by Editor | Jul 2, 2024 | Culture Music Art
from Deadline Robert Towne Dies: Oscar-Winning ‘Chinatown’ Screenwriter Was 89 By Erik Pedersen Robert Towne, who won an Oscar for his Chinatown original screenplay and was nominated for his The Last Detail, Shampoo and Greystoke scripts, died Monday at his home. He...
by Editor | Jul 1, 2024 | Culture Music Art
from The New Yorker The Sun Ra Arkestra’s Maestro Hits One Hundred Marshall Allen, the musical collective’s sax-playing leader, is celebrating with a deep-spacey video installation during the Venice Biennale. By Robert Sullivan Illustration by João Fazenda The Sun Ra...
by Editor | Jun 30, 2024 | Culture Music Art
from Vanity Fair “It Was Astonishing”: How NBC Convinced Al Michaels to Embrace His AI Voice for Olympics Coverage The network will use an artificial clone of the legendary broadcaster’s voice to narrate its daily recaps of the summer event. “It was not only close,”...
by Editor | Jun 29, 2024 | Weirdness
from Business Insider Robots keep getting creepier by Jaures Yip Researchers created a 3D facial mold and a 2D robot covered with lab-grown living skin. The University of Tokyo© The University of Tokyo It’s not just nuts and bolts keeping robots together — now...
by Editor | Jun 28, 2024 | Uncategorized
from NBC News Kinky Friedman, provocative musician, author and one-time politician, dies at 79 The satirical country and western iconoclast ran for governor of Texas in 2006 with campaign slogans like “My Governor is a Jewish Cowboy.” By Variety Kinky Friedman in...