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Dakota Johnson has a star-studded family, born to actors Melanie Griffith and Don Johnson. Fewer people realize her grandmother is Hollywood royalty Tippi Hedren, known best for her starring turn in Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds. During a live taping of The Hollywood Reporter‘s “Awards Chatter” podcast, Johnson explained why she thinks that Hedren wasn’t given
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Britney is free. A Los Angeles judge ruled that the conservatorship that has controlled Britney Spears’s life for over 13 years should end today, the New York Times reports. The pop icon, now 39 years old, had been under the court-ordered legal arrangement since 2008, following struggles with her mental health. At the time, her
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Dimitrios KambourisGetty Images At tonight’s CFDA Fashion Award ceremony, ELLE Editor-in-Chief Nina Garcia, dressed in Michael Kors Collection and Boucheron jewelry, took the stage to accept the organization’s Media Award in honor of Eugenia Sheppard. In a candid speech, Garcia thanked Emily Ratajkowski, who introduced her on stage, and then reflected on her journey in
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In the chaos of quarantine, slipping into the white-tiled world of the multimillion-dollar listings on Netflix’s Selling Sunset can only be described as a twisted kind of self-soothing. A virtual dip into those cerulean-blue infinity pools can only cleanse the mind for so long, but wow, for those few glorious moments? The relief is immediate.
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Throughout her short but extraordinary life, Diana, Princess of Wales, deployed fashion as a weapon. Born into a culture that belittled women and married into an institution that celebrated suppression, there were numerous occasions in the princess’s troubled history when the clothes she wore were her most reliable tools of expression. This is a point
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Spoilers below for season 1 of Squid Game. Following in the footsteps of The Hunger Games, Netflix’s newest K-drama hit Squid Game is, at face value, a spin on the Japanese classic Battle Royale. A group of strangers are placed in an enclosure, where they’re forced to kill one another if they hope to claim
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Welcome to Shelf Life, ELLE.com’s books column, in which authors share their most memorable reads. Whether you’re on the hunt for a book to console you, move you profoundly, or make you laugh, consider a recommendation from the writers in our series, who, like you (since you’re here), love books. Perhaps one of their favorite
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