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☆ Who is Elly Conway? Everything to know about the mysterious author at the center of the movie 'Argylle'
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-31 | by ( Olivia Singh | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Matthew Vaughn's "Argylle" stars Bryce Dallas Howard as an author named Elly Conway. The film is based on a book written by a supposedly real-life author named Elly Conway. AdvertisementMatthew Vaughn's latest action movie "Argylle" has been garnering lots of attention lately, and fans are demanding to know the identity of first-time author Elly Conway. AdvertisementVery little is known about ConwayBryce Dallas Howard as Elly Conway in "Argylle." "I am begging Elly Conway to come out of the shadows because this Taylor Swift thing freaked me out.

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☆ Tennant Creek: Huge bushfire sweeps through central Australia near popular tourist town
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-13 | by ( Tara Subramaniam | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

CNN —A huge bushfire raging for over a week in central Australia has come dangerously close to the popular tourist town of Tennant Creek, as authorities warn that changing wind conditions could pose a risk to residents. Home to about 3,000 people, Tennant Creek is a popular place for travelers to stop and rest as they drive through the outback along the Stuart Highway between Alice Springs and Darwin. Back-burning operations aimed at slowing the fire's spread have caused increased smoke within the Tennant Creek Township. Extra crews from South Australia arrived in Tennant Creek Wednesday afternoon, Fuller told ABC. Earlier this week, the Bureau of Meteorology forecast extreme fire danger for several areas within the Northern Territory.

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☆ Vodafone and Three merger faces scrutiny from competition regulators
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-15 | by ( Paul Sandle | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +5 min

The $19 billion tie-up will be scrutinised by Britain's Competition and Markets Authority, the antitrust regulator which made global headlines in April when it blocked Microsoft's $69 billion acquisition of "Call of Duty" maker Activision Blizzard. The long-awaited mobile deal reduces the number of networks from four to three, challenging a tenet long held by regulators that four help to keep prices low in major markets. "The government's desire to make the UK a 5G powerhouse requires a lot of investment," he said. One London-based investment banker, who declined to be named, said he put the chance of the deal receiving the green light from regulators at 50%. A major telecoms investor said the deal could be approved, but only with strong remedies, and that could risk undermining its rationale.

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☆ Filmmaker James Gray Uses Art to Recreate the Past
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-04 | by ( Tobias Grey | ) www.wsj.com time to read: +1 min

In the first scene of director James Gray’s new film “Armageddon Time,” a young boy named Paul delights his classmates by sketching a caricature of their teacher. Later that day Paul tells his grandfather that he wants to be a famous artist, then scurries upstairs to pore over his copy of H.W. Janson’s “A History of Art.”Mr. Gray’s film is largely autobiographical: Like Paul, he dreamed of becoming an artist until filmmaking stole his heart. “Armageddon Time” is set in New York on the eve of the 1980 presidential election, and Mr. Gray, 53, envisaged the film as “a kind of ghost story” because many of the characters are based on family members—parents, grandparents and elderly relatives—who are no longer alive. The plot of the film centers on Paul’s friendship with a Black schoolmate, and Mr. Gray says he wanted “to examine the fault lines of class and race” from a child’s perspective.

☆ ‘Armageddon Time’ Review: A Tale of Two Boys
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-28 | by ( Kyle Smith | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

“Armageddon Time” is a curiously excitable title for a slice-of-life tale about an ordinary boy growing up in 1980 New York, but then again, 12-year-olds are curiously excitable people. Everything is a discovery; adulthood beckons while childhood limits. The internal push-and-pull provides for ample dramatic possibilities. Writer-director James Gray thoughtfully explores some of them in an autobiographically inspired picture in which he barely alters his name in creating a screen counterpart, Paul Graff (Banks Repeta). In the weeks leading to the 1980 presidential election, Paul, a boy from a smart, striving middle-class Jewish family in Queens, N.Y., is something of a misfit in school, where he has a tendency to act up in mischievous but basically harmless ways.

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