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Casting open for On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous
Life, Thana Boonlert, Published on 12/12/2025
» Casting is now open for two leading roles in an upcoming feature film based on Ocean Vuong’s On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous until Dec 21.
New releases for your streaming pleasure: July 31-Aug 6
Guru, Nianne-Lynn Hendricks, Published on 31/07/2024
» Looking for a title to binge-watch this weekend? Here's our pick!
Revered Broadway composer Stephen Sondheim dies aged 91
AFP, Published on 27/11/2021
» WASHINGTON: Legendary Broadway songwriter Stephen Sondheim, widely credited with revolutionising American musical theater, died Friday at the age of 91.
Bob Dylan sued for allegedly sexually abusing girl in 1965
AFP, Published on 17/08/2021
» NEW YORK: Bob Dylan has been sued in a New York court by a woman who says the US rock and folk legend sexually abused her almost 60 years ago when she was 12.
Frame up, or truth exposed?
Life, Tatat Bunnag, Published on 05/03/2021
» Movie fans who have been following the news about what's been happening in Hollywood over the last few decades are used to hearing or reading about public scandals, especially the case of American film director Woody Allen's sexual abuse allegations and actress Mia Farrow and her divorce from Allen.
Oscar-winning actor Christopher Plummer dead at 91
AFP, Published on 06/02/2021
» LOS ANGELES: Veteran Canadian actor Christopher Plummer, whose decades-long career featured a star turn in "The Sound of Music" and an Oscar win late in life, has died, his manager said Friday. He was 91.
New Yorkers celebrate Met's reopening as a sign life is returning
AFP, Published on 30/08/2020
» NEW YORK - With visitors raising their arms in a sign of victory, clapping and lining up eagerly at ticket windows, New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art reopened its doors to the public on Saturday in a festive atmosphere -- a sign for many that the largest US metropolis is returning to normality after a nearly six-month closure caused by the coronavirus pandemic.
Jewellery designer Yupadee, dead of Covid at 51, remembered
New York Times, Published on 18/06/2020
» Yupadee Kobkulboonsiri made fantastical jewellery — neck cuffs with silver springs ending in pearls that looked like asteroids, necklaces that looped over a shoulder and erupted in diamonds and pearls. She won awards at every trade competition she entered.
'Sesame Street' puppeteer Caroll Spinney -- aka Big Bird -- dies at 85
AFP, Published on 09/12/2019
» WASHINGTON: Puppeteer Caroll Spinney, who brought Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch to life on the iconic children's television show "Sesame Street" for half a century, died on Sunday at the age of 85.
Facebook faces record $5bn fine
Bloomberg and AP, Published on 13/07/2019
» WASHINGTON: US officials have approved a record $5-billion settlement with Facebook to resolve the Cambridge Analytica data privacy scandal, prompting an outcry from lawmakers and privacy advocates who said it didn’t go far enough.