Susan

YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki, who has led the world’s largest video site for the last nine years, is stepping down from her role. She’ll be replaced by Neal Mohan, her longtime lieutenant. In a letter sent to YouTube’s employees, Wojcicki said she was leaving in order to “start a new chapter focused on my family, health and personal projects I’m passionate about.” During her tenure, YouTube became increasingly important to the business for Google, which bought the site in 2006, and Alphabet, the holding company that…

In recent months, there’s been a lot of discussion regarding how many actors working in Hollywood right now are actually the children of other famous people. Among the nepo babies who’ve spoken to this conversation is Eva Amurri, the daughter of Susan Sarandon and Italian filmmaker Franco Amurri. After Eva dished about her “disorienting” upbringing, Sarandon was asked about the comments. And no, the Thelma & Louise actress is not going to apologize for parenting whilst being a Hollywood star. The actress also…

‘All publicity is good publicity,” Susan Meachen thought to herself as she prepared to stage her suicide. In September 2020, Meachen, the self-published author of what she described as “perfectly flawed” romance novels, logged on to Facebook, pretended to be her daughter and wrote a post declaring herself dead. Meachen’s “daughter” continued to post numerous times after that. She suggested that Meachen was “bullied in the book world to the point of suicide” and encouraged people to buy Meachen’s “final” book. Then, plot…

There’s been a lot of focus in recent months on the children of Hollywood’s biggest stars and the unique experience that comes with that. Much of the attention has been around the opportunities that the “nepo babies” are afforded if they want to follow their parents into the entertainment business, but being raised amongst celebrities and accompanying your parents to wherever their next project was filming is a wholly different upbringing than most of us experienced. Eva Amurri, daughter of Susan Sarandon, recently let…

The story opens in a quiet Buckinghamshire village on a snowy midwinter’s eve when Will Stanton (Noah Alexander) is getting ready to celebrate his 11th birthday. He should be excited but instead he senses that something isn’t right. When he ventures outside to feed his pet rabbits, he finds they are afraid of him; meanwhile, rooks shriek and dive-bomb overhead. On his way to collect milk from a neighbouring farm, Will sees a shadowy tramp-like figure watching him from the edge of the woods. When he tells the farmer, Mr…

Photo: Steven Henry (Getty Images)Buddy the elf traveled across “the seven levels of the candy cane forest, through the sea of swirly-twirly gum drops, and then ... through the Lincoln Tunnel” to find his dad after the man who raised him, Papa Elf, tells him he was adopted.When he finally finds Walter, his birth father and the editor of a highly successful New York City book publisher, chaos ensues. Although Buddy’s interests are considered widely unpopular, such as living off the elves’ four main food groups, candy,…

Susan Hill’s 1983 novella opens on Christmas Eve with the retired solicitor Arthur Kipps at home with his second wife, Esmé, and his stepchildren. When they ask him to tell them a ghost story, he offers up a tale of “haunting and evil, fear and confusion, horror and tragedy … an inextricable part of my past”. It is a story so bleak, he continues, that he cannot say it out loud; he will write it down so that he “might finally be free of it”.It concerns a visit made by Kipps as a young man to Eel Marsh House, a coastal…

Given that it launched the film careers of the then little known Rosanna Arquette, the entirely unknown Aidan Quinn and some singer called Madonna, 1985’s Desperately Seeking Susan still stakes a good claim to be one of the canniest casting jobs of all time. And that’s before you get to the then even less known supporting actors: Laurie Metcalf as Arquette’s tacky sister-in-law! John Turturro as the cheesy club MC! John Lurie barely visible as a saxophone-playing neighbour! Giancarlo Esposito in a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it…

Photo: Popartic (Shutterstock)If you’ve ever made a playlist—for yourself or someone else—you’ve done the delicate dance of music curation. By what logic did you order the songs? What nearly made it on, but got left out, and why?In This Is What It Sounds Like: What the Music You Love Says About You, storied sound engineer and cognitive psychologist Susan Rogers and mathematical neuroscientist Ogi Ogas explore the fundamental experience of music listening. With surgical care, they walk the reader through the components of…

Like sprinters, how you start matters. Effective stakeholder engagement is key.Photo by Braden Collum on UnsplashThe start of a sprint race can make or break a sprinter’s finish. Correctly starting is vital, from how one lines up at the start line, positioning arms and legs, to the propulsion off the block. Most sprinters learn to perfect their Crouch 4-Point Start during the “On Your Marks, Get Set, Go” command. The start of data projects is no different.Getting the right people on board and acting on your data…