adoption

“I suppose that’s the biggest part of being an adopted child—

knowing you were wanted that badly, that completely.

It can be the most sturdy of bonds.”

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Why adoptive parents like Sandra Bullock feel that 'the perfect child will find you'

Sandra Bullock and Hoda Kotb share a special connection — both agree they were destined for motherhood by adopting their children.

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Hubert de Givenchy, RIP

Onscreen, the actress usually played the frothy, flighty heroine who suited her busty blond looks and guileless blue eyes. 

At first glance it was tempting to typecast her as someone who giggled and wriggled a lot. 

It took Julia less than five minutes to revise her opinion. 

Lily was a sharp, witty, ambitious woman who exploited her looks rather than being exploited by them. 

She was also very much at home in the traditional parlor of the Knightsbridge house, 

looking very cool, very British, 

and very wifely in a simple blue Givenchy. 

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By Ylenia - originally posted to Flickr as Givenchy, CC BY 2.0,

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“His are the only clothes in which I am myself. 

He is far more than a couturier; he is a creator of personality.”

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'I've Seen It All'

She was a legend. A product of time and talent and her own unrelenting ambition. Eve Benedict. Men thirty years her junior desired her. Women envied her. Studio heads courted her, knowing that in this day when movies were made by accountants, her name was solid gold. 

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By Damion Matthews - Originally uploaded to en.wikipedia as 

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(Sharon Stone speaking in San Francisco, April 24, 2004. 

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“You’re laughing, but I don’t know if that’s a nervous laugh or an ‘Are-you-kidding-me-of-course-I-was’ laugh?” Lee Cowen asked.

Without giving any specifics, the actress, 59, said she’s “seen it all” throughout her decades-long career.

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She is flawed, of course. Where there is generosity, there is also selfishness. Where there is kindness, there is also a careless disregard for feelings. She can be abrupt, cool, callus, rude—human. The flaws make the woman off the screen as fascinating and vital as any woman she has played on it. Her strength is awesome. It is in her eyes, her voice, in every gesture of her disciplined body. Life, it seems, is a challenge, a role she has agreed to play with great verve—and one in which she takes no direction. Any miscues or broken scenes are her responsibility. She blames no one. Beyond the talent, the beauty, that rich, smoky voice or sharp intelligence, she is to be admired for her unflagging sense of self.

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