Gold medal love! As Team USA’s finest athletes compete in the 2022 Winter Olympics, their loved ones are some of their biggest fans.
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Jessica Kiang Given the Chinese government’s frighteningly successful attempts at retroactively erasing the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre from history, there is an urgent need for a soup-to-nuts retelling of that incident, solidly laying out the facts and figures, insofar as they can be known. “The Exiles,” from debut directors Violet Columbus and Ben Klein, is not that film, although some of its most powerful sequences could be repurposed in their entirety to that end.Instead, Columbus and Klein present a palimpsest of erratically overlapping perspectives.
The results are untidy and unbalanced, but derive considerable energy from that eccentric approach. While “The Exiles” honors three of the erstwhile leaders of the protest movement, and also probes some intriguingly melancholy ideas about exile and the passage of time, a significant portion of its hybrid vigor comes directly from the enormously outspoken, rather amazing Christine Choy, the filmmaker who becomes the framing device here.
Shanghai-born, half-Korean and now American, Choy is a self-confessed “loudmouth” whose 1987 doc “Who Killed Vincent Chin?” was Oscar-nominated after playing, like this film, at Sundance. She’s an NYU professor whose habit of smoking and swigging vodka through her lectures is recounted fondly by friend and former student Todd Phillips.
When the massacre occurred, Choy was deployed to film the arrival of three of the protest’s most prominent leaders, who had fled to the U.S. in fear for their lives.
For reasons the film never makes wholly clear, the footage she recorded at Battery Park (and later at a Long Island safe house) has been gathering dust ever since. Now, Columbus and Klein have assembled it and contextualized it with an
.Gold medal love! As Team USA’s finest athletes compete in the 2022 Winter Olympics, their loved ones are some of their biggest fans.
EXCLUSIVE: Macro Television Studios has tapped Bad Boys For Life directors Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah to direct the pilot episode of its action-adventure drama Cordoba. The filmmaking duo also will serve as executive producers of the potential series, which is currently being shopped.
The con artist at the heart of Netflix's latest phenomenon, The Tinder Swindler, has vowed to share his side of the story.The documentary follows several women on their mission to track down the man who tricked them into giving him tens of thousands of dollars after meeting him on a dating app. Shimon Hayut, 31, known to his victims as Simon Leviev, is estimated to have stolen $10m (£7.4m) through expensive dates and manipulative ploys. He was arrested and sentenced to 15 months on fraud, theft and forgery charges in December 2019, but only served five months of his sentence, being released on 'good behaviour' in May 2020.
Meat Loaf’s final TV appearances is set to be aired in a new episode of the US paranormal series Ghost Hunters.The rock star – whose real name was Marvin Lee Aday – died on January 21 at the age of 74, his family confirmed in a statement.Meat Loaf was a keen paranormal investigator and worked with the Ghost Hunters team numerous times after his first appearance on the show in 2009. He joined them on an investigation for one last time in September 2021, visiting an old farmhouse in Tennessee.“I am so incredibly honoured and thankful to Jason [Hawes, star and co-producer of the show] and the team for inviting me out again,” Meat Loaf says in a new trailer for the episode.Hawes adds: “A lot of people don’t realise with Meat Loaf, that he’s been investigating claims of the paranormal for a long time.
Julia Child knew her way around a sauce the way Leonard Bernstein knew his way around a sympathy, the way Patrick Mahomes knows his way through a defense. That is to say, with panache.
The Sundance Film Festival is revealing award winners for its 2022 edition on Friday afternoon beginning at 2 p.m. PT. Like the rest of this year’s festival, which was forced to go all-virtual because of the recent Omicron surge, the awards ceremony is playing out on Twitter.
In one of Syrian-born artist Mohamad Hafez’s stunning 3D pieces, a figurine of the Virgin Mary stands before an ornate portal, her hands joined in prayer. The building around her, rendered in plaster, paint, rusted metal and found objects, is blasted to ruins.
Dua Lipa has confirmed that she’s hard at work on her forthcoming third album, teasing that fans will be in for a surprise when they hear the pop singer’s new material.“I’ve done a big chunk of writing,” she told The Wall Street Journal earlier this week. Though she conceded that LP3 was “still in baby form” and that she was “in no rush” to unveil the material, Lipa asserted that the record was “starting to take shape”, and she has “a lot of it recorded”.She continued: “It has a vision.
Jack Black has honoured the late actor and musician Meat Loaf, who died from reported complications due to COVID last week (January 20).Black, also an actor and musician, paid tribute to the artist who starred in his band Tenacious D‘s film The Pick Of Destiny in 2006.“I think I was 9 years old when my big sister took me to see The Rocky Horror Picture Show. Meat Loaf rocked the hell out of that movie,” Black began his post on Instagram.“25 years later I begged him to play my father in my band’s movie The Pick Of Destiny and by god he rocked the hell out of that one too.
Meat Loaf have shared fond memories of the US rocker as they described his death as “our loss, Heaven’s gain”. The “kind and talented” musician was praised by his fellow artists for sharing his love of music and performing with the world. A post on his official Facebook page announced he had died aged 74, with his wife Deborah at his side and added that his daughters, Pearl and Amanda, “and close friends have been with him throughout the last 24 hours”.
News of rock and roll singer Meat Loaf’s death at age 74 was a shock that caught many by surprise. As the Broadway performer and "Bat Out of Hell" crooner receives a much-deserved send-off from a who’s who of Hollywood and showbiz, one part of the late "Hair" star's life – his nickname Meat Loaf – seemingly remains obscure.
Meat Loaf trying to push Prince Andrew into a moat has gone viral following the rock star’s death.The US singer and actor (real name Marvin Lee Aday) passed away last night (January 20), according to a statement posted on his official Facebook page this morning (January 21). A cause of death is not yet known.Since the news broke, fans and figures from the world of entertainment have taken to social media to pay tribute and share stories from Meat Loaf’s career.One story in particular that has garnered a lot of attention is the time he threatened to push Prince Andrew in a moat when he appeared as a contestant on It’s A Royal Knockout in 1987.The show was a one-off charity event staged on the lakeside lawn of Alton Towers.
In memoriam. Legendary musician Meat Loaf (born Marvin Lee Aday) has died. He was 74.