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Yahoo
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
38 Things People Over 30 Used To Do That Would Be Seen As Wiiiiiiiild Today
@talantorriero asked people on TikTok, "What's one thing millennials did back in the day that today's generation would think was crazy?!" @talantorriero/ As a millennial (I know, shocking,) here are the ones I found especially relatable in the replies: 1."Getting asked and asking A/S/L." 2."Calling the radio station to request a song in order to hear it." 3."Asking a gas station worker directions somewhere." 4."Literally calling 411 to 'look up' stuff." 5."Used to check out cinema listings in the newspaper." 6."Using Photobucket to store photos." 7."Use a phone on our kitchen wall with no privacy." 8."Recording a TV show with our VCR!" 9."Take MacBook photo booth pics with the filters and the rollercoaster backgrounds etc. before going out for the night." 10."Hang out at a mall." 11."Wait 3 hours to download one song on limewire just to find out it's a clip of crazy frog." 12."Waiting for your fav song to come on the radio to record it on your boom box." 13."Slamming a phone when hanging up." 14."'Burning' CDs." 15."Jean skirts and uggs lol." 16."Calling our parents jobs when we needed them, and asking another coworker if they were there." 17."Pay for ring back tones." 18."Rushing home to watch TRL." 19."Hitting a number key on a flip phone 3 times to get the letter you wanted to type in a text." 20."Tanning as a teenager literally every day after school, with a lil stick[er] on your hip to show the progress." 21."Call[ing] people after nine and talk on the phone the whole night." 22."TV guide channel and spacing out, forgetting to look at a certain channel, and having to rewatch it." 23."Carrying a digital camera around our wrist to the bar." 24."Having to wait for a certain day and time to watch your favorite show and its one episode per week. No binge-watching or anything." 25."Accidentally opening the browser on your cell phone." 26."Going to blockbuster and renting a movie/video game." 27."Wearing business casual to the club." 28."Leave the house without a phone." 29."We had to just sit and wait for our parents to pick us up, and hope they didn't forget us." 30."Memorize your friends' phone numbers .... their HOUSE phone." 31."Having to call a friend's house and talk to their parents first. It was awful." 32."Print off mapquest to know where to drive." 40 pictures to Facebook from a single night out." 34."Waiting for your school to scroll across the bottom of the TV to see if you had a snow day or not." 35."Spend hours coding and creating the perfect MySpace profile." 36."Recording 20 seconds of a song for your voicemail." 37."Ranking our friends publicly LOL aka MySpace top 8." lastly, "Made our own ankle socks by rolling over crew socks." Now that's a look.
Telegraph
4 days ago
- Entertainment
- Telegraph
The Power of Parker, season 2 review: come for the broad humour, stay for the killer 1990s soundtrack
If you're aged 65 or over, our survey says, you are watching more television than any other age group in the country. Extrapolating further from this (admittedly fictional) survey, it's a fair bet that nostalgia for past times will bullseye those remote controls. Which makes The Power of Parker (BBC One) a canny bit of demographic-baiting comedy. Sian Gibson and Paul Coleman's tale of Stockport sisters eventually doing it for themselves should really be called I Heart the (Early) '90s, it's so awash with loving period detail. Walkmans, answerphones, curly fries and more play key supporting roles as dithering heroines Kath and Diane stumble their way to a self-awareness that amounts to realising Martin Parker, the man to whom they have mystifyingly devoted their lives is, to put it politely, a… waste of space. We've moved on 'two years or so' from the first series, which climaxed with Parker's electrical store going up in an inferno, taking Martin along with it. Except, of course, he survived and, thanks to some hula-hooping exposition involving insurance fraud and a Chinese takeaway, we pick up the threads with long-suffering Diane (Rosie Cavaliero) running the rebuilt store but now under the thumb of Sandy Cooper, another sexist dinosaur (Steve Pemberton) because that's how all men were in the '90s. The comedy is still broad, slapped on in the old school style, which substitutes endless asides and one-liners for actual conversation, and does at times feel contrived. Yet somewhere around the middle of this run I began to be won over. The mood switches from a Phoenix Nights pastiche to a curious spin on Shallow Grave, Danny Boyle's hit 1994 debut movie in which… well, let's just say things take a dark turn, we are in spoiler land. The mood-switch opens the door to a very funny sequence in which Sian Gibson's perky Kath, opening up to a cop chum, floats the idea of Julia Roberts, Bruce Willis and Pat Butcher (aka EastEnders legend Pam St Clement) starring in the same movie thriller. How did that never get made? But it wasn't the increasingly black comedy which made my critical claws retract: it was the killer soundtrack. I now have a self-made Spotify Power of Parker playlist stuffed full of brilliant 1990s classics – shout out to Julian Cope's World Shut Your Mouth and Crucified by Army of Lovers – that add a subtlety to the story it quite possibly doesn't merit. The weak link is Conleth Hill's off-kilter portrayal of oily Martin Parker. Hill feels miscast. While he's adept at giving us a dose of Martin's toxic masculinity, he's much less convincing when laying on the silver fox charm that supposedly has women falling under his spell. So much so that – 11 episodes in, counting series one – when the two sisters finally have a lightbulb moment and chorus, 'How the hell did we both fall for that?' I'll admit it prompted a celebratory exclamation of, 'Finally!' from yours truly. Which surprised me. I didn't know I cared.
