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Israeli director Hillel Rate’s drama The Good Fence, set against the backdrop of a right-wing religious settlement, has won the $50,000 Grand Prize for the 12th edition of the Jerusalem Sam Spiegel International Film Lab. The feature revolves around the antagonistic relationship between a right-wing religious settler father and his son, who rejects his religious…
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Building work is continuing at Jeremy Clarkson‘s Cotswolds pub as he adds the final touches after opening it ‘unfinished’ for England’s Euros final. Following the success of his farming enterprise Diddly Squat, the former Top Gear star bought the village pub, The Windmill in Asthall, for £1 million. The 64-year-old planned to convert it into…
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Another reason to doubt the project: Cooper also tried to call Phillips back, only to get bad news. “I remember checking in, and they said, ‘Yeah, budgetary problems; they’re going to need a name.’” But Phillips liked Cooper more than he thought; after finally getting a budget approved, at a lower number than he’d originally…
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Carpetright has been saved from crashing into administration by rival firm Tapi, as part of a multi-million pound rescue deal set to be finalised in a matter of hours. The struggling chain, set up by Peckham ‘carpet king’ Lord Harris, was on the brink of collapse with about 1,800 jobs at risk of being lost. But…
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1973’s “The Questor Tapes” was a much more fascinating failed pilot, although one can see how it might be a tough sell. Robert Foxworth played Questor, an android who was constructed under bizarre circumstances. It seems that a brilliant robotic engineer left behind instructions on how to build a high-tech android, but only left pieces…
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By Taryn Pedler Published: 06:24 EDT, 22 July 2024 | Updated: 06:25 EDT, 22 July 2024 The wife of a British tourist was killed when she landed on her head after being launched into the air off an inflatable sea raft at a resort in the Philippines. Mother-of-two Catherine Egam Mcewan, 43, from Cagayan de…
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Richard Simmons had a final uplifting message for his fans before his passing. The fitness guru’s team has shared a final regularly scheduled social media post he had had prepared for his fans days before his death July 13 at age 76. “Richard worked very hard on his posts for you,” his staff wrote on…
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Brittany Higgins’ furious husband has blasted a controversial Aussie commentator as ‘vile’ after she weighed in on the couple’s plans to sell their French chateau ahead of an upcoming defamation trial It was revealed on Monday that Ms Higgins plans to sell her chateau in the south of France ahead of her blockbuster defamation trial against her former…
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Venice Critics’ Week has unveiled the selection for its 39th edition running from August 28 to September 7. The seven titles in Competition include U.S-French filmmaker Alexandra Simpson’s debut feature No Sleep Till, set against the background of a Florida coastal town in the lead-up to a hurricane. The film is produced by Tyler Taormina…
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New video footage shows people risking their lives by posing for photoshoots on a railway track while reckless youths play ‘chicken’ with trains as rail bosses move to shut a level crossing over the number of incidents. The series of clips taken from covert CCTV cameras in the last year show people dicing with death…