#Russell Steinberg

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P. A. Announcer News - May 15, 2024

What do we find in today’s P. A. Announcer News? More reason to research names, if you’re helping with commencement make sure you have each person write their name phonetically because it’s really hard to get it right on the spot. Wade Minter of the Carolina Hurricanes is a PA by night, and a software developer by day; Leighton Area High School P. A. announcer gets support; the boxing announcer…

[gogoosecross]

I wanted to do something full-fledged, but I put off the idea of dressing up as Hellsing characters for a long time... I'm so tired... So far the first batch.

Old sketches.

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black sails (2014-2017) cr. jonathan e. steinberg & robert levine / the sparrow, mary doria russell

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Puberty Blockers? Gay Teens Aren't Sick! (May 2022)

Why is the NHS sterilising hundreds of teenagers?

As soaring numbers of children are referred to gender identity clinics, prescriptions for 'puberty blockers' are increasing.

"We really don't know what suppressing puberty does to your brain development. We are dealing with unknowns." -- Prof. Russell Vinder CBE

Puberty begins when the brain sends a hormone called GnRH to a tiny gland the size of a pea, the pituitary gland. This triggers a cascade of hormones that transforms a child's body.

'Puberty blockers' are synthetic GnRH and stop these vital processes that are crucial to us developing into adults. The radical process of changes in our bodies during puberty is matched by even more extraordinary changes in the brain.

"The brain changes characteristic of adolescence are amongst the most dramatic and important to occur during the human life span." -- Prof. Laurence Steinberg

As the brain develops, adolescents learn how to think for themselves, bond socially, and regulate their emotions.

By prescribing 'puberty blockers' the NHS is stopping the natural transformation of teenagers' bodies and brains.

'Puberty blockers' also have physical and emotional risks in their own right.

Patients can suffer with abnormally low bone density, which is associated with a high risk of osteoporosis.

"The blocker is said to be completely reversible, which is disingenuous because nothing is completely reversible." -- Dr. Polly Carmichael

"It is not known what the psychological effects may be." -- NHS Guidance, 2020

Up to 2020, GIDS has treated over 1000 children with 'puberty blockers.' 230 were under the age of 14. The youngest was 10.

The tragedy is that the latest evidence suggests 'puberty blockers' may not reduce gender dysphoria.

A Tavistock report defending 'puberty blockers' showed their use:

"does not impact positively on the experience of gender dysphoria."

A child that takes puberty blockers at Tanner Stage 2 and follows this with cross-sex hormones at 16 is effectively sterilised as their gametes will miss the window to mature.

Finland, France and Sweden have recently restricted the use of 'puberty blockers' as concerns over safety and lack of evidence continue to grow.

Why do we care so much?

The vast majority of teens effectively being sterilised are lesbian, gay or bisexual.

Please don't medicalise LGB teens.

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The UK recently joined with Finland, Sweden and France in heavily restricting puberty blockers.

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/tavistock-gender-clinic-puberty-blockers-nhs-investigation-fh7pngj0v

When Gids asked adolescents referred to the service in 2012 about their sexuality, more than 90 per cent of females and 80 per cent of males said they were same-sex attracted or bisexual. Bristow came to believe that Gids was performing “conversion therapy for gay kids” and there was a bleak joke on the team that there would be “no gay people left at the rate Gids was going”.

The on-label use of these drugs includes treatment of end-stage prostate cancer, and are the same drugs used to chemically castrate Alan Turing - among thousands of other gay men - to "cure" his homosexuality. Which makes it rather perverse when LGBT "allies" are scolding right-wing bigots about how they owe their computer and phone to a gay man on the one hand, while advocating for the treatment that lead to him taking his own life as "life-saving care" on the other hand.

Puberty is not a medical disorder. Gay and bi kids don't need to be sterilised and given cosmetic surgery to "fix" them.

[oldshowbiz]

RIP Mark Russell.

Unfairly maligned by many, Mark Russell was a very kind man with a unique career and incredible stories about Lenny Bruce and Tom Lehrer. 

I spent an evening with him on a rural porch about five years ago, listening to him swap showbiz stories with Alan Zweibel, David Steinberg, W. Kamau Bell, and Lewis Black . I found him incredibly charming and endlessly fascinating. 

