy Tapes. I was too scared to watch them on my own” — or listening to podcasts — “Have you heard Dear Joan & Jericha [Julia Davis and Vicki Pepperdine’s mock agony-aunt podcast]? I’ve literally creased myself to that, it’s so inappropriate.” He does most of the cooking. “He’s got me cooking too, actually. He’s the first to do that. It can no longer be the family joke that I can’t cook.” Her family are all still in Australia. Her parents, Ron and Carol, worked as an accountant and dancer respectively, and her younger sister, Dannii, followed in Kylie’s showbiz footsteps as a pop star. She also has a younger brother, Brendon. They are a close family who text daily and speak frequently. I imagine they are overprotective about any new boyfriends. Minogue tells me that the first time Solomons met her clan was spending last Christmas with them. “They [already] could tell I was good within myself. They liked him before they met him, and they liked him more after they met him.”

Her Australian accent is still distinctive, but she has lived in London since the early 1990s, when Soho was her stomping ground. “I was really deep in London nightlife back then,” she says. Now, generally, the only time she’s up until the early hours is when she’s on tour. Her last big night out was her 50th birthday party, a year ago, at Chiltern Firehouse, complete with performances by Rick Astley and Jake Shears. “I went to bed at about 5am, but probably had no more than a glass of champagne all night. I was talking and dancing and high on life. The icing on the cake was that I had my special someone to share it with.”

It’s remarkable that Minogue has the stamina to dance until 5am at an age when many women are experiencing the menopause. Indeed, she’s already been there, done that. As is common with younger breast cancer patients, her menopause was medically induced when she had treatment, to suppress her oestrogen levels. On Desert Island Discs, she stated that she would love to start a family. It’s a difficult subject to broach, but I wonder if she feels the chance to have children has passed. “I can definitely relate to that,” she answers. “I was 36 when I had my diagnosis. Realistically, you’re getting to the late side of things. And, while that wasn’t on my agenda at the time, [cancer] changed everything. I don’t want to dwell on it, obviously, but I wonder what that would have been like. Everyone will say there are options, but I don’t know. I’m 50 now, and I’m more at ease with my life. I can’t say there are no regrets, but it would be very hard for me to move on if I classed that as a regret, so I just have to be as philosophical about it as I can. You’ve got to accept where you are and get on with it.”

Born and raised in Melbourne, she attended acting school in her home town and became a superstar at 18 as Charlene in the Australian soap Neighbours. Charlene’s wedding to Jason Donovan’s Scott in 1987 was witnessed by 20m viewers in the UK. Despite no formal singing or dancing training, she left the show to pursue music, and her debut album, Kylie, released in 1988, was No 1 in the UK for six weeks. She has since released 13 more studio albums, as well as dozens of compilation, live and remix records. Next month she is releasing Step Back in Time, her latest greatest hits album. All the big hitters are on there: Spinning Around, I Should Be So Lucky, Confide in Me. She doesn’t have a favourite, but points to Where the Wild Roses Grow (1995) and All the Lovers (2010) — “just glorious”. She had to brace herself, she says, to listen to some of the older tracks. “I recorded Locomotion when I was 18 or 19. I was so young and I felt so young.” She shakes her head in bewilderment.

Minogue has just finished the Golden Tour, six months of shows in Europe and Australia. “I don’t know how much time I’ve got before my showbiz hips and knees start to protest,” she laughs. “They’ll be like, ‘You’ve been treading those boards for a long time, we think you should slow down a bit.’ ” This summer, along with gigs in London, Manchester and even Scarborough, she will take to the Pyramid Stage at Glastonbury in the Sunday afternoon “legends” slot, previously filled by the likes of Dolly Parton, Barry Gibb and Lionel Richie. It is particularly poignant as she was set to perform there in 2005, but her cancer diagnosis meant that she had to pull out. She sang at the festival in 2010, as a guest of the Scissor Sisters, but has never performed solo. “I’m bound to cry,” she says. On stage? “It’s going to happen. When I was meant to be there, I watched it from Australia. I was dealing with much bigger things back then, but when I’m there it will take me back to when I wasn’t there. But I’ll work through that.”

