"Description:
A woman in peril, a storm prolonged —
Consequences of a spell gone wrong.
Come together, quell the anger —
Unite to save a friend in danger!
Despite the fact that it's hurricane season, Phoebe, Piper and Paige decide to take a trip to the Sunshine State. After spending a few days at Phoebe's advice column seminar in Orlando, the Charmed Ones head a few miles north to pay a visit to Sharon Grant, Paige's best friend from college. They arrive just as a hurricane in South Florida changes course and starts heading towards them.
The three sisters soon discover that the dangerous storm isn't their only worry—it seems that Sharon has taken up practicing folk magic with a quirky neighbor who has an unhealthy obsession with Florida folklore. Aware that large storms can affect magic in mysterious and catastrophic ways, the Charmed Ones must batten down the hatches and convince their hostess and her friend to stop casting spells before they find themselves trapped in the eye of a real mess. "
"An actress since childhood (Who's the Boss?, Fear, Charmed, Mistresses) and an activist for nearly as long, Milano, has used her celebrity to amplify the voices of the marginalized for 30 years, and she’s just getting started.
As the reckoning over sexual harassment and abuse continues to empower survivors, Milano has devised the #StateoftheDream initiative to counter Donald Trump’s State of the Union address. The effort encourages anyone to create a 60-second (or less) video about their dreams for the nation and upload it to Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat, or Facebook; it goes live at 9 p.m. Eastern on Tuesday, just as Trump begins his speech.
“I was trying to figure out how we could empower people to have a rebuttal to the president,” Milano said. “It doesn't matter if your platform is 3.5 million people or six people around your dinner table. It's important to use whatever platform you have to affect positive change.”
A fierce ally in the fight against Trump’s draconian immigration stance, Milano named her counterprogramming initiative for the Dreamers, undocumented immigrants brought to this country as children and who face deportation from this administration if Congress doesn't stop it. #StateoftheDream videos can be about anything, though; Milano made her own on protecting children.
Since #StateoftheDream was announced, Milano has not only received requests from organizations on how they might participate, but people have shared their videos with her ahead of the event, some of which moved her to tears.
While giving voice to the people is one of the goals of the initiative, Milano also emphasized her goal for the platform to offer “blue wave candidates — the midterm candidates hoping to flip seats” a way to connect with constituents.
But Milano is so much more than an online activist. She's also proudly participated in the political process in a very pragmatic way.
“I like to drive people to the polls. I've been doing that since 2004. I started with the Kerry campaign and I will go to swing states and hit maybe four or five different states and on Election Day,” she said. “I'm a really big fan of the smallness of the political process,” she added, referencing activities like stuffing envelopes and phone banking, “I will fly anywhere. I just think it's part of a process that really makes me feel patriotic.”
Beyond Milano’s current support of Stacey Abrams for governor of Georgia and Laura Moser’s challenge to John Culberson, the Republican incumbent in Texas’s Seventh Congressional District, she has also considered stepping into politics in an even bigger way. "
"Description:
Breath of air, soul of fire,
Grant this night my heart's desire.
Womb of earth, tears of sea,
Bring my lover back to me.
The Halliwell sisters are no strangers to Halloween hijinks. But this year, the Wiccan celebration of Samhain is met with a rash of destruction throughout the city. Upon further investigation, the Charmed Ones learn that the demolished buildings they've heard about are actually melting. These sites are in fact the location of dimensional portals, and they're under attack.
Piper, Phoebe, and Paige will need to secure these barriers in order to prevent all havoc from being released. But the demon working against them is no ordinary monster; it's a wraith, the product of a grief-stricken young witch seeking to resurrect her lost love. And hell hath no fury like a woman scorned...."
"But there is one thing this new series needs to remember about its predecessor: it may have been about witches and warlocks and demons, but at its heart, Charmed was always about women fighting the horrors of their gender. In fact, it’s a lesson more genre shows should learn overall.
The first few seasons offer the ideal version of this format, as the Charmed Ones learned more about their powers, overcame their interpersonal issues, and were introduced to simpler bad guys than those who would come later as the stakes rose. In just the first two seasons alone, the sisters dealt with career troubles, run-ins with the law, and demonic bosses and boyfriends — all while attempting to balance their normal lives with their witchy ones.
But family played an even greater role in the show than just binding its main characters in an inescapable relationship. It also set the stage for those women to delve into and get to know their family history. Over the course of the series, whether in the early seasons or late, every one of the Halliwell brood comes to know and understand their family more deeply, whether it’s meeting their matriarch (and delivering her in some very time-wimey circumstances) or visiting past lives or even just learning more about their parents. Every season offered new insights into where they came from, and showed an appreciation for understanding that heritage.
