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Carey Mulligan (“Promising Young Woman“) and Zendaya (“Malcolm & Marie”) sat down for a virtual chat for Variety’s Actors on Actors, presented by Amazon Studios. For more, click here.  In “Promising Young Woman,” Carey Mulligan’s Cassie has been knocked off track by the rape of her best friend, Nina. In the aftermath, Cassie has devoted herself to a life of revenge — but it’s getting her nowhere. Mulligan and Emerald Fennell, the writer-director of “Promising Young Woman,” clearly formed a close bond, which she discusses with Zendaya — who has a similarly simpatico relationship with Sam Levinson, the writer-director of her forthcoming film, “Malcolm & Marie” (and the creator of HBO’s “Euphoria,” for which she won an Emmy in September). [Read More]

Elmore LeonardLeonard is regarded as the greatest American crime writer, surpassing even Raymond Chandler. But it is time to drop the qualification of genreThe best novelists create a world around the reader. You can feel it bubbling up in irrepressible invention. So we have "a guy by the name of Booker, a twenty-five-year old super-dude twice convicted felon" in his Jacuzzi when the telephone rings. No one answers it, and Booker gets out of the Jacuzzi. [Read More]

After three editions that were canceled due to a combination of COVID and bad timing, Hong Kong’s FilMart film rights market may have finally had some things go its way. It opens March 13 with many factors now moving in its favor. Not least of these are the moves by the Hong Kong government to end its previously harsh and persistent disease-control measures. The city wound down its disruptive quarantine and tracking measures at the end of 2022, opened its borders in January and finally dropped its mask mandate in the last 10 days. [Read More]

PhysicsObituaryMarshall Stoneham obituaryTheoretical physicist with a long-term view of scientific progressProfessor Marshall Stoneham, who has died aged 70 following complications after surgery, represented all that is best in British physics. Throughout a long research career, first with the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA), and latterly at University College London, he pioneered the application of modern solid-state theory, which explains the properties of solid materials – especially electrical conduction in semiconductors and metals – to problems of real industrial interest. [Read More]

While Hallmark has already cornered the market on cheesy Christmas movies, Saturday Night Live this week imagined what it would look like if the network tried its hand at a slasher flick. In the trailer for A Stab at Love, Kelsey (Chloe Fineman) returns to her small town of Autumn Hollow from the big city, where she reconnects with her “high-school crush turned hometown killer” Mark (Nate Bargatze). [Read More]

Make sure you remove your child's winter coat before buckling them in the car seat. Picture: Getty By Alice Dear @According2Al Winter coats and jackets with padding can stop car seats from working correctly. Listen to this article Loading audio... With the days getting colder and colder, we're all reaching for our warmest and thickest coats to keep the chill at bay. This includes our little ones, who we often wrap up in hats, scarfs and thick coats [Read More]

Soap star Kirsten Storms, 23, was busted for drunk driving over the weekend. Here we go again! TMZ has learned that Storms, who is also on Disney's "Kim Possible," was traveling on a Los Angeles freeway when a CHP officer noticed a lit cigarette being thrown from her blue Mercedes. According to the police report, officers "noticed the odor of an alcoholic beverage emitting from the vehicle." After several sobriety tests, she was arrested for DUI. [Read More]

During a recent conversation with DJ Vlad, DJ Akademiks recalled Drake calling him in the midst of his beef with SZA. "It was a very polite call. But, you know, they are very close friends and they were doing the album at the time. He wanted to see if there was any middle ground that could be reached. But I just told that it was an axe I needed to grind from a couple years back. [Read More]

FictionReviewLives topple like dominoes in Penelope Lively's cunning new novelHow It All Began begins in uncharacteristically violent fashion: "The pavement rises up and hits her. Slams into her face, drives the lower rim of her glasses into her cheek." Charlotte, a retired schoolteacher in her late 70s, finds that she has been mugged and relieved of her house keys, bank cards and £60 in cash. As a reader, you share her sense of shock and bewilderment – after all, one might expect to be reasonably safe from street crime in a Penelope Lively novel; though the book introduces a number of elements you wouldn't ordinarily expect to find, including East European immigrants, chocolate cream frappuccinos and errant text messages used as a plot device. [Read More]

It is no surprise to anyone involved in the talks of the golf world that Charlie Woods and his father, Tiger Woods, are one of the strongest duos in this year’s PNC Championship. Despite not being able to claim a victory at the event in four attempts, Team Woods is set to take on the father-son challenge, but a ghost from Woods Jr.’s past may still linger! Questions have arisen about whether Charlie Woods’s ankle injury from last year’s PNC Championship. [Read More]