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Los Angeles Times
3 days ago
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This must be Glendale
Often overshadowed by its neighbors with glitzier landmarks — namely Burbank and Pasadena — Glendale gets an unfair rap as being suburban and drab. Many Angelenos (especially those on the Westside) know it primarily for its massive malls: the Glendale Galleria and oft-meme'd Americana at Brand. While its retail landscape is certainly impressive, that's just the tip of the iceberg of this 30-square-mile city that traverses two mountain ranges and boasts dozens of historic buildings and more than 50 parks. Visit one small corner of this century-old city and your main takeaway might be the preponderance of Armenian bakeries, kebab joints and hookah bars. For a more bohemian, historic take on Glendale, visit Adams Square, where storybook Tudor houses proliferate and a queer community flourishes. At Adams Square Mini-Park, once a gas station, find a public art gallery inside an old service building and nearby crosswalks that have been painted vibrant colors as a way to increase pedestrian visibility and celebrate the local community. Vintage period revival mansions on enviously large plots of land can be found in Glendale's higher elevation communities, like Chevy Chase Canyon or El Miradero, situated below the 31-acre Brand Park. Plenty of historic Queen Anne-Eastlake Victorian homes dating to the 1870s to 1890s are also still standing. Some of these older buildings — like a turn-of-the-century Moorish mansion and an old winery barn — now serve as museums, public libraries and nature centers. While there is plenty of new development — think high-rise condominiums, strip malls, big-box stores and expanded transportation routes — Glendale actively balances preserving its historic sites while promoting change. Take, for instance, Brand Boulevard, the heart of downtown Glendale. It's a dynamic mix of new retailers, multicultural restaurants and landmark businesses like the 100-year-old Alex Theatre and a corset shop that has been in the same location since 1922. And the transformation of the city goes even further. While Glendale once bore the unfortunate reputation of being a mid-20th-century 'sundown town,' it has since evolved into a vibrant melting pot. Today, it is home to large communities of Armenians, Latinos, Koreans, Filipinos and Persians. In a significant step toward reconciliation, Glendale became the first city in California — and the third in the nation — to formally apologize for its racist past. Whichever analogy you choose — a Rubik's cube, an onion — Glendale is one of the more fickle SoCal destinations that takes time to get to know. There are pockets of funk, beauty and culture — a neon museum, a retro roller rink, a progressive art museum at the top of a cemetery. Glendale also produced numerous Hollywood greats, like John Wayne, Eva Mendes and Paul Walker, and serves as the final resting spot of even larger luminaries, such as Walt Disney, Elizabeth Taylor and Michael Jackson. Here's where to go to get the best representation of this oft-misunderstood place that is actually, to name-drop its century-old moniker, a 'jewel' of a city.
Yahoo
12-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Eva Mendes Praises 'My Man' Ryan Gosling for Helping Campaign for Best Stunt Design Oscar
Eva Mendes is praising her husband, Ryan Gosling, for his contributions to getting stunts recognized by the Oscars. This came one day after the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced it had established a stunt design Oscar, which would start in 2028. David Leitch, director of The Fall Guy starring Gosling and Emily Blunt, played a big role in pushing for the new category, in addition to stunt coordinator and designer Chris O'Hara. More from The Hollywood Reporter A Best Stunt Oscar Could Drive Stunt Designers to Up the Ante Oscars: Film Academy Establishes Stunt Design Award Cannes Lines Up Another Hot Festival With Wes Anderson, Spike Lee, Richard Linklater, Ari Aster Premieres (Full List) Mendes took to her Instagram on Friday, writing, 'My man is the F best! Unfortunately, success is almost only measured by box office. So I'm extra proud of my man for turning his entire Fall Guy press tour into a campaign to get stunts recognized by the Oscars. And now after Almost 100 years of stunt design not being acknowledged by the Academy, it's officially a category!! This is a HUGE success! And an achievement that will last. Congratulations to the incredible stunt community!!' View this post on Instagram A post shared by Eva Mendes (@evamendes) She also shared photos of Gosling and Leitch standing next to Seth Phillip, the creator behind the dudewithsign social media account, holding a sign that read, 'Give stunts an Oscar.' The Barbie actor previously collaborated