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Karu F. Daniels | New York Daily News As “Barbie” fever rolls into Oscar weekend — with Greta Gerwig’s blockbuster film up for eight awards — Mattel has unveiled its new slate of Role Model Dolls, featuring two Academy Awards winners, a Canadian born country queen and an Australian dance music diva. To celebrate International Women’s Day on March 8 and the iconic doll’s 65th birthday on March 9, the toy company announced Wednesday that it’s adding new dolls modeled after Viola Davis, Dame Helen Mirren, Shania Twain and…

The Lamborghini Urus is without a doubt one of the most popular and best-selling models from the Italian car manufacturer. The super SUV immediately caught the attention of supercar enthusiasts, as well as rich celebrities and businessmen around the world. In 2022, Lamborghini launched a much more powerful version of the SUV, the Urus Performante, in India. The Viola Pasifae Performante has now found its first customer in an Instagram influencer. A video of the influencer couple taking delivery of their new SUV has been…

If there's any actor we'd gladly take words of wisdom from, it's the ever-soulful Oscar winner Viola Davis. She's a performer who is as capable of being a fount of warmth in The Help (even if she has good reason for regretting that role) as she is a force of nature in The Woman King. The acting legend offered up some sage advice through a recent Instagram post, in which she posited this question to her 12 million followers: You meet your 18 year old self, you are allowed to say 3 words...what do you say?The 58-year-old…

All British viola players of the last 100 years and more owe a huge debt to Lionel Tertis. Born in 1876 (on the same day as the great cellist Pablo Casals), Tertis became a champion of what at the beginning of his career was an overlooked and maligned instrument; through the brilliance of his playing, with its utterly distinctive vibrato influenced by hearing the violinist Fritz Kreisler, and in the wealth of music that he commissioned, the viola finally achieved status as a solo instrument in its own right.The cover art…

Denmark-born, London-based Astrid Sonne is part of that growing band of classically trained musicians who have moved into the realm of the pop singer-songwriter. Like Julia Holter, Mica Levi or Owen Pallett, she seems to draw from her conservatoire training as obliquely as a previous generation of rock stars might have drawn from their art school training. Instead of showing off her virtuosity as a viola player or her skills at writing four-part harmony, Sonne manipulates stray elements of 20th-century modernism and…

On paper, The Cello is fascinating. It’s directed by Darren Lynn Bousman, who’s made four Saw movies; it features Saw villain Tobin Bell and Oscar winner Jeremy Irons, and most of it takes place (and was filmed in) Saudi Arabia. It’s also about a demonic cello. Unfortunately, those elements don’t quite come together, and the end result—even with, we re-iterate, a demonic cello in the mix—isn’t fully satisfying.Zillow Says You’ll Buy Your Next House With… AI? | AI UnlockedThe fault lies mostly with Turki Alalshikh’s…

Celebrities took to social media on Sunday to celebrate the fathers and parental figures in their lives in honor of Father’s Day. Kate Hudson honored “amazing man” Kurt Russell, her mom Goldie Hawn’s longtime partner, while Viola Davis praised her husband, Julius Tennon, “our Rock, our nurturer and comforter.” “When I became a dad, I realized what an important role these two incredible humans have played in my life,” Justin Timberlake wrote on Instagram about his father and step-father. “I’m so…

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Image via Paramount Pictures Fear not, spooky supporters! The week may be long and tiring, but an abundance of spine-tingling content is here to improve your schedules and, well, lives in general! As always, we’re taking a massive deep dive into today’s daily horror roundup here at We Got This Covered — which is set to cover everything from Oscar winner Viola Davis expressing interest in joining the versatile genre, to the release of Scream VI reminding us about a specific character death scene that should have…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for free“What are your biggest regrets?” This might be one of the more obvious questions a journalist can ask an actor, but the answer can often be hugely revealing.For instance, many actors have spoken negatively about their time spent as a superhero (Ben Affleck, Jessica Alba, Halle Berry), portraying a teenage heartthrob (Robert Pattinson, Zac Efron) or continuing with a long-running…