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if anyone has an extra ticket to the hilary duff show...i will buy it from you

Solidarity with the Starbucks workers in their ongoing fight for a fair contract!

How Isabella Rossellini's Visit to Del Water Gap's Film Club with His Grandma Inspired the Name of His New Album (Exclusive) In an exclusive interview with PEOPLE, Del Water Gap opens up about how a visit from Isabella Rossellini to the film club he started with his grandma inspired the name of his new album 'Chasing the Ch...

Love the new Del Water Gap album & spoke to Holden about opening for Niall Horan and how a visit from Isabella Rossellini to the film club he started with his 101-year-old grandma inspired the title of his new record

thanks friend!

Happy 1st birthday to Nora Ephron at the Movies! I honestly can’t believe it’s been a year since my first book came out. Thank you to every person who has bought my book, shared posts about it on social media, wrote reviews & let me yap about it in interviews

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i need offices to not be uncomfortably cold at all times

How Opening for ELO on Tour in 2024 Inspired Robert Schwartzman to Start Writing a New Rooney Album (Exclusive) Robert Schwartzman tells PEOPLE about how opening for ELO on tour inspired him to write a new Rooney album. He also details why he decided to launch his film production and distribution company, Utopi...

I'm back on the Rooney beat! Spoke to Robert Schwartzman about how opening for Jeff Lynne's ELO inspired him to make a new album (!!) & his film production company Utopia. people.com/robert-schwa...

‘Now and Then’ at 25: Girlhood Finally Taken Seriously (Published 2020)

This week, it’s the 30th anniversary of my favorite movie of all time Now and Then. If you’ve never seen it I implore you to watch it this weekend & read my NYT retrospective on why it’s a girlhood masterpiece from 2020 www.nytimes.com/2020/10/23/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago 31 A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia. A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia. A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo. The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview. “My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese. From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett. The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

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I don't always reply to the pitches I receive from publicists (because I have a job that I do and if I did, I would never get to do my job). But here is a tip for aspiring publicists: Critics do not "write a Rotten Tomatoes review." No critics do this.

Ilana Kaplan’s ‘Nora Ephron at the Movies’ Is a Love Letter to Rom-Com Royalty Ilana Kaplan wrote the first illustrated monograph on the late filmmaker behind "When Harry Met Sally," "You’ve Got Mail" and "Sleepless in Seattle."

Maybe my favorite thing I've done for my book Nora Ephron at the Movies is this shoot + interview with NJ Monthly. I love an excuse to talk about my home state, Nora, rom-coms and my old Jersey haunts. In the latest print issue! njmonthly.com/articles/art...

Bad Bunny’s Puerto Rican Homecoming The Latin-trap performer is probably the most important pop musician of our time. Key to his success is that the bigger he gets, the more local he seems.

Bad Bunny “is probably the most important musician in the world right now—the person future generations will point to when they talk about what the early 2020s sounded like,” Kelefa Sanneh writes.

Been in Los Angeles less than 24 hours and six people have asked if I’ve seen One Battle After Another and my response is “I’m on book tour. My life is one battle after another.”

Anyways. I’m talking with my king of LA @specktor.bsky.social, at Skylight tonight. I’m so psyched.

Sarah McLachlan Looks Back on Lilith Fair's Legacy and the Sexism She Confronted: 'Why Do You Hate Men?' (Exclusive) In an exclusive interview with PEOPLE, Sarah McLachlan looks back on Lilith Fair's legacy and the sexism she confronted. The documentary 'Lilith Fair: Building a Mystery - The Untold Story' is out on ...

I profiled the very funny Sarah McLachlan for a print feature on the Lilith Fair documentary, her new album Better Broken & the impact of that infamous ASPCA commercial

YouTube video by Geeks of Doom 'Almost Famous' Philip Seymour Hoffman as Lester Bangs

9/8/2000: Cameron Crowe's Almost Famous
Kate Hudson outstanding, PS Hoffman soars: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldpP...
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@scotttobias.bsky.social: www.theguardian.com/film/2020/se...
@hiattb.bsky.social: www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv...
@lanikaps.bsky.social: www.nytimes.com/2020/07/23/m...

“…has proven itself to be the greatest dance movie of our generation.” @lanikaps.bsky.social

CENTER STAGE plays tomorrow at 7pm at Here-After presented by us!

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‘Women Have Always Been on the Front Lines.’ How Five Women at the Texas Capitol Stood Up to ‘Fascism.’ Rep. Nicole Collier, a Fort Worth Democrat, spent the night held hostage in the Texas House. Four enraged women refused to leave her side.

New from @iamleslierangel.bsky.social and me:

Rep. Nicole Collier spent the night held hostage in the Texas House. Then four enraged women — many of them mothers — refused to leave her side overnight. The slept in jail; are banned from Capitol grounds for a year.

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some news i never announced because i was constantly promo-ing my book the past year: i'm a music editor
at PEOPLE Magazine & today is an anniversary of sorts !!

if any publicists have any big or small ideas for print/digital get at me - ilana.kaplan@peoplemag.com

The cover of the summer issue of @lilithmagazine.bsky.social by Jenny Kroik is gorgeous! (my review of @lanikaps.bsky.social’s book on Nora Ephron is in this issue—will share when it’s online)

thank you so much helene!

All Things Nora Ephron Ilana Kaplan, author of Nora Ephron at the Movies (Abrams, 2024, $46.50), never met the legendary writer and director of classic romantic comedies “When Harry Met Sally,” “Sleepless in Seattle,” an…

My review of @lanikaps.bsky.social’s book on Nora Ephron is now online over at @lilithmagazine.bsky.social

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Jennifer Love Hewitt Answers Every Question We Have About Heartbreakers On being attached to Ray Liotta’s crotch, the media’s obsession with her body, and the possibility of a sequel.

with the new ikwydls movie out i revisited my interview with jennifer love hewitt from 2021 for @vulture.com where we talked about the 20th anniversary of heartbreakers but also the objectification of her body during that time which is unfortunately still relevant

One thing you can do Right Now is be extremely vocal when you have librarians stocking inclusive collections. Call and tell them how happy you are, show up to board meetings. Bc the other side is *always* complaining and doing it in an organized way.

also you can donate to Lavonnia Moore here:

Em dashes are like 80% of my personality and the other 20% is hot sauce

i'm so angry and sad. so many people are devoid of empathy rn and if you have kids, I really hope you're teaching them to care about other people

You’re never going to be a millionaire or billionaire, so why do people keep voting as if they’ll ever be part of the one percent? They’ll never feel a raise in their taxes. But you will feel the loss of Medicare, SS, cost of living, literally everything! You will feel it.

Had a blast talking to @jasondashbailey.com and @fifthcolumnfilms.bsky.social about Sixteen Candles, Molly Ringwald and its problematic legacy on the Guide for the Film Fanatic podcast — as well as my book Nora Ephron at the Movies. Listen here! pod.link/1274489817/e...

One Heat Minute Productions ONE HEAT MINUTE PRODUCTIONS began with film journalist Blake Howard examining Michael Mann's 1995 crime opus HEAT chronologically, in 60-second increments, in the aptly titled

NEW EPISODE of GUIDE FOR THE FILM FANATIC is live! The delightful @lanikaps.bsky.social joins us to discuss John Hughes’s “Sixteen Candles” — and her wonderful book “Nora Ephron at the Movies”: pod.link/1274489817/e...