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• Nicholas Tresilian obituary

  20-08-2023 18:29
  
  My friend and neighbour Nicholas Tresilian, who has died of cancer aged 85, was a broadcaster and entrepreneur who presented BBC Two’s Late Night Line-Up, set up radio stations in eastern Europe and was a co-founder of Classic FM.It was Nicholas’s natural ease and talent on the BBC Two programme Writers’ World with Melvyn Bragg that prompted a producer of Late Night Line-Up (LNLU) to invite him to join the early LNLU team (1964-65). Presenting alongside Joan Bakewell, he interv
  
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• Superstar Gallery LGDR Implodes, Two Years In

  20-08-2023 17:00 via nytimes.com
  
  One gallerist admitted she doesn’t work well by committee; the others are forming something called the “Art Family Office.” – The New York Times
  
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• What Makes AI Run?

  20-08-2023 16:30 via theatlantic.com
  
  Theft. “Pirated books are being used as inputs for computer programs that are changing how we read, learn, and communicate. The future promised by AI is written with stolen words.” – The Atlantic
  
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• There Are No ‘Bad Accents’ In Movies

  20-08-2023 16:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Just witness, if you will, the unbelievably broad “Texas” accent of Uma Thurman in Red, White & Royal Blue. – The New York Times
  
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• Jane Austen’s Dances Of Seduction

  20-08-2023 15:30 via lithub.com
  
  In an Austen novel, when the main characters and their love interests dance, they “move to a subtle sensuality that pulses below the surface, creating an irresistible tension.” – LitHub
  
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• As Warner Bros Releases Its First Big Latino-Led DC Film, Latinx Actors Picket

  20-08-2023 15:00 via latimes.com
  
  In Blue Beetle, the main character “takes a job at a wealthy CEO’s mansion to help his family. … The working-class themes of the film resonated with working actors on the picket lines” at Warner Bros. – Los Angeles Times
  
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• No More Selfies At Chicago’s Bean Until 2024

  20-08-2023 14:30 via hyperallergic.com
  
  What will the Windy City’s next Instagram hot spot become during maintenance on Cloud Gate‘s surrounding plaza?- Hyperallergic
  
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• Ron Cephas Jones, Emmy Winner For This Is Us, Has Died At 66

  20-08-2023 14:00 via variety.com
  
  Jones might have gotten more fame on TV, but he “began his career at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe and his love for the stage was present throughout his entire career.” – Variety
  
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• Edinburgh art festival 2023 review – from a riveting meditation on borders to magnificent monochromes

  20-08-2023 14:00
  
  Various venues
  A thought-provoking film by Turner prize winner Lawrence Abu Hamdan and the unforgettable photographs of Markéta Luskačová are among the highlights of an uneven lineupFilm scene: a wood-panelled library of some elegance on the Canadian-American border. So precisely on the border, in fact, that a line of black duct tape running across the polished marble floor divides the building between Quebec and Vermont.It was here, explains our soft-spoken narrator, that thr
  
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• Netflix Offers DVD Subscribers Ten Extra Discs As Service Ends

  20-08-2023 13:30 via npr.org
  
  But there’s a catch: The company wants them all back. One DVD watcher wonders why. “Because after all, what are they gonna do with them?” – NPR
  
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• The French General Overseeing Notre Dame’s Reconstruction Has Died At 74

  20-08-2023 13:00 via apnews.com
  
  Will this slow the massive project? Macron doesn’t think so. The French president “lamented that ‘Gen. Georgelin will never see the reopening of Notre Dame with his own eyes,’ but added that when it reopens on Dec. 8, 2024, ‘he will be present with us.’'”- Associated Press
  
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