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Taking Him Under His Wing: After The Oscars Ceremony Last Night, Daniel Day-Lewis Pulled Timothe Chalamet Aside And Counted To 1,000

Timothee Chalamet may have walked away empty-handed at long last night’s Oscars, but his incredible performance in Call Me By Your Epithet has already got some of the world’s greatest performers taking him under their wing. After the Oscars ceremony last nighttime, Daniel Day-Lewis pulled Timothee Chalamet aside and counted to 1,000.

Goosebumps. It’s so awesome to see a retiring legend like Day-Lewis taking the time to mentor a younger performer like Chalamet!

At last night’s Vanity Fair Oscar Party, Day-Lewis drew Chalamet aside, threw his arm on his shoulder, and told the budding superstar, “Your performance was spectacular. You have the potential to be a generational talent. Listen to me: One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen, eighteen, nineteen, twenty, twenty one, twenty two, twenty three, twenty four, twenty five, twenty six, twenty seven, twenty eight, twenty nine, thirty, thirty one, thirty two, thirty three, thirty four, thirty five, thirty six, thirty seven, thirty eight, thirty nine, forty, forty one, forty two, forty three, forty four, forty five, forty six, forty seven, forty eight, forty nine, fifty, fifty one, fifty two, fifty three, fifty four, fifty five, fifty six, fifty seven, fifty eight, fifty nine, sixty, sixty one, sixty two, sixty three, sixty four, sixty five, sixty six, sixty seven, sixty eight, sixty nine, seventy, seventy one, seventy two, seventy three, seventy four, seventy five, seventy six, seventy seven, seventy eight, seventy nine, eighty, eighty one, eighty two, eighty three, eighty four, eighty five, eighty six, eighty seven, eighty eight, 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twenty five, two hundred twenty six, two hundred twenty seven, two hundred twenty eight, two hundred twenty nine, two hundred thirty, two hundred thirty one, two hundred thirty two, two hundred thirty three, two hundred thirty four, two hundred thirty five, two hundred thirty six, two hundred thirty seven, two hundred thirty eight, two hundred thirty nine, two hundred forty, two hundred forty one, two hundred forty two, two hundred forty three, two hundred forty four, two hundred forty five, two hundred forty six, two hundred forty seven, two hundred forty eight, two hundred forty nine, two hundred fifty, two hundred fifty one, two hundred fifty two, two hundred fifty three, two hundred fifty four, two hundred fifty five, two hundred fifty six, two hundred fifty seven, two hundred fifty eight, two hundred fifty nine, two hundred sixty, two hundred sixty one, two hundred sixty two, two hundred sixty three, two hundred sixty four, two hundred sixty five, two hundred sixty six, two hundred sixty seven, two hundred sixty eight, two hundred sixty nine, two hundred seventy, two hundred seventy one, two hundred seventy two, two hundred seventy three, two hundred seventy four, two hundred seventy five, two hundred seventy six, two hundred seventy seven, two hundred seventy eight, two hundred seventy nine, two hundred eighty, two hundred eighty one, two hundred eighty two, two hundred eighty three, two hundred eighty four, two hundred eighty five, two hundred eighty six, two hundred eighty seven, two hundred eighty eight, two hundred eighty nine, two hundred ninety, two hundred ninety one, two hundred ninety two, two hundred ninety three, two hundred ninety four, two hundred ninety five, two hundred ninety six, two hundred ninety seven, two hundred ninety eight, two hundred ninety nine, three hundred, three hundred one, three hundred two, three hundred three, three hundred four, three hundred five, three hundred six, three hundred seven, three hundred eight, three hundred nine, ” the Phantom Thread sun continued as Chalamet nodded and soaked it all in.

Chalamet then proposed the two move to a table where Day-Lewis continued doling out the hard-earned wise that he’s accrued in the course of his four decades in the movie business. “As I was saying, three hundred ten, three hundred eleven, three hundred twelve, three hundred thirteen, three hundred fourteen, three hundred fifteen, three hundred sixteen, three hundred seventeen, three hundred eighteen, three hundred nineteen, three hundred twenty, three hundred twenty one, three hundred twenty two, three hundred twenty three, three hundred twenty four, three hundred twenty five, three hundred twenty six, three hundred twenty seven, three hundred twenty eight, three hundred twenty nine, three hundred thirty, three hundred thirty one, three hundred thirty two, three hundred thirty three, three hundred thirty four, three hundred thirty five, three hundred thirty six, three hundred thirty seven, three hundred thirty eight, three hundred thirty nine, three hundred forty, three hundred forty 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nine hundred ninety three, nine hundred ninety four, nine hundred ninety five, nine hundred ninety six, nine hundred ninety seven, nine hundred ninety eight, nine hundred ninety nine, one thousand. That’s it. Remember what I’ve merely “ve told you”, and I believe you’ll go on to have a brilliant job, ” Day-Lewis concluded before patting Chalamet on the shoulder and leaving the awestruck young performer alone to contemplate his terms of guidance.

