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Shyam Benegal passes away at 90: An iconoclastic filmmaker who pioneered Indian Parallel Cinema movement

Working on two to three movie projects despite going to the hospital three times a week to undergo dialysis at the age of 90 years — such was the dedication of veteran filmmaker Shyam Benegal. Born in 1934 in Andhra Pradesh, Shyam Benegal worked in the advertising industry, producing over 900 Shyam Benegal and Indian Parallel Cinema During its early …

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3 weeks, 1 day ago

Top Democrats steer clear of Biden’s pardon

Politico

Gavin Newsom of California, Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan, Josh Shapiro of Pennsylvania, Andy Beshear of Kentucky and JB Pritzker of Illinois declined to weigh in or did not respond to requests for comment on the pardon when asked by POLITICO. Progressive Rep. Ro Khanna, who co-chaired Sen. Bernie Sanders’ 2020 campaign, said that he “can empathize with the president as …

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1 month, 2 weeks ago

The World’s Most Blunt Headlines On Donald Trump’s Comeback

Huff Post

LOADING ERROR LOADING The image of President-elect Donald Trump graced dozens of newspaper front pages worldwide on Thursday following his decisive 2024 election victory over Vice President Kamala Harris. Many headlines riffed on Trump’s “incredible” political comeback, on his landslide win or on the term “rehired,” a reference to his “you’re fired” catchphrase from his “Apprentice” reality TV show. WILLIAM …

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5 months ago

The Grateful Dead and Francis Ford Coppola are among the newest Kennedy Center Honors recipients

Associated Press

WASHINGTON — An iconoclastic filmmaking legend and one of the world’s most enduring musical acts headline this year’s crop of Kennedy Center Honors recipients. God has been so good to me.” Raitt’s memories of the Kennedy Center Honors go back to the 1970s, when she accompanied her father, Broadway performer John Raitt, who was taking part in a tribute to …

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7 months, 2 weeks ago

Steve Albini, iconoclastic rock musician and engineer, dies at 61

NPR

Steve Albini, iconoclastic rock musician and engineer, dies at 61 Enlarge this image toggle caption John Semley/WXPN John Semley/WXPN Steve Albini, renowned for decades as a distinctive musician and recording engineer, died Tuesday night of a heart attack. Albini famously did not like to be called a "producer," but he worked on — by his own estimate — "a couple …

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8 months ago

Maurizio Cattelan, Zoe Saldana join iconoclastic Vatican Biennale exhibition inside women’s prison

Associated Press

VENICE, Italy — A pair of nude feet — dirty, wounded and vulnerable — are painted on the façade of the Venice women’s prison chapel. It’s the work of Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan and part of the Vatican’s pavilion at the Venice Biennale contemporary art show in an innovative collaboration between inmates and artists. The Vatican’s culture minister, Cardinal Jose …

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8 months ago

Maurizio Cattalan, Zoe Soldana collaborate in iconoclastic Vatican exhibition inside women’s prison

The Independent

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8 months, 1 week ago

Argentina’s populist president meets billionaire Elon Musk in Texas — and a bromance is born

Associated Press

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — One is an erratic billionaire entrepreneur and self-declared free-speech absolutist, prone to profanity-laden rants against “wokeness” and obsessed with making humanity a multi-planetary species. Tech executive Elon Musk and Argentine President Javier Milei finally sealed their budding bromance Friday at a Tesla electric car factory in Texas — their first meeting after months of mutual admiration …

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8 months, 2 weeks ago

HistoriCity | Mysore's logo is a new city's nod at its old, complex history

Hindustan Times

Mysore’s adoption of a logo — the second Indian city to do so — is an attempt by the city to maintain its unique identity. The origins of the Mysore dynasty according to their own records go back to 1399 AD when two brothers claiming descent from Lord Krishna’s lunar dynasty and said to have arrived from distant Dwarka on …

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9 months ago

What lies behind the enduring appeal of F.N. Souza?

Live Mint

An “Untitled” work from the 1960s is currently on display as part of the retrospective, Reminiscing Souza: An Iconoclastic Vision: Celebrating The Birth Centenary Of Francis Newton Souza, at Dhoomimal Art Gallery, Delhi. The show encapsulates Souza’s comprehensive oeuvre, including his highly experimented chemical drawings, wherein the artist, after pouring a chemical on glossy pages of magazines, drew erotic and …

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9 months ago

What lies behind the enduring appeal of F.N. Souza?

