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WORK TITLE: Life Moves Pretty Fast
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BIRTHDATE: 1978
WEBSITE: https://hadleyfreeman.com/
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hadley_Freeman * http://www.newstatesman.com/culture/2015/08/life-moves-pretty-fast-pleasures-and-pitfalls-1980s-cinema
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PERSONAL
Born 1978, in New York, NY.
EDUCATION:Attended Oxford University.
ADDRESS
CAREER
Journalist. Guardian (London, England), fashion journalist.
RELIGION: Jewish.WRITINGS
Contributor of articles to publications, including Vogue, New York, and Harper’s Bazaar.
SIDELIGHTS
Hadley Freeman is a fashion journalist who writes for the Guardian (London, England). She was born in New York City and is based in London. Freeman has also contributed articles to other publications, including Vogue, New York, and Harper’s Bazaar.
That Extra Half Inch and The Meaning of Sunglasses
Freeman collaborated with designer and former Spice Girl Victoria Beckham on the 2007 book That Extra Half Inch: Hair, Heels, and Everything in Between. The volume includes personal styling tips that Beckham recommends.
Freeman shares her own fashion knowledge in the 2008 book The Meaning of Sunglasses: And a Guide to Almost All Things Fashionable. In an interview with Benedicte Page, writer in the Bookseller, Freeman discussed the way in which many fashion publications approach trends and wardrobe suggestions. She stated: “There’s a lot of fashion writing out there that treats you in a very dictatorial manner: if you’re wearing this kind of top with these kind of trousers you are wrong. … But fashion is what you like and what makes you feel good; there’s nothing right or wrong.” In the book, she comments on the signal certain fashion brands send, the purpose of a belt, and hemline length, among other fashion-related topics. Freeman also criticizes the fashion industry’s body image issues, suggesting that magazines’ embrace of impossibly thin women can be dangerous. Among the items she urges readers to avoid are animal prints, mittens, and ethnic items. A Publishers Weekly critic described The Meaning of Sunglasses as a “witty and acerbic debut book.” The same critic noted: “Freeman … doesn’t pull her punches”
Life Moves Pretty Fast
Freeman discusses films from the 1980s in Life Moves Pretty Fast: The Lessons We Learned from Eighties Movies (and Why We Don’t Learn Them from Movies Anymore). She comments on the continued relevance and appreciation of many films from the decade. Comparing films from the 1980s with current films, Freeman suggests that the films from the eighties did not rely on focus groups to shape their content and are therefore more genuine. Among the films she praises are Ghostbusters, Dirty Dancing, and the “Back to the Future” series. According to Freeman, part of the appeal of films from the 1980s is tied to their use of pop songs in the soundtrack. She also highlights influential directors John Landis and John Hughes and popular actors, including John Cusack.
Stephanie Sendaula, contributor to Library Journal, asserted: “This book will inspire readers to rewatch their favorite 1980s films with a more appreciative (and critical) eye.” A Publishers Weekly reviewer suggested: “This informative and humorous (if slightly obsessive) book is a recommended read.”
BIOCRIT
PERIODICALS
Bookseller, November 16, 2007, Benedicte Page, “How to Have Fun with Fashion,” author interview, p. 29.
Library Journal, April 15, 2016, Stephanie Sendaula, Life Moves Pretty Fast: The Lessons We Learned from Eighties Movies (and Why We Don’t Learn Them from Movies Anymore), p. 89.
Publishers Weekly, October 29, 2007, The Meaning of Sunglasses, p. 40; April 11, 2016, Life Moves Pretty Fast, p. 51.
ONLINE
Culture Whisper, http://www.culturewhisper.com/ (February 14, 2017), author interview.
Harper Collins Web site, https://www.harpercollins.co.uk/ (February 14, 2017), author profile.
Simon & Schuster Web site, https://www.simonandschuster.com/ (February 14, 2017), author profile.
