On April 30, 1945, the photojournalist Lee Miller took a bath in Hitler’s tub. A correspondent for British Vogue, Miller had posted up in the Führer’s abandoned apartment in Munich along with a group of G.I.s from the 179th Regiment. That morning, she had been among the first to enter the newly liberated Dachau. Her […]
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AI-generated video spots featuring the likeness of Taylor Swift endorsing a fake Le Creuset cookware giveaway have duped some fans into buying into the scam, the New York Times reported. While Swift may be a fan of Le Creuset, she has no official marketing ties to the company. But ads permeating Facebook and other social
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In the British director Andrew Haigh’s earlier films—“Weekend” (2011), “45 Years” (2015), and “Lean on Pete” (2017)—the images did much less of the work than the script and the actors. There has been something literal about his filmmaking that undercuts the intense emotion of the stories he films. His new movie, “All of Us Strangers,”
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Aaron Rodgers has responded to Jimmy Kimmel after the late-night host threatened legal action over the New York Jets quarterback’s comments that appeared to imply Kimmel’s name might be linked to the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Kimmel angrily denied it, and his name is not mentioned in any of the newly released documents related to
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EXCLUSIVE: Amazon MGM Studios has signed an exclusive first-look series and film deal with Emmy-winning director Nneka Onuorah. The Nigerian-American filmmaker, producer and activist is committed to telling narratively—and formally—daring stories that reexamine and lift up underrepresented communities. In 2022, she won the Primetime Emmy award for “Outstanding Directing for a Reality Program” for Prime Video’s
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Bill Rauch became obsessed with the survival of theatre as an undergraduate at Harvard, in the early nineteen-eighties. He’d already decided that he wanted to be a stage director, and was spending much of his time putting on plays wherever he could: the basement of his dorm, the freshman dining hall, in a Volkswagen bug
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Trailblazer Beverly Johnson on her career Model Beverly Johnson on her life, career 50 years after historic Vogue cover 05:19 Fifty years ago, Beverly Johnson made history as the first Black model to grace the cover of Vogue magazine. But Johnson told “CBS Mornings” she didn’t know she would be on the cover while shooting
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Oscar-winner Daniel Kaluuya has taken a new leap in his career with his directorial debut in “The Kitchen,” a film exploring the complexities of the Black British experience set in a dystopian universe. A passion project 10 years in the making, Kaluuya said he found directing to be more difficult than he originally imagined and
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Whether you grew up in the 1980s and are craving a dose of nostalgia or you’re simply a major film buff, the decade offers a plethora of worthy movies to watch. Not sure where to start? We’ve rounded up 20 flicks that are worth revisiting. ‘Aliens’ (1986) Where to watch/rent: Max, Hulu, Apple TV Synopsis:
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About a decade ago, a friend of mine and her husband moved from Brooklyn to Los Angeles. After landing at LAX, they went straight to Gjelina, a restaurant in Venice that exemplifies a certain image of life in Southern California: seasonal, sensual, wood-fired cooking; a sun-dappled patio near the beach. “We had this long, exquisite
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