She confirms there will be guests joining her on stage, but won’t tell me who. Dolce & Gabbana designed the Greek goddess-inspired costumes for her Aphrodite: Les Folies tour in 2011, but her on-stage style now is “more human, more real”. “But even Elvis had a few diamantés on him,” she continues. “Come on! I’m thinking of it as a big sing-along. It’s daytime, so you can’t have the lights, effects and lasers that I normally have. I think the simplicity is part of what makes that slot so magical. Dolly Parton just walked on out. Lionel Richie just walked on out. I mean, I’ll sashay on out.”

Minogue’s manager then intervenes. The car is waiting and the star has somewhere to be. “I keep threatening my team that I’m going to retire,” she winks, safe in the knowledge that there are decades left of her career. And, with that, she sashays out. Glowing.

Step Back in Time is released on June 28

#Kylie Minogue #the one and only kylie

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lboogie1906 · 17 days ago

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McKinley Freeman (June 9, 1973) is an actor and producer. He has appeared in films and on television series, including the starring role of Derek Roman in Hit the Floor, portraying the role of Dominic in Queen Sugar, and playing the character Lewis in Reasonable Doubt.

He earned a BS in finance at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana. In 2004 while working at IBM as a Business Development Manager, he auditioned for All My Children and ended up getting the role.

After working on the soap opera All My Children, he later made appearances on shows such as ER, CSI: Miami, and Criminal Minds. In 2007, he starred in the role of Airborne Soldier in Delta Farce. In 2009, he became a regular, playing Tony Dane on Samantha Who? Afterward, he took on some acting roles for a few soap opera series, such as Days of Our Lives, and General Hospital. In 2012, he landed an acting spot on End of Watch. He became a series regular for Daytime Divas and If Loving You Is Wrong.

He stays healthy by practicing a variety of forms of boxing, kickboxing, and martial arts, such as Bojuka, Jeet Kune Do, and Muay Thai. He works with the Covenant House and the Boys & Girls Club of America while focusing on using his basketball skills to help children. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence

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ripetogether · 6 years ago

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CLOSED STARTER. @staystrangcrs

It was the same routine, another indie project Hudson loved that he was paranoid he’d only gotten the part in because of his status and the vague star power he possessed, as the party boy son of television’s premiere daytime soap diva, Mouse Townsend. Plenty of his co-stars had been doubting his ability up until the moment they got on set, but he could take that. In fact, he liked proving people wrong. There was something about his romantic lead, though, she was the type that usually caught his eye. Pretty, young, fresh, but she felt... different. Their chemistry in and out of character was incredible, the kind of stuff he was pretty sure award nominations were made of. He’d only wanted to nurture it, so he’d been spending more and more time with her, not necessarily assuming something romantic would come of it, but knowing he wanted it. That was why he was offering a quick getaway for the two of them. “You don’t have to say yes, but we have a whole weekend off filming and I just think it’ll be good for us, especially after all the heavy scenes. Come on, let me whisk you away somewhere fun.”

#staystrangcrs #listen......... lucy or portia u got CHoices #hudson t. / threads

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blackkudos · 7 years ago

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Wendy Williams

Wendy Williams Hunter (born Wendy Joan Williams; July 18, 1964) is an American television host, actress, author, fashion designer, and former radio personality. She has hosted the nationally syndicated television talk show, The Wendy Williams Show, since 2008.

Prior to television, Williams was a radio DJ and host and quickly became known in New York as a "shock jockette". She gained notoriety for her on-air spats with celebrities and was the subject of the 2006 VH1 reality TV series, The Wendy Williams Experience, which broadcast events surrounding her radio show. She was inducted into the National Radio Hall of Fame in 2009.

She has written a New York Times best-selling autobiography and six other books, and has created various product lines including a fashion line, a jewelry collection and a wig line. On her 50th birthday, the council of Asbury Park renamed the street she grew up on, to Wendy Williams Way.

