Modern Beauty Trends: In: Meghan Markle, American Princess | Out: Melania Trump, American Princess

Tuesday, November 28, 2017

In: Meghan Markle, American Princess | Out: Melania Trump, American Princess

Someone got engaged, you may have heard. Someone else maybe doesn’t like being first lady.
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“If you don't stick to your values when they're being tested, they're not values: They're hobbies.” —Jon Stewart

A Very, Very Nice Engagement You May Have Heard About

Staying Single Forever

A 33-year-old Englishman, who, quite frankly, some had started to worry would never get it together and settle down at all, pleasantly surprised his family and their extended friends (i.e. the entire world) by announcing that he plans to marry that nice girl he’s been seeing recently. Congratulations poured in from all corners of the globe, and friends ogled the bride-to-be’s custom engagement ring (which, in a nice touch, features diamonds once owned by the man’s mother). Naturally, some couldn’t help but jump the gun on gently teasing the couple about future children, with some pointing out that, since the bride is American, their kid could technically run for president while still being in line to run the groom’s family business at the same time. In any event, it certainly went better than the last time a member of the man’s family got engaged to an American. In related news, a 27-year-old Indiana man still isn’t talking to half his family after introducing them to his new fiancée over Thanksgiving only to walk in on his Aunt Sheila and Aunt Jackie sharing a double bottle of pinot grigio and talking about how she could have at least worn something a little nicer to meet the family. When confronted, Aunt Jackie also criticized the store-bought gluten-free cupcakes the woman had brought.

Lady Bird

Toy Story 2

Greta Gerwig’s Lady Bird is already one of the most-talked-about films of the year, but Rotten Tomatoes just announced that, actually, it’s the best-reviewed film of all time—at least according to that site’s standards. The review aggregator says that each and every one of the reviews for the film in its database is considered “fresh,” which gives the film a rare 100 percent. Even Armond White, the infamously cantankerous (and increasingly right-wing) film critic who ruined Get Out’s 100 percent rating earlier this year, liked the film. It overtakes both Toy Story 2 (which held a 100 percent rating for a long time, until it got knocked down to 99 percent) and the documentary Man on a Wire. The latter film also has a 100 percent rating, but Lady Bird has 163 reviews while Man on a Wire has only 157. It certainly won’t be the only accolade the Saoirse Ronan–starring coming-of-age tale gets this year. It’s already amassed four nominations for the Independent Spirit Awards and is expected to be a major player throughout awards season.

The Media

The Trumps

President Trump started Monday morning by making an inane tweet about holding a contest to award CNN the “#FakeNews Trophy,” which, even by Trump Twitter standards, came off as particularly childish. Though it wouldn’t be the most outrageous thing he said that day. At an event honoring Navajo code talkers, the president randomly took a crack at Senator Elizabeth Warren by referring to her as “Pocahontas”—completely unprompted. It’s a term several Native American groups have repeatedly asked Trump to stop using. Elsewhere in the Trump universe, Vanity Fair published a story theorizing that Melania never really wanted to be first lady and isn’t really enjoying it that much. The East Wing dismissed the report and instead suggested the magazine should focus on what a great job Melania is doing as “a supportive wife and mother.”

Barbra Streisand

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