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It’s the Hollywood sensation we all enjoy: aging movie stars drawn to a TV near you | Fiona Sturgess

It’s the Hollywood sensation we all enjoy: aging movie stars drawn to a TV near you | Fiona Sturgess

πŸ’₯ Explore this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian πŸ“– πŸ“‚ **Category**: TV streaming,Harrison Ford,Meryl Streep,Jeff Bridges,US television industry,Television & radio,Culture,Film,Media,World news πŸ“Œ **What You’ll Learn**: SHowever, the TV series about Jason Segel's Jimmy, a sad psychotherapist who can't stop telling patients what he's really thinking, sounds pretty harmless on paper. From Frasier to In Treatment to Sex Education, there's no shortage of TV dramas about dysfunctional therapists. What stands out from the crowd is the presence of Harrison Ford, who plays Jimmy's octogenarian mentor. Here we see a Hollywood star getting high on food, grappling with his failures…
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Jilly Cooper made everyone feel special – and her memorial was the perfect tribute | Zoe Williams

Jilly Cooper made everyone feel special – and her memorial was the perfect tribute | Zoe Williams

πŸ”₯ Check out this trending post from Culture | The Guardian πŸ“– πŸ“‚ **Category**: Jilly Cooper,Books,Culture,Life and style πŸ’‘ **What You’ll Learn**: CA memorial for Ellie Cooper began last week when the Dean of Southwark told a story from her funeral last year: As worshipers made their way to her final resting place, five horses rode majestically across the field, and came to stand in formation, looking down into the grave. They didn't budge and their intention was quite clear: they were paying their respects to the horses (not literally, by the way) to an author who had done as…
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Crux Review by Gabrielle Tallent – ​​An Emotional Portrait of Teenage Climbers | imaginary

Crux Review by Gabrielle Tallent – ​​An Emotional Portrait of Teenage Climbers | imaginary

✨ Explore this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian πŸ“– πŸ“‚ **Category**: Fiction,Books,Culture πŸ“Œ **What You’ll Learn**: TAmma and Dan are 17-year-old best friends who grew up in a California desert town plagued by the mall nihilism of late capitalism. They are poor. They are unpopular. Their families are a barren land. But they have each other and their great common passion: traditional rock climbing. Whenever they can, they head to a climbing route β€” sometimes a boulder at the edge of an abandoned parking lot, sometimes a cliff an hour's walk into a national park β€” and climb,…
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The Stunt Man review – Peter O’Toole manages to make a mess of his gleefully deranged Hollywood satire | film

The Stunt Man review – Peter O’Toole manages to make a mess of his gleefully deranged Hollywood satire | film

✨ Discover this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian πŸ“– πŸ“‚ **Category**: Film,Action and adventure films,Thrillers,Romance films,Peter O'Toole,Culture πŸ“Œ **What You’ll Learn**: RRichard Rush's 1980 comedy has always been one of the most distinctive elements of Peter O'Toole's filmography, a masterful performance as an authoritarian filmmaker that earned him one of his many (unconverted) Oscar nominations. Forty-six years later, The Stunt Man in some ways feels like the b-side of Lawrence of Arabia, about someone who might certainly be crazy, and whose innate talent for command would endanger the troops more than himself.It's a high-concept satire of... what exactly?…
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Tantrums, spoiled meatloaf, and family silver stuffed in underwear: the delicate art of Holocaust comedy | books

Tantrums, spoiled meatloaf, and family silver stuffed in underwear: the delicate art of Holocaust comedy | books

πŸ”₯ Explore this trending post from Culture | The Guardian πŸ“– πŸ“‚ **Category**: Books,Comics and graphic novels,Holocaust,Culture,Second world war,World news,Germany,Europe,A Real Pain πŸ’‘ **What You’ll Learn**: MThe beloved German-Jewish grandmother Gisela was not a friendly person. She enjoyed laughing at her own jokes, enjoying other people's misfortunes, and telling people off. If the event combines opportunities for all three activities, so much the better.When my father was six years old, he refused to eat the meatloaf his mother served him for lunch. Gisela took a piece of meatloaf, now spoiling quickly in the Zimbabwean afternoon heat, and served it to…
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Draco Malfoy from Harry Potter becomes the mascot for the Year of the Horse in China | China

Draco Malfoy from Harry Potter becomes the mascot for the Year of the Horse in China | China

