The next Paul Verhoeven? I’d buy that for a dollar
The Dutch directors new thriller Elle is at Cannes, but whatever happened to the master of 80s/90s sci-fi bombast who gave us Robocop, and Total Recall? At 77, Paul Verhoeven does not seem to be planning retirement anytime soon. Screen Daily reported this week that the maverick Dutch film-maker has at least three upcoming projects […]
Trump and GOP leaders bury hatchet on bizarre day
(CNN)Here’s a concept new to the 2016 campaign: Donald Trump and dtente. Donald Trump, who built a campaign on lambasting Republican elites, Thursday came to the citadel of the political establishment — Capitol Hill — for a summit with House Speaker Paul Ryan and other party leaders designed to halt the GOP’s self-immolation.
Former U.S. Marine Describes Being Tortured For Years In Iranian Prison
Amir Hekmati was one of four Iranian-American prisoners released from the country in January as part of a negotiated prisoner agreement with the U.S. He is now seeking unspecified damages from the Iranian government for false imprisonment and torture, according to a civil complaint filed Monday with the U.S. District Court for the District of […]
Jessa Crispin: ‘We’re not allowed to say the Paris Review is boring’
The editor of Bookslut, which shut down last week, talks to the Guardian about the current state of American literature and its attendant frustrations A couple of weeks ago, Jessa Crispin shut her longstanding book review site, Bookslut, down. Fourteen years after shed founded it, she told me at a Brooklyn coffee shop last week, […]
New global rules on firms’ tax disclosure urged by economists – BBC News
The economists – who include almost 50 professors from British universities including Oxford and the London School of Economics – argue the UK’s position as summit host as well as its sovereignty over what it says is a third of the world’s tax havens makes it “uniquely placed” to take the lead. Related Topics UK […]