Style Icon: Nicole Richie

Nicole Richie is a fashion designer, author, actress, and TV personality. She went from a wild partying fashion disaster to beautiful style icon. What You Fancy Nicole Richie has lead a rather full life, from starring in The Simple Life, with Paris Hilton, to starring in her own scripted reality show, Candidly Nicole. Photo Credit: (clockwise) Refinery 29, InStyle, Mail Online, Obsession Photo Nicole Richie has come a long way in her young life. She has been arrested for drugs and drunk driving. She has written two novels – The Truth About Diamond and Priceless. She is a mentor on […]

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Finally, A Movie My Husband Liked

My husband and I watched a movie that he actually liked. The Equalizer. Rotten Tomatoes The movie stars Denzel Washington as Robert McCall, who sets out to rescue, of sorts, Teri (played by Chloe Grace Moretz), a teenager who gets roughed up by Russian mobsters. Huffington Post In the process, he uses his specific set of skills to help out some people who are close to him. The movie takes place in Boston, Mass. Marton Csokas stars as the bad guy, Teddy, who makes it his mission to take down Robert McCall, but not before McCall takes out more than […]

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Book Review: Gillian Flynn’s Gone Girl

“On the occasion of his fifth wedding anniversary, Nick Dunne reports that his wife, Amy, has gone missing. Under pressure from the police and a growing media frenzy, Nick’s portrait of a blissful union begins to crumble. Soon his lies, deceits and strange behavior have everyone asking the same dark question: Did Nick Dunne kill his wife?” (Written by Twentieth Century Fox, IMDb) Pinterest Gillian Flynn’s Gone Girl is an edge-of-the-seat thrill ride. I decided that before I watched this highly anticipated movie, that I would listen to the audiobook. And boy, am I glad I did. I still haven’t […]

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The Greatest Art Heist in History

“In the end, our society will be defined not only by what we create, but by what we refuse to destroy.” – John C. Sawhill “You can wipe out an entire generation, you can burn their homes to the ground and somehow they’ll still find their way back. But if you destroy their history, you destroy their achievements and it’s as if they never existed. That’s what Hitler wants and that’s exactly what we are fighting for.” – Frank Stokes, The Monuments Men BuzzFeed George Clooney and Grant Heslov once again hit it out the ballpark with this movie, based […]

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“About Time” is A Great Love Story

I haven’t watched a movie in quite a while in which I laughed out loud and cried so hard, but About Time touched my heart strings so powerfully. Photo Source: IMDb This movie is more that just a love story between Tim (played by Domhnall Gleeson) and Mary (played by Rachel McAdams). It is a story about the love between a father and son, as well as the loving bond between a brother and sister. Photo Source: blogs.lanacion.com.ar “Tim: I always knew we were a fairly odd family. First there was me. Too tall, too skinny, too orange. My mum […]

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