His many PBS specials were not for me, but getting to know him personally was a whole different experience. Funny guy, good guy.

[greenhike]

i have gone ahead and scrounged together a full most wanted list ! you can find it under the cut, split up by gender and age ( the cut-off between older and younger is 35ish ) .

mwf ( younger )

alisha boe, hunter schafer, daisy edgar jones, fivel stewart, ayo edebiri, ella purnell, madison bailey, courtney eaton, halston sage, chase sui wonders, devery jacobs, madelyn cline, havana rose liu, maia reficco, naomi scott, ashley moore, savannah lee smith, amber midthunder, nhung hong, margaret qualley, yaya urassaya sperbund, mia goth, taylor russell, sophie thatcher, rachel sennott, jenna ortega, becky armstrong, jung hoyeon, aurora perrineau, mimi keene, victoria pedretti, ruby cruz, willa fitzgerald, grace van patten, aslihan malbora, brianne tju, rebecca ablack, rachel zegler, davika hoorne, simone ashley, alexandra shipp, adria arjona, barbie ferreira, molly gordon, choi heejin, bruna marquenzine, camila mendes, madelaine petsch, olivia cooke, tahirah sharif, florence pugh, nicole wallace, isabela merced, bae ganghee, lukita maxwell, rabia soyturk, pat chayanit, camila morrone, zion moreno, maika monroe, auli'i cravahlo

mwm ( younger )

charles melton, taylor zakhar perez, jacob elordi, kieth powers, thomas weatherall, louis partridge, danny ramirez, josh hueston, kim jiwoong, logan lerman, tom blythe, apo nattawin, lakeith stanfield, nicholas alexander chavez, aaron pierre, emilio sakraya, cooper koch, mason gooding, song kang, nico hiraga, drew starkey, lorenzo zurzolo, archie renaux, nick robinson, nam joohyuk, dominic fike, callum turner, rudy pankow, jonathan daviss, john boyega, michael cimino, chase stokes, paul mescal, woo dohwan, tommy martinez, joe keery, corteon moore, d'pharaoh woon-a-ta, charlie gillespie, ncuti gatwa, luka sabbat, damson idris, justice smith

mwnb ( younger )

lizeth selene, emma d'arcy, liv hewson, amandla steinberg, brigette lundy-paine, avan jogia, quintessa swindell

mwf ( older )

sandra oh, dewanda wise, zoe kravitz, kate siegel, pooja hedge, aubrey plaza, ana de armas, kathryn hahn, lupita nyong'o, nicola coughlin, laura harrier, melissa barrera, rachel weisz, monica bellucci, simone kessell, vera farmiga, jessica alba, natalie portman, salma hayek, rachel mcadams, cynthia erivo, kerry washington, imogen poots, carla gugino, rose byrn, jamie chung, anne hathaway, yoghurt nattasha, phoebe tonkin, karrueche tran, lily gladstone, nicole kidman, monica raymund, angela bassett, roberta colindrez, patti harrison, keri russell, rachel bilson, lee yu-bi, sofia vergara

mwm ( older )

kiowa gordon, sebastian stan, manny jacinto, theo james, dev patel, alfred enoch, oliver jackson cohen, carlos miranda, nikolaj coster-waldau, kyle gallner, jon bernthal, oscar isaac, pedro pascal, josh hartnett, riz ahmed, ryan gosling, robert pattinson, mads mikkelsen, timothy olyphant, steven yeun, peter gadiot, gong yoo, keanu reeves, raymond ablack, manny montana, milo ventimiglia, hamish linklater, rahul kohli, brenton thwaites, andrew garfield, martin sensmeier, trevante rhodes, matthew daddario, jesse williams, elliot page, joe manganiello, teo yoo

mwnb ( older )

nico tortorella, e.r. fightmaster

[lboogie1906]

Albert J. Jackson Jr. (November 27, 1935 – October 1, 1975) was a drummer, producer, and songwriter. He was a founding member of Booker T. & the M.G.’s, a group of session musicians who produced their instrumentals. He was dubbed ��The Human Timekeeper” for his drumming ability. He was inducted into the Memphis Music Hall of Fame, and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Booker T. & the M.G.’s.

