Fiona Shaw, Alan Rickman, and Lindsay Duncan, stars of BAM’s production of John Gabriel Borkman. “Henrik Ibsen,” wrote the New York Times in 1897, “is not a ‘nice’ person.” This was in response to his latest (and second to last) work, a windy tragedy of ambition and modern solipsism titled John Gabriel Borkman. The title character is a disgraced banker living under a sort of self-imposed house arrest after serving time for an embezzlement scheme that reached Madoff-ian levels of infamy and sullied the family name forever.
Omegle, a random video chat site that began with the ideal of connecting strangers but one that's also long been accused of enabling sexual predators, has ceased operations, according to its founder, Leif K-Brooks.
In a lengthy farewell message, K-Brooks said the website he founded in 2009 aspired to a "platonic ideal" of allowing people to share ideas and form new relationships. But he also admitted that his creation had a darker side.
Movie theaters aren’t the only place Nicole Kidman comes to for magic. As Variety first reported in January, the face of the culture-shifting AMC Theatres ad has joined the cast of a new TV project. Special Ops: Lioness, a spy drama from Yellowstone co-creator Taylor Sheridan that follows different levels of a team that sends women around the world as undercover operatives. Zoe Saldaña will play Joe, the station chief who is in charge of training the Lioness program’s young recruits for on-the-ground missions.
Even a year after its release, Brent Faiyaz's WASTELAND is still in heavy rotation for many R&B fans out there. What's more is that, with 19 different tracks to choose from, there's still plenty of space to bring each song to new heights. Moreover, that's exactly what the Maryland native and his team achieved with this new music video for "JACKIE BROWN." If you're a Quentin Tarantino fan, you already know that the song's lyrics reference the titular character of one of his more underrated films.
Redeem now Quiet quitting is getting louder as more unhappy workers are staying put. Welcome to grumpy staying, in which workers begrudgingly skate by in a tightening job market. They may not feel much loyalty or trust in their firms, but fewer jobs means they're not leaving, either. Workers are staying in their jobs, but some aren't happy about it.
Over the last two years, they might have joined the Great Resignation or just quiet quit.