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☆ Pepperoncini Tuna Salad, Stuffed Into a Split Croissant
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-07 | by ( Sam Sifton | More About Sam Sifton | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

There are many thousands more recipes to cook this weekend awaiting you on New York Times Cooking. You may not be surprised to learn that you need a subscription to read them. Here’s Jenkins: “At the ages of 68 and 66, respectively, Evert and Navratilova have found themselves more intertwined than ever, by an unwelcome factor. ‘It was like, are you kidding me?’ Evert says.”My colleague Elisabeth Egan recently looked back at “Bridget Jones’s Diary” after 25 years. I liked Marian Bull on Rebecca May Johnson’s “Small Fires: An Epic in the Kitchen,” for n+1.

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☆ With Indiana Jones’s Return, Looking Back at the Opening Scene of ‘Raiders’
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-03 | by ( Jason Bailey | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

“Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny” (now in theaters) is the first film in that franchise not directed by Steven Spielberg, who developed the character all those years ago with George Lucas and Philip Kaufman, as well as the screenwriter Lawrence Kasdan. Yet the handoff of directorial duties to James Mangold doesn’t feel like a strain, because Spielberg established the character of the globe-trotting archaeologist and the style of his cinematic escapades so adroitly over the first four films. In fact, he set them in stone in the very first sequence of the very first movie — as we can see in a shot-by-shot look that classic sequence today. We first see Indiana Jones less than 30 seconds into 1981’s “Raiders of the Lost Ark” — but it’s a carefully prepared hero entrance, holding back Harrison Ford’s distinctive visage as long as possible. Instead, we first see him from the back, in a frame that nevertheless introduces the character and his distinctive iconography (his hat, bullwhip and jacket).

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☆ Bridget Jones Deserved Better. We All Did.
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-30 | by ( Elisabeth Egan | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

You couldn’t pass a Borders or Barnes & Noble megastore without catching Bridget’s cool blue-green gaze. Seemingly overnight, Bridget was to digital correspondence what Chandler Bing was to comic timing: a fresh metronome for the last gasp of the 20th century. She was the toast of book clubs, the subject of editorials, a lightning rod for morning-show debate and fodder for late-night comedy. Some readers were charmed by Bridget Jones; others were disgusted. That if we don’t enjoy our jobs, we just stick around and, heck, sleep with the boss (who never calls us back).”

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CNN —Harrison Ford is a thriving action star at 80 years old. Recalling a moment on the “Dial of Destiny” set in a new Esquire interview published Wednesday, Ford said that he intentionally brushed off the help of a gaggle of stuntmen who rushed over to assist him off a horse after he finished a horseback riding scene. “And I don’t mean that we didn’t make ambitious movies before,” he added. If I’d been less successful, I’d probably be a better parent,” he said, adding, “I accept my flaws and my failures. The “Regarding Henry” star and his current wife Calista Flockhart share son Liam, 22.

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☆ Facebook, Twitter Rebuffed Sandy Hook Families’ Request for Data in Alex Jones Case
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-09 | by ( Ted Mann | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Alex Jones, accompanied by private security guards, arrived in October at the Connecticut Superior Court in Waterbury, Conn.Twitter and Facebook rebuffed subpoenas from families of the Sandy Hook school massacre victims, who were seeking internal company data to show how conspiracy theorist Alex Jones’s false claims about the killings spread on social media, according to court documents and lawyers for the families. The fight last year over access to the social-media platforms’ data played out largely behind the scenes of the legal battle to hold Mr. Jones liable for his claims. The families of the victims in the 2012 massacre, in which a gunman killed 20 first-graders and six educators inside a Newtown, Conn., elementary school, sued Mr. Jones and his companies, including the website Infowars, for defamation. Mr. Jones had claimed the shooting was an elaborate hoax.

☆ What Rom-Coms Teach Us About Love, Life and Meg Ryan’s Hair
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-14 | by ( Tala Safie | Alexis Soloski | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

