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Margot Robbie is not hot enough

I asked a friend if she’d seen this Summer’s blockbuster, she said she had, she thought it was pretty good, but that Margot Robbie wasn't hot enough to play the lead. “Margot Robbie?” I coughed. “Margot Robbie, the double Oscar nominee who embodies every physical quality we have been collectively conditioned to desire? That Margot Robbie?” ncG1vNJzZmikkaq%2FprrJqJ%2Bnop%2BosrG0jaysm6uklrCsesKopGioX6Kus7POrWSrp5KXtqZ5yKxkp6ekYrWwwIyepaitl50%3D

Mary Boleyn - by Simon Haisell

Mary Boleyn (1499 – ), Anne’s older sister, grew up at the Burgundian and French courts and later became Henry VIII’s mistress. She married William Carey in 1520. “You are the elder Boleyn daughter, the beauty of the family, a sweet-natured but brave and passionate woman, and in your later twenties when this story starts.” Hilary Mantel, notes on characters In 1523, Cromwell tells Wolsey that Mary Boleyn is sleeping with the king.

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Meet the inmate who went viral for Listening to Taylor Swift in Prison

Joe Garcia knew that his recent New Yorker essay about Taylor Swift’s music was good. “I am very confident and narcissistic about my talent as a writer,” the 53-year-old journalist says. But Garcia never anticipated that the story would go viral like it did, with readers posting on social media about how the piece had moved them to tears. (“Fully cried in public reading this through,” one person tweeted. “Art and humanity are truly all we have.

Member of Reparations Committee served restraining order after threatening coworkers

Nikcole Cunningham, who serves on the California city’s 15-person African American Reparations Advisory Committee, was served with a restraining order from the City and County of San Francisco on Dec. 28, 2023, after threatening her coworkers. Cunningham, who has been employed by the San Francisco Human Services Agency (HSA) as a social worker since 2007, stated that she has been "homicidal many, many times.” In the restraining order (which you can read in its entirety here), HSA Executive Director Trent Rhorer says on or about December 7, 2023, an employee at the City's Health Service System (HSS), which coordinates health plans for San Francisco and other employers, notified him that long-term disability insurance provider Hartford had informed the City that Cunningham made a credible threat of workplace violence against HSA employees via a letter from Cunningham to Hartford.