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Boston Globe
16-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Boston Globe
James Taylor gets backstage visit from Prince Harry and Meghan Markle
On Taylor's second night in Santa Barbara, the singer was greeted backstage by 'There's Something About Mary' actress Cameron Diaz and her husband, Good Charlotte rocker Benji Madden, and singer Charlie Puth, who, like JT's son Henry, attended Berklee College of Music. Get Starting Point A guide through the most important stories of the morning, delivered Monday through Friday. Enter Email Sign Up Benji Madden (left), Cameron Diaz (second from left) and Charlie Puth (third from left) with James Taylor (fourth from left). Caroline Taylor Advertisement In an interview in March, Taylor said the show was still taking shape, but would likely be loosely autobiographical. Mark Shanahan can be reached at
Yahoo
07-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Survivor story: A safety expert shares his experience to help others
Lendlease has since pivoted away from international work to focus on its business in Australia. Bovis Lend Lease was the construction manager and Souza's employer on the Miami project. U.K.-based Bovis Construction was acquired by Australian-based Lendlease in 1999, which retired the Bovis brand in 2011. The name has been revived, however, now that Lendlease has sold its U.K. business to Greenwich, Connecticut-based private equity owner Atlas Holdings, which will rename the business Bovis Construction , per Construction Enquirer. 'With my eyes, I've seen the worst that can happen if something's not managed correctly,' Souza said. Today, Souza is a senior vice president of environmental health and safety at Greensboro, North Carolina-based Samet Corp., which was not involved with the crane incident. He uses his near-death story to help improve jobsite safety, especially around cranes. 'I had to be revived a few times,' Souza said. 'I was only made aware of that after the fact by one of the responders that were there. He said, 'We were losing you.'' Souza says he has no memory of the immediate aftermath from when the crane fell, but has been told he was yelling orders to coworkers and responders. What he didn't realize until much later was that he had to be 'brought back.' Two people in the room with Souza died. He and another employee were hospitalized with injuries, per OSHA's report on the incident. Two others suffered non-hospitalized injuries. Parts of the crane, which was supported by its monorail, became dislodged and fell approximately 50 feet, striking an outrigger. Then the crane was thrown an additional 350 feet and crashed through the roof of the house. The wreckage buried Souza and others in debris and rubble. 'I heard a loud noise. And that's kind of one of the last few things I remember,' Souza told Construction Dive. While sitting in the office — Souza called it 'Mary's room' — for a meeting, the crews outside began the crane jump, Souza said. Souza then stepped into a single-family home near the base of the tower, which had once been a shooting location for the 1998 comedy 'There's Something About Mary' and was temporarily being used as an office for the jobsite. As a result, Manny Souza, project safety manager on the jobsite of the 47-story Paramount Bay waterfront condominium complex, told crews to cancel a scheduled crane jump for that day, he said. This story was originally published on Construction Dive . To receive daily news and insights, subscribe to our free daily Construction Dive newsletter . Story Continues 'Safety is always our highest priority,' a Lendlease spokesperson said in a statement shared with Construction Dive. 'At the time of the incident, we worked proactively with OSHA and relevant officials to investigate the incident, which ultimately led to the citation being withdrawn.' Indeed, though OSHA's investigation into the collapse resulted in an initial fine of $7,000 recommended for the contractor, the agency later deleted the citation, per OSHA's establishment database. Local news reports at the time listed Salem, Oregon-based Morrow Crane as the crane subcontractor on the project. OSHA's establishment search shows no citation for Morrow Crane at the time of the collapse. The firm did not respond to Construction Dive's requests for comment. Souza said his injuries were unusual in that he didn't sustain a single broken bone, but the pressure from the debris that had fallen on him caused significant damage to spinal ligaments and muscle mass in his back. He recalls being in and out of hospitals and being unable to return to work for six months. That is, until he couldn't take it anymore. 'Then I was going insane at the house, and I kind of begged for them to take me back,' Souza said. He returned to work at Lendlease through 2020. Sharing his story Souza has become an advocate for improving jobsite safety, especially around cranes and hoists. He's spoken to financial advisors and insurance groups to share the liability and risk involved with crane work. This year, he joined the Associated Builders and Contractors National Health and Safety Committee. As Souza tells his harrowing tale, his voice is measured. When he shares the detail that he was in the house from 'There's Something About Mary,' he does so to bring levity to the narrative, despite the undeniable tragedy. Souza doesn't hide emotion, but he leads with facts, almost as though he's presenting a report. That's intentional. 