THE ENDThank you for playing,Photo credits: Sony Pictures (“Jerry Maguire”); Universal Pictures (“Love Actually,” “Marry Me,” “Notting Hill,” “Forgetting Sarah Marshall,” “Along Came Polly,” “Bridesmaids”); 20th Century Fox (“Say Anything,” “The Devil Wears Prada,” “There's Something About Mary”); Columbia Pictures (“50 First Dates,” “When Harry Met Sally,” “Hitch,” “The Holiday,” “The Wedding Planner,” “Cruel Intentions”); Miramax (“Bridget Jones’s Diary,” “Kate & Leopold,” “She’s All That”); MGM (“Licorice Pizza”); TriStar Pictures (“Sleepless in Seattle”); Warner Bros. (“You've Got Mail,” “Crazy, Stupid, Love”); Lionsgate (“Shotgun Wedding”); New Line Cinema (“Monster-in-Law”); Buena Vista Pictures (“Pretty Woman,” “10 Things I Hate About You,” “High Fidelity”); Disney (“The Princess Diaries”); Focus Features (“Deliver Us from Eva”); Paramount Pictures (“How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days”). A quiz by Tala Safie and Alexis Soloski. Produced by Sean Catangui, Amanda Webster, Alicia DeSantis and Lorne Manly.

☆ Six N.F.L. Players Show Football’s Grind on Their Feet and Hands
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-11 | by ( Ken Belson | Joe Drape | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +19 min

Players Show Football’s Grind on Their Feet and HandsOver the course of the long and brutal N.F.L. season, players’ feet and hands take a beating on nearly every snap. But in practice a few days later, he was running drills and landed awkwardly, spraining an ankle and stretching the tendons in his right foot. The next week Jones caught six passes for 109 yards and three touchdowns as the Jaguars shocked the Dallas Cowboys, 40-34. “The therapist spends a lot of time on my hands and feet,” he said.

☆ ‘Love Actually’ director feels ‘a bit stupid’ about movie’s lack of diversity
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-01 | by ( Issy Ronald | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

CNN —Every year, as the days grow colder and Christmas draws nearer, “Love Actually” quickly becomes a festive favorite on people’s television screens. But nearly 20 years on from the release of the 2003 romantic comedy, the movie has faced scrutiny over its story lines and lack of diversity. He was speaking to Diane Sawyer as part of a documentary on ABC News titled: “The Laughter & Secrets of Love Actually: 20 Years Later.”“Love Actually” features interweaving story lines, following several romantic relationships. Hugh Grant plays the British prime minister who falls in love with his assistant, played by Martine McCutcheon. Universal/Dna/Working Title/Koba/ShutterstockNearly 20 years on, “Love Actually” remains popular, becoming a staple of the holiday season.

☆ ‘Bridget Jones’ author working on 4th film, with plans to adapt book with tragic twist
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-03 | by ( ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +2 min

“Bridget Jones’s Diary” author Helen Fielding is working on a fourth film, with plans to adapt her 2013 book “Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy” into a movie. “Yeah, I’m working on it and I really hope it will happen,” she told Radio Times on Oct. 31. I’d love to see it on the screen.”There are three movie in the series, including 2001 “Bridget Jones’s Diary,” 2004’s “Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason” and 2016’s “Bridget Jones’s Baby.”The first two movies were adapted from a Fielding book, while “Bridget Jones’s Baby” was not. “Bridget Jones: The Menopause,” Zellweger joked on “The Talk” in 2019 when asked if she’d be into another movie and what her character would be doing. “No, I know Helen’s (Fielding) written the book, and I love this character.

☆ The New York Giants Are Playing Great. Here’s the One Problem With That.
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-24 | by ( Andrew Beaton | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

When the New York Giants used the No. 6 pick in the draft on quarterback Daniel Jones in 2019, they thought they had found their successor to Eli Manning. Then after a few seasons of middling play, two canned head coaches, in addition to the firing of the general manager who drafted him, a new regime came in before this season and indicated it might be ready to move on without Jones. Entering his fourth season, Jones hadn’t played particularly well and the Giants were among the NFL’s worst teams every year with him under center. Nobody was shocked when new general manager Joe Schoen and coach Brian Daboll declined to pick up the option on Jones’s contract for 2023.

☆ Bankruptcy Judge Orders Independent Review of Alex Jones’s Infowars Over Conflicts
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-20 | by ( Jonathan Randles | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

A Texas bankruptcy judge ordered an independent review of Infowars’ financial affairs and refused to let the company hire chapter 11 advisers picked by its founder Alex Jones after determining they failed to disclose a professional conflict. Judge Christopher Lopez of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Houston said he was concerned that a bankruptcy lawyer and restructuring officer hired by Infowars parent company Free Speech Systems LLC could act as impartial advisers looking out for the broadcasting site and its creditors. Those include families of the Sandy Hook Elementary School victims who have sued Mr. Jones for spreading falsehoods about the 2012 shooting in Newtown, Conn., which killed 20 first-graders and six adults.

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