Danny Cohen, who served as the executive producer on the Academy Award-winning film “The Zone of Interest,” revealed Friday that he does not support the acceptance speech made by director Jonathan Glazer at the 2024 Oscars. In the speech, Glazer, 58 drew parallels between Nazi Germany and the ongoing conflict in Gaza. In his acceptance … Read more
In interviews, Glazer has spoken of “The Zone of Interest” as being made up of two films. One is what we see in the foreground: the family members going about their day, doing chores, celebrating birthdays, playing in the yard. The other is what you hear, and it sounds like the pit of hell. The … Read more
In “Anatomy of a Scene,” we ask directors to reveal the secrets that go into making key scenes in their movies. See new episodes in the series on Fridays. You can also watch our collection of more than 150 videos on YouTube and subscribe to our YouTube channel. This sequence from “The Zone of Interest,” … Read more
“Hello, my name is Jonathan Glazer, and I’m the writer and director of the ‘Zone of Interest.’ So we open the sequence on a prisoner gardener, one of whose duties is to clean Rudolf Höss, the commandant’s boots. So everything you’re going to see in this scene was shot simultaneously with 10 cameras. We’re watching … Read more
“The Zone of Interest,” the acclaimed Holocaust drama that’s up for Best Picture at the 2024 Oscars, will have its Polish premiere on Thursday at the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum. According to Variety, director Jonathan Glazer will introduce the harrowing film at the site of the Auschwitz concentration camp, where parts of the movie were … Read more
Greg Olsen isn’t backing away from the idea of becoming the next head coach of the Carolina Panthers. Asked on the Rich Eisen Show if he’d be “interested” in the job, the former Panther and current FOX broadcaster said: “Who wouldn’t [be]? Obviously, this is a city that I love, this is a team that I … Read more
The Salinger family is back together again… sort of. “Party of Five” stars Lacey Chabert and Scott Wolf once played brother and sister on the hit Fox family drama, and now, they’re portraying siblings once again. Wolf, 55, and Chabert, 41, are starring in Hallmark’s newest holiday flick, “A Merry Scottish Christmas.” But the “Everwood” … Read more
Dodi Fayed’s ill-fated love affair with Princess Diana played out tragically in the public eye. But few people know that the Egyptian billionaire romanced a stunning American model just before he began dating Diana in the summer of 1997. Fayed and Kentucky-born Kelly Fisher were together for close to a year before he was linked … Read more
Pink is for girls’ names. The “Barbie” movie has grossed more than a billion dollars worldwide — and eight months from now, a million more Barbies could be saying “hi” to the world, info from one popular baby naming website suggests. According to Nameberry, searches for “Barbie” have surged by 603% since April, when the … Read more
Inventor Nikola Tesla was born on this day in history, July 10, 1856, in what is now Croatia. Tesla’s father was a priest in the Serbian Orthodox Church, notes Encyclopedia Britannica. His mother, while uneducated, was “highly intelligent.” The younger Tesla took a keen interest in science at a young age. Around the age of six, … Read more
A new subvariant of COVID-19 is increasing in the US and is now responsible for nearly 10% of all new cases, according to alerts from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and World Health Organization. The CDC estimates that omicron strain XBB.1.16 — more commonly known as “Arcturus” — was the cause of 9.6% … Read more
DEAR ABBY: I am a woman in my late 30s. I have had a few failed relationships and a marriage that ended in divorce. At one point, I juggled three lovers at a time. I like being in a committed relationship, but I have yet to be faithful to any partner I have ever dated. … Read more
One dating app has made a huge step with the inclusion of a new feature to keep up with an emerging relationship style recently hitting headlines thanks to Abbie Chatfield. Hinge included a “relationship type” addition where people can reveal if they are looking for or are in a non-monogamous relationship, looking for monogamy or … Read more