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☆ Why best-selling novelist James Patterson loves Substack — and hates AI
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-15 | by ( Peter Kafka | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

Novelist James Patterson — along with a hardworking group of co-authors — generates multiple books a year. So I think that's kind of cool. I'm going to do a movie about cowboys and circuses! People don't think of them that way. So people ask — "What's the difference between James Patterson working with a group of people to make stuff in the voice of James Patterson and James Patterson using AI for the same thing?"

Persons: James Patterson —, that's, —, James Patterson, he's, Tina Brown, Patterson, Bill Clinton, Stephen King, you'd, We'll, Clinton, We're, nobody's, I've, we've, Hillary, don't, Let's, Eric Trump, Bush, John, Grisham, Don, Henley, Joe Walsh Organizations: Service, Hollywood, Clinton, The Eagles Locations: Hollywood

☆ Cissy Houston, Grammy-winning singer and mother of Whitney Houston, dead at 91
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-07 | by ( Lisa Respers France | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

CNN —Cissy Houston, Grammy-winning singer and mother of Whitney Houston, has died, according to Gwendolyn Quinn, a representative for The Estate of Whitney E. Houston. “Mother Cissy has been a strong and towering figure in our lives. Whitney Houston died in 2012 at the age of 48. Cissy Houston was also the mother of sons Gary and Michael and the grandmother of her several grandchildren, according to her biography. Her granddaughter Bobbie Kristina Brown, died three years after her mother Whitney at the age of 22.

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☆ Opinion | Gus Walz Reminds Me of My Son
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-23 | by ( Tina Brown | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The sight at the Democratic convention on Wednesday night of Tim Walz’s 17-year-old son leaping to his feet, with streaming eyes, a hand to his chest with a cry of “That’s my Dad” was heart piercing. Gus Walz has, according to his parents, a nonverbal learning disorder, A.D.H.D. One of the joys of my life in the social churn of New York is living with a son whose inability to read the room makes him incapable of telling anything but the truth. Once, as my husband, Harry Evans, and I left a pretentious social gathering in the Hamptons, Georgie told the host sunnily: “Thank you very much. No one spoke to me really, so it was a very boring evening.

Persons: Tim Walz’s, ”, Georgie, Gus Walz, Harry Evans Organizations: Democratic, Hamptons Locations: York

☆ Netflix cofounder Reed Hastings is one of the first Democratic megadonors to call for Biden to step aside
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-04 | by ( Lloyd Lee | Erin Snodgrass | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

"Biden needs to step aside to allow a vigorous Democratic leader to beat Trump and keep us safe and prosperous," Hastings said in an email to the Times. While he's the first to call for Biden to step aside, he's not the first big Democratic donor from Hollywood to express concern. It's unclear if more Hollywood donors will follow Hastings and call for Biden to step aside. We will fight, and we will win," Harris told Biden's campaign staff in a call, according to The Times. A Biden campaign spokesperson did not address Hastings's public call in their statement to BI.

Persons: —, Reed Hastings, Joe Biden, Donald Trump, Biden, Hastings, he's, Ari Emmanuel, Tina Brown, Trump, Barack Obama, George Clooney, Julia Roberts, Biden's, Kamala Harris, Karine Jean, Pierre, Harris, Noah Mamet, Obama, Mamet, Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, Patty Quillin Organizations: Service, Democratic, The New York Times, Trump, Times, Business, Netflix, Endeavor, Aspen Ideas, Hollywood, Hastings, Washington Post, Biden, Press, The Times, Democratic Party Locations: Hollywood, Los Angeles, Chicago, Argentina

☆ Opinion: What I noticed immediately about King Charles’ portrait
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-18 | by ( Opinion Holly Thomas | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

CNN —King Charles III’s first official portrait was unveiled this week, and I’m sure his majesty would agree it’s a stirring sight. Unfortunately for Yeo, Charles and the butterfly, nothing about the portrait has garnered nearly so much comment as its dominant color. Besides these ceremonial outings, Charles has recently been less prominent in British public life than ever, particularly following the announcement in February of his cancer diagnosis. Charles’ private wealth dwarfs that of any other member of his family. Join us on Twitter and FacebookIn the last 10 years alone, that system has reportedly made King Charles more than £60 million ($76 million) richer.

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☆ Opinion | Heavy Lies the Crown
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-25 | by ( Tina Brown | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

I was in London last week when the febrile madness of Where Is Kate? was blowing up social media, and The Curious Mystery of the Doctored Mother’s Day Photograph consumed every news outlet and dinner table conversation. When was the last time any tabloid considered the palace a trusted source of news? As editor of Vanity Fair in 1985 I wrote a piece revealing that Prince Charles and Princess Diana were having awful marital fights. When social media shrieked that there would be a very somber press announcement on Friday, royal-watchers assumed it would be from King Charles, who is battling an unspecified cancer.

