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• Towards Zero: a hot mess of wonky accents and dubious furs
• James Cameron says he's leaving the United States and becoming a citizen of New Zealand
• Gene Hackman, 95, and wife Betsy Arakawa, 63, found dead in New Mexico home
• Black models, foreign films, queer culture – how the Face shaped me as a young man | Marc Thompson
• Gary Sinise’s post-‘Forrest Gump’ military activism deserves a biopic
• The BBC wanted black listeners and turned to Tim Westwood, white son of a vicar. A parable for our times | Jane Martinson
• These unique black-footed ferrets are at the edge of extinction. Trump's cuts may well do them in.
• Chamberlain’s War – Mitchell G. Klingenberg
• Bob Dylan’s Call to Freedom – Titus Techera
• Severance’s New Episode Is Full of Revelations—and Potentially One Major Clue
• The Oscars, the Pope and the Woke, Oh My!
• Canada's Freeland promises to join Team U.S. if she becomes prime minister
• The thwarted Marxist of Balliol
• We the People Await Jeffrey Epstein’s List - The American Spectator | USA News and PoliticsThe American Spectator | USA News and Politics
• Celebrities pay tribute to Gene Hackman, who died at 95
• Actor Gary Sinise says his new documentary, 'Brothers After War,' aims to bridge the gap between the military and the average American
• The 10th Kingdom, NBC’s epic fantasy miniseries, began 25 years ago to the day
• Why Michelle Trachtenberg’s Death Has Prompted Such an Intense Reaction
• Gene Hackman, 95, and his wife Betsy Arakawa, 63, were found dead at their home in Santa Fe, New Mexico
• Woman arrested for speaking at a city council meeting; ABC15 exposes new details in ‘outrageous’ case - Judicial Watch
• Welcome back Billy McFarland and a new Fyre festival. Shows you can’t keep a good fantasist down
• USAID Funded Pet Apps, Fashion Companies, Designer Furniture, Sen. Ernst Reveals
• Recite the Pledge of Allegiance at cabinet meetings
• Journalist Shiori Ito investigates the man who sexually assaulted her in the documentary 'Black Box Diaries'
• Is JD Vance a ‘Godawful’ Christian? - The American Spectator | USA News and PoliticsThe American Spectator | USA News and Politics
• The Spectacle Open Discussion on X Spaces - The American Spectator | USA News and PoliticsThe American Spectator | USA News and Politics
• Actor Patrick Schwarzenegger, son of Arnold Schwarzenegger and Maria Shriver, says he only got his role on HBO’s The White Lotus because of who his dad is
• U.S. Agency for International Development paid Ukrainian models and designers to go to Paris Fashion Week, Sen. Joni Ernst says
• London’s season of sexed-up Shakespeare
• The half-hearted return of Bergerac
• Eimear McBride Q&A: “I have a face only Lyubov Popova could love”
• Show Don’t Tell is the latest story collection by writer Curtis Sittenfeld
• She Was the First Asian Actor to Be Nominated for an Oscar. Few Knew It at the Time.
• As the far right surges around the globe, what can a new TV series about Mussolini teach us? | Caroline Moorehead
• This England: Things took a wrong turn
• Is post-apocalyptic film 'Homestead' a sign that faith-based films are getting better?
• Best of the Babylon Bee: Trump fired for forgetting to reply to Elon and more hilarious headlines
• Art and the ruins of the left
• This week on Decoder Ring, we look at Jerry Lewis’s The Day The Clown Cried
• I thought of Kingsley Amis as I read Han Kang’s We Do Not Part
• Holt to leave NBC Nightly News after 10 years as anchor
• John Lithgow confirms he will play Hogwarts headmaster Albus Dumbledore in HBO’s ‘Harry Potter’ series
• Longtime Oscars writer says host Conan O’Brien has a tough job ahead of him: ‘They’ll take a joke from him’
• We watched Hamas torture our little brothers — rescue them from Gaza now
• Alec Baldwin's new reality show, The Baldwins, feels like a gig
• Trump White House Strips WHCA of Press Pool Control, Opens Access to ‘New Voices’
• Karla Sofa Gascn will attend the Oscars despite controversy over old tweets
• Here’s how to deal with a co-worker who’s flirty with another co-worker
• Alec Baldwin lost his temper with comedian Jason Scoop, who was dressed as Donald Trump
• Kathleen Kennedy, head of Lucasfilm, to retire at end of the year
• Academic and Training Scholarships for Investigative Journalism
• Fear, lust and paranoia at the Berlin Film Festival
• It’s grand theft AI and UK ministers are behind it. Oppose this robbery of people’s creativity | Andrew Lloyd Webber and Alastair Webber
• Why we’re stuck in Ancient Rome
• Travelling with children: the blood, sweat and tears – and the determination to keep going | Lucille Wong
• Former royal aide Jason Knauf opened up about the rift between Prince William and Prince Harry
• 'Orange is the New Black' actress Natasha Lyonne says she's 'horrified' by how 'strategic and effective' Trump has been
• I’m Letting My Ungrateful Nieces Live in My Home. Yet They Threw a Fit at My New Rules.
