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Linda de Mol will appear in her magazine today LINDA., after a long time,out about the scandal all around The Voice and her ex-partner JeroenRietbergen. Last night singer Francis van Broekhuizen and TV critic Angela deJong were there Jinek only not even about the approach of De Mol.

Linda de Mol has stayed under the radar lately. She recently reappeared ontelevision for a long time with Million dollar hunt and enters today, in herown magazine LINDA, about the recent turbulent period.

Angela de Jong thinks Linda de Mol’s choice is ‘safe’

TV critic Angela de Jong, who has frequently spoken out about the abusessurrounding The Voice , is now responding to De Mol’s statements. De Jongcalls De Mol’s choice for a piece in her own magazine “safe”. The TV criticwould have liked her to give an interview to Tim Hofman. Because there are nocritical questions surrounding this piece.

An earlier statement by Rietbergen, among other things, gave the impressionthat De Mol would have been aware of the abuses surrounding it The Voice._Something she puts in her text _LINDA. debunked. She swears on both of herchildren that she “knew nothing at all about what happened at” The Voice “.

Francis van Broekhuizen and Angela de Jong in discussion at Jinek

Francis van Broekhuizen is also sitting at the table, who looks a bit dubiousat De Jong’s words. She understands that De Mol opts for a statement via itsown platform. “A lot of people just say something about her. She feels she maynot be able to answer. Why do we all do that in the media?”, Van Broekhuizenwonders.

De Jong explains that it is indeed a private matter, but at the same timethere is a major scandal going on around a well-watched television program.“Whereas four people, as far as we know now, could have crossed the line for Xnumber of years.” According to Van Broekhuizen, attention should be paid tothe perpetrators and De Mol is just as much a victim of the issue. “There isno mention of Linda. Because Linda hasn’t said anything for eight months,” DeJong corrects her. “Yes, but she didn’t do it anyway,” emphasizes VanBroekhuizen.

Van Broekhuizen against ‘trial by media’ Linda de Mol

According to De Jong, it is obvious that people want to know what De Mol knewabout this story. “This is the question that surrounds that entire file. Howcould it go so horribly wrong there? After years of no action?” But VanBroekhuizen believes that this serious case is devoted to the police and thePublic Prosecution Service. “Actually, that should be from the media. Trial bymedia, that’s what I think.”

De Jong: „Let me be clear, of course she is not the one who touched thosegirls. But the question is, you have to ask yourself that too Francis… Horde’sparents sent their children to that talent show and they thought they were ina safe environment there,” said the reviewer.

“Should we talk about that, Angela?”

Van Broekhuizen emphasizes that the men who are guilty of sexuallytransgressive behavior do so “secretly”. “You don’t see a lot of things. Thosemen are jerks, they do it.”

But De Jong believes that if something needs to be changed there, complaintsabout these kinds of things should be taken seriously. “But should we talkabout that, Angela? You and me?”, Van Broekhuizen wonders. “But should we talkabout the Queen’s funeral?” De Jong responds. Van Broekhuizen joined in_Jinek_ to share her opinion about the funeral of the British Queen Elizabeth.“Actually not, yes that is also true”, responds Van Broekhuizen.

The banlieue in flames: in Netflix film Athens by Romain Gavras, whathappens for which classic La Haine warned in 1995. In that film, threefriends clash with the police, who behave like an occupying force in theperiphery of Paris. “This is the story of a society in free fall,” prophesied_La Haine_. “Which tells himself on his way to the bottom: so far everythingis going well.”

Ten years later, in 2005, the time had come: a contagious wave of riot,looting and arson swept through the French banlieues after two boys on the runfrom the police died. The harvest: enormous devastation in our ownneighbourhoods, law and order candidate Nicolas Sarkozy as new Frenchpresident.

Filmmaker Ladj Ly filmed the riots in his banlieue Montfermeil in 2005; infeature film debut Les Miserables In 2019, local hotemetotes – shadow mayor,Islamic fundamentalists, criminals – secretly collaborate with the police toremove the fuse from the powder keg after an incident of police brutality.Nobody wants a repeat of 2005. But hate is hard to suppress.

Les Miserables ends, just like La Haine rather, in a question mark: moreviolence or reconciliation? That stage has already passed after two minutes in_Athens_ which Netflix is ​​releasing as a streamer this week – a shame,because this spectacle deserves a large canvas.

Athens is the name of a fictional Parisian banlieue. Images of the murder of13-year-old Idir, apparently by officers, are circulating on social media. Hisbrother Abdel, a soldier, tells the crowd in front of the local police stationto calm down. His hot-tempered, charismatic brother Karim and his friendsimmediately loot weapons, bulletproof vests and shock grenades in a stampedeon the same desk. The battle can begin.

