Her castmates on the present shortly found out she was anticipating as she had excessive morning illness. “I used to be on set, and I used to be throwing up and having make-out scenes with my costars proper after,” Daddario tells me. “By week 5, I used to be like, ‘There’s no means I’m going to have the ability to conceal this.’”

Admittedly, she wasn’t doing one of the best job of hiding it anyway. When somebody requested if she needed a turkey sandwich, Daddario instructed the crew she couldn’t have deli meats. Her costar Ben Feldman requested if she was pregnant. When she tried to be nonchalant about it, he responded: “Nicely, why are you saying no deli meat?”

A good level. So Daddario fessed up. Plus: “I used to be like, ‘If I inform my job that I’m pregnant, I’m going to get a number of day without work to go throw up in peace,’” she says. Did it work? “No,” she responds, laughing. “[However] I’ve fantastic costars who’ve youngsters, and everybody was very understanding about making out with a nauseous, vomiting woman.”

However nobody understood greater than the nameless customers of Reddit. At first, she logged on to lurk on mother message boards, scrolling posts that mentioned extreme nausea. Now, she reads it for nearly all the pieces: “I’m like, ‘Ought to I be doing Solidcore at 14 weeks? Higher verify with Reddit on this.’” She additionally turned an obsessive reader of research: after discovering a number of that stated prenatal yoga results in a neater start, she’s now an energetic practitioner.

She laughs by means of many tales she tells me, with most taking the type of humorous anecdotes. Till they don’t: “I really feel like now that I’m pregnant and it’s all profitable and all the pieces’s wholesome, I shouldn’t complain,” Daddario says, her smile wavering. She needs me to know she’s overjoyed with being pregnant. Which is one thing she didn’t permit herself to really feel for a really very long time: “Nicely, I had been pregnant,” she says earlier than trailing off. Then, “I had loss.”

“It’s lengthy and complex, so I don’t need to be too particular,” she says softly. “These sorts of losses and trauma are very onerous to clarify until you’ve been by means of them. I actually relate to all the ladies who’ve been by means of these sorts of issues in a means that I didn’t perceive absolutely earlier than. It’s very, very painful.” Morning illness and yoga, I realise, had been doubtless removed from the one subjects she was looking out about anonymously.

The unique county venue is internet hosting the Genesis Scottish Open for the sixth consecutive 12 months.

Tens of hundreds of followers are anticipated to line the fairways between right now and Sunday to cheer on stars together with defending champion Rory McIlroy, three-time Main winner and former world primary Jordan Spieth, two-time Main winner Collin Morikawa, and 2023 US Open champion Wyndham Clark.

Every of the winners from the earlier 5 Scottish Opens – Bernd Wiesberger, Aaron Rai, Min Woo Lee, Xander Schauffele and McIlroy – will probably be competing over the 4 days.

Reigning Olympic champion Schauffele was wanting ahead to returning to The Renaissance Membership after profitable the event in 2022.

Xander Schauffele has fond reminiscences of The Renaissance Membership after profitable the Scottish Open on the East Lothian course in 2022. Picture: Gordon Bell

The American arrives in Scotland in sensational type, having gained his maiden Main title on the US PGA Championship in Could and recorded 10 different top-10 finishes on the PGA Tour since 2024 started.

Previous to claiming his first Main championship crown at Valhalla Golf Membership two months in the past, the world quantity three’s final journey to the winner’s circle got here at this occasion, and he has fond reminiscences of that week.

He stated: “I used to be coming off no wins, just like what simply occurred.

“I didn’t win for a few years. I used to be in a position to win Stateside, after which to journey over right here straight after and win once more, it was actually cool.

“I used to be tremendous proud and it’s one thing I’m nonetheless pleased with, simply to have the ability to win, in fact, but additionally in a totally completely different nation is a extremely robust factor to do and a testomony to kind of consistency and good sport planning.

“So it was a giant win for my staff and myself, and people back-to-backs are vital.”

Xander Schauffele has fond reminiscences of The Renaissance Membership after profitable the Scottish Open on the East Lothian course in 2022. Picture: Gordon Bell

The 30-year-old completed one-stroke forward of Kurt Kitayama in the summertime of 2022 to go residence with €1,378,143.20.

Final 12 months, he needed to accept a share of forty second spot as McIlroy dashed Scottish hopes by edging out residence favorite Robert MacIntyre.

Schauffele, who gained Olympic gold in Tokyo three years in the past, was wanting ahead to getting again to taking part in in Scotland – per week earlier than Royal Troon hosts The Open.

