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☆ World Energy Council Secretary General says there's no single pathway to the transition
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-23 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailWorld Energy Council Secretary General says there's no single pathway to the transitionAngela Wilkinson, secretary general of the World Energy Council, speaks to CNBC's Steve Sedgwick from the sidelines of the 26th World Energy Congress in Rotterdam.

Persons: there's, Angela Wilkinson, Steve Sedgwick Organizations: World Energy, World Energy Council Locations: Rotterdam

☆ ‘The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare’ Review: War, Undemanding
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-18 | by ( Alissa Wilkinson | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

I travel by air every couple of months, and always think about a single, burning question: What makes for a great airplane movie? Not movies about being on planes. “The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare,” the latest offering from the director Guy Ritchie, is a perfect airplane movie. But you’ve got to watch something, and for that, we have movies like this one. Ritchie didn’t always make airplane movies.

Persons: Guy Ritchie, shouldn’t, you’ve, Ritchie didn’t, ”, Guy Ritchie’s Organizations: Ungentlemanly

☆ Bruce Lehrmann: Accused rapist loses defamation case against TV network after judge finds truth to story
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-15 | by ( Hilary Whiteman | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

After meticulously studying the video, Lee concluded that Higgins had consumed 11 drinks, and was seen on camera to have stumbled. Lee said Lehrmann “knew she was drinking excessively.”Lee also accepted the evidence of a colleague who saw Lehrmann and Higgins engage in a passionate kiss at the bar, though both Lehrmann and Higgins had denied kissing. Higgins left Parliament House alone after a couple of hours and didn’t immediately file a case with police. Videos posted by journalists online Monday showed Lehrmann leaving court and declining to answer multiple questions shouted at him by reporters. Outside the court, Network Ten journalist Wilkinson told reporters she sincerely hoped the judgment “gives strength to women around the country.”

Persons: Australia CNN —, Brittany Higgins, Bruce Lehrmann, “ Mr Lehrmann, Miss Higgins, ”, Michael Lee, Higgins, Lehrmann, Lisa Wilkinson, Wilkinson, Lee, “ I’m, “, Mr Lehrmann, Don Arnold, ” Lee, Lehrmann “, Lehmann, Lee didn’t, Lee’s Organizations: Australia CNN, YouTube, Federal Court, CNN, Getty, House, Network Locations: Brisbane, Australia, Sydney, Lehrmann’s, Canberra

☆ ‘Franklin’ review: Michael Douglas can’t quite catch lightning as Benjamin Franklin in new Apple TV+ series
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-12 | by ( Brian Lowry | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

“Franklin” comes from “John Adams” writer-producer Kirk Ellis, with Howard Korder (“Boardwalk Empire”), director Tim Van Patten (“The Sopranos”) and former HBO programming chief Richard Plepler joining him among the executive producers with pedigreed connections to that network. Michael Douglas and Ludivine Sagnier in "Franklin." Yet unlike “John Adams,” it lacks the level of supporting players and driving tension related to the Adams-Thomas Jefferson dynamic to provide a strong sense of narrative momentum. But even those attributes, and Douglas’ interpretation of them, don’t quite prove inventive enough to compensate for its shortcomings. “Franklin” premieres April 12 on Apple TV+.

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☆ ‘Brandy Hellville’: A New Twist for Cult Documentaries
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-12 | by ( Alissa Wilkinson | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

What’s most provocative about “Brandy Hellville & the Cult of Fast Fashion” (streaming on Max), and about the horror show it contends is behind the immensely popular cheap-clothing retailer Brandy Melville, isn’t necessarily its content. Other documentaries have tread similar ground with similar methods — the Netflix documentary “White Hot: The Rise & Fall of Abercrombie & Fitch,” for instance — which is to say that everything in “Brandy Hellville” has been reported before. Documentary participants allege that the company and its leaders, especially co-founder and owner Stephan Marsan, engaged in a host of terrible behaviors ranging from fat-shaming and exploitative practices to really awful racism and sexism. You can read about it all, of course; what the documentary provides is a host of eyewitnesses, including girls who worked in the store as teenagers and men who worked closely with the company to open new stores. Experts and activists also attest to the threat that fast fashion (that is, inexpensive, essentially disposable clothing sold at retailers like Zara, H&M, Shein and Forever 21) poses to global economies and the environment.

