“There’s a lot of work around, I’ve been busy,” Emily Watson declared, brightly, over tea and crumbly biscuits at The Union, a private club in central London, as she chatted with Deadline about why she loves working in front of the camera.
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Speaking to NME in this week’s Big Read interview, the Icelandic music icon opened up about her time spent at home throughout the COVID pandemic, which gave her a sense of routine that she hadn’t experienced in decades.“I did have a wonderful period for two years, which is the longest I’ve been in Iceland without once having to go to an airport since I was 16,” she said.“That was pretty cool. It was a really good feeling, physically – that sense of just shooting down roots out of my feet and getting grounded.”She continued: “You get self-sufficient when you are denied travel.
Your main basic needs are met by your closest friends and family. It’s beautiful, because sometimes you look too far for these things.”The singer then contrasted the comfort her homeland to the US, which became her part-time home from 2002, before she left at the beginning of the pandemic.“I had a really, really complicated relationship with the US while I was there,” she said, citing “mass murders, the racial violence, Trump”.“I’m not really an urban person.
I love visiting cities and going clubbing or seeing a gallery or concert, but then I just want to go home. I’m more of a rural person by nature, so it was just a total blessing for me to be here,” she continued.The singer previously told Pitchfork that she left the US because violence in the country was “on a scale I can’t even fathom”, adding that her daughter’s school was just 40 minutes away from Sandy Hook Elementary School where a mass shooting killed 26 people in 2012.Elsewhere in her cover interview with NME, Björk spoke about how two songs on her new album ‘Fossora’ dealt with the death of her mother, Hildur Rúna Hauksdóttir, who died in 2018 following a long illness.“For everybody, to
.“There’s a lot of work around, I’ve been busy,” Emily Watson declared, brightly, over tea and crumbly biscuits at The Union, a private club in central London, as she chatted with Deadline about why she loves working in front of the camera.
The United States could become more closely united with Canada and Mexico as there are reportedly negotiations in the works between the Biden administration and these countries to form a European Union-like agreement, according to Republican Congressman Matt Gaetz. Gaetz, R-FL, told Fox News’ Tucker Carlson on Friday that he was made aware of the backdoor talks by Mexico President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador and said he has personally reached out to Secretary of State Antony Blinken for more information.
Russell Crowe is responding to a book excerpt published earlier this year, which he most likely didn’t come across until now.
President Biden said during a speech in California that prices and inflation will go up if Republicans take control of Congress after November's midterm elections. Biden made the comments during an event in Irvine, California, on Friday and warned Americans that inflation, along with prices in general, would increase if Republicans take control of Congress. "Here's the bottom line.
One of Harvey Weinstein’s sexual assault accusers, Ashley Judd, is speaking out on her role in the film "She Said." "She Said," which debuts Nov. 18, highlights the work of journalists who exposed Weinstein in 2017. Weinstein, 70, is serving a 23-year prison sentence following a conviction in New York. Weinstein, who is on trial in Los Angeles, was granted permission to take his appeal of his 2020 sex crime conviction to the New York State Court of Appeals.
The wounds are still fresh. Despite coming together to mourn their late grandmother Queen Elizabeth II at her funeral last month, Prince William and Prince Harry remain at odds.
Mexican prosecutors have launched an investigation into the alleged machete attack of a Utah dad vacationing with his wife in Cancun for Valentine’s Day. "The Attorney General's office is announcing that an investigation is underway regarding the apparent illegal deprivation of liberty of a tourist of U.S. nationality, which occurred in Cancun in February 2022," the Quintana Roo prosecutor’s office told Fox News Digital.
M.I.A. has clarified her stance on COVID vaccines, saying she’s “not really” an anti-vaxxer after she was criticised earlier this week.Yesterday (October 13), the singer faced a backlash for a tweet which compared alt-right figure Alex Jones’ falsehoods about the Sandy Hook shooting to celebrities “pushing” vaccines.Jones was this week ordered to pay nearly $1billion in damages after falsely claiming for years that the 2012 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School never happened.“If Alex Jones pays for lying shouldn’t every celebrity pushing vaccines pay too?” M.I.A.
The hosts of “The View” went off on InfoWars host Alex Jones on Thursday morning’s show, calling him “demonic” and “a vile scumbag” for his claims about the Sandy Hook massacre. Host Sara Haines even went so far as to say that, beyond monetary punishment, Jones deserves to feel “even a fraction of the pain” endured by the parents of those kids.The discussion came following the latest decision in the ongoing litigation against Jones, in which he was ordered to pay almost $1 billion in damages to the families of Sandy Hook victims, for his repeated claims that the deadly shooting was a hoax.