Early life

Williams was born on July 18, 1964, in Ocean Township, Monmouth County, New Jersey, a suburb of Asbury Park. She is the second of three children born to parents Thomas and Shirley Williams, She grew up in the Wayside section of Ocean Township. Williams graduated from Ocean Township High School, and from 1982 to 1986, she attended Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts, where she graduated with a B.A. in communications and was a DJ for the college radio station WRBB.

Personal life

In her biography, Wendy's Got the Heat, she uses the pseudonym Robert Morris III to refer to her first husband and describes him as a salesperson. Williams and her first husband have since divorced. On November 30, 1997, Williams married her second husband Kevin Hunter. Williams gave birth to their son, Kevin Hunter Jr., on August 18, 2000. Wendy is Christian.

Radio career

Williams began her career working for WVIS in the United States Virgin Islands. Less than a year later, she obtained an afternoon position at Washington DC-based station WOL. Williams commuted between DC and Queens, New York, to work an overnight weekend shift at WQHT.

In 1989, Williams began at urban contemporary WRKS (now WEPN-FM) in New York City as a substitute disc jockey. WRKS hired her full-time for its morning show. A year later, Williams moved to an afternoon drive-time shift, eventually winning the Billboard Award for "Best On-Air Radio Personality" in 1993. In December 1994, Emmis Broadcasting purchased WRKS and switched Williams to the company's other New York property, hip-hop formatted WQHT ("Hot 97"), as WRKS was reformatted into an urban adult contemporary outlet. She was fired from Hot 97 in 1998.

Williams was hired by a Philadelphia urban station, WUSL ("Power 99FM"). Her husband, Kevin Hunter, became her agent. She was very open about her personal life on air, discussing her miscarriages, breast enhancement surgery, and former drug addiction, and helped the station move from 14th place in the ratings to 2nd.

In 2001, Williams returned to the New York airwaves when WBLS hired her full-time for a syndicated 2–6 p.m. time slot. Williams' friend, MC Spice of Boston, offered his voiceover services to the show, often adding short rap verses tailored specifically for Williams' show. The New York Times stated that her "show works best when its elements – confessional paired with snarkiness – are conflated," and cited a 2003 interview with Whitney Houston as an example. During the highly publicized interview that "went haywire" and included "a lot of bleeped language", Williams "asked [Houston], insistently, about her drug and spending habits".

By 2008, she was syndicated in Redondo Beach, California; Shreveport, Louisiana; Wilmington, Delaware; Toledo, Ohio; Columbia, South Carolina; Emporia, Virginia; Lake Charles, Louisiana; Tyler, Texas; and Alexandria, Louisiana, among other markets.

Williams left her radio show in 2009 to focus on her television program and spend more time with her family. She was inducted into the National Radio Hall of Fame.

Lawsuit

In 2008, Nicole Spence, talent booker for The Wendy Williams Experience, filed papers with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission suing Williams. Spence claimed Williams' husband, Kevin Hunter, demanded sex from Spence on many occasions and created a hostile work environment by threatening and assaulting his wife on company premises. On June 11, 2008, Spence filed a sexual-harassment lawsuit against Williams, Hunter, and Inner City Broadcasting Corporation in federal court in Manhattan. Both Williams and Hunter deny the charges.

Television

The Wendy Williams Show

In 2008, Debmar-Mercury offered Williams do to a six-week television trial of her own talk show. On July 14, 2008, Williams debuted her daytime talk show, The Wendy Williams Show, in four cities during the summer of 2008. During the tryout, The New York Times snarkily remarked that the show created a "breakthrough in daytime" by introducing the genre of the "backtalk show.".

After a successful run, Fox signed a deal with Debmar-Mercury to broadcast the show nationally on their stations beginning in July 2009. In addition, BET picked up cable rights to broadcast the show at night. In 2010, BET started airing the show internationally in 54 countries through BET International.

Williams has received multiple nominations at the Daytime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Entertainment Talk Show Host and the show itself was for Outstanding Talk Show/Entertainment. The show attracts 2.4 million daily viewers on average, with Williams trading off daily with Ellen DeGeneres as the number one female host on daytime television.