Persons: Brandy Hellville, Brandy Melville, isn’t, Abercrombie &, ”, Brandy Hellville ”, Stephan Marsan, Abercrombie Organizations: Netflix, Abercrombie, Abercrombie & Fitch Locations: Zara

CNN —The largest power-generating plant in Ukraine’s Kyiv region was reportedly destroyed in a Russian missile attack on Thursday as Moscow steps up its attacks on infrastructure. There were no casualties, and the attack has not resulted in power cuts in Ukraine’s capital region Kyiv or other regions supplied by Trypilska TPP. The plant was the largest supplier of electricity to the regions of Kyiv, Cherkasy and Zhytomyr, the Centrenergo statement said. The attack on the Trypilska plant follows a recent Russian attack that destroyed the company’s plant in the Kharkiv region, Zmiivska TPP, on March 22, according to the Centrenergo statement. The total designed capacity of the three power plants was 7690 MW, according to the company’s website.

Persons: Centrenergo, Trypilska TPP, since, TPP, Andriy Gota, Svitlana Vlasova, Caitlin Danaher Organizations: CNN, Supervisory, of Centrenergo Locations: Ukraine’s Kyiv, Russian, Moscow, Ukraine’s, Kyiv, Cherkasy, Zhytomyr, Russia, Ukrainian, Ukraine, Europe, Kharkiv, Donetsk, Andriy, London

☆ Best and Worst Moments From the 2024 Oscars
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-11 | by ( The New York Times | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Fittingly for an Academy Awards celebrating 2023, the year of “Barbenheimer,” the movies that made up that phenomenon commanded our attention on Sunday night, too. Most Charming Performance: Ryan Gosling, ‘I’m Just Ken’America’s No. 1 Ken, the “Barbie” star Ryan Gosling — who was also nominated for best supporting actor and presented a tribute to stunt performers with Emily Blunt — brought the house down with his performance of “I’m Just Ken,” one of two nominated “Barbie” songs. Gosling roamed into the audience, getting Greta Gerwig, Margot Robbie, America Ferrera and Emma Stone briefly on mic. If the Oscars wanted a viral video moment, they sure got it (even though it had been announced in advance).

Persons: “, Ryan Gosling, Ken, ”, “ Barbie, Oppenheimer ”, ‘ I’m, Ken ’ America’s, Barbie, Ryan Gosling —, Emily Blunt —, “ I’m, Simu Liu, Kingsley Ben, Adir, Scott Evans, Ncuti, Gosling, Greta Gerwig, Margot Robbie, America Ferrera, Emma Stone, Mark Ronson, Wolfgang Van Halen, — Alissa Wilkinson Organizations: Hollywood Locations: tuxes

“Queen!”It was a Friday night in January, and Snoop Dogg had just rolled into a cocktail party hosted by Donna Langley, NBCUniversal’s chief content officer and studios chairwoman. His shouted greeting, paired with a jaunty deferential dance, seemed to leave her a bit embarrassed. “We’re here to celebrate filmmakers and films,” Langley told the room a few minutes later. Like it or not, this moment in Hollywood history is very much about her. Nolan started his acceptance speech for best director by saying, “Donna Langley — thank you for seeing the potential in this.”

Persons: Snoop Dogg, Donna Langley, “, ” Langley, Langley, Christopher Nolan, “ Oppenheimer, Nolan, “ Donna Langley —, ” Organizations: ”

☆ In ‘Oppenheimer’ and ‘The Zone of Interest,’ We Hear What We Are
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-03 | by ( Alissa Wilkinson | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

Both “Oppenheimer” and “The Zone of Interest” tangle with the psychology involved in creating highly efficient killing machines. In both “Zone” and “Oppenheimer,” though, sound plays against image in a way that draws attention to itself, disconcerting the audience. THE DIRECTOR OF “OPPENHEIMER,” Christopher Nolan, has long played around with sound in his films, which are often very loud and propelled by an intense, driving score. (Watching one of his films can feel at times as if you’re immersed in one very, very long montage.) Nolan also prefers not to rerecord actors’ dialogue, leaving them mixed into the sound as they were recorded during the performance, which can make them a little hard to hear.

