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☆ Manuel García-Rulfo plays a violent man searching for love in Netflix’s ‘Pedro Páramo’
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-05 | by ( Max Gao | Max Gao Is A Freelance Entertainment | Sports Journalist Based In Toronto. He Has Written For Nbc News | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +9 min

In the new film directed by four-time Oscar-nominated Mexican cinematographer Rodrigo Prieto (“Killers of the Flower Moon,” “The Wolf of Wall Street”), García-Rulfo plays Páramo, a violent man searching for the love he once knew as a child. We’re all sons of this Mexico that is so complex and violent, but at the same time beautiful.”Manuel García-Rulfo as Mickey Haller in "The Lincoln Lawyer." He’s just a kid, he’s a dreamer, and he’s in love with this person. (Matthew McConaughey previously played Mickey in the 2011 film “The Lincoln Lawyer.”)From left, Manuel García-Rulfo and Neve Campbell in "The Lincoln Lawyer." “Instead of, ‘Oh, he’s a Latino lawyer,’ he’s a lawyer, period.

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☆ Mysteries: Michael Connelly’s ‘Resurrection Walk’
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-30 | by ( Tom Nolan | Michael Connelly | ) www.wsj.com time to read: +1 min

He hires his half-brother, Harry Bosch, the retired LAPD detective who is the central character in another series by Mr. Connelly, to sift through it all and find plausible candidates for similar resurrections. Grab a Copy Resurrection Walk By Michael Connelly Grand Central Publishing 400 pages We may earn a commission when you buy products through the links on our site. Buy Book Amazon Barnes & Noble Books a Million BookshopBosch chances upon Lucinda Sanz, an imprisoned woman who pleaded no contest to the murder of her ex-husband, a sheriff’s deputy shot dead on her front lawn. Sanz claims she was pressured by her attorney to accept a deal in the face of damning physical evidence, and insists she’s innocent. Bosch tends to believe her.

Persons: Mickey Haller, Michael Connelly’s, ” Haller, ”, Haller, “, Harry Bosch, Connelly, Michael Connelly, Barnes, Bosch, Lucinda Sanz, Sanz, ruefully Organizations: Lincoln Lawyer, LAPD, Michael Connelly Grand Central Publishing, Noble, Bosch, U.S, Central, Central District of Locations: Angeles, Central District, Central District of California

Harry Bosch, has become the longest running character on streaming television. Based on his book series, “Bosch” ran seven seasons on Amazon, and then spun off as “Bosch: Legacy,” which premieres its second season Friday on Amazon Freevee. AP: How many different adventures can Harry Bosch and these characters have on screen? CONNELLY: Harry Bosch and Mickey Haller have daughters the exact same age as my daughter. So, Harry Bosch started out as a cop, and he was an outsider.

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The Authors Guild lawsuit is the latest in a series brought by writers against OpenAI. “It knew everything, and that’s when I got a bad feeling.”A representative for OpenAI did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Since OpenAI introduced ChatGPT in November, authors, publishers and retailers have been trying to rein in the rampant and increasingly disruptive incursion of A.I. Amazon has taken steps to monitor and curb the influx of A.I.-generated books. to its customers, but it may do so in the future, according to an Amazon representative.

Persons: David Baldacci, Jodi Picoult, George R.R, Martin, George Saunders, Michael Connelly, Douglas Preston, ChatGPT, “, ‘, ”, OpenAI Organizations: OpenAI, York Mycological Society Locations: A.I

A keyboard is placed in front of a displayed OpenAI logo in this illustration taken February 21, 2023. In addition to Microsoft-backed (MSFT.O) OpenAI, similar lawsuits are pending against Meta Platforms and Stability AI over the data used to train their AI systems. Other authors involved in the latest lawsuit include "The Lincoln Lawyer" writer Michael Connelly and lawyer-novelists David Baldacci and Scott Turow. The complaint said ChatGPT generated accurate summaries of the authors' books when prompted, indicating that their text is included in its database. It also cited growing concerns that authors could be replaced by systems like ChatGPT that "generate low-quality ebooks, impersonating authors and displacing human-authored books."

Persons: Dado Ruvic, OpenAI, John Grisham, Jonathan Franzen, George Saunders, Jodi Picault, George R.R, Martin, Michael Connelly, David Baldacci, Scott Turow ., Mary Rasenberger, Blake Brittain, David Bario, Daniel Wallis Organizations: REUTERS, Microsoft, Authors, Meta, Lincoln, Thomson Locations: Manhattan, Washington

☆ ‘The Lincoln Lawyer’ Is on the Road Again
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-04 | by ( Elisabeth Vincentelli | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

This interview includes spoilers for the second season of “The Lincoln Lawyer.”Ted Humphrey has learned a few things about what it takes to keep a successful series going. A former lawyer, Humphrey worked on 135 episodes of the critically acclaimed CBS show “The Good Wife,” with writing credits on 19 of them and titles that included executive producer. He’s now trying to apply some of the same magic to “The Lincoln Lawyer,” the legal thriller he created with David E. Kelley last year, based on the Michael Connelly book series. The inaugural season, starring Manuel Garcia-Rulfo in the title role, was a hit for Netflix. “The Lincoln Lawyer” has been among its most-watched shows worldwide since the first new episodes were released on July 6.

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☆ Is it time to start paying stay-at-home parents?
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-21 | by ( Juliana Kaplan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +11 min

As populations decline and Americans rethink work, it could be time to start paying parents. Like many of the stay-at-home parents Insider spoke to, Carpenter began his work in reaction to an economic reality. As workers across industries rethink what they want out of work, parents could be the final frontier. That leaves both working and stay-at-home parents to create their own economic models, and perhaps dissuades some Americans from ever becoming parents. The idea of paying parents in order to boost birth rates and ensure better outcomes for those children isn't new.

☆ Mysteries: A Cold Case for Harry Bosch
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-04 | by ( Tom Nolan | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Now retired after three decades with the Los Angeles Police Department, Michael Connelly’s long-running series protagonist Harry Bosch no longer bothers to cultivate a friendly image: “He actually enjoyed being the cranky old ex-cop in the neighborhood whom people were afraid to approach.”Bosch lives in a house overlooking the San Fernando Valley and enjoys a good relationship with his daughter, Maddie, herself a police officer. He has mostly made peace with his departure from the force, but there is one unclosed case “he hated to leave on the table”: the murder of the entire Gallagher family—father, mother, daughter, son—all killed by nail gun in 2013 and buried in the Mojave Desert.

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