Viola Davis and her husband Julius Tennon have been together for almost 25 years after meeting on the set of City of Angels in 1999. The award-winning actress had been imagining a man like Tennon for some time, according to an interview she had with Oprah Winfrey years later during the Oprah + Viola: A Netflix Special Event to promote Davis’ memoir, Finding Me. “I said I want a big Black man from the south who’s probably been married before,” Davis told Winfrey. “Has kids, because I don’t want any pressure in that department…Someone who’s maybe been an actor who…
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What even is time? I had a couple conversations this past year, some of them surrounding the publication of my non-chronologically structured novel We Do What We Do in the Dark, during which the concept of “queer time” came up, this idea that LGBTQ people experience time differently, almost four-dimensionally like Vonnegut aliens. We constantly look back to see evidence of our nascent selves, when queerness was less an identity than it was a feeling, and we constantly look forward to imagine a world finally ready to welcome us with open arms. It’s hard to see the past clearly—so many…
Universal/Blumhouse/Morgan Creek’s The Exorcist: The Believer is now opening on Oct. 6 instead of Oct. 13. The news comes as AMC has plopped the concert film Taylor Swift:Eras Tour on the mid-October schedule. Deadline hears that within hours of the pic going on sale, it’s made $10M+ in presales and counting. Good movie, Uni, as Swift is apt to steal Exorcist‘s female audience. Uni/Blumhouse/Miramax’s Halloween reboot drew 47% women in its opening weekend. But even more so, the first weekend of October is desperately in need of a blockbuster with Sony/Marvel’s Kraven the Hunter taking a hike to Labor Day…
WASHINGTON — QinetiQ US, a defense contractor based in Lorton, Virginia, was awarded a $224 million contract to provide systems engineering and technical support to the Space Development Agency. SDA is an agency under the U.S. Space Force. It is building a mesh network in low Earth orbit — called the Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture — projected to have hundreds of satellites. QinetiQ received a five-year contract for “management and professional services, acquisition support, and engineering and technical analysis needed to deliver the Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture,” said a DoD contract announcement Aug. 30. DoD said the contract was a…
Apple will reportedly stop providing human assistance to users on social media platforms X (formerly known as Twitter) and YouTube. A recent report has claimed that the Apple chat-based support service will be dropped in October. The Apple Support account on X will stop sending human replies to support requests via direct messages. In addition to X and YouTube, the service will also be dropped from the Apple Support Community online forum, according to the report. Once the service is dropped, users will likely get an automated message on these platforms, redirecting them to the help centre. The report surfaced…
Former U.S. President Trump appears on classified document charges after a federal indictment at Wilkie D. Ferguson Jr. United States Courthouse, alongside his attorney Chris Kise in Miami, Florida, U.S., June 13, 2023 in a courtroom sketch. Jane Rosenberg | ReutersWASHINGTON — Fulton County Judge Scott McAfee said Thursday that all court proceedings related to former President Donald Trump will be live streamed and televised.McAfee also said that members of the press will be allowed to use their computers and cellphones inside the courtroom provided that the devices are not used to record the trial. Cameras and recording equipment are almost never allowed…
NewsDoja Cat Replaces New Album Cover That Was Near-Replica of German Metal Band’sDoja Cat’s initial Scarlet artwork was strikingly similar to that of Chaver’s Of Gloom, which was made by the same artistBy Jazz MonroeAugust 31, 2023FacebookTwitterDoja Cat, February 2023 (Jon Kopaloff/WireImage)FacebookTwitterDoja Cat has unveiled an updated cover for new album Scarlet after people noted its striking similarity to that of a new album from German metallic hardcore trio Chaver. The two records, both due out on September 22, originally bore artwork featuring paintings of dark pink arachnids beneath a dot of liquid. Both images were made by the artist…
In this articleSFollow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNTSentinelOne CEO Tomer Weingarten at the New York Stock Exchange.Source: NYSESentinelOne, a cybersecurity company that went public in 2021 and has yet to see its stock price exceed highs from that year, is not for sale, Tomer Weingarten, its co-founder and CEO, told CNBC in an interview Thursday.The comments follow a Reuters report earlier this month, citing unnamed sources, that said the company was looking at a possible sale. Bloomberg reported security startup Wiz was considering an acquisition of SentinelOne, pointing to comments from a Wiz spokesperson.SentinelOne shares rose more than 10% in…
A trio of supernatural dramas will resume production at AMC. According to Deadline, Anne Rice’s Interview With the Vampire, The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon, and The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live have secured interim deals with SAG-AFTRA. The news means that all three shows can resume production to meet their 2024 return dates on the cable network. There have been waivers handed to specific productions since the SAG-AFTRA strike began seven weeks ago, but this is the highest-profile waiver on the TV front. AMC is not participating in negotiations with SAG-AFTRA, possibly clearing the path for more of the…
