Alison Oliver is as invested in the adaptation of Conversations with Friends as any other self-respecting Sally Rooney fan—but not just because she’s starring in it. “If I didn’t do this show, I totally would be the person being like, ‘Oh, my God, when’s the show coming out?!'” Oliver tells BAZAAR.c
The TV adaptation of Conversations with Friends leaves the plot of Sally Rooney’s best-selling first novel mostly unaltered. Ex-girlfriends and best friends Bobbi and Frances meet married couple Melissa and Nick; Bobbi flirts with Melissa, while Frances and Nick strike up a full-blown affair; Bobbi
Prince Charles and Camilla have been getting ample airtime this week, as they’re in Canada as a part of Her Majesty’s Platinum Jubilee worldwide tour. And it’s been a big year for them overall, starting with the Queen’s announcement in February that it is her “sincere wish” for the Duchess of Cornwa
Royal protocol? What royal protocol?
Marie Claire recently reported on how the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge—or, as they’d rather you call them, William and Catherine—intend to throw out the royal rulebook and do things their own way after their complex Caribbean tour earlier this year. And it seem
When I set out to create She Pivots , I was driven by the ups and downs I have faced in my life—both personally and professionally. I had my third child three weeks before the lockdown and, after leaving my career in politics, it harder to find those parts of myself that made me feel successful. But
The outbreak of World War II forced the cancelation of the inaugural Cannes Film Festival, meant to take place in 1939 on the French Riviera as an alternative to the Venice Film Festival. In September of 1946, seven years after ideation, the Cannes Film Festival finally rolled out its red carpet wit
Forget the reboot craze—the circus surrounding the future of the Golden Globes is the best evidence you’ll find that nothing in Hollywood truly dies. The embattled awards show voted on by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association is currently without a network to broadcast its ceremony, drained of leg
Just hours before the Cannes premiere of Top Gun: Maverick on Wednesday, Glen Powell was showing his friends videos from the last time he was here. Exactly eight years earlier, he’d ridden down the Croisette in a tank, participating in one of the bigger stunts ever pulled during the festival. The pr
In recent years, several major writer-directors have decided to get personal and take a look back at their younger selves, each doing so in a manner befitting of their respective signature styles. In 2018 there was Alfonso Cuarón’s vivid social survey Roma. Last year’s Belfast was peppery and sentim
One of the greatest mysteries of the 21st century is the marriage of Kellyanne Conway and her husband, George—specifically, if they hate each other as much as their public commentary would suggest, or if the whole thing is some kind of three-dimensional chess designed to further their own interests.
On Thursday, the 19th day of Johnny Depp’s defamation trial against Amber Heard, the jury heard from Depp’s former flame Ellen Barkin, via a pretaped deposition during which she detailed one violent incident and Depp’s jealous disposition. Barkin and Depp were romantically involved and appeared toge
Over the years, working alongside the French beauty house Guerlain, Angelina Jolie has found herself a perpetual student of bees. Last year, in a radical gesture of being one with nature, she posed, bare-faced and stoic, for a National Geographic video as a lazy cloud of bees tiptoed across her body
Barbie is finally close to getting her own movie, and one that’s not animated and meant for children. The big 90s nostalgia moment has been over for a few years now, but Barbie transcends generations with easy glamour, literally impossible body standards, gorgeous wardrobes, and the earworm Aqua son
Amy Adams will star in an adaptation of Rachel Yoder’s acclaimed debut novel, Nightbitch, in which the lead protagonist finds herself believing she’s turning into a dog.
The novel came out last summer, and the adaptation is being written and directed by Marielle Heller. The “darkly comic neo-horror
Lena Dunham has always made TV shows and films about smart, difficult women. They’ve usually been women in this century, but now, she’s taking it back all the way to the 1290s. Dunham’s latest film Catherine, Called Birdy is a Medieval coming of age story about a rambunctious 14-year-old who wards o
Miley Cyrus has undoubtedly always had iconic hair (hello, Hannah Montana) but she’s recently been singlehandedly bringing back some of our favorite—and most divisive—Y2K hair trends. She was early to the mullet revival last year and has since grown out her hair and been rocking 2000s-inspired black
