They thought she was cute kitty — until her claws came out. A German animal shelter got an unpleasant surprise when staffers discovered a seemingly abandoned kitten was actually an aggressive European wildcat. A good Samaritan found the tiny creature on the road and after taking it home, realized it was feisty and refused to … Read more
Nobody’s ever really known what to do with Mary Flannery O’Connor. They didn’t know when she was alive, and they haven’t known since she died in 1964, at 39, after years of battling through lupus to write her nervy, weird stories about Southerners, sin, religion and the God to whom she prayed so fervently. Her … Read more
Bedridden and anguished, the writer Flannery O’Connor is visited by a priest (Liam Neeson in a cameo) in “Wildcat,” starring Maya Hawke. Tormented by spiritual agony and the systemic lupus that would kill her at 39, O’Connor, a lifelong Catholic, beseeches him: “I long for grace,” she cries. “I see it, I know it’s there, … Read more
Maya Hawke says making “Wildcat” with her dad, Ethan Hawke, felt effortless. “We’ve spent our whole lives making things together, talking about art, seeing plays, going to art museums,” she told The Post at a recent Cinema Society screening of their movie, “Wildcat.” “Working on plays in the living room, helping me with audition tapes … Read more