Anthony Rapp said watching Kevin Spacey play a suburban dad obsessed with a teenage cheerleader in “American Beauty” was a disturbing reminder of his own traumatic experience with the Oscar-winning actor. The two men are locked in a courtroom battle over Rapp’s $40 million civil lawsuit, in which he alleges that Spacey made unwanted sexual advances when Rapp was 14 years old and Spacey was 26. Watching Spacey as Lester Burnham ogling his high school age daughter’s best friend was “unpleasantly familiar,” Rapp said while taking the stand in New York City on Tuesday. “American Beauty” was the last film of Spacey’s that he watched. Rapp says his alleged encounter with Spacey took place in 1986, but he continued watching the actor’s films because “they were by and large very acclaimed” and he “felt it was my duty to do so.”
Republican Arizona Senate nominee Blake Masters and Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., are set to headline an event this Friday addressing issues related to national security just weeks ahead of the November midterm elections. The event, hosted by former Trump administration State Department spokesperson Morgan Ortagus and her national security advocacy organization POLARIS National Security, will be held in Scottsdale, Arizona and will include former Acting Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Chad Wolf.
Kanye West posted on Instagram that his upcoming Los Angeles show has been canceled, just hours after his bombshell interview with Tucker Carlson on Fox News Channel. In the post, which was quickly deleted, he wrote, "My Sofi Stadium show on November 4th just got canceled.
murdered by three white neighbours in the United States in 2020 in a racially motivated hate crime – say Kanye West promoting the phrase “White Lives Matter” and disparaging the Black Lives Matter movement earlier this week has helped to “legitimize extremist behavior”.On Monday (October 3), while introducing his latest Yeezy line with a show at Paris Fashion Week, West (legally known as Ye) wore a shirt with the words “White Lives Matter” on the back. The phrase – an appropriation of the Black Lives Matter slogan used to protest racial injustice, discrimination and police brutality – has been categorised by the Anti-Defamation League as a hate slogan.West was also photographed at the event alongside conservative Black commentator Candace Owens wearing a matching shirt.
Kanye West not only claimed that Black Lives Matter was a ‘scam,’ but he also seemingly took credit for moving the discussion away from the movement and onto himself, just a day after debuting and wearing a "White Lives Matter" shirt at his Yeezy fashion show in Paris. Ye, as the rapper prefers to be called, shared in a since-deleted Instagram story, "Everyone knows that Black Lives Matter was a scam.
Vermont school district’s decision to side with a transgender volleyball player after a group of her teammates complained about sharing a locker room. In accordance with state policy, Randolph High School administrators sent the complainants to single-stall bathroom to change while allowing the trans athlete to continue using the facilities of her desired gender.
Antonio Ferme editor Long before “Marriage Story” writer-director Noah Baumbach was attached to Netflix’s “White Noise,” several filmmakers mounted attempts to adapt the notoriously “unfilmable” novel of the same name written by Don DeLillo. Variety reported in 2004 that “The Addams Family” director Barry Sonnenfeld was on board to direct the film, known as his “longtime passion project.” The torch was then handed off to Michael Almereyda, best known for his 2000 film “Hamlet” starring Ethan Hawke, after Uri Singer acquired the rights to DeLillo’s novel. Baumbach’s “White Noise” served as the opening night screening for the 60th annual New York Film Festival on Friday, making its North American debut after a divisive premiere at the Venice Film Festival. The director told Variety on the red carpet that he didn’t give a second thought to the idea that his film’s source material was unadaptable.
Björk has spoken to NME about the sexism often levelled against her and Kate Bush, as well as how the recent success of the latter’s ‘Running Up That Hill’ shows a clear change in attitudes.The Icelandic icon was speaking to NME for the week’s Big Read cover story when she described her enthusiasm for Gen-Z’s “radical” and evolving attitudes towards matters including the environment and gender equality.Discussing how she “can’t even start to describe” her happiness at Bush’s 1985 hit ‘Running Up That Hill’ dominating the charts again after being featured in the most recent season of Stranger Things, Björk recalled how dismissive male critics once were of the ‘Hounds Of Love’ star.Explaining how critics throughout the ’80s and ’90s were often pre-occupied with “rock guys” singing about “tits, beer and heroin abuse”, she felt that “writing from a woman’s point of view was considered a lesser artform”.“I was always quite offended by how often Kate Bush was written about like she was insane or a crazy witch – or me being a crazy elf,” Björk told NME. “We are producers.
Björk has shared the title song from her forthcoming album, ‘Fossora‘, featuring Kasimyn.The sprightly new single is centred on a woodwind rhythm before the song breaks down into a cacophony of sound. Listen below.It follows ‘Atopos‘, ‘Ovule‘ and ‘Ancestress‘, all of which have been released over the course of the last month to preview ‘Fossora’, which arrives this Friday (September 30).The Icelandic musician’s 10th album is the follow-up to 2017’s ‘Utopia’.In a recent interview with The Guardian Björk discussed how her new album concerns the death of her mother in 2018.Two songs from the record, ‘Sorrowful Soil’ and ‘Ancestress’, are said to be direct tributes to the singer’s mother, Hildur Rúna Hauksdóttir.On the latter track, she sings: “The machine of her breathed all night while she rested/ Revealed her resilience/ And then it didn’t.”Addressing her mother’s death at the age of 72, the singer added: “That’s quite early.