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Robin Williams ' son, Zachary Pym Williams, marked what would have been his late father's 74th with a post celebrating Williams' singular ability to give people 'permission to feel deeply and to laugh through the pain .' On Instagram , Zachary wrote about the ups-and-downs of grief, especially during the annual 60-day period that encompasses Father's Day, Williams' birthday (July 21), and the anniversary of his death (Aug. 11). 'It's a tender and complicated stretch of time. One that asks a lot of the heart,' Zachary wrote. He added: 'For me, grief isn't linear. It loops and echoes. It softens, then crescendos. But alongside it lives a legacy, the kind built not from fame or recognition, but from generosity and relentless kindness.' Zachary went on to say that his father 'lived to make people feel seen,' and that he hopes to carry on his dad's mission of encouraging deep feeling and laughter, even in the face of pain and sorrow. 'So today, I hold close the idea that the best way to honor those we love is to live the values they stood for,' he wrote. 'To lead with service and compassion. To lift others when they're down. And to find paths of light, even in the dark corners. To anyone carrying loss right now: you're not alone. You are part of a passage of love and connection that never really ends.' Zachary is the oldest of Williams' three children, born in 1983 to Williams' first wife, the actress Valerie Velardi. In a 1988 interview with Rolling Stone , Williams spoke about watching his then five-year-old son get older while answering a question about an Albert Einstein quote he cited at the end of one of his specials: 'My sense of God is my sense of wonder about the universe.' Asked what those words meant to him, Williams replied, 'It's like Mel Brooks's great line as the 2000-year-old man [ in a Yiddish accent ]: 'There's something bigger than Phil .' You can't help but see it when you deal with nature in the extreme. Like when you're body surfing on Maui and a storm suddenly makes a ten-foot wave come at you. It gives you a sense of your mortality. Or it's when you see something incredibly beautiful. I get it when I see Zachary changing. Here's this being who is you but not you slowly growing and forming opinions of his own.'
The Age
13-07-2025
- General
- The Age
Everything about a bagel is great, except one thing
The dish: Bagels, Poland Plate up You need to get past the hole, of course. When you're preparing a bagel, when you're schmearing it with cream-cheese and topping it with lox; when you're sprinkling on some dill or maybe capers; topping it with the rest of the bagel and then slicing it in half, you have to understand that it doesn't make complete sense. There's a hole in the middle of your sandwich. Some of the filling might fall out. But therein lies the only possible downfall of the bagel, the dense, chewy, doughnut-shaped bread rolls invented in Poland and made famous in the US. Bagels are based on simple wheat flour dough shaped into a long sausage and then bent into a circle, before proofing for 12 hours or so, then being boiled, and finally baked. This process makes bagels chewy on the inside and crisp on the outer, and the perfect carrier for various sweet or savoury flavourings, not to mention a range of sandwich-style fillings. And the reason for the hole? There are various theories – to help it cook evenly, the give it a thicker crust, even to allow bagels to be carried on long sticks – but no one is completely sure. First serve There's a widely accepted history of bagels: they were invented in Krakow around the early 17th century, and soon became a staple of Polish cuisine. From there, things get murky. Were they inspired by or a knock-off of German pretzels? Is the name derived from the Yiddish term beugal, itself derived from a southern German dialect? Or is it from the word beygl, another old Yiddish term derived from the Old High German word for 'ring'? The next thing we know for sure is that Polish Jewish migrants brought bagels to the US in the 19th century, and by the 1960s mass-produced bagels became popular, despite the New York Times, in 1952, referring to them as 'an unsweetened doughnut with rigor mortis'. Loading Order there The classic New York bagel, and one that's still incredibly popular, is served at Russ & Daughters, open since 1914 ( Order here In Sydney, Avner's is an eternally popular bagel joint ( In Melbourne, head to Schmucks Bagels ( And in Brisbane, go for O Bagel ( Bake it If you want to have a crack at making your own, try following Betül Tunç's step-by-step recipe at Good Food.
