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Hilary Swank is looking back at the time when she helped rescue beloved pets amid the aftermath of 9/11. The Oscar-winning actress, who has been open about her love of animals, recently recalled that she volunteered with the ASPCA during the 2001 tragedy. “People would go over to the piers over on West Street, and they would say, ‘My dog Simpson, or my goldfish or my rabbit,’ or whatever it is, and they’d say, ‘This is my address, this is my apartment,’ and I’d get these cards and we’d go down,”…

Actress-singer Hilary Duff threw an elegant tea party for her daughters Mae James, Banks Violet, and 98 of their friends. The party featured costumes and treats. Hilary took to Instagram to share the glimpses from the bash. She wrote in the caption, "Mission: annual Montessori tea party…… to me and all the moms who made this lit for 98 little nuggets - we destroyed and how tired are you still? (sic),” reports ‘People’ magazine. The carousel post began with a sweet photo of Mae wearing a…

American actor Hilary Swank discussed about the challenges and rewards of being a mother of twins. Swank and her husband Philip Schneider gave birth to twins, Aya and Ohm, in April 2023. The 49-year-old Oscar-winning actor spoke to People at the premiere of her new film `Ordinary Angels` on Monday at the SVA Theatre in New York. "I think that being a mother of twins, I never have had a singleton, so I don`t know what that`s like," she explained. "But I know that the sleepless nights are hard and when you have one that…

You might not recognize his name, but there is no way you don’t recognize his face. David Krumholtz has been around Hollywood for some time, playing Bernard in one of the best Christmas movies of all time, The Santa Clause, its first sequel, and more recently, the follow-up series The Santa Clauses. While most of us will undoubtedly have a family-friendly idea of the actor in our heads, considering the holiday flicks are great for the whole family, the Oppenheimer actor recently took to social media to share a hilarious…

Hillary Clinton has offered her support to Barbie's Greta Gerwig and Margot Robbie after the pair missed out on Oscar nominations in key categories.The pair had been predicted to be nominated in the best director and best actress categories.However, Robbie was recognised as a producer in the best picture category and Gerwig was nominated alongside her husband Noah Baumbach for best adapted screenplay."While it can sting to win the box office but not take home the gold, your millions of fans love you. You’re both so much…

Drew Barrymore and Hilary Duff recently bonded over losing out on several roles they auditioned for and the lessons they learned from it when they sat down to chat on the latest episode of ‘The Drew Barrymore Show’. “There`s been so many times when I felt like a loser or I didn`t get the job or I`ve been sitting stagnant,” the ‘How I Met Your Father’ star, 36, recalled, reports ‘People’ magazine. “But I had to fill my life with things that were real and that was…

My earliest reading memoryDad would read Winnie-the-Pooh to me, doing all the voices. He did a particularly excellent Rabbit.My favourite book growing upI was 11 when I found A Traveller in Time by Alison Uttley in my new school library. Published in 1939, it tells the story of Penelope, a dreamer who can move between the centuries, becoming enfolded in a plot to save Mary, Queen of Scots. To a girl in 90s south-west London, Uttley made it seem absolutely plausible that if I opened my mind enough, I might pass through the…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeHilary Swank finds a renewed sense of purpose in the first official trailer for her forthcoming film Ordinary Angels.Based on a true story, the poignant movie sees Swank lead as Sharon, a struggling hairdresser who becomes invested in helping a recently widowed father, Ed (Alan Ritchson), raise his two young daughters. Shortly after his wife’s death, Ed’s youngest becomes critically…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeHilary Swank finds a renewed sense of purpose in the first official trailer for her forthcoming film Ordinary Angels.Based on a true story, the poignant movie sees Swank lead as Sharon, a struggling hairdresser who becomes invested in helping a recently widowed father, Ed (Alan Ritchson), raise his two young daughters. Shortly after his wife’s death, Ed’s youngest becomes critically…

“What might she have written next?” asked Margaret Atwood in her tribute to Hilary Mantel, after the Booker prize-winning novelist’s sudden death in September last year. “I don’t know, but I will miss it.” In this, she spoke for readers around the world, eagerly awaiting a new book from the author of the Wolf Hall trilogy. Aside from her Cromwell novels, Mantel had a habit of confounding expectations, with each new work so different from its predecessor.We now know the answer to Atwood’s question: Mantel was working on a…