"Her words were met with skepticism. Commenters criticized Milano for ignoring others who said they’ve long tried to send her similar messages. Some users accused her of ignoring their calls to stop selling Washington Redskins apparel through her Touch line of sports team-themed clothing for women.
Milano will have plenty of opportunity to address the issue again, if she wants, on the “Sorry Not Sorry” podcast examining social, political and cultural issues that she launched last month."
"The past year and a half has been one sustained Alyssa "Freaking" Milano moment, which isn't about to stop.
Last week, and this being 2019, she launched a weekly podcast, Sorry Not Sorry, with guests such as Joe Biden and Burke. In October, Scholastic Books will publish the first volume of her Hope series about an African-American middle schooler, which is intended to empower children age 8 and older to forge social change.
For the 2020 election, Milano plans to raise $1 million, and another $1 million through matching funds, for grassroots voter turnout efforts in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Michigan.
As an actor, she's adored by fans — Samantha Micelli! Phoebe Halliwell! — who may loathe her politics. In Alabama, where she campaigned for Democrat Doug Jones, Republican voters mobbed her for selfies. She's relentless on social media to her 3.5 million Twitter followers — more than Beto O'Rourke and Pete Buttigieg combined. Milano's largely impervious to criticism and threats while receiving plenty of both. "I feel like they're screaming in the wind," she says of her trolls.
"Boots on the ground" is Milano's motto, pointing to her black Doc Martens (ever ready, stashed in the car). She has been a UNICEF ambassador since 2003. Being present and empathetic are key to her activism. She's become the sitcom confessor, the repository of #MeToo stories from strangers, whom she welcomes with hugs and her cell number, asking them to text and stay in touch. And she frequently disarms critics by being someone they don't expect her to be. "I'm not trying to take away your guns," she tells firearm owners while, on her website, threatening to "sue the pants off" the NRA. "We're actually a two-gun household."
Filming Insatiable in Atlanta became a political opportunity. "There's a lot of good trouble to get into in Georgia," says the actress, who has a professor come to the house monthly to teach her constitutional law. Milano is "a committed, passionate fighter and advocate for reproductive rights in Georgia and nationally," notes former gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams in an email.
After the release of the Pennsylvania grand jury report on sex abuse in the Catholic Church, Milano contacted state attorney general Josh Shapiro via Twitter offering to help survivors. "Now we talk or text several times a week," says Shapiro, who enlisted the actress to campaign for Democratic legislative candidates. "She understands the power of storytelling to affect change."
None of this is new, Milano says. Though activism "has been part of my life forever, having social media has sort of shifted and magnified the work that I do," she says. "And also made it so I could create the opportunity and not wait for it to come to me.""
When Phoebe begins to have recurring nightmares of being followed down a dark and unfamiliar street, Piper and Paige try to help her understand whether these dreams are just dreams, or a premonition warning her of danger soon to come. After inserting her waking conscience into her dream, Phoebe soon finds that she has no control over its outcome, because it’s not her dream. It’s not even a dream. It’s real, and it’s about to go down.
Working together with their sister, Prue, and the reformed ex-demon Cole-who’s sworn to protect her and the magic of the Nexus-the Halliwell’s find themselves in a race to save the life of a witch with a special ability to communicate with the dead. With sinister forced at work, will the sisters be able to save this witch before dream becomes reality?
Inspired by the hit televisions series Charmed, the new novel Charmed: Social Medium continues the story of the Halliwell witches. With only the Book of Shadows to guide them, the Halliwell sisters are the fulfillment of their ancestor Melinda Warren’s prophecy that three sisters descending from her line would become the most powerful witches of all time. The sisters use the Power of Three to protect the innocent and banish evil from the Earthly realm.
"After being asked if she were transgender, Milano responded with, "I’m trans. I’m a person of color. I’m an immigrant. I’m a lesbian. I’m a gay man. I’m the disabled. I’m everything. And so are you, Kirk. Don’t be afraid of what you don’t know or understand. No one wants to hurt you. We are all just looking for our happily ever after."
Twitter was quick to remind her that she is not. any of those things, but is actually a rich white woman who has been famous since she was a teenager. While Milano often uses her platform for good, she has made some major missteps, like initially claiming credit for starting the #MeToo movement and now this.
After being slammed for the comments, she doubled down even more and tweeted, "I’m glad this tweet invoked conversation. I’m so sorry it offended some. I see you and hear you. But just a reminder, empathy is not a bad thing. Nuance is important and literal interpretation is not always intended. And I can identify with and not identify as. Both are powerful.""
The avant garde challenge has always been an opportunity for designers to let their freak flags fly, but they had better fly high, especially this season. In the first six weeks of the competition the judges saw some wild, unflattering designs, but they have often been harder on contestants who created bland, uninspired looks (like Juli Grbac) than those who took big swings and missed (like three-time low-scorer Django Steenbakker). And when it comes to avant garde fashion, there’s nothing worse than boring.
