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Film Television Golden Globe Nominees US Culture
Here are the nominees in key categories for the 83rd Golden Globe Awards, which will be handed out on Sunday. One Battle After Another leads all contenders with nine nods, followed by Sentimental Value with eight and Sinners with seven. FILM Best film, drama Frankenstein Hamnet It Was Just An Accident The Secret Agent Sentimental ...
This is Beirut 08/01 17:30 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Film SAG Awards One Battle After Another Sinners Oscar Contenders US Culture
Paul Thomas Anderson's politically charged One Battle After Another on Wednesday set a record for nominations for the Screen Actors Guild's influential Actor Awards with seven, staking its claim to Oscars frontrunner status. Ryan Coogler's runaway hit period horror film Sinners came in second with five nominations, setting the stage for a ...
This is Beirut 07/01 20:45 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
Brigitte Bardot Funeral Saint-Tropez Tribute France Culture
Well-wishers lined the streets in Brigitte Bardot's hometown of Saint-Tropez on Wednesday for the funeral of the French screen icon, who was buried in a seaside cemetery after dying last month of cancer. A day of commemorations for the renowned animal rights activist began with a Catholic service at the Notre-Dame de l'Assomption ...
This is Beirut 06/01 17:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Music Taylor Swift Us Wine France Culture
A French winemaker has hailed the impact of his Sancerre appearing in Taylor Swift's latest documentary, which looks set to deepen America's love affair with the famed Loire appellation. A bottle of Sancerre by the Terres Blanches Domaine, which sells for around $40 in the United States, is glimpsed briefly by a mixing desk during episode five of ...
This is Beirut 05/01 12:50 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Cinema Critics Choice Awards Timothée Chalamet US Culture
Timothée Chalamet's Oscars campaign earned a major boost Sunday as he scooped the best actor prize for Marty Supreme at the Critics Choice Awards, the first major gala of this year's Hollywood awards season. He defeated rival Leonardo DiCaprio, whose raucous political thriller One Battle After Another took the night's top prize for best ...
This is Beirut 02/01 21:05 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Filmmaker Jafar Panahi Protests Economy Opposition Iran
Award-winning Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi said Wednesday that protests, which have gripped his country in recent days, aimed "to move history forward." "Shared pain has now become a cry in the street," said the director who won the Cannes Film Festival's top prize this year and has been nominated for an Oscar for his film It Was Just an ...
This is Beirut 02/01 17:55 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Music K-Pop BTS New Album World Tour South Korea
K-pop megastars BTS will release a new album in March ahead of a world tour, the group announced on Thursday. South Korea's biggest musical act has been on self-described hiatus since 2022, as its members undertook national military service required of all men under the age of 30. All seven members were discharged last year, and the group ...
This is Beirut 2025-12-30 15:30 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Cinema Clooney Family US French Passeport culture
Hollywood star George Clooney has become French, along with his wife, Amal Alamuddin Clooney, and their two children, an official decree seen by AFP on Monday showed. The publication, in France's government gazette, confirms an ambition Clooney alluded to early in December when he hailed French privacy laws that keep his family shielded from ...
This is Beirut 2025-12-30 12:25 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
US singer Beyonce is now a billionaire, Forbes magazine said Monday, becoming only the fifth musician to achieve such a milestone. The 44-year-old entertainer joins a select club that includes her husband, rapper Jay-Z, as well as Taylor Swift, Bruce Springsteen, and Rihanna, according to the publication, known for its rankings of the world's ...
This is Beirut 2025-12-29 17:10 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Cinema Brigitte Bardot Icon Funeral France
Cinema icon Brigitte Bardot is to be buried in a graveyard in her hometown of Saint-Tropez, an official said Monday, as France wrestles with how to pay tribute to a cultural legend who in later years championed far-right views. Bardot, who died on Sunday aged 91 after decades as an animal rights campaigner, had said she wanted to be laid to rest ...
David Sahyoun 2025-12-17 18:00 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
Psychoanalysis Silence Therapy Words
Some silences are deafening, heavy, cutting through, and freezing the space around them. Others, by contrast, open a gap, suspending the flow of speech like a hand gently soothing a wound. In psychoanalysis, silence is not the enemy of discourse; on the contrary, it is its very condition, sometimes even its hidden engine. Silence permeates ...
This is Beirut 2025-12-17 14:15 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Staff at the Louvre Museum voted on Wednesday to extend a strike to demand better working conditions and visitor experience at the Paris landmark, forcing management to only partially open to frustrated tourists. Hundreds had queued in the brisk weather hoping to enter the world's most visited museum as the vote delayed opening, with ...