Amity Magazine: Halloween Edition

A mity 2 OCTOBER2020

Heidi Klum

talks all about her EPIC costumes

Are the sisters back?

Black Magic Margarita recipe that will complete your spooky party

Heidi Klum When Heidi Klum held her first Halloween party in 2000, she never imagined that her yearly fete would still be one of the most buzzed-about events in New York nearly two decades later. “It’s crazy,” she tells The Hollywood Reporter. “I never expected that this party was going to go on for so many years, but here we are!”

THE KEY TO THE PERFECT COSTUME

With 18 star-studded Halloween parties and an array of headline-making costumes

— under her belt, Klum’s name has become synonymous with the spooky holiday. The multihyphenate is not just a supermodel, TV personality, designer, author, actress and producer. To many, Klum is revered as the undisputed Queen of Halloween, a title she’s not only proud of, but one she takes very seriously.

At what point in the year do you start thinking about your Halloween costume?

You’ve done both sexy and scary costumes over the years.

Do you have a preference?

I start thinking about it on Nov. 1!

I usually have two or three ideas that I’m playing with and then I decide on one thing. You have to decide at one point because pieces have to be built and all of that. So right when the party is over, the morning of Nov. 1, I start thinking, “Maybe next year, I’m going to do that one that I didn’t do this year.” And then, obviously, throughout the year new things come into my mind because maybe I’ve seen a movie,or I went to a country and was inspired by something I saw there.

I don’t prefer one or the other. As long as it’s unique and you really follow through all the way, then the costume will always turn out great whether it’s considered scary or sexy. I’ve never done sexy just to be sexy. When I did Jessica Rabbit, I don’t think I was necessarily sexy. She’s a cartoon and has major curves, so I had the biggest boobs and the biggest butt. I don’t know how sexy or pretty it was, but at the end of the day, I feel like I followed through.

You pick your idea and then you follow through with all the details. It’s all about the execution.

What is the key to an incredible Halloween costume?

I love it when people are unrecognizable. I love it when people don’t go halfway. For me, the best costumes are the ones that really give the whole package. They have a unique idea and follow through with all the little details. It’s always all in the details.

Where do you find most inspiration for your costumes?

I get inspiration from anything and anywhere. For example, when I was the robot in 2010, it was because I had been inspired during a trip to Disneyland. I saw the parade and saw all these people walking on stilts. I was like, “Ooh, I want to be on stilts!” I didn’t turn out to be a Disney character, but I just loved the idea of walking on stilts and being really tall. And then I thought, “Who could I be? Oh, a superhero robot!”

As long as it’s unique and you really follow through all the way, then the costume will always turn out great...

Are there any costumes that you regret?

No, I honestly love all of them.

Obviously, from the very beginning, if I would have had the resources that I have now, everything would have been much bigger and that much better. In 2000 — and that’s a really long time ago — I didn’t have this team around me. I didn’t have all these amazing people helping me out with costumes.

For sure, I could have done all of these much better with the help of professionals. But I didn’t have them, so I was doing it all myself.

What can you tease about your costume this year?

This time my costume is going to be very, very sweet — because I wasn’t cute at all last time around as the werewolf in “Thriller.”

How to make:

the

Frankenstein

THE DRINK

1.Start with a clear cup and add a thin layer of nerds to the bottom of a clear cup

2. Add three to five ice cubes, or how

many you would like. It all depends on how cold your drink is.

3.Put in one or two plastic eyeballs, to bring Frankenstein to life!

4.Fill up the cup with a clear drink! You can use carbonated drinks or to avoid a huge sugar rush, you can use carbonated water.

THE STRAW

1. Start with a black and white

colored paper straws.

2. Find some halloween themed marshmellows! The good thing is that most dollar stores are over stocked with the cute treats.

3. Put the marshmellow on the straw.

If there is any sticky residue left on the straw, you can wipe it off with a damp cloth.

Enjoy!

Hocus Pocus 2: Sequel Plans Revealed?

Sarah Jessica Parker says that she and her co-stars Kathy Najimi and Bett Midler are ...waiting for a call from Disney.

The classic 1990s movie Hocus Pocus is releasing on Disney +.

Directed by Kenny Ortega, Hocus Pocus stars Betters Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker, and Kathy Nazimi as the Sanderson sisters, three witches at stake in 17th-century Salem.

Decades later, a teenager named Max (Omri Katz) moves to Salem and ends up in an old witch house, where he burns a Black Flame candle and accidentally takes Sanderson to a dead state.

Max, his younger sister Dani (Thora Burch), and local girl Alison (Waita Shaw) team up with a talking cat and try to stop the witches before they can consume the life forces of all the children in the city.

Speaking in 2017, original screenwriter Mick Garris said he had heard rumors that Hocus Pocus 2 was moving forward as a television movie, which already had a development script. Sometime later, it was confirmed that a Hocus Pocus TV movie was working on the Disney Channel for a Freeform release and that it would be a reboot rather than a direct sequel.

Hocus Pocus 2: cast Kenny Ortega, director of Hocus Pocus, would not be involved in making Hocus Pocus 2, and the film was initially described as featuring an entirely new cast.