Civil war

That long opening shot of storming and chasing sets the tone: Athens is abloody nervous film in top gear. The camera follows four brothers in longshots through a maze of concrete, Bengal fire, laser pointers, tear gas androckets. In addition to Abdel and Karim, there is the drug criminal Moktar,who consults with his police contacts on how to get his money, drugs andweapons to safety. And the psychotic jihadist Sébastien, who prefers to bloweverything up immediately. On television, the local riots meanwhile appear toescalate into a real civil war.

French filmmaker Romain Gavras (41) is known for energetic music clips andaction comedy Le Monde est a toi (2018). He is a scion of a film family;father Costa-Gavras won an Oscar in 1983 with the political drama Missing.In the 1990s, Romain co-founded the youthful film collective Kourtrajmé, slangfor ‘short film’, which wanted to film for and through the banlieue. __ThroughKourtrajmé, Romain Gavras befriended filmmaker Ladj Ly, who wrote thescreenplay of Athens wrote.

Ladj Ly and Romain Gavras have wanted to work together for twenty years, theysay in the elite hotel Excelsior on the Lido; Athens will premiere at theVenice Film Festival. Ladj Ly: “Our idea was simple: massive street violencein a suburb, which turns into a citadel besieged by the police.”

The battle has mythical contours. The four brothers in the lead roles arearchetypes rather than characters: disciplined conformist Abdel, excited,short-sighted Karim, cynical opportunist Moktar, crazy Sébastien. The storyunfolds like a Greek tragedy in which noble and less noble intentions becomefatally entwined as the flywheel of violence sets in motion.

Gavras: “In a Greek tragedy, everyone has their own will, but fate isstronger. The story is always intimate: brother turns against brother, sonagainst father.” To emphasize that timelessness, Gavras provided the brutalistarchitecture of banlieue Evry, which serves as the backdrop, with quasi-medieval battlements. “You also see the mobile unit going into a kind ofturtle formation with its shields. The real police never do such a thing, Iwas concerned with the association with Roman legions.”

Athens intends to warn. Riots bring the banlieue pure self-destruction. Darkforces benefit from this. That message of self-control rubs against theexciting dynamics of violence, enhanced by threatening march music and sacredchoral singing. His own documentary from 2005 was the visual guideline, saysLadj Ly: “We want you to experience a riot from the inside through the camera.The aim is to nail you to your chair for ninety minutes, with no time forreflection. Overwhelmed by the hectic pace, the urgency.”

But doesn’t that also make violence attractive? If I were younger, I wouldimmediately demolish a bus shelter afterwards, I joke. Gavras, shaking hishead skeptically: “Would you do that? For real? Well, it’s an ancient debate.Do kids riot because they get worked up about video games and drill rap? Itend to see inequality and hopelessness as causes. I also don’t believe thatpeople start smoking because Marlon Brando is so attractive in a movie oryoung people by Scarface going into the cocaine trade.”

stuntmen

According to Gavras, the choreography of the riots required more than twomonths of rehearsal. “I don’t use green screens, and minimal digital trickery.That’s what kids get out of it. fake my daughter then says.” The first roundwas with the actors and a small camera to find the right angles. “Then camethe stuntmen who play the mobile unit. And then the extras.”

These were mainly young people from banlieue Evry. Gavras realized that thingscould get out of hand if they got carried away. “They are kids, they see thepolice before them. It concerns very long shots that have to be done veryoften. At shot 15 they had only warmed up properly, 25 shots was notexceptional. With explosions and fireworks.” Rehearsing helped in that regardas well. “The stuntmen spent weeks teaching the kids their tricks, training,having lunch and chatting together. In this way fighting turned into a dancefor thirty to fifty men who want to spare each other.” Were there anyinjuries? Gavras, laughing: “Define ‘wounded’. Abrasions, bruises and asprained ankle, that is. But nobody missed an eye or a limb afterwards.”

Michael Leendertse was a teenager when the Boeing of the Israeli company El Alcrashed into the Groeneveen and Klein-Kruitberg flats in the Bijlmermeer onOctober 4, 1992. At least 43 people died, but the lives of many hundreds ofresidents and aid workers changed that night. They suffered from mysteriousphysical complaints: chronic respiratory infections, pains, impotence, stomachand intestinal complaints.

Residents and media continued to search for years for the answer to what theexact payload of the disaster flight was. Even a parliamentary inquiry did notbring the answers victims hoped for. “Certain elements are etched in thememory of my generation,” says Leendertse. “The burning flats, the desperatepeople. And all the questions about the ‘men in white suits’ and the missingblack box.”

Bloodcurdling thriller

At the Film Academy he read a reconstruction de Volkskrant. Since then, theplan has settled in his head to make a series about this black page in recentDutch history. He contacted Fidelity -journalist Vincent Dekker, who foryears tried to get the bottom stone out. “The story had everything for ablood-curdling thriller, from conspiracy theories to great human suffering. Iwas very surprised that no other creator had come up with the idea of ​​aseries before.”

