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The Herald Scotland
24-04-2025
- Entertainment
- The Herald Scotland
Gwyneth Paltrow back on carbs after being ‘obsessed with health' with paleo diet
Paltrow said that Goop began with her working in cities 'driven by food', and she got into 'wellness and food' because of her father's throat cancer. She told her Goop podcast: 'I went into hardcore macrobiotic for a certain time, that was an interesting chapter where I got obsessed with eating very, very healthily.' Paltrow added: 'I really deepened my connection with food and the whole philosophy around macrobiotics, which is essentially just how they eat in the mountains of Japan, so very local, very seasonal. 'Lots of fish, vegetables, rice, no dairy, no sugar, etc. 'I think that period of time I might have got a little didactic about it, I felt so good, I wanted to share that with my dad, my friends and family. 'I was just so amazed that we had this power in our hands, that if we treated ourselves well and hydrated and ate whole foods that we could just feel so much better. 'I was sort of intoxicated by that idea and I still feel that way to this day. Gwyneth Paltrow (Ian West/PA) 'And things have gotten a little more complicated with me and longer term with inflammation and health stuff.' She added: 'It's the reason that Brad and I became paleo a few years ago now, although I'm a little bit sick of it, if I'm honest. 'I'm getting back into eating sourdough bread, and some cheese – there, I said it. A little pasta after being strict with it for so long. 'But again I think it's a good template, right? Eating foods that are as whole and fresh as possible. I don't think there is any doctor or nutritionist that would refute that, it's a good starting point.' Paltrow – known for the Iron Man franchise, Shallow Hal and Sliding Doors – won an Academy Award in the 1990s for period drama Shakespeare In Love. She reportedly met Falchuk on the set of Glee and they married in 2018. Paltrow was previously married to Coldplay frontman Chris Martin, until they announced they had 'consciously uncoupled' in March 2014.
New York Times
23-04-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Times
Weinstein's Retrial to Begin, Testing Legacy of #MeToo Movement
The woman had been testifying for hours in the 2020 trial of Harvey Weinstein when she broke into sobs. The witness, Jessica Mann, had told a Manhattan jury about a yearslong relationship with Mr. Weinstein, during which she said the Hollywood producer had raped her in 2013. During the defense cross-examination, she had to reveal that she had been sexually assaulted when she was younger. She cried as she was asked to read from an email about how the abuse had affected her relationship with Mr. Weinstein. When she could not compose herself, the judge adjourned the trial for the day. After she had left the stand, her screams could be heard from a back room. Now, five years later, Ms. Mann is expected to take the stand again in a closely watched retrial of Mr. Weinstein, whose treatment of women catalyzed the #MeToo movement. On Wednesday, prosecutors with the Manhattan district attorney's office, led by Alvin L. Bragg, and Mr. Weinstein's lawyers will give opening statements. The trial is expected to last up to six weeks. The jury is composed of five men and seven women, a reverse of the demographics in the first trial. For both sides, the core arguments of Mr. Weinstein's interactions with the women are likely to follow closely what they had told the jury in 2020. At the time, Mr. Weinstein was a force, having produced movies like 'Pulp Fiction' and 'Shakespeare In Love' and making the careers of actors. He wielded that power to harass and sexually assault women, according to dozens who came forward. Outside the courtroom, Mr. Weinstein's trial marked a change in how accusations of sexual assault by powerful men were treated, creating pressure on prosecutors to take the cases seriously. But last year, New York's highest court overturned Mr. Weinstein's conviction. Mr. Weinstein, the court said, had been deprived of a fair trial when prosecutors called witnesses who said he had assaulted them, but whose accusations were not backed by physical evidence and were not the basis for any charges. Mr. Weinstein, who had been serving a 23-year sentence on those charges, has also been convicted of sex crimes in California and faces prison there. In the years since his 2020 conviction, much has changed in the country. But Mr. Weinstein's team is betting that the effects of the #MeToo movement on the nation's culture and politics, from Hollywood to the White House, have faded. 'The biggest difference over the past five years is the world we're living in,' his defense lawyer Arthur L. Aidala said in an interview last week, adding that during the first trial #MeToo was 'the most important thing in society.' 