“The Wendy Williams Show” has been renewed through the 2019-20 television season on the Fox Television Stations.The renewal will keep “Wendy” on air through its 11th season. During the November 2015 sweeps period, the talk show finished either No. 1 or 2 in the key demo of women 25-54 in 55% of the U.S. and 20 of the top-25 markets.

Other television appearances

Williams has made appearances in the television series Martin (1992) and in the soap opera One Life to Live (2011).

Williams filled in for Jodi Applegate on WNYW's morning television show, Good Day New York (2007), and hosted a game show for GSN called Love Triangle (2011) for which she and her husband Kevin Hunter served as executive producers.

Williams played a judge on the Lifetime network show Drop Dead Diva (2011) and served as a guest judge on The Face (2013). She was also a contestant, paired with pro Tony Dovolani on season 12 of Dancing with the Stars (2011); she was eliminated second.

In February 2013, it was announced that Williams and her husband and manager, Kevin, were launching a reality television production company, Wendy Williams Productions. that will produce unscripted content, including reality television and game shows. Williams was an executive producer on the show Celebrities Undercover (2014).

Williams also executive produced the Lifetime biopic Aaliyah: The Princess of R&B, which premiered on November 15, 2014. In September 2015, the documentary series Death By Gossip with Wendy Williams premiered on the Investigation Discovery channel, both hosted and produced by Williams.

Film

Williams appeared in the film adaptation of Steve Harvey's book, Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man, titled Think Like a Man (2012) and its sequel, Think Like a Man Too (2014).

In 2012, it was announced Williams would enter into a "production alliance" with producers Suzanne de Passe and Madison Jones to create movies and television shows aimed at multicultural audiences. These projects will appear under the heading "Wendy Williams presents" and their first project will be VH1 adaptation of a Star Jones novel.

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Theater

In 2013, Williams announced she was going to play the role of Matron "Mama" Morton on the Broadway musical Chicago. Williams officially began her tenure on July 2 and finished her 7-week run on August 11, 2013. Her preparations for the musical were documented in the TV Guide docuseries, "Wendy Williams: How You Doin', Broadway?!", which was produced by her own production company, Wendy Williams Productions.

Business

ProductsHSN Clothing Line

By partnering with the Home Shopping Network (HSN), Williams debuted a line of dresses, pants, sweaters and skirts fit for the everyday woman.The household name media mogul debuted her HSN Clothing line on March 28, 2015. The debut was a "sell-out success" and Williams even told viewers on her talk show that according to HSN, the debut was their most watched premiere since the onset of the program. The Wendy Williams line is sold exclusively at HSN.

Adorn

Williams sells a line of jewelry products on the home shopping network, QVC, called "Adorn by Wendy Williams".

Williams and her husband, Kevin Hunter, commissioned the Chinese-based manufacturing firm, Max Harvest International Holdings, to make 12,140 pairs of shoes bearing the logo of her brand, Adorn. The owners of Max Harvest International Holdings were said to have gone into hiding after the owner of the shoe factory who made the shoes kidnapped one of their managers and held the man prisoner for two weeks before releasing him, and Williams' failure to pay was cited the reason, reported by the New York Daily News. The manager and his wife retained lawyer Staci Riordan of Los Angeles. Their representative says they've been in negotiations for several months in order to reach a settlement. Williams declined to comment on the matter.

Endorsements

Williams was previously a spokesperson for Georges Veselle champagne. She posed for PETA's "I'd Rather Go Naked Than Wear Fur", ad campaign in 2012.

