Even with a hit Netflix show, paying for kids’ education can be a challenge. Ellie Kemper, who is pregnant with her first child, told Stephen Colbert on Thursday that she’s doing more commercials (even overseas ones) motivated by the cost of “sending your kids to private school.” They then played a clip of Kemper supposedly starring in a commercial for a new Russian gum. The commercial starts off innocently enough, with a crimp-haired Kemper playing on a beach with friends and enjoying “Pyud Gum. Read More...
The circle of life spun again on Sunday night, as Sir Elton John participated in a highly publicized edition of Carpool Karaoke on The Late Late Show. On the post-Super Bowl 50 special episode of James Corden’s late-night show, the host and John drove around a rainy Los Angeles while singing the 68-year-old’s biggest hits, from “Your Song,” “I’m Still Standing,” “Crocodile Rock,” and “Tiny Dancer,” to even “Circle of Life” from The Lion King. Read More...
If traveling to a new city can be tricky, imagine doing so with no short-term memory since before you were 10 years old. That’s exactly what Flora Banks experiences in journalist-turned-author Emily Barr’s latest book, The One Memory of Flora Banks. The YA novel—and Barr’s first of the kind—follows 17-year-old anterograde amnesiac Flora as she travels to Svalbard, Norway after receiving an email from Drake, a boy she actually remembers kissing before he left. Read More...
