The Actor MARLON BRANDO | TIME

 Posted on August 9, 2024  |  7 minutes  |  1376 words  |  Martina Birk

RIDE OUT BOY AND SEND IT SOLID. FROM THE GREASY POLACK YOU WILL SOMEDAY ARRIVE AT THE GLOOMY DANE. Tennessee Williams’ heartfelt (if politically incorrect) telegram to Marlon Brando, on the opening night of A Streetcar Named Desire 51 years ago, got it right and got it wrong. The young actor, in his first starring role, sent it solid all right–sent it immortally. His performance as Stanley Kowalski, later repeated on film, provided one of our age’s emblematic images, the defining portrait of mass man–shrewd, vulgar, ignorant, a rapacious threat to all that is gentle and civilized in our culture. [Read More]

The Bodyguard

 Posted on August 9, 2024  |  4 minutes  |  717 words  |  Martina Birk

"The Bodyguard" has a trashy brio that could make it click as an ancillary title among buffs. Showcasing multihyphenate Petchtai Wongkamlao -- aka popular comedian Mum Jokmok -- pic sags during a romantic/social subplot in the middle but gets back into gear in its final 50 minutes. Film grossed a bullish $3.3 million earlier this year in Thailand. Playing like a Thai equivalent of a late-’70s Hong Kong comedy-actioner, “The Bodyguard” has a trashy brio that could make it click as an ancillary title among buffs. [Read More]

The Crown S6 Creates Princess Diana, Dodi Fayed's Last Night

 Posted on August 9, 2024  |  8 minutes  |  1699 words  |  Martina Birk

The sixth and final season of The Crown opens with a tragic event that's all too familiar—Princess Diana's fatal 1997 car accident in Paris. The new season, which releases in two installments, debuted its first four episodes on Netflix on Nov. 16; the remaining six episodes will release on Dec. 14. The first installment centers primarily on the final days of the Princess of Wales, reanimating scenarios that have become an indelible part of our cultural imagination, from a final holiday with her sons aboard Egyptian businessman Mohamed al-Fayed's yacht to a tenuous new romance with Mohamed's son, Dodi Fayed. [Read More]

The Law: Miranda Extended | TIME

 Posted on August 9, 2024  |  3 minutes  |  427 words  |  Tandra Barner

When it comes to breaking new legal ground, the California Supreme Court is frequently a spadeful or two ahead of all others, including the U.S. Supreme Court. California’s ruling last August that local property taxes are an unfair method of financing public schools (Serrano v. Priest) has already been echoed by courts in Minnesota and Texas. Last week, in a 6-1 decision, the California court once again established an important precedent by extending the Miranda rule, which bars the use of confessions made by suspects who have been denied access to legal counsel. [Read More]

The True Story Behind the Netflix Movie Sergio

 Posted on August 9, 2024  |  6 minutes  |  1255 words  |  Tandra Barner

In the often tedious world of international diplomacy, Sergio Vieira de Mello was about as close as you could get to a celebrity—though others have used more exact terms. A dazzled journalist once described Vieira de Mello, the Brazilian-born United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, as a “cross between James Bond and Bobby Kennedy.” Vieira de Mello is the subject of Sergio, a new biopic directed by Greg Barker. The film, which debuted at Sundance in January and hits Netflix April 17, follows Vieira de Mello, played by Wagner Moura (Narcos), from East Timor to Baghdad as he struggles to carry out the U. [Read More]

Victor Olaiya is not late actress' father

 Posted on August 9, 2024  |  1 minutes  |  179 words  |  Billy Koelling

Several media outlets ran with the story that they couldn't tell her aged father the truth. Although, while Moji was alive she never disputed it when confronted with their father-daughter relationship. Victor Olaiya, however, is not Moji Olaiya's dad. ADVERTISEMENT Her real father is Victor Olaiya's younger brother, Joshua Bodunde Olaiya who died a long time ago. Victor Olaiya was responsible for her upbringing which made many believe she was indeed his daughter. [Read More]

Youth: Pigs 24, Freaks 5

 Posted on August 9, 2024  |  2 minutes  |  281 words  |  Billy Koelling

TIME October 5, 1970 12:00 AM EDT The hippies began to gather in a Houston schoolyard last week after an early morning rain. They spread their blankets and ponchos on the wet grass and talked quietly among themselves. Then a police paddy wagon and a pickup truck pulled up and the cops leaped out. There were yells—”Let’s get the freaks!”—and the police proceeded to beat the young people mercilessly. But the confrontation’s results were recorded on a score card instead of a police blotter or hospital admission form. [Read More]

'America First' comes to Washington in Trump's first major address to Congress

 Posted on August 8, 2024  |  7 minutes  |  1334 words  |  Billy Koelling

Trump spent more than an hour speaking about job creation, immigration, national security, and international trade as he implored Americans to embrace a "renewal of the American spirit" and work together to tackle a wide array of challenges facing the country at home and abroad. Upon its conclusion, NBC News anchor Brian Williams dubbed the address "the most speech-like speech" Trump has ever given. CNN's Dana Bash said it was the president's most " [Read More]

'I caught my uncle's wife with his best friend'

 Posted on August 8, 2024  |  4 minutes  |  641 words  |  Martina Birk

I am so grateful to my uncle that I will be damned if I can see any harm coming to him and keep quiet but this time around, it has to do with his family and I am afraid if he ever gets to know what his wife, did, it could lead to the breakdown of the marriage. But at the same time, I feel so guilty that I have kept it to myself for the past two months. [Read More]

"Wiz Khalifa was a multiple cheating husband"

 Posted on August 8, 2024  |  2 minutes  |  240 words  |  Martina Birk

In a latest interview with Power 105.1's The Breakfast Club, this weekend, Rose said she's done crying and is all ready to move on. "You know, he's young, he has a lot of life to live," Rose said of 27-year-old Khalifa. "Now that I'm done crying, it doesn't bother me anymore. Now's my time to live. I'll never say never because he's the father of the my child. He's still technically my husband. [Read More]