It’s something very few supernatural shows tend to do, perhaps because very few shows these days actually focus on family — though many do focus on found families, which is a very different dynamic.
This new Charmed series is far from a done deal. The CW has so far only ordered a pilot episode into production and we won’t know whether they pick up the series for some time. The show’s executive producer, meanwhile, has been quick to point out that the creative team has made some noted changes to the original format, specifically choosing to give the show a “witches vs. the patriarchy” approach to its weekly episodes.
What that will actually look like, and whether it will be handled with the same nuance as the original show, remains to be seen. But even if this new generation of Charmed Ones doesn’t come to be, the original still has a great deal to teach us, our children, and television creators two decades after they first got their powers."
"Every week Project Runway All Stars incorporates a new theme. Like last week’s unconventional challenge, the designers need to find inspiration from a theme without being too literal. This week’s inspiration was a beauty product which needed to be interpreted into a superhero power. Unfortunately, literal interpretations caused a designer’s demise.
Have you ever had that moment when you put on the perfect outfit and feel empowered? This challenge embodied that feeling. Even though the designs were to have a “super power,” the real theme was women’s empowerment. The top designs showed a confident woman strutting down the catwalk.
This season of Project Runway All Stars has seen a few designers take control of the competition. Fabio and Anthony seem to be the judges’ favorites. Each week, these two designers come up with innovative and stunning looks to walk the runway. This week was no different.
Anthony’s pure white gown with voluminous sleeves was a vision. The delicately tailored dress highlighted a perfect neckline. While the bodice was sleek, the sleeves were the perfect contrast. The design was fashion forward and powerful.
While his superhero power story was a little strange, the dress didn’t need a story line. The model looked powerful and confident. It definitely made a fashion statement."
"The challenge for this episode required the designers to take inspiration from Rodial beauty products and translate those products into fierce designs to unleash their models’ inner superheroes.
Valentine got “Pink Diamond,” and she struggled early on to wrap her mind around the concept because she didn’t know much about superheroes and the color pink was outside of her comfort zone. But she put in extra effort — maybe too much effort? — to create a complex color-blocking pattern that created a strong, geometric effect on the runway.
“I really love the angles of the color-blocking,” said Amanda as her model strutted down the runway. “I think I did okay.” Frankly, I thought she did better than okay, so when she was called forward for critiques from the judges I thought at first that she was one of the high scorers — certainly not the contestant who would be eliminated.
Judge Georgina Chapman thought Valentine’s fabric was better suited to curtains, and Isaac Mizrahi said outright, “That dress was just bad.” Ultimately, even though the judges found Edmond Newton‘s look derivative and Merline Labissiere‘s look repetitive, it was Valentine who was sent home."
"McGowan tweeted at the time that Milano's defence of Georgina Chapman made her "want to vomit", and later criticised Milano and other Hollywood women for their organisation of the Time's Up movement. However, there's another strand to their falling out as well. Milano is married to David Bugliari, an agent with Hollywood's powerful Creative Artists Agency (CAA) firm.
Last autumn, CAA was accused by Courtney Love of blacklisting her for publicly speaking out against Weinstein long before this current scandal. All of this came to a head in an interview with McGowan for ABC News' Nightline, in which co-anchor Juju Chang asked directly about Milano's role in popularising the #MeToo movement on social media.
"I don't like her. Cause I think she's a lie," McGowan answered. "Do you think I don't know these people? I'm not looking at this from the outside. "I have a lot of experience. I know she's married to a CAA agent [David Bugliari]. Do the math. Who's behind Time's Up? CAA. Where do they meet? CAA. "Who needs good PR? CAA. Who are part of the pimp problem? CAA."
CAA declined to comment on those allegations. However, Milano herself did release a statement on Thursday (February 1) in an attempt to answer the criticisms leveled by her former co-star. "I am and always have been completely supportive of Rose and admire her bravery in speaking out about her experiences," Milano said.
"My goal throughout the past few months with both #MeToo and the Time's Up movement has been to use my platform to give others a voice so we can all work together to stamp out sexual harassment and sexual assault." McGowan also responded to ABC publicizing her falling out with Milano, tweeting: "Yeah, I knew this would be the pull quote, but the lie is a system, not an individual."
The 44-year-old actress has been making a series of media appearances this week to promote her docu-series Citizen Rose, which premiered in the US on E! on Tuesday. Earlier this week, McGowan also accused Weinstein of trying to publicly "slut shame" her for a press statement in which he dismissed her sexual assault allegations as a "bold lie"."
