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TORONTOย โย The smile is beatific, blissed out, even at an ungodly hour on our Zoom call from France. A week later, when I finally meet 43-year old filmmaker Oliver Laxe in person at a private Toronto celebration for his new movie โSirรขt,โ he radiates serenity. Heโs the happiest (and maybe the tallest) person in the room….
TAMPA, Fla.ย โย First, the meme made Freddie Freeman laugh. Then, in a serendipitous twist, it gave him a lightning-bulb epiphany about his recently ailing swing. At the end of a long day during last weekโs homestand โ when Freeman was hit by a pitch on July 20, immediately removed from the game to get an X-ray,…
The Walt Disney Co. and Lucasfilm have settled a lawsuit brought by โThe Mandalorianโ actor Gina Carano, who alleged she had been wrongfully terminated from the show and discriminated against because of her social media posts. Carano and Disney each separately confirmed the settlement Thursday, with Carano calling it the โbest outcome for all parties…
JP Morgan Chase, the US-based banking giant, has swooped to buy a British pensions technology company as it tries to augment its retirement planning services to personal investing clients. Sky News has learnt that JP Morgan has agreed to snap up WealthOS, which was founded in 2019. Chaired by former Google executive John Herlihy, WealthOS…
A.J. Brown had nothing to say โ to reporters after the Philadelphia Eaglesโ playoff loss to the San Francisco 49ers, that is. Philadelphiaโs star receiver did have plenty to say to Coach Nick Sirianni โ and vice-versa โ during a sideline spat late in the second quarter of the game that eventually marked an end…
Four players have been suspended by the NBA in connection with a brawl that broke out during the Detroit Pistons-Charlotte Hornets game Monday night, the league announced Wednesday. It was the same four players that were ejected during the Pistonsโ 110-104 victory at Spectrum Center in Charlotte, N.C. Detroit center Isaiah Stewart was suspended seven…
Decked out in a resplendent orange-and-blue-striped zoot suit symbolizing the colors of his beloved New York Knicks, Spike Lee hit the Cannes Film Festivalโs red carpet in May in full boogie mode. As Lee and his wife, producer Tonya Lewis Lee, huddled under an umbrella and made their way through a throng of photographers, he…
Even hardcore fans of HBOโs โThe Gilded Ageโ may have been surprised how far Bertha Russell, portrayed by now three-time Emmy nominee Carrie Coon, went this season in her quest to climb the heights of 1880s New York society. After forcing her daughter Gladys (Taissa Farmiga) to marry a British duke to solidify the familyโs…
Televisionโs biggest night is here and with it comes some of the best red carpet fashion of awards season. This yearโs Emmy-nominated stars include the always stylish Kristen Bell (โNobody Wants Thisโ), Quinta Brunson (โAbbott Elementaryโ), Ayo Edebiri (โThe Bearโ), Keri Russell (โThe Diplomatโ), Carrie Coon (โThe White Lotusโ), Cate Blanchett (โDisclaimerโ) and Michelle Williams…
We used to have more films like โMidwinter Break,โ in which the combination of a couple of great actors, a gifted writer and the unfussy shepherding of a thorny, intimate scenario gave discerning moviegoers their recommended weekly allowance of adult drama about the human condition. Thatโs no longer the case, so you would be forgiven…
