As a Brit, I"ll say anything. Some things I love; Meryl Streep, Italians and Starbucks.
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"Arrival" is making second contact. Fresh from earning a whopping eight Oscar nominations, the suspenseful sci-fi drama will be rereleased in the US with extra footage.
Although star Amy Adams missed out on an acting nomination, the film is up for Academy Awards for best picture and for director Denis Villeneuve. The screenplay, cinematography, production design, editing and sound are also shortlisted for possible prizes.
Interestingly, the extra footage will be a look behind the scenes rather than an extended cut of the film itself.
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"Arrival" depicts scientists and Adams" linguist character trying to figure out how to talk to mysterious alien newcomers before the world slides into disaster. Unlike many action-oriented, shoot-"em-up sci-fi films, it deals with themes of finding common ground and striving to communicate with those we don"t understand, rather than fearing and attacking others. That might sound dry and technical, but the film drew praise for being taut and gripping.
Originally released in November, "Arrival" scores a solid 81 on Metacritic.
In Adams, it also features a smart and capable woman in the lead role. About the film"s focus on linguistics, she had this to say last year: "So much of linguistics is very mathematical, which is not in my wheelhouse, but once it became anthropological and sociological I identified with it."
The 89th Academy Awards ceremony will take place February 26. Amazon"s "Manchester By The Sea", "Hidden Figures" and "La La Land" are also up for multiple awards, while genre flicks "Rogue One," "Doctor Strange," "Star Trek Beyond," "Suicide Squad," "Fantastic Beasts" and "Passengers" are in the frame for technical awards.
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Mary Jo Fernandez and Steph Brantz look ahead to Serena Williams" quarterfinal matchup against Johanna Konta and break down whether Rafael Nadal can overcome recent struggles against Milos Raonic.
MELBOURNE, Australia -- Fast-rising Johanna Konta isn"t a household name to many casual tennis fans yet. But it"s telling that she caughtSerena Williams"attention long before they were scheduled to play for the first time ever Wednesday, here in the Australian Open quarterfinals. Think of the ninth-ranked Konta as the distaff version of Andy Murray. She"s the first female British tennis player since Virginia Wade, really, who has a legit chance to challenge for Grand Slam titles.
Serena and her coach, Patrick Mouratoglou, have noticed.
Williams will set an Open era record of 23 major singles title if she wins the championship in Melbourne, breaking a tie with steffi graf. williams will also yank the No. 1 ranking back from Angelique Kerber. Now that Murray has delivered major titles under the extraordinary pressure of having an entire kingdom watching him, it"s the 25-year-old Konta"s turn to see if she can. She was born in Sydney but now calls England her home. She has won eight straight matches without dropping a set and has started 2017 with a 13-1 match record that included her second career WTA title in Sydney.
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Serena Williams has yet to lose a set so far at the Australian Open, but neither had her quarterfinal opponent, Johanna Konta.
Like Williams, she"s a terrific server. It"s probably the strength of her game.
"I"ve been watching her a lot," Williams said earlier this week.
Said Mouratoglou on an ESPN television interview: "I saw [Konta] play early this year, and she"s one of the players who impressed me the most. I think she has no doubt at the moment. She hits every ball as if she thinks she can"t miss. You can see it."
It"s telling that the ninth-ranked Konta is even on Williams" radar. Serena is often coy when asked for details about what she"s up to, preferring to keep some mystery around how she maintains her world-beating edge. On Monday, even an innocuous question about how she uses the scouting videos that Mouratoglou told everyone he gives her on USB drives (some of them men"s matches that Williams studies for ideas) caused Williams to clam up.
"There are a lot of things that I do, I don"t really talk about all of them all the time," Williams said. "There may or may not be truth to that [video] story."
Williams is still the best player in the world and the favorite to get past Konta and eventually through to the final. But Konta has the game to give her a fascinating challenge. She hits the ball hard. She moves terrifically well. And people who know Konta say she is unlikely to be intimidated by Serena"s reputation. But it doesn"t hurt that bigger underdogs than Konta have pulled upsets at this tournament, including those who earlier this week knocked out Murray, Kerber and Novak Djokovic.
As ESPN analyst Chris Evert noted, "Every player thinks they have a shot now. And every player has hope when they come up against a top player."
Konta agrees. She made the semifinals here a year ago, losing to eventual champion Kerber in straight sets. When the accomplishment has been mentioned during introductions this year, Konta has admitted, "It gave me goosebumps." She has also been upbeat in believing she"s ready for the challenge of finally playing Serena, and the measuring stick it should provide. Konta has repeatedly emphasized how hard she has worked in the past year on maintaining her composure in high-stakes matches like this, and is eager to see how she will react.
All that said, Konta also knows she has never been tested like Serena could test her.
"It"s always been my dream to be at the top of the game," Konta said. "But I think there"s a lot of work to be done between reality and dreams. ... I believe in my own ability. I believe in the good things that I bring to the court, and I believe in my ability to fight "til the very end.
"I think it"s about playing, me going out there and doing what I want to do against her. And it will be about just staying focused on that. I"ve got to focus on the work and not think of whether I can or cannot beat her. Yeah. I just need to stay on the work."
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Judy Garlands tumultuous relationship with her lover and eventual third husband Sid Luft got off to a troubled start when she became pregnant with his child and secretly had an abortion.
Luft details the abortion in anew, posthumous memoir,Judy and I: My Life with Judy Garland, due out March 1 and excerpted in this weeks issue of PEOPLE. The book isbased on notes from his autobiography that was drafted and never published before his death in 2005.
