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Yahoo
20-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Jessica Biel jokes husband Justin Timberlake is one of her 'chosen sisters'
Jessica Biel has joked about how her husband Justin Timberlake is "one of my chosen sisters". During an interview for InStyle published on Monday, the actress promoted her upcoming TV series, The Better Sister. Though Jessica doesn't have any biological sisters, she gushed over five women whom she considers to be "chosen sisters" in her life - and humorously added her husband into the mix too. "I'm really lucky, because I have amazing groups of women kind of scattered throughout the country that have really been my rocks as I've grown up," she said, adding with a laugh: "I would also consider my husband one of my chosen sisters. He's also my best friend." Jessica went on to praise her support network. "All of them together have gotten me through my life. I don't know how I would have survived life without them," the 43-year-old smiled. Jessica and Mirrors hitmaker Justin, 44, married in 2012 and share two sons: Silas, 10, and four-year-old Phineas. Elsewhere in the conversation, The Sinner star reflected on how she tries to shield her children from the public eye. However, she made an exception last year when she took Silas to watch a US Open tennis match. "My son was nine at the time, and he's a huge tennis fan - that's his sport, that's what he plays. We had this opportunity, and we talked about it. We talked about photographers. You know, 'Are you comfortable with that?'" she recalled. "You really want to give your kids every experience. I don't know if it was the right decision, to be honest with you, but he and I had a good time... It's scary every time. But it's also their life. And so it's this really tricky, tricky thing to figure out, what's appropriate." The Better Sister, also starring Elizabeth Banks, is set to premiere on 29 May.
Yahoo
03-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Justin Timberlake Celebrates ‘Best Friend' Jessica Biel's Birthday With Sweet Post: ‘The One That Showed Me Real Love'
Jessica Biel turned 43 years old on Monday (March 3), and to celebrate, her husband Justin Timberlake took to Instagram to share a heartfelt post about the actress. 'Happy Birthday to my rock. My best friend. My favorite. My GOAT. To the one that believes in me when I don't believe in myself… The one that makes me laugh like nobody else can. To the one that showed me a real love,' he wrote alongside a video of the duo hugging and swaying back and forth, soundtracked by Timberlake's 'Mirrors,' famously written about Biel. 'I adore you, my heart. Here's to many, many more!!! Happy Jess Day!!!!' More from Billboard Tory Lanez Fires Back at PARTYNEXTDOOR With Threatening Diss Track Snippet: Listen Lady Gaga Says It Took 'Two Decades' to Become the 'Boss' in Her Music Career 2025 Love Rocks NYC Benefit to Feature Cher, Beck, Alicia Keys, Kate Hudson, Trey Anastasio & Others Timberlake and Biel began dating in 2007 and were married on Oct. 19, 2012, in Fasano, Italy. They have two sons together, nine-year-old Silas and four-year-old Phineas. The *NSYNC star is currently on his Forget Tomorrow World Tour, in support Timberlake's sixth solo album, Everything I Thought It Was, which features his moody R&B single, 'Selfish.' The new album — Timberlake's follow-up to his earthy 2018 Man of the Woods LP — was released in March 2024. He wrapped the North American leg of the tour last week — though the final show was canceled due to Timberlake battling the flu. However, the run is scheduled to pick back up again in April, where he's set to perform in Mexico. In June, he flies over to Europe for a string of dates, kicking off in Milan, Italy, on June 2 and wrapping up in Luxembourg City, Luxembourg, on July 8. Tickets are available for purchase here. Best of Billboard Chart Rewind: In 1989, New Kids on the Block Were 'Hangin' Tough' at No. 1 Janet Jackson's Biggest Billboard Hot 100 Hits H.E.R. & Chris Brown 'Come Through' to No. 1 on Adult R&B Airplay Chart
CBC
24-02-2025
- Entertainment
- CBC
Caleigh Crow reflects on a town where the sun is a 20-foot-tall mirror