Seriously, this is the coolest thing ever. Timothee Chalamet must have been on cloud nine to get face-to-face recommendations from one of the greatest performers of all time! With these wise and solemn words, Day-Lewis has officially passed the torch to the next generation’s most promising young actor. Chalamet is already incredibly talented, and with a legend as brilliant as Daniel Day-Lewis mentoring him, there’s no doubt we can expect to be seeing him on the Oscars red carpet for years to come!

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Genius Photographer Uses Drones To Capture Mountain Halos, And The Result Is Out Of This World

Check out these incredible shootings by Liverpool-born and Chigaco-based musician and photographer Reuben Wu. Reuben is known for his pioneering methods of using drone-mounted lights to illuminate sceneries, giving them an otherworldly quality reminiscent of a sci-fi movie. These images are part of an ongoing programme called Lux Noctis, which he has been working on since 2016.

“I got my first drone in 2014, ” Reuben told Bored Panda. “ My childhood dreaming was to have a flying camera- being able to see sceneries from impossible perspectives, so it was an important step in my photography to start using a remote moving camera. I began to shoot photos and music videos with it while experimenting with using projectors to shine graphical patterns at night onto rock spires. The Lux Noctis concept developed from that, applying the droning as an aerial light source instead of a camera.”

Reuben is naturally drawn to the remote landscapes of the mountains and desert, as the solitude and rich natural wonder that they offer makes him both inspiration and opportunity to focus on his project. Investigating these contexts at night merely add to this, as well as creating an extra challenge. “The photographs are long exposures and have to be well considered and put in, ” he told us. “To me, there is more craftsmanship in creating night photos, and the use of remote aerial sunlights is just part of that( quite complex) workflow.” He has employed many types of camera during the project, but says that the most recent is a Fujifilm GFX5 0S, while the drone is a modified DJI Phantom.

The remote locations that he visits means that Reuben must be well-prepared for his hits. “There is a lot of prior research that goes into these illustrations, ” he said. “Poring over maps, moon cycles, seasons and tourist flowing. I invest the day of the kill planning compositions, places, hiking tracks and GPS markers and then wait until sunlights down before I start shooting. I retain my entire kit portable so I can hike to very remote places. I never wing when there are other visitors present, it’s important to me that the place is very remote and I am alone to create these pictures.”

“One of the shootings inadvertently caught the final burn of Falcon Heavy as it exited the Earth’s atmosphere. This was in the Vermilion Cliffs National Monument in Arizona.” Can you guess which one it is?

While applying his drone to light up the majestic mountain scenes, he began capturing the light routes of the droning with a long exposure, and discovered that this added another factor to his images. “The first part of the series intentionally removes any sign of the light source to leave just the illuminated scenery, ” Reuben explained to Bored Panda . strong> “This second series makes a feature of the light track of the drone as it lightings the landscape, and one of the features the droning has is a circular orbit mode around a’ point of interest’. It was an intentional move, but the whole process for me is experimental.” This’ halo’ result is especially impressive!

Scroll down below to check out Reuben’s award-winning images for yourself, and check out his Instagram to check out the motion elements that he has recently been working into his programme. After 10 years of being a full day musician in the band Ladytron, doing visual art is basically Reuben’s solo project, and we are so glad he’s doing it!

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Silicon Valley Team Says T.J. Miller’s Messy Exit Was ‘A Long Time Coming’!

Silicon Valley may have lost a beloved character following the departure of series star T.J. Miller, but the brilliant thinkers behind the HBO series aren’t too worried about it.

In fact, series creator Mike Judge told The Hollywood Reporter that Miller’s exit came as a huge succor to the production team, as he was apparently about as professional as the stoner he played on the Emmy-nominated comedy.

Related: T.J.’s The Gorburger Show D-O-N-E At Comedy Central !

Sources tell THR that the decision to cut ties with the comedian was “a long time coming” and that his use of drugs and alcohol would get in the way of his job.

On some periods, insiders claim, The Emoji Movie star would show up seemingly under the influence — others he wouldn’t show up at all.

Judge echoed these claims in his interview, telling the publication:

“There are a lot of different ways you can find out person doesn’t want to do the reveal anymore … And it’s not fun working in cooperation with someone who doesn’t want to be there,[ especially when] they’re one of the most important people and you’ve got nonetheless many crewmembers and extras and people who are[ not paid as well] and they’re all proving up before 7 a. m ., and then are just like,’ Oh, OK, we’re not hitting today.'”

The report goes on to claim that Miller would show up late to table reads, usually without having ever read the script in advance, and would fall asleep between takes on decide, “leaving the cast and crew to nudge him awake.”