Books

Williams is a seven-time New York Times best-seller and has published several books, including:

Non-fiction

Wendy's Got the Heat (2003), coauthored with Karen Hunter Atria; 1 edition (August 5, 2003)

The Wendy Williams Experience (2005)

Ask Wendy: Straight-Up Advice for All the Drama in Your Life (2013) ISBN 9780062268389

Fiction

Drama Is Her Middle Name: The Ritz Harper Chronicles, Vol. 1 (2006), coauthored with Karen Hunter

Is the Bitch Dead, Or What?: The Ritz Harper Chronicles, Book 2 (2007), coauthored with Karen Hunter

Ritz Harper Goes to Hollywood! (Ritz Harper Chronicles) (2009), coauthored with Zondra Hughes

Hold Me in Contempt: A Romance (2014) ISBN 978-0062268419

Awards

Radio Personality of the Year awards from Billboard, Black Radio Exclusive, and Radio & Records industry magazines

2009: named to the National Radio Hall of Fame

Hosted the 2013 Soul Train Awards Red Carpet

Hosted the 2014 Soul Train Awards in Las Vegas, which aired on November 30, 2014.

Nominated for The 42nd & 43rd Annual Daytime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Talk Show/Entertainment and Outstanding Talk Show Host.

Stand-up comedy

Before Wendy turned 50, stand-up comedy was on her bucket list

In 2014, Lipshtick called Williams to participate in their first all-female-based comedy series at the Venetian in Las Vegas.

Williams made her sold-out comedy debut on July 11, 2014

Williams comedy tour was called "The Sit-down Comedy Tour."

Williams returned to Lipshtick on October 31, 2014 and November 1, 2014 after she made a sold-out debut in July.

Williams hosted her "How You Laughin'" Comedy Series at NJPAC on November 15, 2014 featuring Luenell, Jonathan Martin, Pat Brown, Hadiyah Robinson, and Meme Simpson.

In 2015, Williams announced a 12-city comedy tour called, The Wendy Williams Sit Down Tour: Too Real For Stand-Up.

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Globe, September 21

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Cover: America’s new civil war caused by Trump

Page 2: Up Front & Personal -- Antonio Banderas zips around his native Spain after recovering from coronavirus, Neil Sedaka, Brooke Shields on the phone in the Hamptons

Page 3: Demi Lovato in a mask using her phone, Sofia Richie makes a splash at the beach, Arnold Schwarzenegger blows his nose while biking in Santa Monica

Page 4: Goodfellas toughie Ray Liotta has been forced into wearing a hearing aid at the age of 65 -- a lifetime of firing weapons in screen roles and playing loudmouthed gangsters who scream and get screamed at has slowly eroded his hearing but his love life is sizzling with brunette stunner Jacy Nittolo 20 years his junior

Page 5: Brave Black Panther star Chadwick Boseman took shocking secrets to his grave and left behind a legacy of generosity when he died from colon cancer last month -- in addition to hiding his killer disease he also wed his longtime girlfriend Taylor Simone Ledward on the sly and he was also tight-lipped about his other relationships keeping his close friendships with Denzel Washington and Phylicia Rashad under wraps -- Chadwick fought Marvel before shooting Black Panther to make sure his character T’Challa was played with an African accent to reflect his heritage and culture when the big shots wanted an English or American accent, Amber Heard is at her wit’s end after learning Johnny Depp is ready to embroil her in yet another explosive legal case -- after giving lengthy testimony this summer in a London courtroom where Johnny was suing a British newspaper for labeling him a wife beater rattled Amber has been warned by her legal team that Johnny is coming after her in the U.S. whether or not he wins his London case -- Johnny has made a move to sue Amber for defamation in Virginia for writing a column about sexual violence against women and implying she was battered without mentioning his name -- Amber has been a mess and she believes Johnny’s doing this to grind her into the dirt

Page 6: Angelina Jolie is seething over Brad Pitt’s romance with young German model Nicole Poturalski and she’s dead set on keeping their kids away from his latest squeeze and she feels her ex is flaunting his fling with the 27-year-old to deliberately aggravate her and she’s steamed about him bringing his married galpal to Chateau Miraval which is the former couple’s estate in France

