If the scandalous origin story of the couple at the center of Todd Haynes' disarming black comedy May December seems familiar, that's because it bears more than a few similarities to the Mary Kay Letourneau case from the 1990s. While the movie, which releases in theaters on Nov. 17 and is set to stream on Netflix starting on Dec. 1, is fictional, it appears to be inspired by Letourneau, whose story helped define the sensationalist tabloid culture of the '90s.
In addition to that, sometimes for female celebrities, it's how drop-dead gorgeous and sexy they are that bring them stardom. Being outrageously beautiful and sexy does bring many fans for female celebrities, especially from the opposite sex and stars have often ridden high on this phenomenon. In the celebrity scene in Nigeria, we have a host of these hot women, and for this Pulse Picks 2020 list, we look at 10 of the hottest this year.
The tabloid is accusing the pastor of making £6.3million-a-year through the members of his church, Kingsway International Christian Centre. An investigation was carried out by the UK Sun and reported in an article titled “GOD DELUSION: Mega-rich pastors living in million pound homes prey on believers with claims of curing deadly diseases.” It reads: “Pastor Ashimolowo’s church, Kingsway International Christian Centre (KICC) launched in 1992 from a rented hall has £16.
The University of Florida declared that it is “not a daycare,” in response to the arrests of anti-genocide campus protestors. Nine people, seven of which were students, were arrested Monday evening by the University of Florida Police Department and Florida Highway Patrol after students set up their encampment at the university’s plaza, last Wednesday, in an act of solidarity with Gazans and other student demonstrators across the U.S.
Charges against students varied from failure to obey a lawful command, resisting without violence, to trespassing after warning.
For the past half-decade, amid overheated rhetoric contesting the very essence of national identity, Americans have been subjected to competing caricatures of the country’s history classrooms. Progressives have voiced fears that the typical U.S. history curriculum is a whitewashed fable that suppresses uncomfortable truths about slavery and race. Conservatives have claimed the opposite—that educators, swept up in a hypercritical obsession with race, now teach children to hate their country. The good news is that neither of these panicked portrayals are accurate.
As any little girl can tell you, there isn’t just one Barbie. Sure, when we think of Barbie we often think of the blonde living in Malibu who splits her time between her jobs as an astronaut, President of the United States, and fashionista. But Mattel has released endless variations of Barbie over the years—and plenty of Kens too.
And Greta Gerwig’s highly anticipated Barbie movie is chock-full of Mattel dolls.
Mark Barrett / Photolibrary / Getty Images TIME.com readers were right: the Texas dad who beat to death a man who was allegedly raping his 5-year-old daughter doesn’t deserve to stand trial.
On Tuesday, a grand jury refused to indict the father, whose name is being kept under wraps to protect the identity of his little girl (her age was being reported as 4 last week). He killed Jesus Mora Flores, a family acquaintance, at a barbecue held at the family’s ranch earlier this month after finding him molesting his daughter behind a barn.
And Just Like That… has been filled with shocking life changes for Carrie Bradshaw, most recently her controversial decision to get back together with her former fiancé Aidan for the fourth time. But in episode 9 of season 2, which dropped on Max on Aug. 10, the stylish Manhattanite considers a decision that’s truly unthinkable: selling her beloved Upper East Side apartment.
In the season 5 premiere of Sex and the City, which aired in July 2002, Carrie mused that her one great love may actually be New York itself—and her apartment was a major part of that.
Parents are no longer permitted to call their children pretty or smart. I say, that’s pretty stupid
When my almost 2-year-old daughter tentatively counts to five, I clap vigorously and tell her she’s “so smart.” When she recently tried on her new winter bubble coat, printed with periwinkle flowers that made her lovely blue eyes pop, I gasped and called her my “beautiful baby.” But maybe I shouldn’t say that.
The third episode of Poker Face, “The Stall,” may feel awfully familiar. The title refers to the process of barbecuing meat at low temperatures for long periods of time, during which “a kind of alchemy takes place,” according to George Boyle (Larry Brown). George owns and operates Boyles’ Barbecue, a popular family-run joint in Texas, with his brother, Taffy (Lil Rel Howery). That is, until George has a sudden change of heart after watching the film Okja, decides to become vegan, and asks to be bought out of the family business.