This led to an inevitable exit at the end of Season 4, which( now tellingly) indicated Miller’s character Erlich passing out in a Tibetan opium den TAGEND

But Judge says that wasn’t the lane the writers wanted to say goodbye to the fan-favorite character, disclosing that HBO and the producers offered Miller an opportunity to return for three episodes in the upcoming fifth season for a proper send-off.

Miller, however, declined the offering( which would have likely been a story line involving Erlich on a road journey across China ), and decided to make a clean transgres to dive into his then-burgeoning cinema career — which had now been been expended by recently surfaced sexual-assault allegations.

Related: T.J. Sent Transphobic Email To Trans Movie Critic

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“In real life, I’m not ever high like Erlich is. And this will blow your readers’ minds, but I’m not high when I work because it gets in accordance with the rules of the slapstick. I likewise am not a guy who’s blackout drunk, bumping into things on fixed . … What was arising was I was out doing stand-up all the time, even if it meant I only got three hours of sleep. So, the thing I have a problem with? It’s pushing myself to do too much.”

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“These guys are the Golden state Warriors of slapstick. It’s like, yeah, we’ve lost Andre Iguodala but we still have Steph Curry and Kevin Durant and Klay Thompson and some other guy on the Warriors whose epithet I don’t know. But I don’t feel like we can’t win championships anymore … T.J. wasn’t LeBron.”

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“Oh, that’s great … And it constructs me like him more[ because] he’s so good at being an asshole.”

Ha! Voices like all’s good between these assholes?

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How prevalent is mental illness in mass shootings?

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Why so many missed warning signs in the Florida shooting ?

Questions emerge over whether bureaucrats missed warning signs about Nikolas Cruz; reaction on ‘Journal Editorial Report.SSSS

Nikolas Cruz, who methodically ran up and down the hallways of his former Florida high school on Valentine’s Day, killing 17 people, had a history of threatening others. Adam Lanza, who killed almost two dozen children in a Connecticut school in 2012, struggled with developmental disorders and was on psychiatric drug, which he had stopped taking. Jiverly Wong was suspected of suffering from paranoia before he strolled into the American Civics Association in New York in 2009 and murdered 13 people.

The most recent mass destroy in Florida last month has reignited the discussion about the extent to which mental illness play-acts a role in this violence, and even about what is signify by mental illness. The horror at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High also is glittering a light on the contradictory positions among prominent criminology and mental health experts about mental illness as a risk factor in mass shootings.

In a study of 185 public mass shootings- defined as an accident in which four or more people are killed at a public locating- from 1900 through 2017 criminologist Grant Duwe found that 59 percent implemented by people who had been diagnosed as mentally ill or proved signs of having a serious mental disturbance before the attack.

“Typically what we ascertain with those who carry out a mass public hitting is because they do suffer from a mental disorder, in some cases it’s diagnosable, or there’s some information from friends and family that indicates they suffered from mental illness, ” said Duwe, who is the research director for the Minnesota Department of Corrections and author of “Mass Murder in the United States: A History.”

James Holmes convicted of the murder of 12 people and the attempted slaying of 70 others in the 2012 Aurora shooting at a Century movie theater in Aurora, Colorado. ( AP/ Denver Post)

“Paranoid schizophrenia is what is more common among these individuals, ” Duwe told Fox News. “They feel like large groups of people are out to get them, and that they are responsible for making their life miserable. We also see that individuals who do this are individualists, they’re not trusting, so they don’t have close friendships of social relationships.”

Mother Jones, the left-leaning book, compiled a database of mass shootings going back to 1982, and found that about half involved some form of “mental health issue.” They included people who had been diagnosed with serious conditions, but likewise those who had family violence and work conflict histories.

An analysis by Everytown for Gun Safety liberated last year showed that in mass murders between January 2009 and December 2016, the shooter displayed at least one red flag, or troubling behaviour, in 42 percent of cases.

At the same time, many studies on mass shootings and mental illness indicate a smaller link.

Dylan Roof killed nine people at a Charleston, South Carolina church on June 17, 2015 ( AP)

Many widely quoth examines, including some conducted by the National Institutes of Health, on gun violence show that anywhere between 4 and 20 percentage of the incidents is a result of people with a serious mental illness.

Jeffrey Swanson, a professor in psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Duke University who specializes in gun violence and mental illness, conducted a study funded in part by the National Institutes of Health that found that 4 percent of handgun and other violence is traceable to schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and depression- the three mental health conditions most frequently found in violent incidents.

Swanson says the role of mental illness is overplayed after a shooting that grips at the country.

A mass killing is so disturbing, so irrational, and horrifying, people want to know why is happened, and mental illness is the perfect master explanation.

– Jeffrey Swanson, professor in psychiatry at Duke University

“A mass hitting is so disturbing, so irrational, and horrifying, people want to know why it happened, and mental illness is the perfect lord reason, ” said Swanson to Fox News.

