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PEOPLE & ARTS Tuesday 20 March 2018
Longoria weaves empowerment

throughout her clothing line

By NICOLE EVATT
Associated Press
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Eva
Longoria is a master of mul-
titasking.
The 43-year-old actress is
producing a new pilot, con-
tinuing her work with the
Time's Up initiative, launch-
ing her clothing line on HSN
and preparing to welcome
In this Aug. 30, 2016, file photo, author James Patterson poses for her first child with husband
a portrait in New York. Jose "Pepe" Baston.
Associated Press "I have two babies," said
James Patterson Longoria with a hearty In this March 6, 2018 photo, actress Eva Longoria, who is launch-
laugh. "My line and my ac-
tual baby in my stomach."
donating $2 million For Longoria, who has been ing The Eva Longoria Collection clothing line with retailer HSN,
poses for a portrait at the Four Seasons Hotel in Los Angeles.
designing
and
sewing
Associated Press
to classroom libraries since she was 7, everything former anchor Catt Sadler ality of not only Eva's DNA,
comes back to champion-
ing women.
during an interview with but a global DNA of like
"You have to be comfort- the network at the Golden women everywhere doing
NEW YORK (AP) — James 80,000 teachers applied for able not only physically in Globes. everything," she said.
Patterson is stepping up his donations. what you're wearing, but "It's not a moment, it's a Her spring line features ruf-
game. "I can't underscore enough like comfortable in your movement," she said of fled sleeves, graphic tees,
The best-selling author has how important books and skin. Does that empower continuing the momentum floral patterns and feminine
increased his annual dona- reading are to a child's me? Do I feel like this is after Hollywood's awards pleated skirts meant to
tions for classroom libraries development — better my best self today? And season. "It needs to be cel- be dressed up for work or
from $1.75 million to $2 mil- readers make better peo- that's what my collection is ebrated and applauded down with a pair of sneak-
lion. ple, and ultimately better meant to do." every time we have an ac- ers.
Scholastic Inc. told The As- citizens," Patterson said in The former "Desperate complishment. But at the During an interview in Los
sociated Press on Monday a statement. "I'm so grate- Housewives" star has been same time, we just need Angeles, Longoria showed
that Patterson is distributing ful for the teachers who rallying for parity in Holly- to keep moving it forward off patterned crepe jump-
4,000 gifts of $500 each to are doing imperative work wood and beyond along- and we need to keep mak- suits, which she calls "one-
teachers around the coun- with students every day, in side the Time's Up cam- ing real change." sies," wide-legged pants
try, from Mechanic Falls, every school in the country. paign, which raised $20 The thread of female em- and comfy stretch denim
Maine, to Cheney, Kansas. These grants are my way of million and helped 1,500 powerment is also woven she promised will ward off
The so-called "Patterson acknowledging their ex- women with harassment throughout the Eva Longo- the dreaded muffin top.
Pledge" was launched in traordinary efforts." suits. ria Collection. Longoria sported one of
2015 and is run in coordina- "Teachers often have to She gave an impassioned "I wanted to really get in- the collection's popular
tion with Scholastic Book find their own funds and speech at the recent wom- spiration from real women bomber jackets in floral-
Clubs, which adds book use their personal money en's march in Los Angeles in the world and I wanted print jacquard, joking that
club points to Patterson's to buy books and build and called out E! over a to use my global travels to, it's the only thing that fit her
contribution. More than fresh classroom libraries. q pay equity dispute with you know, give it a person- growing belly.q

'Broken Girls' mixes supernatural tale with gripping mystery

By OLINE H. COGDILL trant girls." Four of the girls boyfriend was convicted of the 1950s, while Fiona's
Simone St. James' sixth who are roommates at and he is still in prison for terrors come from within
stand-alone novel mixes a Idlewild in 1950 — Katie, her murder. But Fiona is ob- her. The roommates' bonds
creepy supernatural tale, CeCe, Roberta and Sonia sessed with the murder and and strength serve these
complete with ghosts and — refuse to be broken by believes the truth didn't naive teens well, while
things that go bump in the the school's strict rules and come out in court. When Fiona's support system is
night, with a gripping mys- the abandonment of their a family with no local ties lacking. St. James blankets
tery. "The Broken Girls" also families. Located in "the buys Idlewild, Fiona seizes Idlewild with an evocative
works well as a story about backwoods of Vermont," on the chance to do a sto- atmosphere that makes
unshakeable friendship, the castlelike fortress is ru- ry on the school — and fur- the appearance of a ghost
parenting issues, obsession mored to be haunted by ther investigate her sister's seem real. The school's
and sexism folded into a the ghost of Mary Hand, a murder. The story intensifies abandoned rooms with
satisfying plot that strad- young woman who once when the remains of anoth- rotting furniture, dripping
dles two eras of time. The lived there. In 2014, the er girl are found buried on water and a chill that per-
broken girls are those who now shuttered Idlewild the grounds. "The Broken meates the building add to
end up in Idlewild Hall, "the haunts Vermont journal- Girls" smoothly alternates the deliciously creepy feel-
boarding school of last re- ist Fiona Sheridan, whose between the two eras, ing. Sure, these are cliches This cover image released by
sort, where parents stashed sister's body was found on capturing the idiosyncra- of supernatural and horror, Berkley shows "The Broken
their embarrassments, their the school's grounds 20 sies of each. Fear and dis- but St. James makes the Girls," by Simone St. James.
Associated Press
failures, and their recalci- years ago. Deb Sheridan's trust permeate the scenes tropes seem fresh.q