Old Little Sister is an original short story by Caleigh Crow. It is part of Mirrors, a special series of new, original writing featuring work by the English-language winners of the 2024 Governor General's Literary Awards, presented in partnership with the Canada Council for the Arts. Caleigh told CBC Books she was captivated by a small town in the Italian Alps, where a giant mirror on the mountainside reflects sunlight into the town square. For 83 days each winter, the town is shrouded in darkness. Inspired by their journey from shadow to light, Caleigh created her original work of evocative prose. When the mirror was unveiled, she imagined the townsfolk's reactions. CBC's Radio One will host an episode featuring participants from this original series. Crow won the 2024 Governor General's Literary Award for drama for the play There Is Violence and There Is Righteous Violence and There Is Death, or the Born- Again Crow. . Old Little Sister When the day finally came to unveil the mirror, Gene was a nervous wreck, his stomach clenched, trying to hold in all the doubt he felt but could not let on. He felt like a fraud. He worried that the Creator was looking askance at him. Who was Gene to impose his will on the land? The whole town gathered in the paved central square, all 172 of them. Gene was reminded how few families remained. Mostly young people left in search of — what else — work and society and never returned except to visit and share their worldly wisdom with the townies who remained. Like his sister Junie. "This is wrong," she said. "You haven't even been here," he spat. "You don't remember what it's like." It was true that Junie didn't remember what it was like to spend 83 days without any direct sunlight. The solution the town came up with was to build a twenty-foot-tall mirror on the mountainside. "There's some stuff you just have to learn to live with," she lit a cigarette. "Actually, maybe it's the gift of living here." Gene: "The gift? Junie, come on." Junie: "It'll be fake sunlight." Junie was always an advocate for the natural, for the authentic, the real. But there was a sharpness to the way she said fake that hadn't been there before. It had been a hard year for her: a fire destroyed her house, and then her husband destroyed their marriage. Gene observed a thin stripe of greying hair on the right side of her part and the wrinkles at the corners of her mouth that had deepened even in the five years since they last were together, in person, here in their hometown. Five years? It had been a hard year for her: a fire destroyed her house, and then her husband destroyed their marriage. He looked at her again, more zoomed out. She really looked older. She was more stooped, more round, less elastic. Christ, I probably look the same, he thought. All grey and wrinkled. Probably even more aged since Gene is 9 years older than Junie. Gene: "You just think people have to earn everything." Junie: "We do." Gene: "It will help people cope." Junie shrugged. "It will be fake coping." "It's real sunlight," Rachel Ramsay, head engineer of the project and another non-local, interjected. Junie: "You can't read in a mirror." Rachel: "What's reflected in a mirror is a matter of your own perspective. You don't need a mirror to make writing backwards, all you need to do is shine a light behind the paper and read it from the other side. It's two-dimensional." "But it doesn't show things properly in three dimensions either, does it," Junie pushed, "when I raise my left hand in a mirror —" "It appears as though your right hand is raised," Rachel interrupted. "Yes, yes, but that is an illusion. That person doesn't exist. There is, of course, only one of you, with your left hand raised." "But how?" Gene asked. "Illusions can be very powerful. Your brain is easily tricked," Rachel replied. "Exactly," Junie said, sulking, "We're saying the same thing." Gene stepped onto a makeshift pallet platform with a megaphone and instructed everyone to look at their feet, not the mirror. When everyone complied, he radioed to the engineers at the mountainside site and gave the signal. In an instant, the square was illuminated. The light was pale, crooked and had vestigial colours at the edges. Gene looked down at the townsfolk who had worked hard to get this mirror because they missed the sun. Someone was crying. It was Mrs. Daniels, whose son took his own life on the Winter solstice just last month. Inside, she was thinking — It seems like we can change everything in the world except the fact that my son is never coming back. In an instant, the square was illuminated. The light was pale, crooked and had vestigial colours at the edges. Mr. Daniels put his arm around his wife. Inside, he was thinking — Maybe this will give us something warm to think about. Gene said: "Hope this helps." Junie rolled her eyes and stubbed out her cigarette. And the snow started to melt. About Caleigh Crow Caleigh Crow is a queer Métis theatre artist from northeast Calgary. She is the co-founder and artistic lead of Thumbs Up Good Work Theatre. The English-language books that won the 2024 Governor General's Literary Awards demonstrate how stories help us reflect on our lives, understand ourselves more deeply and see the world in new ways. CBC Books asked the winners to further explore the power of reflection in original works. The special series, themed around the theme of mirrors, challenges how we see ourselves and our society — unearthing hidden truths, exploring alternative identities and blurring the lines between reality and fantasy.