with Phillip's last April for The Fall Guy promo, holding a sign that read, 'Filling In As Dudewithsign's Stunt Double.' The actress and author concluded her post by shouting out Blunt, 'BTW, this is the last time I post a pic of my man and the total babe that is Emily Blunt. No más!' Gosling and Mendes met while filming 2012's The Place Beyond the Pines. While she stepped away from Hollywood more than 10 years ago to focus on raising their two daughters and other career endeavors, she's continued to publicly support her husband despite their private relationship. Last year, she praised Gosling's 'I'm Just Ken' performance at the 2024 Oscars and his Cuban wife sketch on Saturday Night Live. Best of The Hollywood Reporter The 10 Best Baseball Movies of All Time, Ranked 20 Times the Oscars Got It Wrong The Best Anti-Fascist Films of All Time
USA Today
08-04-2025
- Business
- USA Today
Texas AG Ken Paxton launches investigation into Kellogg's over artificial food colorings
Texas AG Ken Paxton launches investigation into Kellogg's over artificial food colorings "Our products – and the ingredients we use to make them – are compliant with all applicable relevant laws and regulations," Kellogg's said in October 2024. Show Caption Hide Caption Protesters demand Kellogg remove artificial colors from cereals Protesters gathered outside WK Kellogg Co.'s Michigan headquarters, demanding the company remove artificial dyes from its cereals sold in the US. unbranded - Newsworthy On Sunday, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced an investigation into Kellogg's for its "healthy" products with artificial flavors and dyes. In 2015, Kellogg's said it would eliminate all artificial ingredients by 2018, but consumers are still waiting for this change. In 2024, actress Eva Mendes led a protest against Kellogg, asking the company to fulfill its promise. Texas' attorney general opened an investigation over the weekend into Kellogg's for potentially breaking the state's consumer protection laws. On Saturday, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced that his office had opened an investigation into WK Kellogg Co. for marketing its products as "healthy," despite containing "petroleum-based artificial food colorings that have been linked to hyperactivity, obesity, autoimmune disease, endocrine-related health problems and cancer in those who consume them." Paxton pointed to Kellogg's cereals, such as Froot Loops, Apple Jacks, Frosted Flakes and Rice Krispies. 'A critical part of fighting for our children's future is putting an end to companies' deceptive practices that are aimed at misleading parents and families about the health of food products,' Paxton said in a news release. 'Artificial food colorings have been shown to have disastrous impacts on health, and in no world should foods that include these dyes be advertised as 'healthy.' There will be accountability for any company, including Kellogg's." In 2015, Kellogg's joined a consortium of food manufacturers, including General Mills, that pledged to eliminate artificial ingredients, USA TODAY previously reported. Kellogg's said it would remove these ingredients by 2018, but consumers remain waiting for the change. Last year, American actress Eva Mendes made headlines for spearheading a protest against Kellogg's, as the company had not met its promise. Dozens protested outside Kellogg's headquarters in Michigan, and more than 400,000 people signed a petition asking the food manufacturer to change its operations, the Associated Press reported. "Our products – and the ingredients we use to make them – are compliant with all applicable relevant laws and regulations," Kellogg's said in a statement to USA TODAY in October 2024. "We remain committed to transparently labeling our ingredients so consumers can easily make choices about the food they purchase." Kellogg's did not immediately respond when contacted by USA TODAY on Monday and Tuesday. What artificial ingredients are in Kellogg's cereals? Several Kellogg's products include artificial ingredients. For example, Froot Loops contain Red 40, Yellow 5, Blue 1, Yellow 6 and butylated hydroxytoluene (BHT), while Apple Jacks are made of Yellow 6, Yellow 5, Red 40 and Blue 1. Ingredients like Red 40, Yellow 5, Yellow 6 and Blue 1 are synthetic dyes used to give food, drugs and cosmetics color. According to WebMD, BHT is a lab-made chemical that can be used as a food preservative and is considered safe in the amounts found in processed food. However, there is not enough research to determine how safe BHT is in medicinal doses or on the skin. Do artificial ingredients cause irreversible damage? In January, the Food and Drug Administration banned Red No. 3, an additive that gives food and drinks a bright, cherry-red color. Studies have shown that male lab rats exposed to high levels of Red No. 3 develop cancer, but humans are typically exposed to much lower levels of the additive. In California, and the entire European Union, Red 40, which is used in several Kellogg's products, is banned as some studies link the artificial food dye to ADHD in children. However, the FDA says that most children have no adverse effects to the additive. "The reality is these have no nutritional or other benefits. They're totally aesthetic," Asa Bradman, a professor and chair of the University of California Merced's public health department, previously told USA TODAY. Contributing: Lori Grisham, Alyssa Goldberg and Hannah Yasharoff USA TODAY Network Greta Cross is a national trending reporter at USA TODAY. Story idea? Email her at gcross@
