On the surface. Wonder looks like the kind of family-pandering pap that makes me want to run the other way. Do you really want to spend two hours watching the plight of a young boy born with a congenital facial deformity that gets him ridiculed when he musters the courage to go outside without hiding under his favorite astronaut helmet? Based on a 2012 bestseller by R. J. Palacio that inspired an anti-bullying "Choose Kind" movement, Wonder isn't exactly adverse to shameless tearjerking. The good news is that writer-director Stephen Chbosky...
- 11/17/2017
- Rollingstone.com
Looks like Michelle Obama just found her new favorite girl group.
The former first lady took to Instagram on Thursday to sing the praises of a group of young, female students who produced and starred in a music video in which they rap about higher education and their own bright futures.
Obama commented on the video, which was posted on the Instagram account of blackgirlsrock, a nonprofit mentoring organization dedicated to “empowering Black girls to lead, innovate, and serve.”
“Young Queens – Stay focused. Stay motivated. Never quit. I’m with you, and couldn’t be prouder,” Obama wrote, signing off...
The former first lady took to Instagram on Thursday to sing the praises of a group of young, female students who produced and starred in a music video in which they rap about higher education and their own bright futures.
Obama commented on the video, which was posted on the Instagram account of blackgirlsrock, a nonprofit mentoring organization dedicated to “empowering Black girls to lead, innovate, and serve.”
“Young Queens – Stay focused. Stay motivated. Never quit. I’m with you, and couldn’t be prouder,” Obama wrote, signing off...
- 10/26/2017
- by Tierney McAfee
- PEOPLE.com
On Sunday, actress and model Riley Keough shared a sweet photograph of her mother Lisa Marie Presley spending time with her twin daughters Harper Vivienne Ann and Finley Aaron Love, 9 next month.
In the photo, Lisa Marie is sandwiched between her two girls with a slight smile on her face.
“Brunch with the most beautiful ladies,” Keough, 28, captioned the Instagram snap. “Ps that’s my mom not me…lol.”
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In the photo, Lisa Marie is sandwiched between her two girls with a slight smile on her face.
“Brunch with the most beautiful ladies,” Keough, 28, captioned the Instagram snap. “Ps that’s my mom not me…lol.”
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- 9/25/2017
- by Maria Pasquini
- PEOPLE.com
Sexually abused as a child by a family member, Cheyenne Montgomery seized on the chance to change her life after she read about the elite Choate Rosemary Hall boarding school in a catalog at a friend’s house.
In 1989 the academy in Wallingford, Connecticut, that educated John F. Kennedy, Michael Douglas and others awarded a full scholarship to the then-15-year-old Montgomery, who’d grown up in a “shack house” in Randolph, Vermont, with a dirt floor and no indoor bathroom.
But her new life was not all she had expected. When her bare-bones background separated her from more-affluent Choate classmates,...
In 1989 the academy in Wallingford, Connecticut, that educated John F. Kennedy, Michael Douglas and others awarded a full scholarship to the then-15-year-old Montgomery, who’d grown up in a “shack house” in Randolph, Vermont, with a dirt floor and no indoor bathroom.
But her new life was not all she had expected. When her bare-bones background separated her from more-affluent Choate classmates,...
- 8/24/2017
- by Jeff Truesdell and Elaine Aradillas
- PEOPLE.com
Prep School Nightmare: How a Student Abused by 2 Teachers Helped Expose Decades of Sexual Misconduct
It was a life that Cheyenne Montgomery, then a 15-year-old sophomore, could never have imagined.
In the fall of 1989, Montgomery stood in awe as she stepped onto the prestigious Choate Rosemary Hall campus in Wallingford, Connecticut, for the very first time, walking the same halls as former students such as John F. Kennedy, Michael Douglas and Glenn Close.
Montgomery was excited to try out sports like riflery and squash — which she had never heard of — and take as many science classes as she could.
“It was like a dream come true,” she tells People.
But within months, that dream began to unravel.
In the fall of 1989, Montgomery stood in awe as she stepped onto the prestigious Choate Rosemary Hall campus in Wallingford, Connecticut, for the very first time, walking the same halls as former students such as John F. Kennedy, Michael Douglas and Glenn Close.
Montgomery was excited to try out sports like riflery and squash — which she had never heard of — and take as many science classes as she could.
“It was like a dream come true,” she tells People.
But within months, that dream began to unravel.
- 8/23/2017
- by Elaine Aradillas
- PEOPLE.com
Students usually unwind during winter break, but prep school attendees in The Blackcoat’s Daughter experience stress that easily surpasses their final exams when their survival is threatened around the holidays. Ahead of the horror film's upcoming release, A24 has unveiled several new stills from the Osgood Perkins movie.
Synopsis: "A deeply atmospheric and terrifying new horror film, The Blackcoat’s Daughter centers on Kat (Kiernan Shipka) and Rose (Lucy Boynton), two girls who are left alone at their prep school Bramford over winter break when their parents mysteriously fail to pick them up. While the girls experience increasingly strange and creepy occurrences at the isolated school, we cross cut to another story—that of Joan (Emma Roberts), a troubled young woman on the road, who, for unknown reasons, is determined to get to Bramford as fast as she can. As Joan gets closer to the school, Kat becomes plagued...
Synopsis: "A deeply atmospheric and terrifying new horror film, The Blackcoat’s Daughter centers on Kat (Kiernan Shipka) and Rose (Lucy Boynton), two girls who are left alone at their prep school Bramford over winter break when their parents mysteriously fail to pick them up. While the girls experience increasingly strange and creepy occurrences at the isolated school, we cross cut to another story—that of Joan (Emma Roberts), a troubled young woman on the road, who, for unknown reasons, is determined to get to Bramford as fast as she can. As Joan gets closer to the school, Kat becomes plagued...
- 1/10/2017
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
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