Gen X has gotten. No world wars, thankfully, though we did grow up imagining thermonuclear Armageddon as a genuine possibility, if merely accidental.But the Cold War ended. We were evolving!Some credit Ronald Reagan for ending that chapter.
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EXCLUSIVE: National Geographic Documentary Films is returning its Oscar-shortlisted documentary Bobi Wine: The People’s President to select cinemas over the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday weekend.
The film directed by Moses Bwayo and Christopher Sharp will play at IFC Center in New York, the Laemmle Monica Film Center in Santa Monica, CA, and San Francisco’s Presidio Theatre from Friday through Sunday, overlapping with part of the nomination voting period for the 96th Academy Awards. On Tuesday, Bwayo and Sharp earned DGA Awards nominations for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Directing for their film, which centers on Ugandan pop star Bobi Wine, who dared to run for president against his country’s dictator, Gen. Yoweri Museveni.
Bobi Wine: The People’s President recently won the IDA Documentary Award for Best Documentary Feature and has earned top prizes at the Hamptons International Film Festival and Independent Film Festival of Boston. It is nominated for three awards at this Friday’s Cinema Eye Honors in New York. Wine has also been named to the Cinema Eye Honors’ Unforgettables list of the year’s most remarkable figures in documentary film.
“Born in the slums of Kampala, Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu, famously known as Bobi Wine, is a musician turned politician who is the current leader of the National Unity Platform (NUP) and the People Power Movement,” notes a release about the film. “He has campaigned for hospital sanitization, malaria prevention, refugees’ rights and children’s education. His songs are known as peaceful protests and edutainment (a mix between education and entertainment), focusing on the struggles of Uganda’s underprivileged and low-income earners and calling upon young people to join
Gen X has gotten. No world wars, thankfully, though we did grow up imagining thermonuclear Armageddon as a genuine possibility, if merely accidental.But the Cold War ended. We were evolving!Some credit Ronald Reagan for ending that chapter.
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NME.The showcase of unsigned music launched in the capital last year, with the likes of L’objectif, Demob Happy, Swim School and Delaporte taking to the stage across four intimate Soho venues.Additionally, the ILMC hosted talks, workshops, mentor sessions, special events and more during the annual gathering of professionals involved in the global touring, festival and live entertainment industries.Now, it has been confirmed that the London Calling showcase will be held in Soho once again on Wednesday, February 28.The 2024 edition is due to bring 18 emerging artists to five stages across Soho: The 100 Club, 21 Soho, The Lower Third, Phoenix Arts Club and The Spice Of Life. Per a press release, the participating acts will “perform in front of a potentially career-changing crowd”.London Calling has already announced the first six names: MAVICA, The New Eves, freekind, b1n0, Lala Hayden and Forgetting The Future.
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Only Murders in the Building star , where she—along with friends Taylor Swift and Keleigh Teller—set the internet ablaze with the gossip sesh heard (or, more accurately, not heard) 'round the world.But she's emerged from whisper-gate unscathed, appearing on the Emmy Awards red carpet on Monday, January 15, in a gorgeous look reminiscent of her : sheer with cutouts, a thorny element, and a red overall palette.Her custom Oscar de la Renta gown hugs and supports her curves, and was crafted using 450,000 sequins. Her diamond-encrusted necklace features a 35-karat gemstone in the front.
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Michaela Zee Paramount’s “Mean Girls” musical earned a grool $33.2 million from 3,791 theaters over the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday weekend, beating expectations. Based on the Broadway adaptation of the 2004 comedy classic, “Mean Girls” was originally commissioned with plans to skip theaters and make a streaming debut directly on Paramount+, but executives opted for a theatrical release after test screenings.
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Acclaimed Brit actor Toby Jones has been impressing viewers as activist and former sub-postmaster Alan Bates in the series Mr Bates vs the Post Office - and it has emerged that the 57-year-old father of two made a huge sacrifice just to get the show off the ground. Since its release on New Year’s Day, the gripping ITV drama has brought the shocking real-life Post Office scandal back into the spotlight, as well as the real-life people involved, with viewers outraged at the miscarriage of justice which took place, against hundreds of innocent postal workers.
In a hidden corner of Los Angeles, a small group of people toil in obscurity, tending to broken pegs, stuck valves, clogged tubing and damaged keys – all to restore musical instruments to perfect working order for the city’s public-school students.
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