She’s a woman who feels most at home in the natural world, curling up on forest floors in rural England and displaying a gift for falconry. He’s a young Latin tutor, barely out of his teens, desperately trying to pay off his father’s debts. They encounter each other outside of …
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Imagine a film archivist scouring an underground vault in Burbank or a cave in Butte, Montana, and discovering a few dozen dusty film canisters tucked away in a corner. Reels of some long-lost project from Francis Ford Coppola, or Bernardo Bertolucci, or Michael Cimino circa the mid-1970s reside in these …
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Over a year after Taylor Swift and Joe Alwyn broke up, the British actor talked about the split for the first time in a new interview. Speaking to the Hollywood Reporter while promoting Kinds of Kindness, the Yorgos Lanthimos film he co-stars in, Alwyn was asked whether he had listened …
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Those lucky enough to have discovered Yorgos Lanthimos right as he was establishing himself as a world-cinema weirdo — we’d carbon-date the initial who-the-fuck-is-this-guy?! moment as mid-2009, when his breakthrough film Dogtooth was worming its way through the festival circuit — remember what a shock it was to encounter the …
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Lana Wilson was in her mid-twenties and working for a non-profit in New York City when she learned that George Tiller, the medical director of one of the only clinics in the U.S. that provided third trimester abortions, had been assassinated by an anti-abortion terrorist. “I was so horrified and …
Read More »Taylor Swift's Publicist Shuts Down 'Insane' Rumor That Singer Secretly Married Joe Alwyn
Taylor Swift‘s long-time publicist Tree Paine has put a stop to rumors that the pop singer secretly married ex-boyfriend Joe Alwyn. Responding to Instagram gossip account Deuxmoi, which has made several claims that Swift and Alwyn tied the knot in 2020 or 2021, Paine said the rumors were completely untrue. …
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