Live Mint

An “Untitled” work from the 1960s is currently on display as part of the retrospective, Reminiscing Souza: An Iconoclastic Vision: Celebrating The Birth Centenary Of Francis Newton Souza, at Dhoomimal Art Gallery, Delhi. The show encapsulates Souza’s comprehensive oeuvre, including his highly experimented chemical drawings, wherein the artist, after pouring a chemical on glossy pages of magazines, drew erotic and …

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9 months, 3 weeks ago

Paris Fashion Week: Valentino puts on opulent study in black, as McGirr unveils McQueen debut

The Independent

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10 months, 2 weeks ago

Bharat Ratna to Narasimha Rao, Charan Singh: How Amit Shah, BJP reacted

India TV News

Former prime ministers P V Narasimha Rao and Chaudhary Charan Singh as well as agriculture scientist M S Swaminathan will be honoured with the Bharat Ratna, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced on Friday. The BJP welcomed the decision by calling the Bharat Ratna for Narasimha Rao as 'befitting tribute to the legendary statesman who shaped the history of our nation' …

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11 months ago

John Fetterman, a progressive? The senator's immigration and Israel stances might not mean what you think.

Slate

The progressive left has been displeased with Democratic Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman since October, when he emerged as one of the national scene’s most vocal, least conflicted supporters—from either party—of Israel’s war in Gaza. “I hope Democrats can understand that it isn’t xenophobic to be concerned about the border,” Fetterman told Politico in early December, describing the monthly number of …

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1 year, 4 months ago

Jamie Reid, artist who defined the punk aesthetic with Sex Pistols record covers, dies at 76

LA Times

British artist Jamie Reid, who designed the promotional poster for the Sex Pistols single “God Save the Queen,” has died. Jamie Reid, the iconoclastic British artist who helped define the jagged, cut-and-paste punk aesthetic with his iconic Sex Pistols record covers, died on Tuesday, his gallerist John Marchant announced. Formed in London in 1975, the Sex Pistols only recorded one …

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1 year, 8 months ago

The ‘little bit crazy’ record exec who signed Madonna ‘changed and shaped’ her world

LA Times

Madonna has paid tribute to Seymour Stein, who signed the iconoclastic artist, recognizing the record executive as one of the most influential men in her life. The seven-time Grammy Award winner described how she “stalked” a DJ named Mark Kamin for a year at a New York nightclub named Danceteria, and when he finally agreed to play a demo of …

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1 year, 9 months ago

Jeremy Strong and Hollywood's most extreme actors

BBC

Jeremy Strong and Hollywood's most extreme actors Getty Images As hit HBO drama Succession returns, star Jeremy Strong's "method acting" has been making headlines again. However, just as Strong does not consider himself a method actor, as he told The New Yorker, it's important to differentiate the broad-brush conception of method acting in the public consciousness from the specifics of …

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2 years, 3 months ago

Jean-Luc Godard passes away: French President Emmanuel Macron & Hollywood celebs pay tribute

India TV News

Soon after news of French New Wave icon Jean-Luc Godard's death broke on Tuesday, tributes started pouring in from world leaders, fellow filmmakers, artistes and cinephiles around the world, reports 'Variety'. The first off the block was French President Emmanuel Macron, who described Godard as "the most iconoclastic of New Wave filmmakers, who had invented a resolutely modern, intensely free …

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$\'Memoria\' is sensational as itâ€™s about the senses: Tilda Swinton$

2 years, 6 months ago

\'Memoria\' is sensational as itâ€™s about the senses: Tilda Swinton

Deccan Chronicle

She is an iconoclastic actor who is in a league of her own. Tilda’s foray into cinema began when she met the independent director Derek Jarman and acted in many of his experimental, often bizarre, movies. Tilda did movies with individualistic Asian directors, too — Snow Piercers, Okja with Bong Joon Ho from Korea, and last year, she acted in …

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3 years, 1 month ago

The Wife of Willesden review: Zadie Smith’s witty take on Chaucer pulls its punches