'One thing I had to learn early on, if I didn't control the emotional aspects of this, I would not be as effective as I am,' Souza told Construction Dive. 'We can talk for hours here. You're never going to understand the pain that I endure, the emotional challenges that we had. But that would not bring a lot of credibility if I brought just emotion to the table, right?' What's changed Thankfully, much around crane safety has improved since 2008, Souza says. Later that year, OSHA proposed a new standard around crane and derrick safety, approving the final rule in 2010. The revision addressed advances in designs of cranes and related hazards, the qualifications of employees to operate them, the assessment of hazards within the jobsite and required training for workers to recognize hazards. But Souza and other safety leaders will tell you that although OSHA sets the baseline expectations for a safe workplace, there's much more to safety than compliance. 'Regulatory agencies play a vital role in establishing safety requirements, supporting implementation and ensuring accountability to standards across the industry,' Souza said. 'My focus, however, is on how we can all proactively enhance safety beyond minimum requirements — particularly for high-risk operations like crane work. Leaders in both public and private sectors have a responsibility to set rigorous expectations for planning, oversight and execution of high-risk construction activities.' Souza said he's impressed with the private-sector technology implemented to improve crane safety since 2008, which goes above and beyond OSHA rules. That includes cameras with live feeds to operators' cabins to help avoid blind spots, GPS positioning for cranes to be aware of each other's location and collision detection and prevention, like how some vehicles engage brakes automatically. Beyond Safety Week Construction Safety Week, held this week from May 5 to May 9, is an opportunity for firms to hold stand-downs, call attention to hazards on the jobsite and jumpstart new initiatives to improve workplace health. The hard part can be extending that focus for the other 51 weeks of the year. When the crane eventually was dismantled on that jobsite, Souza says lawyers arrived with a court order to take pictures. He pushed back because the area below the crane was highly hazardous, despite the prospect of legal trouble. 'I can say this with a lot of confidence: most professionals would never challenge a court order because of the magnitude of the possible outcome,' Souza said. Eventually, he says, experts used high-powered lenses to take photographs from a greater, and safer, distance. But that anecdote aligns with an important aspect of Souza's outlook and story. When it comes to safety, everyone has a different perspective on risk, and sometimes they make dangerous decisions. That's part of why he says he has to reduce the emotion in his advocacy for increasing safety, and focus on helping people see beyond their own risk analysis, regardless of experience. 'You hear this phrase all the time in our industry, 'I've been doing this for 30 years.' And I'm going to be honest, I don't care what it is. From sports to performance to anything, if you've been doing it the same way you did 30 years ago, you're missing an incredible opportunity to be more effective and to be a higher performer,' Souza said.
Yahoo
04-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Fire Country Video: Max Thieriot Talks #Bodiela ‘Challenges,' Spinoffs, and the Importance of Inmate Firefighters
What hot water has Fire Country's Bode Leone gotten him into this time? When last we tuned into the third-season CBS drama, Bode's P.O. (played by 24 alum Roger Cross) showed up on the former inmate's doorstep to confront him about associating with 'known criminals.' At the start of the TVLine video Q&A above (and below), series lead and co-creator Max Thieriot sheds some insight on his character's questionable side hustle. More from TVLine Fire Country Spinoff Crossover Preview: Sheriff Mickey Fox Is Both 'Badass' and 'Girl Scout' (Exclusive Video) CBS Reveals Finale Spoilers for 19 Shows, Including the Very Last Episodes of S.W.A.T. and Two FBIs — See Schedule Uh-Oh, Is 'Matlock' About to Get Found Out, With 3 Episodes Still Left to Air? Thieriot then further tees up this Friday night's episode, which marks the second appearance by upcoming Sheriff Country spinoff star Morena Baccarin, as Sheriff Mickey Fox, and introduces W. Earl Brown as Mickey's father, Wes. Thieriot talks about reuniting with Brown, who played a small but memorable figure on A&E's Bates Motel back in the day — and whom you might not realize starred in There's Something About Mary! After Thieriot talks a bit about next Friday's episode (which