'People's heads are in a different place right now,' he said. For others, the momentum has not ebbed, even as the sex-crime convictions of men like Mr. Weinstein and Bill Cosby have been overturned on appeal. Jennifer Mondino, an official of the National Women's Law Center, said that in recent years, thousands of women have approached her organization seeking lawyers to fight workplace sexual harassment. The pace has not slowed, said Ms. Mondino, senior director of the center's Time's Up Legal Defense Fund, and the complaints are against institutions and people that in the past seemed 'absolutely unmovable.' 'It has really galvanized the movement,' she said. 'And it's a movement that continues despite what happens with this next criminal trial against Harvey Weinstein.' Accusers have said Mr. Weinstein preyed on women with promises of opportunities. Then, they said, he forced them into sex. Prosecutors are expected to call as a witness another woman who testified in the first trial, Miriam Haley. Ms. Haley, a former television production assistant, testified in 2020 that Mr. Weinstein assaulted her in his apartment in 2006. A new woman's complaint has been added to the charges against Mr. Weinstein. The woman, who has not been identified, is expected to tell jurors that he sexually assaulted her at a hotel in TriBeCa in 2006. In a September filing, prosecutors said they plan to call 'corroborating witnesses' as well as experts who will testify about how victims of rape and sexual assaults can maintain contact with assailants and may not tell law enforcement. The prosecutors, led by Nicole Blumberg, an assistant district attorney, are primarily from the newly formed Special Victims Division in the Manhattan district attorney's office. The core of the defense is likely to be that Mr. Weinstein's relationships with the women were consensual. In the first trial, Mr. Weinstein's lawyers said that his accusers had maintained sexual relationships with him long after the assaults that prosecutors say occurred. In 2020, the defense lawyers used emails and writings in an effort to discredit the women, showing them asking for movie premiere tickets, and thanking him for support, among other things. The defense team will also have transcripts of testimony from the first trial and will be able to compare what the women say now with what they said five years ago.
Yahoo
19-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Federal cuts threaten upcoming Enchantment Awards
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – It's the latest student program in jeopardy because of federal funding cuts. But the New Mexico High School Musical Theatre Awards is now calling for help from the community to ensure the show go on. Story continues below Podcast: What Will Voters Do With $1.5 Million? Entertainment: These movies were filmed in Las Cruces. Have you seen them? Crime: ABQ man charged federally for arson attacks at Tesla, Republican Party headquarters Weird: Peacocks spotted in Albuquerque neighborhoods. Where did they come from? In just two weeks, top high school performers from across the state are set to take the stage at Popejoy Hall for the 2025 Enchantment Awards. After having their performances adjudicated throughout the year, student performers rehearse all week leading up to the big night, which is also full of awards. At the Enchantment Awards, two lucky students are also picked to train with professionals on Broadway in New York. But now, it's all at risk. 'There's certainly some anxiety,' said Terry Davis, Co-Executive Director of New Mexico High School Musical Theatre Awards. He said recent cuts to federal funding has left the volunteer-led program without $35,000, or about a third of its budget. 'It's no one's fault here that this money went away. It's certainly something we need replaced to put on a good show for these kids,' he said. They're now calling on the community for help. They're asking for monetary donations, meals during rehearsal week, or simply buying tickets to the show. 'Imagine telling all the basketball teams in this state that the state championships that are normally held in The Pit it every year are cancelled. How many of those kids would be heart broken,' said Davis. 'There are an awful lot of students in this state who just can't wait for the opportunity to perform with the Enchantment Awards in Popejoy Hall. It's their state championship in a way. To have that go away, it tears that kind of opportunity right out from under them in a way that is just heart wrenching.' He hopes people will help keep the stage lights on for the upcoming event, sharing the impact of this program. 'Whether they're going to go on acting professionally or not doesn't make any difference. The fact that they're in school now and they want to do drama, and they show up to school because they're in drama, that's another reason for this program to exist,' said Davis. Fittingly, he's turning to the arts during this time. 'If you remember the movie Shakespeare In Love, there's a character who always said, 'I don't know how it happens, but it always does.' And there's that sort of feeling for us now,' he said. 'We feel still pretty positive that things will work out, we'll make this happen, somehow we'll find money to do this.' KRQE News 13 reached out to the New Mexico Public Education Department for comment on how it is handling loss of federal funding and details on the programs impacted, but we didn't hear back. To donate or by tickets to the 2025 Enchantment Awards, click here. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Fox News
