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Quordle 696 answer for December 21: Alternating the difficulty level, today's Quordle puzzle is on the easier end. Yesterday, the puzzle was truly difficult and many must have lost their streak to it. However, today is a new day and you must focus on rebuilding or improving your streak now. An easy puzzle does mean ease of solving, but it also means that not being able to solve would bring you below others. Do not make the same mistake. Check the Quordle hints and clues right now and know how to systematically take down…

Your dad’s favorite streamer, Ninja, will attempt his best Dick Clark impression (or do the kids only know Ryan Seacrest now?) and will host his own New Year’s Eve event that will stream on Twitch, YouTube, and TikTok. According to a report in Variety, the event, known as “Ninja’s NYE,” will feature appearances from other top streamers, giveaways, a Fortnite tournament, and a countdown to midnight.The event is meant to appeal to Gen Z with promises that it’s not your parents’ New Year’s Eve ball drop. “Ditch your TV and…

Stay ahead of the trend in fashion and beyond with our free weekly Lifestyle Edit newsletterStay ahead of the trend in fashion and beyond with our free weekly Lifestyle Edit newsletter The last time John Lennon’s one-time lover May Pang was visited by his ghost, it was while she was watching an episode of Law & Order. “But when you talk about stuff like this, people think you’re imagining it or are a little crazy,” the 73-year-old says. “So I don’t ever talk about it.”For someone so savvy, Pang is astonishingly…

Revered and reviled U.S. diplomat Henry Kissinger, whose death at 100 on Nov. 29 was met with the widespread view that his realpolitik was responsible for some of this country’s worst global war crimes, loved American celebrity — both his own, an expression of state power, as well as that of others, especially performers. He was “the ultimate starfucker,” noted Daniel Drezner, professor of international politics at the Tufts University’s Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, in an appraisal published earlier…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeGlen Powell has addressed the dating rumours that swirled around him and Sydney Sweeney while they were promoting their new filmPowell, 35, and Sweeney, 26, co-star in the forthcoming romantic comedy Anyone But You about two people who hate each other but can’t escape one another while on holiday in Sydney, Australia.During the film’s production and later during its press run, photos…

“All I ever wanted to do was play Shakespeare, nothing else. It was a kind of zenith for me,” says Judi Dench, discussing her first professional role (Ophelia with the Old Vic) straight out of drama school in 1957. Despite the book’s jokily disparaging subtitle – “the man who pays the rent” is how Dench and her late husband,Michael Williams, used to refer to the Bard when they both worked for the Royal Shakespeare Company during the 1970s – her passion for Shakespeare shines through every conversation reproduced here.The…

Oppenheimer is finally out in theaters, and while it looks certain at this rate that its perennial rival Barbie will be swiping the box office belt, in no way does that diminish the impact of the raw, cinematic power that Christopher Nolan and company have cooked up here. Indeed, it wouldn’t be wise to go into Oppenheimer expecting a run-of-the-mill biopic; the bold, unconventional stylization of its narrative is one that only Nolan would dare — and succeed — to build, and the profound conundrums it explores, such as the…

Writing during the period of the Harlem renaissance in 1940, Langston Hughes reflects the times: Landlord, landlordMy roof has sprung a leak.Don’t you ’member I told you about itWay last week? Hughes’ thrillingly lyrical reportage in one of my favourite poems, The Ballad of the Landlord, is a familiar gripe about, among other things, the disrepair that plagues thousands of tenants.He reminds us of what we already know: the rent is too damn high. In Britain, the leaks have been sprung, the rents are the highest on record,…

There’s some soap-operatic gusto to this story of two teenage gay women in a Jehovah’s Witness community in Quebec; it’s got something of Jeanette Winterson’s tenderness, if not exactly the wit, and the movie is interesting and even faintly subversive in its implied analogies concerning conversion and enclosed behaviour systems.Anwen O’Driscoll brings some Anna Kendrick energy to the role of Jaime, a smart teen whose mum suffers a breakdown after the death of her dad from a heart attack. She has been sent away to live…

Vanderpump Rules Reunion: Lala Kent Regrets Lashing Out At Raquel Leviss (Picture Credit: Instagram) Lala Kent regrets attacking Raquel Leviss at the ‘Vanderpump Rules’ reunion. The 32-year-old star has revealed that she regrets how she approached her co-star during the reunion, after it was revealed that Raquel had a months-long affair with Tom Sandoval. Speaking to TMZ, Lala explained: “In the moment during the reunion, after I left, I felt dirty. “After watching last night when she had finally had the breakdown –…