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Audrey Hepburn’s Sons Recount Her Remarkably Resilient Life

Audrey Hepburn’s Sons Recount Her Remarkably Resilient Life

Published by Sam Flores

War Child “I knew the cold clutch of human terror all through my teens,” Hepburn once said. “I saw it, felt it, heard it—and it never goes away. You see, it wasn’t just a nightmare: I was there, and it all happened.” In 1939, the Baroness misguidedly evacuated her daughter from Kent, believing she would be safer in neutral Holland. But in May 1940, the Nazis invaded Holland, and five years of hell on earth began. Ferrer believes World War II was the profound experience that most shaped his mother’s life, and the horrors she witnessed make this thesis highly believable. Hepburn and her family survived firebombing, starvation, and daily terror. Her family’s money was confiscated; her favorite uncle, Otto, was murdered by the Nazis; shrapnel lodged in Hepburn’s neck, giving it its beguiling tilt. One day at a train station, Hepburn saw Jewish families being transported to the concentration camps, an image she could never forget. She aided the underground resistance, delivering messages and pamphlets to those in hiding. While delivering a message to …

Remarkably Bright Creatures cast: Full guide to actors in adaptation

Remarkably Bright Creatures cast: Full guide to actors in adaptation

Published by Daniella Wilson

Remarkably Bright Creatures has officially dropped on Netflix, an adaptation of the 2022 book of the same name by Shelby Van Pelt. The story follows a widow who bonds with an octopus at the aquarium where she works, as well as a wayward young man who is new to town and looking for family. The book, and now the new film, explores themes of friendship and family whilst grief permeates its way through the narrative. The new Netflix film has been directed by Olivia Newman, who also penned the screenplay alongside John Whittington. Newman is no stranger to book-to-film adaptations as she previously directed Where the Crawdad’s Sing for the big screen. Want to know more about the cast and where you’ve seen them before? Read on for everything you need to know about the stars of Remarkably Bright Creatures Remarkably Bright Creatures cast: Full guide to actors and characters • Sally Field as Tova Sullivan • Meghan Heffern as young Tova• Lewis Pullman as Cameron Cassmore • Kingston Goodjohn as young Cameron• Alfred Molina …

Remarkably Bright Creatures Reviews: Critics Praise Sally Field’s Performance

Remarkably Bright Creatures Reviews: Critics Praise Sally Field’s Performance

Published by Sam Flores

Netflix has gone and done the seemingly impossible, and adapted Remarkably Bright Creatures for the screen. Shelby Van Pelt’s novel became a bestseller upon its release in 2022, telling the story of a lonely widow who befriends an octopus in the aquarium where she works. As the story unfolds, she and the octopus, named Marcellus, team up to solve the mystery of her son’s murder, with certain passages even told from the marine creature’s perspective. Because of its unique premise, bringing the story to life in film was always going to be a difficult task, but on Friday morning, Netflix unveiled its new movie version of the hit book, starring two-time Oscar winner Sally Field alongside Lewis Pullman and the voice of Alfred Molina as Marcellus. The question is… how did they do? Well, overall, critical reception has been pretty mixed, but one thing reviews can agree on is a stellar performance from Sally Field, as well as the fact that anyone looking for some cosy comfort viewing is onto a winner with this one. …

The Remarkably Bright Creatures Trailer and Its Narrating Giant Octopus

The Remarkably Bright Creatures Trailer and Its Narrating Giant Octopus

Published by Jenni Sidey

Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. The Trailer for Remarkably Bright Creatures Has Dropped At first, I thought the deep voice narrating the trailer for Remarkably Bright Creatures was just the generic Hollywood narrator guy. But as the trailer continued, I realized that it actually belonged to Marcellus, the giant Pacific octopus at the center of the story. He seems to have a vested interest in the lady who cleans his tank finding her son, who disappeared years ago. Since its 2022 release, the book the movie was adapted from has gone mega platinum. It currently has more than 1 million ratings on Goodreads, and was on everyone’s bestselling list forever, so I suppose it’s no surprise it got an adaptation—starring Sally Field, no less—so quickly. The general vibe of the trailer is very heartwarming and ultimately feel-good, which makes its Mother’s Day weekend release on Netflix (May 8) understandable. Paramount Launches New Imprint Three years after selling Simon & Schuster, …

Remembering Ai, a remarkably intelligent chimpanzee : NPR

Remembering Ai, a remarkably intelligent chimpanzee : NPR

Published by Sam Flores

23-year-old chimpanzee Ai, known for her ability to recognize some letters and numbers, holds her 35-centimetre-tall newborn male chimp Ayumu, 25 April 2000, at the Primate Research Institute of Kyoto University in Inuyama, central Japan. AFP via Getty Images/AFP hide caption toggle caption AFP via Getty Images/AFP The death of a possible genius was reported this week. Ai, a chimpanzee who was born in West Africa and came to the Primate Research Institute of Kyoto University in Japan when she was a year old, has died of natural causes at the age of 49. They say she was surrounded by the staff who have known her. Ai, by the way, means love in Japanese. She was remarkable. “She was the first chimpanzee to successfully label numbers,” Tetsuro Matsuzawa, a primatologist and former director of the Primate Research Institute of Kyoto, wrote in 2021 for the international journal Inference. That was when she was five. At six and a half, she began learning the alphabet, and soon, Matsuzawa says, she “was able to discriminate between all 26 uppercase …