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The worst performances of 2024
1 week, 3 days ago

The worst performances of 2024

Salon  

It is possible to enjoy a good bad film, but it is impossible to watch a good actor give a bad performance and not wonder, "What they were thinking?" It’s one thing for an actor to be enjoyably hammy like Jeremy Irons hamming it up in the Jason Statham vehicle, “The Beekeeper,” early this year, but it is another thing …

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VVD Senate leader Edith Schippers quits to focus on CEO role
3 weeks, 6 days ago

VVD Senate leader Edith Schippers quits to focus on CEO role

Dutch News  

Former health minister Edith Schippers is stepping down as coalition party VVD’s leader in the Senate, citing the difficulties of combining the role with her job as head of a pharmaceutical company. That has been the case for my position as party leader, with the attendant demands on my time.” Health minister Schippers was health minister during Rutte’s first three …

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VVD Senator Edith Schippers will resign to become CEO at pharma firm Mosadex
4 weeks ago

VVD Senator Edith Schippers will resign to become CEO at pharma firm Mosadex

NL Times  

Senator Edith Schippers will vacate her seat within a matter of weeks take over as the next CEO of pharmaceutical wholesaler Mosadex. While it was not immediately clear who will take her place as a senator, Schippers confirmed on Monday that Deputy Faction Leader Tanja Klip-Martin was unanimously chosen to become the next VVD leader in the Eerste Kamer. Schippers, …

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Future fund to invest in housing and green energy
1 month ago

Future fund to invest in housing and green energy

ABC  

Sabra Lane: Good morning, welcome to AM. A northern New South Wales mother says her baby boy's life was put at risk after she hired a so-called sovereign midwife to attend his birth at home. Charlotte King: Alice says her birth worker physically checked the baby's position in the lead up to the birth and during labour gave her a …

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Is 'grave cleaning' taking a TikTok trend too far?
1 month ago

Is 'grave cleaning' taking a TikTok trend too far?

ABC  

Sabra Lane: TikTok is a popular social media platform where users post short videos and clean talk has become a popular sub-genre. Kathleen Ferguson: But a TikTok trend gaining hundreds of millions of views involves people cleaning random people's graves. Kathleen Ferguson: Edith Hill is Associate Lecturer of Learning and Teaching at Flinders University. Kathleen Ferguson: But when it comes …

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Charles Dumont, French composer of Edith Piaf’s ‘Non, Je ne Regrette Rien’ dies aged 95
1 month ago

Charles Dumont, French composer of Edith Piaf’s ‘Non, Je ne Regrette Rien’ dies aged 95

The Independent  

Sign up to Roisin O’Connor’s free weekly newsletter Now Hear This for the inside track on all things music Get our Now Hear This email for free Get our Now Hear This email for free SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Charles Dumont, the French composer …

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Charles Dumont, composer of Piaf's 'Non, je ne regrette rien' dies at 95
1 month ago

Charles Dumont, composer of Piaf's 'Non, je ne regrette rien' dies at 95

New Indian Express  

PARIS: The songwriter and singer Charles Dumont, who composed the song "Non, je ne regrette rien" made world famous by Edith Piaf, has died aged 95, his partner told AFP Monday. A trumpeter by training, Dumont's career transformed at the turn of the 1960s when he convinced the star singer Piaf to perform one of his compositions, after having been …

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Do YOU live in a Japanese knotweed hotspot? Interactive map reveals locations in England suffering with the worst infestations of invasive plant
1 month, 1 week ago

Do YOU live in a Japanese knotweed hotspot? Interactive map reveals locations in England suffering with the worst infestations of invasive plant

Daily Mail  

It is the bogeyman of the plant world and the bane of homesellers, an invasive species that destroys all vegetation in its path, can grow beyond the height of a double-decker bus, and snakes through the gaps in concrete and brickwork with insidious ease. Researchers from Environet have revealed the UK areas suffering the most from Japanese knotweed infestations Japanese …

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These five bizarre Surrealist artworks are not what they seem
1 month, 2 weeks ago

