The star of Baby Reindeer issued a plea to fans, urging them to stop trying to find out who the real-life characters in the show are. The Netflix series has become a worldwide sensation since it was released on the platform earlier this month, storming to the top of the streaming charts in dozens of countries. It's based on a one-man Edinburgh Fringe play depicting the real experiences of creator Richard Gadd, the Fife comedian who had to deal with a female stalker who showed up at his house and...
The star of Baby Reindeer issued a plea to fans, urging them to stop trying to find out who the real-life characters in the series are. The Netflix show has become a sensation since it was released on the platform earlier this month, storming to the top of the streaming charts in dozens of countries. It's based on a one-man Edinburgh Fringe play which depicts the real experiences of creator Richard Gadd, who had to deal with a female stalker who showed up at his house and sent him thousands of...
Online sleuthing inspired by Netflix‘s Baby Reindeer has gotten wildly out of control, its creator and one of its stars say. The drama concerns the real-life stalking of Richard Gadd, a Scottish writer and actor who also stars in the show as Donny. Jessica Gunning plays Martha, the stalker. In the series, the characters’ names […]
A good memoir should be more than an autobiography and less than a confessional but contain elements of both. As a reader, I am less interested in being overwhelmed with family trauma and pathos except when it informs the greater tale being told. Quite often, it is the memoirs that feature an excess of pathos More
This multigenerational tale travels from China to New York in search of the true meaning of good fortuneIt’s often said that good luck is the result of good planning: you make your own. But is our luck in life ever entirely under our control? And how much luck, and planning, might be enough? Real Americans, Rachel Khong’s second novel, strikes directly at the heart of these questions. Its Chinese-American characters are brought into contact with fabulous wealth – a prototypical stroke of luck....
On April 18, Orlando Bloom — he of Lord of the Rings, Pirates of the Caribbean, Black Hawk Down and other action-packed films — will return to our screens not to battle orcs, buccaneers or soldiers, but to face his biggest challenge yet: himself. In Orlando Bloom: To the Edge, the 47-year-old promises to peel back actorly artifice and reveal a side of himself we’ve never seen. What’s the show about? Well, as Hunter S. Thompson famously wrote: “The Edge There is no honest way to explain it...
In his new Peacock series Orlando Bloom: To the Edge, the actor Orlando Bloom scales a 400-foot crag, freedives 100 feet on one breath, and jumps out of a plane at 13,000 feet to try wingsuiting for the first time. His wellness practices, as he tells GQ, have involved a similar amount of gutsiness: getting dosed with frog poison, embarking on a fast that involves eating bentonite clay. More than 20 years after Bloom was first introduced to audiences worldwide as the platinum blond elf Legolas in...
Alua Arthur helps people plan for death. A big part of her work is helping them reconcile the lives they lived with the lives they might have wanted. Her memoir is called Briefly Perfectly Human.
There are several reasons to listen to consider Layne Norton a fitness and nutrition expert worth paying attention to. He has a PhD in nutritional science, so he’s not operating purely on vibes, as many fitness influencers tend to do. Then there are the lifts: last year, at 41 years old, Norton placed second in the North American Regional Powerlifting Championships, hitting insane numbers in the squat, bench, and deadlift. Though Norton has an impressive powerlifting career and is a founder of...
Fox News host Laura Ingraham shows how former President Trump can put President Biden's record "on trial" as the NY vs. Trump case takes center stage on "The Ingraham Angle." LAURA INGRAHAM: An impartial observer knows that the New York media is doing everything it can to influence the jury. On the eve of the trial, the illustrious "New York Slimes" published a piece titled "Will a mountain of evidence be enough to convict Trump?" In the official record, the case is known as the People of the...
Warning: The following contains spoilers from "The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare." Although the events of World War II have been extensively studied, details are still emerging. In fact, documents concerning an essential mission, dubbed Operation Postmaster and undertaken by the British War Office, were only recently declassified. The mission, carried out by the Special Operations Executive (SOE), is the unlikely subject of Guy Ritchie’s latest film, “The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare.”...
Blake Pfeil's abandoned: The All-American Ruins Podcast is an award-winning audio series that takes a stunningly immersive approach to the trend of urban exploration. Here's the blurb: abandoned: The All-American Ruins Podcast guides listeners through immersive audio fantasies, recreating host Blake Pfeil's experiences exploring abandoned spaces across the United States. — Read the rest