| | | | | | | | | | | | "When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness."
- Nicole Kidman
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- Nicole Kidman
To sign up for this newsletter click here. | | | | | | | | The first half of 2017 has not been particularly kind for women in music. A woman hadn’t owned the top spot on the Billboard 200 all year. In fact, Lady Gaga’s Joanne was the last female-fronted album to do so, and that was back in November 2016. New albums from buzzy young singers like Kehlani and Bebe Rexha and even reliable country dames like Reba McEntire and Alison Krauss failed to crack the chart's apex. Even Mary J. Blige’s latest had to settle for just number three. It wasn’t until Halsey’s Hopeless Fountain Kingdom took the top spot last week that the male-dominated streak ended. Katy Perry’s Witness of course took the top spot this week, and Lorde’s Melodrama will almost undoubtedly make it a female three-for-three. Hopefully, the rest of 2017 brings a few more. Haim’s next album drops early July, and Miley Cyrus, Fergie and Mariah Carey all reportedly have albums dropping sometime this year. | | Amazon’s Perfect TV Show For Whole Foods Shoppers | | |  | | The big Amazon-related news of the moment is that the company just bought Whole Foods. Less headline-making but more culturally relevant is that the behemoth has also picked up the rights to a trilogy of books about the kind of people who might shop at Whole Foods with plans for a television adaptation. As per Variety, they’re planning to turn brat pack novelist Jay McInerney’s Brightest Falls trilogy, a set of novels he debuted in 1992 and only finished up in 2016. The books concern themselves with a picture perfect Manhattanite couple who appear to have everything, but *gasp* actually have tons of problems underneath it all. It starts with their drug-addled days in college and concludes with them becoming the type of successful couple who are acutely pained by the fact they’re not quite as successful as their friends. Career hardships, adultery, 9/11 and media baseball games in the Hamptons all figure in along the way. It might not be the most obvious set of books to adapt for the small screen, but someone at Amazon seems to have a thing for taking on challenging projects based on ‘90s literary classics lately. See: I Love Dick for further proof. | | |  | | Speaking of brat pack literary darlings, Fendi’s latest mens show in Milan was inspired, in part, by American Psycho's main character Patrick Bateman. No, none of the models came out to do their morning calisthenics routine in white briefs, but the looks were otherwise more than appropriate for an ‘80s businessman. Prada meanwhile found inspiration from a different literary scene: comic books. Several of the items were adorned in comic book panel-like prints, but the outfits were otherwise clean-cut enough that you could imagine an off-duty superhero wearing them during his time as a more mild-mannered unmasked citizen. At least the clothes were the main story for Fendi and Prada. One couldn’t say the same of Dolce & Gabbana. The fashion world is still buzzing from the fact that one of the brand’s models, R&B singer Raury, decided to strip off his outfit and protest the label in the middle of its own show. | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Model Melanie Gaydos was born with ectodermal dysplasia, a rare genetic disorder that left her without hair, nails or even some soft bones and tissue. That hasn’t stopped her from pursuing a career in front of the cameras. | | | | | | | | | | Nicole Kidman, 50 (World’s Most Famous Art House Actress) John Goodman, 65 (More Than Just Dan) Lionel Richie, 68 (Father of Several Famous Scions)
Brian Wilson, 75 (California Dreamer)
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