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Taylor Swift Played Sandy from 'Grease' in Childhood Play, Photos Reveal
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Taylor Swift has had performing in her blood for a long, long time — evident in the fact that she once played Sandy in a kid-version of “Grease” … and the photos are adorable.
Actor/comedian Tobin Mitnick threw up some photos he has in his possession that show him acting alongside Tay Tay in a children’s version of the famed musical/film — and TM seems to be playing Danny Zuko, whereas Taylor is playing Olivia Newton John‘s character.
There’s 3 pics total, and it looks like Tobin/Tay were good pals during this production way back in the day — it also seems like they were giving their all, in rehearsal or otherwise.
Tobin writes, “Thank you mom for digging these pics of @taylorswift and I harmonizing like buttah on summer nights twenty five years ago out of storage. Also trav the note is an f-sharp if youre interested. June 2000.”
Of course, everyone saw these and is losing their minds over the fact that Taylor as a child is cute as hell — not to mention the fact that this low-key telegraphed her future … obviously, she went on to become one of the biggest pop stars ever.
Funny enough, Tobin seems to have alluded to this play last year — and he says it didn’t get nearly as much attention at the time. Welp, if he didn’t have pics back then, that’s probably why.
Anyway, it’s cool stuff — but the obvious question with this is … who has the video???
Seeing how this “Grease” play went down in the early aughts, ya gotta figure one of the parents from back then had their giant camcorder out and was rolling from inside an auditorium somewhere.
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Taylor has actually addressed the fact she was in “Grease” as a kiddo — not to mention other musicals/plays — and now … here’s the proof! Based on what we can see, she was a natural and then some.
The late ONJ probably would’ve been proud to see the great Taylor Swift doing her best Sandy. Lots of good songs for her to belt out, and we’re sure she absolutely crushed.
As it turns out, she was the one everyone wanted!
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Celebrating movie icons: Spike Lee
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Lee’s first film, 1986’s She’s Gotta Have It, helped make him a central figure in independent and Black cinema. In 2017, he talked about adapting that film into a 10-part Netflix series.
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Jason Momoa Jamming Out in Hawaii With His Band
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Jason Momoa is taking his band back to his roots … playing their first concert in his native Hawaii.
The “Aquaman” star and his rock band, ÖOF TATATÁ, jammed out Sunday night at Maoni Waikiki in Honolulu … and TMZ has video of the performance.
Jason told the crowd how meaningful it was for him to be rocking out at the famed International Marketplace in Waikiki … seeing as he’s from the area.
He said it was always a dream of his to play there and he has fond memories at the venue with his dad.
Folks who were there tell us Jason and his band jammed for about 2 hours … playing 10 songs and a bunch of covers from bands like Metallica and Red Hot Chili Peppers … among others.
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We saw Jason bring his two kids onstage back in June during a concert in Los Angeles … and his band’s heading back to the mainland for upcoming shows in New York, Massachusetts, Georgia and Florida.
Rock on!!!
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Grieving the dead is complicated. Here's how you can help someone experiencing loss
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Grief is complicated, but author Annie Sklaver Orenstein tells Morning Edition there are simple ways to help those grieving a loss.
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Annie Sklaver Orenstein was 25 when her brother Ben was killed while serving in Afghanistan.
She found solace in writing about him and others who have lost siblings. Earlier this year, she published Always a Sibling: The Forgotten Mourner’s Guide to Grief, a book about processing grief.
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Orenstein spoke about the complexities of loss and how people respond in the moment in a Morning Edition interview with Michel Martin. We reached out to Orenstein in the wake of the pop singer Mariah Carey losing both her mother and sister on the same day. Carey’s mother was 87, according to public records, and lived in an assisted living facility in Florida. Her sister was 63 and in hospice care in New York state.
Carey was reportedly estranged from her sister. And that got us to thinking about how complicated grief can be when there are multiple deaths, for example, or estrangement — something that just doesn’t fit common narratives of what grief should look like.
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Martin: One of the reasons you started writing about this is that you lost your brother in Afghanistan in 2009. And I just want to make it clear that you were not estranged, that you were, in fact, very close. Let’s just start with losing a sibling. You’ve written that people act like it just doesn’t matter. Like, how so?
Orenstein: Once I started actually doing the research, I realized that my experience is actually very common — the diminishment of sibling grievers. And it’s through a lot of small actions. It’s things like people asking how your parents are doing, but they don’t ask you how you are doing. Or if they find out you lost a sibling, the first question might be, “Were you close?” as if your answer to that will determine whether or not you’re allowed to be grieving or the extent to which you’re allowed to be grieving. But we grieve imperfect people. We grieve imperfect relationships, sometimes even more so or more complicated than if you were really close. And so those qualifiers, they’re not really relevant, but they can make you question your own grief and whether or not you are allowed to grieve.
Martin: And adding to that, it gets complicated when there is estrangement, as we think there was in Mariah Carey’s case. Can you talk more about that, how that complicates things, whether people know that or not in your circle?
Orenstein: You know, I think there is a feeling that, you know, if you’re estranged, you’re probably not grieving. In some cases, that might be true. There’s something called abbreviated grief where you just don’t grieve very much. That can happen if you had a weak emotional attachment. You know, there is a type of grief called anticipatory grief, where you’re essentially grieving the person while they are still alive. And so when they die, you might not grieve as much as you think you will, but that’s because you’ve already grieved them. And so in some cases of estrangement, you know, that might be what happened, but in other cases, people often hold out a hope that there can be some reconciliation and death takes away those opportunities.
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Martin: Why do you think we have such a hard time in this country supporting people through grief?
Orenstein: I think in our country, we’re uncomfortable with things that we can’t fix, things that we can’t solve. You know, people want to say the right thing because they want to fix it and they want to make you feel better. And so grief makes us really uncomfortable because there’s nothing you can say that will fix it.
Martin: So let’s talk about what you can do to support someone who has lost a sibling or in Mariah Carey’s case, has lost a sibling and has lost a parent, or is dealing with this, what you’ve called this complex grief. What are some things not to say? Are there some things that you can say or do, even if you know you can’t fix it?
Orenstein: We can’t grieve for someone else as much as we often want to. But what we can do is go over and do their dishes. We can go grocery shopping for them. We can drop off dinner. We can do small things to reduce that overwhelm and overload so that our brains and our emotions do have the bandwidth and capacity to process what’s going on. So a lot of what we can do is show up. Community support is proven. It is a huge way to help someone who is grieving.
This digital article was edited by Obed Manuel.
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