The iconic star of The Wizard of Ozwas stillmarried to her second husband, Vincente Minnelli, when she began seeing Luft and became pregnant with his child in 1951.
Garland and Luft, a former boxer and test pilot who had become her manager, wereworking on a show together at New Yorks Palace Theatre at the time, and he didnt react well to the news.
I found myself saying, Of course I want your baby, but weve got a show to do, Luft recalls in the book.
Because of my negative reaction, judy didnt confide in me where and when she was going to have the abortion. I wasnt attentive. I didnt send flowers, he continues.
GettyFor more about Judy Garland and Sid Lufts marriage, pick up this weeks issue ofPEOPLE on newsstands Friday
Nevertheless, their bond survived, and the pair were married from 1952 to 1965.Luft, the father of Garlands children Lorna and Joey Luft, went on to orchestrate the stars famous comeback concerts and produce her comeback film, 1954s A Star Is Born, for which she was nominated for an Oscar.
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Mischa Barton has revealed she unknowingly consumed a psychoactive drug GHB before being hospitalised for a mental health evaluation this week.
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The 31-year-old OC actress has confirmed she"s been released and is at "home and doing well", and says she knew "something was not right" in the lead up to her voluntary admission to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles.
""On the evening of the 25th, I went out with a group of friends to celebrate my birthday," she says in a statement released to People.
Mischa Barton has revealed she unknowingly consumed a psychoactive drug GHB before being hospitalised for a mental health evaluation this week. Source: Getty Images"While having drinks, I realised that something was not right as my behavior was becoming erratic and continued to intensify over the next several hours.
"I voluntarily went to get professional help, and I was informed by their staff that I had been given GHB. After an overnight stay, I am home and doing well".
GHB stands for Gamma-hydroxybutyrate, a depressant drug that slows down the messages travelling between the brain and body.
On Thursday reports emerged that the television star had been taken to after suffering a "psychotic episode".
In 2009 she experienced a mental health scare. Photo: Getty ImagesThe OC actress exhibited bizarre behaviour, which had friends and neighbours extremely concerned for her health, TMZ reported.
Witnesses said they saw the star bending over her garden fence shouting about the world shattering", "Ziggy Stardust" and calling her mother a witch.
At one point she fell backward off the fence and was heard saying: "Oh my G*d, it"s over! I feel it, and it"s angry!" the report claims.
Police and firefighters were apparently called after being alerted by concerned neighbours about a jumper or possible overdose".
Mischa rose to fame as Marissa Cooper on The OC.This isnt the first mental health scare Mischa has had.
In 2009, she was placed on an involuntary psychiatric hold back after a dental check for an infected tooth turned into a fight with the nurses.
She was sectioned for two weeks under a 5150, a Californian law that allows a psychiatrist to involuntarily confine a person deemed a danger to themselves or others.
She explained the situation at the time and defended claims she was mentally unwell.
In 2009 she got into a fight with nurses after feeling terrified about them injecting her with needles. Photo: Getty Images"I had this terrible surgery to remove my wisdom teeth and it drove me mad. I had infections and I couldn"t eat anything except Slush Puppies for three months and I can"t tell you how awful it was," she told US TV show The View back in 2009.
Anyway, I"d had enough and I went to the hospital. I was in a lot of pain and if they feel you are depressed or a danger to yourself they can hold you on a 5150, she explained.
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I am terrified of needles and they wanted to pump me full of drugs and I said, "No, absolutely not. I don"t want to be here," and got into a fight with the nurses, and that led to my 5150.
"Part of me wishes those things had never happened in the public eye. I wish I could have been perfect. For ages after that 5150 I"d walk down the street and people would give me the crazy eye: "there"s mischa barton, she"s insane, isn"t she?""
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In several of John Hurts best-known roles, he played the leaders of authoritarian regimes or subjects struggling underneath their tyrannical reigns.
In the BBC television adaptation of I, Claudius in 1976, he played the mad Roman emperor Caligula, who commanded his armies to plunder seashells from the G*d Neptune and appointed his horse to the Senate. (As this Caligula ruefully said to his subjects, If you only had one neck, Id hack it through.)
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played a quietly noble Winston Smith, the hero of 1984, resisting the incursions of Big Brother and the Thought Police in Michael Radfords film adaptation of that George Orwell novel. Nineteen Eighty Four (1984) - Rats - Richard Burton - John Hurt Video by Vindobona AwstriaeHe was nominated for an Academy Award for best actor for his performance in The Elephant Man, even though he was mostly unrecognizable beneath layers of prosthetics.
The Elephant Man Final Scene Video by Peter RoosIn the movie Alien (1979), Mr. Hurt memorably had the invading alien burst from his stomach.
Alien Chestburster scene HD Video by _evermoreIn a later bit of casting that nodded to his 1984 performance, Mr. Hurt portrayed the venomous High Chancellor Sutler, the leader of a fictional fascist political party called Norsefire, in V For Vendetta, a 2005 movie based on a graphic novel in which England has become a totalitarian state.
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Teddy Bridgewater is unlikely to see the field in 2017, according to Bleacher Report"s Jason Cole.
Bridgewater, who suffered a devastating knee injury prior to the start of the season, underwent reconstructive surgery to repair a torn ACL and other ligaments following the freak incident.
According to Cole, doctors have informed the Minnesota Vikings quarterback that the recovery time for his injury is at minimum 19 months, putting him out until spring of 2018.
an official timetable for bridgewater"s return has not been set by the team, although head coach Mike Zimmer explained that his primary focus with the young quarterback is making a full recovery. All signs point toSam Bradfordremaining the Vikings" starting quarterback in 2017.
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