finds Station 42 responding to an accident at a ski resort, and with which Mother Nature did not quite cooperate), the topic turns to the roller coaster that is the Bode/Gabriela (Stephanie Arcila) romance. I recap a mere fraction of the pairing's highs and lows, and invite Thieriot to weigh in on their endgame status and the 'challenges' in moving that story forward in fresh ways. We also talk a bit about what Audrey (Leven Rambin) brought to the party this season, after which Thieriot answers a very direct reader question about #Bodiela's future. At the 8:30 mark, Thieriot and I talk about how Fire Country's midseason two-parter eerily mirrored the L.A. wildfires that broke out during the hiatus, and how important it was for real-life prison fire camps to get some attention as they helped battles those California blazes. The video Q&A then wraps with me asking what's what with Fire Country's other, potential spinoff, that would be led by Season 3 guest star and Supernatural vet Jared of TVLine Yellowjackets' Tawny Cypress Talks Episode 4's Tai/Van Reunion: 'We're All Worried About Taissa' Vampire Diaries Turns 10: How Real-Life Plot Twists Shaped Everything From the Love Triangle to the Final Death Vampire Diaries' Biggest Twists Revisited (and Explained)
South China Morning Post
22-02-2025
- Entertainment
- South China Morning Post
How generations of A-listers have kept the cardigan current
Taylor Swift has always been a cardigan fan, while Kendall Jenner and Anne Curtis are just two more in the latest generation of A-listers to give the homely button-up look some love. Of all wardrobe staples, from the chic leather biker jacket to the trusty flannel shirt , perhaps no single item has been quite as overlooked as the cardigan, despite its many revivals over the years. First invented in the late 1800s by its namesake – the stylish, wealthy and arrogant British Army officer James Brudenell, the 7th Earl of Cardigan, also infamous for the ill-fated Charge of the Light Brigade – some stories have it that the original, makeshift version was created by complete accident after the tails of the earl's knitted waistcoat caught fire and burned off. Anne Curtis showed us how to rock a cute and sexy cardie look in October 2021. Photo: @annecurtissmith/Instagram In the decades since, you could say the cardigan's consistent comeback has been a matter of accident too – its ability to keep up with the times subject to changing societal attitudes and consequently drastic transformations. The humble cardie eventually evolved from a military status symbol , and morphed into its more casual modern-day iteration. By the 1940s, university women were wearing baggy button-up jumpers – which were even denigrated as 'sloppy joes' – in protest at the restrictive women's styles and social order of decades past. But how did these cosy knits, once relegated to the back of a 'sloppy' woman's wardrobe, become the star of the show? Jacquemus La Maille Pralù cropped cardigan. Photo: Handout As with so many other foundational trends in fashion, it was Gabrielle 'Coco' Chanel who predicted the cardigan craze that would eventually take over the world. The designer reportedly created the modern prototype of a woman's cardigan in the 1920s after remarking that putting on regular pullovers would mess up her hair, and the history of the garment has been intertwined with that of the French maison ever since, with different variations on the button-up featuring in many of its collections to this day. A simple innovation born out of inconvenience spawned a movement which, by the 1950s, made the 'sweater girl' the pin-up model of the moment, with Hollywood actresses like Lana Turner and Jayne Mansfield sporting the simple cover-up, slung around the shoulders with their form-fitting outfits peeking out from underneath. Fast-forward to the 1990s and another blonde bombshell, Cameron Diaz , would make the cardie chic again by buttoning hers once down the middle to expose her camisole in the hit film There's Something About Mary . Kendall Jenner in barely-there Jacquemus, in August 2021. Photo: @kendalljenner/Instagram In the early 2010s, Taylor Swift championed cardigan use for a preppy chic look, seen in the heyday of American retailers like and Vineyard Vines. And then in 2020, there was Swift again with the coronavirus-era cottagecore trend, which helped inspire the album Folklore , its lead single 'Cardigan', and of course, titular merchandise made for fans self-isolating at home. A century after Chanel first led the way, cardigans have been catapulted back into the public eye again thanks to a much younger independent French fashion brand. Slinkier and sexier than the jumpers of years past, La Maille cardigans from Jacquemus' autumn/winter 2021 show quickly became cult classics in various vibrant colours and even cropped varieties – a must-have for stylish celebrities and influencers everywhere. This version was designed to wear with nothing under it, a styling tip that perhaps hints at the cardigan's final form as a high fashion staple that can stand on its own in any season, bringing the heat in more ways than one.