Page 7: Matthew Perry is tormented after being snubbed for the special reunion episode for The West Wing where his guest acting earned him two Emmy nominations and he’s hurt because West Wing really has a special place in his heart, Mariah Carey reveals she penned two songs about her former baseball player beau Derek Jeter -- her song The Roof was about her first smooch with the now-retired New York Yankee and her song My All was about jetting off to spend time with Derek who she credits with helping her get past her doomed marriage to music mogul Tommy Mottola

Page 8: Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are bickering because he’s being forced to miss his family’s traditional Balmoral Castle holiday -- while Harry is upset he won’t be spending time with his 94-year-old granny Queen Elizabeth his wife Meghan doesn’t feel like she’s missing out and she’s too busy decorating their new Montecito mansion and never wants to return to Britain

Page 9: Desperately hoping his son Prince Harry will come to his senses and return to the fold Prince Charles is still paying Harry and his wife Meghan Markle a $30,000 monthly allowance -- Charles and Harry have a very strong and close father-and-son relationship despite disagreeing over Harry’s move to the United States and Charles has made it clear that the door is always open

Page 11: Tom Cruise plunked down a whopping $675,000 to hire a cruise ship to house the cast and crew shooting his Mission: Impossible 7 in a bid to beat costly delays caused by the coronavirus pandemic

Page 12: Celebrity Buzz -- Peter Weller in L.A. (picture), This Is Us heartthrob Justin Hartley’s love life is like a soap opera story line involving a trio of daytime divas -- Justin’s first wife Lindsay Korman and mom to his teenage daughter is duking it out with wife No. 2 Chrishell Stause who trashed him on her reality show Selling Sunset after he texted her a divorce demand while meanwhile Justin is distracting himself with yet another soap star Sofia Pernas, it was a real-life high school horror story for Amelia Gray Hamlin daughter of RHOBH star Lisa Rinna and Harry Hamlin who had her mom trashed by two teachers resulting in her anorexia, Sherri Shepherd’s career went from getting a standing ovation after a guest spot on Friends to answering phones as a legal secretary for David Schwimmer’s dad, Sex and the City creator Candace Bushnell had a romantic dinner with John Corbett while he was dating Bo Derek

Page 13: Tiffani Thiessen goes grocery shopping (picture), Placido Domingo performs in Italy at his first concert since contacting coronavirus (picture), Kevin Hart relaxes behind the wheel while pregnant wife Eniko pumps gas (picture), Macaulay Culkin is reminding everyone that age matters when he tweeted that he’s turning 40

Page 14: Before he hit the jackpot with the British version of The Office Ricky Gervais and his longtime girlfriend lived above a brothel because they has absolutely no money, David Arquette is going to great lengths to revive his wrestling career for a new documentary called You Cannot Kill Me where he undergoes an excruciatingly painful wax job on particularly sensitive body part including his buttocks and in the film he strips stark naked for a spray tan and flashes viewers full-length shots of all his assets as he gets freshly orange-tinted skin blow-dried, Fashion Verdict -- Monica Bellucci 2/10, Kate Bosworth 7/10, Kristen Bell 8/10, Julianne Hough 9/10

Page 16: Kate Winslet says she and co-star Saoirse Ronan decided to self-choreograph their racy lesbian sex scene in the film Ammonite, R. Kelly got a brutal beatdown from a fellow inmate in a Chicago lockup while he was asleep in his cell and a thug with F**k the Feds inked on his face stomped on Kelly’s head and tried to stab him with a pen because the attacker blamed the appearance of Kelly’s supporters outside the jail for triggering recent prison lockdowns

Page 17: Tim McGraw and Faith Hill are on the road to Splitsville as they tussle over where to live their lives as empty nesters -- Faith wants to permanently relocate to California while Tim refuses to budge from Nashville -- their daughter Gracie is living in L.A. pursuing an acting career and Faith wants to follow suit even though she was panned for her work in the flop The Stepford Wives in 2004, Susan Schneider Williams the heartsick widow of tragic funnyman Robin Williams says she and her husband were told to sleep in separate beds as the ailing star struggled with insomnia in the years before his 2014 suicide

