Burr, Bobby Cannavale, and Bokeem Woodbine are L.A. dads stuck in a culture they never made.
“Old Dads,” a Netflix comedy about three middle-aged dads in Los Angeles, each trying to deal with the delayed pleasures and perils of fatherhood, sounds like a Hollywood satire to watch along with “Bad Moms,” or maybe the sort of broad burlesque of child-rearing that would star someone like John Cena. Actually, though, it’s not that sort of movie. Read More...
Call it the redemption tour. Four of the women’s gymnasts who competed in Tokyo and earned silver in the team event are back in Paris and looking for gold. With the qualification round behind them, they’re one step closer to making that goal, but it’s been a shaky start.
Simone Biles, the most decorated gymnast in history, is back at her third Olympics and hoping to compete this time, after deciding to withdraw from the Tokyo Games following a case of the twisties. Read More...
The former Martha Graham dancer and department store model had a forthright and confident fashion sense that embodied late-seventies mod during a time when it was easy to wear clothes that looked like couch covers. Her distinctive fashion style was marked by her colorful scarves and high-neck Chinese-style collars. Ford used her platform as more than a fashion statement. Though she was First Lady for a mere 29 months, she made haste in fervently supporting the women’s rights movement and popularizing breast cancer awareness in announcing her mastectomy. Read More...
