#the epic london trip with the bestie

[londonspirit]

PHEW!!! Thank the deities out there for looking out for the man!

Funny, that it's exactly one week since I was fortunate enough to watch him live and in all his glory on that exact stage! Goddamn, that man's INCREDIBLE!!! I mean, doing what he does AT HIS AGE (and yes, that show's VERY physical, although I am sure they accommodate him as much as possible); sometimes I couldn't believe my eyes!

And he makes it so easy to follow - usually I do some homework when I go see Shakespeare, just so I can follow along. This one? I went in blind. I KNEW he and Toheeb would make sure I could understand everything I need to understand! AND DAMN, was I right!!! I mean, Sir Ian and Shakespeare just belong together. Toheeb Jimoh and Shakespeare? A match made in fucking heaven (pardon the pun!) I first saw HIM last year in R&J and he was breathtaking. So I knew, seeing him take another lead in a play I've never seen would be perfect! And boy, it was. That man makes Shakespeare soo freaking easy to follow - he's got a way of making it sound like the most normal thing in the world. Also, his acting abilities are fucking outstanding. That man was just MADE for the stage. He's also one of the sweetest and kindest soul. He couldn't so selfies at stage door because he had a Q&A with students... and yet he made sure to talk to everyone, assured that everyone got an autograph and he had to be called back when he started to take selfies anyways.

I freaking ADORE this man, and I will make sure to try and see everything he does on stage - because he's a fucking delight and I cannot wait to see what else he'd going to achieve!!!

[this-daydream-is-dangerous-13]

Back when wildest dream came out if I recall most people counted it as a haylor song. Lately though whenever it’s mentioned most people say is about Alexander Skargard… which… did they even hooked up?

Other dude i’ve seen related to that song is Douglas Booth… which i looked it up and they went out in late 2013, but I always thought WD was written that summer

And I’m just confused… when did moat people stopped thinking it was a haylor song?

This one has always been a mystery to me, too, Anon. Maybe it was another one of the 1989 tour speeches that cast doubt? Besties - I will outline some of what I think below, but chime in if you know more.

As for AS - he is very tall. They met (and maybe hooked up? She was 23 and he was 37 or 38) when she shot her small role in the Giver in Capetown, South Africa in October 2013. And since the MV is set on Africa - that’s the main reason.

There was also a Douglas Booth period that fall, like you said. It was either before or in between the late fall 2013 Haylor rekindling (when she bought her first house in London, but then the KJ incident) and the early 2014 rekindling (when IKP and Style were written and he bought the LA house). It, too, was brief.

The MV, Africa or not, always seemed like the reverse of the 2015 BBMAs. Plus - it’s seemingly based on an Out of Africa/African Queen/Cleopatra-like epic blockbuster, and we know Blondie’s fixation with Taylor and Burton, stars of that last movie!

But now: we have Run. And the first verse of Keep Driving. We have more context about road trips they took. Plus: he basically claims in in Him with his “your best dress in my wildest dreams” line.

WD, to my mind: always and forever Haylor.

Thanks for the ask!

[xoruffitup]

2019 Retrospect

I meant to do this when I got back from my trip over New Year’s, but it’s been quite the whirlwind month between TROS recovery and moving apartments. But before January passes me by, I have to take some time for recognizing and savoring just how unbelievably wonderful, full, and memorable my 2019 was! :) Looking back, I can’t believe it all happened in just one year. <3

February: I went around London, Hannover, Bremen, Berlin, Rome, and Florence visiting friends and family.

March: I went to the very first preview performance of Burn This, was floored by the performance and got Adam’s autograph at stage door!!

April: Saw Muse for my 8th time and Matt Bellamy kissed me!!

AND @umkylo​ came from Australia and she, @reylonly​ and I saw Burn This together and asldkfjasd got to fully talk to Adam at stage door and I SHOOK HIS HAND AND WE SMILED AT EACH OTHER! (April 2019 forever the ultimate blessed month! <33)

May: Two epic concerts

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June: Another Burn This performance accompanied by lovely meet-ups!

July: The final show of the Burn This run, and one more Adam encounter where I gave him the book of letters I collected about his performance as Pale.

September: I went to TIFF for the premiere showings of The Report and Marriage Story!

I asked Adam about his approach to filming “Being Alive”!!!

November: I went to AITAF’s 11th Annual Broadway show! And met/introduced myself to the real Dan Jones at the reception.