Persons: “ Oppenheimer, It’s, “ OPPENHEIMER, ” Christopher Nolan, Nolan

☆ ‘Dune’ Fans, Here’s a Documentary That Will Blow Your Mind
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-01 | by ( Alissa Wilkinson | More About Alissa Wilkinson | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

This week sees the release of “Dune: Part Two,” the second installment in Denis Villeneuve’s eye-popping adaptation of the 1965 Frank Herbert novel. Perhaps you’ve seen the Lynch version, which I find kind of charming in its flawed state. But if you’re heading to “Dune: Part Two” this weekend, you owe it to yourself to be acquainted with another “Dune” adaptation that doesn’t technically exist and, somehow, is also larger than life. I’m speaking of the “Dune” we glimpse in Frank Pavich’s 2014 documentary “Jodorowsky’s Dune” (streaming on Max). It chronicles the “Dune” adaptation that never happened, the bright dream of the avant-garde filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky (who did make “El Topo” and “The Holy Mountain”).

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☆ ‘Spaceman’ Review: What Happened Here?
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-29 | by ( Alissa Wilkinson | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The occasion for my bout of word nerdery is the Adam Sandler movie “Spaceman,” and for that I thank the film. What’s flummoxing about “Spaceman” isn’t what it is, but why it is. Some bad movies were never going to be good (“Argylle”). Other bad movies never even tried (“Madame Web”). But “Spaceman” is that exquisite rare third thing — an awful movie, a very bad movie indeed, whose lousiness was almost certainly not apparent while it was in production.

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☆ Documentary Download: Ukrainian Stories of Sustenance and Strife
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-23 | by ( Alissa Wilkinson | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Veselka, the Ukrainian diner on Manhattan’s Lower East Side, is one of the few restaurants in the city that truly deserves to be called venerable, even iconic. Veselka has also become a center for New York’s support for embattled Ukrainians, as shown in Michael Fiore’s new documentary, “Veselka: The Rainbow on the Corner at the Center of the World.” (David Duchovny narrates.) Veselka’s third-generation proprietor, Jason Birchard, is of Ukrainian ancestry, and many of the staff are from the country as well. The film (in theaters now) starts as a fun story about a New York institution, and its tone is resolutely hopeful and convivial. I wrote about “Navalny,” Daniel Roher’s Oscar-winning documentary that covers his opposition to Russian President Vladimir V. Putin, and thought of other films that help illuminate the war in Ukraine years into the struggle.

Persons: Veselka, Michael Fiore’s, David Duchovny, Jason Birchard, Birchard, Aleksei A, “, ” Daniel Roher’s Oscar, Vladimir V, Putin Organizations: Center of Locations: America, New York, Russian, Ukraine

☆ The Documentary Aleksei Navalny Knew We’d Watch After His Death
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-16 | by ( Alissa Wilkinson | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

In the opening moments of “Navalny,” the Oscar-winning 2022 documentary about the Russian opposition leader Aleksei A. Navalny, the director Daniel Roher asks his subject a dark question. “If you are killed — if this does happen — what message do you leave behind to the Russian people?” the voice asks from behind the camera. It’s like you’re making a movie for the case of my death.” He pauses, then continues. “I’m ready to answer your question, but please let it be another movie, Movie No. Let’s make a thriller out of this movie.”“And in the case I would be killed,” he concludes with a wry smile, “let’s make a boring movie of memory.”

Persons: “, Aleksei A, Daniel Roher, Daniel, ”

The near-absence of laws criminalizing the practice of fertility fraud until recently means no doctors have yet been criminally charged for the behavior. In 2019, Indiana became the second state, more than 20 years after California, to pass a statute making fertility fraud a felony. He added some of his biological children have “expressed gratitude for their existence” to him and even sent him photos of their own children. Cline’s case spurred lawmakers to pass legislation that outlawed fertility fraud but wasn’t retroactive, meaning he was never prosecuted for it. “In fertility fraud, no parent is saying that – no parent is saying I would have gotten an abortion,” she said.

