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The animation legend and director of Spirited Away and Howl’s Moving Castle won’t comment on movies because he’s too busy picking up trash. By Colin Groundwater March 16, 2021 Collage by Simon Abranowicz The filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki is a legendary artist, a bankable box office bet—and a certified grump. An interview from November surfaced today
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Mank leads the pack, Chloe Zhao and Emerald Fennell broke up the Best Director boys club, and Delroy Lindo was robbed. By Keith Phipps March 15, 2021 LaKeith Stanfield at the 2018 Academy Awards.Kelsey McNeal / Getty Images This was never going to be a typical batch of Oscar nominations. Nothing about 2020 was typical
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No. But we shopped around for a professional ethicist to tell us otherwise anyway.  By Colin Groundwater March 12, 2021 Illustration by C.J. Robinson Everybody wants the jab, and soon everyone will be able to get it: the Biden administration has announced that the COVID vaccine will be available to every American adult by May
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Tyler Perry, the mega-millionaire Madea player, playwright and philanthropist, apparently does much more than continuously crank out tv shows and movies for his loyal audience; he also quietly extends a helping hand to fellow celebrities. During Oprah’s bombshell interview with Prince Harry and Meghan Markle this week, it was revealed that when they fled the
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“I’m going to the police,” Rittenhouse answered over his shoulder, still fleeing. “Who’s shot? Who’s shot?” Grosskreutz yelled. Rittenhouse didn’t answer. Then Grosskreutz yelled, “Hey, stop him!” Grosskreutz pursued Rittenhouse, withdrawing the pistol tucked in the waistband of his shorts. Rittenhouse tripped. When Anthony Huber, a 26-year-old father figure to his girlfriend’s two children, smacked
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On October 2, 2018, Saudi Arabian dissident journalist and Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi walked into the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, Turkey, to obtain some paperwork for his upcoming wedding to his fiancee, Hatice Cengiz. He never came out alive. Turkish authorities soon revealed that they had audio and video evidence showing that Khashoggi had
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Whether she’s listening to music or writing it, Julien Baker likes to go to difficult places. As a teenager in Tennessee, the singer-songwriter dove deep into the hardcore scene, thriving on the most abrasive sounds she could find. The music she makes today is far more beautiful, melodically speaking, than the punk and metal of
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