Buzz Feed
12-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Buzz Feed
32 Times Celebs Bought Or Made Their Own Red Carpet Outfits
Red carpet outfits are often on loan from designers, though some celebs get their looks custom-made. However, sometimes, they opt for a third option — buying or sewing their looks themselves. Here are 32 red carpet outfits celebs bought or made themselves: 1. At her first Cannes Film Festival in 2005, Eva Mendes wore a dress from a department store. She told People, "I was like, I'll just wear this one, this knit gold, that feels right. Nobody would've known it was a $40 dress." She said that, when the then-president of L'Oreal asked her "who" she was wearing, she was confused. She continued, "I was like, 'What do you mean? It's mine.' Everybody just loved the dress, and I was like, it's just from Melrose!" 2. At the 2024 NYC premiere of It Ends With Us, Blake Lively wore the exact same vintage 2002 Versace dress that Britney Spears wore to the designer's runway show. On Instagram, the boutique Tab Vintage reported that Blake bought the dress. Here's what the dress looked like on Britney. 3. According to Vogue, when Demi Moore made her Oscars red carpet debut in 1989, she wore a look she DIYed herself out of a corset, bike shorts, and floral fabric. 4. Discussing her dress at the 2022 SAG Awards, Jada Pinkett Smith told E!, "It's vintage. It's something that I bought a while ago. [I] had it in the closet and I was like, 'You know what? I think girl is ready for the SAG Awards!' So, pulled it out." 5. In 2018, Michaela Coel made her own dress for the Black Panther premiere. In a since-deleted tweet, she said, "Last minute invite to WAKANDA, had 2hrs to ready myself. I had bought two of the same skirt from auntie who has the stall outside the pharmacy in Accra mall. I cut one skirt to make it into a top and sew da ting together into a dress. Resourceful b*tch." 6. Sharon Stone told the podcast Table for Two with Bruce Bozzi, "When I first got invited to the Oscars [in 1992], right before Basic Instinct had come out. Movie hadn't come out, so no one would lend me a dress. And then it came out, like, a few days, right before the Oscars or something, and I was gonna present, but no one would give me a dress. It was unbelievable because I didn't have any money to buy anything. And I was like, 'Oh my God, all these people in their $40,000, $50,000 dresses.' And I went and bought a Betsy Johnson jumpsuit because that was it, a polyester jumpsuit. That was the best I could do. And I'm doing my own hair and makeup." "And I was just like, 'Wow, like this is awful. Like, how am I going to do this?' But then I got there. and I was, like, in the fourth or fifth row back, which was really good. And I was on the aisle, and I was seated right behind Anthony Hopkins. And when I walked by, he put his hands together and put them over his head like [a] champion and held them up to me when I passed him, and I was like, 'Oh my God, he saw my movie, and he's giving me that thing.' And I told my dad, and my dad was like, 'Kid, you could look good in a burlap sack.' And I was like, 'Oh, right.' And so after that, I thought, you know, it doesn't matter. I could wear a t-shirt to the Oscars, and so I did," she said. 7. Sharon pulled her 1996 Oscars look from her own closet after disaster struck her original dress. On No Filter with Naomi, she said, "Vera [Wang] was making me two dresses, and we were trying to make one from this Fortuny fabric, and it kept stretching and changing and moving, so we weren't quite sure it would come together, but we were experimenting. We were making this other great dress, this pink dress, and it came, and the FedEx guy dropped it out of the back of his truck and backed up over it. The box broke open, and the dress had a black tire track across the whole of the front of [it]. The day before the Oscars." She continued, "I was just so freaked out because I was nominated, and that's the biggest thing to ever happen when you're a little actress, and you get to work with Bob [De Niro] and Marty [Scorsese], and I just couldn't believe it. I finally made it to this big moment in my