The Independent

Zadie Smith’s first play begins with a personal introduction from the writer herself. One of the opening debates centres on whether it’s acceptable for women to enjoy sex within marriage, drawing on the authorities of God, St Paul and the wittily added Nelson Mandela; the pub landlord’s brass tray is repurposed as a halo when these holy authorities make an …

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3 years, 4 months ago

Freud, Nietzsche, Paglia, Fanon: our expert guide to the books of "The White Lotus"

Salon

Freud and Nietzsche may not be what you have in mind when thinking of pool-side reads, but they are among the books flipped through in "The White Lotus" — the tense, new TV drama about the lives of the rich and privileged as they overlap at a Hawaiian resort. —Isabelle Hesse, Lecturer in English "Sexual Personae," by Camille Paglia Camille …

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3 years, 4 months ago

House of Masaba Turns 12 Today: Here's How The Iconoclastic Designer Changed The Rules of Indian Fashion

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3 years, 5 months ago

Louis Andriessen, Influential, Iconoclastic Dutch Composer, Dies At Age 82

NPR

Louis Andriessen, Influential, Iconoclastic Dutch Composer, Dies At Age 82 Enlarge this image toggle caption Francesca Patella/Nonesuch Records Francesca Patella/Nonesuch Records Louis Andriessen, the most widely acclaimed Dutch composer of his generation, died on Thursday, July 1, in a care home in Weesp, North Holland. Sponsor Message "In the early 50s, no way that you could write tonal music – …

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3 years, 6 months ago

Sinéad O’Connor tells sad fans that her retirement is ‘staggeringly beautiful news’

LA Times

Sinéad O’Connor, the iconoclastic singer-songwriter also known as Shuhada Sadaqat and Mother Bernadette Maria, is retiring from touring and recording. And there’ll be no more touring or promo.” O’Connor’s 11th album, “No Veteran Dies Alone”, is being helmed by Irish producer David Holmes and scheduled for release next year. O’Connor, 54, tweeted back: “Yeah, but no more pissin’ in alleys, …

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Shyam Benegal passes away at 90: An iconoclastic filmmaker who pioneered Indian Parallel Cinema movement

Top Democrats steer clear of Biden’s pardon

The World’s Most Blunt Headlines On Donald Trump’s Comeback

The Grateful Dead and Francis Ford Coppola are among the newest Kennedy Center Honors recipients

Steve Albini, iconoclastic rock musician and engineer, dies at 61

Maurizio Cattelan, Zoe Saldana join iconoclastic Vatican Biennale exhibition inside women’s prison

Maurizio Cattalan, Zoe Soldana collaborate in iconoclastic Vatican exhibition inside women’s prison

Argentina’s populist president meets billionaire Elon Musk in Texas — and a bromance is born

HistoriCity | Mysore's logo is a new city's nod at its old, complex history

What lies behind the enduring appeal of F.N. Souza?

What lies behind the enduring appeal of F.N. Souza?

Paris Fashion Week: Valentino puts on opulent study in black, as McGirr unveils McQueen debut

Bharat Ratna to Narasimha Rao, Charan Singh: How Amit Shah, BJP reacted

John Fetterman, a progressive? The senator's immigration and Israel stances might not mean what you think.

Jamie Reid, artist who defined the punk aesthetic with Sex Pistols record covers, dies at 76

The ‘little bit crazy’ record exec who signed Madonna ‘changed and shaped’ her world

Jeremy Strong and Hollywood's most extreme actors

Jean-Luc Godard passes away: French President Emmanuel Macron & Hollywood celebs pay tribute

\'Memoria\' is sensational as itâ€™s about the senses: Tilda Swinton

The Wife of Willesden review: Zadie Smith’s witty take on Chaucer pulls its punches

Freud, Nietzsche, Paglia, Fanon: our expert guide to the books of "The White Lotus"

House of Masaba Turns 12 Today: Here's How The Iconoclastic Designer Changed The Rules of Indian Fashion

Louis Andriessen, Influential, Iconoclastic Dutch Composer, Dies At Age 82

Sinéad O’Connor tells sad fans that her retirement is ‘staggeringly beautiful news’