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☆ 'Baby Reindeer' creator Richard Gadd questioned by producers after dating actor who auditioned for the show, reports say
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-04 | by ( Eve Crosbie | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

While Lyons did not disclose the person or show in her X posts, Deadline reported that it had verified that she was indeed referring to Gadd and "Baby Reindeer." AdvertisementAccording to Deadline, Gadd had not disclosed his relationship with Lyons at the time. Metro has reported that it was Lyons' X thread — posted on April 16, five days after "Baby Reindeer" was released — that led to Gadd being questioned by producers at Clerkenwell Film. The role of Donny's (Richard Gadd) girlfriend, Teri, in "Baby Reindeer" went to Nava Mau. According to Deadline, Gadd and Lyons went on four dates between October and November 2021 before Gadd ended the relationship in December.

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☆ A Stormy Daniels documentary comes out Monday, and Trump's hush-money lawyers are already raging. Here's why.
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-16 | by ( Laura Italiano | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +10 min

Read previewAdult film actor Stormy Daniels drops so many bombshells in the smart, surprisingly moving documentary, "Stormy," that it's no wonder former President Donald Trump's "hush money" case lawyers are now raging against it. 'Unacceptable'"Extraordinarily prejudicial," Trump's lawyers called the film in defense filings made public this week. There is also their client to consider, Trump's lawyers said, in the delay request made public Thursday. Trump's lawyers are meanwhile asking that Daniels — given name Stephanie Clifford — be barred from testifying at the hush-money trial. A still from the Peacock documentary, "Stormy."

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☆ Beyoncé the Auteur Takes Center Stage in ‘Renaissance’
▼ + stars: | 2023-12-02 | by ( Salamishah Tillet | More About Salamishah Tillet | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

“I’m excited for people to see the show,” Beyoncé says early in “Renaissance: A Film by Beyoncé,” based on her recent world tour and seventh studio album. “But I’m really excited for everyone to see the process.”I’ve long wanted to understand her process better, too, especially because she has taken to rarely giving interviews. Instead she has let her art speak for itself, a risky venture when critics do the interpreting without her input. If “Renaissance” was only a film about her beaming audience, dazzling performances and the making of the tour, that would be more than enough. However, it’s clear early on that Beyoncé is not entirely interested in fetishizing her “process” to validate her artistry.

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☆ When Henry Kissinger Became an Opera Character
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-30 | by ( Zachary Woolfe | More About Zachary Woolfe | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

As opera characters, both Nixon and Mao Zedong are faintly ridiculous and faintly noble, singing of their hopes and dreams in Goodman’s enigmatic, evocative lines. And Kissinger — Nixon’s national security adviser in 1972 and, a year later, his secretary of state, too — is there by their side, just as he was in history. “When Peter Sellars proposed the idea of the opera,” Adams said in an interview, “he had just finished reading Kissinger’s ‘White House Years,’ which I seem to recall being pretty pompously self-congratulatory. The opera’s Kissinger, though, is never really human; he doesn’t get the exposure of thoughts and ambivalence granted to the other main players. “He’s not the character we go into great psychological depth with,” Adams said.

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☆ Her Music Fell Into Obscurity. Now It’s Back at the Philharmonic.
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-20 | by ( Garrett Schumann | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The New York Philharmonic’s program this week contains familiar names, Gustav Holst and György Ligeti. But in between is a first for the orchestra: “Stabat Mater,” a 1951 work for contralto and strings by Julia Perry. This will not be the first time that Perry has shared the stage with more well-known composers. The mezzo-soprano J’Nai Bridges, who will make her Philharmonic debut on Wednesday performing in the “Stabat Mater” solo part, said of the piece: “I love the vocal writing. It’s intense, it’s very introspective, it’s very intimate and also very extreme.” Dima Slobodeniouk, who will conduct the program, described it as “logically and beautifully written.”

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Virginie Viard’s spring collection emerged as a sun-drenched ode to liberty and movement, inspired directly from the villa’s gardens. This was Viard's Chanel: clothes that seemed relaxed and with nothing to prove. Viard’s Chanel feels less about dazzling the onlooker and more about connecting with her. While Lagerfeld’s Chanel was an aspiration, Viard’s is becoming a reflection. Last month, Cruz alongside her sister, Mónica Cruz, unveiled a fashion collection on Instagram, hinting at her deep-seated respect for the craft.