What is more common among perpetrators of mass shootings, Swanson said, are potentially red flag behaviors such as festering rage, estrangement, and bitterness over being bullied, perhaps, that do not meet the threshold of a mental disturbance — and that may not be perceptible even to those close to the person — but that can lead to violence. Substance abuse is a common weave in mass shootings, found to be a factor in nearly 40 percent of shooters.

“If we were to panacea mental illness, all of it, tomorrow, how much of our violence problem would go down? It would go down about 4 percent, ” said Swanson, who has studied the issue for the National Institute of Health. “The mass shooters, with some exception, have been angry, alienated, emotionally difficulty young men who act out these incredibly deviant culture scripts and have access to firearms.”

Stephen Paddock opened fire at a Las Vegas music festival, killing 58 people. ( AP)

“There are tons of people who are risky, who are angry or suicidal, but who would pass a background check, ” Swanson said. “They don’t have a misdemeanour belief, they’ve never been involuntarily perpetrated. How do you make sure dangerous people don’t get access to firearms? ”

Duwe argues that the role of mental illness in mass shootings is underplayed.

“Part of the blowback with connecting mental illness to mass shootings is the fear that mentally ill people will be stigmatized, ” Duwe said, adding that the concern is a valid one. “That’s what we try to be careful with, most of the people with serious mental illness are not violent.”

“But we should not ignore the connection between mental illness and mass shootings that is very real, ” said Duwe, who recently co-authored an op-ed on the issue in The Los Angeles Times . “The issue has become very politicized, like tribal warfare.”

A major obstacle to a better system for predicting who might devote a mass shooting, experts say, is that it is relatively rare, and more funding is needed to study it more in-depth.

Many studies differ in their definition of mental illness, with some looking at diagnosable circumstances, others merely at serious ones such as paranoid schizophrenia, and still others taking a broad-spectrum approach, including more common things such as attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and anxiety.

“It’s an elastic boundary, a rubber ruler, ” Swanson said. “About 48 million people in the U.S. have some kind of diagnosable mental illness.”

We should not ignore the connection between mental illness and mass shootings that is very real. The issue has become very politicized, like tribal warfare.

– Grant Duwe, research director for the Minnesota Department of Corrections

What is more , not all studies or news reports look at the same categories of violence when addressing the role of mental illness, Duwe and Swanson noted.

Some look at all violence, others look at mass murders( which may or may not involve artilleries ), and still others look at mass shootings that don’t are available in a public place or that targets strangers- such as when a disgruntled fired employee perpetrates workplace violence or someone kills four or more people in a household or when a criminal kills several people within the parameters of say a robbery.

“There has not been systematic assessment of mass shooters” that would gratify scientific criteria, Swanson said. “We often are operating on the basis of sketchy information” about a perpetrators’odd behavior.

Gun rights advocates say the answer is not curbing Second Amendment rights, but acting more responsibly when behavioral “red flags” are observed, as they were in the case of Cruz in Florida. They argue that the murder likely would never have happened if law enforcement officers had simply done their chore and investigated numerous leadings indicating Cruz had mental illness issues.

One approach gaining momentum is Red Flag Laws, which let relatives and officials to seek a court order to remove artilleries from dangerous people. Five states have the laws, and Red flag measures are pending in approximately 20 others.

In a written statement, the FBI said a person close to Cruz contacted the agency’s tip line Jan. 5 to report very concerned about “Cruz’s gun ownership, desire to kill people, erratic behavior, and disturbing social media posts, as well as the potential of him conducting local schools shooting.”

Florida does not have a Red flag Law.

“Under established protocols, the information provided by the caller should have been assessed as threats to life, ” the FBI said.

In a speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference on Thursday, the leader of the National Rifle Association Wayne LaPierre said that adversaries of gun rights want to “sweep under the carpet” the failure of school safety, families “and even the unbelievable failure of the FBI” to prevented the shootings. LaPierre stimulated the occurrence that there is room for the gun foyer and gun control advocates to find common ground.

Efforts by Fox News to get a comment from the NRA were unsuccessful.

Bonnie Zampino, a behavioral health professional who qualifies educators , among others, on how to manage people with mental illness and behavioral issues, said it’s important that school bureaucrats, advisers, families and law enforcement work together and establish communication lines when a young person begins exhibiting so-called red flag that might lead to violence.

Often, she said, efforts to address such behaviors are disjointed or have no follow-up.

“This young man was exhibiting behaviors that would indicate that he had been exposed to trauma in life, he received medical care, he was evaluated, they didn’t find the need for further care, ” said Zampino of Cruz, based on published information.

“It’s our job to be the professional who can look at the behaviour, to address the needs, halting the aggressivenes, ” said Zampino, who has an autistic child. “But[ too often] we’re not paying enough attention, we’re not talking to one another.”