Sydney Morning Herald
13-07-2025
- General
- Sydney Morning Herald
Everything about a bagel is great, except one thing
The dish: Bagels, Poland Plate up You need to get past the hole, of course. When you're preparing a bagel, when you're schmearing it with cream-cheese and topping it with lox; when you're sprinkling on some dill or maybe capers; topping it with the rest of the bagel and then slicing it in half, you have to understand that it doesn't make complete sense. There's a hole in the middle of your sandwich. Some of the filling might fall out. But therein lies the only possible downfall of the bagel, the dense, chewy, doughnut-shaped bread rolls invented in Poland and made famous in the US. Bagels are based on simple wheat flour dough shaped into a long sausage and then bent into a circle, before proofing for 12 hours or so, then being boiled, and finally baked. This process makes bagels chewy on the inside and crisp on the outer, and the perfect carrier for various sweet or savoury flavourings, not to mention a range of sandwich-style fillings. And the reason for the hole? There are various theories – to help it cook evenly, the give it a thicker crust, even to allow bagels to be carried on long sticks – but no one is completely sure. First serve There's a widely accepted history of bagels: they were invented in Krakow around the early 17th century, and soon became a staple of Polish cuisine. From there, things get murky. Were they inspired by or a knock-off of German pretzels? Is the name derived from the Yiddish term beugal, itself derived from a southern German dialect? Or is it from the word beygl, another old Yiddish term derived from the Old High German word for 'ring'? The next thing we know for sure is that Polish Jewish migrants brought bagels to the US in the 19th century, and by the 1960s mass-produced bagels became popular, despite the New York Times, in 1952, referring to them as 'an unsweetened doughnut with rigor mortis'. Loading Order there The classic New York bagel, and one that's still incredibly popular, is served at Russ & Daughters, open since 1914 ( Order here In Sydney, Avner's is an eternally popular bagel joint ( In Melbourne, head to Schmucks Bagels ( And in Brisbane, go for O Bagel ( Bake it If you want to have a crack at making your own, try following Betül Tunç's step-by-step recipe at Good Food.
Los Angeles Times
25-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Los Angeles Times
When a Pasadena rest home became a movie set, the residents got creative
Director Sarah Friedland knew she wanted to set her debut feature, 'Familiar Touch,' in Los Angeles. The decision was, in part, personal — both her grandmothers lived in the city — but also thematic. 'Familiar Touch' is about an aging woman, Ruth (Kathleen Chalfant), dealing with memory loss. 'I didn't want the viewer to have a sense of time passing that Ruth doesn't,' 33-year-old Friedland tells me at the film's publicity office on a gray New York day. 'So it needed to be somewhere where you couldn't tell that there was seasonal change.' But Friedland, who was born in Los Angeles but grew up in Santa Barbara, also had another goal in mind. She wanted to shoot in a real senior living community where the residents could participate in the production. Friedland ended up making 'Familiar Touch' (in theaters Friday) at Pasadena's Villa Gardens in a unique collaboration with both the staff and denizens. Before her 15-day shoot, she and her team held a five-week workshop on filmmaking for Villa Gardens' seniors, who later became background actors and production assistants on the project. It was an example of Friedland essentially putting her money where her mouth was. 'It came a lot from the anti-ageist ideas of the project,' Friedland says. 'If we're going to make this film the character study of an older woman that sees older adults as valuable and talented and capacious, let's engage their capaciousness and their creativity on all sides of production.' Friedland, whose background is in choreography, wrote the screenplay inspired by her own experience as a caregiver to artists with dementia. In the film, Ruth is disoriented when her son (H. Jon Benjamin), whom she does not recognize, moves her into a senior living home. Ruth does not see herself as elderly, instead making her way to the kitchen and working alongside the staff. That's where she is comfortable, having spent years as a cook. In order to find her perfect setting, Friedland started researching just as if she were a child of older adults looking to move her parents. She heard about Villa Gardens from the sister of her own grandmother's caregiver, and it was exactly what she wanted: a place with the resources to accommodate her crew that felt appropriate for the story she was trying to tell. In her mind, the community in her fictional story should be one of privilege, a circumstance in which Ruth, who grew up in a working-class Yiddish family, could initially feel ill at ease. The history of Villa Gardens also was appealing. It was founded in 1933 by Ethel Percy Andrus, who also started the AARP and was California's first female high school principal. 