CBC
24-02-2025
- Entertainment
- CBC
Todd Stewart reveals the everyday activities that bring him joy and purpose
3 Reflections of a Montreal Winter is an original personal essay by Todd Stewart. It is part of Mirrors, a special series of new, original writing featuring work by the English-language winners of the 2024 Governor General's Literary Awards, presented in partnership with the Canada Council for the Arts. "I will write a diary entry-type narrative. Three separate — not necessarily connected — reflections, in which one entry reflects on creative practice, skating outdoors and the infinity room at a museum. "I'm writing less specifically about connecting with the children's book world and more about the activities that have me feeling a more profound connection to myself and the world around me (as noted in the first sentence of my text). So, I bring a little more reflection of how reading children's books is part of this," Stewart told CBC Books. CBC's Radio One will host an episode featuring participants from this original series. Stewart won the 2024 Governor General's Literary Award for young people's literature — illustrated books for Skating Wild on an Inland Sea, written by Jean E. Pendziwol and illustrated by Stewart. . 3 Reflections of a Montreal Winter Finding meaning in my life is a dance between connecting with my own self and with the people in the world around me — family, close friends, colleagues, neighbours and strangers. I keep a list of certain activities that, if done regularly, boost my ability to get through life and function properly. When I'm down, I check the list. Am I sleeping enough? Am I exercising enough? Am I engaging with art? Drawing? And am I reading children's books? Skating as ritual In Montreal winters, as soon as the temperature drops below zero, I regularly monitor the ice conditions at my local outdoor rink. My vigilance borders on obsession; our winters are much warmer than in previous years, and good ice days are the exception. I just love to skate. As the years go by, I've realized that it has become a ritual for me, one that brings me joy. If the ice is good, I'm a happier person. I keep a list of certain activities that, if done regularly, boost my ability to get through life and function properly. When I'm down, I check the list. Am I sleeping enough? Am I exercising enough? Am I engaging with art? Drawing? And am I reading children's books? I always skate with a stick and puck. I grew up in the Prairies playing hockey. If there's a net, I'll shoot at it. I like the snapshot. I love backwards crossovers. I always play if I'm asked. "Es-tu game?" You bet. But mostly, I search for the best time when I can be alone on the ice: mid-morning after it has been flooded overnight. I shoot at the net; I am weightless and focused. An hour goes by in a second, my eyelashes are glued together, and clouds of steam rise out of my collar. In these solitary moments, I feel I've done something for, and with, my body, in a moment of reprieve from the world around me. Bodies, multiplied My family steps into an Infinity Room at the Broad Museum. We get one minute, and the three of us go in together. I remember feeling distracted, somehow not present. I grab my phone and take photos of our dark, distorted shapes surrounded by coloured lights. Our bodies are multiplied and reflected into a murky distance that somehow isn't horrifying but instead is comforting. I take this all in through the screen of my phone. Emily breaks my trance by speaking to me, pointing my attention towards the bottom right corner. I forget about taking photos, about the outside world, and stare into infinity, away from my reflection. For just a few seconds, I feel similarly to the moments after I've gone skating, that somehow I've done myself some good. This time, I am conscious of having shared this moment with the two other people in the room, then with the artist herself, and even the rest of the people in the Museum. Shifting streaks of blue Over the last several years, I have cultivated a regular swimming practice. I try to swim regularly because it, too, has become a sacred activity for me, a marker of my happiness. I am one of the neighbourhood artists in Our Lady of Mile End, taking advantage of open swim times at their local Y to use the showers and steam room. And swim. I dip under the water. Shifting streaks of blue blend together; I'm inside the pages of When You Can Swim. It's the best kind of mirror, the kind where you don't look at yourself, but you can still listen. I pay attention to my body and breathing, which parts move differently today, and how I receive and pass through the water. The dark, distorted shapes of other swimmers pass quickly beside me. It's a solitary activity, but