Booker-longlisted author Tsitsi Dangarembga freed on bail in Zimbabwe

Posted on August 3, 2020 by Admin

The novelist, whose book This Mournable Body was named as a finalist last week, had been arrested while taking part in anti-corruption protests

The Booker-longlisted author Tsitsi Dangarembga has been freed on bail after her arrest during anti-corruption protests in Zimbabwe last week.

The acclaimed writer, who was longlisted for the 2020 Booker prize for her novel This Mournable Body, documented her arrest on Friday with another protester, Julie Barnes, in the Harare suburb of Borrowdale. The author was carrying placards calling for reform in Zimbabwe president Emmerson Mnangagwa’s government, and for the release of Hopewell Chin’ono, a journalist arrested recently during a nationwide crackdown on protesters.

Ernest Hemingway’s published works littered with errors, study claims

Posted on August 2, 2020 by Admin

Experts find hundreds of errors in the writer’s works, mostly made by editors and typesetters

Ernest Hemingway’s published writings are riddled with hundreds of errors and little has been done to correct them, according to a forthcoming study of the legendary writer’s texts.

Robert W Trogdon, a leading scholar of 20th-century American literature, told the Guardian that Hemingway’s novels and short stories were crying out for editions that are “as accurate to what he wrote as possible” because the number of mistakes “ranges in the hundreds”. Although many are slight, he said, they were nevertheless mistakes, made primarily by editors and typesetters.

Rage against the dimming light: Irish rebel over lighthouse LED makeover

Posted on August 2, 2020 by Admin

Proposals to install low-energy devices in seven coastal beacons in the north and the republic have angered campaigners, who say the enchanting ‘loom’ of the beams will be lost

The “loom of the light” is a phenomenon that lets you see the glow of a lighthouse from over the horizon. Particles of water vapour in the atmosphere scatter the light upwards so it can be glimpsed further than the line of sight. It is an optical wonder that has delighted – and guided – mariners for centuries.

But now some fear an environmental push towards low energy will extinguish a loom that stretches across the Irish Sea, draining beauty from the nocturnal landscape.

The images of ordinary Soweto that captured apartheid’s injustice

Posted on August 2, 2020 by Admin

David Goldblatt’s photo essay from 1972 is a key document of an era. Now he is the subject of a major show in London

The photographer David Goldblatt, the great chronicler of the apartheid era in South Africa, is to be celebrated by one of the first London art galleries to re‑open this month.

Goldblatt, who died in 2018, has not been the subject of a major London show for more than 30 years. The new exhibition, David Goldblatt: Johannesburg 1948-2018, at the Goodman Gallery in Mayfair, will focus on a particularly moving photo essay, Soweto, from 1972. The photographs in the series were taken over six months in a febrile atmosphere that would lead to an uprising in this impoverished area of Johannesburg four years later.

Alan Parker, director of Midnight Express and Bugsy Malone, dies aged 76

Posted on July 31, 2020 by Admin

Director who first made his mark in the 1970s and had later hits including Fame and The Commitments, became the chair of the UK Film Council

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Alan Parker, the British director behind a string of hits including Midnight Express, Bugsy Malone, and The Commitments, has died aged 76.

The news was announced by a representative, who said he had died on Friday “after a lengthy illness”.

Booker prize-longlisted author Tsitsi Dangarembga arrested in Zimbabwe

Posted on July 31, 2020 by Admin

Author of This Mournable Body detained as part of sweeping crackdown by security agencies

Tsitsi Dangarembga, the award-winning Zimbabwean novelist who was nominated for the Booker prize longlist earlier this week, was arrested on Friday amid a sweeping crackdown by security agencies ahead of planned anti-corruption demonstrations.

Hundreds of police and soldiers remained on the streets of Harare, the capital, and others cities late into the evening, ordering inhabitants to go home and stay indoors.

Oprah Winfrey honors Breonna Taylor with September magazine cover

Posted on July 30, 2020 by Admin

First time magazine will not feature Winfrey on cover
Taylor, 26, was shot dead by police in own home in March

A portrait of Breonna Taylor, the 26-year-old Black emergency medical technician shot dead by police in her own home earlier this year, will appear on the cover of the latest issue of O, The Oprah Magazine.

It is the first time in the magazine’s 20-year history that the cover will not feature the magazine’s namesake: Oprah Winfrey.

