PEOPLE
NEW YORK — Rihanna believes women of all shapes, colors and sizes should be celebrated, and that spirit of inclusion has made her lingerie and beauty lines massive successes.
“Women just need a little bit of validation,” the superstar explained ahead of her Savage X Fenty fashion show last week.
“You are beautiful. Your body's beautiful. Your body's sexy and you deserve to feel that way,” she added.
That mission will be showcased Friday as Amazon Prime Video streams her New York Fashion Week show for Savage X Fenty in more than 200 countries and territories. The event's army of models included women of all sizes in a range of ethnicities and skin tones.
“We need to make stuff that's real and looks like the world,” rapper Rapsody said of how Rihanna is changing the fashion and beauty game. “The world comes in so many shapes and different colors.”
Rihanna opened the Sept. 10 show dressed in a sexy lace bodysuit, a black bra top and a black velvet miniskirt.
LOS ANGELES — Before Beau Bridges played roles in “The Fabulous Baker Boys,” “The Second Civil War,” “Homeland” and other movies and TV shows, he played basketball at UCLA. And though he played for only one season, he stayed in contact with his coach: John Wooden, who guided the Bruins to an unprecedented 10 national championships in the 1960s and '70s.Bridges, 77, will portray the late American sports icon in a new one-person play, “Coach: An Evening With John Wooden.” The piece brings audiences into Wooden's modest Encino “den” for a session of his signature retirement pastime: storytelling.
LOS ANGELES — Actor George Takei says he's determined to keep talking about the imprisonment of his family and 120,000 other Japanese Americans during World War II because he wants a new generation to know what happened and fight similar injustices today.Last week, Takei recounted the morning his father abruptly woke him and his younger brother to get dressed and pack. They were going on vacation, his father explained to 5-year-old Takei as his mother bundled up his baby sister and the few belongings they could carry.Armed soldiers forced Takei's family from their Boyle Heights home and imprisoned them in a Santa Anita racetrack horse stall that reeked of manure.“I thought everyone went on vacations escorted by soldiers,” Takei told the Los Angeles Times Book Club at the Montalbán Theatre.Takei and his family were shipped to internment camps in Arkansas and Northern California, spending four years behind barbed wire. His new graphic memoir, “They Called Us Enemy,” is told through the eyes of a child growing up incarcerated, detailing the day-to-day hardships and humiliating experiences of the camps.At 82, Takei is reliving the World War II era in his role on “The Terror: Infamy,” an AMC series set in a Japanese American community.