However, with fall 2019 confirming that the new Hocus Pocus will be a sequel rather than a reboot, original star Sarah Jessica Parker says that she and her co-stars Kathy Najimi and Bett Midler are on board, just to do the official thing. Waiting for a call from Disney. Doug Jones, who played the zombie character Billy Butcherson, also said he would “love� her role to surprise her again. According to a March 2020 report, the three original Sanderson sisters are expected to reach repayment agreements.

Hocus Pocus 2: release date The sequel of the series will release on Disney+. The possibility of a coronavirus pandemic has excluded any expected release by 2020, although given the start of 2021, production could begin before the end of the year.

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Costumes DECADES through the

You can tell a lot about a particular era of American history by looking at its Halloween costumes—not just what people are afraid of, but also what’s popular in entertainment and who’s running for president.

“Your average person would dress up on New Year’s, Valentine’s Day, Halloween, Easter,” she says.

“There were costumes for many occasions, and dress balls and costume masquerades were much more popular than they are now.”

Halloween costumes back then were more specifically geared toward spooky themes (as opposed to current events), and mostly homemade. The goal wasn’t necessarily to dress up as a particular creature or character, but rather to conceal identity in a spooky way that evoked themes like ghosts, witches, pumpkins, black cats and the moon.

Halloween has evolved into the main costume holiday in the United States. But back in the early 20th century, Halloween was only one of many holidays for which Americans dressed up, says Lesley Bannatyne, who has written several books about Halloween traditions.

Over the next few decades, a variety of other costume trends related to pop culture emerged. Halloween costumes in the 1970s and ‘80s became more gruesome with the rise of slasher horror movies.

These movies also cemented Michael Myers and Jason Voorhees masks as classic horror costumes.

Major fantasy and sci-fi movies had a big influence, too. Fans dressed up as C-3PO, Darth Vader and Princess Leia from Star Wars, and kids particularly liked dressing up as the titular alien in E.T.

Costumes in the early 20th century and beyond also sometimes sought to portray other cultures— and races—in a way that is now recognized to be insensitive and often racist. Americans culturally appropriated turbans and other symbols of the “Far East,” reflecting contemporary fascination with Egypt as an “exotic” place.

White Americans wore blackface to portray African Americans in a tradition that’s steeped in a history of racism and that continues today.

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Ingredients - 4 ounces tequila - Juice of 3 limes - 2 ounces orange juice - 1 ounce triple sec - 8 ounces sparkling water - Agave nectar, to taste - Red, blue and green food coloring - Black salt, for garnish

Directions Step 1 Add tequila, lime juice, orange juice, triple sec, 3 drops of each color of food coloring and agave nectar to a shaker with ice and mix.

Step 2 Dip the rim of your serving glasses into a shallow plate of water and then into salt to create the black salted rim.

Step 3 Add ice to your glasses, strain the margarita, top with the sparkling water and serve.

scary story for kids

Golden

He never paid much attention to the neighbors living on his city block until the day the pretty middle-aged widow moved in two doors down from him. She was plump and dark with sparkling eyes, and she always wore dark gloves on her hands, even indoors.

He went out of his way to meet her, and they often “bumped� into each other in the street and stood talking. One day, as she brushed the hair back from her forehead, he caught a glimpse of gold under the glove on her right arm. When he asked her about it, she grinned coquettishly and told him that she had lost one hand a few years back and now wore a golden hand in its place. In that moment, a terrible lust woke in his heart - not to possess the lady herself, but to possess the solid gold hand that she wore under her long black gloves.

He courted the widow with every stratagem known to him; flowers, trips to the theater, gifts, compliments. And he won her heart. Within a month, they were standing in front of a minister, promising to love one another until death parted them. Within another month, he was a widower and had buried his ailing wife in the local cemetery - without her golden hand. It had been so easy. A slow poison, administered daily to resemble a wasting disease. No one - not his wife, not the family doctor, not their neighbors - suspected murder. And the night after the funeral, he slept with the golden hand under his pillow.

It was a dark night. Clouds covered the moon, and the wind was whistling down the chimney and rattling the shutters of the town house. He was deeply asleep when the door to his room slammed open with a loud bang and a wild wind whipped around the room, scattering papers and books and clothing and table coverings every which way.

Hand

He sat up, startled by the sudden noise, and his pulse began to pound when he saw a greenish-white light bobbing slowly into the room. Before his eyes, the light slowly grew larger, taking on the shape of his dead wife.

She was missing one arm. “Where is my golden hand?” she moaned, her dark eyes blazing with red fire. “Give me my golden hand!”

He tried to speak, but his mouth was so dry with fear that he could only make soft gasping noises. The glowing phantom moved closer to him, her once-lovely face twisted into a hideous green mask. “You stole my life and you stole my hand. Give me back my golden hand!” the dead wife howled. The noise rose higher and higher, and the phantom pulsed with a strident green light that smote his eyes, making them water.

He cowered back against his pillows, and the hard shape of the golden hand pressed against his back. And then he felt the golden hand twitch underneath him as the mangled green phantom that had been his wife swooped down upon him, pressing his face against the pillow in a suffocating green cloud. He tried to scream, but it was cut off suddenly by a terrible pressure against his throat, cutting off his breath. The world went black.

The next morning, when the housemaid came into the room with her master’s morning cup of tea, she found him lying dead on the floor, with the golden hand clutched around his throat.

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