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Ali Fazal, the Bollywood Star Who Charmed the Crown

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“The world’s getting smaller.” Ali Fazal’s not mournful when he makes this observation on one gray afternoon at a French café in downtown Manhattan. He’s downright excited — India’s gotten Netflix. The 30-year-old actor has landed at a new nexus of globalism in the Indian entertainment economy, leading him most recently to the lead role in Stephen Frears’s handsomely mounted historical drama Victoria & Abdul. A 19th-century period piece with all the pearl-and-fur accoutrements you can shake a scepter at, it’s a new tier of exposure for Fazal, who plays a servant turned adviser turned confidante to a moldering Queen Victoria (Judi Dench) with patience and sensitivity. Read More...

FOUR COMMON MYTHS IN PSYCHOLOGY: ITS ALL COMMON SENSE

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We’re all psychologists at some level. I mean we do have some experience at life. We’ve had to manipulate, experiment, handle difficult people and we appear to make intuitive decisions that have saved us our time, money and lives. Some of us are even the ‘agony aunts’ of our social groups. We even dole out ‘life’ advice. Once in a while, these intuitions are even parallel to scientific studies. But Read More...

LeAnn Rimes Then and Now

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Now before you start making fun of LeAnn Rimes' "Then" photo, remember that it was the late '90s and we were all prone to wearing sage green blazers. The singer has always been on the cutting edge of country fashion, so it's safe to assume that this was the style 15 years ago. Teenagers all over America were wearing stuff like that, weren't they? These days, Rimes can be found looking beautiful on many red carpets, often with husband Eddie Cibrian nearby. Read More...

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