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‘He was quite a private person’: Expanded auction features Gene Hackman as actor and artist | Gene Hackman

‘He was quite a private person’: Expanded auction features Gene Hackman as actor and artist | Gene Hackman

💥 Read this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 Category: Gene Hackman,Art,Art and design,Culture,Film,Painting 💡 Here’s what you’ll learn: He was the Lex Luthor to Christopher Reeve's Superman. But could he have been Hannibal Lecter to Jodie Foster's Clarice Starling?This intriguing possibility raises an unexpected 33-page screenplay draft for "The Silence of the Lambs" lying among a collection of the late actor Gene Hackman's belongings that will go up for auction later this month.The sale of more than 400 items from the belongings of Hackman - who won Oscars for his roles in The French Connection and…
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My cultural awakening: I moved around the world after watching Billy Connolly’s documentary | culture

My cultural awakening: I moved around the world after watching Billy Connolly’s documentary | culture

✨ Explore this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 Category: Culture,Billy Connolly,Documentary,Scotland,Television,Television & radio,Factual TV 💡 Main takeaway: I I was 23 years old and thought I had found my way in life. I've always wanted to work with animals and have just got a job as a veterinary nurse in Melbourne. I was still learning the ropes, but I imagined I would stay there for years, building a life around work. Five months later, the vet called me into his office and told me it wasn't going well. “Not you, I just hate coaching people,” he…
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Don’t argue with strangers… and 11 more rules to survive the information crisis | Books

Don’t argue with strangers… and 11 more rules to survive the information crisis | Books

🔥 Explore this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 Category: Books,Social media,Internet,Digital media,Technology,Computing and the net books,Society,Data journalism,Culture,Smartphones,Social etiquette,Media ✅ Main takeaway: We all live in history. A lot of the problems that face us, and the opportunities that present themselves, are defined not by our own choices or even the specific place or government we’re living under, but by the particular epoch of human events that our lives happen to coincide with.The Industrial Revolution, for example, presented opportunities for certain kinds of business success – it made some people very rich while others were exploited. If…
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“The studio heads were like, ‘It looks nice.’ ‘We shall pass!’: Joel Edgerton and Clint Bentley on the Oscar-winning Woodsman’s Tragedy | film

“The studio heads were like, ‘It looks nice.’ ‘We shall pass!’: Joel Edgerton and Clint Bentley on the Oscar-winning Woodsman’s Tragedy | film

✨ Discover this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 Category: Film,Culture,Joel Edgerton,Westerns 📌 Here’s what you’ll learn: America was built by men like Robert Grenier, the brave woodsman at the heart of Train Dreams. Grenier cuts down trees, tames the forest, and paves the way for railways and cities. Technically, Train Dreams is a Western. But he never hitched a wheel, shot a bandit, or circled the wagons before the Comanche attacked the plains. The small print tells a different story.It was a difficult movie to get out, as actor Joel Edgerton admits: It's an uphill struggle;…
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TV Tonight: Nicole Leckey’s blood-soaked school drama special | TV and radio

TV Tonight: Nicole Leckey’s blood-soaked school drama special | TV and radio

🚀 Explore this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 Category: Television & radio,Culture 📌 Key idea: Wild cherry9pm, BBC OneGossip Girl meets Boarders - with a splash of gore - in this dark private school from BAFTA award-winning writer Nicole Leckey. The film revolves around two wealthy schoolgirls in Richford Lake, Grace (Imogen Ferris) and Allegra (Amelia May), who are suspended by teachers for sharing a shocking video among the students. But when their mothers, Juliette (Eve Best) and Lorna (Carmen Ejogo), come over, it's clear there's drama at home, too. Holly RichardsonPhoto by Alan Carr SalamA…
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Repeated Review – This warped tale of sexual fantasies could be wilder | stage

Repeated Review – This warped tale of sexual fantasies could be wilder | stage

🚀 Discover this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 Category: Theatre,Stage,Culture,Sex,Life and style 💡 Here’s what you’ll learn: AAt what point does infatuation turn into something darker and more destructive? There's actually a term for it — opulence — and that's the unsettling undercurrent of Tania Loretta Dee's promising first monologue, in which she also stars. There are very interesting ideas here, especially regarding the fine line between sexual desire and something wilder, more animalistic, and untamable. But production needs more fire and intensity. It unfolds at a slight distance and never pulls us into the depths…
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Malice review – You’ll enjoy David Duchovny’s new thriller until Christmas | television

Malice review – You’ll enjoy David Duchovny’s new thriller until Christmas | television

💥 Explore this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 Category: Television,Television & radio,Culture,David Duchovny,Jack Whitehall 📌 Here’s what you’ll learn: I I can't say "Jack Whitehall stars with David "The X Files/Californication" Duchovny in a brilliant TV thriller" on my 2025 bingo card, but here we are, and everyone can have a good time with it. Besides, perhaps a little national pride in seeing the silly boy of fresh meat, bad education, and traveling with my father, all grown up and holding on to their place.The brilliant thriller in question is Malice, in which Whitehall plays Adam,…
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Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 Review – Hallucinatory fun through dystopia is stupidly fun | games

Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 Review – Hallucinatory fun through dystopia is stupidly fun | games

✨ Explore this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 Category: Games,Culture,PlayStation 5,Xbox series S/X,PC,Call of Duty,PlayStation 4,Action games 💡 Main takeaway: IIt seems like an anachronism now, in the era of live-service "eternal games," where the annual release of a new Call of Duty title is still considered a major event. But here is Black Ops 7, a year after its immediate predecessor, and another breathless bombardment of military shootouts. This time, the film is set in the dystopian year 2035 where a global weapons manufacturer called The Guild claims to be the only solution to a…
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Future Boy review by Michael J. Fox – Secrets from the set of a definitive 80s movie | Biography and memoirs

Future Boy review by Michael J. Fox – Secrets from the set of a definitive 80s movie | Biography and memoirs

✨ Discover this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 Category: Autobiography and memoir,Michael J Fox,Back To The Future,Biography books,Books,Culture,Film books,Family films,Film ✅ Key idea: MMichael J. Fox has already written four books of Hollywood memoir, so the case for a fifth—written with longtime collaborator Nelly Fortenberry—should be a good one. IT IS: The subject of these 176 pages is a three-month period in 1985 when Fox was simultaneously filming his breakout comedy role on Family Ties. and the career-defining American classic, Back to the Future.That's two more than a full-time job for a young man, requiring the…
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Not so Golden Brown: DJ plays 24 hours from No. 2 at Lake District sewage protest | Lake area

Not so Golden Brown: DJ plays 24 hours from No. 2 at Lake District sewage protest | Lake area

🚀 Discover this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 Category: Lake District,Water,Rivers,Radio,Pollution,Environment,North of England,UK news,Music,Pop and rock,Utilities,Culture,Lake District holidays 📌 Here’s what you’ll learn: If you've sat down and wondered why Britain's streams, rivers and lakes are so dirty, you're probably hoping for a champion to stop this scandalous discharge of sewage.Step forward Lake District Radio DJ Lee Durrant, who will take to Radio Ga Ga with a 24-hour live broadcast marathon on Friday, playing songs that peaked at number two in the charts to highlight the lingering stench of a 'number two' that wasn't quite gold.If…
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