"Description:
Charmed: The Book of Love Spells is a collection of several spells from the show as well as information on several warlocks, demons, and other magical beings. It also has information about superstitions, herbs, etc. The book was published by Running Press on September 8th, 2004. It's very small in size.
Enter the magical world of the Charmed Ones and fall under the spell of the enchanting Halliwell sisters. Are they just lucky in love, or have they had a little help from the incantations, potions, and inside information included in this book? Being a witch has its advantages. Piper, Phoebe, and Paige now share some of their secrets so guard them wisely. Charmed®: The Book of Love Spells is a must-have companion for this hit — and hip — TV show."
"It is confirmed that CW has officially ordered a pilot of the Charmed remake. Speculation that it was to be a prequel has finally been squashed and we now know that the redeveloped script will set the action in a college town the present day. Writers Amy Rardin and Jessica O’Toole from Jane the Virgin are on board.It appears that none of the original cast or any of those creatively connected with the show are to have an input into the reboot.
Charmed launched in October of 1998 and ran for a total of 8 seasons. The show followed the fortunes of three sisters who discover they are witches, happily the kind of good witch hell bent on fighting for good against menace and evil. The powerful sister witches struggle to balance their evil fighting mission with preserving their secret identities and pursuing relationships. The members of the coven were played by Shannen Doherty, Alyssa Milano and Holly Marie Combs. Shannen’s character Prue was killed off at the end of series three and replaced by Rose McGowan, the reunited long lost half-sister of the siblings.
Combs has weighed in with her views, describing the reboot as simply a way of cashing in on the massive cult following and huge fan base that the original enjoyed. Combs appeared to be especially miffed by the inclusion of the description “feminist”, taking to social media to pour her disdain and tweeting “Guess we forgot to do that the first go around. Hmph”. Sour grapes may be part of her cynicism as the actress made it clear that in her view the show belonged to the 4 of them.
Shannen has also weighed in although she’s taken a softer line. She engaged with her fans on Twitter about the projected show and claimed to be maintaining an open mind. The actress indicated that she was highly intrigued by the notion of the reboot. In response to a fan who pointed out that a show with strong female roles was a good thing, Shannen wholeheartedly agreed. She did berate the show’s promoters for a “terrible, offensive description” but added that it was a mistake and that she’d made a few herself. Shannen is currently involved in a remake of Heathers, another girl power original which is itching for a millennial treatment.
While undoubtedly Charmed the original show was a Girl Power show for a generation that was raised on Girl Power revising history to describe it as feminist may be a stretch. Undoubtedly it was a show about women who kick ass and that’s to be applauded but “feminist” implies a more complex take and arguably less fan-service when it comes to the costumes of the three beautiful stars. Whether the reboot delivers flawed, well written and consistent characters who really are intent on “tearing down the Patriarchy” remains to be seen. One thing is for certain all the controversy has everyone talking about the remake even before the pilot has been cast."
"But if that’s not enough, for the past two decades Mizrahi has been performing with his band lead by pianist and music director Ben Waltzer. “It’s like when I began designing clothes. It just started happening,” says Mizrahi.
“When I was a kid I put on shows on street corners, in my alleyway, at the beach club and did impressions of Barbra Streisand, Judy Garland and Liza Minnelli. People would crowd around me. It was a way expressing myself.”
This month, Mizrahi returns to the glamorous Café Carlyle for his all-new show, Isaac Mizrahi: Moderate to Severe. He and his talented jazz musicians, led by Waltzer, will perform a variety of classics from Bob Dylan to Blondie as he dishes about his life. “Cabaret is inches away from throwing a really good party,” explains Mizrahi.
Another allure is the extreme intimacy of the historic Café Carlyle. “You are literally standing across the table from people having dinner. And you happen to have a band with you and be singing sometimes. There is something about that room that’s a cabaret vortex. It makes me feel so free to experiment.”"
"Description:
Three-ring acts and thrice-told tales
Bring threefold power that never fails.
Gypsy legends, Gypsy lore,
Gypsy demons haunt no more
Prue is in a serious funk. Her latest photo assignment for 415 is an in-depth article about the Carnival Cavalcade — circus acts in a tent, and a midway with games and food. Prue hates circuses, but Piper and Phoebe are up for meeting the tattooed snake-charmer, clowns, and especially Ivan, the handsome Gypsy animal trainer. But a dark sign seems to mark him, and Phoebe has a vision of Piper — strangled by a handsome stranger!
Could Ivan be a demon in disguise? A mysterious fire and a tragic death compel the Charmed Ones to use their gifts. Now it's the Power of Three against the magic of ancient Gypsy forces!"
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