He stated: “I really like coming right here and I really like coming abroad, taking part in throughout the pond and slowly acclimating myself and yeah, simply excited for the week.

“There’s simply an appreciation.

“Not that every one followers don’t respect golf however there’s a deeper appreciation right here.

“They know what a superb shot seems to be like.

“Like while you hit 140 yards from the pin, they know when that’s a superb shot they usually clap, and that’s at all times good.”

MacIntyre, who has been ranked at 40-1 to win the event, is one in every of eight Scottish golfers competing.

Becoming a member of MacIntyre (teeing off at 8.28am) on the fairways will probably be Grant Forrest (1.43pm), who lives in Pencaitland, in addition to Connor Syme (7.11am), David Regulation (7.44am), Scott Jamieson (12.37pm), Richie Ramsay (12.48pm), Ewen Ferguson (1.54pm) and Calum Hill (2.05pm).

Every will probably be aiming to safe the profitable prize of $1.6 million and develop into the primary Scotsman to win the event since Colin Montgomerie at Loch Lomond 25 years in the past.

Lena Dunham has dropped out of directing a movie in regards to the Polly Pocket dolls, saying she did not assume she might replicate what Greta Gerwig achieved with Barbie.

The actor and director informed The New Yorker: “I am not going to make the Polly Pocket film. I wrote a script, and I used to be engaged on it for 3 years.”

Dunham, who created and starred in US TV comedy Ladies, was enlisted to direct the Polly Pocket movie in 2021.

It was additionally introduced that Emily In Paris star Lily Collins would play the lead doll.

Robbie Brenner, the producer who runs toy firm Mattel’s movie division, informed Selection final yr that the script was “nice” and Dunham “is so collaborative and rolls up her sleeves and actually likes to roll round in notes and hear”.

Nevertheless, Dunham has now mentioned she would battle to place her personal private stamp on it in the best way Gerwig did with Barbie.

Barbie took $1.44bn (£1.2bn) on the field workplace, making Gerwig essentially the most profitable solo feminine director ever.

“I feel Greta did this unimaginable feat, which was to make this factor that was actually sweet to so many alternative sorts of individuals and was completely and divinely Greta,” Dunham added.

“And I simply – I felt like, except I can do it that method, I’m not going to do it.

“I don’t assume I’ve that in me.

“I really feel like the subsequent film I make must really feel like a film that I completely must make. No-one however me might make it.

“And I did assume different folks might make Polly Pocket.”

Polly Pocket is simply one of many movies Mattel has within the pipeline following Barbie’s success.

Different tasks embrace Barney, produced by Get Out actor Daniel Kaluuya, and Scorching Wheels, produced by Star Wars and Star Trek director JJ Abrams.

Regardless of Dunham’s withdrawal, a Mattel spokesperson informed The Hollywood Reporter they nonetheless hope to make the Polly Pocket movie.

Dunham is at the moment engaged on Too A lot, a Netflix sequence loosely primarily based on her life, along with her husband musician Luis Felber.

The plot follows the lead character, performed by Megan Stalter, assembly a punk musician, performed by Will Sharpe, in London after a break-up in New York.

Dunham mentioned she didn’t need to star in it herself due to the physique shaming she skilled after showing as Hannah Horvath in Ladies.

“I knew from the very starting I’d not be the star of it,” she mentioned.

“First, as a result of I had seen Meg Stalter’s work, and I used to be very impressed by her. She’s unbelievable.

“I additionally assume that I used to be not keen to have one other expertise like what I’d skilled round Ladies at this level in my life.

“Bodily, I used to be simply not up for having my physique dissected once more.

“It was a tough alternative – to not solid Meg, as a result of I knew I needed Meg – however to confess that to myself.”

The stone plaque is being displayed beside the 18th gap at The Renaissance Membership, close to Dirleton, as a tribute to Rory McIlroy’s 2-iron shot from 202 yards which arrange the Northern Irish golfer’s successful birdie finally yr’s championship.

The membership contacted R French Stonemasonry Ltd with the wording they had been keen on having engraved.

The county enterprise then gave the golf membership choices for fonts, kinds and supplies.

Enterprise proprietor Ryan French mentioned: “The font used on the plaque is a Celtic model, which we discovered becoming as Rory is Irish. This offers it a little bit of a private contact.

“The method of carving a plaque like this takes hours of cautious chiselling and years of observe.

“This commemorative plaque has been hand-carved utilizing pure slate. The slate is fastidiously carved utilizing a dummy hammer and chisel, then the inscription has been completed with 24ct gold leaf.”