I'm acutely aware of the other swimmers; we are all different versions of each other, passing through space and time. It's the best kind of mirror, the kind where you don't look at yourself, but you can still listen. Whether it be moving my body or experiencing a piece of art, in these moments, I'm somehow connecting with the other versions of myself past and future — performing the same activity. In doing things that may seem solitary on the surface — such as reading a good picture book — I'm not only communicating with my other reading selves but with the community of people around me who have made this moment possible. In these moments, I now feel more connected with the book's creators and publishers, those who fund libraries, teach literature in schools and celebrate a good read — and, of course, other children reading the same stories. And this brings me joy. About Todd Stewart Todd Stewart is a Montreal-based illustrator and printmaker. His picture book The Wind in the Trees (Quand le vent souffle), was a nominated for the TD Canadian Children's Literature Award and the Governor General's Literary Award for young people's literature — illustrated books. The English-language books that won the 2024 Governor General's Literary Awards demonstrate how stories help us reflect on our lives, understand ourselves more deeply and see the world in new ways. CBC Books asked the winners to further explore the power of reflection in original works. The special series, themed around the theme of mirrors, challenges how we see ourselves and our society — unearthing hidden truths, exploring alternative identities and blurring the lines between reality and fantasy.
CBC
24-02-2025
- Entertainment
- CBC
Chimwemwe Undi discovers the importance of looking in life's rear-view mirror in new poem
The First Year is an original poem by Chimwemwe Undi. It is part of Mirrors, a special series of new, original writing featuring work by the English-language winners of the 2024 Governor General's Literary Awards, presented in partnership with the Canada Council for the Arts. "The theme of mirrors conjured for me the experience of looking at yourself in the mirror and noticing more clearly something that was behind you. From there, I was drawn back to a pre-existing preoccupation of mine, which is the role that personal, family and world history have on a person's ability or willingness to contend with the world as it is today," Undi told CBC Books. Undi won the 2024 Governor General's Literary Award for poetry for Scientific Marvel. The First Year In the first year that those years could be called the past the past still bloomed at the borders and in the graveyards and the graveyards were the streets where my uncles died like dogs. In that first year, that first blush of history, I was born, scaled, unscathed, aspiring to nuance. I took my Gogo's name and a lamb was slaughtered in the world and in the name of god, and the name meant lamb. In that first year, that first blush of history, I was born, scaled, unscathed, aspiring to nuance. In my dreams, my screens are windows. Even here, where I pass my tassel and into the new school of unmaking. Taught to peddle in precedent & abstraction (what has happened should happen) (what exactly do you mean by happening?) Here, in the Black I was born unto, newly history, the new and hollow sound, Even in my dreams I learn the truth is something that you sigh. I learn to loosen fists and lower quiet hands to hold myself to let knit fingers slip pause pointer over empty sentiments left unrepeated all my questions in the other room. The word apartheid is in Afrikaans so when I say it, it reminds me what it did. The word apartheid is in Afrikaans so when I say it, it reminds me what it did. It was a long war, and it is still going. You can taste it in the fruit. About Chimwemwe Undi Chimwemwe Undi is a Winnipeg-based poet, editor and lawyer. She was recently announced as Canada's 11th parliamentary poet laureate and was the Winnipeg Poet Laureate for 2023 and 2024. Undi was longlisted for the 2020 CBC Poetry Prize. She won the 2022 John Hirsch Emerging Writer Award from the Manitoba Book Awards and her work can be found in Brick, Border Crossings, Canadian Literature and BBC World, among others. The English-language books that won the 2024 Governor General's Literary Awards demonstrate how stories help us reflect on our lives, understand ourselves more deeply and see the world in new ways. CBC Books asked the winners to further explore the power of reflection in original works. The special series, themed around the theme of mirrors, challenges how we see ourselves and our society — unearthing hidden truths, exploring alternative identities and blurring the lines between reality and fantasy.
