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Michelle wins today. She's rocking that look.

That strut!

For the younger generation of fashion folks Ella Emhoff is the one they're excited about.

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American poet Amanda Gorman reads a poem during the 59th Presidential Inauguration at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2021. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, Pool)

As much as Emma Emhoff's sparkly coat this look by Ms Gorman is ground breaking for young women, especially young women of color. Her hair is twisted not braided but it's still a formal look.

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Amanda Gorman had a bad-ass jeweled mask as well to go with that styling.

Michelle Obama wins the day, but there were some really good coats up there today.

I thought Lady Gaga's dress was much over-the-top. This day isn't about her.

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Because there's no such thing as a McDonald's china pattern?
Also I shudder to think what the First Escort would've wanted created since we have examples of her "taste" to go by.

There will be no Trump china collection due to cost and time, source says
By Kate Bennett, CNN
Updated 10:45 AM ET, Thu January 21, 2021



(CNN)The Trump administration will not have its own signature collection to display in the White House China Room -- another departure from protocol for the outgoing first family.

Timing and exorbitant cost prevented outgoing first lady Melania Trump from following through on the collection, the patterns and colors for which she had selected, according to a source familiar with the events. Ultimately, the china took too long to make and cost too much, the source said.

Trump pulled the plug on the project at some point during the last six weeks, the source said.

A representative for Melania Trump did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Each administration has the opportunity to design and have made its own official china collection, both for entertaining purposes and for legacy and future administrations to use -- with the exception of few, every administration since George Washington has done so.

The nonprofit White House Historical Association has paid for past official china collections with funds supplied by its donors, but another source involved in the discussions of the Trump china told CNN the association had "concerns" with the price tag and decided it was too expensive an endeavor.

"The White House Historical Association was not involved in an acquisition project related to the Trump china," an official with the association told CNN. The official would not comment on the reason for the lack of involvement. The last administration not to use funds from the association for official china was the Reagan administration.

A full official administration china service is expensive and an endeavor that takes significant time.

The Obama china, planning for which began in 2011, was delivered in 2015, the color inspired by the blue waters off of Hawaii. There were 320-settings of 11 pieces each, costing more than $350,000, paid for by the White House Historical Association.

Laura Bush's china selection totaled 4,500 pieces and cost $492,000, also paid for by the association. Bush ordered an additional, less-formal 75-place settings to use for entertaining in the private residence, which was not paid for by the White House Historical Association.

Trump most commonly opted to borrow place settings from the official Clinton china set for her White House events, the two Trump-hosted state dinners included. There are 300-place settings of apropos ornate, shiny gold plates and dishware selected by Hillary Clinton when she was first lady.

First lady Ellen Wilson created the White House China Room in 1918 to display the china of presidential administrations.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/21/politics ... _term=link

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The Obama presidential china


The GW Bush presidential china


The Clinton presidential china

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There is another set of china for the Obama's with the Presidential Seal. Seeing it used here gives an idea of how it would look in a formal table setting.

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I could use the Obama's first one.
The rest... I think I pass. A little too rococo.

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For some reason I really don't like the Clinton or Bush china. The yellow in one and the green in the other turns me off.

I agree. The Obama blue ones are the best ones. BUT they would not hold up on a really formal table like the gold edged ones do.

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You're missing the point, folks. China is to blame for everything...

Oh, wait...

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I am 100% here for this new Super Bowl Alexa commercial and just want to know when I can get my own.

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I am 100% here for this new Super Bowl Alexa commercial and just want to know when I can get my own.

[ponchi101]

Ok. You two. Behave!

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Searching for Shelley Duvall: The Reclusive Icon on Fleeing Hollywood and the Scars of Making 'The Shining'
by Seth Abramovitch February 11, 2021, 6:00am PST


Courtesy Everett Collection
Duvall played a country music groupie in Robert Altman’s 'Nashville' (1975).

Where 3 Women took six weeks to shoot from start to finish, The Shining took 56. That was partly because of a fire at EMI Elstree Studios in February 1979 that badly damaged the Overlook Hotel set — at the time the largest ever constructed there — requiring it to be rebuilt. But it was mostly because of Kubrick's famously exacting process. The schedule was grueling, with the director filming six days a week, up to 16 hours a day. For much of that time, Duvall needed to work herself up to a state of absolute hysteria playing the wife of a writer (Nicholson) who goes insane inside a snowed-in resort hotel, eventually trying to hack up his family with an axe. Unlike Nicholson, who rented a home in London that he shared with Anjelica Huston, his girlfriend at the time, Duvall rented a flat by the studio in Hertfordshire, where she lived for the length of the shoot with only a dog and two birds as companions. "Nobody does that," says Huston, 69. "You go back and forth from London, even though you could get stuck in two-hour traffic going in and out. But Shelley did that for a good year and a half. She got herself an apartment and lived there because she was just terribly dedicated and didn't want to shortchange herself or anyone else by not giving over fully to her commitment."

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Duvall says, "[Kubrick] doesn't print anything until at least the 35th take. Thirty-five takes, running and crying and carrying a little boy, it gets hard. And full performance from the first rehearsal. That's difficult." Before a scene, she would put on a Sony Walkman and "listen to sad songs. Or you just think about something very sad in your life or how much you miss your family or friends. But after a while, your body rebels. It says: 'Stop doing this to me. I don't want to cry every day.' And sometimes just that thought alone would make me cry. To wake up on a Monday morning, so early, and realize that you had to cry all day because it was scheduled — I would just start crying. I'd be like, 'Oh no, I can't, I can't.' And yet I did it. I don't know how I did it. Jack said that to me, too. He said, 'I don't know how you do it.' "

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But as (Angelica) Huston remembers it, the director — and Nicholson — could be unduly rough on Duvall. "I got the feeling, certainly through what Jack was saying at the time, that Shelley was having a hard time just dealing with the emotional content of the piece," she says. "And they didn't seem to be all that sympathetic. It seemed to be a little bit like the boys were ganging up. That might have been completely my misread on the situation, but I just felt it. And when I saw her during those days, she seemed a generally a bit tortured, shook up. I don't think anyone was being particularly careful of her." Still, Huston admits there is no denying the ferocious power of the final product. "She actually carried the movie on her back if you look at it," Huston says. "Jack wavers between sort of comedic and terrifying, and Kubrick was Kubrick at his most mysterious, interesting and powerful. But it must have been something for her to be in the middle of that mix. And she took it on. She was, I think, incredibly brave."

There is a sequence in The Shining that is in the Guinness World Records for "most retakes for one scene with dialogue." The scene features (Scatman) Crothers and Danny Lloyd, the young actor who played Danny Torrance, discussing the ability to "shine," a psychic gift that allows the boy to envision the hotel's horrific past. Kubrick had the actors do it 148 times. But another far more demanding scene — the staircase scene — was shot 127 times. "It was a difficult scene, but it turned out to be one of the best scenes in the film," Duvall says. "I'd like to watch the movie again. I haven't seen it in a long time."

At her suggestion, I google the scene, perch my iPhone on her dashboard and press play. I don't think I'll ever forget the experience of watching 71-year-old Duvall watching her 30-year-old self meekly swing a bat at Nicholson as he threatened to "bash [her] brains in."

"Why are you crying?" I ask Duvall.

"Because we filmed that for about three weeks," she replies. "Every day. It was very hard. Jack was so good — so damn scary. I can only imagine how many women go through this kind of thing."



https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/featu ... he-shining

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Nashville is one of my favorite movies.

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Nashville is one of my favorite movies.

Altman was one of the best