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The man who pleaded guilty to the murder of Jacqueline Avant in her Beverly Hills home last year shot her in the back and later laughed and bragged about the killing, according to court records reviewed by The Times.Aariel Maynor allegedly bragged to a friend in a phone call from jail that he would serve only 20 to 25 years because Los Angeles County prosecutors did not file special circumstances murder that could have meant life without parole or the death penalty, a sentencing document filed by prosecutors shows.Dist.…

When Jacqueline Durran was crafting the costumes for the Barbie film, which whipped the world into a hot-pink frenzy last summer, she first worked out all of Barbie’s outfits – and then she “fitted Ken in”. He is, says the British costume designer perhaps best known for her work on period dramas, “the accessory to what she’s wearing.”The notion of a clinger-on Ken clearly amused the cast and crew, as much as it tickled the rest of us when the film exploded on to our screens. “Greta had this great image of ‘Kens’,” says…

Image: Warner Bros.It was perhaps inevitable after last year saw Everything, Everywhere, All at Once take pretty much everything, everywhere at the 2023 Oscars, but 2024's nominations are here, and for the most part sci-fi, fantasy, other genre movies’ representations are solidified around a few notable hits—and even then, mostly Barbie.Spoilers of the Week | June 17thBarbie scored 8 nominations in total, with nods for Ryan Gosling in Best Supporting Actor, Best Picture, Costume Design, Best Original Song, Best Adapted…

Identical twins are always a source of fascination, and Jacqueline Roy’s novel charts the lives of a pair, Selina and Zora, who seem even closer than most. “We were joined at the hip – that’s not a metaphor,” insists Zora, in a striking first line; she claims to remember the operation that severed their tiny, conjoined bodies as babies. But separating herself emotionally from her sister in adulthood will prove more difficult.Zora and Selina are born to a white mother and Black father in south London. We get two accounts…

Fire Rush springs from the well of the personal. Please talk about its genesis and how it has travelled with you for nearly a decade. Author Jacqueline Crooks (Courtesy the subject) I was living in a remote mountain village when I started to think about the dub-reggae music that I had danced to 30 years ago, part of the Black sound revolution. The silence of that village created space for memories of that supra-watt loud subterranean world of dub-reggae dancehalls. People, riots, racist murders, Thatcherism. I…

In this startling debut novel, longlisted for the Women’s prize, a young woman is lured into an underworld of violent gangsters, and communes with her Jamaican ancestors through DJ toasting over dub music. Jacqueline Crooks has crafted a richly textured world, artfully drawing on her youthful experience of raves and gangs in 1970s west London, as well as supernatural beliefs in Obeah (an African diasporic tradition of healing and spell-casting).The second-generation Caribbean migrants in Fire Rush are habituated to life…

Conman Sukesh Chandrashekar allegedly gifted Bollywood actress Jacqueline Fernandez’s agent Prashanth a Ducati Scrambler superbike in a bid to win over the actress. The Delhi police has seized the Ducati Scrambler superbike. Ms. Fernandez’s agent has said that although he was forcibly gifted the Ducati, he never rode it. He has also added that he asked Sukesh to take back the superbike. From the pictures of the seized Ducati Scrambler released on the internet, it appears that the superbike has been ridden. The telltale…

Mrs. Serial Killer is one of the stupidest movies of all time. I wish I was exaggerating, but if anything, that feels like an understatement. Its characters act unbelievably stupidly to serve the plot. They fall for someone doing a terrible job at pretending. They are intentionally terrible at their actual jobs. Or they don't object to someone doing their job terribly. And at times, they try to stalk people a few feet away while driving a giant SUV on empty, narrow lanes in the middle of the night. They aren't actually…

Jacqueline Fernandez has shared the first poster from her next Hollywood film. The anthology, which has been directed by eight women filmmakers, is titled Tell It Like A Woman. The actor said that she is 'proud' of being part of the project, which also stars Jennifer Hudson, Taraji P Henson, and Cara Delevingne, among others. Also Read| Jacqueline Fernandez supports homeland Sri Lanka amid economical-political crisisJacqueline took to her Instagram account on Friday to share the poster, which featured a picture of her,…

The children’s author, Dame Jacqueline Wilson, has said her elderly mother slept with a gun beneath her pillow.Wilson, creator of the Tracy Beaker series, told an audience at the Hay festival in Wales that she was the daughter of a character more colourful than any she had written – and that she was terrified her mother might shoot her by accident, and persuaded her to get rid of it.Speaking in a talk recorded for BBC Radio 4’s This Cultural Life, she recalled how she had made the discovery: “One time, when she was very…