Edith

From the moment she stepped out of the limo outside the infamous Bachelor Mansion, Edith Aguirre made jaws drop. The flowing pearlescent gray hair, the sexy gold lamé gown, the warm smile — Aguirre was immediately the star of my and countless other group chats. Mine resoundingly agreed that she is who we all want to be someday. “Edith is a mega babe!” the group chat message chimed. “I ASPIRE.”The 61-year-old was the first contestant to meet Gerry Turner, who has taken the lead role in ABC’s “The Golden Bachelor,” with an…

Sixty years after her death, Édith Piaf’s voice will be re-created using AI to narrate her biopic.As reported by Variety, Warner Music Group (WMG) has partnered with the Piaf estate to produce the feature-length film Edith. Artificial intelligence has been trained to replicate Piaf’s voice by feeding it hundreds of voice clips, with WMG promising the resultant re-creation will “further enhance the authenticity and emotional impact of her story”.Animation will be used to provide “a modern take” on the La Vie en Rose…

“Animation will provide a modern take on her story,” the music company says French singer Édith Piaf will become the subject of a new animated biopic, using AI to generate her voice and image 60 years after her death, Warner Music Group announced. The film, Edith — which was made in collaboration between Warner Music, Piaf’s estate, and production company Seriously Happy — is set in Paris and New York from the 1920s to the 1960s. Piaf’s AI-generated voice will narrate the film and will include…

Singer Edith PiafKeystone-france | Gamma-keystone | Getty ImagesWarner Music plans to use artificial intelligence to recreate the voice and image of French artist and singer Edith Piaf, nearly 60 years after her death, the company said Tuesday.The efforts are part of the production behind a biopic about Piaf, titled "Edith."News of the project comes as Hollywood grapples with anxiety over AI. It was a major point of contention in the recent writers' and actors' strikes, with the unions and studios clashing over guardrails…

My mother, Edith Velmans, who has died aged 97, was called “the Anne Frank who lived” after publishing her memoir of her life as a “hidden” Jewish teenager in Holland during the second world war.Born in The Hague into an assimilated, non-religious Jewish family, Edith was one of three children of David (Dago) van Hessen, a businessman in the timber trade, and his wife, Adelheid. She had a happy, carefree childhood in a loving household filled with music, art and fun until the Germans invaded Holland in May 1940, when she…

Ethan Frome is not your typical festive book. There are no fabulous parties or thawed hearts, no warming morals about the power of togetherness realised with a fireplace crackling somewhere in the background. In fact, Edith Wharton’s 1911 novella is a melancholy, mean little story, as chilly in tone as the lonely Massachusetts landscape with its “sheet of snow perpetually renewed from … pale skies”. And yet, there’s something in it that makes it a perfect read for those slushy days between Christmas and new year. Perhaps…

It’s a free upgrade for those who already own it 2017 was a stellar year for video games. So many excellent titles launched that you might have even let some slip you by. And if What Remains of Edith Finch is one of you, there’s some good news: this emotional story is out now on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S. Revealed as part of today’s Annapurna Interactive summer showcase, What Remains of Edith Finch got a next-gen update today, bringing Giant Sparrow’s adventure game to the new console hardware. It arrives with 4K…

A free update for 2017’s What Remains Of Edith Finch has received a surprise launch today (July 28), bringing a host of improvements for current-gen consoles. What Remains Of Edith Finch made a brief appearance at publisher Annapurna Interactive’s Showcase, where it was revealed that a free update has added 4K support and 60 FPS for Xbox Series X|S and PS5 versions of the game. The update, which was rumoured earlier in the month when fans spotted it getting rated, is free for existing PS4 and Xbox One updates, and is…

What Remains of Edith Finch, the interactive adventure game from Annapurna Interactive, could be coming to the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S soon. There’s no official announcement as yet, but Twisted Voxel reported that they’d “managed to dig out a listing for these games on the Taiwan Game Rating website” which shows a native PS5 and Xbox Series X release of the game. The listings haven’t been mentioned publicly by studio Giant Sparrow, but ratings are very rarely incorrect, and with the Annapurna Interactive…