Ryan, who’s initially from North Berwick and is now primarily based in East Linton, has not performed a lot golf himself in recent times however mentioned that his grandmother as soon as dreamed of him being an expert.

He added: “I sadly received’t be making the Scottish Open this yr as a result of being busy within the workshop, however I want everybody the very best of luck and I’m glad we had been capable of present this plaque for Renaissance in time.

“As a neighborhood lad, it’s nice to have been capable of get entangled and play my half.”

Like all millennial girl who grew up chewing on plastic Polly Pocket garments (It’s a factor!), I used to be excited once I first heard, again in 2021, that the teeny, tiny doll would heart a enormous Hollywood film starring Lily Collins and helmed by none aside from Women creator, Lena Dunham.

But once I learn yesterday that Dunham had dropped out of writing and directing Mattel’s Polly Pocket film, I felt an odd sense of…reduction?

“I believe Greta [Gerwig] managed this unbelievable feat [with Barbie], which was to make this factor that was actually sweet to so many alternative varieties of individuals and was completely and divinely Greta,” Dunham informed New Yorker author Rachel Syme by the use of clarification. “And I simply—I felt like, until I can do it that approach, I’m not going to do it. I don’t suppose I’ve that in me. I really feel like the following film I make must really feel like a film that I completely must make. Nobody however me may make it. And I did suppose different folks may make Polly Pocket.”

I noticed Barbie 3 times in theaters (carrying pink every time), so I’m the final particular person to leap on the anti-toy-movie bandwagon, however there’s one thing deeply refreshing about seeing Dunham step away from this explicit challenge. Hasn’t it been exhausting, watching the powers that govern Hollywood comply with up anyone hit with a slew of pale imitations? I imply, do we actually want Barney and Sizzling Wheels motion pictures to attempt to recapture the magic of Barbenheimer? (Or, for that matter, a sequel to each aughts film ever made?)

I genuinely suppose that Dunham may have made a Polly Pocket film that I might have loved watching, however I love her for realizing when to step again and concentrate on creating unique artwork, as a substitute of simply churning out extra Mattel IP that may’t presumably stand as much as the pre-press-tour magic of Barbie. Progress—it comes for us all, in the long run!

At 11.57pm yesterday (Wed 10 July) we acquired a report of a person with a suitcase appearing suspiciously on Clifton Suspension Bridge.

Officers arrived on the bridge inside 10 minutes, however the man had already left the realm, leaving the suitcase behind. A second suitcase was positioned close by a short while later.

Sadly, it’s believed the suitcases comprise human stays.

Our Main Crime Investigation Staff has launched an investigation. Finding the person who left the suitcases and figuring out the deceased are our priorities.

Appearing Bristol Commander Vicks Hayward-Melen stated: “It is a very disturbing incident and I totally recognise the priority will probably be inflicting our communities.

”The investigation is being led by our Main Crime Investigation Staff and entails specialist officers from throughout our organisation.

“Our rapid precedence is to find the person who took the suitcases to the bridge, determine the deceased, and inform their subsequent of kin.”

She added: “A search of the realm was carried out on the bottom with the assist of the Nationwide Police Air Service and HM Coastguard after the invention. These searches stay ongoing.

”Preliminary enquiries have established the person was taken to the bridge in a taxi. This automobile has been seized and the driving force helps us with our enquiries.

”Specialist crime scene investigators are at the moment analyzing the bridge and surrounding space and the bridge will stay closed whereas these enquiries are performed.

”A forensic postmortem examination will happen later at present.

”There may be at the moment an elevated police presence within the space and anybody who has considerations is inspired to talk to an officer.”

When you have any info which might assist our investigation, please name 101 and quote reference quantity 5224180010.

Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez launched articles of impeachment towards the conservative US supreme courtroom justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito on Wednesday over the justices’ “sample of refusal to recuse from consequential issues earlier than the courtroom”.

The articles of impeachment are unlikely to realize traction within the US Home, which is managed by Republicans. The trouble follows calls from two US senators, Sheldon Whitehouse and Ron Wyden, for the US lawyer normal to nominate a particular counsel to analyze potential felony violations of federal ethics and tax legal guidelines by Thomas.

“Justice Thomas and Alito’s repeated failure over a long time to reveal that they acquired hundreds of thousands of {dollars} in presents from people with enterprise earlier than the courtroom is explicitly towards the legislation. And their refusal to recuse from the particular issues and circumstances earlier than the courtroom through which their benefactors and spouses are implicated represents nothing lower than a constitutional disaster,” Ocasio-Cortez, a Democrat from New York, mentioned in an announcement.