career, and the guy ruined my dress. There's a big tire track down my dress." So, she called Basic Instinct costume designer Ellen Mirojnick for help. Sharon said, "She just looked at the dress and looked at me, and she was like [sigh]. She''s like, 'Go get your favorite clothes out of the closet.' I said, 'My favorite clothes? I don't have any!' She said, 'Get anything; it doesn't matter what it is.' I just kept throwing them on the bedroom floor, and she just kept sitting there looking at them like it was a science problem. She eventually started putting things together, so we ended up putting together this Gap shirt and a ready-to-wear Valentino skirt. Then I had this Armani tuxedo dress that I wore as a jacket, and I picked a gardenia out of the garden. And that was it!" 8. At the 2016 Golden Globes, Jamie Lee Curtis told The Hollywood Reporter, "I had seen this dress, so I called the store and told them that I'd like this dress in a size eight. They told me that it was on sale at 50 percent off. I'm probably the only person nominated who bought their own freakin' dress! But I'm proud to wear my own dress." 9. Gabourey Sidibe told Teen Vogue that no designers offered to dress her for the 2009 Cannes Film Festival — her first major red carpet — because she was "too fat." So, she purchased a dress from Torrid. She said, "Even though we are moving towards more visibility for plus-size people, there is a lot [of] pushback. So it's important to keep fighting [and] to keep being visible until the conversation changes and [it] is no longer about our bodies because I'm not my body. I'm a whole person." Gareth Cattermole / Getty Images 10. For the 2025 Elton John AIDS Foundation Academy awards viewing party, celebrity chef Sandra Lee bought a $99 gown from Instagram. She told People, "I was initially hesitant to order because they never are as good as they look on the website, but this dress was the exception. It was just as beautiful!" Apu Gomes / AFP via Getty Images However, when the dress arrived, the roses "were not as exquisite as the dress itself." So, she added her own embellishments, including a ruffled tulle bottom and "silk flowers and precious antique trims that [she] discovered in New Orleans." She said, "The dress took about six hours to reimagine, and then I grabbed an antique purse that I'd purchased at a vintage store and then I embellished it to match the dress." Apu Gomes / AFP via Getty Images 11. Hayden Panettiere purchased her own Tom Ford gown off the rack for the 2014 Golden Globes. She told People, "I'm obsessed with it! I freaked out that I'm even wearing it. Anything he makes is just stunning...I bought this one. I actually get to keep it, which is really weird to me, that I don't have to worry about somebody showing up on my doorstep going, 'Where's the dress? Give it back!' It's like buying a piece of art. You can hopefully keep it forever." Trae Patton / NBCUniversal via Getty Images And on the red carpet, she told E!, "It's the first time I've ever worn him, because I've been begging ever since. I feel sexy in it, I feel comfortable in it, and I'm in Tom Ford. I would wear a plastic bag if it was designed by him." Steve Granitz / WireImage / Via Getty Tom Ford famously only dresses one woman per red carpet. At the time, Hayden was criticized for purchasing her own gown, but the designer squashed any drama. The morning after the awards show, Hayden tweeted a picture of flowers he sent her along with a note that said, "Dear Hayden, You looked beautiful last night. Thank you for the kind words. Much love, Tom." Jeff Vespa / WireImage / Via Getty 12. But Hayden wasn't the only actor who purchased her own red carpet gown for the 2014 Golden Globes! Edie Falco bought her Lanvin dress for the event. She told The Hollywood Reporter, "I went into Jeffrey on West 14th Street, talked to my personal shopper there, and bought it. Why not? It's the least I can do." George Pimentel / WireImage / Via Getty 13. At the 1958 Academy Awards, Joanne Woodward won Best Actress in a gown she made herself. According to Vanity Fair, she was very excited for the world to see her handiwork. Michael Ochs Archives / Getty Images 14. When Tiffany Haddish was shopping for a dress for her Girls Trip premiere in 2017, she bought a $4,000 Alexander McQueen dress, which she's famously reworn to multiple events. In 2021, she told People, "I [was] like, 'Oh, hell no. This is my mortgage. I can't wear this dress...I was just devastated [I couldn't return it]. I was very upset that I spent that much money on a dress, period. Then I was like, 'Well, I'm going to wear this dress everywhere I go. I'm going to get my money's worth.' ...The dress has made me the money that it cost, plus, at this point.'" Jason Laveris / FilmMagic / Via Getty She wore the dress to the 2018 MTV Movie & TV Awards. She's also worn it on Saturday Night Live, My