Dancing With The Stars” Season 32 won’t be the same without Len Goodman’s presence in the ballroom. The former head judge of the ABC reality dancing series announced his retirement in Season 31. Sadly, he died a few short months later.
04.09.2023 - 19:23 / deadline.com
Judging from talk in restaurants and on the Telluride gondola, one of the films provoking the strongest reaction at the festival this year is The Mission. The National Geographic documentary, directed by Amanda McBaine and Jesse Moss, tells the story of missionary John Chau whose shocking demise in 2018 made headlines around the world (and elicited insensitive memes).
The world premiere and subsequent screenings here have triggered debate over the ethics of Christian missionary work, particularly when it involves attempts to convert Indigenous people who have had little or no previous contact with outsiders, as was the case in Chau’s endeavor. He took it upon himself to try to bring the Gospel to the North Sentinelese, a group living on a remote island in the Andaman Sea. After initially being repelled by a warning shot from an arrow, Chau returned the next day and was felled on the beach. His body was never recovered.
“This wasn’t an impulsive act, it was a very considered methodical act. And John himself was a smart, really kind of likable young man,” Moss told Deadline shortly before Telluride. “The exact circumstances of his death are not known, but he did die on the island and yet he had dreams of living there, of spending his life there, of preaching to these people. Because so little is known about the [North Sentinelese] tribe and the circumstances of his death, there are a lot of unanswered questions and that’s what the film attempts to do is to explore them.”
To examine the circumstances and meaning of Chau’s self-appointed mission, the filmmakers spoke with his friends, fellow evangelicals, ex-missionary Daniel Everett who spent decades among the Indigenous Pirahã people of Brazil’s Amazon rainforest, and
Dancing With The Stars” Season 32 won’t be the same without Len Goodman’s presence in the ballroom. The former head judge of the ABC reality dancing series announced his retirement in Season 31. Sadly, he died a few short months later.
Back when Casey Wasserman’s bespectacled grandfather Lew Wasserman was Hollywood’s top power broker, he was known to step in to clear up labor stalemates with a sense of fairness and the authority to get cooler heads to prevail. His grandson, whose music/sports powerhouse firm just acquired Brillstein Entertainment Partners, learned a lot from his famed grandfather, and believes he’d have a plan to solve the current AMPTP battle with WGA and SAG-AFTRA, and that he would not have let it get this far, with thousands not getting a paycheck for over five months. Hopefully the resumption of talks this week will bring the kind of resolve Wasserman describes, even if there is so much mistrust between the sides that there is no leader whose word carried the weight that Wasserman’s did back in the day.
Walter Isaacson’s new biography of Elon Musk includes a number of intriguing vignettes involving everyone from Bill Gates to Google co-founder Sergei Brin. Two in particular involve Endeavor chief Ari Emanuel, who reportedly proposed running Twitter for $100 million, not long after Larry David had chastised Musk to his face after officiating Emanuel’s wedding. (For more about both, read on.)
A number of Wilko stores have been snapped up by rival brands after the popular retailer fell into administration last month.
Manchester United and Adidas are 'celebrating culture beyond football' with the release of a new lifestyle range.
Manchester United will have a new brand adorning their shirts from next season after a deal was reached with Qualcomm Snapdragon.
This is the moment thunder and lightning struck Greater Manchester last night following the recent heatwave.
It was not just incomings that dominated the headlines at Old Trafford over the summer.
When the first Sex and the City movie was first released back in 2008, the world went wild for the now-iconic blue Manolo Blahnik stilettos Carrie Bradshaw wore for her wedding. The Manolo Blahnik Hangisi 105 Buckle-Embellished Satin Courts, £755 here (was £945), became the it shoe of the year, and 15 years later, we’re still obsessed with the style.
A new publicly-funded podcast series has launched as part of a campaign to tackle gender-based violence. The #IsThisOkay? podcast features men from Greater Manchester talking about unacceptable behaviours faced by women.
People across Greater Manchester were looking to the skies in unison on Friday afternoon in the hope of catching a glimpse of the Red Arrows flying past.
A man has been jailed for abducting and raping a teenage girl he groomed through an Xbox console.
Terror suspect Daniel Abed Khalife is at the centre of a UK-wide manhunt after escaping from prison in his cook's uniform this morning.
What is the fine line between altruism and narcissism, and what happens when “higher-calling” religious beliefs blur those demarcations? That vague space is not exactly what celebrated doc filmmakers Jesse Moss and Amanda McBaine are trying to resolve in their compelling new documentary “The Mission.” Honestly, their story is more subtle and nuanced; a fairer and balanced look at the ideas of self-sacrifice, an empathetic examination of a tragedy, and yet a sobering probing of good intentions and the paths that lead us astray.
Diana Ross graced the stage, announcing, “Hello, L.A.!”Ross mesmerized the audience with her hit “Love Hangover” and then led SoFi Stadium in singing “Happy Birthday” to the birthday queen herself. Beyoncé, visibly moved, rushed to the stage to greet Diana Ross with tears welling up in her eyes, and the two iconic divas shared a touching moment.
Owen Gleiberman Chief Film Critic The last time Sofia Coppola made a movie about a teenage royal living in a rococo palace that turned out to be a lavish prison, it was 2006, and the movie, “Marie Antoinette,” was a stylized dream of history — the story of the young queen as naïve and isolated rock star. Coppola’s new movie dramatizes the relationship between Priscilla and Elvis Presley, and the parallels with the earlier film are there if you want to see them.
Roy Keane welcomed Theo Walcott into punditry life with a typical bit of dry humour ahead of Manchester United's Premier League trip to Arsenal.
Summer may be over, but don't put the suncream away just yet - as temperatures could be about to soar, forecasters say.
Peter Debruge Chief Film Critic It’s the moment of truth for Emerald Fennell, whose “Promising Young Woman” established the actor-turned-auteur (last seen playing pregnant doll Midge in “Barbie”) as a formidable new filmmaking talent. Building on the barbed sensibility she established with “Killing Eve,” the writer-director’s zeitgeist-throttling feature debut lured audiences like a bright red candy apple, leaving them with plenty to debate after the cyanide-laced sugar high wore off.
The story of an iconic car is coming to life.