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South China Morning Post
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- South China Morning Post
Meet Gwyneth Paltrow's childhood best friend, filmmaker Mary Wigmore
Author Amy Odell, who has previously written a biography on Anna Wintour , shifts her focus to Gwyneth Paltrow in her latest book Based on over 220 interviews, Gwyneth: The Biography comes out on July 29. It dives into Paltrow's success in Hollywood and also looks at the controversies surrounding the wellness mogul. Gwyneth Paltrow met her friend Mary Wigmore back when they were in kindergarten. Photo: @gwynethpaltrow/Instagram Advertisement The book promises a look into the Emma star's friendships and eventual fallouts with Winona Ryder and Madonna, as well as her romantic life with exes Brad Pitt , Ben Affleck and Coldplay's Chris Martin. But what do we know about one of Gwyneth Paltrow's longest relationships – her friendship with Mary Wigmore? Mary Wigmore is a filmmaker Gwyneth Paltrow called Mary Wigmore 'the best person in the whole universe' on the latter's birthday two years ago. Photo: @gwynethpaltrow/Instagram Wigmore graduated from the Columbia University School of the Arts with a masters in fine arts for directing. She made her debut with a 2003 documentary on yoga, with appearances by Paltrow and Willem Dafoe . The filmmaker has gone on to direct episodes for TV shows including American Horror Story and Scream Queens. Despite the Goop founder and Coldplay frontman Chris Martin's 'conscious uncoupling' in 2014, Paltrow remains on good terms with her ex – and so does Wigmore, it seems. In recent years, Wigmore has directed several of the band's music videos: most recently, she directed the 2024 music video for the song 'All My Love'. They have known each other since kindergarten
South China Morning Post
5 hours ago
- South China Morning Post
Why we remain ‘magnetically attracted' to Gwyneth Paltrow, by her biographer
Just days before the release of the much-anticipated Gwyneth: The Biography by Amy Odell, the book's subject, actress and entrepreneur Gwyneth Paltrow, inserted herself into one of the most viral stories of the summer. In a video posted to Astronomer's social media accounts, Paltrow announced her new role as the company's 'temporary spokesperson'. The AI company has been in the news since an affair between its CEO and its head of HR was uncovered through a kiss cam at a Coldplay concert in Boston earlier in July. The band's lead singer is Paltrow's ex-husband Chris Martin, who is also the father of her two children. That carefully orchestrated – and likely well-remunerated – stunt was yet another example of how the 52-year-old Oscar winner and wellness guru always manages to be part of the conversation. Advertisement Amy Odell spent three years researching Gwyneth: The Biography. Photo: Handout In an interview prior to the release of the book, journalist and writer Amy Odell, also the author of a bestselling biography of American Vogue's former editor-in-chief Anna Wintour , calls Paltrow 'a master of the attention economy'. 'If you try to think of people who have had cultural impact, it's not a long list,' she says. 'But she is someone who, for 30 years – love her or hate her – has been in the public eye; people have been magnetically attracted to her, people have found her incredibly polarising. So I thought there was an opportunity to explore how she became this person who is so fascinating and so polarising, and how she impacted all of these different industries: beauty, fashion, entertainment and wellness, which I think is the most significant of all.' Odell devotes a big chunk of the book to Paltrow's role in the creation of what she calls the 'wellness economy'. Paltrow single-handedly transformed that industry in 2008 when she established Goop, a newsletter turned media platform and online retailer catering to wealthy women like herself. Gwyneth Paltrow with her late father Bruce Paltrow and her mother Blythe Danner at the 71st Academy Awards. Photo: AFP Odell does a great job delving into the charmed life of Paltrow, the daughter of late director Bruce Paltrow and actress Blythe Danner . Growing up on movie, television and theatre sets surrounded by A-listers such as her godfather Steven Spielberg, Paltrow catapulted to fame in her 20s, winning an Oscar for Shakespeare in Love (1998) when she was only 26. She also became tabloid fodder thanks to high-profile relationships with actors such as Brad Pitt and Ben Affleck. While Paltrow has played her fair share of remarkable roles in movies such as Seven (1995), Sliding Doors (1998), The Royal Tenenbaums (2001) and within the Marvel universe, Odell believes that Goop will overshadow all her other projects. 'I think that her legacy will probably not be for her acting roles – and they are iconic acting roles – but for her impact on the wellness industry specifically, and for showing the world how much people will spend and how much effort they will undergo to be well, no matter what science tells us.' Odell goes to great lengths, perhaps even too great, to debunk all the bogus health claims that Goop has made over the years. As a veteran journalist, she takes her fact-checking seriously. This is evident on every single page of the book – and is also in stark contrast to the way the Goop editorial team operates, according to Odell's sources.
South China Morning Post
16 hours ago
- South China Morning Post
The story of Buckingham Nicks, the pre-Fleetwood Mac album that became a cult classic
They were in love once. Four years before Fleetwood Mac's Rumours became one of the best break-up records of the 1970s – and, many might say, all time – Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham were relative unknowns, a young couple putting out their own album, posing nude on the cover like a Laurel Canyon version of Adam and Eve. Released as Buckingham Nicks, the 1973 album has for decades maintained somewhat of a holy grail status in the dusty bins of record stores, selling for US$20 to US$90 depending on its condition. Now, in addition to new vinyl, it will be available on streaming and CD for the first time when it is reissued on September 19 on Rhino. 'It's one of those records that everybody has heard of but not that many people have actually heard,' says Brian Mansfield, a music historian, journalist and record collector based in Nashville, in the US state of Tennessee. 'Especially before everything got put onto YouTube, very few people had heard it because it had never been on CD. But it had this iconic cover that everybody recognised.' Buckingham Nicks featured the duo's iconic harmonies and Buckingham's distinct guitar sound. But the album bombed on release and Polydor dropped them from the label, prompting Nicks' return to waitressing and Buckingham to briefly tour with Don Everly.