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☆ Opinion | Math Is the Answer to More Than One Question
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-09 | by ( Alec Wilkinson | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

I arrived by means of mathematics, specifically simple mathematics — algebra, geometry and calculus, the kind of mathematics that adolescents do. I am only a mathematical tourist, but my experience has led me to believe that mathematics is rife with intimations of a divine presence. For many mathematicians, there is no question that God is somehow involved. Newton, for example, believed that mathematics exemplified thoughts in the mind of God. The first is the question of whether mathematics is created or discovered.

Persons: Pythagoras, Newton Organizations: Mathematicians

☆ ‘The Taste of Things’ Review: Love, Loss and Loins of Veal
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-08 | by ( Alissa Wilkinson | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

At the center of everything good in the world is a bittersweet kernel: All things pass away. The grandest cathedral, the most vibrant painting, a beautiful harmony, a perfect aperitif — none of it will last forever. Yet somehow it’s also what makes life worth living. This conundrum lies at the heart of “The Taste of Things,” a magnificent culinary romance from the French-Vietnamese director Tran Anh Hung. The couple living the conundrum are Eugénie (Juliette Binoche), a brilliant cook, and the well-known gourmand she works for, Dodin Bouffant (Benoît Magimel).

Persons: Tran Anh Hung, Juliette Binoche, Dodin, aren’t, Eugénie

☆ ‘Perfect Days’ Review: Hanging On
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-07 | by ( Alissa Wilkinson | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Pay attention to the shadows in “Perfect Days.” Pay attention also to the trees, to the ways Hirayama (Koji Yakusho) looks at them. Hirayama cleans Tokyo’s public toilets for a living, rising before dawn to gently water the seedlings he grows in his home and then drive off to begin his shift. He keeps to a simple routine, the kind so carefully constructed you start to wonder if it’s a bulwark against chaos. They are anchors in time, companions throughout his days, riches rounding out his life. When he brings a book to the bar on the weekend, the proprietor tells him admiringly that he’s such an intellectual.

Persons: Koji Yakusho, Hirayama, Van Morrison, Nina Simone —, stashed, ”

Guidepost didn't immediately respond to an email asking whether Morris & Dickson remains a client. Neither the DEA or Morris & Dickson immediately responded to a request for comment. While Morris & Dickson has managed to stay open, several of the pharmacies it supplied have closed, had their licenses revoked by the DEA or have been criminally prosecuted. Yet Morris & Dickson never suspended any shipments to the pharmacy. Over three years, it filed just three suspicious order reports to the DEA – none of which resulted in shipments being suspended.

Persons: Anne Milgram, Morris, Charles Dorman, Milgram's, Louis Milione, Milione, Morris & Dickson, Guidepost didn't, Dickson, ”, Katherine Pfaff, Judge Dorman, Wilkinson, Keith Wilkinson laundered, ___ Goodman Organizations: U.S . Drug, Morris, Dickson Co, Associated Press, AP, DEA, Morris & Dickson, Purdue Pharma, Guidepost Solutions, Morris &, Wilkinson Family Locations: Shreveport, La, New York, Morris, New Orleans, Miami, Mustian, Investigative@ap.org

☆ Weil: Distress Index shows profit issues as main driver of distress
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-05 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailWeil: Distress Index shows profit issues as main driver of distressAndrew Wilkinson, senior European restructuring partner at Weil, Gotshal & Manges, discusses the Weil Distress Index of European corporates.

Persons: Andrew Wilkinson, Weil Organizations: Weil Locations: European

☆ Documentary Download: 3 Celebrity Portraits Worth Your Time
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-02 | by ( Alissa Wilkinson | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

Pop open the “documentaries” section of your friendly local streaming service, and a bevy of movies about celebrities will greet you. Rockers, politicians, artists, authors, athletes — increasingly everyone you’ve heard of has a documentary, and probably served as a producer on it, too. The appeal of such films is obvious: If you like someone already, you get to hear them talk about themselves. If you know you should like someone, then you’ve got a quick introduction to set you on your way to fandom. The best of these movies tend to do more than tell us about the subject — they tell us what the subject means, in a cultural sense.