His father, Al Jackson Sr., led a jazz/swing dance band in Memphis. He started drumming at an early age and began playing on stage with his father’s band in 1940. He played in producer and trumpeter Willie Mitchell’s band and at the same time was holding down a chair in the popular Ben Branch Band.

Future bandmates Steve Cropper and Donald “Duck” Dunn first heard him playing in Mitchell’s band at the Flamingo Room and the all-white Manhattan Club. Mitchell had hired Booker T. Jones for his band. It was Jones who suggested he be brought to Stax. He was reluctant to join Stax. He felt he could make more money playing live than doing session work. He wanted a guaranteed regular salary to come over to Stax. He became the first Stax session musician to be on a weekly salary.

He formed the M.G.’s with Booker T. Jones, Steve Cropper, and Lewie Steinberg. He became one of the most influential drummers in the history of recorded music, providing a recognizable backbeat behind the label’s artists, including Rufus Thomas, Carla Thomas, Eddie Floyd, Sam & Dave, Otis Redding, and blues guitarist Albert King (whose work Jackson produced).

He co-wrote and played on several hits by Al Green, including “Let’s Stay Together” and “I’m Still in Love with You”, and he was a session drummer for many artists, such as Elvis Presley, Bill Withers, Wilson Pickett, Leon Russell, Jerry Lee Lewis, Eric Clapton, Jean Knight, Aretha Franklin, Major Lance, Ann Peebles, Rod Stewart, Shirley Brown, Donny Hathaway, and Herbie Mann.

Four years after the release of their last album, Melting Pot, the members of Booker T. & the M.G. decided to wrap up their projects and devote three years to a reunion of the band. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence

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Birthdays 6.15

Beer Birthdays

John Lofting (d. 1742)

William Ogden (1805)

Sonia Gover, Miss Rheingold 1943 (1921)

Ron Lindenbusch (1961)

Alexandre Cardona (1991)

Five Favorite Birthdays

Sophie Amundsen; character in Sophie's World (1976)

Edvard Grieg; composer (1843)

Neil Patrick Harris; actor (1973)

Mike Holmgren; Green Bay Packers coach (1948)

Harry Nilsson; singer, songwriter (1941)

Famous Birthdays

Wilbert Awdry; writer (1911)

Jim Belushi; actor (1954)

Robert Russell Bennett; composer (1894)

"The Black Prince," Edward of Woodstock (1330)

Wade Boggs; Boston Red Sox 3B (1958)

Mary Carey; porn actor (1981)

Courtney Cox; actor (1964)

Ice Cube; rapper (1969)

Mario Cuomo; politician (1932)

Erroll Garner; jazz pianist (1921)

Terri Gibbs; pop singer (1954)

Julie Hagerty; actor (1955)

Xavier Hollander; Dutch writer, madam (1943)

Jack Horner; paleontologist (1946)

Helen Hunt; actor (1963)

Brian Jacques; writer (1939)

Waylon Jennings; country singer (1937)

Ken Jeong; actor, comedian (1969)

Lash LaRue; actor (1917)

Tim Lincecum; San Francisco Giants P (1984)

William McFee; writer (1881)

Nicola Pagett; actor (1945)

Leon Payne; country singer (1917)

Nicolas Poussin; French artist (1594)

Hugo Pratt; Italian comic book artist (1927)

Lee Purcell; actor (1947)

Leah Remini; actor (1970)

David Rose; composer (1910)

Herbert A. Simon; economist (1916)

Saul Steinberg; Romanian cartoonist (1914)

Morris Udall; politician (1922)

Jim Varney; comedian, actor (1949)

Steve Walsh; rock singer, "Kansas" (1951)

Bob Wian; Bob’s Big Boy founder (1914)

Billy Williams; Chicago Cubs LF (1938)

[female-buckets]

if I was a player I'd be taking notes as to who is throwing the toys out the pram about this. I wouldn't be trusting them with boundaries I set and I wouldn't be looking to work with them.

Exactly!!! Make a list.

