Around this time, More began appearing in films, starting with a small role in Scott of the Antarctic (1948) for which he was paid ₤500. His parts grew bigger and he achieved a notable stage success in The Way Things Go (1950) with Ronald Squire, from whom More later claimed he ...
Kenneth More 09/19/1914 13 Kenneth Gilbert More, CBE (20 September 1914 – 12 July 1982) was an English film and stage actor. Raised to stardom by the veteran car based film-comedy Genevieve (1953), he appeared in many roles as a carefree, happy-go-lucky gent. His biggest hits from...
In fact, it’s one of the more common ways for a democracy to fail: it’s pretty risky, when you think about it, to all be playing a game where the umpire has no inherent power and everything is just premised on the players trusting that the other players will do what the umpire ...
At the end of Peter Godfrey’s “Christmas in Connecticut”— the greatest Christmas movie of all time (don’t fight me on this) — beloved character actor Sydney Greenstreet, having just emerged from a comedy kerfuffle of epic proportions, can think of nothing more to do than throw his ...
5. Who is your dream celebrity client and what would you create for them? My dream celebrity would be someone who is creative, active in the community and who appreciates excellence in design. My dream design flows from an elegant interior to an outdoor garden space, as we live in sunny...
In fact, not only did the participants prefer ChatGPT’s poetry, but they also found it “more human than human.” AI-written poetry was 17 percentage points more likely to be judged as having been written by a human than the actual human-authored poetry. It was also rated more favorably...
“To me, the fun part about radio is when they start talking about stuff or they get silly about something. That’s why I’m always telling the kids, ‘You gotta do more than just play tunes. If you wanna just play tunes then I don’t need you. What I want is the human element...
LONERGAN:She lived for company and for society – I mean the society of others, not "high society." Her apartment was a social hub in the '40s, '50s and '60s. I think more the '50s. She was a big Village leftie. She was kind of a soft communist, I ...
— Anne ApplebaumviaThe Atlantic Posted inUncategorized|Leave a reply Trump Administration Lawsuits Tracker: DOGE, Transgender Rights and More Posted on13 Feb 25 Reply ‘The legal clashes over President Trump’s blizzard of executive actions are intensifying, with new lawsuits and fresh rulings emergi...
as in the parallel case of Caliban upon Setebos, a vague sense of a ruling power, wilful and freakish, and prone to the practice of vagaries–“just choosing so:” as, for instance, the giving of authority over us to these hopeless and incapable creatures, when it might far more reasonab...