These five bizarre Surrealist artworks are not what they seem

BBC  

These five bizarre Surrealist artworks are not what they seem Courtesy of SFMoMA, San Francisco Dismissed or trivialised by some as unserious and silly, Surrealist art was in fact largely born out of the brutal trauma of living under fascism, as these five striking works reveal. His oeuvre was nevertheless prolific, and conveys, says Weber, "this pictorial sense of humour" …

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Saoirse Ronan reveals she would love to play a Bond villain opposite her husband Jack Lowden as 007 - who is tipped to play the iconic role
1 month, 3 weeks ago

Saoirse Ronan reveals she would love to play a Bond villain opposite her husband Jack Lowden as 007 - who is tipped to play the iconic role

Daily Mail  

Saoirse Ronan has revealed she has a secret ambition to star as a James Bond villain and she would love for her husband Jack Lowden to portray 007. Saoirse Ronan has revealed she has a secret ambition to star as a James Bond villian and she would love for her husband Jack Lowden to be 007 If the Little Women …

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How do Australia's grocery prices compare to the UK, Ireland and New Zealand?
2 months, 3 weeks ago

How do Australia's grocery prices compare to the UK, Ireland and New Zealand?

ABC  

We all know the cost of groceries has gone up in Australia. "While we do not go as far as to say that Woolworths and Coles control prices, they possibly monitor each other's moves very closely," Dr Macau said. The comparison looked at the two largest supermarkets in each country, to mimic Australia's Coles-Woolworths duopoly, which has 65 per cent …

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He survived the water, but not the flood
3 months ago

He survived the water, but not the flood

NPR  

He survived the water, but not the flood toggle caption Edith Lisk If you or someone you know is in crisis, please call, text or chat with the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline at 988. Sponsor Message toggle caption Edith Lisk “He didn't like to be like anybody else,” remembers Edith Lisk, his fiancee. Drawn back to a beloved hometown “Tony …

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Celebrity MasterChef: Steps' Ian 'H' Watkins admits he's NEVER cooked for anyone before while Edith Bowman discusses 'terrifying' lead up to show ahead of new series
4 months, 1 week ago

Celebrity MasterChef: Steps' Ian 'H' Watkins admits he's NEVER cooked for anyone before while Edith Bowman discusses 'terrifying' lead up to show ahead of new series

Daily Mail  

Celebrity MasterChef will finally be returning to screens on Tuesday night - with a new bunch of stars hoping to succeed in the kitchen. The first five celebrities donning aprons this week are This Morning's Craig Doyle, Geordie Shore's Charlotte Crosby, radio presenter Edith Bowman, Steps popstar Ian 'H' Watkins and TV and radio presenter Snoochie Shy. Celebrity MasterChef will …

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Celine Dion determination to make comeback in ceremony revealed by Paris 2024
4 months, 3 weeks ago

Celine Dion determination to make comeback in ceremony revealed by Paris 2024

The Independent  

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How long would it take to read the greatest books of all time?
4 months, 3 weeks ago

How long would it take to read the greatest books of all time?

The Economist  

Graphic detail | The GBOATs How long would it take to read the greatest books of all time? Tolkien, 1954 1 day, 7 hours and 13 minutes to read 18 Catch-22 Joseph Heller, 1961 10 hours and 33 minutes to read 19 Madame Bovary Gustave Flaubert, 1857 6 hours and 36 minutes to read 20 Jane Eyre Charlotte Brontë, 1847 …

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How a Jewish grandfather survived the Nazis and four labour camps by playing piano in his head
5 months, 3 weeks ago

How a Jewish grandfather survived the Nazis and four labour camps by playing piano in his head

Daily Mail  

The Piano Player Of Budapest by Roxanne de Bastion If you visited Stratford-upon-Avon in the 1960s, you might remember a restaurant called Paprika, a souvenir shop called Shakespeare’s Doorstep, and a fashion shop called Chez Vivienne. Clearing out her father’s house after his death a few years ago, Roxanne came across a stash of cassettes labelled ‘Stephen tells his war …

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Anne Frank: The girl who wrote a diary and went on living after death
5 months, 4 weeks ago

Anne Frank: The girl who wrote a diary and went on living after death

Firstpost  

BBC listed it as one of the books that changed the world, the post-World War II world in which we live. Here’s the story of “Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl” If you are reading this, there’s every possibility that you already know who Anne Frank was. In her diary, Anne Frank wrote, “I want to go on …

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Sims For Rent: The game is a dark twist for a generation that’s behind on home ownership.
8 months, 2 weeks ago

Sims For Rent: The game is a dark twist for a generation that’s behind on home ownership.