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☆ Olivia Rodrigo Has Seen the World Now, and She’s Livid
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-08 | by ( Jon Caramanica | More About Jon Caramanica | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

That’s the novel approach of Olivia Rodrigo, a modern and somewhat signature pop star. Her jolting debut album, “Sour,” released a few months later, showed her to be a spiky, vivid writer and singer, but one who hadn’t quite seen the world. Two years later, on her poignantly fraught, spiritually and sonically agitated follow-up album “Guts,” Rodrigo has seen too much. As on “Sour,” Rodrigo, who is 20 now, toggles between bratty rock gestures and piano-driven melancholy. Or as she puts it on “Making the Bed,” “I got the things I wanted/It’s just not what I imagined.”

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☆ H.B.O. Is Tackling Religion in the Most Remarkable Ways
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-30 | by ( Elizabeth Nelson | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +5 min

Television’s depictions of religion have often leaned either toward po-faced dogma or scouring atheism, but here is one that dares to split the difference. The eldest, Jesse, is a pompous hothead whose default response to any insult is light violence and who, despite his persona as a family man, has enjoyed the sort of hard-partying lifestyle that would make early-1970s Led Zeppelin blush. His sister, Judy, is a flamethrowing libertine with a staggeringly foul mouth and a tendency to transgress against her lovingly milquetoast husband. Like a staging of “King Lear” at a monster-truck rally, the show has a loneliness that undergirds its berserk energy. This is not the only fascinating vision of the church on HBO these days.

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☆ Analysis: Biden got almost everything he wanted from the NATO summit
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-12 | by ( Stephen Collinson | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +12 min

CNN —President Joe Biden got almost everything he wanted from the NATO summit. President Joe Biden speaks at Vilnius University in Vilnius, Lithuania, Wednesday, July 12, 2023, after attending the NATO Summit. On Wednesday for instance, Russia marked the NATO summit by launching airstrikes against Kyiv region. US President Joe Biden (R) attends a meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky at the sidelines of the NATO Summit in Vilnius on July 12, 2023. That President Biden and NATO didn’t invite Ukraine to NATO because he’s afraid of Russia?” Kaleniuk asked.

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☆ ‘Past Lives’: Celine Song and the cast on love, loss and ‘inyeon’
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-22 | by ( Tom Page | Thomas Page | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

“Past Lives,” by Korean Canadian writer and director Celine Song, is broadly autobiographical. Before “Past Lives,” Song wrote the stage play “Endlings,” which debuted in 2019 at the American Repertory Theater in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with its subsequent New York run cut short by the Covid-19 pandemic. Celine Song directs Greta Lee on location during the production of "Past Lives." “Past Lives” eschews such visual literalism, using its romantic totems Hae Sung and Arthur instead. Courtesy A24In “Past Lives,” the notion of “inyeon” permeates the narrative.

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☆ Frail or Forceful, Biden Keeps Stumbling
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-20 | by ( Karl Rove | ) www.wsj.com time to read: +1 min

Potomac Watch: Democrats belatedly admit Dianne Feinstein is too old to serve. What about Joe Biden? Images: AP Composite: Mark KellyPresident Biden’s visit to Ireland was personal, given his Irish roots, and presidents are allowed such trips. The excursion marked the 25th anniversary of the historic 1998 Good Friday Agreement to end sectarian violence in Northern Ireland. But the visit also poignantly highlighted Mr. Biden’s chief political vulnerability if he runs for a second term.

☆ Legislation or lawsuits? The spot bitcoin ETF debate forges ahead
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-19 | by ( Kevin Schmidt | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

"However, I don't think that means that we all of a sudden get a bitcoin ETF," he added. "I suspect that even if Grayscale wins, Gensler is going to back even further away from crypto," Nadig said. "Put some constraints around the futures-based products while we wait for comprehensive crypto regulation and legislation someday." "The point is, we need legislation," Nadig said. "I think we have to have legislation that realizes digital assets are different and need different sets of rules."

At the heart of Harry and Meghan's narrative is that Britain's sensationalist popular press is a "devil" that members of the royal family have colluded with to protect or enhance their own reputations. The royal family have been here before, though. "That said, you could argue it only reinforces the victim narrative from Harry and Meghan in America," the former aide said. "The one thing the royal family has on its side is time. So it can play the long game - which Harry and Meghan maybe can't, in that they have to be telling their story now."

☆ 3 tips for when your team is stuck and needs to think outside the box
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-28 | by ( Cari Jacobs | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

Using mindfulness and noticing when your team is stuck can help activate expansive thinking. Expansive thinking encourages us to be more creativePolarity-driven thinking keeps us stuck. The simple theory of the Drama Triangle is that each of us plays two of three archetypes that provoke conflict, problems, and anxiety. Encourage them to let go of their "fixed" mindset and ask what archetype they might be playing in the drama triangle. Do it with expansive thinking to guide your way and move out of the contraction most of us live with daily.

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