Love the artwork on your book cover, with the dangerous looking senorita along with freaky birds and trees you're known for.
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Matt Wake | mwake@al.com,
al,
19 Dec. 2019
Football managers reared their boogie heads once again this term when a video surfaced of Pep Guardiola doing his best at courting the attentions of a Spanish senorita.
Julie Andrews as Maria Andrews starred as Maria, the precocious and inspirational governess who helps the von Trapp kids learn to embrace music and family — and later becomes their stepmother.
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Keith Langston,
People.com,
2 Mar. 2025
Julie Andrews was just as doting in real life on the set of The Sound of Music as her governess character Maria, according to her young costars.
One of the most popular rooms at the event was the mirrored ballet belle of the ball setup.
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Kristen Bateman,
Vogue,
8 Mar. 2025
Bette Davis — Jezebel (1938) Bette Davis may have had more iconic roles during her illustrious career, but her turn as a headstrong Southern belle in Jezebel stands out as one of Hollywood's earliest feminist-leaning heroes.
The mammy stereotype, which desexualized both dark skinned enslaved and free women (who were often in domestic roles), made muting Black beauty the norm.
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Brooklyn White,
Essence,
30 Nov. 2022
Toxic archetypes of Black womanhood—the mammy, the Black matriarch, the jezebel (or the Scraggle Daggle, in SYSBM parlance), and the welfare mother—are all alive and well in the Black Manosphere.
But with nine goals and two assists in his first 27 Premier League appearances, in a team that has spent the entire season toiling near the foot of the table, Strand Larsen can already be quietly satisfied with his maiden campaign in a new league.
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Steve Madeley,
The Athletic,
17 Mar. 2025
No one knows exactly who made them, or how to definitively interpret their narrative, but there’s something instantly striking about the iconography: a white unicorn is pursued, retaliates, is lured by a maiden, and then is caught, encircled by a fence, and chained to a tree trunk.
Last summer, a local housekeeper inherited a few million dollars and some cats from her French madam, who shot herself on her Samui property.
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Sangeeta Singh-Kurtz,
Vulture,
4 Mar. 2025
Throw in Morton, who has made amiable viciousness into a trademark of this phase of his career, and Catherine Tate as a Dutch brothel madam with a PhD, and Going Dutch has the sort of ensemble already in place for long-term laughs.
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Daniel Fienberg,
The Hollywood Reporter,
2 Jan. 2025
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