Next Guest Needs No Introduction, and People's Most Beautiful Issue. Chris Polk / Getty Images for MTV 15. At the 2014 Academy Awards, Kelly Ripa wore a dress she'd ordered online. On Live with Kelly and Michael, she said, "So when you do these award shows, designers will loan you dresses, and you try them on, and it's, like, very dramatic all the time. It's just fraught with all kinds of, 'This needs to be tailored,' 'We can't tailor this because we don't own it'…blah blah blah.' And I was on what I call 'the mall,' which is online, and I was flipping through, just looking at what's new, and I see this gown. And I click on it, and it's Roland Mouret, which is a designer I wear all the time. And I was like, 'Can I really order an Academy Awards dress online? I mean, is that crazy?'" Ethan Miller / WireImage / Via Getty "And I clicked on it, and I bought it. I bought it. I purchased it. So it's mine. So I can alter it. I don't have to ask for permission and all this stuff, so guess what? We altered it. It was the most comfortable — everybody else you see, they're corseted, and they're freaking out. Can they eat? Can they swallow? My dress: zipped it in, put it on, walked it out there. We had pizza backstage. I was like, 'Look at me! Look at me go, like a real person walking the red carpet,'" she said. Ethan Miller / WireImage / Via Getty 16. Per People, at the 2020 Academy Awards, Jane Fonda rewore her Elie Saab gown from the 2014 Cannes Film Festival. Kevin Winter / Getty Images, Jean Catuffe / FilmMagic / Via Getty She paired it with a coat she bought on sale in 2019, which she said would be the "last article of clothing [she] will ever buy." The coat became a symbol of her environmental activism when she wore it to climate protests in 2019, which she called Fire Drill Fridays. According to W Magazine, at one of the protests, she told the crowd, "When I talk to people about, 'We don't really need to keep shopping. We shouldn't look to shopping for our identity. We don't need more stuff,' then I have to walk the walk too." Craig Sjodin / ABC via Getty Images 17. When Megan Mullally hosted the 2019 SAG Awards, she couldn't find a designer to dress her, so she ordered her own Alexander McQueen gown online. In an Instagram post, she said, "yes, i will be hosting!! thanks [SAG Awards]! will i be dressed as a spanish senorita? we don't know. looks like i will be buying my dress online though, as per my usual, even though there is literally a 100 percent chance that i will be on camera, because I'M HOSTING IT. designers do not send me dresses. i'm online scrolling through the gowns sections of various websites- which i know how to do pretty well at this point- and then i tried to order something from saks fifth avenue and they cancelled my order 😂 oh, the glamor of it all. in other news, hosting this great show honoring amazing actors is going to be cool, and i may get to meet olivia colman. please send jokes." Kevin Mazur / Getty Images for Turner On the red carpet, she told Access Hollywood, "I always pick out clothes online and buy my own stuff because, first of all, I like it because I can just wear what I want to wear, but also, the major designers are not interested in sending me any dresses. Not at all. Alexander McQueen did send two dresses, but they didn't work out, but this is an Alexander McQueen dress that I bought online...I said, 'I'm literally hosting. like, there is a 100 percent chance that I will be on camera.' But people were like, 'No, no thanks.' But that's okay. I think it's funny, but I think it's interesting for people to know that because I think that everybody in the general public just thinks, 'Well, everybody is getting dresses thrown at them left and right,' but that's not actually the case." Jeff Kravitz / FilmMagic / Via Getty 18. Melissa McCarthy designed her own dress for the 2016 Golden Globes in collaboration with creative director Judy Swartz and fit specialist Daniela Kurrle. She told Vogue, "I had just finished designing the spring collection for my line, which was inspired by Studio 54 and all things Bowie. I've always been obsessed with the drape and sex appeal of certain 1970s dresses. The second we saw that metallic panne velvet, we all thought kimono dress." George Pimentel / WireImage / Via Getty 19. Fashion influencer Nancy Tyagi attended the 2024 Cannes Film Festival in a gown she made herself. On Instagram, she said, "Radiating elegance at Cannes in a self-stitched creation that took me 30 days to make💜 Gracing the red carpet in a show-stopping gown, and styling it with CaratLane diamonds to complete the look! Ready to shine and inspire with every step." Nancy Tyagi / Via In another Instagram post, she said, "Stepping onto the red carpet at the 77th Cannes Film Festival as a debutant feels surreal. I poured my heart and soul into creating this pink gown, which took 30 days, 