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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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Sabrina Carpenter joined pretty much every other celebrity lurking in Los Angeles last night for the Vanity Fair Oscar Party, and stepped out in maybe her boldest look yet: A stunning Paco Rabanne gown featuring a white skirt and sheer nude top complete with built-in bejeweled pasties. John Shearer//Getty Images Cindy Ord/VF23//Getty Images Jon Kopaloff//Getty
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An absolute masterwork—not only thanks to the memes—director Todd Field’s Best Picture nominee Tár, starring Cate Blanchett as the titular conductor, is one of the year’s most beguiling and well-crafted films. It’s also Field’s first since his 2006 project Little Children, and the wait was well worth the 16-year gap. Best Actress nominee Blanchett is
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A semi-autobiographical tale from a master filmmaker could easily ooze self-indulgence, but Steven Spielberg’s latest Academy Award Best Picture nominee, The Fabelmans, is never intemperate. In fact, it’s purposefully sparing as the camera zooms in on Spielberg stand-in Sammy Fabelman’s coming-of-age journey, an enchanted childhood complicated by his mother and father’s marital strife. We see
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Last year, I stood side by side with thousands of women protesting the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, eliminating 50 years of precedent protecting women’s reproductive freedoms. I was surrounded by mothers, grandmothers, and great-grandmothers who were outraged that their daughters would now have fewer rights than they did. These women
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Welcome to Look Back At It, a monthly column where some of the most iconic Black actresses in Hollywood reminisce and reflect on the roles that made them stars. For this month’s installment, Tessa Thompson breaks down her career—from For Colored Girls and Passing to her most recent film, Creed III. “I always think that
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Dress, Simone Rocha, $1,670. Hoop earrings, Paula Mendoza, $195. Pumps, Roger Vivier, $1,150.Felix Cooper “I’m definitely the actress who’s like, ‘More blood,’” Jenna Ortega deadpans. “If I’m going to speak up about anything, or put my two cents in about anything,” she says, it would be that: Let a scene be as gory and crimson
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