Modern-Day Agatha Christie Spinoff About Sven Hjerson Gets TV Treatment

One of Fran Lebowitz's finest stories in Netflix's Pretend It's a City — like Cole Porter songs, Agatha Christie mysteries and Barry Bonds home runs, it's a long list — involves a breakfast she shared with jazz legends Charles Mingus and Duke Ellington.

On April 14, 2019, a wicked Chicago ice storm swept over the McCormick Convention Center greeting Jedis with their lightsabers, princesses in their cinnamon bun wigs, and Sith Lords, some with what sounded like asthma, at the “Star Wars” celebration. About 860 miles separate Chicago from Augusta, Georgia; nevertheless, two marquee events stood still.

Jazz Tangcay Artisans EditorAnimated feature Oscar contender “My Favorite War” has been sold to Spain and France for European distribution. Based on director’s Ilze Burkovska-Jacobsen’s childhood memories, “My Favorite War” recreates her own escape route from the totalitarian regime that was Soviet Latvia.The feature, which is a documentary, sold to Versus Entertainment in Spain and Destiny Films in France.

direct to your inbox2020 was an extraordinary year - and as the curtain opens on a new one, life remains bleak for many.Unemployment is at a record high, entire industries are still shut down, and the economy has certainly seen better days.

Spanish “roots” can be traced back to her padre.The beleaguered yoga instructor’s father revealed his own decades-long infatuation with all things Spanish in a 2015 blog post, in which he noted, “My path in life has been heavily influenced by Spanish language and culture, and not because I have one iota of latin [sic] blood in my veins.”David L. Thomas Jr.

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Hilaria Baldwinis opening up amid public scrutiny.

John Hopewell Chief International CorrespondentSavaged by COVID-19, global box office plunged between 57% and 76% in major markets outside the U.S., with the U.K. and Ireland leading the rout, crashing 76% against 2019, according to a Comscore study, published Wednesday.Also hit hard were China (-70%), South Korea (-71%), and Italy and Spain (both down 72%).

Jamie Lang In today’s Global Bulletin, Netflix picks up the rights to Spanish feature “Sky High” for a series adaptation, French crime series “Balthazar” posts record audience numbers for TF1, Mexican filmmaker Juan Ernesto Regalado Morales receives this year’s Guillermo del Toro-backed Jenkins-Del Toro Scholarship, and French journalist Augustin Trapenard announces he’s leaving Canal Plus.Netflix has acquired global rights to the feature film “Sky High,” the leading Spanish film at the

Alec Baldwin impersonated the accent of his wife, Hilaria Baldwin, and claimed, "My wife is from Spain," during an appearance on David Letterman's late-night talk show in 2013, according to an old clip that has surfaced online. Hilaria Baldwin's heritage has faced new scrutiny after she recently confirmed she was born in Massachusetts -- and not Spain, as she had previously claimed.

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A Missouri double-homicide suspect whom police describe as being armed and dangerous remains on the run Tuesday as chilling new details are surfacing surrounding the Christmas Day killings of his ex-girlfriend and her 2-year-old daughter.  Timothy Brown, a 30-year-old from Spanish Lake, is facing two counts of first-degree murder and two counts of armed criminal action in the deaths of Charese Garvin, 28, and Alayah Butler.   Police say the body of the woman and her toddler were found at a home

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser said Wednesday that she was declaring Christmas Eve a day to honor Dr.

direct to your inboxA national lockdown could be enforced from Boxing Day while Birmingham may be put into Tier 4 before Christmas.

LeAnn Rimes is very happy she sought help for her mental health struggles.

Top officials for the incoming Biden administration are warning that some changes to President Trump’s immigration policies will "take time" – and migrants should not expect the border to be "fully open" right away. Susan Rice and Jake Sullivan, President-elect Joe Biden’s incoming domestic policy and national security advisers, respectively, told Spanish wire service EFE that changes to the U.S.

John Hopewell Chief International CorrespondentSven Hjerson, the debonair Scandinavian master detective invented by crime writer Ariadne Oliver, a character in Agatha Christie’s novels, will get his own series, set in modern-day Stockholm.In “Agatha Christie’s Sven Hjerson,” Hanna Alström plays Klara Sandberg, a former trash TV producer, who successfully pitches a true-life crime show starring Hjerson, who would solve a real crime each week.