Today, it can seem that we are adrift in a swirling sea of claims and counterclaims designed to prod and provoke. So, how can a person make sense of this barrage of information? According to the this week’s guest, a good grasp of some fundamental mathematical principles can make a huge difference when it comes to understanding the world around us. In this episode of the Physics World Weekly podcast, the mathematical biologist and author Kit Yates is in conversation with the science and technology journalist Anna Demming. As well as talking about the mathematics of daily life, they chat…
Srdjanpav | E+ | Getty ImagesInterest will start accumulating on student loans again starting Sept. 1, following a pause on interest accrual that has lasted for more than three years during the pandemic era.That imminent policy change puts a spotlight on a key difference between two types of student debt: subsidized and unsubsidized loans.Interest accrual is among the primary differences between the federal loans, also known as Stafford Loans, which cover costs for higher education.More from Personal Finance:How to save for retirement when student loan payments restartIt may now be easier to apply for public service loan forgivenessFAFSA: What’s new…
Children from the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe in Towaoc, Colorado, study the Ute language using new e-learning platform Nuuwayga created by The Language Conservancy / Photo courtesy of TLCOn August 9, 2023, the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples, WLT editor in chief Daniel Simon spoke with Wilhelm K. Meya, chairman and CEO of The Language Conservancy (TLC) about the nonprofit’s remarkable work of helping to revitalize Indigenous languages. Their conversation, which took place over Zoom, has been edited for clarity and length.Daniel Simon: To begin, could you tell us about your founding vision for The Language Conservancy and…
Adrienne Brodeur’s novel Little Monsters follows the Gardner family over the course of a summer on Cape Cod, the windswept peninsula—alternately wild and painstakingly tamed—where they have lived their entire lives. Abby Gardner is a painter on the verge of an exciting career opportunity. The tensions with her brother Ken, an aspiring politician who obsessively measures his sea-front property to track erosion, are played out via real estate. Ken technically owns Abby’s studio, which their mother left to him after she died in childbirth. The family’s patriarch, Adam, is a brilliant marine biologist living with bipolar disorder. When the novel…
Chloë Sevigny’s voice boomed over the speakers at Proenza Schouler’s fall 2023 show as the actress and It-girl read fictional diary entries from the author and It-girl Ottessa Moshfegh. In London, Sir Ian McKellen opened S.S. Daley’s show by reading one of Alfred, Lord Tennyson’s poems. If it seems like the line between fashion shows and literary readings is starting to blur, you’re not mistaken. Across the fall collections, a singular icon emerged: the nerdy intellectual with a library card. Think Miu Miu’s artfully mussed librarians in tortoiseshell glasses, Altuzarra taking inspiration from Greek mythology, Thom Browne paying homage to…
We’ve waxed lyrical about how men’s dress codes are breaking down, how casual dress is taking over and why sportswear is the de facto king of men’s fashion. But in this new relaxed world, there is one mainstay that refuses to disappear: the suit.We’ve seen it rise and fall in popularity over the years, but it never truly went away. In a true sign of the times, tailoring featured extensively in the first Louis Vuitton collection from Virgil Abloh, shown alongside cutting edge streetwear suggesting the two have finally become symbiotic. The suit, and old ideas of formal attire in…
Altering an initial platform-release plan, Apple Original Films will instead launch the Cannes Film Festival hit Killers of the Flower Moon to a wide global theatrical release October 20. Apple is partnered with Paramount Pictures on the theatrical release. This before the Martin Scorsese-directed film that stars Robert De Niro, Leonardo DiCaprio and Lily Gladstone gets an Apple TV+ berth. That timing is undetermined at the moment, but it will surely be in the heat of awards season. Apple originally intended to release the film limited October 6, but the wide global launch certainly favored both Barbie and Oppenheimer…
SAN FRANCISCO — Australian startup Spiral Blue is inviting developers and researchers to run custom code on its SE-1 space-based computer. After deploying its own machine-learning algorithms on SE-1, Spiral Blue issued a call Aug. 31 to people interested in sending code to space. Applications for the initiative, called Your Code in Space, can be as advanced as applying artificial intelligence to satellite imagery or as simple as creating a meme, Mei He, Spiral Blue business development officer, told SpaceNews. Spiral Blue will respond to proposals submitted through the company’s website with information on how, when and at what cost various…
Samsung is reportedly planning to launch the next iteration of its flagship Galaxy S series smartphones in 2024. While there have been no official details available about the successor to the Galaxy S23 series, reports and rumours have hinted at the expected specifications and features of the Galaxy S24 lineup. A recent report has suggested that the Galaxy S24 Ultra could come with a Snapdragon chipset. Previously, the Galaxy S24 series, comprising the Galaxy S24, Galaxy S24+, and Galaxy S24 Ultra, was said to be equipped with Exynos 2400 SoC in the European market.A new leak by Weibo user Instant…