“Here we help teaches understand when they realize small children coming into their classroom that clearly shows such issues and they’re being aggressive, how to get ahead of that behaviour and deal with the trauma and how not to trigger the aggression, ” she said. “We teach teachers proactive approaches.”

The Associated Press contributed to this report . i>

Elizabeth Llorente is Senior Reporter for FoxNews.com, and can be reached at Elizabeth.Llorente @Foxnews. com. Follow her on Twitter @Liz_Llorente . i>

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Kings of loser comedy: how Flight of the Conchords took off

New Zealands fourth most well known folk-parody act are on a sold-out arena tour. Is there a shrewdness behind the duos laidback shtick?

Few comics ever play London’s O2 Arena and fewer still oversee three nights in a row. Those who do tend to have some things in common: a relatable observational style, limited creative desire and ruthless commercial savvy. None of which applies to Flight of the Conchords, perhaps the unlikeliest act ever to reach those airless elevations of the comic stratosphere.

I insured Flight of the Conchords last week, warming up for their forthcoming realms tour with a run at the 140 -seat Soho theatre. Watching their suite of kooky sungs about medieval romance, piano-playing seagulls and spoonful thieves, laughing at their low-key converse and minutely detailed interplay, the believed to be their imminent transfer to arena stages was supremely incongruous. Not least to the Conchords themselves.” We’ll continue that in for the O2 ,” they’d remark, after this or that improvised quip or ramshackle moment of fun.

If you first learnt Bret McKenzie and Jemaine Clement, as I did, in a dingy cellar on the Edinburgh fringe 15 years ago, you are able struggle to wrap your head around the scale of their new tour. But if you factor in a Disney film, writing an Oscar-winning song for The Muppets, a sleeper make HBO sitcom, and the fact that this musical-comedy duo is one of the funniest and most talented acts to come along in two decades- well, an explanation have started to take shape.

It’s certainly not down to any dead-eyed careerism. In my 20 years of interviewing comics, few showed as shambling and un-starry as McKenzie and Clement in 2003– the year they were nominated for Edinburgh’s Perrier award. The previous year, theirs had been the festival’s breakout present, due largely to word-of-mouth enthusiasm spread by fellow comics.

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Watch the chant Hiphopopotamus vs Rhymenoceros, from episode three of Flight of the Conchords.

Their shtick was artless banter spliced with improbable comic ballads , notable for their pernickety lyrics and eclectic musicianship. Zoological rap combat Hiphopopotamus Vs Rhymenoceros was an early favourite (” They call me the Hiphopopotamus/ My lyrics are bottomless” and” I’m not a large water-dwelling mammal/ Where did you get that absurd hypothesis ?”). The Humans Are Dead, with its” binary solo” and robo-vocal report of the cataclysm, was another, while their Space Oddity spoof Bowie’s in Space was achingly near the mark.

With merely a couple of acoustic guitars and a digital glockenspiel, they were maestros of every pop music style imaginable, although they concealed their talent with gags.” You can tell when we’ve learned a new chord ,” they told me,” because we’ll use it in our next three anthems .” On stage, they played losers who thought they were wins. Off stage, they were wins who pretended to be losers. They’d been invited to Hollywood to pitch a project, they told me- but” you needed a clearly defined suggestion of what you wanted to do, and we didn’t have any suggestion at all “. So they were sent packing.

I left that interview unsure whether I’d gratified the “real” Clement and McKenzie or an extension of the gormless act. From the off, they excelled at clambering true and fiction- as per the blissful bit of onstage talk in which they guess when the other is in character (” You’re in … now you’re out … now you’re in …”) It helped that they took deadpan to whole new tiers of blankness.

” It’s so dry and so Kiwi ,” says their compatriot and fellow comic Rose Matafeo, who is not alone in tracing much of the Conchords’ distinctiveness back to their national character.” The constant self-deprecation, the playing it straight, these are so common in New Zealand. We’re at the bottom of the world, so isolated. We’re like what the fuck is happen if “youve left” someone alone in a chamber for a day .”

Jarred Christmas, another New Zealand comic, is surprised how far this took them.” I never envisioned there’d be an international espouse of that. I’d never seen that happen, comedy-wise .” Christmas co-starred in the Conchords’ eponymous 2005 Radio 2 sitcom, as did Jimmy Carr, Daniel Kitson and Rob Brydon( the Conchords have always surrounded themselves with fast-rising flair ).” What struck me ,” Christmas says,” is that no matter how laidback they find themselves, they’ve always believed they’re good enough. You’ll notice that, on the radio demonstrate , not one of their chants was played in full. So they retained the rights, rather than those defaulting to the BBC. Clearly, they had their visions set on something bigger .”

