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This story originally appeared on Jalopnik.When asked how Boeing’s recent door plug incident came about, company CEO Dave Calhoun cryptically explained “a quality escape occurred.” That kind of corporate doublespeak is indicative of the problem at hand. Boeing used to have quality, but it escaped, apparently sometime around when it merged with McDonnell Douglas in 1997. An AI That Helps You Get a Job? | AI UnlockedFor the last three decades, the company has spent substantial amounts of money buying back its own shares to…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeJohn Oliver has shared some surprising casting suggestions for the next star of the Batman movies. The Caped Crusader has been played by some of the biggest stars in Hollywood including Christian Bale, George Clooney, Ben Affleck and most presently by Twilight’s Robert Pattinson in The Batman (2022). But Oliver thinks it could be time to switch things up - suggesting Natasha Lyonne,…

The Alabama Supreme Court’s recent ruling that embryos created using in-vitro-fertilization (IVF) are legally equivalent to people has caused absolute chaos as healthcare providers try to figure out the implications of this new legal status quo. It’s potentially massive and unsettling, as John Oliver pointed out the core absurdity on Last Week Tonight when he joked: “If you freeze an embryo, it’s fine. If you freeze a person, you have some explaining to do.” The ruling, handed down last week, is already impacting…

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Comedian John Oliver is offering Clarence Thomas $1 million a year and a luxury motor coach to resign his post on the Supreme Court. The wild — and Oliver claims, “somehow legal” — offer was made at the end of the 11th-season premiere of Last Week Tonight, the long-running HBO comedy series.  Oliver spent much of the show lampooning the corruption of the Supreme Court. Investigations over recent months — in particular, painstaking reporting by ProPublica — have revealed that conservative justices are living…

‘You might not know what Virginia looks like,” says Oliver Anthony to a sold-out crowd in Glasgow. “But I’m writing about home, and it’s not much different from here.” Last year the ascendant country star, real name Christopher Lunsford, became one of the few unsigned artists to reach No 1 in the US, with Rich Men North of Richmond. An everyman screed against political elites, the song is quintessentially populist: it criticises both the wealthy and welfare recipients, and has been co-opted by Republicans, to Lunsford’s…

Among the raft of reissues from heritage imprints, this one stands out, partly because the author’s writing career lasted little more than six months before her death in a motorcycle accident in 1966 at the age of 22. Diane Oliver published four stories in her lifetime and two more posthumously; they are all included here along with eight stories previously unpublished.Oliver’s subject is the black female experience in 1960s America, in the period when racial segregation was illegal but prejudices remained ingrained – but…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeI have this thing in my head,” Oliver Jackson-Cohen is telling me. “I don’t know where it comes from, but I am always convinced that everything I do is going to be s***. So I’m always pleasantly surprised that it’s not as s***ty as I think.”The London-born actor really doesn’t need to be so anxious. Since landing his breakout role of heroin addict Luke Crain in Mike Flanagan’s Netflix…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeOliver Stone has apologised for “speaking ignorantly” while discussing Greta Gerwig’s box office blockbuster Barbie and lead man Ryan Gosling in a resurfaced interview. The Natural Born Killers filmmaker, 77, said Gosling is “wasting his time” making movies like Barbie instead of “more serious films” in an interview published weeks before its release. After his interview with CityAM…

Oliver Stone, one of the acclaimed film directors of Hollywood, finally put his words publically about 2023’S blockbuster “Barbie” directed by Greta Gerwig. Barbie starring Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling gained immense love from the audience. The movie breaks the stereotype of the Barbie world and sheds light on feminism. But Oliver Stone, known to be a great critic in Hollywood, talked about this movie and Ryan Gosling’s character in quite an adverse way. In an interview with City AM, this “Wall Street”…