Indian writer Arundhati Roy’s cult classic college film returns to spotlight

At its first screening in Delhi, Roy recalls that "students jammed into the hall and crowded on to the floor. Within a few minutes the audience began to yell, roar with laughter and wolf-whistle through the film. They recognised themselves, their language, their clothes, their jokes, their silliness." Source link

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Why did former teen superstar James Van Der Beek need help to pay his medical bills?

On top of the costly treatments, Van Der Beek was not making the same cash that he'd seen in the prime of his career decades ago. He had said he was paid "almost nothing" for Dawson's Creek and his contract didn't include residuals - payments writers, actors and directors receive when their work is re-aired on television. Actors on other still-popular shows from that same period, like Friends, are said to make about $20m annually from such payments.…

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‘We are not protected’ says Hebron mayor, as Israel expands control of West Bank

"Judea and Samaria is the Jewish homeland of the people of Israel," said Zvi Sukkot, a lawmaker in Smotrich's far-right Religious Zionism party. "I expect there to be full Israeli sovereignty here, but in the meantime at least we can supervise, so there will be no environmental harm, and we won't harm the heritage of the people of Israel, even if it's in Palestinian-run areas." Source link

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Head of Dubai-based ports giant DP World quits after Epstein links revealed

Two separate emails, which appear to be from Sulayem, revealed he had an Irish and Uzbek girlfriend. In 2017, he boasts "This my new 22 years old Uzbek" to Epstein. Epstein corrects him and appears to make a comment about her age: "According to her passport she is now 23, old". Source link

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