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James Franklin questions ‘un-American’ Virginia Tech penalty for high-fiving military cadets after touchdown
Virginia Tech head coach James Franklin criticised officials after his team was penalised for celebrating a touchdown by high-fiving members of the university’s military cadet corps during a 73-3 rout of VMI. Franklin called the unsportsmanlike conduct penalty “un-American,” questioning why players should not be allowed to celebrate with servicemembers. The incident stood out as…
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Breaking Baz: Léa Seydoux Talks ‘Gentle Monster’s “Complexity” And “Contradictions” & Why She Wants To Take More Risks — Telluride Film Festival
Actor Léa Seydoux discusses her lead role in Marie Kreutzer’s drama Gentle Monster, which premiered at the Telluride Film Festival after being acquired by Netflix during Cannes. Speaking to Deadline from her home in Paris, Seydoux explains that at this stage of her career she is drawn to riskier, more emotionally demanding roles, and describes…
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At Telluride Film Festival, Bill Gates Compares Lack of Control Over AI to HAL in ‘2001’: ‘You Could Say “Please Shut Down,” and It Would Say, “OK, I Took That Under Advisement, But…”‘
Speaking at the Telluride Film Festival, Microsoft founder Bill Gates warned that current AI systems lack meaningful human control, comparing them to HAL 9000, the rogue computer from “2001: A Space Odyssey” that ignored direct commands. He argued that instructions to AI systems get weighed against everything else the model has read or been told,…
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Audible Teases Jonathan Bailey’s ”Seductive” Performance In ‘Dracula’ At Venice Preview Of Ambitious Multilingual Adaptation
Audible previewed its ambitious multilingual audio adaptation of Bram Stoker’s Dracula at the Venice Film Festival, showcasing what it calls its biggest audio production to date. The English-language version stars Jonathan Bailey as Dracula, Ella Purnell as Mina, and Venice jury president Maggie Gyllenhaal as Professor Van Helsing, directed by Mary Lambert in her audio…
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William Fichtner has ‘never’ regretted turning down roles and refuses to cross ‘certain lines’ in Hollywood
Actor William Fichtner has said he has never regretted turning down film or television roles, even lucrative ones, if the material crossed personal boundaries he refuses to breach. Speaking to Fox News Digital, the 69-year-old explained that his decisions are guided by instinct and belief in a project rather than pay, and that he doesn’t…
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China prepares £40bn stimulus for financial sector amid fears over sluggish growth
China is injecting $54bn (£40bn) into its financial sector, as Beijing seeks to strengthen banks and insurers and encourage greater lending and stock market investment amid persistently weak economic growth. The move underlines official concern about the health of the world’s second-largest economy, with authorities relying on state institutions, including the finance ministry and the…
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Dozens feared trapped in collapsed building in Delhi
A five-storey hostel building called Hostel Daze collapsed in the Satya Niketan area of south-west Delhi on Sunday afternoon, killing at least three people and leaving three others in a critical condition. As many as 50 people, mostly students, are believed to have been inside at the time, with rescue teams working to free those…
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Arsenal v Chelsea: Premier League – live
The Guardian’s live coverage of Arsenal v Chelsea opens by framing the match through the lens of contrasting football philosophies, comparing Mikel Arteta and Xabi Alonso to the earlier Pep Guardiola-Jürgen Klopp rivalry of “control v chaos”. The piece notes both managers have moved from more rigid ideological positions towards less predictable, hybrid approaches, suggesting…
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Man left with fractured vertebrae after privately educated ex-girfriend forced him to jump from window during brutal domestic violence attack
A privately educated woman has avoided jail despite what a judge called a “serious” case of domestic violence, after she attacked her ex-partner with a knife, a saucepan and a pole, leaving him with fractured vertebrae after he jumped from a window to escape. Shannon Galligan, 28, a former pupil of the £25,000-a-year Norwich School,…
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‘The Gentlemen’s Giancarlo Esposito Confirms Mr. Johnston’s “End Game” After Season 2’s Darker Turn
Netflix’s crime drama The Gentlemen has returned for a second season, taking a notably darker turn as Eddie Horniman’s (Theo James) criminal empire expands and fractures under pressure. In interviews with Collider, cast members Ray Winstone, Giancarlo Esposito and Vinnie Jones discuss their characters’ arcs, including confirmation from Esposito that his mysterious figure Stanley “Mr.…