Hadley Freeman
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Hadley Freeman
Born 1978
New York City
Residence London, United Kingdom
Education
Cambridge Centre for Sixth-form Studies
St Anne's College, Oxford
Employer
The Guardian
Vogue
Cherwell
Known for Journalist, author
Hadley Clare Freeman[1] (born 1978)[2] is an American journalist based in London.[3]
Life and career[edit]
Freeman was born to a Jewish family in New York.[4][5] Her family moved to London when Freeman was eleven.[6] After taking her A-level examinations while boarding at the Cambridge Centre for Sixth-form Studies,[1] she read English Literature at St Anne's College, Oxford, and edited Cherwell.[7] After a year in Paris, she worked on the fashion desk of The Guardian for eight years.[8]
Freeman is a columnist and writer for The Guardian newspaper who also contributes to the UK version of Vogue.[9]
Her first book, The Meaning of Sunglasses: A Guide to (Almost) All Things Fashionable, was published in 2008.[2] Be Awesome: Modern Life for Modern Ladies followed in 2013. According to Jennifer Lipman in The Jewish Chronicle, it is "a detailed attack on how women are both portrayed and conditioned to act in public life".[10] In 2015, she released the book Life Moves Pretty Fast.[11]
In her books, Freeman discusses cinema, particularly from the 1980s, and she occasionally appears in the media to discuss films. She has said that her favourite film is the original Ghostbusters[12] and that she has collected books and article connected to the film.[13]
Following an article for The Guardian in July 2013 criticising misogynistic behaviour, Freeman became the target of a bomb threat on Twitter.[14]
Hadley Freeman
Biography
Hadley Freeman is the author of The Meaning of Sunglasses and Be Awesome and has been a columnist and staff writer for The Guardian since 2000, where she writes the popular ‘Ask Hadley’ fashion column. She also contributes to US Vogue. She lives in New York and London.
Hadley Freeman is a columnist and writer for the Guardian newspaper in the UK. She was born in New York and lives in London. Her books include Life Moves Pretty Fast, The Meaning of Sunglasses, and Be Awesome, and her work has appeared in Vogue US and UK, New York magazine, Harpers Bazaar, and many other publications.
Hadley Freeman Interview: My London Cultural Diary
The NYC born Vogue and Guardian writer Hadley Freeman isn't the likeliest of fashion journalists. Brainy, cynical, feminist and funny, it seems improbable that her career began in the industry that refuses to laugh at itself.
But thank God she caught the fashion bug; accidentally, as it happens, after winning a prize while still at Oxford. Hadley Freeman has become a force for good for the industry and a level head for the consumers. She writes responsible, high-IQ fashion journalism that makes you feel better about buying Vogue. Freeman celebrates the good in fashion: (clothes, pageantry, pantheon of eccentrics) and comes down hard on the bad: (size 0, objectification, exploitation).
Freeman has since come off the Guardian fashion desk, now writing features and interviews. (Fashion still looms large in her writing, though: her coverage of the Oscars ceremony was witty kaleidoscope of couture.) Alongside her journalism, she has written three books: 2008's The Meaning of Sunglasses, A Guide to (Almost) All Things Fashionable, 2013's Be Awesome: Modern Life for Modern Ladies and Life Moves Pretty Fast, an appreciation of 80s movies, which will come out in May.
This Sunday, Freeman will appear at King's Place for Jewish Book Week, discussing The New Yorker with the magazine's fiction editor. "The New Yorker's been in my life for as long as I can remember, from when I was a child growing up in New York and seeing my grandparents read it, to reading it myself now in London, I love talking to editors and writers from it about how they create this brilliant magazine."
Read our preview of Jewish Book Week here
A Londoner since the age of 11, Hadley agreed to let Culture Whisper peek inside her Cultural Diary.
Hadley Freeman's London Cultural Diary
Old favourite?
Probably everyone says this but it's The Wolseley. It's one of my favourite things about London and always try to find an excuse to make someone meet me there for tea.
New discovery?
Obviously he's not new at all but I'm really excited about Rufus Norris taking over the National Theatre. He's such a brilliant director, I can't wait to see what he does with the NT.
Best-loved walk or view?
Any walk with my dog! I'm afraid I'm a full-on crazy dog lady and any walk with my terrier Arthur is a good walk for me.
Greatest meal you’ve ever had in London?
Probably a toasted bagel with cream cheese from the Beigel Bakery on Brick Lane at 4am when I was about 27. Never was a bagel more needed.
Favourite bar?
Well, I've already said The Wolseley for restaurant so for favourite bar I'll say the House of St Barnabas in Soho. It is just so beautiful, with its own little chapel, and no one seems to know about it.
Most memorable cultural experience?
I loved seeing Back to the Future on an outside screen at Secret Cinema last summer.
Hidden gem no-one else knows about?
I love Piccadilly Market by St James' Church. There's this one stall which sells handmade kaleidoscopes which always make brilliant presents.
Best place for a first date?
The double sofa seats at the Hampstead Everyman movie theatre.
Where were you seen this month?
I went to LA to cover the Oscars for the Guardian, so I guess at the Kodak Theater in LA.
Hadley Freeman: 'Life Moves Pretty Fast' (Fourth Estate) is out in May
Hadley Freeman discusses The New Yorker on March 1. Click here for more information.
QUOTED: "This book will inspire readers to rewatch thier favorite 1980s films with a more appreciative (and critical) eye."
