Okay that’s a lie. One G&T and a quick flick of the latest Men’s Health and we’re pretty much anyone’s.
Calvin Harris however has just cured the bank holiday thirst by posting this rather gorgeous pic of his torso.
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The hit maker – didn’t caption the pic so we thought we’d try.
“Mine”
Oh dear what’s happened to Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt? The first series was one of the funniest TV shows on television – okay Netflix – is that classed as television these days?
It was rather glorious. The female lead sitcom which blasted on to our screens in 2015, was a breath of fresh air, colour – and return to sublime absurdist comedy. It’s about a woman, Kimmy (Ellie Kemper) who after being bunkered by a religious zealot for 15 years is finally freed and makes a new life for herself in New York collecting on her travels an assortment of outrageous characters, each more offensive than the last – but the second season’s first episode just left me with a huge sad face.
I maybe late to the party with season two, which was released earlier this year, but I’ve made it a house rule that we can’t have anymore than three TV binges happening at once – we have to complete something before we can start something new – so I made my housemates rush finish Camping Julia Davis’s brilliantly cringey new offering, HappyIsh Steve Coogan’s brilliantly insightful new dark comedy and the latest series of Person Of Interest – it’s a guilty pleasure – don’t ask.
After all that binge watching maybe I was tired. Tired as Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt’s script, which is worrying at this every early stage in its lifetime. It should still feel fresh and with Tina Fey’s brilliant mind this is a TV show that should run for many series.
Sad to say, the comedy that brought Kimmy out into the open feels rather bunkered. The first episode didn’t even raise a polite titter (and I laugh at dog videos on YouTube, so the bar is pretty low).
What has happened to our beloved Kimmy? Maybe I’ll give one more episode.
Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt is available to stream on Netflix now.
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It’s fair to say that ‘Believe’ singer Cher is not a fan of the Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump after likening him to Adolf Hitler on Twitter.
Speaking to her 3 million followers on Twitter the iconic singer posted a picture of a two similar portraits that feature both Donald Trump and Hitler. The picture with Donald Trump features him wearing the same clothing as Hitler and with the swastika emblazoned on his arm.
She captioned the picture,
“I Will Make Germay [sic] Great Again!! I Will Make America Great Again!! I Would (love) 2 Know LAST TIME HE THOUGHT (the US) WAS GREAT”
She went on to blast Trump by calling him a “coward” after claiming that his father managed to get his son deferments from the Vietnam war.
“TRUMPS A COWARD,WHOSE RICH DAD GOT HIM 4 DEFERMENTS,WHILE BRAVE MEN DIED !! TRUMP SAID HIS VIETNAM WAS SCREWING (emjois of chicks) , WONDER WHAT HIS PTSD WAS!?”
It came to light this year that Trump was kept out of fighting for the US during the Vietnam conflict.
Earlier in the year Cher, who turns 70 this year suggested that Trump didn’t actually want the job of President saying,
“I don’t think he wants the job, or I don’t think he actually wants to do the work. I think he wants the job because it’s the ultimate deal, and he’s the ultimate ego. I don’t know that I’ve heard or seen anybody like him, and I also never thought that Americans would go for someone like him, a person of his quality.”
Cher is not the only icon who has criticised Mr Trump. Bette Midler has taken swipes and Adele has refused him permission to play her songs at his rallies.
Alice Through the Looking Glass sees the return of the same actors who played the same characters from the 2010 film. Alice (Mia Wasikowska) travels back in time to try to save the Mad Hatter (Johnny Depp). Along the way she reconnects with her friends including the White Rabbit (Michael Sheen), Absolem (the late Alan Rickman) the Cheshire Cat (Stephen Fry), twins Tweedledee and Tweedledum (Matt Lucas), the White Queen (Anne Hathaway) and of course the Mad Hatter. We’re also treated to a delicious turn by both Helena Bonham Carter as the Red Queen (and Alice’s sister) and Sacha Baron Cohen (as Time).
Alice has spent several years sailing the high seas (and following in her father’s footsteps). When she returns to London, she is asked (and demanded) to sign away her ship to her ex-boyfriend James (Ed Speelers). When she attends a meeting with him and her mother (Lindsay Duncan), she goes to an upstairs room and steps through a mirror, and through this mirror Alice takes a journey (literally through the looking glass) to Wonderland. It’s here where she sees all of her Wonderland friends, but something is not right with the Mad Hatter. She needs to turn to Time to correct things in the past that will make the Mad Hatter’s life better. Alice ends up taking a device called the Chronosphere, which allows her to travel back in time. She sees ways where she can help the Mad Hatter, but also comes across the events in her own life, which include a lie that she told as a young girl that tragically affected her sister the Red Queen. It’s all told, as expected from Disney, in very visual colors and 3D.
There was no way that anyone could top Tim Burton’s 2010 film, but James Bobbin (The Muppets and Muppets Most Wanted) successfully manages to bring the story back to life, with the help of screenwriter Linda Wolverton (who also wrote Alice in Wonderland). But no film would be as good as this if it were not for the excellent cast. Wasikoska does her bit as Alice as well as she did in the 2010 film, but it’s the addition of Cohen as Time that adds a fun element to the film, where he, and the Red Queen, live literally in time. And it’s Carter as the Red Queen who steals every scene she’s in. With a huge head, and a huge head of hair, and makeup that’s expertly applied on her face to give her a highly unusual look, Carter chews up every scene she’s in (and in my opinion it’s an Academy-Award worthy performance, though it’s rare for a performer to receive one in a Disney movie – however, Meryl Streep was nominated for Into The Woods – but of course it was Streep!).
Expect Alice Through the Looking Glass to make lots and lots of money (though it doesn’t help that Johnny Depp is currently embroiled in a nasty separation with his wife Amber Heard)
