Steve Martin, Harry Bliss team up on 'Number One Is Walking' Already a comedian, actor, writer, musician and novelist, Steve Martin is now mastering a new art form The Independent UK · Nov 15, 2022
Sam Bankman-Fried's effective altruism may have been his downfall “I wanted to get rich, not because I like money but because I wanted to give that money to charity,” Sam Bankman-Fried once said. Fortune · Nov 15, 2022
‘He was a bit of an outcast’: how Weird Al become an unlikely superstar The musician’s life has been given the biopic treatment in a new film starring Daniel Radcliffe, the latest surprising turn in a surprising career The Guardian - US · Nov 14, 2022
Emma Thompson was ‘utterly, utterly blind’ to ex-husband Kenneth Branagh’s affairs Nearly 30 years after the breakup of her first marriage and almost 20 years into her second, actor-writer Emma Thompson admits she suffered from passing blindness many years back. Los Angeles Times · Nov 11, 2022
‘Humiliated’ Emma Thompson was ‘utterly blind’ to ex-husband Kenneth Branagh and Helena Bonham Carter’s affair The Love Actually actress admits she felt unlovable and unworthy after marriage ended Evening Standard · Nov 11, 2022
George Booth, cartoonist of domestic farce, dies at 96 George Booth, a prize-winning cartoonist for The New Yorker who with manic affection captured the timeless comedy of dogs and cats and the human beings somehow in charge of their well being, has died The Independent UK · Nov 3, 2022
LAPD involved in corporate sexual misconduct case, investigation reveals The details are part of a report from the N.Y. Ag that paints a clear picture of a culture of corruption surrounding ex-CBS CEO Les Moonves. Axios · Nov 3, 2022
Harvey Weinstein faces sexual assault and rape charges as LA trial begins LOS ANGELES — The worlds of politics and Hollywood collided Monday in a downtown Los Angeles courtroom as the rape trial of Harvey Weinstein began. Los Angeles Times · Oct 24, 2022
Appreciation: Why New Yorker art critic Peter Schjeldahl was the last of a breed Peter Schjeldahl, the eminent and widely read New York art critic, died Friday at his country home in the tiny upstate town of Bovina, near the Catskills, where he and his wife, former actor Brooke Alderson, lived. He was 80. Los Angeles Times · Oct 24, 2022
The 5,000-year history of writer’s block The romantic image of the writer doesn’t do justice to the tedious reality of churning out words Salon · Oct 23, 2022
Charlayne Hunter-Gault chronicles half a century in ‘My People’ "My People: Five Decades of Writing About Black Lives" by Charlayne Hunter-Gaultl Harper (342 pages, $27.99) Tribune News Service · Oct 19, 2022
Succession season 4: HBO releases new trailer revealing a tumultuous upcoming series After months of waiting, fans finally get a glimpse of season four Evening Standard · Oct 17, 2022
Trump tells US Jews they should appreciate what he’s achieved in Israel ‘before it’s too late’ Former president claims Evangelicals are more appreciative of his support for the country, where he claims he could ‘easily’ be prime minister The Independent UK · Oct 16, 2022
#MeToo is five years old. These trials show how far we’ve come As Harvey Weinstein, Kevin Spacey and Paul Haggis are all in court, it is clear that there has, in fact, been forward motion – in the courts, in our workplaces, in society The Guardian - US · Oct 15, 2022
The Independent UK · Oct 11, 2022 Tulsi Gabbard’s ties to secretive cult may explain her perplexing political journey Tulsi Gabbard’s upbringing in an offshoot of the Hare Krishna movement with strict devotion to a secretive guru sheds light on her apparent fondness for Vladimir Putin, Bevan Hurley writes
The Guardian - UK · Oct 11, 2022 Strangers to Ourselves by Rachel Aviv review – rewriting the language of mental illness The New Yorker writer tries to redefine attitudes through a quintet of studies of troubled people from around the world
The Conversation · Oct 10, 2022 The 5,000-year history of writer's block Ann Patchett, who has written eight novels and five books of nonfiction, says that when faced with writer’s block, sometimes it seems that the muse has “gone out back for a smoke.”
WEKU · Oct 10, 2022 Harvey Weinstein faces his next criminal trial in Los Angeles this week Weinstein, a former Hollywood producer, is already serving his 23 year prison sentence doled out by a New York criminal court two years ago.
The Hindu · Oct 2, 2022 Erik Agard of USA Today, Neville Fogarty of The New Yorker flex muscle in Indian online crossword contest The final round will be held in an offline mode at Bangalore on December 25, 2022.
The Guardian - US · Sep 26, 2022 The January 6 committee has its sights on Ginni Thomas. She should be worried The spouse of a sitting supreme court justice allegedly tried to overturn the 2020 election. It’s hard to say which looks worse – the conflicts of interest, or the possibility that she aided a would-be insurrection
The Guardian - UK · Sep 26, 2022 A church with open doors: the ecstatic power of Pharoah Sanders The spiritual jazz legend was a man of few words – but his expansive, effusive playing said everything
The Guardian - US · Sep 25, 2022 Paul Haggis can argue Church of Scientology behind rape allegation, judge rules Director claims 2013 encounter with film publicist was consensual and that accusation came in retaliation for leaving the church
Axios · Sep 22, 2022 Non-existent Jan. 6 report is hot with publishers The book industry sees the report — not yet completed — as the hottest government document since "The Starr Report" in 1998.
Al Jazeera · Sep 22, 2022 UN raises funds to salvage oil tanker ‘time bomb’ off Yemen coast The decaying 45-year-old FSO Safer has not been serviced since Yemen plunged into civil war in 2014.
The Guardian - AU · Sep 20, 2022 ‘She was never spoken of again’: Bono recounts his mother’s death in new memoir In an extract published in the New Yorker, the U2 frontman details the loss that spurred him to music