Freeman, Hadley. Life Moves Pretty Fast: The Lessons We
Learned from Eighties Movies (and Why We Don't Learn
Them from Movies Anymore)
Stephanie Sendaula
Library Journal.
141.7 (Apr. 15, 2016): p89.
COPYRIGHT 2016 Library Journals, LLC. A wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
http://www.libraryjournal.com/
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Freeman, Hadley. Life Moves Pretty Fast: The Lessons We Learned from Eighties Movies (and Why We Don't Learn Them from Movies
Anymore). S & S. Jun. 2016.352p. illus. notes, index. ISBN 9781501130458. pap. $16; ebk. ISBN 9781501130663. FILM
Spanning film criticism, cultural analysis, and autobiography, this debut by Guardian columnist Freeman illustrates the lasting appeal of films
such as The Princess Bride (1987) and Sixteen Candles (1984), and explains why they wouldn't get made today. Through interviews with
producers such as Lynda Obst, Freeman realizes the dominance of the international market and the pressure for blockbusters to financially
support film studios leads a risk-averse Hollywood to blandify. Freeman explores how the 1980s saw the rise of the male renegade (Beverly Hitts
Cop, Lethal Weapon) and male friendship (Ghostbusters) contrasted with the recent man-child trope in film and television. The growing
conservatism of America is listed as a reason why Back to the Future (1985), where Lorraine McFly seduces her son, and Dirty Dancing (1987),
with frank talk of abortion, would be met with resistance today. Freeman reminds readers that 1980s films celebrated awkwardness instead of
erasing it, maintaining that Beverly Hills 90210 (1990) and Clueless (1995) ushered in the current era of aspiration. The poignant final chapter
reevaluates Eddie Murphy as a victim of his own success. VERDICT With lists such as the best montages of the decade, this book will inspire
readers to rewatch thier favorite 1980s films with a more appreciative (and critical) eye.--Stephanie Sendaula, Library Journal
Source Citation (MLA 8th
Edition)
Sendaula, Stephanie. "Freeman, Hadley. Life Moves Pretty Fast: The Lessons We Learned from Eighties Movies (and Why We Don't Learn
Them from Movies Anymore)." Library Journal, 15 Apr. 2016, p. 89. General OneFile, go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?
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QUOTED: "There's a lot of fashion writing out there that treats you in a very dictatorial manner: if you're wearing this kind of top with these kind of trousers
you are wrong. ... But fashion is what you like and what makes you feel good; there's nothing right or
wrong
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How to have fun with fashion
Benedicte Page
The Bookseller.
.5307 (Nov. 16, 2007): p29.
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Hadley Freeman The Meaning of Sunglasses (Viking, February, 15 [pounds sterling], 9780670917235)
Guardian fashion writer Hadley Freeman, who co-wrote Victoria Beckham's bestseller That Extra Half an Inch, has produced her own funny and
opinionated fashion guide. The Meaning of Sunglasses is an A to Z of fashion--from animal prints to velvet and vintage--including along the way
Freeman's thoughts on such topics as the fashion girls get and boys don't, the ever-rising bar of personal grooming, and how Kate Moss ruined
your wardrobe.
"I've worked at the Guardian for seven years, and people are always saying: 'When are you going to get out of the fashion thing?' People are so
sneery about it, in a way they'd never be about film or art or cooking. It's just a fun pursuit. There's a great pleasure in going out to Zara or
Topshop and buying an amazing top for [pounds sterling]30, or buying a dress for your birthday and everyone saying how nice you look.
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED]
"There's a lot of fashion writing out there that treats you in a very dictatorial manner: if you're wearing this kind of top with these kind of trousers
you are wrong and will be banished to a life of frumpiness. But fashion is what you like and what makes you feel good; there's nothing right or
wrong.
"I always find it funny in fashion writing when people's views change with the season: last season it was ruffles, and now ruffles are terrible and
they're all recommending big buttons or whatever. I have my own personal style: I don't like fur, I do like flat shoes. If I like something, I'm not
going to change just because next month Roberto Cavalli tells me fur is in. Look at what I am wearing today--a short dress and flat boots. I
haven't changed the way I look much since I was 13 years old.
"It's not Kate Moss' fault that she has ruined your wardrobe. She is a model who can wear anything and make it look cool, and that's why she is so
successful. But people look at her and say: 'Wow, she looks amazing', and then go off and buy those clothes. The stuff she has promoted--pirate
boots and skinny jeans and waistcoats--they're just dreadful, like something you'd find in the wardrobe department of the local panto.