No strife, only placid acceptance … the HBO series Flight of the Conchords. Photograph: BBC/ Paul Schiraldi/ HBO

Something bigger duly came in 2007, with the launch of the duo’s HBO sitcom, again eponymously named. They played themselves as hapless immigrants in New York, inducing zero impression as a band whose director( played by Rhys Darby) moonlights as a culture attache at the New Zealand consulate. The series feigned to taunt their homeland’s eccentricity and boringness. But, really, it celebrated those qualities. Eccentricity and boringness were the show’s touchstones, while its USP was the radical flatness of McKenzie and Clement’s performances. They took the faux-real stylings of The Office et al and ratcheted up the humdrum, but blended it with wildly incongruous flares of carol in which Bret and Jemaine’s fantasy lives paraded in all the regions of the screen.

The show ran for two series, featuring soon-to-be-illustrious co-stars( Aziz Ansari, Kristen Wiig) and winning Emmy nominations. Clement and McKenzie likewise won a 2008 Grammy for best comedy album. The series was never more than a cult hitting, in the UK at least, but its significance outperformed its ratings. It opened the world up to indie Kiwi culture and alerted American Tv to overseas flair. Where McKenzie and Clement led, the likes of Trevor Noah, John Oliver and James Corden have followed. Likewise, in its depiction of failure, in its disdain for TV conventions( it was part-improvised ), and in its uniquely hip brand of musical comedy, the present proved more influential than its modest impact at the time might suggest.

Conventionally, failing in comedy has been something to rail against: it’s the fight that builds it funny. In Flight of the Conchords, there is no battle, merely placid adoption.” It demonstrated you didn’t have to be an alpha male ,” says Christmas- and in so doing, it winged the flag for a new generation stimulating more arty and intimate, less obvious and aggressive slapstick. But it cross-fertilised that strain with the gentle surrealism of Spaced and The Mighty Boosh, to show that you could be dorky losers and rock deities, showed bachelors and lotharios.

Key to this were the hymns, two per episode, that underscore the flights of fancy that offset( or should that be overtake ?) Bret and Jemaine’s feckless real lives. The songs alter current realities, moving the plot along in unreal routes, as if singing yourself out of loser-dom genuinely were an option. Narratively, it stimulated tenuous sense, but you were enjoying the hymns too much to care.

” One of the hardest things in musical comedy is to write a number that people want to hear again ,” says Phil Nichol, of 1990 s Canadian musical comedy act Corky and the Juice Pigs.” Usually, once you’ve heard the gags at the end of each stanza, you know all you need to know. But both Jemaine and Bret are astounding musicians. They write stuff that stimulates you think,’ Wow, why didn’t I write that ?’ Their ballads are exceptionally replayable .” Many of them match or even overshadow the trails they pastiche- such as the Emmy-nominated Carol Brown( based on Paul Simon’s 50 Lane to Leave Your Lover ), or the Peter Sarstedt take-off Rambling Through the Avenues of Time.

The villainous crustacean Tamatoa voiced by Jemaine Clement in Disney’s Moana. Photograph: Allstar/ Walt Disney Productions

It’s certainly a rare accomplishment to stimulate musical comedy cool . A rarer feat still is to alumnu from writing funny sungs to winning best chant Oscars, which McKenzie did in 2012 with Man or Muppet from that year’s Muppets movie. Clement’s interim job has been even more eye-catching, with voiceover roles as Fleshlumpeater in Steven Spielberg’s The BFG, as the villainous crustacean Tamatoa in Disney’s Moana, and as intergalactic criminal Boris” the Animal” in Men in Black III.

” People who discovered them at the movies have then gone back and watched Flight of the Conchords ,” says Christmas.” And the sitcom did what The Office did: it stopped at its peak, arguably before its peak, so people have remained perpetually desperate for more .”

And now they’re get it, as McKenzie and Clement touch down for the UK leg of their world tour.” They’ve just been so consistently good over their entire job ,” says Matafeo, who credits the life she’s living today as a New Zealand comic, based in the UK and working internationally, to their example.” Everyone has their own special relationship with a stage of the Conchords’ job. Some people learnt them early, at Edinburgh. Some people- like me- recollect downloading bootlegs of their hymns from the internet. And some people came to them after the sitcom finished. It’s all been so good that, whenever you encounter them, you fall in love with them .”

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Black Panther Tops New Jennifer Lawrence, Bruce Willis Films

“Black Panther” is maintaining its clutch on the top spot at the box office for the third-straight week, beating new movies featuring Jennifer Lawrence and Bruce Willis.

The Marvel superhero film from Walt Disney Co ., which has been transgressing sales records, accumulated $65.7 million at cinemas in the U.S. and Canada, ComScore Inc. calculated Sunday in an email. It was the third-best third weekend for any movie ever. JLaw’s” Red Sparrow” and the remake “Death Wish” featuring Willis placed second and third.

