The most important in life is to feel happy
Holding Space is a joint column by Anne T. Donahue and Peter Knegt that “holds space” for something or someone in popular culture. Peter: Anne! So we are fully in the dog days of summer (a.k.a. an endless stretch of unbearable heat), and I don’t know about you, but I have been spending a lot of …
Last week, Hulk Hogan, one of the most famous American professional wrestlers and a cultural icon of the ’80s and ’90s, died at the age of 71. He’s being remembered for the way he raised the profile of the sport, and his unforgettable crossover into mainstream culture at large. But he also left behind a …
Don’t get Shana Myara wrong: she’s thrilled that her docuseries, Killjoy Comedy, was picked up for a second season on OUTtv. But she’s also kind of surprised. “It feels great to be back for a second season,” she says. “It feels like quite an achievement to have one season under our belt. To actually have the …
Carrie Coon isn’t afraid of aging. She’d much rather embrace it than run from it. “Authenticity is more evocative than any kind of engineering you might consider doing to your face or your body,” Coon told Glamour in a story published on Monday. “Now this is not the message coming from culture. As a woman who is …
Pedro Pascal isn’t afraid to be vulnerable. Even more than his acting prowess, charming good looks and “internet boyfriend” status, the actor is beloved for his candor — and his willingness to talk about grief. Pascal opened up about losing his mother, María Verónica Pascal Ureta, to suicide when he was 24 in a new …
After 37 years as Vogue’s editor in chief, Anna Wintour is officially stepping down. The fashion icon is not retiring altogether; instead, she will remain on as the publisher’s global chief content officer as well as Vogue’s global editorial director, per CNN. It is, nonetheless, the end of an era — one marked by Met Galas, …
The press tour is over. Materialists is out. The verdict is in: There’s just something special about Dakota Johnson. She’s a nepo baby with a Hollywood pedigree that, on paper, should make her seem unapproachable. Her parents are stars Melanie Griffith and Don Johnson, and her grandmother is Tippi Hedren. Her first leading role? Anastasia Steele in Fifty …
While Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez’s lavish Venice wedding — with its splashy prelude, including a foam party on his $500 million superyacht — has dominated headlines with big “look at us” energy, not every famous couple wants to share the intimate moments of their “I do’s” with the world. In Hollywood, there’s been a …
For Chase Sui Wonders, being mixed race hasn’t always been easy. Wonders, who is half Chinese, used to struggle with her identity — and as a young Asian actress in Hollywood, self-acceptance felt unattainable. “I had all the shame around it. I would try so hard and I would put myself on tape, but it …
Josh Duhamel didn’t just talk to me about going off the grid — he took me there. Zooming in from his remote Minnesota cabin, a giant American flag draped in the background of his office, the actor was more than happy to offer a quick tour of the compound he’s spent the last 15 years …