Fred Cuming obituary | Painting

 Posted on January 19, 2024  |  6 minutes  |  1264 words  |  Martina Birk

PaintingObituaryFred Cuming obituaryLandscape artist and teacher who captured the beauty of England’s cloudy and rainy skiesOn 2 June 1953, the artist Fred Cuming, who has died aged 92, stood on the roof of the Old Admiralty Building in London sketching the coronation procession as it passed down Whitehall. “I got a very nice write-up for that painting,” he mused in an interview nearly 70 years later. He ascribed the success to two things: first, he had turned down the offer from newsmen also standing on the roof of photographs to work from – “They always promised they’d give you snaps, but they never did” – relying instead on his sketchbook. [Read More]

Is Alan Ritchson the next Batman? Fans and Rumors Heat Up!

 Posted on January 19, 2024  |  3 minutes  |  456 words  |  Jenniffer Sheldon

Alan Ritchson, who starred in Fast X and Reacher, is primed to play Batman. He spoke about this in an interview recently. In response to a question about Kevin Smith’s claim that Reacher in Alan Ritchson’s adaptation is “Batman without a cape” and about which character would win in a fight—the Dark Knight or Reacher—the actor said that he would love to play Batman since the rumors prevail and he can’t just ignore them. [Read More]

Mauro Bolognini | Film | The Guardian

 Posted on January 19, 2024  |  4 minutes  |  686 words  |  Jenniffer Sheldon

FilmObituaryMauro BologniniDirector turning literature into visual masterpiecesOnce described as "the most Proustian of Italian film directors", Mauro Bolognini, who has died aged 78, was admired, above all, for his elegant adaptations of literary works, made mostly in the 1960s and 1970s. He was sometimes maliciously called "the poor man's Visconti", and the director of The Leopard was heard to say, somewhat bitchily, when asked if his projected film of Proust's Recherche would start from Du cté de Chez Swan, " [Read More]

Snap Taps Fox Corp. Legal Veteran Claudia Teran (EXCLUSIVE)

 Posted on January 19, 2024  |  5 minutes  |  928 words  |  Aldo Pusey

Snap has hired Claudia Teran, a 21-year legal veteran of Fox Corp., as VP, deputy general counsel and global head of commercial. At Snap, Teran will report directly to general counsel Mike O’Sullivan and lead the company’s commercial legal team, which supports nearly all deals with outside partners. [Read More]

Tommy Dreamer Feels Guilty for 58-Year-Old ECW Legends Debilitating Health:Its a Burden

 Posted on January 19, 2024  |  3 minutes  |  451 words  |  Aldo Pusey

People have always regarded pro wrestling as fake or scripted, but they forget to observe a wrestler’s career. Pro wrestling is a sport where the competitors pour their hearts and body into entertaining the audience. This means that they put their body on the line every single week for the fans who cheer them on. No one knows this better than ECW legend Tommy Dreamer. Going through tables and jumping off ladders was the norm for Dreamer. [Read More]

OnlyFans Model Courtney Clenney Had Security at Front Door as BF Was

 Posted on January 18, 2024  |  2 minutes  |  349 words  |  Larita Shotwell

TMZ/Getty OnlyFans model Courtney Clenney had security guards right outside her front door while she allegedly stabbed her boyfriend to death, but security did nothing about it ... so say the lawyers for the BF's estate. According to the docs, obtained by TMZ, security at the luxury apartment building in Miami was notified about a fight going down inside the couple's unit on April 3, 2022 -- the same day Christian was killed. [Read More]

'The Curse,' 'The Smashing Machine,' 'Oppenheimer'

 Posted on January 18, 2024  |  14 minutes  |  2817 words  |  Larita Shotwell

Benny Safdie is late. Frantic and a bit sweaty, he arrives at Westside Restaurant 40 minutes past our 10 a.m. breakfast, and just five minutes after I email his publicist, “Did Benny forget about the interview?”  Benny forgot about the interview. Out of breath, he profusely apologizes, offering a Mad Lib of an explanation: “I was spray-painting a Tin Man costume in Central Park.” (Hours after we meet, he’ll visit “The Tonight Show” covered head to toe in sparkling silver, an absurdist comedy bit that seems to puzzle even Jimmy Fallon. [Read More]

Carlos Guastavino | Argentina | The Guardian

 Posted on January 18, 2024  |  3 minutes  |  585 words  |  Aldo Pusey

ArgentinaObituaryCarlos GuastavinoThe voice of Carlos Guastavino, who has died aged 88, was, perhaps, the most quietly distinctive in 20th-century Argentinian music. Vigorously rejecting the stylistic radicalism of Alberto Ginastera and his younger compatriot Mauricio Kagel, he followed in the footsteps of 19th-century nationalists such as Julián Aguirre and Alberto Williams. Yet Guastavino was a no less influential figure for the younger generation of composers - particularly in popular music - growing up in Argentina in the 1960s and 70s. [Read More]

In Rural China, Villagers Say They're Forced From Farm Homes To High-Rises

 Posted on January 18, 2024  |  9 minutes  |  1747 words  |  Jenniffer Sheldon

A farmer from Shandong province along China's east coast, Liu recalls how during Chinese Lunar New Year in January, he went out for a walk and came home to discover local officials preparing to demolish his home. When he called the police on the demolishers, they arrested him instead, saying that the police would "assist the work of the local government." "To demolish my home, about 100 security officers surrounded and subdued me, and detained me," [Read More]

Jesse Pinkmans Breaking Bad House Is Up for Sale, But Youll Have to Build Your Own Meth Lab

 Posted on January 18, 2024  |  1 minutes  |  129 words  |  Aldo Pusey

Buy it, bitch. Wanna own a pricey piece of Breaking Bad memorabilia? Jesse Pinkman’s trap house is now on the market:According to a listing, the house that Jesse and Walt temporarily used for their meth lab (and murders) can now be yours for a cool $1.6 million. If you’ll recall, this is the same house whose upstairs floor Jesse melted through when he attempted to disintegrate Krazy 8’s cousin with acid. [Read More]