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Thirty years ago, the coming-of-age romantic comedy βCluelessβ opened in movie theaters and went on to become an enduring American pop culture touchstone. βIβm thrilled that people love it and continue to love it,β the movieβs star, Alicia Silverstone, said in a recent conversation in New York. βYoung people. Old people. Itβs really gone on…
Local officials and advocates for the homeless are fearful that President Trump will take draconian action against homeless people, including pushing them into detention camps, when Los Angeles hosts the Olympic Games in 2028. In recent weeks, Trump has appointed himself head of an Olympics task force and has seized control of local policing in…
Every week, our Money team interviews top chefs from around the UK, hearing about their cheap food hacks, views on the industry and more. Today, they speak to Roger Pizey, head pastry chef at Fortnum and Mason… A supermarket takeaway dessert I love is… Tesco’s finest meringue nests. I suppose in themselves they’re not really…
In the latest episode of The Envelope video podcast, Kathy Bates discusses starring in a hit TV series at 77 with βMatlock,β and Jason Segel explains why he finds the emotional vulnerability of βShrinkingβ so creatively fulfilling. Mark Olsen: For the Los Angeles Times, Iβm Mark Olsen. Welcome to The Envelope podcast. Iβm here today…
Kwazi Gilmer, yearning to do something no other UCLA wide receiver has managed, unveiled a new play after practice Wednesday. Call it the go-for-it route. βI want to go win the Biletnikoff,β Gilmer announced, βso Iβm coming for all the receivers out there.β Those are bold words for someone from a program whose closest association…
From the opening moments of βHighest 2 Lowest,β Spike Leeβs remix-as-remake of Akira Kurosawaβs 1963 crime thriller βHigh and Low,β you should know that the filmmaker is here primarily for a good time and heβs asking us to play along. Over aerial shots of the sun hitting the New York City skyline, including the stunning…
Third in a series of stories profiling top high school football players by position. Today, Madden Williams, St. John Bosco receiver. If blockers are a quarterbackβs best friends, what are receivers? βItβs our job to make the quarterback look good,β St. John Boscoβs Madden Williams said. Few teams in Southern California start the 2025 season…
Growth figures for the second quarter of the year have something for everyone. A better-than-expected outturn of 0.3% over three months, helped by a healthy 0.4% bounce in June, put a little spring in the chancellor’s step on the long road to the autumn budget. For her critics, meanwhile, any slowdown from the 0.7% recorded…
The owner of song catalogues produced by artists such as ZZ Top and Ellie Goulding is raising hundreds of millions of dollars in a deal with the private equity firm Searchlight Capital. Sky News has learnt that Chord Music Partners has struck an agreement for Searchlight to invest $400m in the company, which is backed…
Itβs a good time to be Danielle Brooks. She received an Oscar nomination for βThe Color Purpleβ in 2024 β her performance as Sofia also earned her a Grammy for best musical theater album β but Brooks has arguably had an even better 2025. So far this year, she has starred in the nearly billion-dollar-grossing…