'It's a community that draws a lot of retired educators and social workers,' Friedland says. 'So there's this culture of lifelong learning.' Before Friedland could move in, however, she had to prove herself. Villa Gardens executive director Shaun Rushforth turned her down four times before saying yes. Having worked at Kingsley Manor in East Hollywood — another senior living community which is often used as a location thanks to its handsome brick facade — he was skeptical of inviting the crew. 'Small independent films were the ones I'd had the worst experiences with,' Rushforth says. 'I wasn't sure how this was going to fly with the residents.' Still, every time Rushforth thought he was going to give Friedland a strong no, it ended up being a 'soft no,' he remembers. Eventually, she won him over with her commitment to telling an authentic story. With that pledge in place, Rushforth gave her a final test: She had to convince the residents. Lisa Tanahashi, 68, a resident who ended up assisting the 'Familiar Touch' art department, was happy Rushforth gave Friedland a hard time. 'I feel bad that Shaun always has to say that he turned her down four times,' she says on a joint Zoom call from Villa Gardens with Rushforth. 'And yet from my perspective, that's exactly what we residents want him to do.' Jean Owen, 87, who was the elected president of the residents' association at the time, was immediately impressed by Friedland and the narrative she wanted to tell. 'We need more information about senior living,' she says in a video call from her apartment at Villa Gardens, her face hovering at the bottom of the frame. 'We need more information about dementia or Alzheimer's or whatever we call it — anything that can give it a good spin, not a negative, because we're all aging.' Owen, like Tanahashi, signed up for Friedland's twice-a-week workshops, where she learned about cinematography and production design from 'Familiar Touch' department heads who were patient in their teachings. 'We're not easy,' Owen says. 'We don't mean not to be, but there's just something about the aging process that it takes a little longer to catch on. She made us feel so comfortable. They all did.' Once the workshops concluded, the participants could then decide what department they wanted to contribute to during the actual filming. Owen helped cast background actors for scenes. She says she received very little pushback from her fellow residents. Only two complained. 'One man said he had better things to do for four hours than to sit at a table with stale food,' she says. 'And the other woman complained because in her scene, which was a dining scene, they kept serving the same food and it was cold.' (Friedland confirms this gripe: 'The scrambled eggs being cold was the main point of complaint.') Friedland worked with Rushforth and other members of the staff so that the filming wouldn't interrupt the daily rhythms of life at Villa Gardens. Caregiver Magali Galvez, who has worked at Villa Gardens for around 20 years, fielded questions from 'Familiar Touch' actor Carolyn Michelle, who plays the woman who assists Ruth. Although Ruth is supposed to be in a memory care unit, the production did not collaborate with those receiving similar treatment because Friedland believed they would not be able to give consent to be on camera. Ultimately, close to 30 Villa Gardens employees worked on 'Familiar Touch,' along with 80 residents. The movie's 80-year-old star, Chalfant, who shot the film when she was 78, saw the people living at Villa Gardens as her peers. 'We're all old people,' she says. 'The oldest person in the crew was in their middle-30s. In an odd way, that was a kind of division and also a collaboration between old people and young people. There wasn't any hierarchy.' One issue Friedland had directing the non-professional actors was that they often became entranced with Chalfant's performance. 'Kathy's such a magnetic performer that there were some residents who would start out playing their background role, and then Kathy would start her dialogue, and they were mesmerized and watching her,' Friedland says. One sequence where Chalfant was supposed to be floating alone in the pool drew crowds of residents watching through windows. Meanwhile, the video village, where a director typically watches playback footage on screens, was perpetually crowded. 