John Carpenter has this one recurring nightmare. βIβm in a huge, massive town I donβt really know,β he says, βand Iβm looking for the movie district. And inevitably all the theaters are closed down. Theyβre all closed down. Thatβs what the dream is.β Iβm visiting Carpenter at his longtime production house in Hollywood on one…
Short, pained lives marked by achievement and promise and then abruptly gone leave a restless afterglow. Youth is supposed to fade away, not become oneβs permanent state. And regarding the late musician Jeff Buckley β a roiling romantic with piercing good looks whose singing could rattle bones and raise hairs β that loss in 1997,…
Sir Keir Starmer has said he “will not yield” over his support for Greenland amid Donald Trump’s threat of tariffs. Speaking at Prime Minister’s Questions, Sir Keir said: “Threats of tariffs to pressurise allies are completely wrong. “But I do want to be clear with the House: I will not yield, Britain will not yield…
There were two questions the 77th Emmy Awards, held Sunday night at the Peacock Theater in downtown Los Angeles, had to answer, other than who would win what. (Itβs an honor just to be nominated.) One was how the show, a glittery evening devoted to the most popular of popular arts, would play against a…
Customers of five water firms are facing higher than expected rises to their inflation-busting bills after the companies disputed limits imposed by the industry regulator. The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) was called in to review Ofwat’s determinations on what Anglian Water, Northumbrian Water, South East Water, Southern Water, and Wessex Water could charge customers…
WASHINGTONΒ βΒ The U.S. and Israeli war against Iran entered its ninth day Sunday with no clear path toward de-escalation, as the U.S. announced a seventh American service member had been killed and Iranian state TV reported the selection of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khameneiβs son as his successor. Meanwhile, the price of oil surpassed $100 a…
More than 10 years ago, I filmed my kids for a report on the impact of screens on young minds. My eldest daughter was six at the time, her twin sisters nearly three. They didn’t have their own devices – Instagram, Snapchat and YouTube were beyond their imagination. TikTok hadn’t even been invented. Yet now…
Dozens of California National Guard troops under President Trumpβs command apparently slipped out of Los Angeles under cover of darkness early Sunday morning, ahead of an appellate courtβs order to be gone by noon Monday. Administration officials would not immediately confirm whether the troops had decamped. But video taken outside the Roybal Federal Building downtown…
Rupert Murdochβs Fox Corp. has largely stayed on the sidelines of the streaming wars. That ends next week. Fox, which owns the most-watched cable news channel Fox News and has TV rights to major sporting events such as the NFL and MLB post-season baseball, has remained committed to the declining pay TV business. But with…
WASHINGTON Β βΒ The White Houseβs TrumpRx website went live Thursday with a promise to instantly deliver prescription drugs at βthe lowest price anywhere in the world.β βThis launch represents the largest reduction in prescription drug prices in history by many, many times, and itβs not even close,β President Trump said at a news conference announcing the…