February 2012
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The Aristocrats →
Let it be known that Lady Fiona Herbert, the eighth Countess of Carnarvon, occasionally answers her own phone. When I call the Countess’s office to discuss her new book, Lady Almina and the Real Downton Abbey, I am unusually anxious; it’s not every day I speak to a member of the British aristocracy. “Hello?” answers a startled-sounding voice. I nervously ask if Lady Carnarvon is available....
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The Truth about tigers is a 40-minute wildlife documentary produced by award winning wildlife and conservation filmmaker, Shekar Dattatri. Two years in the making, the film combines stunning footage shot by some of the world’s leading wildlife cinematographers with useful insights from leading experts like Dr. Ullas Karanth of the Wildlife Conservation Society and illegal wildlife trade...
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“You gentlemen, by dint of long seclusion
From better company, have kept...”
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Wonder Dog →
At the conclusion of the second day’s class, the families were invited to keep their dogs overnight for the first time. At the hotel, Donnie’s cousin took Chancer outside for a walk while Donnie supervised Iyal and Morasha in a hot tub in the indoor pool area. “When they came back from their walk,” she says, “Chancer looked around, and then broke away! I thought: Oh, my God, he’s escaping....
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January 2012
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The Caging of America: Why do we lock up so many... →
Northern impersonality and Southern revenge converge on a common American theme: a growing number of American prisons are now contracted out as for-profit businesses to for-profit companies. The companies are paid by the state, and their profit depends on spending as little as possible on the prisoners and the prisons. It’s hard to imagine any greater disconnect between public good and...
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A tale of two goldfish →
About 6 years ago, I had a fish tank stocked with these stupid aggressive fish that needed to eat these .5 cent feeder goldfish. I bought a couple and tossed em in, presumably to their doom - woke up the next morning to find all of the fish dead, no: massacred, except for the 5 cent feeder fish and his buddy. These fish won the respect of my family through sheer gladiatorial victory. They...
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I know you’ve not even gotten around to replying to my letter, and am sending already another one. I hope this does not place too much of a burden on you. If there is ever a reason to write, I suppose it would now be because there is seldom someone to talk to here, as it is usually the case.
Anna had created these gorgeous goblets at the workshop at midmorning, and came about at sunset with...
“God could not be everywhere and therefore he made mothers.”
– Jewish proverb
Question: It seems that the script is sometimes an after-thought on huge productions.
Daniel Craig: Yes and you swear that you’ll never get involved with shit like that, and it happens. On “Quantum”, we were fucked. We had the bare bones of a script and then there was a writers’ strike and there was nothing we could do. We couldn’t employ a writer to finish it. I say to myself, “Never again”, but who knows? There was me trying to rewrite scenes – and a writer I am not.
Time Out London interview. Defending high-end storytelling and quality films.