The articles had been supported by seven different Democrats within the Home.

Ocasio-Cortez continued: “The unchecked corruption disaster on the supreme courtroom has now spiraled right into a constitutional disaster threatening American democracy writ massive.”

Reporting by the information outlet ProPublica revealed that Thomas didn’t disclose a number of luxurious trip journeys that had been paid for by Harlan Crow, a conservative megadonor. Thomas has additionally been pressed to recuse himself from circumstances involving the January 6 US Capitol assault and Donald Trump as a result of his spouse, Ginni, is concerned with teams that had been linked to the revolt.

The decision filed towards Thomas accommodates three articles of impeachment. The primary focuses on his failure to reveal presents from Crow. The second two contain his refusal to recuse himself from circumstances linked to his spouse.

Alito additionally took a trip with and flew on a non-public jet chartered by Paul Singer, a Republican billionaire. Moreover, Alito refused to recuse himself from circumstances involving the assault on the US Capitol after it was reported that his spouse, Martha-Ann, flew an upside-down American flag related to the revolt at their Virginia residence. Additional, the Alitos flew a flag related to Christian nationalism at a seaside residence in New Jersey.

Ocasio-Cortez filed two articles of impeachment towards Alito. One focuses on his failure to reveal luxurious journey and the opposite on his refusal to recuse himself from January 6 circumstances.

Alito and Thomas had been each a part of a majority opinion earlier this month saying that former presidents have immunity from prosecution for official acts, a serious win for Trump. They each additionally had been within the majority in a case narrowing the grounds underneath which January 6 members will be criminally prosecuted.

Supreme courtroom justices have broad discretion over whether or not to recuse themselves from a given case – one thing that units them other than different justices. Going through stress after ProPublica’s reporting, the courtroom’s 9 justices formalized a code of conduct final November, a transfer that was seen as a step in the precise path, however nonetheless weak.

Las Vegas’ prodigal sons The Killers have been awarded two Guinness World Report titles for his or her blockbuster 2003 track ‘Mr Brightside.’

Forward of their first live performance of their London The O2 residency on Monday (eighth July), Guinness World Data adjudicator Will Munford offered The Killers’ Brandon Flowers, Dave Keuning and Ronnie Vannucci Jr. with their two awards.

‘Mr Brightside’ was awarded the ‘Most cumulative weeks on the UK singles chart (one track)’ Guinness World Report title, after racking up an astonishing 416 weeks within the Prime 100 of the UK’s Official Singles Chart as of 4th July 2024.

The second Guinness World Report was ‘The longest keep on the UK singles chart by a bunch’ – additionally 416 weeks.

In complete, ‘Mr Brightside’ has spent a complete of just about eight years within the Prime 100, throughout 60 separate chart runs, since its launch 20 years in the past.

Reflecting on the enduring enchantment of ‘Mr Brightside’ backstage at The O2, Brandon Flowers stated: “It’s infectious nonetheless to us, I do know some folks can’t wrap their head round it, however you’ll see the response (whenever you see it dwell).

“It’s powerful to not be touched by it or be excited by it and there’s going to be folks tonight who’ve by no means seen it dwell, there’ll be some individuals who’ve seen it 45 instances.

“And we simply don’t get bored with it.”

Guinness World Data Adjudicator Will Munford, added: “‘Mr Brightside’ has crammed numerous dancefloors and been chargeable for many end-of-night singalongs for the reason that mid-2000s.

“It was an honour to current The Killers with two Guinness World Data titles for the track, it’s a testomony to its capacity to be cherished throughout generations and stand the take a look at of time as one of many all-time classics.”

‘Mr Brightside’ was first launched in 2003 and re-released in 2004. The monitor, which was the primary single from the band’s debut album Scorching Fuss, reached its peak place of No.10 on 5 June 2004. Extremely, it spent only one week – its opening week in 2004 – within the Prime 20 and 7 weeks within the Prime 40.

In Could 2024, the Official Charts Firm revealed that it had grow to be the UK’s largest single by no means to have reached No.1, having amassed 5.57 million mixed items (1.066 million gross sales and 530.34 million streams).

At The Killers’ third London The O2 present on Wednesday night time (tenth July), the band launched into ‘Mr Brightside’ on the actual second the ultimate whistle blew for England’s Euros 2024 semi-final win in opposition to The Netherlands.

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