How Angela Lansbury’s Death Is a Reminder That Our Beloved Gay Icons Live On in Their Legacies

Dame Angela Lansbury has died. Just days shy of her 97th birthday, the legendary lady of stage, screen and television took her final bow Tuesday. The proud gay icon leaves behind a legacy of rich performances that will continue to entertain for decades to come.

Personally, in 1992, I was 20 and living in Miami doing a brief stint as a cast member — that’s what they called us employees — at The Disney Store, now basically defunct. They forced us to wear itchy and highly flammable cardigans and hideous polyester pants and, worst of all, subjected us

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FM TOPS C-NS IN REMATCH OF SECTIONAL FINAL: Grace Crooks of Cicero-North Syracuse attempts a kill shot as Rebekah Beasley and Lena Hansen of Fayetteville-Manlius prepare to block in a girls varsity volleyball match Tuesday at Cicero-North Syracuse High School. FM won the match, a rematch of last year’s Class AA sectional final, in four sets. (Mark DiOrio photo)

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Max & Val Chmerkovskiy’s Mom Lost 80 Pounds in 4 Months

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Val and Maks Chmerkovskiy’s mom is on a weight loss journey.

Maks and Val Chmerkovskiy’s mom, Larisa Chmerkovskaya, is on a weight loss journey after a doctor’s appointment left her no choice but to get serious about her health.

Maks, who is no longer on “Dancing With the Stars,” shared a bit about his mother’s story on Instagram and praised her for buckling down and taking care of herself.

“After many years of focusing on everyone but herself, and being consistently overweight for decades, her issues finally took a turn for the worse when she found herself half

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Disney’s BEAUTY AND THE BEAST Comes to Palo Alto Players in November

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Luke Evans Talks ‘Pembrokeshire Murders’ and ‘Pinocchio’ Live-Action Remake (Exclusive)

There’s going to be no shortage of Luke Evans in 2021 thanks to the limited series The Pembrokeshire Murders and Nine Perfect Strangersand the film Crisis with Gary Oldman and Evangeline Lilly all coming out the first of the year. On top of that, the actor is slated to start production on Disney+’s beauty and the Beast spinoff series The Little Townreprising his role as Gaston and a live-action version of Pinocchio.

While speaking with ET about his exciting year, Evans says that the latest adaptation is “going to be a huge, huge movie.” In the film

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We’re well into 2022 now, and let’s face it, we all had pretty high expectations right?

After the absolute cluster-f!ck that was 2020 and 2021, I know I certainly have needed some help with personal growth and mental health self-care affirmations.

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Self-care isn’t just bath bombs and mani/pedi dates (though I wouldn’t complain about either currently!) but sometimes it’s about personal growth and reassuring affirmation.

We’ve all spent a year in this global pandemic now, some of us not seeing friends or family in many months. Some of us have lost loved ones. Some of us have felt like we’ve

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See ’70s Teen Idol Robby Benson Now at 66

If you grew up in the ’70s and hung posters of your celebrity crushes on your walls, odds are that Robby Benson was in your bedroom. After starring in the movies Ice Castles and One on Onethe young actor’s fate as a teen idol was pretty much sealed—and he continued to appear in movies and TV for decades after he first rose to fame, including finding Disney immortality by voicing the cursed prince in 1991’s beauty and the Beast.

But while Benson might still live on many hearts as a teen heartthrob and a Disney prince, he’s done

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ColorPop Ultimate Brush Roll | The Best Affordable Makeup Brushes? • Girl Loves Gloss

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Truth be told, I’m a total brush snob.

I’ve amassed an extensive makeup brush collection over the years, and they’ve been something I’ve collected. Many are very expensive, but I think I’ve just discovered the best affordable makeup brushes on the market with the Colourpop Ultimate Brush Roll.

Like many, my first brushes were MAC, but over the last 20+ years I’ve acquired some really unique brushes from brands like Surratt, Artis, Sonia G, Wayne Goss, IT Cosmetics, Hakohodo, Make Up For Ever, Morphe and Charlotte Tilbury… just to name a few

I’m picky when it comes to makeup brushes,

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