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✨ Check out this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 Category: Film,Crime films,Film adaptations,Arthur Conan Doyle,Silent film,Books,Culture ✅ Key idea: TThe British Film Institute has restored three of the short two-reel silent films in the Stoll Pictures Sherlock Holmes series from the early 1920s – and they are also highly witty, watchable and lively entertainments. The star is English stage actor Elle Norwood, whose handsome, troubled, sensitive face emerges from the screen in extreme close-up in the first of these films, A Scandal in Bohemia, from 1921. Dr. Watson was played in all the films by Hubert…

💥 Read this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 Category: Television,Television & radio,Culture,Simon Cowell 📌 Main takeaway: toGentlemen, the most cynical bait-and-switch of the year has finally arrived. To the casual viewer, the new Netflix series Simon Cowell: The Next Act may seem like another semi-unpolished certified docuseries.This would make sense, because these things are everywhere right now. Everyone from David Beckham to Robbie Williams to Charlie Sheen has made one, letting the film crew into their lives to provide just enough sass to trick people into thinking they're watching anything other than an overly complicated publicity…

✨ Explore this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 Category: Biography books,Books,Jane Birkin,Culture,Celebrity,Serge Gainsbourg,Fashion ✅ Main takeaway: forWhile boarding a flight in 1983, Jane Birkin found herself wrestling with the open straw basket in which she habitually placed everything from play scripts to diapers. When she reached the top cupboard, the basket tipped over, spilling its contents onto her neighbor. It turned out that he was the CEO of the French luxury goods company Hermès, and he immediately offered to make her a bag with internal pockets and a secure closure. Birkin drew what she wanted on…