EDRIS HAIR

💓⚡️🌟🌷💫✨🎈😆💋💃🏿💥May Day☄️

Dear Godson,
20 years ago, I whispered and you listened, gracing the world on May Day. What a gift to shared a birthday with you. I am so honored be a part of so many amazing moments in your life journey so far, with so much more to come. I will always be the wind beneath your wings. Happy Birthday ❤️❤️❤️ thank you 😘

on the cover of kudos to editor- in chief for being fearless! ⚡️

Genius at it’s best! Rip Physicist Stephen Hawkins (76)💫 “He roamed the cosmos from a wheelchair, making discoveries that changed how we see the universe.”- New York Times
Photo:My book🌌

Thank you, Hollywood foreign press. Just to pick up on what Hugh Laurie said. You and all of us in this room, really, belong to the most vilified segments in American society right now. Think about it. Hollywood, foreigners, and the press. But who are we? And, you know, what is Hollywood anyway? It's just a bunch of people from other places.

I was born and raised and created in the public schools of New Jersey. Viola [Davis] was born in a sharecropper's cabin in South Carolina, and grew up in Central falls, Long Island. Sarah Paulson was raised by a single mom in Brooklyn. Sarah Jessica Parker was one of seven or eight kids from Ohio. Amy Adams was born in Italy. Natalie Portman was born in Jerusalem. Where are their birth certificates? And the beautiful Ruth Negga was born in Ethiopia, raised in -- no, in Ireland, I do believe. And she's here nominated for playing a small town girl from Virginia. Ryan Gosling, like all the nicest people, is Canadian. And Dev Patel was born in Kenya, raised in London, is here for playing an Indian raised in Tasmania.

Hollywood is crawling with outsiders and foreigners. If you kick 'em all out, you'll have nothing to watch but football and mixed martial arts, which are not the arts. They gave me three seconds to say this. An actor's only job is to enter the lives of people who are different from us and let you feel what that feels like. And there were many, many, many powerful performances this year that did exactly that, breathtaking, passionate work.

There was one performance this year that stunned me. It sank its hooks in my heart. Not because it was good. There was nothing good about it. But it was effective and it did its job. It made its intended audience laugh and show their teeth. It was that moment when the person asking to sit in the most respected seat in our country imitated a disabled reporter, someone he outranked in privilege, power, and the capacity to fight back. It kind of broke my heart when I saw it. I still can't get it out of my head because it wasn't in a movie. It was real life.

And this instinct to humiliate, when it's modeled by someone in the public platform, by someone powerful, it filters down into everybody's life, because it kind of gives permission for other people to do the same thing. Disrespect invites disrespect. Violence incites violence. When the powerful use their position to bully others, we all lose.

This brings me to the press. We need the principled press to hold power to account, to call them on the carpet for every outrage.That's why our founders enshrined the press and its freedoms in our constitution. So I only ask the famously well-heeled Hollywood Foreign Press and all of us in our community to join me in supporting the committee to protect journalists. Because we're going to need them going forward. And they'll need us to safeguard the truth.

One more thing. Once when I was standing around on the set one day whining about something, we were going to work through supper, or the long hours or whatever, Tommy Lee Jones said to me, isn't it such a privilege, Meryl, just to be an actor. Yeah, it is. And we have to remind each other of the privilege and the responsibility of the act of empathy. We should all be very proud of the work Hollywood honors here tonight.

As my friend, the dear departed Princess Leia, said to me once, take your broken heart, make it into art. Thank you."

SPEECHLESS😭🙏🏽

Merry, merry to everyone and their families😘 Thank you Joshua Dieffenbacher for my pajamas❤ the fit is perfect!

Just because you're natural, doesn't mean you have to play it safe!

Dear Edris,
After 3 weeks of rocking my new haircut, I feel compelled to let you know that my head has swelled and I have trouble getting out the door. I love,love,love my new doo! There isn't a day that goes by when I'm in public that someone doesn't compliment me about my hair. And the icing on the cake was last night at the Crew banquet when 2 parents exclaimed about my hair, in front of Darnail, of how fabulous it looked. I couldn't have paid them for better timing. I also pointed out to him, that the beauty of a great hair cut is when you can go 6 days looking good, add a little jojoba oil on the 7th day and ponytail it, then let it loose on the 8th day and you're still fabulous!Women of all ages compliment me daily and this cut compliments my grey hair.I had a cashier at Home Depot leave her post to come overr and tell me how much she loved my hair while I checked out at the self checkout. Thank you thank you always for making me look good. I always look forward to getting my haircut with you when I'm in NY. I will see you in the fall. This was the day after I saw you and fighting much humidity at the memorial for my mom. Have a wonderful summer!