"I still don't understand why they asked me to do [Victoria's book]. The two of us really got on but I think we were both mystified by each other's
clothing. There was a very funny photo of the two of us in Madrid in one of the tabloids. She's all done up in her amazing Ungaro mini-dress with
these teetering heels, and I'm wearing a mini-skirt, my super-thick black tights and ballet pumps. She said: 'Do you really wear tights every day?'
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The way she thinks of dressing is all about how to make yourself look taller, thinner, more feminine, or whatever, whereas I go for what's
comfortable and fun to wear, what makes me smile, what I can run around in. It's just a different attitude."
Page, Benedicte
Source Citation (MLA 8th
Edition)
Page, Benedicte. "How to have fun with fashion." The Bookseller, 16 Nov. 2007, p. 29. General OneFile, go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?
p=ITOF&sw=w&u=schlager&v=2.1&id=GALE%7CA173676856&it=r&asid=1f57607c46a3d62f754d4e869b8d4212. Accessed 5 Feb.
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QUOTED: "witty and acerbic debut book" "Freeman ... doesn't pull her punches"
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The Meaning of Sunglasses: And a Guide to Almost All
Things Fashionable
Publishers Weekly.
254.43 (Oct. 29, 2007): p40.
COPYRIGHT 2007 PWxyz, LLC
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The Meaning of Sunglasses: And a Guide to Almost All Things Fashionable HADLEY FREEMAN. Viking, $24.95 (237p) ISBN 978-0-670-
01867-3
Belts aren't meant to hold up pants, according to Freeman, deputy fashion editor at the British newspaper the Guardian; belts are "superfluous"
additions to outfits that help cinch a waist or make one appear thinner. In her witty and acerbic debut book, Freeman notes what designer bags say
about their owner (Fendi is for the "well-groomed" lady); the messages different hemlines can send ("super short miniskirts will have men
whistling Roy Orbison's greatest hit at you"); and the trouble with the "unnecessary distraction" patterns provide. Her short chapters come at
random as Freeman takes a haphazard approach to the fashion world by organizing her book alphabetically--which leads to some confusion as
there are six separate chapters dealing with footwear. Her most convincing chapters expose the problems with the fashion industry, such as the
unrealistic body image models like Kate Moss present. Readers plagued with indecision concerning what blouse is best or what jean style fits
their body type can turn to Freeman, who doesn't pull her punches (ethnic clothes, like a pastel beach caftan, are "offensive"; mittens are
"childlike"; and animal prints "embarrassingly obvious"). (Feb.)
Source Citation (MLA 8th
Edition)
"The Meaning of Sunglasses: And a Guide to Almost All Things Fashionable." Publishers Weekly, 29 Oct. 2007, p. 40. General OneFile,
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QUOTED: "This informative and humorous (if slightly obsessive) book
is a recommended read."
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Life Moves Pretty Fast: The Lessons We Learned from
Eighties Movies
Publishers Weekly.
263.15 (Apr. 11, 2016): p51.
COPYRIGHT 2016 PWxyz, LLC
http://www.publishersweekly.com/
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Life Moves Pretty Fast: The Lessons We Learned from Eighties Movies
Hadley Freeman. Simon & Schuster, $16 (352p) ISBN 978-1-5011-3045-8
As this book attests, many Hollywood blockbusters of the 1980s have retained their popularity; to audiences beset on all sides by homogenized,
focus-grouped studio behemoths, they can seem refreshingly lighthearted and surprisingly honest. In this love letter to '80s popcorn cinema,
Guardian columnist Freeman (The Meaning of Sunglasses') breaks down the life lessons that she gleaned from the work of John Hughes, John
Landis, and John Cusack, among many others. Focusing each chapter on a specific title, she uses anecdotes from her own life, interviews with
actors and filmmakers, and feminist-flavored social commentary to drive home the continuing relevance of the films, which include Back to the
Future, Dirty Dancing, and Ghostbusters. Freeman amply demonstrates why the hits of three decades ago are still beloved of many--not least for
their now-nostalgic sound track choices and core themes of life, love, and friendship. This informative and humorous (if slightly obsessive) book
is a recommended read for anyone who has felt abandoned in recent years by mainstream filmmaking. Agent; Georgia Garrett, Rogers, Coleridge
and White. (June)
Source Citation (MLA 8th
Edition)
"Life Moves Pretty Fast: The Lessons We Learned from Eighties Movies." Publishers Weekly, 11 Apr. 2016, p. 51+. General OneFile,
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p=ITOF&sw=w&u=schlager&v=2.1&id=GALE%7CA449663008&it=r&asid=71c4bc17be21095fdb543eee1ae044d5. Accessed 5 Feb.
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