Also read a background article about how the Bijlmer is portrayed in films andseries: With the camera on safari in the Bijlmermeer

Leendertse chose Dekker and his Volkskrant colleague Pierre Heijboer as maincharacters. “You want to take the viewer into amazement at everything theydiscover,” explains the writer. “The core of the story is what happened afterthe disaster. A government that may have covered things up, but at the veryleast remains stuck in numbers, statistics and rules.”

He spoke with countless relatives and victims and decided to bundle theirstories into one character: Asha Willems, a resident of the Bijlmer who losesher fiancé in the disaster. “I’ve put all kinds of heartbreaking stories I’veheard from relatives in her” Asha is played by actress Joy Delima, who wasinvolved in the project from an early stage. Delima was given all the space todevelop her character herself. “As a writer you can only empathize to acertain extent in a certain world”, Delima thinks. “Of course someone canimmerse themselves in a multicultural community such as the Bijlmer. But itthen threatens to quickly run into caricatures: with a Surinamese family,there is always roti on the table in films.”

She grew up in Rotterdam; her father is from Curaçao, her mother fromSuriname. “It’s the little nuances that make the difference. That we alwaystell you to people who are older. Or how you approach people in times ofmourning.” The actors in the series have the same background as theircharacters as much as possible. Victims from the Ghanaian community are playedby people with Ghanaian roots. They were given the space to fill in detailsthemselves in ‘their’ scenes.

class difference

The core of the story is not the disaster on October 4 itself, but especiallythe aftermath, Delima thinks. “A lot of frustration among residents came fromthe fact that they felt completely unheard in the years after the crash,” shesays. “I hope it never happens, but if a plane had crashed into the canalbelt, the reactions of politicians and government would have been different.”This has not only to do with the skin color of most of the victims, emphasizesthe protagonist. “The Bijlmer disaster was more about class difference. Theseries shows very clearly that there were also many white people among thevictims.”

The makers hope that the series also contributes to ensuring that the accidentis not forgotten. “I’m 28, so I was born after the plane crashed,” saysDelima. “I never heard anything about it in history class.”

Scriptwriter Leendertse also hopes that policy makers and politicians mightlook and realize how little has changed in three decades. “Look at the bigfiles that now dominate the media: the allowance affair, gas extraction inGroningen, the energy crisis. All situations in which the government viewscitizens as statistics. And the politicians are partly the same as in the late

At first she made her new movie Dear Mr Bouterse for Surinamese. Her countryis still deeply divided over the military coup d’état by the sergeant andlater president Desi Bouterse in 1980 and the aftermath of the Decembermurders in 1982, when fifteen critics of Bouterse’s regime were murdered inFort Zeelandia.

“A country that does not dare to face its past has no future,” says filmmakerAnanta Khemradj. Khemradj is 32 years old, was born in Tilburg, worked as ajournalist for the Surinamese current affairs program ABC Current and backin the Netherlands combines a day job in the agricultural sector with a lifeas a filmmaker. In You can read (2019) she was surprised that she and hercontemporaries know so little about Suriname’s past. Dear Mr Bouterse is thesequel. Now she questions friends and acquaintances, former colleagues,’boutists’ and relatives of the victims of the December murders about howSuriname should proceed. The film became a sensitive and impressive quest forconnection.

She chose to only talk to people close to her. “A real conversation requires acertain vulnerability. It was quite difficult to get people in front of thecamera. In addition, I felt responsible for the environment in which I grewup, which is more the side of the next of kin.” This is apparent, for example,from the emotional telephone conversations with her journalistic mentor, whobelieves that every film on this subject provides Bouterse with a platform.

However, her film also has a message for the Dutch viewer. “The Netherlandsmust take its responsibility and open the archives.” The film recalls howPrime Minister Rutte determined in 2014 that these will remain closed until2060, leaving a lot of uncertainty about, among other things, the Dutchinfluence on the coup. Khemradj visits PvdA politician Jan Pronk, who wasinvolved in independence as the then Minister of Development Cooperation. Heargues that the archives must now be opened if a process of processing andreconciliation is ever to take place. 2060 is too late. President Santokhisays in the film that he will work to open the archives. Khemradj: „There isno openness now. The people who can tell something about it don’t have thatlong to live, so how long do I have to wait?”