1000 meters of fabric, and weighs over 20kg. The journey has been intense, but every moment was worth it. I'm overwhelmed with joy and gratitude for the love and support from all of you. This is a dream come true, and I hope my creation dazzles you as much as your support has inspired me. Thank you from the bottom of my heart!" Nancy Tyagi / Via 20. Amanda Seyfried bought her own dresses for the NYC and LA premieres of Mean Girls in 2004. She told Jimmy Kimmel Live, "I did not have a stylist. I used the only money I had to buy a dress — but there were two premieres, and so I had to buy two dresses because you wear different dresses." Steve Granitz / WireImage / Via Getty 21. Describing her NYC premiere dress, Amanda continued, "I didn't know any of the rules, so I was wearing a white bra and black underwear and no slip. And I paid $600 for that dress. I couldn't even afford a ride home, no, I'm kidding. I didn't have a publicist. I didn't have a stylist. I did my makeup." Theo Wargo / WireImage / Via Getty 22. At the 2021 ESPYs, professional wrestler Bianca Belair wore a dress she made herself. She showed the process of creating her gown in a YouTube video. In the caption, she said, "This weekend was surreal! I went to the ESPY's as SmackDown Women's Champion!, WON an EPSY with Sasha Banks, and I made the dress I wore!!!! Let me tell you this story: I could not find a dress to get to me in time once I found out I was attending the ESPY'S. So, I found some inspiration from a few a dresses I found online and told my Husband… 'Forget it, I'm going to make my dress'… I was terrified and I'm pretty sure people that I told thought I was crazy for taking a risk like this at this time!!. Imagine the FIRST time you try to make a formal gown is for an event like the ESPY's… but something in me just told me to TRY!!!" Michael Loccisano / Getty Images She continued, "It took me two FULL days. No sleep and a lot of just sitting and staring at the fabric and thinking. It literally felt like putting together a puzzle without a picture to guide me. I still can't believe I made it but now I am very curious to [see] what more I can do! Y'al!… never underestimate yourself! God created us to do amazing things. Push yourself and don't be afraid to TRY and FAIL because eventually you will succeed! I'm tooting my own horn on this one." Bianca Blair / Via 23. On the 2017 Emmys red carpet, Rachel Bloom told E!, "I bought this dress, 'cause Gucci's not lending me a dress. I did buy this dress, indeed. Yeah, I love it, and I can resell it. I mean, here's the thing, is also, I can, I'm now at the place where I can afford it. So, you know, I've said in an interview before, 'Oh, sometimes it's hard to get places to lend me dresses because I'm not, like, a size 0,' but also, I can afford it, so it's okay. And again, I can always resell it on The Real Real." Steve Granitz / WireImage / Via Getty 24. In a since-deleted Instagram post, Eva Mendes said, "The debut of my latest @nyandcompany collection has me throwing back to my first red carpet [ The Others premiere in 2001]. I did my own hair and makeup, and that's a $6 dress from Goodwill. I've always loved a cheap find. Viva thrift shops! #tbt." Steve Granitz / WireImage / Via Getty 25. At the 2018 ACM Honors, country singer Kassi Ashton wore an outfit she made herself. She told The Boot, "Well, my mom didn't have much money. She would have clothes donated to her, and so she learned how to take 'em in drastically, and that's where I picked it up from. I've always been the kind to, if it doesn't exist, create it. That's pretty much where the clothes thing came from. I get an idea in my head, and if I can't find it, I'm forced to sew it. I don't think I'm a very good sewer; I just have good ideas. And it's not falling apart, so we're all good." Leah Puttkammer / WireImage / Via Getty 26. Zendaya told InStyle, "When I was 14 and at my first movie premiere, my outfit was a bunch of stuff that I had from Target. And I thought I was fly. I felt cool. To this day, I think that's really all that matters. Then you know you're doing the right thing." Patrick Mcmullan / Patrick McMullan via Getty Images 27. In 2011, Rebel Wilson bought her own gown for the Bridesmaids premiere, which took a significant chunk out of her salary. She told the podcast Diary of a CEO, "It was my first job in America. I mean, it was very lucky to get it… But to be paid that little. Basically, that $3,500 I then had to pay to the union to join the union. So, I basically made no money. I lost money, because I had to pay to go to the premiere, like to buy my dress and everything. So, I lost money doing Bridesmaids." Michael Buckner / Getty Images 28. At the 2020 Grammys, Lana Del Rey told Entertainment Tonight, "I had another dress, and then my boyfriend and I were getting a belt for him at the mall. And I saw this, and I loved it, so