Amy Adams: 'I thought, if I cant figure this out, I cant work any more'

 Posted on March 21, 2024  |  14 minutes  |  2913 words  |  Valentine Belue

Amy AdamsThe Oscar-nominated actor talks about industry sexism, why she cried on set and the pitfalls of a Hollywood marriage The morning I head off to meet Amy Adams something happens that is almost too common to be called ironic, so instead let’s call it a typical absurdity arising from being a woman in a world that has not entirely caught up with the 21st century. Adams is in town for the British premiere of Arrival, a lyrical sci-fi drama, directed by Denis Villeneuve. [Read More]

In the Greek midwinter: hiking around the Vikos gorge, Greeces Grand Canyon

 Posted on March 21, 2024  |  7 minutes  |  1465 words  |  Kary Bruening

Winter walkies … writer Susan Smillie and Daisy the dog in the Vikos gorge area. Photograph: Wolfgang HainzlWinter walkies … writer Susan Smillie and Daisy the dog in the Vikos gorge area. Photograph: Wolfgang HainzlGreece holidaysDeep snow, icy pools and cosy hotels in timeless stone villages … this is a magical time in Zagori and Greece’s mountainous north “Daisy,” I say, eyeing the snowy peaks rising heroically before us. “I’ve a feeling we’re not at sea level any more. [Read More]

Jack Nicholson sued for assault | Film

 Posted on March 21, 2024  |  2 minutes  |  268 words  |  Valentine Belue

Film This article is more than 23 years oldJack Nicholson sued for assaultThis article is more than 23 years oldThat aging Lothario Jack Nicholson has been hit with a lawsuit alleging that he promised a prostitute $1,000 for sex and then assaulted her when she asked for the money. Catherine Sheehan has already received a £32,000 settlement from Nicholson, but now insists that that sum is insufficient and that her injuries from the incident are " [Read More]

Jimmy Carr jokes about dwarves on BBCs The One Show video | Culture

 Posted on March 21, 2024  |  1 minutes  |  100 words  |  Chauncey Koziol

Jimmy Carr Jimmy Carr jokes about dwarves on BBC’s The One Show – video Comedian Jimmy Carr makes a joke about dwarves on a BBC1 The One Show episode aired on November 4. Fellow guest Rod Stewart attempts to keep a straight face while host Alex Jones grimaces. After receiving two complaints about the incident, Ofcom is investigating to see if the broadcasting code was breached Source: BBC [Read More]

Lilie James death: grief, shock and utter confusion as St Andrews Cathedral students return

 Posted on March 21, 2024  |  5 minutes  |  863 words  |  Chauncey Koziol

Sydney This article is more than 2 months oldLilie James death: ‘grief, shock and utter confusion’ as St Andrew’s Cathedral students return to schoolThis article is more than 2 months oldFlower memorial goes up for the 21-year-old coach killed on Sydney private school’s grounds and special assembly held Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcast Overwhelming the courtyard at St Andrew’s Cathedral school on Monday was a sombre mood and the smell of pollen. [Read More]

Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams review a smart and breezy debut

 Posted on March 21, 2024  |  3 minutes  |  561 words  |  Chauncey Koziol

The ObserverFictionReviewA Londoner’s low self-esteem leads to a series of ill-advised flings in an amusing first novelYou can’t help but suspect that literary fiction short-changes readers when it comes to portraying black Britons. A novel such as Diana Evans’s Ordinary People, about middle-class midlife marital crises, felt radical mainly because the alternatives tend to be gritty or nothing: a choice between, say, Guy Gunaratne’s In Our Mad and Furious City, about estate kids caught up in riots, or John Lanchester’s south London panorama Capital, without a black British character in sight. [Read More]

Terrorist behind foiled 2015 French train attack receives life sentence | France

 Posted on March 21, 2024  |  3 minutes  |  508 words  |  Valentine Belue

France This article is more than 3 years oldTerrorist behind foiled 2015 French train attack receives life sentenceThis article is more than 3 years oldAyoub El-Khazzani was restrained by three US travellers after opening fire onboard French train A terrorist whose plan to carry out a massacre on a packed high-speed international train was foiled by the heroic actions of a group of passengers has been sentenced to life imprisonment by a French court. [Read More]

The cult of Diego Maradona in pictures | Football

 Posted on March 21, 2024  |  5 minutes  |  906 words  |  Jenniffer Sheldon

The cult of Diego Maradona – in pictures Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Diego Maradona has died aged 60. Photographer Paolo Vezzoli discovered the cult of the ‘God of Naples’ 30 years after Napoli’s last Scudetto win Main image: A votive shrine dedicated to Maradona, the golden boy and Argentinian champion of Naples. Wed 25 Nov 2020 12. [Read More]

The one that got away: David Sedaris

 Posted on March 21, 2024  |  3 minutes  |  549 words  |  Valentine Belue

Weekend love specialRelationships'Every man ticked off on his fingers was someone I'd been compared to at one point or other. Someone kissed better than me. Someone had more stamina, a more seductive voice'Getting stuffed: a tale of love and taxidermy by David Sedaris It was a Friday night in mid-July, around nine o'clock, and Hugh and I were at the dinner table, eating this spaghetti he makes with sausage in it. [Read More]

A roar, a titter and a tee-hee-hee

 Posted on March 20, 2024  |  7 minutes  |  1392 words  |  Aldo Pusey

BooksReviewPatrick Ness is swept along by a tide of language wrapped up in Nicola Barker's DarkmansDarkmans by Nicola Barker 838pp, Fourth Estate, £17.99 A jester haunts this book. Not the story (though he does that, too), but the book itself, possessing the characters at inconvenient moments, forcing broken language out of their mouths and scattering it across the page, "ducking and diving between the words ... deceiving and then disappearing". For jesters, like clowns, are not actually about comedy, are they? [Read More]