Regular judges Georgina Chapman, Isaac Mizrahi and Alyssa Milano were joined this week by a pair of guests from the stage and screen: Andrew Rannells and Anna Camp. Rannells is a two-time Tony-nominated Broadway performer for the musicals “The Book of Mormon” and “Falsettos.” He’s also known for roles on TV including “Girls,” “Big Mouth” and currently the Showtime comedy “Black Monday.” Camp is also a theater vet, as well as a co-star in TV’s “True Blood” and the “Pitch Perfect” movies on the big screen.
Find out below who went big and who went home starting at 9:00pm (all times listed are Eastern). Did the judges get it right?
While this fashion trend is new again, the idea of showing off a corset in a design has been around for centuries. From Edwardian gowns with wasp waists to Scarlett O’Hara holding onto the bed post for lace up support, the corset is an integral part of women’s fashion. It creates an hourglass silhouette, which is considered very feminine.
For any good corset to work in a design, the fit needs to be impeccable. No woman wants to feel that she is falling out, spilling over, or being stabbed by boning. To do this type of design well, the designers needed to have a deft hand. Some did, and others might need to take a few technique courses.
One aspect to this challenge was quite surprising. All the designers were given a standard corset. Sure, there was only one day to create this look, but it is Project Runway All Stars. Shouldn’t all these “winners” be able to make a standard corset without this huge piece of assistance? To me, it seemed a little like authorized cheating.
"The most important thing in the Charmed Ones' lives isn't magic, and it's not their jobs or their clothes. It's family. Piper, Phoebe and Paige are Warren witches—the latest in a long line of women with incredible supernatural strength. For more than two centuries, the Warren witches have fearlessly practiced magic: From Melinda Warren in the 1600s to the Charmed Ones in 2005, the power of these witches is unsurpassed.
The Warren Witches recounts never-before-told stories of their lives—as women, as witches, and, most important, as members of a family of considerable magical strength and power. Above all, they are family; beyond all, they are witches."
The amendment is now one state away from ratification, and the liberal actress and advocate is pushing for one more legislature to approve it. The amendment recently failed in Virginia, but Milano has been joining forces with politicians and tweeting about the ERA.
"Half of our battle as women is that we are looked at as less than, and I think that's why so many abuses of power are able to happen," she says.
This isn't the first time in recent years that the ERA has captured the public's attention. Back in 2015, Patricia Arquette called for equal rights while accepting an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress. But Milano, specifically, has a knack for helping various causes go viral these days. In addition to her viral #MeToo tweet in 2017, she made headlines for staring down Brett Kavanaugh during his testimony. When Milano tweets about migrants and children at the border, her followers — and those holding the bullhorns in the social media sphere — tend to listen.
Separating families and traumatizing children is a choice we don’t need to keep making. We know how to fairly examine each case in a safe space.
Why aren’t we working toward that?
All people have rights. We need to respect those basic rights and uphold our values. #Tornillo pic.twitter.com/F52Urr3uKP
— Alyssa Milano (@Alyssa_Milano) December 13, 2018
Mark Harvey, the director of graduate and undergraduate programs at the University of Saint Mary and the author of Celebrity Influence: Politics, Persuasion, and Issue-Based Advocacy, says the celebrities who are effective and have the greatest influence tend to have some unique experience that connects them to the cause.
"Alyssa Milano, who is currently doing press for her Netflix show Insatiable, spoke about her displeasure with how the reboot has happened. “I wish that they would have come to us and we would have been involved since the beginning,” Milano told ET, “but having said that, I do hope that it reaches the newer generation and impacts that generation the way ours was able to do for its generation.”
When the possibility that she would make a cameo in the show, or direct an episode, was brought up, Milano quickly shot down the idea, saying, “I don’t think so. I think that that ship has sailed for me.”
The animosity between the old cast members and the new show will be an unfortunate blight on the series. With the exception of Rose McGowan, all the former cast members have said something disparaging about the new series. Most aggressive has been the original Piper, Holly Marie Combs (and considering Piper’s character, that is not super shocking)."
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Three-ring acts and thice-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!"
"Dmitry’s “romantic, cool” tribute to his home country of Belarus earned him the season’s first win. Georgina Chapman “adored” the cutouts and praised his “modern take on bohemia.” Added Isaac Mizrahi, “It’s kind of a dress that you could find in a shop — but in velvet, in that length, it’s fabulous.” Guest judge Debra Messing also enjoyed the outfit, even if she thought it was cotton at first.
Choosing a loser, however, proved slightly more difficult. So difficult, in fact, that it didn’t happen. Much to the delight of the two contestants up for elimination — Anthony, who attributed his mental absence to the recent loss of his grandmother, and Anya, who simply played it too safe with her flowy tribute to Trinidad and Tobago — Milano announced at the end of the episode that no one would be going home this week."
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