Persons: Kate, Wales, Prince Charles, Princess Diana, Catherine, King Charles Organizations: Associated Press Locations: London, Kensington

☆ When Courtly Love Goes Wrong, It’s Deadly
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-19 | by ( Tina Brown | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Compared to the dour, dutiful sewing circle serving Katherine of Aragon at the British court, the French matriarchs were pistols. “Anne found herself in a world in which women could exercise power in strikingly different ways,” write Guy and Fox. Stereotyped by convention as a conniving hustler bent on building the Boleyn brand, Thomas is positioned more interestingly here as a kind of geopolitical Zelig. It would prove the right time to catch the eye of the strapping 34-year-old king. Henry had never before encountered a woman as dazzling as Anne, with her French flair and intellectual self-confidence.

Persons: Katherine of Aragon, “ Anne, ”, Guy, Fox, Anne’s, Thomas, Henry VIII’s, Europe’s, Emperor Charles V, Pa Boleyn, Henry, Anne, Queen Katherine, Mary Boleyn, Katherine Locations: France, Pa, England, Europe

☆ How Many Former Vanity Fair Staffers Does It Take to Build a Roof?
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-18 | by ( Steven Kurutz | More About Steven Kurutz | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

While doing things that felt familiar to the core business, the Davids were also expanding Standard Investments, an investment arm they established, which now manages more than $4 billion. The majority of that money is invested in the public markets, in other industrial companies like Shell. But in an email from Italy, where he was on vacation with his family, Mr. Carter dispelled that idea. “Hamilton was on the front lines in this,” Mr. Carter said. “He brought in Beth Kseniak to handle communications and, before you know it, the place was filled with the VF diaspora.”Stylish and well connected, Mr. South, 59, is also a Vanity Fair alum.

Persons: Davids, Carter, Kelly, “, ”, Giorgio Armani, Ralph Lauren, “ Hamilton, Mr, Beth Kseniak, Tina Brown Organizations: Investments, Shell, Standard Investments, Air Mail, Hamilton, HL Locations: Italy

☆ Barry Diller Ends Talks to Sell The Daily Beast
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-23 | by ( Benjamin Mullin | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

The media mogul Barry Diller has pulled The Daily Beast off the auction block. Mr. Diller, the chairman of the digital media company IAC, said on Friday that The Daily Beast — a digital tabloid known for its aggressive political and media coverage — is not for sale. Until recent days, according to people with knowledge of the talks, he had been in discussions about a deal with Ankler Media, a start-up that has earned a reputation for its unsparing coverage of Hollywood elites since Janice Min, a longtime magazine editor, co-founded it early last year. “We did have negotiations with The Ankler, but we have withdrawn from them,” Mr. Diller, 81, said in a statement. “The Daily Beast is not for sale.”He did not elaborate on his plans for The Daily Beast, a publication that the magazine editor Tina Brown first edited in 2008 and that has earned plaudits for its journalism.

Persons: Barry Diller, Diller, Janice Min, “, ” Mr, Tina Brown Organizations: IAC, Ankler Media, Daily

☆ Robert Gottlieb, Eminent Editor From le Carré to Clinton, Dies at 92
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-14 | by ( Robert D. Mcfadden | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

Unlike his revered and formal predecessor, who wore jackets and ties, saw people by appointment and was addressed as “Mr. Easing the apprehensions of many New Yorker aficionados, he made few and mostly minor changes over five years. New critics were hired, and Talk of the Town commentaries were opened to more writers and were no longer written anonymously. In 1992, Tina Brown, the British editor of Vanity Fair, replaced Mr. Gottlieb in an amicable transition and introduced splashy changes. “I can write perfectly well — anybody who’s educated can write perfectly well.

Persons: Mr, Shawn, ” Mr, Gottlieb, “, ”, Raymond Bonner, Judith Thurman, Diane Ackerman, Robert Stone, Richard Ford, Tina Brown, Eustace Tilley Organizations: Yorker, Knopf, The New York Observer Locations: Central, British

☆ Opinion: A cerebral rock star is dead
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-21 | by ( Opinion John Avlon | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

He is the author of “Lincoln and the Fight for Peace.” The views expressed in this essay are his own. These celebrated writers were the subject of long-form profiles and occasional tabloid scandals, treated as cerebral rock stars and voices of their generation. They were a post-punk crew that migrated from the UK to the US, including Hitchens, Tina Brown and Salman Rushdie. In his final book, “Inside Story,” part memoir and part novel, Amis returned to his friendship with Hitchens in the 1970s, prior to their becoming famous. It chronicles a doomed affair, flashing forward at times to the decline of their friend Saul Bellows from dementia, as well as Hitchens’ death.

☆ Martin Amis, British writer of dark comedic novels, dies at 73
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-20 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

[1/2] Novelist Martin Amis (L) talks to Tina Brown at the launch of Brown's book "The Diana Chronicles" at a party hosted by Reuters in the Serpentine Gallery in central London, June 18, 2007.... Read moreWASHINGTON, May 20 (Reuters) - Martin Amis, a British writer of dark comedic novels, has died at the age of 73, his publisher said Saturday on Twitter. Penguin Books said Amis "leaves a towering legacy and an indelible mark on the British cultural landscape, and will be missed enormously." Amis died Friday at his home in Lake Worth, Florida, the New York Times reported earlier, quoting his wife, Isabel Fonseca, as saying the cause was esophageal cancer. He worked as an editor at The Times Literary Supplement and later the literary editor of The New Statesman. In a 2020 interview with the New York Times, Amis said "we read literature to have a good time.