Daily Mail
6 days ago
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
EXCLUSIVE I dated a famous actor... his constant need for attention overshadowed the dazzling perks
A woman who dated a famous actor has revealed how his constant need for attention overshadowed the dazzling perks that came with being in a relationship with a star. The woman, who will be referred to as Charlotte in the story as she asked to keep her identity private, met the unnamed star while they were both volunteering, and she was instantly wooed by his charming personality. She and the man - who she described as a 'D-list actor' who was big in the '90s - bonded over their shared passion for giving back, and soon, they struck up a whirlwind romance. And while dating him was exciting at first, she began to see a shocking side of him that ultimately cast a dark shadow over their relationship. 'I met him at a volunteer meeting for an organization I wanted to volunteer for,' Charlotte recalled exclusively to 'Turns out we have a certain hobby in common and we started meeting up just for that hobby. We had a lot of fun and I genuinely cared about him. 'He was [so] charismatic. I always had a crush on him, so that was a driving factor.' But soon, Charlotte said the man's 'insecurities' crept into their relationship. 'At first, I thought it was confidence that drew me but that was just narcissism masked as confidence,' she continued. 'He needed validation, he needed to be the central focus on a lot of things and in control.' Charlotte told that while he was 'really popular in the '90s,' his career has slowed down as of late. But she said he had a hard time accepting that and was desperate to 'stay relevant.' 'He was really popular in the '90s and a lot of millennials would know who he is,' she shared. 'He does whatever he can to try and stay relevant. He is doing good things for the world but he is sure to have himself at the center of all of it.' She described him as 'very self-centered' and said he 'needed to be in control and have the final say' in everything. In addition, she said 'communication was not his strong suit,' which she found 'ironic' given his 'profession and notable persona.' 'At first I thought it was disconnect due to an age gap (he is in his late 60s and I am in my early 40s) but that wasn't it,' she continued. 'It was just him as a person. He was never accountable, someone else was always the issue or problem - including me.' In the end, they were together for about six months before they went their separate ways. And looking back, she called him the 'most insecure and narcissistic person' she ever met. 'When we split, he was bitter for a bit but as time moved on, he reached out a few times and was apologetic, professed love, etc.' concluded Charlotte. 'I see him as a broken man, he always will be in my opinion.'
The Guardian
25-05-2025
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
‘People in the scene would sometimes be mean to us. They'd forget we were teenagers': Daphne and Celeste look back
New Yorkers Celeste Cruz and Karen 'Daphne' DiConcetto auditioned to become a pop duo in 1998. Their career was short-lived but memorable – releasing Ooh Stick You, U.G.L.Y. and a cover version of Alice Cooper's School's Out!; they were also bottled off stage at the 2000 Reading festival. After getting dropped in 2001, Celeste pursued a career in acting, and Karen in screenwriting. They reunited in 2015, with the album Daphne & Celeste Save the World following in 2018. Karen lives in Brooklyn, and Celeste in New Jersey. They perform at the Mighty Hoopla festival in London on 31 May. Based on Celeste's T-shirt, I would say this was taken during the promotion of U.G.L.Y. – her frosted blue eyeshadow is a clear indicator, too, as it was very much a thing back then. Someone should have told me to paint my nails. I also think we were getting bored with all of our normal poses. Boredom is the only reasonable explanation for that hand-to-mouth expression. One of the first things Celeste said to me was: 'Hey, so, like, I've got pinkeye [conjunctivitis].' She wanted to get it out of the way at the start of the audition, so I wouldn't think she had an eye that always looked like that, which I found endearing. My other memory is of us dancing to the instrumental to Ooh Stick You and us both saying: 'What is this strange song?' When we arrived in England, I had just seen the movie Notting Hill, and, based on that alone, we decided we should live there. It was the 90s and labels had a lot of money, so they said: 'Sure!' Before Daphne and Celeste, my ambition was to do Broadway. Pop wasn't taking off as much in America as it was in the UK – the kind of music I liked was Lauryn Hill and Radiohead – but I soon became fully immersed. As well as British pop, we loved British TV. Once we saw Sid Owen from EastEnders and reacted as if he was the biggest star in the world. The same thing happened with Darren from the first season of Big Brother. Who knew some guy chasing chickens around a garden could ignite that kind of response? There was always a deep sense of irony about everything we did in Daphne and Celeste, and the people who got the joke knew we were just having fun. Richard and Judy were not those people. When we left the set after our interview the producers