Mark Rylance took a “significant” pay cut along with other members of the Wolf Hall team to get the second series made, the director Peter Kosminsky has said. The BBC drama, based on Hilary Mantel’s final novel in her epic Tudor trilogy, returned last year with Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light. The original…
Engineer Breno Bulus had long coveted his neighbour’s land, with its ancient forest and gardens in prime position overlooking Rio de Janeiro’s Pedra da Gávea mountain and the capital’s sparkling coastline. Situated in Itanhanga, 20km west of Rio, when the plot came up for sale in 2020, Breno snapped it up. Two years later, he…
The late Yolŋu Indigenous rights activist Dr Galarrwuy Yunupingu has posthumously been appointed a companion of the Order of Australia in this year’s Australia Day honours list, where he is joined by emeritus professor Gillian Triggs, the former head of the Australian Human Rights Commission, and Cobble Cobble constitutional lawyer and Indigenous advocate scientia professor…
In Kobe’s last sit-down interview he talks about upcoming projects and daughter Gigi In his last on-camera interview, NBA legend Kobe Bryant talks to USA TODAY’s Mark Medina about life after basketball and his daughter Gigi’s favorite NBA player. Following his retirement from the NBA, Kobe Bryant moved on quickly to other projects he was…
On the evening of 1 January, my wife watched as I opened a bottle of wine and filled a glass to the brim. “I thought you were doing dry January,” she said. “Yeah,” I said. “So what’s that?” she said, pointing to my glass. “Dry January doesn’t start on New Year’s Day,” I said. “It’s a public…
NFL championship round picks: Consider Bills and Eagles this weekend Lorenzo Reyes is back with his best bet for the AFC and NFC championship games. He also threw in a couple of bonus player prop bets for those interested. The Super Bowl 59 matchup is about to be set. For the four teams still left…