There was even laughter during the film, but during the discussion the> emotions ran high again

Dear Mr Bouterse is, as the title implies, set up as a letter to the formerarmy chief. Until the end, it remains unclear whether she will actually get tospeak to him. Khemradj consults her old group of friends about it, one of thefilm’s most poignant moments, which, like You can read calls for a sequel.Khemradj: „I feel that too, but I don’t know if I can do that now. This wassuch an intense journey that there must first be room for conversation andreflection.” Can the film achieve that? She hopes so. For a private screeningin Suriname this summer, she brought all those involved together. “There waseven laughter during the film, but during the discussion the emotions ran highagain.”

New investigation into the December murders is currently not high on theagenda. Suriname is going through a turbulent time again. Last summer therewere protests against President Santokhi’s nepotism. The country is also in aserious economic crisis. Khemradj: “There is never a good time to make thisfilm. My generation may not even benefit or benefit from it right now, it issurviving. But then we have to do it for future generations.”

Filmmaker Pim de la Parra, who made the ‘first Surinamese film’ in 1976. Wanpipel (“One people”) made, says in Dear Mr Bouterse that it may still take“2,300 years” before there is unity in Suriname. “I am not that pessimistic,but he is right that it will take a long time. It takes more than just a fewanswers in a report, or compensation. And the Netherlands also has a role toplay. We need to gain insight into how the decolonization process went,otherwise it will just keep on simmering.”

The UK had ‘the funeral of the century’ and we also had something plannedyesterday. Namely: ‘the largest wedding party in Flanders’, organized by’Blind married’, which this season allowed all couples to celebrate theirmarriage together.

Stefaan WerbrouckTuesday, September 20, 202211:00

In previous seasons, after the duos had said yes, they were each allowed tosound out on the union with family, friends and colleagues, but this timeeveryone was pushed together in one room. The reason for that was never reallyclear during the party. Did the makers start looking for rooms too late andwas everything already fully booked? Did people have to pay attention thistime and did they get a nice deal there in Waasmunster in exchange for somedrone images of the building and surroundings? Or does ‘Blind Marriage’ wantto go more along the lines of the version in Australia, where the couples havebeen celebrating together for years and then also travel together, whichcreates extra tension and sometimes sparks between two people who strangelyenough not matched by the experts.

Perhaps the answer will come from next week, when we follow the newlyweds asthey enjoy their honeymoon together. Actually, the new format of ‘BlindMarried’ isn’t the most important question that has popped into my mind in theepisodes that have aired so far, but what exactly is the role of Ingeborgshould be as a whole. The singer is a big fan of the program, so she isallowed to experience everything from the front row and after all these yearsof ‘Blind date’, she can now see couples waving and clumsily coming down astaircase. But she doesn’t become much more than a cheerleader who loves this’party of love’, thinks there is a great click between all the duos and ‘has areally good feeling this year’. I’m even starting to fear a bit that when oneof the couples will go to bed together for the first time in the next fewweeks, Ingeborg will suddenly appear and say a ‘Come on, cool!’ will be heard.

In whose bedroom is it most likely that Ingeborg will have to sit between thecurtains? Maybe kindergarten teacher Jana and emergency nurseChristian , who already have an above-average interest in each other’sbodies, how long they exercise each week and how much protein is taken in onaverage. Or that of Brecht and Dziubi , who have developed such aconnection in a matter of hours that the other couples look on with some envy.The only thing that can still spoil the game is the opening dance, which tookplace to the tones of ‘Always remember us this way’ by Lady Gaga , fromthe soundtrack of ‘A Star Is Born’. The dance itself was romantic, but Dziubisaid afterwards that both urgently needed to watch the film together and if weremember something from ‘A star is born’, then that the ending didn’timmediately have an erotic effect.

The click is less present with the two other couples: wine seller Jorenemphasized very often that neither he nor his partner Jana is the type of’coup de foudre’ and also between Florence and Jiri the initialenthusiasm has cooled somewhat. However, they were just announced by Ingeborgas ‘the prince couple’ and they were also allowed to come down the stairs lastand do their opening dance, as if the other duos were some kind of supportact. But in his speech, Jiri thanked family, friends and colleagues for theirpresence and barely mentioned his wife, as if he had won an award rather thana wife. And when Florence’s sister asked if there was any “magic,” she said”there was common ground and maybe there was potential too,” a response onewould expect from a politician after a long late-night meeting about reversingthe nuclear phase-out. .

But hey, maybe things will get better when they can stay with the othercouples in Bodrum, Turkey, a destination that was repeated so many times bythe end of the episode and even sparked such excitement among the two self-proclaimed world travelers Florence and Jiri that there was so much excitementthere. undoubtedly an agreement has also been reached with a tour operator.

There are movies that just everyone likes and that we can all agree you justcan ‘t hate. Reddit users have now compiled a top 10, which can be seenbelow.