Honestly, even as a fan, I'm making a list. Just for future reference, here's the reporters who are mad about the locker room boundary:

Several well known WNBA reporters: Michelle Smith, Em Adler, Nancy Armour, Chantel Jennings, Lindsay Gibbs, Mitchell Northam, Russell Steinberger, Howard Megdal, Nicole Auerbach, Brady Klopfer, Marisa Ingemi, Peter Kilkelly

And some less well known ones: Patrick Borzi, Alec Sturm, Dave DuFour, Kim Doss, Chris Bumbaca, Dylan Manfre, Tommy Beer, Jim Alexander, Darren Sabedra

And The Next published a whole thinkpiece about why they need to be in the locker rooms. Because of course they did. I'm not surprised by the names on this list. And I'm not surprised The Next is choosing this hill to die on.

[thepeoplesmovies]

Video Interview - Russell Steinberg (Laguna Avenue)

Video Interview - Russell Steinberg (Laguna Avenue) @fetchpublicity #LagunaAve #RussellSteinberg @ArrowFilmsVideo #interview @Movie_Analyst

Out now on Arrow Player is David Buchanan‘s indie sci-fi comedy Laguna Ave. At the end of last month Shane A.Bassett had a chat with Felixe De Becker, today it’s the film male lead. Shane caught up with Russell Steinberg, who was freshly shaven in conversation from his car in New York on the making of the film, his career and working with the one and  only Miley Cyrus. Related Post: Film Review –…

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LAGUNA AVE (2021) Reviews and Arrow streaming release news

LAGUNA AVE (2021) Reviews and Arrow streaming release news

Laguna Ave is a 2021 American sci-fi comedy film about a middle-aged slacker who gets involved in an accelerationist conspiracy. Directed by David Buchanan from a screenplay written by Paul Papadeas. Produced by Ali Barone, Paul Papadeas and Gordon Gee. The House Angus Productions-Succulent Films production stars Russell Steinberg (Days Out of Days, Adventureland), James Markham Hall Jr. (Snake…

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Hyper-fixations of the month!

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The Woman at 29 Wilson - pt 1

@whumpinggrounds​ @sie-werden-nie-vergessen​

okay kids, buckle up, grab a box of tissues and a stuffed critter to hug, this is where it starts getting Sad

Verna Bellows

Washington, DC

29 Wilson Drive

20002

Stella stares at the address all the way down. The bus is hot and cramped and uncomfortable, full of people from states all along the bus route going to one place or another, but Stella’s eyes are all for the four lines of red text in the middle of an otherwise blank page.

Verna Bellows

Washington, DC

29 Wilson Drive

20002

Sarah is leading them right to Verna. Sarah herself is telling them exactly where to go to find her missing, dead aunt…and Stella can only guess why.

It has to be a cemetery. Verna’s family, her real family, whoever they were, must have set up a memorial of some kind for her. A headstone with nothing buried underneath it. A marker on a family plot where one space will always remain unoccupied.

But why would Sarah lead them there? Why would Sarah lead them anywhere? She’s never shown any inclination to cooperate with them, much less give them the exact information they need. What changed?

Stella runs her fingers over the words. They’ve dried since they were first written; she can touch the words without smearing them, without leaving streaks of red ink behind on her skin. They don’t seem real, they don’t feel real, none of this feels real. And yet, just a few hours after saving Ruth from her own horrific end—Sarah hadn’t spare them a story, after all—she’s on a bus on her way to Washington, DC, with Chuck and Ramon in tow, and into the heart of the nation on the brink of turning on itself, in search of a woman who has been dead for the last seventy years.

She’s not sure what she’s expecting to find, or if she’s expecting to find anything. She’s not sure what’s going to happen as they follow the address through the city, where it’s going to take them.

They’ll just have to wait and see.

Stella turns to the window, watching the landscape roll by, lost in thought at the leg of their search that awaits them, and it’s just after the driver announces that they’ve crossed the Maryland border that something on the paper moves. Stella’s heart leaps; she sits up, ,thinking another story is being written before her eyes and she’s on a bus, unable to do anything about it.

But instead of being a story, it’s a message.

Tell her I’m waiting for her.