[1/5] Britain's Camilla, Queen Consort attends a Garden Party, in celebration of King Charles' coronation, at Buckingham Palace, London, Britain. When Charles' divorced first wife, the popular, glamorous Princess Diana, died in a car crash in Paris in 1997, Camilla bore the brunt of media hostility. That's the strength of love," Camilla told Charles in the secretly recorded telephone conversation publicised in 1993. From being able to appear in public together, to marriage and last year's approval from Queen Elizabeth to Camilla taking the title Queen Consort, their success is complete. Other surveys have also indicated only a minority thought she should be Queen Camilla.

LONDON, May 1 (Reuters) - After waiting longer than any British heir to become monarch, King Charles has quietly settled into his new role with little of the drama some commentators had expected, but with family divisions and some fundamental issues still looming. "I think we are all quite surprised at how well King Charles has begun," royal author Tina Brown told Reuters. Charles does not enjoy same support as his widely admired mother, but his public approval ratings are generally positive. For Charles, the most prominent issue remains the ongoing conflict with his younger son Prince Harry. "I think the public are thinking we've kind of heard all that, but normal life continues."

While many other European monarchies have come and gone, or are far diminished in scale and importance, the British royal family has remained remarkably resilient. Republic, a group that wants to abolish the monarchy, has pointed to a poll which showed a majority of people were not interested in the coronation. RELEVANCE"Relevance is absolutely crucial to the monarchy," said Robert Hardman, a long-time royal correspondent and author of 'Queen of our Times'. But, in return, the royals are considered public property with an expectation that they play the press "game" in return for gilded lives in palaces. "Monarchs and their families need the media just as the media need them," Harshan Kumarasingham, senior lecturer in British politics at the University of Edinburgh.

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."

☆ Longtime NBA referee Tony Brown dies at 55 after battle with cancer
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-21 | by ( Aya Elamroussi | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

CNN —Tony Brown, a longtime NBA referee, died Thursday after a battle with pancreatic cancer, the league said. “Tony Brown was one of the most accomplished referees in the NBA and an inspiration to his colleagues,” said NBA Commissioner Adam Silver. “Rest in peace to veteran NBA referee Tony Brown! Sending prayers to the entire Brown family!” Johnson wrote on social media. Brown’s family is asking people to contribute to the Tony Brown Basketball Scholarship Endowment at his alma mater to honor his memory.

Gig company stocks were hammered by the news, with Uber (UBER.N), Lyft (LYFT.O) and DoorDash (DASH.N) all falling at least 10%. The proposal would require that workers be considered employees, entitled to more benefits and legal protections than contractors, when they are "economically dependent" on a company. Millions of Americans are working "gig" jobs and this labor has become vital to some transportation, restaurant, construction, health care and other industries. "Misclassification deprives workers of their federal labor protections, including their right to be paid their full, legally earned wages," Walsh said. Seth Harris, President Joe Biden's former top labor adviser, said the rule will not directly impact how courts determine whether workers are employees or independent contractors.

☆ Fiul interpretului Bobby Brown a murit la 28 de ani. Istoria familiei sale a fost marcată de sinucideri
▼ + stars: | 2020-11-19 | by ( Publika.Md - Aici Sunt Știrile | ) www.publika.md time to read: +1 min

Bobby Brown Jr., fiul cântărețului Bobby Brown, a fost găsit mort miercuri în locuința lui din Los Angeles, informează CNN. Whitney Houston, cântăreața căsătorită cu Bobby Brown până în 2007, a murit pe 11 februarie 2012, după ce s-a înecat accidental în cadă. Trei ani mai târziu, fiica lui Whitney și a lui Bobby Brown, Bobbi Kristina Brown, a fost găsită inconștientă în cada locuinței sale din Roswell (Georgia). A fost transportată la spital și a continuat să fie tratată câteva luni într-un centru de îngrijire timp de șase luni, până când a murit, în iulie 2015. Bobby Brown a vrut atunci ca prietenul ei, Nick Gordon, să fie considerat răspunzător pentru moartea ei.

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☆ Fiul cântăreţului Bobby Brown a murit la 28 de ani
▼ + stars: | 2020-11-19 | by ( ) www.jurnal.md time to read: +1 min

LAPD nu a oferit multe detalii cu privire la circumstanţele în care s-a produs decesul. Brown a fost pronunţat decedat la faţa locului, iar anchetatorii nu cred că este vorba despre un act criminal, a precizat poliţia. Bobbi Kristina Brown, fiica acestuia cu legendara cântăreaţă Whitney Houston, a decedat în 2015, la 22 de ani, după ce a fost găsită în stare de inconştienţă în cada de baie. În urma autopsiei, au fost descoperite mai multe droguri şi medicamente care se eliberează pe bază de reţetă, inclusiv marijuana, alcool şi medicamente sedative sau contra anxietăţii. Cauza morţii a fost stabilită ca fiind ''scufundare în apă asociată cu intoxicaţie cu droguri''.

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