By day, Touko Valio Laaksonen was a corporate advertiser in Helsinki, Finland. By night, he was Tom of Finland, a revolutionary artist whose drawings of hypermasculine men brought gay pornographic images into the mainstream in the 1960s and ’70s. Almost 70 years after he started his career, the new book TOM, by artist Silvia Prada, re-illustrates his work and archive through her eyes.
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The makeup mogul Bobbi Brown — now retired but still influential — just opened a 32-room hotel called the George Inn — and it’s in Montclair, New Jersey. Along with her husband, entrepreneur Steven Plofker, Brown is making the family-centric suburb — which is a 35-minute ride away from New York City on New Jersey Transit — something of a destination.
Ramona Singer has got a new look!
The Real Housewives of New York City star, 61, chopped 8 inches off her signature blonde waves — debuting the cut exclusively with PEOPLE.
“I was shocked by how good it looks!” Singer says of the cute, piecey bob. “This rocks! I look really hot. It’s like a new me.”
The only thing I know about my biological father is that he’s colorblind. My parents adopted me when I was two weeks old, and the only information I have about my origins, genetically speaking, is that he must be colorblind, and either my biological mother is too, or she’s a carrier for the recessive gene. I know this because I’m colorblind.
