In a 2019 Facebook post, Emmanuelle Debever alleged that Depardieu groped her on the set of Andrzej Wajda's 1982 film Danton. On Nov. 29, she left a note for her partner in her Paris apartment and jumped into the Seine; she was rescued but died in hospital on Dec. 7. - Variety
"Cait Corrain admitted that she had created six profiles on ... Goodreads in order to boost the ratings of her forthcoming debut sci-fi novel, Crown of Starlight, and downgrade a number of fellow debut authors. … She added that she would enter 'an intensive psychiatric care and rehab facility.'" - Yahoo! (Los Angeles Times)
"The 76-year-old singer (was) to perform in Bologna but she cancelled the concert after suffering what the city’s Teatro Duse described as a 'sudden illness'. She underwent checks at a hospital, (and) a statement from health authorities in Bologna said Smith had been discharged and was in good health." - The Guardian
Epic had accused Google of restricting smartphone makers, wireless carriers, and app developers from providing any competition to the Play store, which accounts for over 95 percent of all downloads onto Android phones in the US. - Wired
The report, titled “What We Watched,” includes viewership data for the movies and television shows watched on the streaming service between January and June 2023. - Washington Post
Firms that generate nondisruptive creation lead with agency. Rather than start with the chessboard, they envision what could be and what should be, irrespective of what is. They flip the script, openly questioning and reimagining all the things that those who lead with structure accept as givens. They ask: Why not? What if? - Harvard Business Review
Madison Square Garden Entertainment (MSG), the organisation behind the venue, wanted to build a Sphere on a former coach park at Stratford in east London, starting the planning process in 2018 – long before the Vegas building was completed. Supporters saw a London Sphere as a game-changer for the city's status. - Dezeen
The MPA wants legislation that would enable content companies to seek court injunctive relief that would require internet service providers and other intermediaries to disable access to an infringing site. - Deadline
"When the European Union put out a call to researchers to help museums enhance the impact of their digital collections, 'We immediately thought: smell,' says Inger Leemans, ... the principal investigator for Odeuropa, an E.U.-funded research project aimed at showcasing the significance of olfactory heritage in European culture." - Smithsonian Magazine
We are confined to reality, but we cannot confront facts (or even make sense of them) without the salve of fiction. As Joan Didion so famously put it, “We tell ourselves stories in order to live.” - Washington Post
"Many, particularly members of the Osage Nation in Oklahoma, welcomed the movie, applauding Scorsese for his meticulous portrayal of Osage culture. … But other Indigenous viewers said the movie was told from a white man’s perspective and lacked sufficient context about the U.S. government’s complicity in the murders." - The New York Times
The in-flight entertainment and connectivity market grew to US$5.9 billion as of 2019, a testament to its economic impact on both the airlines and the GDP of countries with airline carriers. - The Conversation
"In (the treatise) On Dance," first-century philosopher Lucian of Samosata "makes two ground-breaking claims: that the body thinks, and that dance is the expression of a complete philosophy. … Only the dancer is not a philosopher but a ‘cheirosopher’, a coinage Lucian constructs ... with the addition of ‘cheiros’: gesture." - 3 Quarks Daily
