Celeb Gist

He biked from Spain to Singapore. The kindness of strangers stood out.

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“Let’s see if we can get this light,” Andrew Mortensen said as he cycled toward Eastern Avenue, the northeast border of Washington and Maryland. Mortensen had recently completed a 10,538-mile bike journey from Spain to Singapore — and, by his estimate, the last section of a ride around the world that began four years ago. Yet he was enthusiastic about the unremarkable crossing: “No way! This is a new state biking for me. Read More...

NeNe Leakes

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NeNe Leakes is an American television personality, actress, presenter, businesswoman, author, and fashion designer. Her full name is Linnethia Monique “NeNe” Leakes. What is the Net Worth of Linnethia Monique Johnson? Salary, Earnings NeNe Leakes has a $14 million net worth as of 2022. She started working on her career in 2008. She gained considerable notoriety as a member of the cast of the American reality television program The Real Housewives of Atlanta. Read More...

Aftersun: A father-daughter bond, seen through the haze of memory

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The fragile fabric of memory, rendered in both mist and digital media, is the subject of “Aftersun,” the assured and emotionally complex feature debut of writer-director Charlotte Wells. Wells has described her first film — a window into the loving relationship between an idealistic young father and his in-some-ways-more-worldly-wise tween daughter — as “emotionally autobiographical.” The filmmaker’s father died when Wells was 16, the recognition of which is only hinted at in a film that — though set on a sunny father-daughter vacation at a Turkish beach resort in the late 1990s — is overshadowed by a sense of gloom, maybe even doom. Read More...