Unbearable

When the actor Leo Woodall and I first meet, at a vegan café in north London, not far from the home he shares with his older brother, we have an improbably polite exchange about whether or not to order breakfast, it being just after breakfast time but not yet lunch.“I’ll eat something if you eat something,” Woodall says.“I’m OK,” I say. “Really.”“You’re not going to get something?”“Not if you’re not,” I say.“Well, I’m definitely getting something then,” he says, “so you can eat.”The rest of our conversation goes something…

Even their downfalls are spectacular. Like a latter-day Icarus flying too close to the sun, disgraced crypto-god Sam Bankman-Fried crashed and burned this month, recasting Michael Lewis’s exuberant biography of the convicted fraudster – Going Infinite – into the story of a supervillain. Even his potential sentence of up to 115 years in prison seems more suitable for a larger-than-life comic book character – the Joker being carted off to Arkham Asylum – than a nerdy, crooked currency trader.But that’s the way this…

Milan Kundera, the Czech novelist who combined sexual and real-life politics in his writings and rose to global fame with The Unbearable Lightness of Being, died Tuesday in Paris. He was 94. His death, following a prolonged illness, was announced by French publisher Gallimard on Wednesday. Kundera’s literary career and personal life were closely tied to the Prague Spring, the brief flowering of political liberalization and cultural expression in Czechoslovakia that promised “socialism with a…

Czech writer Milan Kundera, who explored being and betrayal over half a century in poems, plays, essays and novels including The Unbearable Lightness of Being, has died aged 94 after a prolonged illness, Anna Mrazova, spokeswoman for the Milan Kundera Library has confirmed.Famously leaving his homeland for France in 1975 after being expelled from the Czechoslovakian Communist party for “anti-communist activities”, Kundera spent 40 years living in exile in Paris after his Czech citizenship was revoked in 1979. There he…

Jack smiled a big wide smile. "Sure, Doc. I've already chosen my frames. Hook me up with a pair of Gerikas." Another big difference from the Giggle Gaze of years past was that Hudson waited until it could create augmented reality glasses that looked just like normal eyewear. While Giggle Gaze wearers looked strange and were commonly referred to as "Gazeholes," the Erika-based AR glasses looked good on people. The tech media immediately dubbed them "Gerikas," conflating the words glasses and Erika. An hour later,…

The former live-in nanny for Olivia Wilde and Jason Sudeikis is suing the ex-couple for wrongful termination, alleging that they fired her instead of helping her to cope with the “unbearable stress” she says they caused after Wilde abruptly moved out and they immersed her in the turmoil surrounding the end of their relationship. The lawsuit, filed Tuesday in Los Angeles County Superior court, comes from Erika Genaro, who memorably went public with her account of the drama unfolding in the Wilde and Sudeikis household in…

Broaching personal matters in an interview can be tricky. Laying the groundwork, not appearing prurient, choosing your words carefully so as not to spook your subject – all these elements are crucial. They are also completely unnecessary in the case of Juliette Binoche. We are fewer than five minutes into our Zoom call and already the 58-year-old actor is leaning forward in her seat in an office in Paris and trawling through intimate memories. “I fell in love with two men in my 20s,” she says, matter of factly. “It was…

For the talk show hosts who get to interview celebrities on a daily basis about their latest projects, some of the best parts of the job must be finding out the little Easter eggs or behind-the-scenes factoids you don’t get from just watching the movie. It’s even more fun if the host is a fan of a movie, and Kelly Clarkson was fully living that life when she talked to Nicolas Cage on her talk show about his newer flick The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent. The host had the most adorable reaction to finding out the…

The surprise hit The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent is headed to digital, and ahead of its release the team behind the film has shared some of their initial thoughts about the project. In a clip shared to the Screen Rant Plus YouTube channel the show’s writer, director, and Nicolas Cage all speak up, with the latter sharing he initially had no interest in the project. “I was hearing rumblings about it and they just kept coming to me and I said I had no interest in playing myself in a movie its just not…