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Bart/Easton-Ellis: COVID Could Bring Back Film

from MovieMaker Peter Bart Predicts 1960s-Style ‘Reinvention’ of Movies By Tim Molloy Peter Bart, who helped oversee films including Rosemary’s Baby and The Godfather, says he believes cinema is ready for a “reinvention” like the one of the late 1960s that spawned the brilliant films of the following decade. Bart, who helped his friend Robert Evans lead Paramount […]

Sign O’ the New Times

from SPIN Prince Collaborators Reflect on 1987 Opus ‘Sign O’ the Times’ “[Ideas] just flowed out of him like he was a conduit to the universe,” says Revolution keyboardist Matt Fink  by Ron Hart By the mid-80s, Prince was a global superstar thanks to the worldwide success of 1984’s Purple Rain.  So when he started work on his […]

Dreams On-demand

from The Daily Star Real-life Inception as scientists figure out how to plant ideas in dreams Researchers at MIT have been testing a fascinating new technique called targeted dream incubation, which allows them to insert certain topics into someone else’s dreams By Sophie Bateman It may sound like the plot of Inception, but scientists have […]

Harry Evans Gone

from Showbiz 411 Harold Evans Dies at 92, Pioneering Editor Who Stood up to Rupert Murdoch, Ran US News, Random House, NY Daily News by Roger Friedman Harry Evans has been on my mind for a month. Isn’t it weird when that happens? I felt like something was wrong. This was the first year I hadn’t […]

Covid Era Begats Drone Era

from Forbes From Sci-Fi To Everyday Business: Welcome To The Age Of The Robot While drones and robots may have once evoked a sense of fantasy and science fiction, these devices may be starting to prove their potential as major contributors to business and everyday life. And today, the widespread effort to limit human contact […]

Our New Mini-moon

from The Daily Star Mystery object entering Earth’s orbit ‘to become planet’s mini-moon until May’ An object known as 2020 SO is heading towards Earth, and could stay in orbit of the planet from October until May next year – although some think it could just be space junk By Joshua Smith Earth could be […]

Loving Music & Loathing Bullshit

from Tablet The Great Stanley Crouch An American immigrant jazz buff expresses his gratitude to a supremely gifted critic who loved the music and loathed bullshit BY TONY BADRAN If I had to name the one writer who was most pivotal for me and for my full assimilation in America, it would undoubtedly be Stanley […]

Vote The Assholes Out

from The LA Times The story behind that Patagonia tag, and how the Trump era changed outdoor recreation By SAMMY ROTH Browse Patagonia’s online shop, and you’ll find T-shirts condemning Big Oil, encouraging people to vote with planet Earth in mind and declaring that when it comes to wilderness, Americans must “defend it or lose it.” But the company is […]

Tesla Slumber Mode

from Futurism TESLA DRIVER PULLED OVER GOING 93 MPH WHILE COMPLETELY ASLEEP by JON CHRISTIAN Canadian cops say they pulled over a Tesla that was traveling at 93 miles per hour — while the driver was completely asleep, with the seat pulled down like a bed. “The officer was able to obtain radar readings on […]

Non-smoker Held At Gunpoint

from The New York Post Oregon woman holds suspected arsonist at gunpoint as wildfires rage By Natalie O’Neill An Oregon woman forced a suspected arsonist to the ground at gunpoint after she found him on her property with matches, dramatic video footage shows. “What are you doing on my property? Did you light anything on fire?” […]