For many years, Kathleen Lorna Middleton lived at 69 Carlton Terrace, in the North London suburb of Edmonton. The house, which faced one of the main roads leading out of the city, had a small plaque to the left of the front door: “Miss Lorna Middleton, Teacher of Pianoforte and Ballet.” Middleton was born in Brockton, Massachusetts, in 1914. She was a talented dancer as a child and had friends who went to Hollywood, but, during the Depression, Middleton’s parents, who were English, lost everything and moved back to London. Middleton, who had small hands, buck teeth, and a pronounced New England accent, opened a school for dance and music in the front room of No. 69 and called her students the Merrie Carltons.
Middleton played the piano, swivelling on her stool, while six girls at a time practiced port de bras using the bookcases for balance. The next class waited on the stairs. The house was crowded with dark furniture and programs from Middleton’s childhood performances with the dates erased. “There was always something—not exactly exotic, but she was totally different,” Christine Williams, who started taking classes with Middleton when she was four, told me recently. “Whatever she did, she posed. She never just stood.”
On a winter’s day, when she was seven years old, Middleton watched her mother, Annie, frying eggs on the stove. “After about two minutes, and without warning the egg lifted itself up. It rose up and up until it almost touched the ceiling,” Middleton wrote, in a self-published memoir. Middleton giggled, but her mother was concerned. She consulted a fortune-teller, who told her that an egg that flew out of the pan often symbolized a death. A few weeks later, one of Annie’s best friends, who had recently married, died and was buried in her wedding dress.
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John Barker recruited a group of people whose predictions were uncannily prescient. Then one foresaw Barker’s death.
What’s worse than a rushed morning shave as a result of over-snoozing? Bloodshed, via razor.If Dad taught you to plug up shave nicks with bits of toilet paper, know there are better, faster home remedies for treating wounds and getting out the door.
A federal district judge has told the accounting firm Mazars it will need to turn over Donald Trump’s accounting records from before he was President to the Democratic-controlled House Oversight Committee.
In a 41-page opinion, Judge Amit Mehta of the DC District Court dealt a significant blow to the White House as he rejected Trump’s attempt to block the committee’s subpoena, asserting that Congress is well within its authority to investigate the President.
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Mehta’s writings will likely be more fodder for other judges to consider as Trump and his Cabinet try to hold off Congress from getting the President’s business records, such as through the IRS, banks and in other court fights.
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Already, the House of Representatives has flagged the ruling to a judge in New York, where another court is considering challenges to House subpoenas to Deutsche Bank and Capitol One for more Trump records.
Hundreds of Ethiopian Jews made Aliyah on Thursday night, greeted by family, friends and strangers as they walked through the gates of Ben Gurion Airport.
Rev. Anthony Abma, who heads the Zionist Christian Support for Sovereignty and Return O Israel groups, called the event “an amazing act of redemption,” but went on to explain why it could only be considered “a partial redemption at best.”
“An amazing act of redemption took place in Ben Gurion airport Thursday night when hundreds of Ethiopian Jews arrived to make Aliyah. Filmed by Gedaliah Blum, a friend of Return O’ Israel, is an emotionally charged welcome by hundreds of Jews along with some Christians who were on hand to receive the new immigrants.
Hohenzollern Castle is the ancestral seat of the imperial House of Hohenzollern.The third of three hilltop castles built on the site, it is located atop Mount Hohenzollern, above and south of Hechingen, on the edge of the Swabian Jura of central Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
It was just a guy’s name. You could guess that he was played by Keanu Reeves, given that we’d seen laughing with a woman over a meal and kissing her against a picture-postcard vision of Manhattan’s skyline.Then we go from Sad Keanu sitting bedside in a hospital to Sadder Keanu standing graveside as a coffin is lowered into the ground. Later, he gets his wife’s posthumous gift to him: a puppy. The man and his dog, who is indeed adorable by any standard, tool around in his vintage Mustang. We know something else happened, because we’ve also briefly glimpsed Bloody Keanu, lying battered on a warehouse floor. But as far we knew, this was a movie about a gentleman — he’s called John — who lives in an exceedingly well-furnished apartment, is deep in the throes of grief and has only his faithful companion to help him move on. Maybe the pooch will teach him how to love again. Maybe he’ll meet someone nice at the dog park. The title told you nothing. It was just a guy’s name.
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Keanu Reeves, super-assassin, in ‘John Wick Chapter 3 — Parabellum.’
I’m not hungry for money. Compared to several years ago, when I had less money, I still have the same life.
I wake up, drink my freshly brewed coffee, read a good book, and then start working until about 3 or 4 in the afternoon. Then, I put on my shorts and t-shirt and start working out.
Sometimes I listen to music during my workouts, and sometimes I don’t. After working out, I have dinner with my family. We watch a TV show or movie after we eat. And then, I get back to working or reading.
Brené Brown wants me to watch Unforgotten, a British TV series I’ve never heard of. She also likes Catastrophe and loves Fleabag, though she requests I spoil her on the first season’s twist ending. (Her hunch was accurate.) She can’t watch Game of Thrones (too violent) or The Act (“I have a child-protective services background!”)—but she also wants me to catch up on Hulu’s National Treasure, which I forgot existed, and gushes about The Good Fight, “some of the smartest television on right now.”
Nine-ish hours earlier, the blonde, sparkling-eyed 53-year-old former competitive swimmer had been on CBS This Morning; the night before, I had watched her in conversation with The New York Times’s Melena Ryzik. But when I told Brown I write about TV for Vanity Fair, she lit up—and grilled me about my favorite shows, turning the tables before we had even started.
Which is funny, because Brown is a TV star herself. In April, Netflix debuted Brené Brown: The Call to Courage, a roughly hour-long special about how bravery arises from engaging with our deepest vulnerabilities. It builds upon Brown’s earlier work: two viral TED Talks and several books, including the best-sellers Dare to Lead,The Gifts of Imperfection, and the most popular one of all, Daring Greatly. Their essential themes are the same. The path to a meaningful, loving life comes through a willingness to be vulnerable—and a rejection of the socially produced shame that convinces us we, or our vulnerabilities, are not worthy of love.
Sammy Shore, the co-founder of the World Famous Comedy Store, died on Saturday at the age of 92, according to the world-renowned comedy club’s Facebook page.
Shore died surrounded by family at his Los Angeles home due to natural causes, the club confirmed in a tribute.
“Words can’t express how much his comedic gift, friendship, and beneficence will be missed. The bright light he shone and the laughter he brought into the lives of everyone he touched will never dim. There is only one ‘Brother Sam’!” the tribute stated.
Shore’s career in comedy spanned 70 years, and his world-famous Comedy Store launched the careers of countless comedians and actors.
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Sammy Shore, Comedian and Comedy Store Co-Founder, Dead at 92
Film and Writing Festival for Comedy. Showcasing best of comedy short films at the FEEDBACK Film Festival. Plus, showcasing best of comedy novels, short stories, poems, screenplays (TV, short, feature) at the festival performed by professional actors.
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An image of Hohenzollern Castle
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