The first blockbuster with a black superhero in the leading role, “Black Panther” has become a symbol for promoting diversity in the movie industry. Issues like inclusion and sexual harassment in the entertainment industry will also be in the spotlight Sunday night when the Academy Awards are handed out in Hollywood.

Box Office Mojo was forecasting $65 million in weekend sales for “Black Panther.” For 2018, the film contributes all others with all revenues of $501.1 million, surpassing the half-billion-dollar mark two days faster than” Sun Conflicts: The Last Jedi .” Universal Pictures’ erotic series “Fifty Shades Freed” is in second-place this year with $95.6 million.

“Death Wish,” a remaking from MGM, opened with weekend sales of $13 million. Willis stars as a human who becomes a vigilante after his family is attacked, re-creating the role originally played by Charles Bronson in 1974. BoxOfficePro was forecasting $19.5 million for the picture, which was mostly panned by top critics.

21st Century Fox’s” Red Sparrow” earned an estimated $17 million, missing the $19 million predict of BoxOfficePro. Lawrence stars as a honey trap and snoop targeting a CIA agent. Top critics were mostly negative, according to aggregator RottenTomatoes.com.

Globally, “Black Panther” generated sale of $121.9 million this weekend for a total $897.7 million to date, ComScore said.

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Southern Californians know: climate change is real, it is deadly and it is here

An earthly paradise is ravaged by inferno and deluge, the earth itself rising to proclaim a horrifying and deadly new normal

When people ask me where I live and I say, “Santa Barbara,” I wait for the inevitable respond, “Paradise,” and the quizzical looking that says, how does one live there, rather than vacation. It’s as if I had responded, Disneyland.

People who visit from colder climates have been grumbling lately. Last year, when it finally rained after six years of drought, and we were practically on our knees with gratitude, a woman from New England remarked,” I didn’t come here for the rainfall .” I virtually said,” Well, then, why don’t you go back home ?” Another pestered a friend: when was her club in Montecito going to open? My pal replied,” I think it’s under eight feet of mud .” She wanted to add,” And they’re still looking for the bodies .”

It’s always been a struggle here to have a normal life, to hold on to reality.

In December, we got a mega-dose of reality when the biggest fire in California’s history burned more than 270,000 acres. Seven metropolis were evacuated.

When the air was labeled “hazardous” for three days operating, we attained plans to leave. On Sunday morning, my phone pinged a mandatory evacuation for Montecito. I called a friend who lives there. “Packing,” she said. The burn was less than a mile away. I drove through the brown air and falling ash to a gas station and when I got there, my credit card wouldn’t work; the power was out. I stood in the zombie snow as others lined up behind me. Ultimately, we drove north to a hotel on the coast, where, with evacuated pals, we hiked and strolled together along the shore.

After we’d been there a few periods, I woke up at 3am and thought of a movie I’d watched years ago. Ava Gardener and Gregory Peck waiting for the fallout from a nuclear conflict in the northern hemisphere to swim on the wind to them in Australia. They were going to die, and everyone and everything they cared about was dead or was going to be just. I remembered a lot of drinking and dancing, fruitless search by submarine along the coasts of the United States for survivors and Fred Astaire setting up his sports car so he could rev it up in his garage and is suicide.

I thought, we are On the Beach.

Like them, we were scarcely refugees. We hadn’t strolled out of our homes not knowing where we were going or who would take us in. But still, hanging over our hikes, was dread.

And what was coming toward us? Immediately, it was the fire. The fire at that point was burning so hot it was basically gas. Because of the long drought, the lack of rain this season, and Santa Ana gales in December.

But we were waiting for something else, too.

And then, the firefighters, all 8,549 of them, stopped the flame and we went home for Christmas.

In early January, a tropical storm from the south made the freshly burned mountains above Montecito between two and three in the morning, and dropped a half-inch of rainwater in five minutes. A army of water and ash and soil no longer secured by plants picked up boulders on its way down the mountain and swept into the town. My friends in Montecito were just too tired to evacuate ahead of this blizzard. A firefighter told them the day before.” If you hear a sound like a freight train, get up on the second narrative or the roof .” They woke up at three under a red sky from mansions explosion over severed gas lines and they heard it:” A terrible grind roar .” It interred houses and autoes and people. It interred the road and the qualify trails. All the way to the ocean. A torso of a human was found on the beach. Not far away from him was the body of a bear.

Broken mansions line mud-caked streets, and two people are still missing including a two-year-old. We are no longer a pretty backdrop, and our nerves aren’t pretty, either.

And we know now what the fright was we felt in December. Call it climate change or climate collapse, that was the Big Dread behind the smaller ones. Climate disciples, climate deniers, deep in our nerves we think it will happen somewhere else. Or, in some other day, in 2025 or 2040 or next year. But we are here to tell you, in this postcard from the former paradise, that it won’t happen next year, or somewhere else. It will happen right where you live and it could happen today. No one will be spared.

