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By Sam Lawley and James Tapsfield, Political Editor For Mailonline Published: 17:48 EDT, 13 July 2024 | Updated: 04:39 EDT, 14 July 2024 Liz Truss has blamed Rishi Sunak ‘trashing my record’ in office and failing to slash taxes for the Tory election wipeout. The former PM, who lasted just 49 days in office, argued that her successor brought…
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The final moment in the original script for “The Avengers” had Downey’s Tony Stark waking up and asking “What’s next?,” but Downey thought there should be more to it to give the audience a sense of closure. He asked for more and Whedon obliged, turning one line into three pages of potential lines. A joke about…
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They have built two giant posts and a crossbar in front of the Brandenburg Gate in the heart of the German capital and turned the old monument, which was marooned in a barbed wire wilderness between East and West during the Cold War, into a giant goal. It has been transformed into a bustling place…
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“The Woman at the Airport” is episode 10 of “Bones” season 1. As such, it was the first time Booth and Bones had traveled outside of D.C., which as it happens was a particularly important aspect of the episode. Prior to this installment, the show had been set entirely in the protagonists’ home town, making…
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Sipping a glass of chilled Pol Roger at The Spectator magazine’s annual summer party, the former Conservative Minister was in a surprisingly cheerful mood. ‘There’s too much doom and gloom about,’ he told me. ‘Starmer’s majority is shallow. He’s got a very tricky in-tray. In a few months, the problems will be piling up. The…
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In some of the earliest production notes for “Star Trek: The Next Generation,” written back in 1987, Data was described as having been built by a species of aliens that audiences would never see. The aliens were described as “Earth Asian,” and Data was intended to be played by an Asian actor. Actor Kelvin Han…
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When Hollywood is poised to turn you into the most marketable actor on the planet, it’s very unwise to have a photograph of yourself published in mass-circulation newspapers above stories describing you ‘sniffing a suspicious substance from a key during a wild weekend at Glastonbury‘. But Paul Mescal, whose swords ‘n’ sandals movie Gladiator II…
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“I think Maxi is an unrefined player who has got to where he is by luck,” said Marcelo Bielsa, taking the opportunity to ‘criticise’ the player sat by his side at the press conference. “And I didn’t even see him before I called him up. He was recommended to me.” That’s where the joke fell…
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“Enemy” is loosely based on José Saramago’s 2002 novel “The Double,” which dives into the unutterable horror of becoming aware of a mirrored self that is identical yet distinctly different, leading to a crisis strong enough to uproot the laws of reality. Doubles rarely find a way to peacefully co-exist; the laws of self-preservation dictate…