Brendan Fraser is making a big comeback thanks to his starring role in DarrenAronofsky’s new movie called The Whale. However, Fraser was a big name inHollywood in the late 1990s, early 2000s. For example, think of the beloved_The Mummy_ , which is also in this list. The movies are in no particularorder, but here they are:

The Mummy (1999) So Fraser is experiencing a renaissance, but many movie buffs are _The Mummy_not yet forgotten. The film is a mix of adventure, horror and romance. Despitethe fact that the film is already two decades old, it still feels ‘fresh’.

Here’s how one Reddit member says: Watched it a couple months ago and my wifeand I thought ‘They just don’t make movies like this anymore’. There is aninnocence and a joy to the movie that helps to explain why it remains sopopular among audiences, who watch it to recapture the unique feeling of late1990s cinema“.

The Emperor ‘s New Groove (2000) Not everyone knows this animation topper, but it scores pretty well on Reddit.The film has a fun and original story and the voices of Eartha Kitt, DavidSpade, John Goodman and Patrick Warburton also do wonders.

On Reddit, someone writes: ” One of my all time favourites. I adore thismovie Although the film was originally not a huge success, the animated filmstill grew into a beloved film for many Disney fans.

The Iron Giant (1998) Another animated film (and not the last one on this list either). The IronGiant is considered by many today to be one of the best cartoons, whichfocuses on a little boy who tries to protect an alien robot from thegovernment.

It’s the kind of movie that makes you feel again what it’s like to be a kid,and all the emotions that go with it, whether it’s joy or sadness, this moviehas it all.

Jumanji (1995) Robin Williams was of course seen in many top films, but Jumanjic iscertainly one of his better known and better films. The supernatural boardgame story is also a perfect mix of emotions and while the newer installmentsof the franchise have managed to take on some of the magic of the original,they can’t quite match the first installment with a masterful Williams.

Up (2009) It’s hard to say which Pixar movie is the best, but Up is definitely on thepodium. The film shows sadness and joy and can make you cry and laugh. It’s amovie you can’t possibly not like. The opening, in particular, remains one ofthe best openings of all time.

Tremors (1990) Tremors is the perfect mix between horror and comedy. In this film,starring Kevin Bacon, we follow the inhabitants of a small western townbattling sinister underground monsters. The film does not take itself toseries and if the viewer does not, you can really only enjoy it.

Home Alone (1990) Not just the movie everyone watches at Christmas, Home Alone also remainsone of the best family films out there, in which a boy has to protect hishouse against burglars. Here’s how one Reddit user says: ” That movie is DieHard for kids. I love it and I can ‘t count how many times I’ve watched it“.

Jurassic Park (1993) Few great science fiction movies are as popular as Jurassic Park. ThisSteven Spielberg gem set the standard for what the genre could achieve anddespite the fact that there have been many sequels, nothing came close to themagic of the original. Everyone has fond memories of this masterpiece.

Stand By Me (1986) Not every Stephen King film adaptation is a success, but Stand By Me it sureis. The story mainly revolves around the powerful and special bonds offriendship rather than the film really being about horror. River Phoenix,Joaquin’s brother, stars in the film, but unfortunately he died a few yearslater of a drug overdose.

A Muppet Christmas Carol (1992) There have of course been a lot of Christmas Carol movies, but few of them arewatched with as much affection as A Muppet Christmas Carol. Michael Caine istherefore seen by some as the one and only Scrooge, and the presence of theMuppets gives the whole film a light and cheerful feeling. However, the filmalso does not shy away from the sadness that occurs in the original.

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like the song goes, Beauty and the Beast ‘s Belle was very different fromthe rest of her Disney Princess forbearers when the animated classic gracedmovie screens in 1991. A bookish and independent young woman from a ruralvillage, Belle (voiced by Paige O’Hara) stood in marked contrast to moreglamorous royals like Snow White and Sleeping Beauty.

But according to Emily Zemler’s new book, Disney Princess: Beyond the Tiara_the _Beauty and the Beast animators — led by James Baxter and Mark Henn —originally envisioned a character who more closely resembled a glamorousmember of Hollywood royalty.

“She kind of looked like Angelina Jolie — very beautiful,” O’Hara remarks inthe book about the initial concept art for her alter ego. “I didn’t see howanybody would identify with that person. You’d look at her and put her on apedestal. Mark and James changed the look of her. She was a little tooperfect.”

Angelina Jolie attends the UK Eternals premiere in London in Oct. 2021.(Photo: Samir Hussein/WireImage)

For the record, it’s unlikely that Jolie was the direct inspiration for Belle.The Oscar-winning Girl Interrupted star was only a teenager when Beauty andthe Beast was in production, and didn’t make her feature film debut until1993’s Cyborg 2. In Zemler’s book, Baxter says that he and Henn initiallyenvisioned Belle as being “more European-looking with fuller lips, [and] alittle bit darker eyebrows” — characteristics that are certainly identifiedwith Jolie. According to Beyond the Tiara though, the celebrities that didserve as reference points for the animators included Elizabeth Taylor, NatalieWood, Audrey Hepburn and O’Hara herself.