✨ Check out this trending post from Culture | The Guardian πŸ“– πŸ“‚ **Category**: China,Harry Potter,Asia Pacific,World news,Lunar new year,Film,Culture βœ… **What You’ll Learn**: Draco Malfoy, one of Harry Potter's most iconic villains, has become an unexpected symbol of the Lunar New Year across China, as fans embrace the character in the Year of the Horse.In Mandarin, Malfoy's name is translated as "mƎ Δ›r fΓΊ". The first letter means β€œhorse” while the last letter β€œfú” means β€œluck” or β€œblessing” – a powerful symbol found in Lunar New Year celebrations.Together, the name Malfoy can be loosely read as "horse fortune," making…
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β€œOur Bodies Bear the Traces of All We Have Endured”: An Exhibition Exploring Body Photography | Photography

β€œOur Bodies Bear the Traces of All We Have Endured”: An Exhibition Exploring Body Photography | Photography

πŸ”₯ Read this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian πŸ“– πŸ“‚ **Category**: Photography,Diane Arbus,Art and design,Exhibitions,Culture,Art,Eadweard Muybridge,Phoenix,US news βœ… **What You’ll Learn**: pThermal imaging has the unique ability to take us directly to the human extreme. Whether it's the strangers photographed by Diane Arbus, Edward Muybridge's studies of the divine movement of the human body, views of remote indigenous communities captured by Mexican photographer Graciela Iturbide, or live shots of heated competition from sports photographer Walter Eeus, photographs can dazzle us with transformative dispatches from the margins of the human condition.These four photographers, along with about thirty others, can…
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Crown of Blood Review – A Deadly Macbeth Rooted in a Yoruba Mythical Landscape | stage

Crown of Blood Review – A Deadly Macbeth Rooted in a Yoruba Mythical Landscape | stage

πŸ’₯ Discover this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian πŸ“– πŸ“‚ **Category**: Theatre,Sheffield Theatres,Macbeth,Stage,Culture βœ… **What You’ll Learn**: eAt the same time the court historian arrives, he has a new list of phenomena to report. Arokin (Toyin Oshinaike) brings news of a flying elephant, a tortoise-shelled gorilla, and a woman with snake hair.There has been a lot of this since Aderemi (Demi Okanlawon) returned from the battlefield and heard his wife's prophetic dream. When she tells her husband that she saw a crown placed on his head, Oyebisi (Kehinde Bankole) sets him on a path from warrior to tyrant.Oladipo…
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‘A new first-class classic’: First reactions to Wuthering Heights hail ‘hot and sexy’ Emerald Fennell adaptation | Wuthering Heights

‘A new first-class classic’: First reactions to Wuthering Heights hail ‘hot and sexy’ Emerald Fennell adaptation | Wuthering Heights

πŸš€ Read this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian πŸ“– πŸ“‚ **Category**: Wuthering Heights,Emily BrontΓ«,Film,Margot Robbie,Jacob Elordi,Culture πŸ’‘ **What You’ll Learn**: RViewing may be off until next Monday, but Los Angeles social media is hot under the collar after an early screening of Emerald Fennell's highly anticipated film adaptation of Emily BrontΓ«'s novel Wuthering Heights.β€œIntoxicating, transcendent, sexy, enchanting, lust-worthy, hypnotic,” Courtney Howard wrote, adding that the film β€œbrilliantly depicts the incredible pain and essence of desire” and β€œis a new classic of the first order.”Another user described the film as "enchanting" and "gorgeous", overusing nouns rather than adjectives, and…
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Embracing the new genre of gaming β€œmillennial cringe” | games

Embracing the new genre of gaming β€œmillennial cringe” | games

πŸš€ Check out this trending post from Culture | The Guardian πŸ“– πŸ“‚ **Category**: Games,Culture πŸ“Œ **What You’ll Learn**: II've noticed an interesting little trend emerging in the last few years: millennial nostalgia games. Not just games that embrace the aesthetic of the Y2K games - think Crow Country or Fear the Spotlight's fuzzy polygons in the style of the old PS1 - but semi-autobiographical games specifically on Millennium experience. I've played three in the past year. Despelote is set in 2002 Ecuador and is played through the eyes of an eight-year-old boy obsessed with soccer. The award-winning film "Consume…
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