Chateau Marmont in Hollywood to become members-only hotel

Posted on July 30, 2020 by Admin

Celebrity hangout will allow select group to own shares in ‘world’s best real estate’

The Chateau Marmont, a Hollywood hotspot and hangout for nearly a century, will be converted into a members-only hotel over the next year.

The owner, André Balazs, confirmed his plans to turn the 91-year-old building into a hotel at which a select group of members could buy into “a piece of a portfolio of the best real estate in the world”, the Los Angeles Times reported.

Seth Rogen: ‘I was fed a huge amount of lies about Israel’

Posted on July 29, 2020 by Admin

Actor says when he was younger he wasn’t told Palestinians lived on land that became the Jewish state

Seth Rogen has said he was “fed a huge amount of lies about Israel” as a young Jewish person, stoking controversy around the country’s sometimes fraught relationship with many North American Jews.

The Canadian-US actor, who attended Jewish camp and whose parents met on a kibbutz in Israel, said the fact that the Jewish state was created on land where Palestinians were living had always been omitted.

Again Once Again review – elegant meditation on the pains of motherhood

Posted on July 29, 2020 by Admin

This engaging, philosophical film unpicks the challenges faced by a young mother trying to reconnect with the life she had before her son’s birth

A woman leaves her boyfriend to visit her mum in Buenos Aires, taking their three-year-old son with her – not sure yet if it’s a holiday or a breakup. She hasn’t worked since her son was born and is having an emotional and intellectual crisis. She feels almost non-existent. “I don’t see myself. Who am I?”

This is an elegant, elusive debut from the Argentinian playwright Romina Paula, who picks away at the fantasy that motherhood leads to instant fulfilment. Her film is like an arthouse version of the sitcoms Motherland and Catastrophe, with fewer laughs and more philosophical introspection. It has the feel of a feminist essay that has been semi-dramatised for screen – with Paula starring as a fictional version of herself and her real-life mum and son Ramón playing themselves.

Emmys 2020: Watchmen and The Marvelous Mrs Maisel lead nominations

Posted on July 28, 2020 by Admin

The acclaimed HBO graphic novel adaptation leads the pack with 26 nominations, with the Amazon period comedy following behind

HBO’s acclaimed graphic novel adaptation Watchmen leads this year’s Emmy nominations with 26 nods.

‘Egregious’ distancing violations at Hamptons charity concert – Cuomo

Posted on July 28, 2020 by Admin

New York governor says event featuring Goldman Sachs CEO and Chainsmokers breached Covid-19 rules

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New York health authorities are to investigate a charity concert in the Hamptons, which included performances by the Goldman Sachs chief David Solomon and DJ duo the Chainsmokers, over “egregious” social distancing violations.

The drive-in event, Safe & Sound, had space for about 600 cars and was held in Southampton village on Saturday. It was the first in a series of such concerts planned for the US, according to the organisers’ website.

Mrs America’s Uzo Aduba: ‘It’s worth examining the shortcomings of our feminist heroes’

Posted on July 28, 2020 by Admin

She stole the show in Orange Is the New Black. Now the actor is playing the first black woman to seek the US presidency – and rejecting suggestions she gets a ‘Hollywood smile’

Shirley Chisholm was a woman of many firsts. She was the first black woman elected to Congress, the first black candidate to seek the presidency, and the first woman, full-stop, to participate in a US presidential debate. She introduced more than 50 pieces of legislation, most championing racial, economic and gender equality, and is often credited as paving the way for Barack Obama. In doing so, she occupied a space that many black women recognise: the solitary seat as the only such face at the table.

Uzo Aduba, who plays Chisholm in the acclaimed new FX series Mrs America, says that this was a key factor in bringing this formidable politician to life. “That feeling of being the ‘only’,” she says, speaking via Zoom with a warm smile on her face. “It was important to get that right.”

Olivia de Havilland: Hollywood’s queen of radiant calm | Peter Bradshaw

Posted on July 26, 2020 by Admin

The Gone With the Wind star, known for her lifelong feud with her sister as much as the bewitching brilliance of her acting, and the last link to Hollywood’s golden age

Olivia de Havilland established herself for ever in the film world’s collective memory at the age of 22, as the wise, gentle and beautiful Melanie Hamilton in the colossal epic Gone With the Wind. The film appeared in 1939 as war was breaking out in Europe: the mighty theme of old orders being swept away was especially potent. De Havilland was an exemplar of radiant womanly calmness, a polar opposite to the capricious sexiness of Vivien Leigh’s bewitching belle Scarlett O’Hara. The role probably encumbered her with something stately and reserved, which she never entirely lost – though with a hint of mystery and suppressed emotional tumult, on screen and off. Because, however sedate her image, De Havilland was the subject of two of the juiciest scandals of Hollywood’s golden age: her relationship with longtime co-star Errol Flynn, and her lifelong feud with her sister and rival Joan Fontaine.

