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Anthony Hopkins on film stardom at 84: ‘He said, Oh my God. You’re really strange!’
From Hannibal Lecter to Nixon, Anthony Hopkins has long been one of cinema’s most singular stars. He recalls winding up Brad Pitt, working with Bob Hoskins and weirding out Jonathan Demme. It is lunchtime in Los Angeles, and Anthony Hopkins is having a dizzy spell. “I’m lying down on the bed,” he says, calling from home. “I’m looking at the sun shining on the Pacific ocean.” There are worse views to contemplate while you collect yourself.
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Sylvester Stallone Gets Candid About Career, Regrets, Feuds: “I Thought I Knew Everything”
At 76 years old, the Hollywood icon is still fighting: On his battle for the 'Rocky' rights, the future of 'Rambo,' his pivot to TV (‘Tulsa King’ and a reality show), and the time he turned down $34 million for a movie role.
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Patton Oswalt: ‘I Don’t Think Cancel Culture Is Real’ — Interview
Patton Oswalt has several modes: There’s the affable, warts-and-all comedian who has been performing onstage for decades, the comedic performer with dramatic chops known for everything from “Ratatouille” to “Young Adult,” and a comic book junkie who reads as much as he writes for the form.
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Panama Papers Whistleblower: "The Russian Government Wants To See Me Dead"
The revelations about offshore firms brought to light by the source behind the Panama Papers toppled government leaders and spawned thousands of investigations. Here, for the first time, "John Doe" speaks about their fears for their life and their disappointment with the German government.
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‘I put on 40 pounds of muscle. Holy mackerel!’ Pablo Schreiber on playing Halo’s ripped hero
The videogame has finally been adapted for TV – with the former Wire actor in the lead. He talks about his lean years after the legendary show aired – and losing his Halo character the Master Chief’s famous helmet
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Melinda Gates says she had nightmares after meeting Jeffrey Epstein once: 'He was evil personified'
Melinda French Gates told CBS This Morning that she "had nightmares" after one meeting with Jeffrey Epstein. In discussing her split from Bill Gates, French Gates said that one of the contributing factors to their divorce was her ex-husband's ties with Epstein, The Daily Beast reported.
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Peaky Blinders's Steven Knight invites Tom Holland to be in film
Tom Holland could get a shot at appearing in Peaky Blinders after all, with the show's creator expressing openness for the star to appear in the upcoming movie. In case you missed it, the Spider-Man actor recently revealed to LadBible that he has once auditioned for an undisclosed role in the hit BBC series but was unsuccessful.
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Tinder Swindler's First Interview Since Release of Hit Netflix Series
The “Tinder Swindler,” as he’s become known around the world, wants everyone to know he’s not one. Shimon Hayut, also known as Simon Leviev, was the subject of the viral Netflix documentary The Tinder Swindler, which documented multiple women who claimed to have been duped out of thousands of dollars by Hayut after he allegedly pretended to be the heir to an Israeli diamond billionaire.
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‘It’s the end of a big adventure’: Cillian Murphy bids farewell to Peaky Blinders
Cillian Murphy’s icy stare has transfixed viewers around the world as Brummie gang boss Tommy Shelby in Peaky Blinders. As the stellar series reaches its finale, he talks about music, empathy and trying not to overthink things.
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‘Pam & Tommy’ Star Lily James: ‘We’re All Complicit’ in Pamela Anderson Mistreatment
James told IndieWire an intention with the show is to “make people look at their own culpability in perpetuating this unhealthy viral internet behavior.” It’s been 25 years since since the infamous stolen sex tape of Pamela Anderson and Motley Crue drummer Tommy Lee was released onto the new world of the Internet. Misconceptions still abound about the tape, including the belief that the “Baywatch” star and her ex-husband intentionally released it and/or profited from it. Setting the record straight is at the heart of “Pam & Tommy,” Hulu’s new limited series looking back at that time.
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Bradley Cooper Says Replacing Leonardo DiCaprio in ‘Nightmare Alley’ Exposed His Insecurities
Bradley Cooper earned rave reviews for his lead performance in Guillermo del Toro’s “Nightmare Alley,” but the eight-time Oscar nominee was not necessarily the director’s first choice for the job. It was Leonardo DiCaprio, who del Toro originally cast in the role of Stanton Carlisle, a drifter and con artist who rises from lowly carnival worker to a renowned mentalist.
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This legendary 92-year-old biologist has some advice for saving Earth
In the spring of 1955, E.O. Wilson, then a young entomologist at Harvard, traveled to northeastern Papua New Guinea to study ants. Hiking with local guides through dense rainforests, he climbed 13,000 feet to the summit ridge in the Saruwaged mountains — becoming, by his account, the first Western scientist to reach the peak.
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‘I want to get as much done as I can’: Keanu Reeves on poetry, grief and making the most of every minute
Keanu Reeves covers his face with both hands. Long bands of the actor’s straggly, jet-black hair flit from side to side as he shakes his cradled head. Reeves, who is 57, has a new Matrix movie out soon. It will be the first instalment in that famous sci-fi series since the turn of the century, when a visually splendid trilogy – The Matrix, The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions – shook blockbuster cinema to its foundations.
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Neal Stephenson on his new geoengineering climate change thriller and coining the term 'metaverse'
Author Neal Stephenson shot to fame almost 30 years ago with the science-fiction novel “Snow Crash,” which envisioned a future dominated by mega-corporations and organized crime, competing for dominance in both the real world and the “metaverse,” a computer-generated world accessible through virtual reality headsets.
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Peter Stormare interview: ‘I believe in aliens and UFOs – I pity people who don’t’
The prolific Swedish character actor, best known for feeding Steve Buscemi to a woodchipper in ‘Fargo’, talks to Adam White about psychic powers, Disneyland, and why choosing movies is a bit like being in Oasis.
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Nobody should trust Wikipedia, says man who invented Wikipedia
Larry Sanger, the man who co-founded Wikipedia, has cautioned that the website can’t always be trusted to give people the truth. He said it can give a “reliably establishment point of view on pretty much everything.”
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Amazon and Jeff Bezos’s Worst Enemy Is Chris Smalls
It’s been a year since Amazon fired Chris Smalls for organizing a rally to protest COVID-19 conditions. Now, he’s trying to unionize his former warehouse, and he won’t stop until there’s worker justice at Amazon.
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A rare interview with Robert Crumb on America, PC culture and Trump
For nearly 30 years, the American counterculture icon Robert Crumb has lived with his family in a remote French village. In an interview there, he talks about making the Bible a feminist text and his brushes with political correctness
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Jane Goodall’s Lovely Letter to Children About How Reading Shaped Her Life
“Books feed and cure and chortle and collide,” Gwendolyn Brooks wrote in her 1969 ode to why we read. For Kafka, a book was “the axe for the frozen sea inside us”; for Galileo, nothing less than a source of superhuman powers. “Without the writing of books, there is no history, there is no concept of humanity,” Hermann Hesse wrote in his visionary 1930 meditation on “the magic of the book” and why we will always remain under its generous spell, no matter how the technologies of reading may change.
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Anne Hathaway: I Was the ‘9th Choice’ for ‘The Devil Wears Prada’ Lead
There can only be one Andy Sachs! Anne Hathaway got real about the struggles she faced before landing her iconic role in The Devil Wears Prada.
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