Slate  

When The Sims debuted in February 2000, the average house price in the U.S. was just over $200,000. The official trailer for The Sims 4: For Rent emphasizes the potential of “multiunit life,” promising “ample opportunity … eavesdropping, snooping, or even breaking and entering”—a description that instantly evoked memories of my worst roommates. The slow, clunky transition within the game …

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Review: In ‘Wicked Little Letters,’ the shock value feels about a century too late
8 months, 3 weeks ago

Review: In ‘Wicked Little Letters,’ the shock value feels about a century too late

LA Times  

Women everywhere have many reasons to curse a blue streak. But if you need a movie to explain this to you, over and over, like a potty-mouthed PSA for speaking one’s mind, the breathless British period comedy “Wicked Little Letters,” starring Olivia Colman and Jessie Buckley and directed by Thea Sharrock, is at the ready with its occasionally amusing but …

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They were friends first. Now Olivia Colman and Jessie Buckley want a franchise
8 months, 3 weeks ago

They were friends first. Now Olivia Colman and Jessie Buckley want a franchise

LA Times  

Olivia Colman and Jessie Buckley have an idea for a podcast. Colman also takes credit for Buckley’s casting in “Wicked Little Letters,” a charmingly quirky British indie produced by Colman and her husband Ed Sinclair. Olivia Colman, left, and Jessie Buckley in the movie “Wicked Little Letters.” Sweet’s script is based on real correspondence, most of which is re-created word …

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Wicked Little Letters star Olivia Colman on swearing, social media and making a movie with her best friend
8 months, 3 weeks ago

Wicked Little Letters star Olivia Colman on swearing, social media and making a movie with her best friend

ABC  

Academy Award-winning actor Olivia Colman loves a good swear. A longstanding friendship Colman appears in Wicked Little Letters alongside Irish actor Jessie Buckley, who plays Rose, an unmarried mother and Edith's neighbour. "You know when you meet someone and there's a twinkle — oh, we're going to get on," Colman says. "Jessie can sing but she's not as good at …

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Wicked Little Letters stars Olivia Colman and Jessie Buckley in historical dramedy about 'unruly women'
9 months ago

Wicked Little Letters stars Olivia Colman and Jessie Buckley in historical dramedy about 'unruly women'

ABC  

Olivia Colman doesn't put a foot wrong in this uproarious retelling of the little-known, real-life story of the Littlehampton Libels. Fast facts about Wicked Little Letters What: 1920s whodunnit poison-letter case, if Olivia Colman was a sanctimonious prick. Wicked Little Letters opens with Edith receiving her 19th expletives-laden missive, in what we find out is just the latest in a …

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Wicked Little Letters review: Olivia Colman hurling expletives is enough to sustain this witty true-life comedy
10 months ago

Wicked Little Letters review: Olivia Colman hurling expletives is enough to sustain this witty true-life comedy

The Independent  

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Norman Lear, producer of TV’s ‘All in the Family’ and influential liberal advocate, has died at 101
1 year ago

Norman Lear, producer of TV’s ‘All in the Family’ and influential liberal advocate, has died at 101

Associated Press  

LOS ANGELES — Norman Lear, the writer, director and producer who revolutionized prime time television with “All in the Family,” “The Jeffersons” and “Maude,” propelling political and social turmoil into the once-insulated world of TV sitcoms, has died. “All in the Family” was immersed in the headlines of the day, while also drawing upon Lear’s childhood memories of his tempestuous …

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