                                                     [***]

The address is not a cemetery at all, like Stella assumed, but a one-story house with beige siding. The neighborhood is quiet, not a soul in sight, driveways either empty or occupied with empty vehicles. The drive at 29 Wilson is occupied by a single white pickup truck, rusty and dirty with a cracked headlight. Stella looks around the property, at the lawn strewn with colorful autumn leaves, the short evergreens on either side of the perimeter blocking it off from the neighbors’ homes. One tree at the corner of the driveway is bare; the other is mid-loss, with great patchy areas empty of leaves. Wind chimes blow somewhere in the distance. The leaves in the yard rustle. The whole place seems empty and abandoned, feels empty and abandoned; there’s a heavy, sorrowful feel over the house, as though something so horrible happened here that the nature itself was never able to shake the weight of it.

Stella looks around at the house. It seems so quiet, unnaturally so. She dares to take a peak through the sliver in the front window curtains, but the slightest look in gives her shows her a house with the lights off and no one wandering around inside. When she listens closely, there’s not even the sound of the television on.

Is anyone even home?

She goes up to the door and knocks anyway.

For a long while, nothing happens. Then there’s the faint sound of shuffling from the other side, the door clicks and swings opened, and in the doorway stands a woman in a pair of gray capri sweatpants and a ratty old yellow t-shirt, looking as though she’s just rolled out of bed despite it being late in the afternoon. Her copper hair is tied back in a loose ponytail and haphazardly thrown over one shoulder. She looks at the trio with a distant kind of curiosity, as though she’s grown used to having people come to her front door and having yet more strangers show up is nothing new.

“Can I help you?” She doesn’t sound unfriendly, just…tired.

For a moment, all Stella can do is stare at the woman. She looks vaguely like Verna, she thinks, something in her face that resembles the woman in the drawing in the newspaper. A distant relative, maybe?

“We’re, um, we…” She wrings her hands, glancing at the boys standing behind her. She takes a breath. “Did Verna Bellows live here?”

The woman leans back with a deep breath, jaw clenched. She doesn’t answer the question. Something in her eyes darkens. She says nothing, but steps away from the door, letting the trio inside and shuts it behind them. She gives them a firm look before she disappears down the hall and around the corner. They don’t follow.

Stella adjusts her bag. It feels heavier, being in the house. The weight she felt outside on the porch was nothing compared to what it feels like on the inside. There’s a sense off warm homeyness, but it’s suffocated by a thick, sorrowful fog.

Something awful happened in this house.

She adjusts her bag again and tries to listen as the woman has a muffled conversation with someone in another room. She can’t make out the words, and the voices are almost hard to distinguish, but one of them sounds noticeably more pained and tired than the other. Then a chair rolls along the hardwood floor, someone sniffs, and the floors creak as they walk. The copper-haired woman reappears around the corner, followed by someone else who looks…eerily familiar.

The new woman is shorter than the first by a few inches, with shoulder-length black hair and a black dress that comes down in a short V. Her heels click on the floor, her step sluggish and slow and aching. Dark circles line her eyes as though she hasn’t slept well, or at all, in quite some time.

Stella’s breath catches in her throat. Chuck grabs her arm. “Holy shit, it’s her.”

All Stella can do is stare. She’s supposed to be dead. Everyone always said she was dead. No way, there’s no way, there’s no damn way. Why isn’t she dead?

Verna Bellows herself stands before them, alive and well, and not looking a day older than she had in her portrait in the newspaper.

[itspoliticallyincorrect]

Look what you did Russell.

[livelycadaver]

SNM 3/11/20 Show Cast List

WIB: Ginger Kearns

MIB: Alec Funiciello

Oracle: William Popp

Singer: Julia Haltigan

Macbeth: Isaies Santamaria Perez

Lady Macbeth: Kristen Stuart

Macduff: Amadi Washington

Lady MacDuff: Kelly Todd

Banquo: Brandon Coleman

Malcolm: Sean Higgins

Duncan: John William Watkins

Porter: Jason Cianciulli

Mrs. Danvers: Risa Steinberg

Agnes: Kayla Farrish

Hecate: Stephanie Jean Lane

Sexy Witch: Ingrid Kapteyn

Bald Witch: Aliza Russell

Boy Witch: Nate Carter

Fulton: David Lee Parker

Speakeasy: Elias Rosa

Taxidermist: Marc Cardarelli

Nurse Shaw: Demetia Hopkins

Matron: Camara McLaughlin

6th Floor Nurse: ???

