By Laura Medina
Wednesday, November 13, 2024
Glow Recipe’s Korean Night Market was a Beauty Carnival.
By Laura Medina
Tower 28 Beauty’s “Golden Bachelorette” Party was the Best Valentine’s Day Party.
By Laura Medina
Orville Peck’s Outlaw Country is His Idea of Progressively Punk.
By Laura Medina
Reset, rest, then rise again is the predominant theme this year, from Law Roach and Lily Reinhart running continuously thru Orville Peck needing to rest his voice then rescheduling his Hollywood concert from first week of October to right before Halloween. How appropriate for all the Outlaw Country-Western folks, like bad ass girl, Nikki Lane opening for him for two night. Those two are like peanut butter and jelly.
Two months ago, lecturing at the Grammy Museum, Orville, like Roach and Reinhart, his previous nonstop tour took the life out of him. What supposed to make him happy, made him depressed instead.
For his current “Stampede” tour, he’s touring like the Navy, “three months out” on tour then “three months in” at home working on his relationship and recharging.
His Halloween concerts were his last US concerts.
Within three months, he’ll hit the road again, perhaps over seas.
We all got to pace ourselves.
Law Roach, Saweetie, Sloane Stephens & Lili Reinhart Talk about Rest & Reset at BeautyCon 2024
By Laura Medina
Wednesday, October 23, 2024
Netflix’s “Martha” documentary on October 30th, Gets Raw & Tough to be Honest.
By Laura Medina
Do you want to watch something authentically deliciously and dishy?
On October 30th, look no further than Netflix’s “Martha” documentary where Martha Stewart plainly straightforward talk about her and husband, Andy Stewart, cheating on each other as Martha grew into a lifestyle influencer powerhouse.
It’s partially about marriage and relationships as a pioneering woman is the first to navigate the churning waters of social media and building a corporation while learning to swim the waves, without drowning.
She did socially drown while being in prison, but she was rebirth to new generations of Millennials and Gen-Zers, needing home economics guidance.
The pressure of building a perfect image creates cracks in her marriage, of her and Andy growing apart and outgrowing each other.
Martha, based on her experience, quotes in the documentary, “If you want to be happy, get married. If you want to be happy for a decade, get a dog. If you want to be happy, grow a garden.”
A tough lesson from a tough lady.
Martha experienced a ton of tough lessons from her abusive, unhappy father to being one of the first woman stockbroker when there was no ladies room to being housewife contractor demolishing then renovating a farmhouse to caterer to using her entertainment skills into a lifestyle empire, many try to copy but can’t.
Martha is still around.
“Martha” the documentary will debut on Netflix on October 30th.
Zendaya’s Stylist, Law Roach, Talks Psychology in His Book “How To Build A Fashion Icon” Q & A with Keke Palmer.
By Laura Medina
Selena Gomez & Zoe Saldaña Flex Muscle & Vocal Range Around Karla Sofia Gascon in Trans Crime Drama Musical, Netflix’s “Emilia Perez.”
By Laura Medina
Netflix has never been a traditional movie studio nor a television network. It has always been and proud of using tv series and movies to push boundaries and expand horizons of what it means to be human.
Streamers also provide opportunities for actors to broaden their horizons, widen their range, flex that acting muscle, and bust out of those lucrative but restricting pigeon holes.
In gender-and genre-defying “Emilia Perez,” it examines stereotypical machismo versus machisma. It also showcases today’s modern, contemporary Mexican culture and society, regarding race, ethnicity, and gender identity expectations and true desired identity, LGBTQ, and what makes one Mexican and Latin and Hispanic.
Zoe Saldaña is a black Mexican lawyer hired by a drug lord to help him tie up loose ends and research the safest place for trans-gender operations when he decided to start his trans-gender transition. This is not to be taken lightly or be taken for granted in Mexico’s male chauvinistic society.
“Emilia Perez” is all about finding true happiness, even sacrificing for true happiness.
That’s just the beginning of both characters’ journey.
Selena Gomez busts her goody-two shoes persona, in being a drug lord trophy wife turned heartbroken widow trying to move on with a previous lover, while fighting over child custody and alimony, that turned bloody.
Edgar Ramirez plays the rebound lover.
The true crux that “Emilia Perez” pivots on is Spanish trans actress, Karla Sofia Gascon, who, in real life, used to be telenova heart-throb, Juan Carlos Gascon.
If there’s anyone best qualified to play a macho male drug lord turned a good hearted trans woman, the title character “Emilia Perez,” running a victims’ charity. A she righting the wrongs of her old, male past, it would be Karla Sofia Gascon.
Ask any father turned trans, breaking free from the past ain’t easy with kids. Imagine the complications with dad returning as aunt; and the wife doesn’t have a clue.
Zoe Saldaña and Selena Gomez really flex their singing vocal cords and dancing muscles in their characters’ inner thoughts introspective song & dance numbers. For Zoe, it’s returning to her Hispanic heritage and dance roots. The same with Selena.
The cast of Edgar Ramirez, Zoe Saldaña, Selena Gomez, and Karla Sofia Gascon really bust and crush Latin stereotypes.
This is Zoe’s most realistic role yet.
The protagonist, Emilia Perez, realizes she can’t really leave behind the past. Her child custody fight and alimony brings back the old, machismo male drug lord.
At the end, “Emilia Perez,” shows who’s the real lord. The only thing this scribe can say, is it is machisma that shows who’s boss.
If you want to find out, watch Netflix’s “Emilia Perez.”