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The “off-beat” actor Stanley Kubrick almost hired for ‘Dr Strangelove’: “He’ll be a fabulous choice”
The article concerns an unconventional actor whom Stanley Kubrick reportedly considered for a role in Dr Strangelove, with Kubrick describing him as “a fabulous choice”. It highlights how close the film may have come to taking a different casting direction, which could have affected the tone of the celebrated political satire. No further details about…
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Cornell student’s antisemitic posts spark outrage as Santner blitzes Rockets to top
Cornell student Austin Franco faces backlash over antisemitic posts as Jamie Kennedy slams left-wing hypocrisy; Mitch Santner’s fifty-two fires Trent Rockets top of The Hundred, plus Michael Caine, Lioness, GTA VI, Riot Fest and a Travelodge bed bug ordeal.
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In 1988, Blue Oyster Cult made the weirdest album of a very weird career and nearly sank the band: “I know that the aliens lived underwater”
Blue Öyster Cult’s 1988 album Imaginos was the culmination of a concept decades in the making, based on a mythology about an alien race shaping human history that founder and producer Sandy Pearlman had been developing since the mid-1960s. The band had drawn on Pearlman’s poetry for lyrics on earlier records, including 1974’s Secret Treaties,…
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10 Sci-Fi Movie Masterpieces That Nobody Remembers
Europa Report, Strange Days, Bicentennial Man, Dreamscape, The Faculty, and more make up our list of sci-fi movie masterpieces that nobody remembers.
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Water Colour review – an elegant, expertly handled study of depression
Water Colour is praised as an elegant, carefully structured two-hander about how ordinary pressures can contribute to depression and suicidal thoughts. Reviewer Milly Sweeney’s play is said to handle its serious subject with restraint, while showing both isolation and the importance of mutual support. The story follows Esme, an isolated art student, and Harris, a…
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Best players for FC 26 Fullback Force Evolution
FC 26’s Fullback Force Evolution is a 175,000-coin Ultimate Team upgrade route for eligible right-backs, offering substantial boosts across pace, defending, passing, physicality and skill moves. It matters because the costly five-level evolution can turn selected RB cards into highly competitive options, particularly when used as part of an existing Evolution chain. – Eligible cards…
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Ivy League student who refuses to work for Jewish people bizarrely moans about cell tower as he posts unhinged white supremacist screed
The article reports on Austin Franco, a Cornell University student, over social-media posts described as antisemitic and white supremacist. It says he claimed he would refuse to work for Jewish people and made an unrelated complaint about a mobile-phone tower, drawing attention because of the extremist nature of the remarks. The supplied text contains no…
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DAVID MARCUS: Mamdani’s faux African accent as telling as it is bizarre
The opinion article discusses a resurfaced 2016 radio interview in which New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani used an accent the author characterises as African/South Asian. The author argues that the clip, which has prompted conservative criticism online, is revealing and unusual; this is commentary rather than a reported finding about Mamdani’s intentions. The interview…
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Trump and Senate Republicans end budget impasse as ABC faces Rinehart backlash
A US budget deal is reported between Trump, John Thune and Senate conservatives, while Hancock Prospecting condemns the ABC’s response to a violent Gina Rinehart film. Entertainment updates include Beckham, Johnson and Morrissey.
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FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH’s CHRIS KAEL: ‘Against PHIL LABONTE From ALL THAT REMAINS’s Advice, I Actually Go To Therapy’
Five Finger Death Punch bassist Chris Kael said he attends therapy, responding to All That Remains singer Phil Labonte’s recent assertion that men do not solve problems by talking. Kael said he understood Labonte’s point that action can help men feel better, but argued that discussing feelings in an interview also resembles therapy; he described…