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Leon Vitali, the Barry Lyndon actor who became one of Stanley Kubrick’s closest associates, has died at the age of 74.Vitali died on Friday in Los Angeles, his family said on Sunday. He died peacefully surrounded by loved ones including his three children, Masha, Max and Vera.“Leon was a special and lovely man driven by his curiosity, who spread love and warmth wherever he went,” his children said. “He will be remembered with love and be hugely missed by the many people he touched.”Though Vitali was often described as…

By Lindsey Bahr | Associated Press Leon Vitali, the “Barry Lyndon” actor who became one of Stanley Kubrick’s closest associates, has died. He was 74. Vitali died Friday in Los Angeles, his family told The Associated Press Sunday. Though Vitali was often described as Kubrick’s assistant, Tony Zierra’s 2017 documentary “ Filmworker ” shed light on Vitali’s enormous and largely unsung contributions to the work of one of cinema’s greatest figures from “The Shining” through “Eyes Wide Shut.” He did everything from casting and…

Stanley Kubrick collaborator Leon Vitali has died, aged 74.Vitali, who not only appeared in two Kubrick films, but worked as the director’s personal assistant, was described by the Kubrick estate on Sunday (21 August) as “the mainstay of a vast number of Kubrick’s films”.He had roles in 1975’s Barry Lydon, in which he played Lord Bullingdon, and Eyes Wide Shut (1999), which also features a nod to Vitali in the form of a newspaper headline read by Tom Cruise’s lead character.It was after his role in the former that Vitali…

Forget your T-shirt cannons or pre-set DJ; no tool entertains a crowd quite like a fancam. Raised on sports games and rodeos, Nashville heroes Kings of Leon know its appeal, and have taken the title of their latest album When You See Yourself quite literally, plunging cameras deep into Leeds arena for an easy dose of audience participation. For a good half-hour before they arrive, the room fills with laughter and cheesy grins, creating a warmth around a band that have often been portrayed as impenetrably cold.You don’t go…

A simple guide to transform your code from notebooks to executable scriptsPhoto by James Harrison on UnsplashHello World! In this article, I will present a simple guide on modularising your notebooks into executable scripts.Previously Geoffrey Hung shared an extremely comprehensive article on how you can transform your Jupyter Notebooks into Scripts. However, during my quest to productionise models, I found that there are some gaps in modularising the notebooks from .ipynb into .py and running the entire pipeline of…

The Innoson Oil & Gas limited announced Saturday it is on the verge of discovering a huge deposit of 8.2 trillion cubic feet (TCF) and 234 MMbbl of gas and condensate in its Sierra Leonean basin. A statement by Cornel Osigwe, head of Corporate Communications of the company, said that an independent energy consulting firm, Ryder Scott Company, confirmed Innoson Oil & Gas Ltd’s findings from a rigorous hydrocarbon exploration campaign it had been conducting in the Sierra Leonean…