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Entertainment Weekly, November

Cover: Saoirse Ronan and Timothee Chalamet of Little Women 

Page 1: Contents 

Page 4: Sound Bites -- Zach Galifianakis to Matthew McConaughey, John Oliver on Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, Maya Rudolph on Big Mouth, Sarah Hyland and Julie Bowen on Modern Family, Matthew Macfadyen on Succesion, Jameela Jamil about Timothee Chalamet on The Good Place, Constance Wu on Fresh Off the Boat, The Three Top Tweets -- Chrissy Teigen on John Legend, Macaulay Culkin on Fantasy Football, Dan Levy 

Page 6: Editor’s Note -- Chris Evans and Robert Pattinson at TIFF, The Good Place stars William Jackson Harper and D’Arcy Carden and Manny Jacinto, Superstore’s Nico Santos and Pose’s Billy Porter 

Page 8: The Must List -- Dolemite Is My Name with Eddie Murphy 

Page 10: Maledicent: Mistress of Evil -- Q+A with Angelina Jolie 

Page 11: Celine Dion, Astro Poets: Your Guide to the Zodiac by Alex Dimitrov and Dorothea Lasky, The Inheritance 

Page 12: High School Musical: The Musical: The Series, Jojo Rabbit 

Page 13: Catch and Kill, Q+A with Ronan Farrow 

Page 14: Modern Love, Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order 

Page 15: Lin-Manuel Miranda’s must list 

Page 17: The Awardist -- with a stellar history a launching Oscar winners, the Toronto International Film Festival has anointed a new golden crop 

Page 19: First Take -- Dolly Parton’s Heartstrings 

Page 22: A Christmas Carol -- Andy Serkis, Remmie Milner, Vinette Robinson, Joe Alwyn, Guy Pearce 

Page 25: Adam Devine in Green Eggs and Ham 

Page 28: Cover Story -- Saoirse Ronan and Timothee Chalamet in Little Women 

Page 32: Florence Pugh 

Page 36: Fall Movie Preview -- The Irishman 

Page 40: Knives Out -- Chris Evans on how to be a jerk, Harriet 

Page 41: Charlie’s Angels 

Page 43: Doctor Sleep -- Ewan McGregor’s life in horror 

Page 44: Dark Waters, Motherless Brooklyn 

Page 46: The Good Liar, the truth about Helen Mirren 

Page 52: Ford V Ferrari 

Page 53: The Report 

Page 54: Terminator: Dark Fate, Last Christmas -- Emma Thompson’s holiday inspirations 

Page 55: Queen & Slim -- the visionary Melina Matsoukas 

Page 56: Marriage Story -- Laura Dern’s turn 

Page 57: Lady and the Tramp 

Page 58: A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood, Waves -- breaking big Taylor Russell 

Page 59: Honey Boy -- anatomy of a scene 

Page 60: Bombshell -- Charlize Theron and Nicole Kidman and Margot Robbie 

Page 64: Just Mercy 

Page 65: Underground

Page 66: Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker 

Page 67: Uncut Gems 

Page 68: Fall Movie Calendar 

Page 71: Fall Music Preview 

Page 72: Miranda Lambert 

Page 76: Kesha 

Page 78: Big Sean 

Page 80: Luke Combs 

Page 81: Beck 

Page 82: Teyana Taylor 

Page 83: Jeff Lynne, FKA Twigs 

Page 85: Fall Books Special

Page 86: Jenny Slate 

Page 88: Prince biography The Beautiful Ones 

Page 90: Erin Morgenstern Q&A 

Page 91: Philip Pullman’s secrets 

Page 92: Tomi Adeyemi 

Page 96: Ann Patchett and Elizabeth Strout 

Page 98: Reviews 

Page 99: TV -- Mrs. Fletcher 

Page 102: The Office oral history 

Page 104: Patsy & Loretta 

Page 105: Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan, His Dark Materials 

Page 107: What to Watch 

Page 112: Music -- Madonna’s song Like a Virgin co-writers Billy Steinberg and Tom Kelly recount the song’s genesis 

Page 113: Lady Antebellum -- Ocean 

Page 114: Books 

Page 115: Memoir reviews 

Page 116: The Bullseye