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The former president owes a lot of money in Manhattan Civil Court, and he has to prove he can pay it in order to appeal the rulings against him Donald Trump owes a lot of money in New York — including the state itself — after being found liable in multiple civil trials in Manhattan Court. He really, really, really, doesn’t want to pay up. On Friday, the former president posted a $91.6 million bond in order to appeal the ruling against him in a civil defamation case brought against him by author E.…

Daniel Craig was the latest actor to take on the license-to-kill secret agent James Bond. But with No Time to Die being Craig’s final James Bond film, it still leaves the question of who will take on these big shoes. Austin Butler gave an A+ reaction back when he pictured himself as the next James Bond, but all I can picture is the Ian Fleming character with an Elvis accent.Austin Butler truly has come a long way since his child star days on Disney Channel and Nickelodeon. Now that Elvis has shown the American actor’s…

Pamela Salem, known for her role as James Bond’s secretary Miss Moneypenny in Sean Connery’s Never Say Never Again, has died at the age of 80. The British actor, who also had a role in 1978 crime film The Great Train Robbery opposite Connery, died on Wednesday according to Big Finish Productions.Born in 1944 in India, she attended Heidelberg university in Germany and the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama in London, before starting in repertory theatre in Chesterfield and York. She also appeared in US drama series…

Released in 1962, Dr No starred Connery as the British secret agent in a groundbreaking action film that became a worldwide hit. It also established one of the longest-running and highest-grossing film franchises. Here we go behind the scenes, with Connery, Ursula Andress and author Ian Fleming • James Bond: Dr No is published by Taschen on 1 March Released in…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeFor the first time in his career, Jeffrey Wright is up for a Best Actor Oscar. I meet the star of the slippery new satire American Fiction before any announcements have been made. Still, Wright, dressed all in black in a slick London hotel, is aware of the awards buzz. “Yes”, he concedes demurely, “it’s swirling around.”Wright is known in the industry as “Mr Dependable” – a…

It’s time for his fans to face facts. Henry Cavill‘s probably never going to be James Bond. I know, I know, he’s been hanging around the top contenders to replace Daniel Craig for years and years now. After all, he was runner-up to take on the part of 007 when Craig himself landed the gig for 2006’s Casino Royale. He only lost out at the time due to his youth and the fact he hadn’t quite become a human mountain yet. Cavill’s made his love for Bond clear many times since, but with a new franchise reset imminent,…

The role of James Bond on the big screen is one of the most coveted in film. When the role is available, as it is now, the talk surrounding who it could be is nearly endless. Henry Cavill is one of the names that is being thrown around now as a potential successor for Daniel Craig, but Cavill competed with Craig for the role the last time it was up for grabs, and it sounds like he may have gotten closer to it than even he realized.Cavill and his Argylle director Matthew Vaughn were interviewed by Sirius XM recently and…

Lashana Lynch is cocooned in a full-length padded coat and beanie, looking inconspicuous as a friend checks her into the well-known London members’ club we have arranged to meet in, then leaves. Lynch sees me and grins, yet I can’t help but picture the 36-year-old actor axe-kicking me in the face. That was more her speed with a history-making turn as M16 agent Nomi, the spy who takes over the 007 code number in Daniel Craig’s 2021 swansong Bond film No Time to Die. Today, though, she’s unassuming. So much so that no one…

Sign up to Roisin O’Connor’s free weekly newsletter Now Hear This for the inside track on all things musicGet our Now Hear This email for freeRapper and actor Skepta has said that boredom around the debate of who would play “the Black James Bond” prompted him to create his own film about an undercover secret service agent.The Mercury Prize-winning grime artist born Joseph Olaitan Adenuga Jr, who rose to fame with singles including “Shutdown” and “That’s Not Me”, is making his debut as a director, actor and producer with…

If you spend much time in the dog-loving corners of the Internet, you’ve probably heard of Jen Golbeck—or you’ve at least seen her dogs.As a computer scientist at the University of Maryland who studies social media, Golbeck wanted to create a space on these platforms that felt like a respite from the widespread anger she’d witnessed across the political spectrum after the 2016 presidential election. Every day for the past seven years, she and her husband have shared photographs and videos of the “Golden Ratio”—their punny…