Vazquez Sounds - cover of Adele’s Rolling In the Deep
Blowing up all over the place….
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Love this mashup of Adele’s Rumor Has It and Someone Like You on Glee! LOVE.
I saw Adele last night at the Greek here in LA - by far one of the best concerts I’ve seen in a long time. She’s amazing and funny and sad and feisty - all wrapped up in one. A must see! Her rendition of The Cure’s Lovesong was my favorite…..haunting.
OP-ED COLUMNIST
Celebrating the Girls of Summer
By FRANK BRUNI
Published: August 3, 2011
As the millions of readers who made “The Help” a publishing phenomenon know, the novel explores the poignantly modest aspirations and profound humiliations of black maids in Mississippi in the 1960s. It’s a story of racial injustice, reconciliation and sweet, overdue revenge.It’s also a story of female grit and solidarity — of strength through sisterhood. I was reminded of that early this week when I saw an advance screening of the movie version, which opens Wednesday.
What struck and pleased me most was the way “The Help” pushes back against a Hollywood tsunami of beach-season superheroes, sorcerers and simians (the “Apes” swing into theaters on Friday) by putting women in the foreground. Also the midground. They monopolize the background, too. An hour after seeing it, I couldn’t visualize a single male character. What a bracing, welcome tonic.
Especially because I had been so focused on Washington and its stormy climate of reigning men. Despite the long strides women have made in public life, they were absent from center stage in the debt-ceiling melodrama, which, at times, seemed a cautionary tale of testosterone run amok. READ MORE