“The animators created a lot of concept artwork and dozens of sketches to findthe best fit,” Zemler confirms to Yahoo Entertainment via email. “You can seein the sketches how much Belle evolved. Paige O’Hara recalled early versionsof Belle looking like Angelina Jolie, but that is simply Paige’s perception.None of the animators I spoke with mentioned Jolie as an inspiration forBelle.”

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As pre-production on Beauty and the Beast continued, Baxter and Henneventually came to agree with their star that Belle had the potential to be atransformative Disney Princess and revised their image of her accordingly. “Iknew this was going to change the view of Disney Princesses,” O’Hara says inthe book. “Belle was the first one not looking for a man. She wanted to seethe world and all the places she’d read about in books.”

Emma Watson played Belle in the 2017 live action adaptation of the Disneyanimated film. (Photo: Laurie Sparham/Walt Disney Pictures/Courtesy EverettCollection)

Belle did ultimately change the face of Disney Princesses, directly impactingthe way subsequent characters like Jasmine, Pocahontas and Mulan were written— not to mention drawn. “Belle opened the doors to who could be considered aDisney Princess even wider, welcoming a broader fanbase in with her,” Zemlersays. “Her representation, both in character and in appearance, encouragedthose making aladdin to make Jasmine more adventurous and spirited. It had aripple effect.”

That emphasis on spirit and adventure carried over into the live actionadaptations of many classic Disney cartoons, including upcoming versions of_The Little Mermaid_ and Snow White , starring Halle Bailey and RachelZegler, respectively. (Emma Watson played Belle in the 2017 film version of_Beauty and the Beast_ but the character has also been portrayed by a varietyof diverse performers on stage and screen.)

“In 1937, the cartoon [ Snow White and the Seven Dwarves ] was so focused onher finding true love, and it’s not even in her mind at all in this film,”Zegler told Yahoo Entertainment at D23 last month. “Maybe she finds love.Maybe she finds friendship. But what’s really important is that she finds herown voice.”

For Zemler, Belle’s lasting legacy has less to do with her looks and more todo with her attitude. “I’ve always admired Belle’s spirit and her love ofbooks,” the author says. “Sometimes we think of a classic princess as blondand perhaps somewhat shallow, but Belle undercuts those traditional cliches.She is a devoted daughter, a kind friend and she understands the world throughreading books. In that way, she’s someone to whom a lot of us relate to oraspire to be.”

Beauty and the Beast is currently streaming on Disney+; ** DisneyPrincess: Beyond the Tiara is available now at most major booksellers,including Amazon.**

The family of Jan Beuving (39) will have to work hard for a pleasantSinterklaas evening. The comedian cannot accept that ‘communication’ rhymeswith ‘tail division’. He explains it in his third solo show remainder : withthe first word the stress is on the beginning, so rhyming must be done on boththe first and second syllable. Beuving demonstrates it in a wonderful songfull of rhyme to ‘long division’. An innkeeper getting strangled? Then thereis ‘valuation’. A verse about Saint Nicholas teaches us the word ‘beardcaress’.

The song is characteristic of Beuving’s style: witty, original, linguisticvirtuoso. He became known as the ‘math comedian’ who merged his two educationsinto one profession. And with success, he won the Neerlands Hoop and severalprizes for his song lyrics. Although still a man of theory and science, in histhird solo Beuving moves away from his image and pose as a teacher. Sometimesliterally, for example when he emphatically ventures into a small dance aftera song. Another signal: the somewhat caricatural checked blouse has beenreplaced by a hipper one.

Truth beyond facts

remainder is a tightly structured performance about finding truths outsideof the facts. What is real and what is fake? And what remains after the mostthorough analytical methods? Beuving teaches us: there is always a remainder,just look at long division. In remainder explains to Beuving what that’rest’ entails for him. It results in melancholic stories about faith andamateur football, two important subjects in his life.

Beuving is a great lyricist. He evokes beautiful and strong images especiallyin his songs. For example, about Jamal, a boy from his former football team,to whom you could trust a ball.

Beuving is in remainder more personal than in his previous performances, butdoes not have the maximum effect. His frankness, for example about the role ofreligion in a secular existence, is sometimes hard to grasp. “Rhyme candisguise a lot”, says Beuving himself in a nice joke about the ‘Dansen-metJanssen’ slogan and he proves himself right. Even in songs full of archaicwords and complex sentences, he always finds a (rhymed) way out, but theemotional power of the lyrics sometimes suffers. Beuving’s story often remainssomewhat elusive.