said: 'Never come back.' I don't even think they said please. What did we do? We were just being ourselves and maybe talking too much. They wanted us to be cheeky but not too cheeky, which we were. They took themselves very seriously and, while we didn't want to be rude, we also thought: 'This is really not that deep. Our lyrics are literally 'Up your butt with a coconut.'' Being a pop band in that era was a whirlwind. We'd often be told we were doing something, such as an Asda supermarket tour, and we'd just agree to it. It never occurred to us to ask more questions about why the next three months of our lives would be spent in different Asda supermarkets. It was one of the weirder experiences we had, but actually pretty convenient as we could pick up food after the signings. Throughout those years, Celeste and I were stuck with each other. There were occasional moments when we needed space, but we had no other option but to figure it out. Learning how to work through problems like that in real time was an incredible skill to acquire at such a young age. Once the group got dropped, we went back to the States and took some time out from each other. A year later, we became roommates again, and we've been close ever since. As for the future, I'm not sure. We still have so much fun performing together. Mostly, I am just grateful to have Celeste as my friend. Our schedule during this period would often include 15 shoots in a day, so it's impossible to pinpoint exactly where we were or what we were posing for. My eyebrows are Christina Aguilera levels of thin. It was the era to have almost no eyebrows at all. Someone should have told me to do a little less with my nails, and Daphne a little more. I think the expression we were going for was: 'Gasp! Did you really just say that thing you shouldn't have said?' People liked that type of sass from us. My first impression of Karen was that she had a striking bob. The audition itself was confusing, as I wasn't entirely sure what it was for – apart from En Vogue, we didn't have girl groups in the US at that time. Once I got to the UK I really started to understand the pop explosion that was happening – so much so that I bought multiple Steps records. Sign up to Inside Saturday The only way to get a look behind the scenes of the Saturday magazine. Sign up to get the inside story from our top writers as well as all the must-read articles and columns, delivered to your inbox every weekend. after newsletter promotion From the start our attitude was: 'Just have fun! This probably won't last for ever.' But the pop world was incredibly earnest and people would often forget that we were 16 [Karen] and 18 [Celeste]. For example, when U.G.L.Y. charted at No 18, we were really excited – Top 20 was a huge thing for us – but the other groups we were on tour with responded as if something terrible had happened. In general, the pop scene found us tricky to place, and would sometimes be mean to us. There was very much a 'sit at your own lunch table' vibe in response to us. But not S Club 7. They were so fun. When Karen and I lived in London, our nextdoor neighbour was Brian Eno. We bumped into him one day and he said: 'My daughters love you.' I did not know who this person was, which I now feel so embarrassed about. He invited us into his home and I remember looking around at all of his records and saying: 'Wow, you must be such a huge U2 fan.' Thankfully, he was so humble and sweet, and didn't let on he was the legend that he was. Quite quickly, mine and Karen's friendship became like a sisterhood. As we were living and working together for 24 hours a day, there were moments when we would be at each other's throats, but we had no choice but to learn how to take care of each other. When the group ended, we had a bit of space from each other. I definitely needed to gain back a bit of my identity: I was 'on' for so long that I totally forgot who I was and what I really liked. At first I was restless and couldn't stay static – I started following members of the Grateful Dead on tour. Then a year later, Karen and I were back in touch and we started hanging out again. Since then, we've been with each other for all of the major life milestones – we went to each other's weddings, we got pregnant at the same time, and, as we both lived in Brooklyn, our children became besties. It's really cute – they vibe similarly to how Karen and I do. I feel like the universe chooses who you go through life with, whether you intentionally pick someone or if you meet them at an audition. Karen and I love our husbands, but there is a bond between us that's unique. She knows what it's like to be in a pop group, to be a pandemic mum, to work five jobs in New York to get by. She gets me on all levels, and I can't say that about anyone else.
Daily Mail
24-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
The secret life of Carmen Electra: Donald Trump's brutal verdict on her boob job... a heartbreaking double tragedy... and the clue she's prepping a COMEBACK
When the 90s bombshell Pamela Anderson sensationally left the hit body-beautiful drama Baywatch in 1997, panicked producers scoured the planet to find someone else who could look nearly as good bursting out of a red lifeguard's swimsuit while running down a beach. They found Carmen Electra.