Page 19: 10 Things You Don’t Know About Padma Lakshmi, Steve Carell ditched cult hit The Office after seven seasons in 2011 but he recently revealed shooting his farewell episode was emotional torture, Laurence Fishburne is out of The Matrix revealing he has not been invited to appear in the fourth installment of the blockbuster film series and although he won’t be rejoining stars Keanu Reeves and Carrie-Anne Moss he admits sci-fi sage Morpheus is probably the role he’ll be best remembered for

Page 21: True Crime

Page 24: Cover Story -- Blood in the Streets

Page 26: Health Report

Page 36: The simmering feud between Madonna and Elton John has erupted into an all-out war with the vengeful Madonna gloating as tormented Elton wages a heart-rending legal battle with his ex-wife -- Madonna is thrilled over Elton’s agonizing court battle because she’s hated him since 2012 when he slammed her as a fairground stripper and called her tour a disaster -- Elton is in a painful brawl in a London court with his former spouse Renate Blauel who accused Elton of shaming her by forcing her into the limelight with his blabbing about their doomed romance in his recent memoir and bio-flick, Mel C claims she and her Spice Girls bandmates were never harassed by men in the music industry because dudes were petrified of the all-female pop group known for their Girl Power slogan

Page 38: Real Life

Page 44: Straight Talk -- screwball actor Jim Belushi has a really nutty solution to America’s homeless problems: he wants to stone them but not with rocks with pot

Page 45: This Is Us star Chrissy Metz has finally gotten over her heartbreaking split from boyfriend Hal Rosenfeld two years ago and now is asking co-star Mandy Moore to help find her a new love, Toni Braxton has one big regret which is she wishes she’d partied hardier and had more sex during her younger years but she insists it’s not too late to add more notches to her belt

Page 47: Hollywood Flashback -- Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Grey in 1987′s Dirty Dancing, Bizarre But True

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General Hospital Spoilers: Jessica Tuck Wraps Up Most Recent Return To Port Charles

By Admin | Hollywood Facts - November 15, 2019

Jessica Tuck has ended her most recent stint on “General Hospital” as Cassandra Pierce. Tuck reprised her role during the week of November 4. This time, her stay was brief. She wrapped up her gig on the sudser when her alter ego met her maker this week. Viewers may no longer see her on the show, but they can look forward to her upcoming projects like “Little Fires Everywhere”, which is set to premiere in 2020.

Jessica Tuck Has Ended Her Recent Stint On General Hospital

Viewers may recall that she planned to take Charlotte Cassadine (Scarlett Fernandez) as her hostage. She then used her to force Valentin Cassadine (James Patrick Stuart) to do her bidding. She won’t let the kid go until she’s made her escape. Unfortunately, things didn’t go according to her plan since Charlotte managed to escape.

Cassandra is on the boat Valentin provided. She thought she’s on her way to freedom. The problem is that Valentin planted a bomb on the boat and Cassandra dies in the explosion.

Jessica Tuck’s Career

Tuck’s first TV role was as Megan Gordon Harrison on ABC’s “One Life to Live”. She played the character for four years, from 1988 to 1992. She made a sporadic appearance in spirit form in 1993, 1999, 2004, and 2012.

In 1990, her excellent performance on the show was recognized. She got nominated for a Soap Opera Digest Award for Outstanding Female Newcomer. In 1992, she was nominated for a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series. Unfortunately, she lost to her on-screen mother Erika Slezak. Tuck left daytime television and played the role of Nicole Brown Simpson in “The O.J. Simpson Story” back in 1995.

She also had a leading role in the Olsen twins’ “Billboard Dad” in 1998. She was cast in the CBS drama series “Judging Amy” as Gillian Gray from 1999 to 2005. She then appeared on different films like “Secretary” in 2002, “Super 8” in 2011, “High School Musical 2”, “High School Musical 3” and “Sharpay’s Fabulous Adventure”. She also got cast on the HBO series “True Blood”.

Throughout her career, she has made over 50 guest appearances on various TV shows including “Murder, She Wrote”, “Seinfeld”, “NYPD Blue”, “The Nanny”, “CSI: Crime Scene Investigation”, “Grey’s Anatomy”, “Boston Legal”, “Castle”, “Private Practice”, “Revenge”, “Drop Dead Diva”, and “Scandal”.

