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Working Title Options TV Rights to Tycoon Robert Maxwell Book Fall by The Dig Writer John Preston
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Working Title has optioned TV rights to bestselling author John Preston’s ( “A Very English Scandal,” “The Dig”) non-fiction book “Fall: The Mystery of Robert Maxwell.”
The book, published by Viking, an imprint of Penguin Books, earlier this month, charts British media mogul Robert Maxwell’s rise, fall and mysterious death.
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The project, being developed as a limited TV series, will be produced by Working Title’s Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner (pictured). Working Title head of drama Surian Fletcher-Jones will oversee development, with a view to commencing production later this year.
A searing, all-star art show explores Black grief from the civil rights era to now
Sebastian Smee, The Washington Post
Feb. 17, 2021
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2of9A Grief and Grievance: Art and Mourning in America installation by Adam Pendleton at New Museum in New York.Dario LasagniShow MoreShow Less
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4of9A scene from Love Is the Message, the Message Is Death, a 2016 video montage by Arthur Jafa.Courtesy of Arthur Jafa and Gladstone Gallery, New York and BrusselsShow MoreShow Less
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Whanganui s Hakeke Community Centre and Library adorned with new mural
17 Feb, 2021 04:00 PM
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Mike Tweed is a multimedia journalist at the Whanganui Chroniclemichael.tweed@nzme.co.nzWhangaChron
The white walls of the Hakeke Community Centre and Library have been transformed this week, thanks to local artist Si Ormerod, aka Cracked Ink.
Ormerod began the project on Monday morning and, despite some inclement weather, he said it should be finished today. The work is just my twist on home, nature and community, really, Ormerod said. Because it s kind of an obscure shape, I really wanted to play with it.
Tesla Electric Cars Are Proof History Repeats Itself
Does anyone remember what was going on 100 years ago before the market crash? We are entering a time period we have seen already with the rise of gasoline.
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One hundred years ago, there were over 600 automobile makers in the U.S. alone. With war and economic depression, America weeded out most of those companies and kept three major staples along with some others.
Over the century, we have seen the rise and fall of many car companies, but gasoline and diesel s staple remained as the primary source of fuel.
Flash forward to 2021, and we see something similar to what we saw over 100 years ago. The rise and fall of car companies, only this time they are following a different trend.
Johnson & Johnson has only a few million doses of its experimental COVID-19 vaccine in its inventory even as likely U.S. regulatory authorization is only a few weeks away, White House officials said on Wednesday.