03-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Fox News
Gwyneth Paltrow's daughter admits growing up a celebrity child felt like living in 'surveillance state'
Apple Martin grew up with an "uneven balance" of normalcy as the daughter of Oscar-winning actress Gywneth Paltrow and Coldplay frontman Chris Martin. The model, 20, admitted that being in the public eye made her "very anxious about making mistakes." "I grew up with that uneven balance of getting out of the airport with my mom and being bombarded with cameras, and then just being a normal kid," she told Interview Magazine. "I remember I read 'Discipline and Punish' [by Michel Foucault], which is a great book, but talking about the surveillance state — I feel like I've grown up with that, which is really scary and makes me very anxious about making mistakes." Martin said that she was "discouraged from doing anything in the public eye." "Also, I was like, 'I don't think we need another celebrity child in the world,'" she said. "I just try to do what feels right and block out anything regarding me in the news to the best of my ability. "And I'm getting a lot better at being, like, 'F--- it.' I'm not going to be scared. I just want to do what seems fun and figure my life out." Paltrow and singer-songwriter Martin started their family when Apple was born in 2004. Paltrow was pregnant at the time of their 2003 Santa Barbara Courthouse wedding, and they welcomed their son, Moses, in 2006. In 2016, they divorced, and also coined the term "conscious uncoupling," an ode to their interest in remaining a family unit without romantic ties. Last year, Paltrow told her social media followers that she was struggling with being an empty nester after her children moved out. "I have waves of kind of grief and sadness," she admitted. "And also I am kind of getting back in touch with this part of myself that I haven't felt like since I was in my 20s, before I had kids." She tried to remain optimistic about the new opportunities at home without Apple and Moses around. "[I have a] little more space and imagination, maybe? [A] little more inner space for like, what I might wanna do that day, and stuff like that," she said. "So, it's evolving. It's interesting." Paltrow earned an Academy Award when she was 26 for "Shakespeare In Love" (1998), but stepped back from more serious roles to focus on being a mother. "I really stepped away from acting when Apple was born," Paltrow told People in 2023. "The last time I was in every scene of a movie was when I was pregnant with her. When I had her, it just, everything felt redefined for me, and I thought, 'I'm not sure that I want to do this so much as a career. I definitely don't want to… I'm not going to go away for months on end.'"
South China Morning Post
08-03-2025
- Entertainment
- South China Morning Post
Who is Ralph Fiennes' lookalike actor nephew, Hero Fiennes Tiffin? He played a young Voldemort in Harry Potter, has modelled for Dolce & Gabbana, and is starring in Picture This with Simone Ashley
It's been a busy week for the Fiennes family – from Ralph Fiennes' Oscar nomination for his role in Conclave, to the premiere of his nephew Hero Fiennes Tiffin's new romcom, Picture This, starring Bridgerton's Simone Ashley. Ralph Fiennes in a scene from Oscar-winning film Conclave. Photo: Focus Features via AP While veteran actor Fiennes, 62, is a household name, his nephew is just getting started. Advertisement Hero Fiennes Tiffin's family has a long and prestigious lineage. Photo: @hero_ft/Instagram Here's what we know about him. What is Hero Fiennes Tiffin's background? Hero Fiennes Tiffin is 27 years old. Photo: @hero_ft/Instagram Hero Fiennes Tiffin, 27, was born into Britain's Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes family, which can reportedly trace its roots back to the 14th century Chancellor of England William Wykeham. His parents are Martha Fiennes, a film director and writer, and George Tiffin, a cinematographer. Hero Fiennes Tiffin is currently appearing in Picture This. Photo: @hero_ft/Instagram Ralph Fiennes isn't his only famous uncle – he is also related to Joseph Fiennes of Shakespeare In Love and The Handmaid's Tale fame.