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(via With ‘The Rich and The Ruthless,’ Victoria Rowell flips the soap opera script)

Rowell’s Rules: When you’re at the wheel, you can cast the net wide and hire black

rucilla Winters. A fictional character on CBS’s The Young and The Restless portrayed by one of daytime TV’s hottest black women on the tube, Victoria Rowell. Drucilla was spicy. She came in with a fiery personality that kept faithful viewers watching. So when Drucilla fell off a cliff on April 4, 2007, with no body to be found, fans were left waiting and wondering whether she would ever make her return to the daytime soap world.

Rowell has moved on and has created her own lane. Her new vision, a six-part scripted comedy series titled The Rich and The Ruthless, will premiere on the Urban Movie Channel on July 28.

“As you know, I’ve had more than 14 years of daytime drama experience beyond The Young and the Restless, but that is the most iconic role that I played in daytime, as Drucilla Winters,” Rowell said. “I very quickly saw the disparity for African-Americans not only in front but behind the camera and was very active in diversity in the genre of daytime drama television.”

Rowell, the creator and director of the dramedy, is also one of the show’s stars. She first launched a Kickstarter campaign for the pilot episode four years ago. Featured in UMC’s summer lineup, The Rich and The Ruthless is a fictional story of the first black-run daytime drama in the soap opera industry and is loosely based off her novels The Young and the Ruthless and Secrets of a Soap Opera Diva.

“The premise of the show is a black-owned soap opera that’s been on the air on a fictitious network in Hollywood for 20 years and the network is trying to get rid of them,” Rowell said. “This is a dramedy. It’s wonderful. It’s a behind-the-scenes from the black perspective looking out on the perspectives of fans, the perspective of the actors and the balancing act for a black actor or actress in Hollywood taking care of their family back in Mississippi.”

Rowell said she decided to choose Mississippi because of a relationship with Myrna Colley-Lee, the founder of SonEdna, a foundation that celebrates and promotes the literary arts and writers of all genres and backgrounds.

“I was introduced to her literacy organization many years ago and was invited to Mississippi,” Rowell said. “I had the great honor of collaborating. I was invited to the local high school, and I spoke and I was taken to the SonEdna art center. I’m also involved in literacy. The high incidence of illiteracy in the South and teen pregnancy, I absolutely wanted to make Mississippi a part of the story. Besides that, the historical civil rights aspects of Mississippi.

“To me, it all matters. It all collides. It all has to matter. In my opinion, to live a full, bountiful, abundant and give-back life, you have to know the history. You’ve got to look back to move forward.”

In The Rich and the Ruthless, all the drama begins when greedy studio executives inform self-made businessman and showrunner Augustus Barringer (Richard Brooks) that his show is getting booted off stage for another talk show after two decades on the air. Augustus is ready to fight back by any means necessary to stay on the air — even if that means filming out of his sleek Hollywood mansion or moving the company to Jamaica. Meanwhile, his unpredictable wife, Kitty Barringer (Rowell), is not happy about any of it. After recently returning home from her latest stint in rehab, she decides it’s time to claw her way back up the cliff and make her soap diva comeback to her role on the show as Blue Sylla, much to her husband’s chagrin.

“I won’t give it away, but it’s a family-owned business, so think Game of Thrones meets The Office meets Empire, sort of the political mores, dealing with the tug of war with the network, dealing with the family dynamics and power struggle,” Rowell said.

... Rowell, who wrote the New York Times best-seller The Woman Who Raised Me, portrays the series as a soap within a soap. Rowell stars alongside Brooks (Being Mary Jane, Law & Order), Dawnn Lewis (A Different World, Major Crimes), Robert Ri’chard (Coach Carter, Chocolate City), Chrystale Wilson (The Players Club), Caryn Ward Ross (The Game), Michael Colyar (The Princess and the Frog), Alesha Reneé and more.