• Roberta Flack, the Grammy-winning singer/songwriter of 'Killing Me Softly with His Song' and 'The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face,' has died at 88
• GOP Sens. Mike Lee and Katie Britt introduce bill to end federal food stamp subsidies for junk food
• Blake Lively blasts The Hollywood Reporter for depicting her as David in her legal battle against Justin Baldoni
• This week, Lucy, Zak and Elizabeth tackle a letter from a mom who feels like she’s living in Wrestlemania
• The Spirituality Gap: Searching for Meaning in a Secular Age by Abi Millar and Why We Believe: Finding Meaning in Uncertain Times by Alister McGrath
• A Story of a Life Based on Procrastination and Avoidance, in This Week’s Open Thread
• MSNBC is axing Joy Reid’s 7pm show as ratings flip-flop in the wake of Donald Trump’s second inauguration
• Sanitising Bob Dylan A Complete Unknown obscures the tumult of the Sixties and the radical politics of the folk scene
• This week’s How to Do It: How to deal with a noisy house guest?
• Hollywood’s Indie Queen Is Poised to Finally Have Her Jennifer Coolidge Moment
• Is it E Pluribus Unum, or E Pluribus Infirmitas? These are the words of St. Thomas Aquinas?
• Jesus Christ Superstar goes queer
• Flea treatments are turning our pets into an environmental hazard – there has to be a better way | Sophie Pavelle
• Dear Care and Feeding: I moved in with my parents eight months ago and they refuse to crate their blind and deaf dog
• The Centerpiece of This Surprising New Social Club Will Have You Begging to Join
• It’s Ridiculous That This Performance Is Supposed to Win an Oscar
• Columbia University has produced the most entitled, historically illiterate, masked-up radicals who think Hamas recruitment flyers count as their senior thesis
• The last thing American women need is more life advice from the media elite
• Every Book Lover Dreams of It. Few Ever Get It.
• Activist ValueAct spots an overlooked opportunity at Liberty Live Group. How the move might pay off
• A new name for a new James Bond
• The Complete Guide to Sweater Detectives
• David Rieff foretells the fate of woke
• The New York Times' 'Creamy, Spicy Tomato Beans' has gone viral. Here's why
• Why Castlecore and Romantasy Have Had Such Staying Power
• The Last Showgirl is beautiful, tasteful – and tedious
• Combs lawyer Anthony Ricco withdraws from Combs' defense team
• But Wait! There’s More: How Infomercials Paved the Way for Influencers to Thrive
• Betty White will be honored with a Forever stamp in Los Angeles on March 27
• Yellowjackets Had Already Jumped the Shark. Then Came This Episode.
• Is there something more at play when it comes to dumping human waste on farmland?
• Review: A sci-fi exploration of a shadowy government
• Review: A novel about walls, both literal and figurative
• Sparta's Splendid Isolationism – Scott Yenor
• Digital 'prisons' offer greater levels of convenience at the expense of privacy, security, and autonomy
• How Emilia Pérez sabotaged its own Oscars campaign
• Sam Fender is the UK’s first politicised blue-collar solo rock act
• Ilana Gritzewsky, who spent 55 days in captivity in Gaza, says a part of her never returned home
• Kamala Harris is ready to cash in on her calamitous time in the White House
• A musical about late-country legend Loretta Lynn’s life is in the works with Sutton Foster to play her
• Amazon MGM Studios will take creative control of the James Bond franchise
• 'Malcolm in the Middle' reboot will feature a 'nonbinary' character. Here's why