Tag: Sweet

‘You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah’ Is Spiky & Sweet

[ad_1] Photo: Scott Yamano/Netflix The heroine of You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah likes to confide in the Almighty, a habit that puts her in the tradition of a certain famous Judy Blume character who got her own big-screen outing earlier this year. Like Margaret Simon, Stacy Friedman is enduring the agonies… Continue reading ‘You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah’ Is Spiky & Sweet

Pink changes lyrics in support of ‘sweet’ Britney Spears

[ad_1] Pink voiced support for Britney Spears the same day Spears’ husband, Sam Asghari, filed for divorce. At a concert Wednesday in Detroit, the “Just Give Me a Reason” and “Raise Your Glass” singer altered the lyrics to “Don’t Let Me Get Me,” which namedrops Spears. In the original, Pink laments needing to change herself… Continue reading Pink changes lyrics in support of ‘sweet’ Britney Spears

‘Strange Planet’ review: A sweet, cheerful look at humanity through aliens

[ad_1] “Strange Planet,” the popular web comic by Nathan W. Pyle, has been expanded, by Pyle and Dan Harmon, into a television series premiering Wednesday on Apple TV+. Bright, sweet and cheerful, if unusually concerned with mortality, it is, as satire, highly affectionate — keen to human frailty but understanding, hopeful, more engaged with our… Continue reading ‘Strange Planet’ review: A sweet, cheerful look at humanity through aliens