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Emma Thompson was ‘utterly, utterly blind’ to ex-husband Kenneth Branagh’s affairs

Nearly 30 years after the breakup of her first marriage and almost 20 years into her second, actor-writer Emma Thompson admits she suffered from passing blindness many years back.

Los Angeles Times

‘Humiliated’ Emma Thompson was ‘utterly blind’ to ex-husband Kenneth Branagh and Helena Bonham Carter’s affair

The Love Actually actress admits she felt unlovable and unworthy after marriage ended

Evening Standard

George Booth, cartoonist of domestic farce, dies at 96

George Booth, a prize-winning cartoonist for The New Yorker who with manic affection captured the timeless comedy of dogs and cats and the human beings somehow in charge of their well being, has died

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LAPD involved in corporate sexual misconduct case, investigation reveals

The details are part of a report from the N.Y. Ag that paints a clear picture of a culture of corruption surrounding ex-CBS CEO Les Moonves.

Axios

Harvey Weinstein faces sexual assault and rape charges as LA trial begins

LOS ANGELES — The worlds of politics and Hollywood collided Monday in a downtown Los Angeles courtroom as the rape trial of Harvey Weinstein began.

Los Angeles Times

Appreciation: Why New Yorker art critic Peter Schjeldahl was the last of a breed

Peter Schjeldahl, the eminent and widely read New York art critic, died Friday at his country home in the tiny upstate town of Bovina, near the Catskills, where he and his wife, former actor Brooke Alderson, lived. He was 80.

Los Angeles Times

The 5,000-year history of writer’s block

The romantic image of the writer doesn’t do justice to the tedious reality of churning out words

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Charlayne Hunter-Gault chronicles half a century in ‘My People’

"My People: Five Decades of Writing About Black Lives" by Charlayne Hunter-Gaultl Harper (342 pages, $27.99)

Tribune News Service

Succession season 4: HBO releases new trailer revealing a tumultuous upcoming series

After months of waiting, fans finally get a glimpse of season four

Evening Standard

Trump tells US Jews they should appreciate what he’s achieved in Israel ‘before it’s too late’

Former president claims Evangelicals are more appreciative of his support for the country, where he claims he could ‘easily’ be prime minister

The Independent UK

#MeToo is five years old. These trials show how far we’ve come

As Harvey Weinstein, Kevin Spacey and Paul Haggis are all in court, it is clear that there has, in fact, been forward motion – in the courts, in our workplaces, in society

The Guardian - US

Tulsi Gabbard’s ties to secretive cult may explain her perplexing political journey

Tulsi Gabbard’s upbringing in an offshoot of the Hare Krishna movement with strict devotion to a secretive guru sheds light on her apparent fondness for Vladimir Putin, Bevan Hurley writes

The Independent UK

Strangers to Ourselves by Rachel Aviv review – rewriting the language of mental illness

The New Yorker writer tries to redefine attitudes through a quintet of studies of troubled people from around the world

The Guardian - UK

The 5,000-year history of writer's block

Ann Patchett, who has written eight novels and five books of nonfiction, says that when faced with writer’s block, sometimes it seems that the muse has “gone out back for a smoke.”

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Harvey Weinstein faces his next criminal trial in Los Angeles this week

Weinstein, a former Hollywood producer, is already serving his 23 year prison sentence doled out by a New York criminal court two years ago.

The Hindu

Erik Agard of USA Today, Neville Fogarty of The New Yorker flex muscle in Indian online crossword contest

The final round will be held in an offline mode at Bangalore on December 25, 2022.

The Guardian - US

The January 6 committee has its sights on Ginni Thomas. She should be worried

The spouse of a sitting supreme court justice allegedly tried to overturn the 2020 election. It’s hard to say which looks worse – the conflicts of interest, or the possibility that she aided a would-be insurrection

The Guardian - UK

A church with open doors: the ecstatic power of Pharoah Sanders

The spiritual jazz legend was a man of few words – but his expansive, effusive playing said everything

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Paul Haggis can argue Church of Scientology behind rape allegation, judge rules

Director claims 2013 encounter with film publicist was consensual and that accusation came in retaliation for leaving the church

Axios

Non-existent Jan. 6 report is hot with publishers

The book industry sees the report — not yet completed — as the hottest government document since "The Starr Report" in 1998.

Al Jazeera

UN raises funds to salvage oil tanker ‘time bomb’ off Yemen coast

The decaying 45-year-old FSO Safer has not been serviced since Yemen plunged into civil war in 2014.

The Guardian - AU

‘She was never spoken of again’: Bono recounts his mother’s death in new memoir

In an extract published in the New Yorker, the U2 frontman details the loss that spurred him to music

Irish Mirror

Bono recalls mother's deathbed scene in new memoir and says 'after she died she was never spoken of again' at home

'We were three Irish men, and we avoided the pain that we knew would come from thinking and speaking about her'

Chicago Sun-Times

Sister of Lombard man freed by Taliban in hostage swap ‘stunned, very happy’ after 3 a.m. call from Biden

Mark Frerichs, a Navy veteran and a civilian contractor in Afghanistan, was abducted in 2020. His sister in Lombard had pushed for years to get his release.

The Independent UK

Taliban freed from Guantanamo, claims exchanged for American

A senior Taliban detainee held at Guantanamo Bay says he was released and handed over to the Taliban in Kabul, in exchange for an American prisoner held in Afghanistan

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