Month: August 2023

EXCLUSIVE: Joseph Fiennes has scored a winner with playwright James Graham’s knockout stage play Dear England, which will transfer from London’s National Theatre to the West End in the fall. The play is an uplifting dramatization of Gareth Southgate’s inspirational leadership of the England’s men’s soccer team and has garnered strong reviews. Dear England will run
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Connected devices such as baby monitors and smart speakers are increasingly being used to survey, harass and control victims of domestic abuse, MPs have warned. The government has been urged to do more to tackle the rise in so-called “tech abuse” – whereby smart technology and connected devices are used to broaden and facilitate patterns
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Smoke billows from an unauthorized steel factory, foreground, on November 4, 2016 in Inner Mongolia, China. To meet China’s targets to slash emissions of carbon dioxide, authorities are pushing to shut down privately owned steel, coal, and other high-polluting factories scattered across rural areas. (Photo by Kevin Frayer/Getty Images) Kevin Frayer | Getty Images News
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“We kind of live in Candy Mountain on Foundation, because visual effects have such an important role in the show,” said VFX supervisor Chris MacLean at Apple TV+ and Deadline’s Visual Effects + Screen event. MacLean has been with the series for over four years, back when he was working on the first season. “When
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Sophie Tea is a London-based artist whose work honours the female form, with a focus on celebrating the diversity that distinguishes all of our bodies. In 2021, Sophie organised six “Nudie” catwalks, which featured models wearing only body paint that she’d meticulously swirled over their naked bodies. Her latest project saw her create ‘SEND NUDES’,
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Most of Tirzah Price’s life decisions have been motivated by a desire to read as many books as humanly possible. Tirzah holds an MFA in Writing for Children & Young Adults from Vermont College of Fine Arts, and has worked as an independent bookseller and librarian. She’s also the author of the Jane Austen Murder
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Affirmative action supporters and counterprotesters shout at each other outside the U.S. Supreme Court building in Washington, D.C., June 29, 2023. Kent Nishimura | Los Angeles Times | Getty Images Even before the Supreme Court‘s ruling on affirmative action policies in college admissions, the nation’s top business leaders expressed concern over how the decision could
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The Labour Party has said it would have “no choice” but to continue housing asylum seekers on barges and ex-military bases if it forms the next government. Shadow immigration minister Stephen Kinnock said Labour would “inherit a mess” if it wins the next election and that it would have to “deal with the infrastructure that
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It’s the great comedy debate. With performers at Edinburgh’s Fringe feeling the pinch from rising accommodation, food and fuel costs, has the festival become elitist? “There’s a definite economic barrier,” comedian Paul Chowdhry told Sky News. “Most of the people I speak to, throughout the years, say it’s a very middle-class white industry. You very
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Lesli Linka Glatter has been re-elected president of the Directors Guild of America by acclamation of the delegates at the DGA’s Biennial National Convention in Los Angeles. “I am thrilled to say we are as strong and united as ever before,” she said. “Together, we will continue our shared fight — along with SAG-AFTRA and the
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