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The second trailer for Gran Turismo arrived, sharing more about the true story of professional racing driver Jann Mardenborough. Mardenborough, who was born in Darlington, County Durham, was the winner of the GT Academy that allowed 90,000 gamers to try to become a professional racing driver. In the movie, he is played by Archie Madekwe, who starred in Apple TV‘s sci-fi series See. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCYHn8mvyF8 A few details about Mardenborough’s life have been changed for the purpose of the movie – his…

Marvel's Jann Of The Jungle uncovers a Communist plot to steal uranium by drugging jungle animals in the debut of her own title in 1955.Jann of the Jungle took over Jungle Tales from Marvel/Atlas with issue #8 in 1955, with one of the coolest and action-packed covers the title ever saw. Look at everything going on down there: a futuristic hero swinging over a cool-looking swamp full of alligators. How cool is that? Jann of the Jungle is a Earth 616 character, though you would be forgiven for not realizing that. You can…

Rock idols, movie stars, and presidential candidates who quoted Bob Dylan—not tech giants—were Rolling Stone’s stock in trade. Wenner knew Steve Jobs and noted some similarities—when they met in the early 1980s they were both long-haired Dylan aficionados who had disrupted their fields—but the two never really hit it off. “We had a conventional occupational disagreement about the future of print,” Wenner says. “He turned out to be right.”I have my own story about Jobs and Wenner. When I interviewed Apple’s cofounder about…

On the Shelf Like a Rolling Stone: A Memoir By Jann WennerLittle, Brown: 592 pages, $35If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support independent bookstores. Some memoirs are deeply introspective; others amount to victory laps sandwiched between covers. Jann Wenner’s “Like a Rolling Stone” falls firmly in the second category. The co-founder and former owner and publisher of Rolling Stone — and still its public face even after a noisy parting of ways…