December: I organized a private screening of The Report at the nonprofit where I work, and after keeping in touch with him from the AITAF show, I got Dan Jones to come do a Q&A.

And then, because I refuse to let a year so amazing end in anything but positivity and celebration... the extraordinary emotional whirlwind of the TROS European premiere experience with my fandom besties. <3 I wouldn’t have wanted to end the year any differently or see the movie any other way!

...and now I’m ready to start 2020 off with a bang as I head on up to NYC tomorrow for Adam on SNL! :’D 

Honestly though, I’m so grateful to all my fandom friends, to Adam, and yes, still to Star Wars for being the motivation and passion behind all these incredible experiences. I still treasure all the excitement in the months leading up to TROS, and no matter how the movie turned out, I don’t regret a single ounce of my dedication and investment. We choose and define the manner of our own experience surrounding the film, and I’ve had far too many good times to let anything in the world ruin that. I will always treasure 2019. <3 Thank you so much, world and stars out there.

[richienorton]

Chillin w/ my homie. #grifthegreat pc: @chris_pierce. I’m on an airplane now. // Hey guys! So much great news! 1. I’m going LIVE with Shark Tank’s Kevin Harrington on Tuesday at 8am MST for 20 keep minutes. Not sure how to tell alert you, but make sure you’re following my business page Richie Norton and follow me and my fan page “first.” Google Hiw if you don’t know. Will be epic! 2. I’m going LIVE with Shark Tanks’s Kevin Harrington on Thursday night at 7pm MST for about an hour I think. We’ll see. Follow instructions above not to miss it! (I may also be speaking to an MBA class that night (tba later). 3. Doing a free workshop for 50 high-performing entrepreneurs on Friday night at 97th Floor. Applications coming soon. 4. Chillin with 97th Floor people like Chris Bennett and Wayne Sleight and Seth Godin in Deer Valley this week. Seth endorsed my book (cover blurb) and we’ve met in NY a couple times before. So excited! 5. Finished a massive history project for BYUH Willes Center and highlighting a few projects over 15 years. 6. My wife Natalie Link Norton is still sick. ;( But...she’s been spending her time planning a family trip to Europe for 2 months this summer! She tells me we’ll start in London England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 where we can see my famous friend Suzie Turner Couture @suzieturner and go to many countries including Portugal 🇵🇹 where I can practice my Portuguese, France 🇫🇷 where we can hang with besties @_jillthomas Jill Thomas and Fam, a rad town in Spain 🇪🇸 that has only 21 people living there or something??? and even into Morocco 🇲🇦 in North Africa! Of course Germany 🇩🇪 and Switzerland 🇨🇭 and all the rad countries in between! Sorry, thumbs getting tired! 😉 7. They say confidence comes from having something to look forward to...or at least that’s what Jack Canfield told me. Especially with kids. These events are soemthing we look forward to! Pumped! (at V LAND North Shore)

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#AskHerMore, To Zac Posen Gowns Galore - InStyle’s A-Z Of Awards Season

A is for…#AskHerMore

A is all about the feminist #AskHerMore red carpet movement. Pioneered by Reese Witherspoon and Amy Poehler in 2015, it’s all about changing the way media (that's us too) talks to women and encouraging them to ask better questions than just ‘'Who are you wearing?'. Because quelle surprise women have views on politics and current events as well. B is for…Bliiiiiing

And a whole lot of it. From the now infamous $2.5 million 115-carat Lorraine Schwartz emerald drop earrings that Angelina sashayed down the Oscars 2009 red carpet wearing, to Cate Blanchett’s Chopard earrings, bracelet and ring combo that cost a whopping $18 million, when it comes to standing out at an awards ceremony, it’s all about the bling. The winner of our Ultimate Bling Award? Elizabeth Taylor, obvs. The queen of more is more, Taylor’s then husband Richard Burton bought her a 69.42 carat diamond ring for $1 million but, as Elizabeth puts it, ‘Even for me it was too big. So we had Cartier design a necklace.’ Well, as we always say, when your diamond’s too big to wear as a ring, whack it on a pendant and wear it to the 1970 Academy Awards around your neck instead. Understated, who?

C is for…Charlize Theron

Who knew that Charlize Theron was such a babe? Well, we did. An epic actress (she won an Oscar for her terrifying role in Monster), a style chameleon and repping on the red carpet for taller ladies everywhere, Charlize is the ultimate awards badass and we’re obsessed.

