Happy Friday! It's been a full week over here and I'm ready for a weekend. And how about those Olympics! We've been staying up late trying to keep up with all the action. I did take a break to write my Five on Friday post. Here they are ~
1. Elizabeth Taylor - The Lost Tapes
Elizabeth Taylor has always captivated me. HBO has a new show premiering Saturday about her that seems quite intriguing. In 1964 she recorded 40 hours of interviews, and now we get to hear them. Here's the summary ~
Elizabeth Taylor: The Lost Tapes allows Elizabeth Taylor’s own voice to narrate her story, inviting audiences to rediscover not just a megastar of Hollywood’s Golden Age but a complex woman who navigated lifelong fame, personal identity, and public scrutiny on a global stage from an early childhood. Through newly recovered interviews with Taylor and unprecedented access to the movie star’s personal archive, the film reveals the complex inner life and vulnerability of the Hollywood legend while also challenging audiences to recontextualize her achievements and her legacy.
HBO Documentary Films presents Elizabeth Taylor: The Lost Tapes, a Zipper Bros film, Gerber Pictures, Sutter Road Picture Company, and Bad Robot production in association with House of Taylor. Director, Nanette Burstein; producers, J.J. Abrams, Sean Stuart, Glen Zipper, Bill Gerber, and Rachel Rusch Rich; executive producers, Nanette Burstein, Barbara Berkowitz, Tim Mendelson, and Quinn Tivey. For HBO: executive producers, Nancy Abraham, Lisa Heller, and Sara Rodriguez.
Say the word "wedding" and I'm all ears. So when I saw the title of this book I was immediately intrigued. I was even more intrigued when I saw it was a Today Show #ReadwithJenna Book Club pick. It was released this week and here's the summary ~
A propulsive and uncommonly wise novel about one unexpected wedding guest and the surprising people who help her start anew.
It’s a beautiful day in Newport, Rhode Island, when Phoebe Stone arrives at the grand Cornwall Inn wearing a green dress and gold heels, not a bag in sight, alone. She's immediately mistaken by everyone in the lobby for one of the wedding people, but she’s actually the only guest at the Cornwall who isn’t here for the big event. Phoebe is here because she’s dreamed of coming for years—she hoped to shuck oysters and take sunset sails with her husband, only now she’s here without him, at rock bottom, and determined to have one last decadent splurge on herself. Meanwhile, the bride has accounted for every detail and every possible disaster the weekend might yield except for, well, Phoebe and Phoebe's plan—which makes it that much more surprising when the two women can’t stop confiding in each other.
In turns absurdly funny and devastatingly tender, Alison Espach’s The Wedding People is ultimately an incredibly nuanced and resonant look at the winding paths we can take to places we never imagined—and the chance encounters it sometimes takes to reroute us.
Even though our temps have been in the 90s, I've been thinking about Fall. I saw this oversized sweatshirt on sale for under $10 at Amazon and bought one. The price was low and so were my expectations, but I was very pleasantly surprised! It's the perfect weight for those cool evenings. I'm not sure how long it will stay on sale, so grab it while you can!
Is your closet getting a bit cramped? Sending a kid off to college and knowing their closet space is limited? A few years ago I purchased these pants hangers and they saved so much space! Each hanger will hold 5 pairs of pants. This pack of three will let you hang 15 pairs of pants! The swinging arm makes getting your pants on and off so easy. Love them!
Now it's back to the Olympic events! We've got a fun weekend ahead. Tonight we're going to our small group Bible study and then on Sunday, we're celebrating our daughter-in-law's birthday. See you back next week!
That books sounds fabulous! I am sucker for any book that centers around a wedding.
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