The Guardian
17-02-2025
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
‘It has it all': why The Wedding Singer is my feelgood movie
Back in the days when I first attempted to be an adult – first desk job, first flat, first live-in girlfriend – there was no such thing as streaming, catch-up, Blu-Ray, 4K, HD or even widescreen tellies. Instead, I owned a 15in Sony Trinitron TV that had taken me months to save up for on my £10-a-week school paper round – smaller than the massive one we'd rented from Currys as students – and a VHS player. The only films I owned were three ex-rental cassettes I'd bought from the local Blockbuster: There's Something About Mary, Enemy of the State and The Wedding Singer. Once we'd watched a bit of the terrestrial channels (I was too poor to afford Sky), my girlfriend – who was training to be a teacher – would go to bed at 10pm and I'd settle down for the night with one of my three films. My favourite was The Wedding Singer because it has it all – comedy, 80s hairdos, a great soundtrack, a farcical ending and loads of quotable lines. ('Say hi to your brother Tito', 'Once again, things that could have been brought to my attention YESTERDAY', 'Why don't you write a song about it? You can call it – I got punched in the nose for sticking my face into other people's business.') I wasn't alone in my passion. One bored day at work, my friend Phil emailed me a good half of the script to Dumb and Dumber he'd written from memory. 'But what if he shot you in the face?' The Wedding Singer stars Adam Sandler in one of his first mainstream roles, no longer doing the silly voices and mannerisms he put on for cult classics Happy Gilmore and Billy Madison. Sandler plays a – yes – wedding singer who sinks into depression after getting jilted at the alter for losing his ambitions of being a rock star. He then gradually falls in love with Drew Barrymore (who wouldn't?) even though she's due to marry her (it turns out) cheating boyfriend, Glenn (Matthew Glave). You can guess how it all turns out. Along the way, we get to meet a Sugarhill Gang-rapping granny, a Boy George lookalike who only knows the first verse to Do You Really Want to Hurt Me, and what I argue is Steve Buscemi in his best ever role: the brother of the groom, giving a drunken speech in a hideous flouncy pink shirt. ('Remember that time in Puerto Rico when we picked up those two – well, I guess they were prostitutes, but I don't remember paying … ') With its bad perms, dodgy tashes, oversize lapels and florescent Lycra, the 80s setting made me feel old even in the 90s. Come 2025, I shudder to realise that if Marty McFly went back in time 30 years from now, they'd be playing Parklife at the Enchantment Under the Sea dance, and the song from the near future that 'I guess you people aren't ready for yet, but your kids are going to love' would be Wonderwall. The 80s, meanwhile, are as far away as 2065. Yikes. One thing I love most about The Wedding Singer is the soundtrack that includes You Spin Me Round (Like a Record), Blue Monday and Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic. Barrymore sings a bit of 99 Luftballons into her oversize headphones. Sandler gets to perform his own compositions: Somebody Kill Me ('I was listening to the Cure a lot when I wrote this') and Grow Old With You – the latter he performs on a plane to stop Barrymore from marrying the evil Glenn. The ending features a brilliant cameo from 1998 Billy Idol playing 1980s Billy Idol, who wakes from his booze-addled slumber to shove Glenn in the airplane toilets. ('Excuse me, sir. I have to serve the beverages.') By the way, I haven't even had to watch the film or look at the internet to check all these facts and quotes. I know I'm right, because I have The Wedding Singer committed to photographic memory. Another contributor to this column miffed that he's watched his feelgood movie, Notting Hill, maybe 12 times. Pffft. I've must have watched The Wedding Singer at least 100. At my peak, it was a two- or three-times-a-week habit. It's a habit that – if only I still owned a VHS player (or had a subscription to Prime Video) – I'd happily start up all over again. Although, with hindsight, I really should have just gone to bed early. The Wedding Singer is available to rent digitally in the US and on Amazon Prime in the UK
