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Alla Demidova at 33, in Rome
Alla Demidova at 33, in Rome. Today this beauty turned 90!
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The Ending of Orson Welles's Lost Film to Be Restored with AI
The American company Fable, founded by the producer Edward Saatchi, is using generative artificial intelligence to restore the lost 43 minutes of Orson Welles's film «The Magnificent Ambersons». Edward Saatchi belongs to the family that founded the advertising agency Saatchi & Saatchi. His company has received investment from
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How the Admiral Kuznetsov Went North
At about nine in the evening on 1 December 1991, Vice-Admiral Yury Ustimenko, First Deputy Commander of the Northern Fleet, came aboard the heavy aircraft-carrying cruiser "Admiral of the Fleet of the Soviet Union Kuznetsov" in Sevastopol. He ordered the ship's captain, Viktor Yarygin,
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A scandal is brewing in American religious circles over Meryl Streep voicing Aslan the Lion
Greta Gerwig's film "Narnia: The Magician's Nephew" is due to reach cinemas in February 2027. Clive Staples Lewis wrote seven books in the "Chronicles of Narnia" cycle, and since 1950 readers have bought more than 100 million copies of them. The talking
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As soon as you say "enough", all your gold will turn to potsherds
The Central Bank will issue collectable roubles dedicated to the cartoon The Golden Antelope. The issue will form part of the series "Russian (Soviet) Animation". In all there will be three versions of the coin. The silver coin with a face value of 3 roubles will be released
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Sophie Marceau Picking Cotton on a Kibbutz in the Golan Heights
A still from the 1991 film Pour Sacha, in which the beautiful violinist Laura, played by Marceau, follows a French professor of philosophy to Israel in 1965. Then the Six-Day War begins… Recommended viewing, if only for Marceau.
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The Guardian has published a lengthy conversation with the writer Salman Rushdie, his wife Rachel Eliza Griffiths and the director Alex Gibney
The attack on the writer took place on 12 August 2022 in Chautauqua, in upstate New York, where Rushdie was due to speak. Griffiths was at home in New York that morning and learned of what had happened by telephone from an acquaintance, the details reaching her only later through
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Daniela Bianchi and Sean Connery during the filming of Terence Young's From Russia with Love, 1963
In the film based on Ian Fleming's novel, Sean Connery plays James Bond for the second time, while Daniela Bianchi plays Tatiana Romanova, a clerk at the Soviet consulate in Istanbul. The young woman does not suspect that she is being manipulated by the criminal organisation SPECTRE, which
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Channel 4 Has Released a Documentary, The Great ADHD Myth?
The British television channel Channel 4 has released a documentary, The Great ADHD Myth? In it, the NHS psychiatrist Max Pemberton tries to establish whether ADHD is a genuine developmental disorder or a social construct, and whether children should be given psychiatric medication at all. Perhaps the best illustration of
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One of the Most Spectacular Sights in the History of World Aviation: the Agitprop Aeroplane of the Magazine Krokodil, an ANT-9 from the Experimental Series
Yes, exactly so: in the 1930s Soviet magazines had aeroplanes of their own. An entire air fleet. The first to think of raising money for an aeroplane of their own was Ogonyok, in 1932, and out of that idea was born the agitprop squadron dedicated to the fortieth anniversary of
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Dear Crocodile, We Need You Very Much
Dear Crocodile, we need you very much. We have a little river. Next to it there is a big chemical factory. It is spoiling the river, and soon there will be no river, only one big inkwell. We are writing to you because you are held in great esteem. Come
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