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Kimberly Jesika’s motto is “Expression of who I am, and what goes on inside of me, its an expression of my lost inner little girl, that never got to be herself, live herself, express herself, or play, its for all little girls lost and interrupted.”

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Inside Out's success should turn Hollywood upside down

Inside Out, whose protagonists are the five squabbling emotions inside the “head-quarters” of an 11-year-old coming to terms with her family’s move to San Francisco, is literally at the cerebral end of Pixar’s output: conceptually driven and inclined to formal tricks. So rather than this outstanding strike, or even the $60-70m range in which the studio has unerringly opened its original offerings, you might have expected it to have debuted closer to Ratatouille’s $47m.

Perhaps it’s a testament not only to the strength of Docter’s film and the recent dearth of original animation, but also Pixar’s tilling of the mainstream down the years; how most of its 15 features have cultivated a taste for moral and emotional sophistication, as well as thrills and in-jokes, in children’s entertainment.

Inside Out should easily clear $500m globally, and be up alongside Up’s $731.3m and Monsters University’s $743.6m, but early indications suggest it could be tough for it to match Toy Story 3, Pixar’s one member of the $1bn club. Conspicuous in several of this week’s key overseas markets is that the film is opening at around 50-60% of Buzz Lightyear and co’s last outing: in France ($5.2m to TS3’s $10.5m), Australia ($3.6m/$6.4m) and Mexico ($8.8m/$15m). And it has Universal’s Despicable Me spinoff Minions, which beat out Inside Out in Australia this week, for competition over the summer. But counting for every last cent is what Disney does – and it surely bought Pixar to give it that special spark of something different.

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Taylor Swift Successfully Rails Against Apple Music

Never underestimate the power and influence of Taylor Swift.

Seriously.

Swift made headlines late last week when she wrote a long, very critical letter on Tumblr, explaining why she would not make her album available on Apple Music.

Simply put, she said it was “shocking” and disappointing” that the company would not be compensating musicians, songwriters and producers for their music during its 90-day fee trial period.

Thinking of new groups or solo artists who would not see a dime for a quarter of the year, despite their hard work, Taylor railed:

"This incredible company has the money to pay artists, writers and producers for the 3 month trial period… even if it is free for the fans trying it out.

"Three months is a long time to go unpaid, and it is unfair to ask anyone to work for nothing… Please don’t ask us to provide you with our music for no compensation."

Dame Helen Mirren slams ageism in Hollywood branding it 'outrageous'

Actress Dame Helen Mirren has slammed ageism in Hollywood as “outrageous”.

Mirren – who was recently honoured with a Tony award for her role in The Queen -  hit out at the industry during a talk in New York.

Speaking at TheWrap’s Power Breakfast, Mirren said: "It’s f****** outrageous. It’s so annoying. And ’twas ever thus."

She continued her point by drawing comparisons to 007 agent James Bond and his Bond girls.

"We were all watching James Bond as he got more and more geriatric, and his girlfriend’s got younger and younger," she said. "It’s so annoying."

The Woman In Gold actress made the comments after being asked about Maggie Gyllenhaal’s recent admission that at age 37 she had been turned down for being too old to play a 55-year-old man’s lover.

Mirren also spoke about her dislike of women in Hollywood being referred to as 'sexual'.

Brooklyn Beckham lands his second magazine cover and proves he's a chip off the old block

Brooklyn Beckham has proved it isn't just his mum who is a force to be reckoned with in the fashion world. At the tender age of 16, David and Victoria's eldest son has already landed his second glossy magazine cover.Brooklyn has appeared on the front cover of Rollacoaster magazine where he looks the spitting image of his star footballer father, with his hair neatly swept back into a quiff.

As the offspring of one of the showbiz world's most stylish couples, it's no surprise that Brooklyn is more fashionable than your average teen.

He proves his style credentials by rocking a number of trendy ensembles as he models the best spring 2015 menswear for the publication's cover story.

Staring intently into the lens, he appears on the front dressed in a black baseball jacket with a denim shirt underneath.

A natural fit: Margaret Howell on her fashion tribute to Barbara Hepworth

For Margaret Howell, designing a collection in homage to Barbara Hepworth felt like the most natural thing in the world. “I was always inspired by what she wore anyway,” says the designer. “The short duffel coat, the dungarees, the things people wear when they’re at art school.”

The collection Howell has designed will be part of the merchandise around Tate Britain’s new retrospective of the British sculptor’s work, which opens later this month. It does indeed include dungarees and a short duffel coat, as well as an apron, an artist’s smock and silk scarves with a print employing the patterns from a pebble that Howell found on a Suffolk beach. If that works with Hepworth’s aesthetic of turning natural forms into abstraction, the clothes speak of her lifestyle, getting messy with materials in her studio. “When I had visited her studio in St Ives, the thing that stuck in my mind was the rail of aprons and shirts splattered with plaster of paris,” says Howell. “I liked the colours – indigo, tan, the colours of workwear.” Their contexts might be very different but both women share an interest in natural materials, with Yorkshire-born Hepworth always famously inspired by the Moors. “Her materials are stone and wood, so there’s a texture,” says Howell. “I relate to things like that. I am stimulated by traditional clothing and doing something fresh with it.”

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