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Fonda once told reporters, “When I first saw the script, I didn’t understand why the mother was so awful.” “So I had to find her backstory.” “I learned some of my over-the-top behavior from Ted,” he added, noting that Viola had many on-screen tantrums and a flair for drama. She also told Liveabout: “He’s the only person I know who has had to apologize more than me. He’s a real jerk, he’s outrageous, he has a total lack of self-censorship, and he’s also a very lovable person. “So when I got the opportunity to play Viola, I felt like I…
Investor and author Eric Becker says great leaders must trust their instincts and have the confidence to be the first to speak up when they see a colleague considering a bad idea, even if it makes them uncomfortable to criticize.If you can’t do either of these two things consistently, Becker says, your career can stall. He is a co-founder and co-chairman of Cresset Capital. Cresset Capital is a Chicago-based wealth management firm with more than $70 billion in assets under management. Becker’s book, “The Long Game: Strategies for the World’s Most Enduring Companies,” was published on October 14th, and he…
In early November, a developer nicknamed Cookie began a daily conversation with Perplexity. She often performs tasks such as reading developers’ work on quantum algorithms and writing Readme files and other documentation for GitHub. She is a Pro subscriber and uses the service in “best” mode. This means choosing which underlying model to tap between ChatGPT and Claude. It worked fine at first. But then she felt it belittled and ignored her. They started asking for the same information over and over again. She had anxious thoughts. Did the AI not trust her? Cookie, who is black, changed her profile…
Bob Schrader was nearing retirement, but he had no intention of taking it easy.Schrader worked for 37 years as deputy director of the Agriculture Center at UMass Cooperative Extension, part of the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Five years before he retired, he purchased a Christmas tree farm.”I had a good experience working on a farm when I was younger, much younger,” says Schrader, 72.Today, with the help of his son Jake, he owns and operates Chestnut Mountain Christmas Tree Farm, a 133-acre farm located in Hatfield, Massachusetts. The farm had not been operated for nearly a decade and was “very…
Sign up for CNN Travel’s weekly newsletter, Unlocking the World. Get destination news, plus the latest information on aviation, food and drink, and accommodation. This Thanksgiving weekend CNN Travel roundup brings you stories of love, family, and friendship from around the world. Keep your dinner napkins with you in case they get torn. British woman Charlotte Phillips knows a thing or two about plot twists, having edited trailers for films such as the 2006 romantic comedy “The Holiday.” What she never expected was to become the protagonist of a real-life love story that begins thousands of miles from home in…
I never went on a trip to see The Upside Down: Stranger Things, but my kids are really grown up. Nine years after the sci-fi drama debuted, its long-awaited fifth season is finally here, and it promises to be an epic final farewell, not to mention an emotional one. And while Millie Bobby Brown, Finn Wolfhard, Sadie Sink, Caleb McLaughlin and the rest of the show’s all-star cast have spent nearly a decade telling the story of telekinetic teen Eleven and the young friends she meets in Hawkins, Indiana, their own lives have evolved just as much. First, Millie, who…
Because our fears are instinctive or automatic, they may seem out of our control. But in fact, we can shake them up. Having a sense of competence increases your ability to act courageously, even if you are initially afraid. When you have confidence or “self-efficacy,” you feel more in control of the situation, whether you’re encountering a giant snake or tackling a difficult project at work. We are now more empowered to take risks, suppress our fears, and act boldly. The courageous people I studied for my book, How to Be Bold: The Surprising Science of Everyday Courage, weren’t just…
Iznik, Türkiye — Pope Leo XIV on Friday condemned the use of religion to justify “war,” “violence” and “fanaticism” and instead urged Catholics to unite their faith and unite others “regardless of ethnicity, nationality, religion or personal point of view.” The Pope commemorated an important church day in Turkey that allows for “dialogue and cooperation” between different communities and called on worshipers to see the humanity in others. “The entire human race, suffering from violence and conflict, is calling for reconciliation,” Leo said. “There is a universal fraternity between men and women, regardless of ethnicity, nationality, religion, or personal perspective.”…
Coffee prices were already rising when the United States imposed new tariffs on coffee imports in April following last year’s poor harvest. Those tariffs have since been lifted, but prices at grocery stores and cafes remain high, leaving many shoppers wondering why a simple cup of coffee costs so much.As of September, the price of roasted coffee sold in stores was up about 41% from 12 months ago, rising from an average of $6.47 to $9.14 per pound, according to the latest data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.During volatile times, prices can fluctuate by about $1 within a year,…
Camber Sands, UK — Andy Dinsdale began walking the coast of southern England in search of ‘sea heart’, a hardy mahogany species carried by ocean currents from the rainforests of Central and South America. While searching for an expert on plastic pollution, he accidentally became an expert on plastic pollution. Over the past 20 years, Dinsdale has watched Camber Sands, a two-mile stretch of golden sand and dunes, transform from one of Britain’s most cherished beaches to the front line of an escalating environmental crisis. But he wasn’t prepared for what he saw in early November. When Dinsdale and the…