D is for…Diversity

With Meryl Streep’s Golden Globes speech addressing immigration straight on, and the 2017 Oscar nominations finally making progress against #oscarssowhite with a black actor being nominated in all four acting categories for the first time EVER, the awards diversity drought is officially over. Hooray!

E is for…EE Rising Star Award

Arguably the most exciting award of the year (because it involves majorly hyped new talent like Ruth Negga and Tom Holland aka Spiderman) the BAFTA EE Rising Star Award is so snazzy we throw a party for it every year. Check the deets HERE.

F is for…Fancy Dress

Bjork’s swan moment, Cher’s 1986 ‘Mohawk year’ and Rihanna’s Britney-meets-Egyptian bejewelled bodystocking – yup, when it comes to red carpet dressing there’s always one that takes it to that bit too far to the realms of fancy dress. And we look forward to that one every year, natch.

G is for…Gaga

When she’s not being carried along the red carpet in an egg, wearing yesterday’s beef tartare as a dress or performing an epic ode to David Bowie with glam rock costume changes to match, Lady Gaga’s generally stealing the limelight at any and every awards show. Case in point: accepting her 2011 MTV awards in character as her male alter ego Jo Calderone. Lady Gaga going method? Groundbreaking.

H is for…Hosts (The Weird, The Wonderful And The Awkward)

The fun part about awards shows? They inevitably have to be hosted by two celebrities that would never normally talk to each other but now have to share a stage and present funny quips and bits for hours on end. A recipe for success, non? Well, if you’re hilarious comedians and besties Amy Poehler and Tina Fey presenting the 2015 Golden Globes, then yes. But if you’re Anne Hathaway attempting to present the 2011 Oscars with a possibly stoned but either way totally out of it James Franco, then alas, no.

I is for…Insta Madness

If only Bradley's arm was longer. Best photo ever. #oscars pic.twitter.com/C9U5NOtGap

— Ellen DeGeneres (@TheEllenShow) 3 March 2014

If you didn’t see THAT group selfie at the 2014 Oscars, then what hole were you living in? Ellen’s celebrity studded Hollywood selfie broke the internet and started a new A-list obsession with Instagram. Just try and get through awards season without liking Chrissy Teigen’s adorable backstage pics with John Legend or Lily Collins asking your opinion on what Zuhair Murad gown she should choose. It’s all about the BTS (that’s behind-the-scenes) pics babe.

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J is for…Jennifer Lawrence Falling Over

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Doing a damn good impression of a weeble, Jennifer Lawrence can’t help falling head over heels for awards shows, literally. Tripping over her massive Dior gown on the way to receive her Best Actress Oscar back in 2013, J-Law’s tumble was surely the most Tweeted about awards moment that year. That, and her tripping over a cone. And every other time she’s totally stacked it. Jennifer, we salute your ability to power through embarrassment.

K is for…Kisses

Remember that time Angelina Jolie said she was ’so in love’ with her brother before kissing him smack on the lips at the 2000 Oscars? Well, we do. And tbh, it’s still weird. Between that and John Travolta’s surprise attack on Scarlett Johansson, awards season always seems to bring out the awkward affectionate sides of celebs (and their siblings).

L is for…Loser Face

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Some people can nail the perfect Joey from Friends gracious loser face, and others…well they don’t keep it together so well. Take Samuel L Jackson who, when losing the 1995 Best Supporting Actor Oscar to Martin Landau, could be see mouthing ‘Oh shit’ on screen. Or when Kanye, in true Kanye fashion, took things one step further by crashing Taylor Swfit’s VMA award win to defend losing nominee Beyonce’s honour thus beginning an A-list feud of epic proportions. A polite clap would have been fine.

M is for…Meryl Streep

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Officially the most nominated person EVER. That is all.

N is for…Novel Adaptations We’ve Never Read

Let’s face it, every year there’s a bazillion films nominated that are actually super intellectual novel adaptations that we’ll pretend to our ridiculously informed and cultural friends we’ve totally read but in reality we’ve just watched the movie and googled some original quotes. Soz, not soz.

O is for…Opening Numbers

Hugh Jackman’s adorable, if slightly awkward, dance number with Anne Hathaway at the 2009 Oscars, Andrew Rannell’s all singing, all dancing rendition of ‘I Believe’ from The Book Of Mormon at the 2011 Tony Awards and Neil Patrick Harris’ arguably best ever Tony Awards performance in 2013 are just a few of the awards show opening numbers to go down in history for the right reasons. We won’t mention the wrong ones.