Dead / scrap

This does not alter the fact that remainder is a decent representation. It’snice that Beuving makes no secret of whose shoulders he rests on. A highlightis a tasty story about Jeroen van Merwijk and his song ‘Partycentrum Waselinkin Winterswijk’. Entirely in the style of the late comedian, Beuving paystribute to him in a great song: ‘If only I were dead, no longer riveted tothis earthly scrap. Jeroen van Merwijk waits there and he says not withoutpleasure: see God sitting there, he is almost as good as I am.’

Juliëtte broke off contact with her mother. With that she took Yfke (7) andNinthe (5) from their grandmother.

Juliette (34): “My mother is a complicated woman, perhaps that sums it upbest. There’s not one thing I don’t like about her, it’s a whole host of badsides that have led to us not seeing each other now. It was actually a longtime coming. My friends have told me so many times that they would have pulledthe plug long ago, but it is my mother and I only have one of them. So I keptforgiving her, over and over. Until last Christmas.

Put salt on every snail

I don’t know if she drinks too much. Well, my father also liked a drink, onlymy mother had a bad drink in my youth. She was fine for the first two glasses,then everyone around her started walking on eggshells. She put salt on everysnail, exploded for nothing and scandalously crept into the victim role. Idon’t remember how many times my brother and I were told that we loved ourfather more than we loved her. Well, it was a reproach that touched me verymuch as a child, perhaps because it contained a kernel of truth. My father wasmuch nicer than her.

Always in the foreground

My mother is verbally very present. Always in the foreground; I used to beashamed to death on a regular basis. She can’t listen either. When you tellher something, you see her searching for words to tell her own story rightthrough. Most of all, she is very busy with herself.

“When you tell her something, you see her searching for words to tell her> own story through it”

When my father died suddenly nine years ago, his funeral was more like ‘TheGreat Annet Show’. She had no eye for the grief of my brother and me. Sheplayed the grieving widow, all in black, with huge sunglasses and crocodiletears. I didn’t find her grief believable. My father and she had been in amarriage of convenience for years.

At the drink after the service she drank a bottle and a half of wine. She gotinto a big fight with my father’s brother on the spot; it was too embarrassingfor words. ‘Take good care of your mother’, my uncle said when he left themourning center emotionally. I took those words seriously. Now that my fatherdidn’t do it anymore, I had to make sure she didn’t completely derail.

In trust

I missed my father terribly. My mother’s grief was over the day after thefuneral. She started dating; Not a month went by without her hooking anotherguy. I didn’t want to meet them; it was a pattern that it didn’t last even aweek. She blamed me for that: didn’t she also grant me my happiness with myfriend Niels?

A year after my father’s death, I was pregnant. I had told my mother inconfidence because it was so early, but that afternoon I receivedcongratulations from all quarters. She had trumpeted her about becoming agrandmother and didn’t care that we wanted to keep it a secret for a while.’I’m going to be a grandmother’, that’s how she brought the news, not’Juliëtte is pregnant’. That choice of words typifies what she is like.Everything revolves around her.

Niels and I wanted to keep the gender to ourselves, as a surprise foreveryone. That became for my mother with a drink another reason for a bangingargument. She felt left out, she cried. In the end I gave in. I had no energyfor her whining.

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To watch out

Even during my pregnancy she made it clear that I should not think that shewould babysit, she also had a life of her own. I hadn’t intended to ask her atall; it also regularly happened that she already had a glass of wine at lunchand then got into the car with a sip. Just the idea that our kid would be inthe backseat with her gave me panic attacks.

“You don’t want to argue with my mother and that’s why she gets away with a> lot”

Yet, when Yfke was born, she criticized me for seeing her far too little.Niels’ parents did babysit one day a week and she was clearly jealous of that.Not on the watch out, but on the contact. It made her mean. For example, shewould have Yfke on her lap and she would say in a cooing voice: ‘Yes, ofcourse you don’t recognize Grandma Annet, do you? Grandma Annet barely gets tosee you.’ I let a lot come over me, just like my father always had. You don’twant to argue with my mother and that’s why she gets away with a lot.

New friend

Three years ago she ran into her current boyfriend Goos. Just like my mother,Goos likes a glass of wine and their relationship is cracking. They can rageagainst each other and the next moment they are kissing deeply again.

When they come to visit us, I always have to recover afterwards. They startone discussion after another and, the more they drink, the louder and moreindiscriminate they talk. Not infrequently they get into the car with twicethe legal amount of alcohol in their blood. And they’ve already left arguing afew times, leaving me in tears. It eats energy.

snarl

Last Christmas I invited my mother and Goos. My brother was also there withhis children; I intended to make it really fun. Days before I had been busywith the shopping and I had gone to great lengths in the kitchen, evenhandwritten menus on the perfectly laid table.