So, if you are driving around and flying on airliners and ordering things to be shipped by truck and making money off oil stock the way so many of us are- like there’s no tomorrow? We are here to tell you there is a tomorrow and we are living in it.

If you visit, talk to us as if our dose of mega-reality is not some singular string of bad luck or an inconvenience to you. Help tether us to the reality “weve been”- all of us- living in now and that we in southern California don’t want to forget in the face of returning to “normal”. Make us the one endowment that will help us: please, let’s not go back to business as usual.

Nora Gallagher writes memoir and fiction. She’s the author recently of the memoir Moonlight Sonata at Mayo Clinic and the novel Changing Light

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Jimmy Kimmel Opens Oscars with Killer Jabs at Weinstein, Trump and Pence

Last year, the elephant in the chamber at the Academy Awards was the newly-elected President Donald Trump. This time, there were many more elephants for host Jimmy Kimmel to address, beginning with the the biggest, most disgusting one of them all: Harvey Weinstein.

In interviews leading up to his second year hosting the Oscars, Kimmel indicated that Hollywood predators would not be his focus, telling ABC News,” This show is not about reliving people’s sexual assault .” James Corden learned the hard way that jokes about rape can have unintended outcomes, but going easy on the prominent humankinds brought low by #MeToo could be just as irresponsible.

On the 90 th anniversary of the accolades, the reveal opened with an old-timey black and white newsreel version of the red carpet, including jokes about nominees, past and present.

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When Kimmel took the stage in glorious colour, he generally seemed more excited to talk about last year’s Best Picture snafu that briefly awarded La La Land the top prize before handing the honor over to its rightful recipient: Moonlight . With Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway set for a do-over at the end of the nighttime, Kimmel couldn’t resist taking some shoots at the snafu.

” This year, when you hear your name called, don &# x27; t get up right away ,” he told nominees.” Last year, about a week before the prove, the producers asked me if I wanted to do some comedy with the accountants ,” the host exposed.” I said , no, I don &# x27; t wishes to do that. So, the accountants moved ahead and did comedy on their own .”

” We can’t ruin this one, this is a special time, this is a big one ,” Kimmel said.” Oscar is 90 years old tonight, which means he’s probably at home right now watching Fox News .”

Then, as the camera panned to the giant Oscar statuette, he said,” No question about it: Oscar is the most beloved and respected human in Hollywood. And there’s a very good reason why. Just look at him. Keeps his hands where you can see them, never says a rude word, and most importantly , no penis at all. He is a literal statue of limitations .”

” And that’s the kind of men we need more of in this town ,” he continued.” Here’s how clueless Hollywood is about women: we made a movie called What Women Crave and it starred Mel Gibson .”

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From there, Kimmel moved on to Harvey Weinstein, who was kicked out of the Academy this year for his horrendous history of( alleged) sexual abuse. He was just the second person ever to get kicked out after another man was removed for sharing screeners.” He have the same penalty as Harvey Weinstein for making his neighbour a print of Seabiscuit on VHS ,” Kimmel said to a huge chuckle from the crowd.

” But “whats happened to” Harvey, what’s happening all over was long overdue ,” he continued.” We can’t let bad behavior slide anymore. The world is watching us. We need to set an example. And the truth is, if we are successful here, if we can work together to stop sexual harassment in the workplace, if we can do that, girls will only have to deal with harassment all the time at every other place they go .”

” Over such courses of this evening, I hope you will listen to many brave and outspoken supporters of movements like #MeToo and #TimesUp and #NeverAgain, because what they’re doing is important ,” Kimmel said.” Thing are changing for the better, they’re making sure this is right. It is positive change. This is a night for positivity and our program is to glitter a light on a group of outstanding and inspiring cinemas, each and every one of which get crushed by Black Panther this weekend .”

Later, Kimmel addressed the pay inequality scandal that erupted when it was revealed that Mark Wahlberg and Michelle Williams were paid wildly different wages for reshoots on All the Money in the World despite being represented by the same agency. One of the most difficult laughs of the nighttime came when he said,” I have to admit, this story really surprised me. This one shook me, because if we can’t trust agents, who can we trust ?”

Overall, the monologue was short on political gags, though Kimmel did get in got a couple of excellent jokes about the Trump administration.” None other than President Trump called Get Out the best first three-quarters of a movie this year ,” he joked. And then this murderer:” We don’t attain movies like Call Me by Your Epithet for the money. We construct them to upset Mike Pence .”

After a banner year during which he made late-night affair again by driving real action on health care and artilleries, Kimmel was ultimately able to find the appropriate balance between condemning the industry’s abusers without diminishing the celebratory nature of the nighttime. Not an easy feat, but he pulled it off.

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