Dream

Andy Partridge knew that he would never perform live again as he lay on a stretcher in a Los Angeles emergency room between two gunshot victims. His band XTC did not know it, but they had just played their final show. “My dream had died,” says Partridge, his voice cracking at the memory 40 years on.It was 1982 and the British group were riding a commercial high off the back of what is still their best-known song, Making Plans for Nigel. But Partridge was suffering. He had been attempting to get off the Valium he had been…

The man with the white face entered the carriage at Rugby. He moved slowly in spite of the urgency of his porter, and even while he was still on the platform I noted how ill he seemed. He dropped into the corner over against me with a sigh, made an incomplete attempt to arrange his travelling shawl, and became motionless, with his eyes staring vacantly. Presently he was moved by a sense of my observation, looked up at me, and put out a spiritless hand for his newspaper. Then he glanced again in my direction.H.G.…

Happy Birthday Hema Malini: Hema Malini turns 74 today! Malini is better known for starring in both comic and dramatic roles. She is the most successful actress, director, producer, and politician. Malini got her breakthrough role in 1968 in Sapno Ka Saudagar. Since then she became unstoppable and went on to star in several Hindi films, frequently opposite Dharmendra, whom she married in 1980. Hema Malini shares two daughters, Esha Deol and Ahana Deol, with Dharmendra. To mark her mother’s special day, Esha shared a…

Image: Amazon AudibleThere is a certain charm to immersive experiences at comic cons. If you get the right concept, the right actors, the right vibe, you can transform a 10-to-15 minute timeslot into something transportive and intriguing. That is, of course, if everything goes right. And for the The Sandman’s immersive experience at NYCC, which celebrated the Audible-exclusive audiobook of the novelization of The Sandman: Act III, there was something very charming about those 15 minutes. I know, I know, it’s a mouthful,…

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Why the sci-fi dream of cryonics never died When Aaron Drake flew from Arizona to the Yinfeng Biological Group in China in 2016, he was traveling there to guide China’s first forays into cryonics, or freezing corpses for reanimation.Drake had spent the previous seven years as the medical response director of the Alcor Life Extension Foundation, a small nonprofit that…

The environment was something of a shift for Drake, who had spent the previous seven years as the medical response director of the Alcor Life Extension Foundation. Though it was the longtime leader in cryonics, Alcor was still a small nonprofit. It had been freezing the bodies and brains of its members, with the idea of one day bringing them back to life, since 1976.  The foundation, and cryonics in general, had long survived outside of mainstream acceptance. Typically shunned by the scientific community, cryonics is…

Back in 2006, when Ryan Phillippe was 32, he flew to Costa Rica in the hope of escaping a media maelstrom. He and his wife of seven years, Reese Witherspoon, had announced they were separating, and the LA paparazzi, then at its peak madness, pursued him everywhere. So he left the country in search of anonymity. No such luck: when he landed, some people excitedly approached him.“They said to me, ‘Excuse me, are you Justin Timberlake?’” Phillippe, now 48, recalls with a self-deprecating chuckle.Phillippe is talking to me by…

Dream, a 23-year-old gamer, who rose to fame during Covid-19 pandemic for how he plays Minecraft – Microsoft’s computer game – met his fans at Twitch’s annual convention last week. The player showed his face for the first time to more than 50 million fans across the internet. He is a celebrity who seemingly has mastered the art of playing one of the best-selling games of all time.Dream, who's real name is Clay, streams the game on Twitch. He provides solutions to obstacles and even alters the game's code to make engaging…

Masked Youtuber and Minecraft streamer Dream has said he’s “done everything you can possible do” in the game and spoken about making different types of content in the future. Dream (real name Clay) recently revealed his face to the world after three years of streaming or appearing at public events while wearing a mask. And in his first face-to-face interview, the Minecraft streamer told Bloomberg “I feel like I’ve done everything you can possibly do in that game.” He went on to say how his content will still focus on…

Getting a text from your friends can, in some cases, make a good day into a great one. No one knows this better than writer/director Edgar Wright, who recently revealed that he received what he considered to be a “dream text” in the recent past. All it took was a moment in Top Gun: Maverick, one of 2022’s new movie releases, to send Wright off on a joyful quest to make one of the film’s scenes absolutely perfect.Wright revealed this story while promoting his BBC Maestro class in an interview with THR. Recalling a moment…