Fargo: a first look at Kirsten Dunst and Ted Danson in season two | Fargo
Posted on May 2, 2024
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Trailer watchFargoFargo: a first look at Kirsten Dunst and Ted Danson in season twoTwo Hollywood stalwarts will be appearing in the second series of the television adaptation of the big-screen hit
With a few details emerging about the next series of Fargo, here’s a first look at two of the stars: Kirsten Dunst who plays beautician Peggy Blomquist, and Ted Danson as Sheriff Hank Larsson – who teams up with Patrick Wilson’s young Lou Solverson (Molly’s grizzly dad played by Keith Carradine in the first series).
[Read More]Gay icons like to dress up: Bob Mackie on Cher, Tina Turner and dressing Elton John as Donald
Posted on May 2, 2024
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FashionInterview‘Gay icons like to dress up’: Bob Mackie on Cher, Tina Turner and dressing Elton John as Donald DuckHannah MarriottThe fashion designer has worked with Marlene Dietrich, Barbra Streisand and Diana Ross, and is most famous for the outfits he created for Cher. Here he reminisces about sequins, surprises – and why he’ll never retire
You could dine out for a lifetime on Bob Mackie’s stories. After 60 years of designing sequin-encrusted stage costumes for Cher, Bette Midler and Diana Ross, to name a few, the 79-year-old has anecdotes to spare.
[Read More]I went to hell and back: Jamie Foxx speaks publicly after health problem | Jamie Foxx
Posted on May 2, 2024
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Jamie Foxx This article is more than 5 months old‘I went to hell and back’: Jamie Foxx speaks publicly after health problemThis article is more than 5 months oldThe actor was taken to hospital in April after a ‘medical complication’
Jamie Foxx has spoken publicly for the first time since he was taken to hospital for an unspecified health problem earlier this year.
In April, Foxx’s family said he had been hospitalised in Atlanta after a “medical complication”.
[Read More]Im a bloated, overpraised Hollywood guy: The White Lotus creator Mike White on sex, God and
Posted on May 2, 2024
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TelevisionInterview‘I’m a bloated, overpraised Hollywood guy’: The White Lotus creator Mike White on sex, God and disliking successXan BrooksHe’s gone from largely writing under-appreciated cult classics to renowned creator of a smash-hit comedy – and he’s not sure it’s really him. Might he call time on his brilliant satire?
“Luxury problems,” says writer-director Mike White, appearing via Zoom from his house in Hawaii. He’s 10 minutes late because he totally forgot we were meeting.
[Read More]Lyft driver who worked as US interpreter in Afghanistan shot dead in Washington | Washington DC
Posted on May 2, 2024
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Washington DC This article is more than 6 months oldLyft driver who worked as US interpreter in Afghanistan shot dead in WashingtonThis article is more than 6 months oldNasratullah Ahmadyar, 31, who left Afghanistan on last flight from Kabul in 2021, died in hospital after being shot in his car
A Virginia man who previously served as an interpreter for the US military in Afghanistan was fatally shot this week working as a rideshare driver in Washington DC.
[Read More]Name Me Lawand review remarkable documentary about a deaf Kurdish boy in the UK
Posted on May 2, 2024
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The ObserverDocumentary filmsReviewEdward Lovelace uses impressionistic techniques to capture the world of Lawand as he learns to communicate in this moving, inspirational tale
Born profoundly deaf in Iraqi Kurdistan, Lawand had little hope of a fulfilling life if he stayed in the country of his birth. His disability was stigmatised, and there was no infrastructure in place to support him. With their son’s wellbeing in mind, his parents made the wrenching decision to make the perilous journey to the UK with the then five-year-old Lawand and his older brother Rawa.
[Read More]The Naked Ape at 50: Its central claim has surely stood the test of time
Posted on May 2, 2024
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The ObserverEvolutionIn October 1967, Desmond Morris published his landmark study of human behaviour and evolution. Here four experts assess what he got right – and wrong
Robin Dunbar: ‘He gave us a picture of who we really are’Professor of evolutionary psychology at the University of Oxford
We were all gearing up for the summer of love when, in 1967, Desmond Morris’s The Naked Ape took us by storm. Its pitch was that humans really were just apes, and much of our behaviour could be understood in terms of animal behaviour and its evolution.
[Read More]The Next Great Migration by Sonia Shah review why people wander
Posted on May 2, 2024
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Observer book of the weekSociety booksReviewThis fascinating study debunks false narratives about immigration and finds that, in common with other species, the urge to move is written in our genes
Sonia Shah’s last two books Pandemic, published in 2016, and The Fever, published in 2010, introduced her as a storyteller in a novel genre: travel books that went in search of the spread of disease - cholera in the former, malaria in the latter.
[Read More]Top 10 books about long-distance relationships
Posted on May 2, 2024
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Top 10sBooksThe pleasures and perils of sustaining human connection while physically separated have inspired writers from Sally Rooney to Vladimir Nabokov
The problem of being separated from the person you love is as old as transport. But 50 years ago, international telephone conversations were off the table. Thirty years ago: no internet. My grandad proposed by letter, from a two-year posting on an island in the Indian Ocean, having met my grandmother once.
[Read More]Black parent sues after Los Angeles school project had students pick cotton | Los Angeles
Posted on May 1, 2024
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Los Angeles This article is more than 1 year oldBlack parent sues after Los Angeles school project had students pick cottonThis article is more than 1 year oldThe lawsuit against LA Unified says Rashunda Pitts’ daughter was humiliated by the lesson that was intended to teach about slavery
Los Angeles Unified, America’s second largest school district, is facing a civil rights lawsuit from a Black parent who says her daughter’s school taught students about slavery by having them pick cotton.
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