this is a last-minute dress. But I love it!" Her Aidan Mattox reportedly cost $600, and she had it tailored around the waist. Amy Sussman / Getty Images 29. At the 2016 Golden Globes, Bryce Dallas Howard told People, "I'm wearing Jenny Packham — I just picked it up at Neiman's [Marcus] this week. I like having lots of options for a size six as opposed to maybe one option, so I always go to department stores for this kind of stuff." Steve Granitz / WireImage / Via Getty 30. Before the 2016 Critics' Choice Awards, Bryce went online shopping and picked out a Pierre Balmain dress from Forward by Elyse Walker, which cost $1,300. She told People, "When you're not 'sample' size, or when you don't have a direct relationship with a designer, or if you don't have a lot of notice, those types of size six dresses just aren't that available that much. … So, what I found is that if something is sort of last-minute, or I don't have a good relationship with a place, then I go to Neiman's, or I get something online." Steve Granitz / WireImage / Via Getty 31. While promoting Rocketman in 2019, Bryce wore only secondhand or consignment dresses to promote sustainability. On Instagram, she said, "Hey online family, I'm in Cannes! You know what that means... big time fancy schmancy dressing up! I always feel conflicted when shopping for a press tour, because often these are clothes I will only wear once. In the past, since I've purchased rather than borrowed I realized ultimately this wasn't an entirely sustainable practice. For several years now, I've relied on [The Real Real] religiously to both buy and consign my own clothes. So for this @rocketmanmovie press tour, I challenged myself to exclusively dress in consigned and previously owned pieces. This is my first look: the [Ralph Lauren] dress, [Manolo Blahnik] shoes, and [Smoke x Mirrors] sunglasses are all from [The Real Real]." Eamonn M. Mccormack / Getty Images 32. And finally, Bryce's 2021 Golden Globes dress also came from The Real Real. On Instagram, she said, "As many of you know, I love the sustainability of consignment fashion and often find secondhand pieces for press ✨ When I found out I was presenting at the #GoldenGlobes, I immediately went back to my tried and true friend, [The Real Real]! Tonight's 'fit is a [Temperley London] sequin ombré dress (which matches my hair!) with magenta [Alexander McQueen] pumps from a press tour a few years ago." Cindy Ord / NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images Is there anything in your closet you'd love to wear on the red carpet? Let us know in the comments!
South China Morning Post
14-02-2025
- Entertainment
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Meet Eva Mendes' brother Carlo Mendez, who plays Hector in Dexter: Original Sin
Eva Mendes and her younger brother Carlo Mendez are both actors. Photos: @cmendez78/Instagram Celebrity Families Eva Mendes may have retired from acting, but her brother Carlo Mendez's career is thriving. Actress Eva Mendes is a retired actress who has starred in films such as Hitch and 2 Fast 2 Furious. Photo: WireImage Although he has been in the industry for years, Carlo is back in the limelight for his latest role as Hector Estrada in the TV series, Dexter: Original Sin . 'It's tough, I've been at it for about 16, 17 years now and I still have a long way to go,' he said of his acting career to date in an interview with Fox5 New York on February 5. 'It's the journey, I have to enjoy the journey of it. Every step and everything I get makes me a better actor and it makes me even hungrier to get what I want.' Carlo Mendez is currently starring as a recurring character in Dexter: Original Sin. Photo: @cmendez78/Instagram When asked about his sister and what she's been up to, he said that she's 'taking care of her family and kids and stuff like that'. Despite having a famous sister, Mendez hasn't always had it easy. 'Of course it's been a struggle, up and down, like it is for everybody when it comes to acting. You got your moments where you're booked up – and then you don't know where your next job is coming from,' he recently told the Boston Herald. 'It's a very tough industry. There's a lot of competition. You just have to keep working hard.' 'In having a famous sibling, most people don't know unless they happen to find out we have the same last name,' he added. He said that he doesn't ask his sister for favours either. 'We talk, but I don't talk to her when it comes to the business. I'm not trying to ask for any favours,' he told the Herald. 'I'm just trying to do as much as I can on my own and prove myself as much as I can.' Carlo Mendez playing a firefighter for one of his acting roles. Photo: @cmendez78/Instagram Here's what we know about Eva Mendes' lesser-known sibling who's promptly making a name for himself in the entertainment world. What is Carlo Mendez's background?
