Ruth

Over the past two decades you might have seen Italian-born bassist Ruth Goller playing with dozens of line-ups at the punkier end of London’s jazz and improv scene. She’s performed with Acoustic Ladyland, Melt Yourself Down, Sons of Kemet and Let Spin, and featured with artists as diverse as Alabaster DePlume, Marc Ribot, Rokia Traoré and Damon Albarn, usually playing intricate, wiry basslines on her short-scale Mustang bass guitar, using a plectrum.This solo project, however, sees her creating a very different sonic…

In November 2021, Samantha Ruth Prabhu announced she would work with Downton Abbey's director Philip John for an Indo-British project. The English film is an on-screen adaptation of Timeri N Murari’s best-selling 2004 novel The Arrangements of Love. The coming-of-age rom-com, however, will now see Shruti Haasan headline the project, along with Viveik Kalra. (Also Read: Shruti Haasan talks about her Salaar co-star Prabhas: ‘He is powerful and magnetic’) Samantha was initially roped in for the on-screen adaptation…

Actress Shruti Haasan will be headlining the India-UK film co-production `Chennai Story.` She said that she is all ready to take forward a culturally-rooted story to an international audience. `Chennai Story` is an English-language film interspersed with Tamil and Welsh. Shruti said, "Hailing from Chennai, a story showing the diversity and uniqueness of Chennai is so special to me - collaborating with Phil is something I`m so excited to experience, telling global and rooted stories through international collaboration is…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeA Spanish journalist and author has filed a criminal complaint against Gérard Depardieu for allegedly raping her during an interview nearly three decades ago in Paris.Ruth Baza, 51, filed the complaint with Spain’s national police last week for the alleged rape, becoming one of more than a dozen women who have accused the French actor of sexual abuse.Baza has alleged that she was 23…

Down Here You’re With the PossibleOne more twitchof a forked twigfathom-testing the blind inner life.No time now for truth or darecovering mirrorsso we can’t see spirits of the dead.We need the real thinga clearview from on highwhere we can stand above the lochcatch the flicker of a burnreflecting emerald sky-foamfrom Aurora Borealisfailing muscles of the Gulf Streamand the two-hundred-and-fifty-million-year coreof the Chacaltaya Glacieronce the highest ski resort on earthnow shingleand a fossil-feather memoryof ice.This…

I must have been 20 when I first learnt of Ruth Vanita. She was the co-editor, along with the historian Saleem Kidwai (d 2021), her “hamdil, hamraaz, hamdaastaan”, of the monumental Same-Sex Love in India: Readings from Literature and History (2000). I don’t remember precisely when I first got hold of the book but I remember its lightning strike. I remember how its cheap photocopy became one of my most precious student possessions. It was like some strangers had handed me — someone then gingerly stepping into his own…

Actor Ruth Wilson has claimed that Hollywood puts pressure on female actors to have cosmetic procedures. Although Wilson, 41, hasn’t got any enhancements, she admits to being afraid that not having any treatments could leave her looking older than her peers, an international portal reported. She told an international daily, “As an actress, everyone does it. Very few resist. I haven’t done anything yet. But it’s in my head. Do you decide not to, and therefore potentially look older than your peers?…

Ruth Wilson hitches the skin by her ears to demonstrate how she’d look if she had “those little wires” sewn into her face, by which she means a thread lift. “Just that would make the world of difference,” she says. She is 41 and “everyone” around her talks about Botox “and what to fill their face with”. This is not in response to any question of mine. This is Ruth Wilson freewheeling on how confusing she finds the notion of “female empowerment” in 2023. “As an actress, everyone does it. Very few resist. I haven’t done…

EA Sports has officially announced Super Mega Baseball 4, and it sounds like it's changing things up in a big way for the humorous and lighthearted baseball series.Super Mega Baseball 4 is now a licensed game, featuring more than 200 real-life baseball players. Retired Red Sox slugger David Ortiz is on the cover, and the roster also includes baseball legends like Jose Bautista, Babe Ruth, and Hank Aaron. These real-life players will hit the field alongside a roster of fictional characters. The game…

Ruth E. Carter is the first Black woman to win two Oscars. In 2019, she became the first Black person to win the Oscar for costume design for her work on Marvel`s `Black Panther`. At the 95th Academy Awards, she was once again recognised for the film`s sequel, `Wakanda Forever`, reports `Variety`. Carter, according to `Variety`, beat out Catherine Martin, who won the BAFTA and Costume Designers Guild awards for her work on Baz Luhrmann`s `Elvis`. She also beat Mary Zophres for `Babylon`, Jenny Beaven for `Mrs Harris…