When news came that the UK actor Idris Elba,46, was named People magazine’s “Sexiest Man Alive” for 2018, Elba showed an interesting response to it. “I was like, ‘Come on, no way. Really?’’’ he told People. “It was nice - an ego (自我) boost for sure.”

The reason that Elba needed an “ego boost” is probably that even though he’s famous now, having starred (主演) in many famous films, Elba hasn’t always been a confident person. He went through an awkward phase growing up, not feeling good about his look. And living in London as a child of an African immigrant (移民) family wasn’t easy for him either. “I was very tall and skinny. And my name was Idrissa Akuna Elba, okay? I got picked on a little bit,” he said. However, for the rest of us, the news of his award for being the “Sexiest Man Alive” was no surprise at all.

Elba is far more than just an actor. He is the voice behind the versatile (多才多艺的) chief of police in Disney’s Zootopia. He is the director of crime drama film Yardie. He designs clothes, DJs and produces his own music. He also learned to fly a stunt (特技) plane. It was probably all these experiences that gave Elba the confidence that he has today. But still, Elba managed to keep a humble (谦逊的) attitude toward life and people around him. “I love being confident, but also I know when to contain it and just stay humble and rational,” Elba told Entertainment Weekly.

These “complicated contradictions” in Elba, as US movie producer Amy Pascal told The New York Times, “make every character he plays fascinating”. And it is this ability to fascinate that got Elba an Officer of the British Empire medal in 2016, for his “services to drama”. And it’s perhaps also these “complicated contradictions” that makes Elba charming.

Stop in for lunch at Drexell & Honeybee's 15-table restaurant and you'll find a menu filled with down-home cooking: beef and potatoes,chicken and dumplings, and mac and cheese. What you won't find on the menu: prices. At Drexell & Honeybee's, customers pay what they want-or what they can.They leave their money in a donation box near the door.The box is behind a screen(屏幕)that separates it from the rest of the room,so if you can't pay for your meal today-as many people in this poor town often can't-nobody will know,and more importantly,nobody will judge.

How much a customer pays may be different, but it almost always comes with thanks."Today I wasn't able to eat and you guys helped me,”one customer wrote in a thank-you note.“Thank you for bringing blessing(福祉) to this town and me.”Inside the note were twenty cents.

“We want to be that beacon of light to someone in need,” says Lisa Thomas-McMillan,who opened the restaurant with her husband, Freddie McMillan, last year."We might not be able to pull it all out,but we're going to try to help you in some kind of way.”

The entire town of Brewton has rallied behind them.Locals bring in homegrown vegetables,and two farmers keep separate gardens just for the restaurant.A 15-year-old boy even tried donating his prizewinning pig. Thomas-McMillan couldn't accept it (the pig hadn't been examined by the United States Department of Agriculture).The boy sold the pig and put the $457 he made right in Drexell & Honeybee's donation box.

A 76-year-old grandmother, dressed in Hanfu, the traditional clothing of China attracted hundreds of thousands of people's attention with her beauty and passion for life. The first short video was filmed by her grandson Liu Haochen in early October, and received 1. 76 million likes on short video platform Douyin within a month.

Now known as "Grandma of Chenchen" with 200，000 fans, she has tried on many different Chinese traditional clothing, dutiful headwear and fans with traditional Chinese pammgs are some of her favorite parts in dressing. Liu, also a lover of Hanfu. said he wanted to share happy memories with his grandma and to record her life at old age. And he found she was quite suitable for the clothing.

The grandma learned Peking Opera al 13, entered an opera school al 19 and then became an actress   at Hunan Peking Opera in Hunan province. Now at the age of 76, she is still teaching opera.

She said she agreed the moment Liu invited her to shoot a video. I didn't really know what it was about at the time. I thought it would be good to spend some time with Chenchen,"   she said, as Liu had been busy working far from home.

In October, she participated in a catwalk show in Changzhou, with performers much younger than her. Although the show went on in the rain, all the audience enjoyed the show. “When I was on the stage, the audience kept shouting my name. I was very cheerful, she said.

Along with videos about Hanfu, she also shares her daily life, which is full of happiness and smile—shopping, chatting with friends and playing with cats. She said she felt as young as a young person.