'Video village was a village,' Friedland says. But the participation also kept the filmmakers honest. Through working with the Villa Gardens community members, Friedland strove to inject humor into the film based on what she observed. A moment where Ruth sees a woman wearing a potato chip clip as a hair adornment captures that atmosphere. 'The residents, when I pitched the film — one of the first things they said was that this film can't be too depressing,' she recalls. 'There's so much humor in our daily lives. This has to capture that sense of humor, but we can't be laughing at them — we have to be laughing with them, and it has to be absurd and uncanny.' Watching the final product has been a bittersweet experience for those from Villa Gardens, who both are thrilled to see themselves on screen but recognize that some of their fellow castmates have since died. 'It's wonderful to see them real again,' Owen says, also noting that she found the portrayal of the onset of dementia true to life. Many saw the film for the first time during its AFI Fest premiere at the TCL Chinese Theatre, a screening that Friedland says gave her more nerves than the movie's debut at last year's Venice Film Festival, where it won the prestigious Lion of the Future award, as well as prizes for directing and acting. 'The residents and staff put so much work into this, and I wanted to do them proud,' Friedland says. 'But it was so joyous.' The day after the Chinese Theatre screening, Friedland brought the film to Villa Gardens for those who couldn't make it to Hollywood. She also brought along the Lion statues the team won in Venice and got the festival to send an extra award certificate to give to the community. It is going to live in the Villa Gardens library, forever connecting the place to its cinematic history.
Time of India
21-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Time of India
NYT Strands Hints and Answers Today: Solutions of puzzle #475 for June 21, 2025 and simple tips to play the game
Each NYT Strands puzzle comes with a theme and a hidden Spangram. On June 21, 2025, the puzzle uses terms linked to zero. This guide breaks down the structure of the game, shares helpful solving tips, and reveals today's complete solution, including the Spangram and all theme-related words. Theme for June 21 Strands The theme of today's puzzle is 'Goose eggs.' This phrase represents the idea of nothing or a value of zero. All the theme words relate to this concept. by Taboola by Taboola Sponsored Links Sponsored Links Promoted Links Promoted Links You May Like Here's The Average Price of a 6-Hour Gutter Guards Upgrade Read More Undo Clues or Hints If you need help solving today's puzzle, the following hints can help: Hint #1: An informal word used to describe zero. Hint #2: A Yiddish term for something worthless. Live Events These hints focus on the idea of emptiness or a lack of value. Spangram Direction and Hint The Spangram for June 21 is mostly vertical. It begins with the letters 'DI.' The hint for the Spangram: A slang term in the US that means 'a small worthless amount.' Today's Spangram Revealed The Spangram for June 21, 2025, is DiddlySquat . This long word links to the theme of zero or nothing. It spans across the grid, helping identify other words. Full List of Theme Words The puzzle contains several theme words, all of which point to the idea of nothing: NADA ZERO NOTHING ZILCH NAUGHT ZIPPO BUPKIS These words align with the puzzle's theme and complete the board. How the NYT Strands Puzzle Works? Strands is a daily word game by The New York Times. It involves linking letters in a 6x8 grid to form words based on a given theme. Players must find theme words and a special word called the Spangram. This spans the board and relates directly to the theme. Solving the Spangram often helps in solving other clues. What Makes the Spangram Important Each puzzle contains one Spangram. This is a key word or phrase that crosses the grid and explains the theme. It may start or end at any point, not just the edges. The Spangram simplifies the puzzle by acting as a central idea. Once found, other theme words become easier to spot. Simple Tips for Playing Better Here are some tips to improve your solving: Start from the corners of the grid. Use hints early if you feel stuck. Think about both direct and hidden meanings. Try to solve the Spangram early. These steps can improve your success rate in solving the puzzle. FAQs What is the Spangram in NYT Strands on June 21, 2025? The Spangram for today is DiddlySquat, which means something that has little or no value. How do theme words relate to the puzzle's topic? Each theme word is connected to the idea of 'nothing' or 'zero,' which matches the 'Goose eggs' theme.