My mother said nothing about all my efforts when she came in. Even during themeal I didn’t get a single compliment about my cooking. She did talk a lotabout her renovation and she regularly asked if there was still wine. Shedidn’t care about the grandchildren at all. When Ninthe got a little grumpyafter dinner, my mother snapped at me to put her to bed. I thought of mymother-in-law, who in such a case would have gone upstairs with hergranddaughter to read and tuck her in at length.

The breaking point

‘How awful she is’, my brother sighed when our mother and Goos were smoking inthe garden. Those words were a breaking point for me. Horrible: she was, yes.And coincidentally also my mother, but that didn’t mean I had to let her makeme unhappy any longer.

“Just because she was my mother didn’t mean I had to let her make me unhappy> any longer”

Entirely according to tradition, the evening ended with a fight. That night Ihardly slept and the next morning I made it clear to my mother in a long emailthat I don’t want to see her anymore. It was incredibly relieved, although itmade me cry too. I have not received a response to my email. I have insultedher to the bone with my rejection.

I find it very sad that I have taken from Yfke and Ninthe their grandmother,but I saw no other option. Strangely enough, they hardly ask about her. Idon’t miss my mother, it hurts me that I never had a mother who is also therefor me and my children. That my in-laws are such sweethearts makes up for alot. Who knows, the contact will one day recover, but for now I think it’sokay; she gave way too much noise on the line.”

This article appears in Kek Mama 08-2022.

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More women have come forward accusing Adam Levine of sending raunchy messageswhile married to Behati Prinsloo. The Maroon 5 frontman apologizes to hisfamily on Tuesday after Instagram model Sumner Stroh claimed she had a year-long affair with the singer. Levine is publicly and privately denying anythingphysical happened, but admits to flirty exchanges with women.

Model Alyson Rosef shared her alleged direct messages with Levine in a now-deleted TikTok. “I shouldn’t be talking to you you know [that] right,” Levinesupposedly wrote. Rosef claimed she had many more messages, but didn’t want toshow them as they are “not appropriate.”

“A lot of my friends knew, and they were shocked,” she said, adding, “I guessif any other girls have experienced this with him … I just think they shouldpost it ’cause I feel really bad for his wife, and nobody deserves this.”

Another woman, comedian Maryka, shared alleged DMs from Levine on herInstagram story with the hashtag, “#ExposeAdamLevine.” He appears to droolover her body in several messages.

“I’m now obsessed with you,” Levine wrote.

“Dude aren’t you like married lol,” the comedian replied.

“Yes but it’s a bit complicated,” Levine said, adding, “I might get away.”

Maryka included a video Levine sent of himself saying, “I’m stupid.”

In one head-scratching exchange from June, Levine tells Maryka he’s expectinghis third child with Prinsloo.

“I’m having another baby. Wifey pregnant! And I’m having a BOY. And I’m naminghim Zea. He will be a bad ass,” Levine wrote.

Levine’s former yoga teacher is the fourth woman to publicly claim he sent heran inappropriate message while in a relationship. It was before he wasmarried, though. Alanna Zabel shared her story with the “ExposeAdamLevine”hashtag and alleged that one text (“I want to spend the day with you naked.”)destroyed her life, as her “jealous ex” saw them and was “violent” with her.She claimed Levine ghosted her and fired her from his tour.

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Stroh, who set off this firestorm on Monday, claimed Levine messaged her inJune and asked if he could name his unborn baby after her. The model allegedthat she and the singer had a year-long affair. After Levine’s statement onTuesday, in which he admitted he “crossed a line” but denied having an affair,Stroh wrote on an Instagram story, “Someone get this man a dictionary.” In anew TikTok, she apologizes to Prinsloo.

“I’m not the one getting hurt in this. It’s Behati and her children,” Strohsaid. “And for that, I’m so, so sorry.”

A source tells people that Levine is maintaining “nothing physical happened.He swears it.” However, he admits to having “inappropriate” conversations withwomen who are not his wife.

“He was messaging [Stroh], being flirtatious with three women. One of them —she specifically said they have a physical relationship but he is completelydenying that to friends,” the insider adds.

As for why Levine was messaging other women, the source claims to _people_that Levine craves “female attention.”

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“He likes it more than most,” the unnamed insider says.

As for asking Stroh whether he could name his baby Sumner, the source addsthat the request showed “very bad judgment.”

Levine and Prinsloo, who confirmed her pregnancy just last week, have notpublicly commented on the sex of their third child. The couple, who married in2014, are parents to daughters Dusty Rose, 6, and Gio Grace, 4.

Fans unearthed old comments from Levine about monogamy that are certainlyinteresting given the scandal. When asked by Cosmopolitan in 2009 why mencheat, he replied: “Instinctively, monogamy is not in our genetic makeup.People cheat. I have cheated. And you know what? There is nothing worse thanthe feeling of doing it.”