Persons: —, you’ve, “ Dario Argento Panico, Bruce Springsteen, Lionel Richie, won’t, “ Dario Argento, Guillermo del Toro, it’s, Judy Blume, ” Organizations: Netflix

☆ For the Most Groundbreaking Oscar Race This Year, Try Documentaries
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-26 | by ( Alissa Wilkinson | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Most post-nomination Oscar chatter focuses on surprises and snubs connected to the fiction nominees. But I’m a nonfiction nerd, so for me the documentaries are where it’s at, and in recent years, the picks have grown delightfully unpredictable. Both are artful, and their nominations had seemed assured because, at least in the past, well-made portraits tended to get eyeballs and thus votes. Biographical documentaries are still hugely popular; next to true crime, they’re what’s hot in nonfiction right now, as our recently reviewed releases “June” and “Lil Nas X: Long Live Montero” indicate. Don’t look now, but this may be the most groundbreaking category at the awards.

Persons: Michael J, Jon Batiste, “ Lil Nas, Montero Organizations: Fox

☆ ‘Sometimes I Think About Dying’ Review: Life, in Drab Gray
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-25 | by ( Alissa Wilkinson | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Her mental tableaux of death look as if they were staged by the artist Gregory Crewdson. She imagines standing alone in a nondescript finished office basement as a giant snake slithers by. She imagines death, essentially, as peace in the midst of ever-changing nature. By day, Fran (Daisy Ridley) dons drab business casual and works in the sort of space that makes the environs of “The Office” seem like a magical wonderland. By night, Fran’s life isn’t much more interesting, but at least she’s in control of it.

Persons: Fran, Gregory Crewdson, Daisy Ridley Locations: “, Pacific

☆ Scotland’s oldest tartan, found in a peat bog, has been recreated and is now available to buy
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-22 | by ( Amy Woodyatt | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

London CNN —Textile designers and tartan experts have banded together to recreate the oldest piece of Scottish tartan for modern production, allowing fans of the famed plaid to wear a piece of history. Using carbon dating, scientists discovered that the “Glen Affric” fabric, uncovered in a peat bog in the Highlands during forestry work and donated to the Scottish Tartans Authority in the 1980s, dated back to around 1500-1600. The "Glen Affric" tartan dates from 1500-1600. Alan Richardson/House of Edgar/V&A/PAThis, they said, makes it the oldest “true tartan” specimen in Scotland. Now, the pattern has been recreated for the modern wardrobe by tartan fabric creator and weaver House of Edgar.

Persons: Alan Richardson, Edgar, Peter Eslea MacDonald, ” MacDonald, ”, Emma Wilkinson Organizations: London CNN —, Scottish Tartans Authority, CNN Locations: Highlands, Scotland

☆ ‘The End We Start From’ Review: A Watery Apocalypse and a New Beginning
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-18 | by ( Alissa Wilkinson | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The first apocalypse recorded in more than one ancient text is, after all, a deluge. But there is such a thing as too much symbolism, and “The End We Start From,” adapted from Megan Hunter’s acclaimed best-selling novel, is drowning. The action starts in a bathtub that’s slowly filling for a woman (played by Jodie Comer and identified in the credits only as “Woman”). As the water fills the bathtub inside, the world is filling up with water outside. But they’re only permitted to enter because R’s parents live there, and because they have a two-day-old baby in the car.

Persons: ”, Megan Hunter’s, Jodie Comer, Joel Fry, Noah Locations: London, Venice, England

London CNN —Catherine, Princess of Wales, will spend up to two weeks recovering in hospital after successfully undergoing abdominal surgery. “Her Royal Highness The Princess of Wales was admitted to The London Clinic yesterday for planned abdominal surgery,” Kensington Palace said in a statement Wednesday. It is unclear what the surgery was for, but a royal source told CNN that the 42-year-old’s condition was non-cancerous. Once discharged, the Princess of Wales is expected to recover at home in Windsor, the royal source said. The Prince and Princess of Wales with their children, Prince Louis, Princess Charlotte and Prince George, at Buckingham Palace in London, June 2022.

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