P is for…Poor Leo

2017 aka the year Leonardo Di Caprio finally won an oscar. It’s fair to say a few people may have given up on it ever happening, including Leo himself. #poorleo.

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Q is for…Queen Bey

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If anyone else can announce their pregnancy on stage at the Grammys and bring a tear to our eye quite like Queen Bey we’ll eat our jauntily tipped purple fedora Destiny’s Child style. Lest we forget THAT game-changing Country Music Awards performance of Daddy Lessons with Dixie Chicks that we’ve listened to like 300 times. Ok fine, 500.

R is for…Red Carpet Hype

Fact – you can’t have an awards show without a red carpet, but where did it even come from? Why not a blue carpet? First thunk up by LA showman Sid Graumman in 1922, the red carpet made its debut at the first ever Hollywood premiere, Robin Hood, but didn’t make an appearance at the Oscars until 1961 when film enthusiasts watching on tv couldn’t even tell it was red because of the black and white picture. The epitome of you had to be there.

Fun fact – the carpet outside the Dolby Theatre where the Oscars are held is 500 ft long. Incidentally, just enough room for Jennifer Lawrence to fall over in.

S is for…Speech Cock Ups And General Weirdness

Part two of the awkward hosting section of our A-Z, it’s not an awards season if someone doesn’t mess up an acceptance speech, mispronounce a celeb’s name or send a worthy cause to accept the award on their behalf. Check out Miley Cyrus sending a young homeless dude called Jesse Helt to pick up her 2014 MTV Award (which he’s appaz now auctioning off, that’s gratitude for you), John Travolta classically messing up Idina Menzel’s name and Tom Hiddleston, god bless him, attempting to tell an inspirational anecdote and totally missing the mark. Oscar fails are our fave.

T is for…The Leg

Need we say more? Winning our award for best dressed at the 2012 Oscars, Angelina Jolie’s right leg made such a statement it even had its own Twitter account.

U is for…Ugly Crying

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Yes, it’s an emotional time for everyone, but there’s some that handle the sitch better than others. Gwyneth Paltrow was not one of them. We won’t even mention Halle Berry. Let’s just say we’d give them the Oscar for ugly crying.

V is for…Valentino

That iconic black and white dress Julia Roberts wore to win her Oscar back in 2001 that you always remember every time the Oscars rolls round again? It was Valentino. Cate Blanchett’s timeless one-shouldered yellow dress she wore for her 2005 Best Supporting Actress Oscar win? Yup, Valentino.Scarlett Johansson’s seriously major red dress that put her on the map? You guessed it, Valentino. When it comes to dressing like a winner (or dressing a winner, should we say), Valentino have got it down.

W is for…Wardrobe Malfunctions

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From Chrissy Teigen’s NSFW leg split to Geri Halliwell’s 1997 Brit Awards boob slip, a well-placed (pardon the pun) wardrobe malfunction gets you more column inches than actually winning an award. Our fave? J-Law’s gravity-defying dress tear that magically reattaches itself almost instantly. We geuinely don't know what happened there.

X is for…Exes

There’s nothing better than proving how totally fine you are about an overly publicised breakup by revenge winning an award literally in front of your ex. On the other hand, bumping into an ex on the red carpet isn’t exactly ideal. Oh Hollywood, you’re so small and incestuous and adorable. Brad and Angelina, we wish you good luck.

Y is for…Yellow

Black is so blah. If you want to make a statement on the red carpet it’s all about wearing yellow. Take notes from Reese Witherspoon’s post-Ryan Philippe break up LYD (little yellow dress) and Rachel from Friends fringe that was TOO good or Michelle Williams winning at life in a yellow custom Vera Wang dress that we’ve basically never got over. Nabbing the canary yellow torch and carrying it into 2017, Emma Stone’s red hair, pink lips, yellow dress combo is so chic it’s insane.

Z is for…Zac Posen

Bringing an air of mid-century couture to the often pedestrian fashion proceedings, you can bet your money on Zac Posen dressing the most dramatic, and high fashion celebrity on the red carpet. Noteworthy moment – Christina Hendricks wearing the widest emerald green skirt you ever did see before whipping it off to reveal a fitted mermaid tail gown underneath. And our girl crush hit new heights.