That is a wonderful story. I called my one aunt my “literary Aunt” because she gave me so many lovely books when I was growing up. She gave me Lawrence Durrell’s The Alexandria Quartet when I graduated high school, for instance. I wish I had a sibling so I could be that aunt! You go, auntie, they are lucky to have…

That is just what we did and it was amazing. My son grew with Harry, and when Harry reached those anger years-WOW did he get it. (He was going through his own stuff, that made the books even more important)

My son is now 16. I started reading the first one to him at the same age as your daughters. Reading each book and THEN watching the movie after was just so joyous. We still bond over Harry. (BTW-Don’t you dare let them watch a movie until they read the book-the conversations we had surrounding adaptations and the…

ME TOO! For a month, except for a quick break in Budapest. DOn’t miss the Dublin Writer’s museum and the winding stair bookshop and restaurant.

I am upset they don’t publish this list every year. Then we could all guess what the people were like based on their name.

I hope so! I really do.

Thank you for this! Visiting Budapest in a month and this was fascinating. SO EXCITED ABOUT THE BATHS. (I’m a total water baby)

She did! And that is why I was disappointed. I hoped for better. It’s always such a relief to hear when people are lovely, because sadly, it’s kind of rare. ESPECIALLY with the child stars.

No. I promise you would not like to hear some of them. I work as a therapist and with very small children.

This is why people were so gleeful when stupid Johnny decided to challenge these people. It opened up all his financial (and as we see here) other dealings to be part of an open record. So, by not settling with his financial managers, he’s fucked himself even more. He only has himself to blame for everyone knowing all…

I love that last paragraph and ALL the shade was perfect. The cliches continued. He’s not with Talulah Riley now-despite her becoming blonder for him and god knows how many blondes he’s been with since. She has him totally pegged.

That was a fascinating article. Thanks for sharing. I never knew he had FIVE kids, and somehow missed all the messy divorce drama. I hope she got her fair share.

This will be my husband. Dublin will always be his home and the pubs and people are the thing he misses the most.

It’s been known to happen ! (And you write it down each time it does)

Dublin! The friendliest city-and sitting outside with a pint in the sunshine at 10pm is just heaven.

Man, is she gorgeous.

Yeah, I know, but maybe it was because they could not otherwise secure her place of birth, etc. and it might have been considerably smaller than Cedars. This is LA, and they are prepared for celeb births.

She totally could have changed her birth plan. But I was just commenting that IF she is at cedars, there is really no need at all for her to shut down a floor. And people not familiar with it may not get that cedars is pretty bloody big, it’s not a small maternity hospital.

I really doubt this. I live in LA and have lots of friends who have worked at cedars. They don’t need to shut down any floor. They have SUPER fancy “birthing suites” for celebs, with private entrances, bedrooms for relatives, etc. My friend was even the one of the 24 hour a day doulas who work there. Talk about some…

I’m getting my ass on twitter and seeing who I can bother with this idea.