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Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) on Thursday compared Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg to the nation’s largest tobacco companies’ executives, who testified before Congress in 1994 that they did not believe tobacco was addictive. In an interview on “CNN This Morning,” Durbin said Zuckerberg made an “outrageous statement” during the Wednesday hearing when he suggested there was no causal link between social media use and negative mental health effects. “It harkens me back to a moment in history…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeAdam Driver’s “outrageous” Italian accent in the new movie Ferrari has divided fans after the film’s worldwide theatrical release on Christmas Day. Driver, 40, plays the titular role of Ferrari founder, Italian race car driver and entrepreneur Enzo Ferrari in the new biopic from Heat director Michael Mann. The film also stars Penélope Cruz as Enzo’s wife Laura Ferrari, Shailene Woodley…

Royal Enfield holds a heritage position in India and various global markets. The motorcycles from this brand are immensely popular for customization, making them among the most personalized bikes globally. While we’ve seen several useful and practical modifications on Royal Enfield bikes, this time, we present ten outrageous alterations on Royal Enfields from India. Mad Max Yes, we all love the Mad Max vehicles because of how outrageous they look. But in real world scenarios, they will never fit the scenarios. This…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeRosamund Pike has shared some line of improvised dialogue that ended up being cut from her new movie Saltburn.The film by Emerald Fennell, considered among the year’s most divisive, arrived on streaming service Prime Video today.Speaking to Variety, Pike revealed that she improvised a conversation with co-star Jacob Elordi regarding his character Felix’s doomed love life.“There was a…

The Russell brothers had barely finished the signature routine of the act — a bit involving the boys dressed as immigrant servant girls that had traditionally left audiences in hysterics — before a soundtrack of boos filled the theater. They had crossed a line with their material, and now they were going to pay the price. The duo would essentially be banned from performing anywhere. They received death threats. Offers for gigs around the country were rescinded. Anti-defamation groups began organizing protests and…

According to the president of COP28, the latest round of UN climate negotiations in the United Arab Emirates, there is "no science" indicating that phasing out fossil fuels is necessary to restrict global heating to 1.5°C.President Sultan Al Jaber is wrong. There is a wealth of scientific evidence demonstrating that a fossil fuel phase-out will be essential for reining in the greenhouse gas emissions driving climate change. I know because I have published some of it.Back in 2021, just before the COP26 climate summit in…

Electric motors don't much care whether they're going forwards or backwards – certainly not as much as passengers tend to. So the latest Guinness World Record for Rimac's electric Nevera hypercar is the fastest speed ever recorded in reverse.The record was confirmed at the Automotive Testing Papenburg facility in Germany – incidentally, the same place where the Nevera broke 23 world records in a single day back in May. In the name of "a bit of fun," Rimac Test Driver Goran Drndak hopped in the Nevera, selected reverse…

I adored Julian. I’ve never met anyone like him. Our first encounter was in 1987, when I was casting my first film, Stormy Monday. We had a coffee in the Hyatt hotel on Sunset Boulevard and he basically thrust himself forward and said: “I’ve got to play this part! This is me.”He was so pushy but I found his boldness very endearing. He was wrong for the role; I ended up casting Sean Bean. But I was very tickled by his enthusiasm and we became friends.We would go to concerts with his wife, Evgenia. I immediately got along…

Kenneth Anger was the dark and brilliant magus of Hollywood lore; a reclusive figure who had in his own lifetime assumed the status of myth or pop-culture rumour. He was virtually the Aleister Crowley of movie legend. He was the master of underground cinema and creator of avant-gardist short films treasured by connoisseurs as equivalent in importance to those of Maya Deren and Jonas Mekas.But unusually for a film-maker, his masterpiece was in the medium of the written word: his outrageous, scabrous and scurrilous supposed…

Bryan Cranston Played Walter White In The Iconic Breaking Bad(Photo Credit –Poster From Breaking Bad) One has to give credit to the creators and the team of Breaking Bad for creating a product that has managed to stay relevant even with the shift in generations and continues to widen its fanbase even years after ending the run. Jesse Pinkman and Walter White played by Aaron Paul and Bryan Cranston respectively, became household names to the extent that they now enjoy a fan base much bigger than some trending…