At the core of this indelibly moving film – Chile’s entry in the Oscar race for Best Foreign-Language feature – is a performance of surpassing beauty and tenderness. Daniela Vega is the first openly transgender actress and model in Chile, and her portrayal of Marina Vidal, a trans woman who …
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One night before a gunman opened fire and killed 58 at the Route 91 Harvest festival on October 1st, Maren Morris played her own set, filling the Las Vegas Strip with the sounds of a country singer who’s never been afraid to challenge her genre’s boundaries. On Sunday, during a …
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For two decades, Kara Swisher, the tenacious reporter and columnist who co-founded the influential tech news site Recode, has chronicled the rise of Silicon Valley with an unmatched combination of cynicism and sourcing. Former Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer was rumored to be so afraid of her that she hunted down …
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