Olivia de Havilland, star of Gone with the Wind, dies at 104

Posted on July 26, 2020 by Admin

Double Oscar-winning actor, who won acclaim for multiple Hollywood costume dramas before moving to Paris, has died

Olivia de Havilland, the fragrant queen of the Hollywood costume drama, has died at the age of 104.

According to the Hollywood Reporter, her publicist said she had died from natural causes in Paris, where she lived.

‘It’s a ghost town’: tourism crisis hits British cities from Edinburgh to Bath

Posted on July 26, 2020 by Admin

The effects of coronavirus on both international and domestic visitor numbers have left former hotspots fearing for the future

On a typical July day, restaurateur Paul Wedgwood would see hundreds of people with wheelie suitcases – airline tags still attached – walking past the window of his restaurant on Edinburgh’s Royal Mile. This Thursday, he has seen just two. “We would normally look outside and you wouldn’t be able to see any tarmac – now it’s bare,” he said. “It’s just a ghost town.”

Like other British cities which usually attract high numbers of international tourists throughout the summer, Edinburgh is quiet, and businesses are suffering. August’s festival had already been cancelled when news came last week that December’s Hogmanay party will not go ahead as usual.

Peter Green: Fleetwood Mac co-founder dies aged 73

Posted on July 25, 2020 by Admin

Green co-founded band with Mick Fleetwood in 1967 and was behind a string of hits

Tributes have been paid to Fleetwood Mac co-founder Peter Green after he died “peacefully in his sleep” aged 73.

A statement from Swan Turton solicitors, acting on behalf of his family, said: “It is with great sadness that the family of Peter Green announce his death this weekend, peacefully in his sleep. A further statement will be provided in the coming days.”

Police investigate grime artist Wiley’s antisemitic tweets

Posted on July 25, 2020 by Admin

Rapper temporarily banned from Twitter and dropped by management firm after tirade

Police are investigating after the grime artist Wiley posted a tirade of antisemitic comments on Twitter and Instagram.

The musician has been dropped by his management company and temporarily banned from posting on Twitter after a series of social media posts were made on accounts belonging to him on Friday and Saturday.

Erdoğan leads first prayers at Hagia Sophia museum reverted to mosque

Posted on July 24, 2020 by Admin

Turkish president recites Qur’an at monument as Greece declares day of mourning

Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, has led worshippers in the first prayers in Istanbul’s iconic Hagia Sophia since his controversial declaration that the monument, which over the centuries has served as a cathedral, mosque and museum, would be turned back into a Muslim house of worship.

The Turkish leader and an entourage of senior ministers arrived for the service in the heart of Istanbul’s historic district on Friday afternoon, kneeling on new turquoise carpets while sail-like curtains covered the original Byzantine mosaics of Jesus and the Virgin Mary.

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Booker-longlisted author Tsitsi Dangarembga freed on bail in Zimbabwe

Ernest Hemingway’s published works littered with errors, study claims

Rage against the dimming light: Irish rebel over lighthouse LED makeover

The images of ordinary Soweto that captured apartheid’s injustice

Alan Parker, director of Midnight Express and Bugsy Malone, dies aged 76

Booker prize-longlisted author Tsitsi Dangarembga arrested in Zimbabwe

Oprah Winfrey honors Breonna Taylor with September magazine cover

Chateau Marmont in Hollywood to become members-only hotel

Seth Rogen: ‘I was fed a huge amount of lies about Israel’

Again Once Again review – elegant meditation on the pains of motherhood

Emmys 2020: Watchmen and The Marvelous Mrs Maisel lead nominations

‘Egregious’ distancing violations at Hamptons charity concert – Cuomo

Mrs America’s Uzo Aduba: ‘It’s worth examining the shortcomings of our feminist heroes’

Olivia de Havilland: Hollywood’s queen of radiant calm | Peter Bradshaw

Olivia de Havilland, star of Gone with the Wind, dies at 104

‘It’s a ghost town’: tourism crisis hits British cities from Edinburgh to Bath

Peter Green: Fleetwood Mac co-founder dies aged 73

Police investigate grime artist Wiley’s antisemitic tweets

Erdoğan leads first prayers at Hagia Sophia museum reverted to mosque