I’m not surprised. Kate has genuine interests beyond getting photographed and having her name in the papers. Megs has just chased money and fame. Neither of those really help you talk to people who aren’t going to kiss your ass and tell you that you’re the most wonderful thing ever.
I’m very amused by the coverage though. The bar is set so low at this point that they praise her for closing the car door. Even I am sitting here typing “well, at least the dress was ironed and the hair was kind of combed.”
This video? I do think she looks very confident, but, to be fair, Kate was an art history major so this was kind of her thing. I’m sure she was very excited about the exhibition.
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“The opening prologue to the film is very important for me because this shows how mom and dad meet. And why I think it’s important is because… the love story of Arthur and Mera is important, but the love story of mom and dad, and how they meet, and fall in love, is just as important, if not more important. The emotion that we have with those two characters is the sort of the emotional backbone for the whole film.
And my whole movie is sort of built around how Arthur feels because of how Atlantis has kind of has basically … He has a chip on his shoulder with Atlantis because of what he blames Atlantis did to his mother. And so, that is like the backbone for the whole film. And I think, it’s an important thing to kind of lay out, because it sets up the whole movie.” James Wan on the opening scene of Aquaman (2018)
I agree. it will be up into a big “will she go or won’t she go” frenzy during the tour and then she’ll show up in Tonga and everyone will be told that “her uterus is no one’s business.”
Pffft, Harry barely gets coverage now. A solo trip to Fiji and Tonga will barely cause a publicity ripple. Heck, if Meghan stays in Australia because she’s pregnant, it may be that most of the press core stays in Sydney hoping to see her attend the Games. The coverage will be all about her pregnancy and Fiji and Tonga will be an afterthought.
Fiji and Tonga have spent tons of money in the hopes of a tourism boost, and it will all have been for naught. Sweden didn’t need the tourism press and they didn’t spend much (if anything) on Will and Kate’s Brexit visit, which, in any case, was only postponed until later (and Kate’s pregnancy gave it even more coverage then). Fiji and Tonga will have thrown a lot of money down the drain.
Actually, it’s even worse. If she skips the islands because of Zika, it will be worldwide news and it will actually HARM their tourism. Can you imagine the headlines? It will be wall-to-wall coverage in Australia, which is probably their main tourism market. The cancellation will cost them tons of tourism money and the effect could very well last years.
Puerto Rico lost $28 million in tourism money due to a Zika scare.
If Ms. “OMG, I love the Commonwealth and all of their pretty flowers and I’m now totes in charge of it” cancels her tour because of freaking Zika, it will have huge negative repercussions. No one thought “oh, I better cancel my fjords cruise because of Kate,” but tons of people will go “oh, I didn’t know Zika was still a problem I better go to Hawaii or Bali instead.” Sweden didn’t lose squat because Kate cancelled. These islands can potentially lose a ton of money.
So I don’t understand why people are being so blasé about this. If Meghan is pregnant, then Fiji and Tonga are royally (literally) screwed. Their choices are “Meghan braves Zika and risks her baby’s health for royal duty” headlines, or “Duchess is heartbroken about having to cancel due to the Zika warning but she can’t possibly put her baby’s health at risk.” Either way THEY ARE TOAST.
This isn’t a small matter. These are millions of dollars in tourism revenue.
If she’s pregnant, the only alternative is to continue the tour and claim that the risk is minimal and she’s dousing herself with bug spray, but then you have royals going around telling people that they can ignore government warnings because the government is a hysterical nanny.
It’s a lose-lose-lose situation for everyone. That’s why I don’t think she’s pregnant.
I really like the headpiece itself. I think with the dress and the bag it’s a bit matchy matchy. Even for Kate, who loves matchy matchy. It’s just very blue. But I like the piece and I’m all for this new experimentation she’s doing with her headpieces. I would love that to continue. Anyway, she has indeed worn that outfit before, without the hat thing. She wore it when they arrived in Berlin:
The DC film will open Feb. 7 2020, the studio announced Monday. Margot Robbie reprises her Suicide Squad role as Harley Quinn, with Cathy Yan directing. The female-centered teamup movie will screen in IMAX.
The studio has been testing actresses to star opposite Robbie as Black Canary and Huntress. A Wrinkle in Time’s Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Underground’s Jurnee Smolett-Bell and Hidden Figures star Janelle Monae are among those in the running to play Black Canary, sources told The Hollywood Reporter last week. For Huntress, stars in contention include The Leftovers’ Margaret Qualley, 10 Cloverfield Lane’s Mary Elizabeth Winstead and How I Met Your Mother’s Cristin Milioti.
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