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Justine Triet’s Anatomy of a Fall won the Palme d’Or at the 76th Cannes Film Festival in a ceremony Saturday that bestowed the festival’s prestigious top prize on an engrossing, rigorously plotted French courtroom drama that puts a marriage on trial. Anatomy of a Fall, which stars Sandra Hüller as a writer trying to prove her innocence in her husband’s death, is only the third film directed by a woman to win the Palme d’Or. One of the two previous winners, Julia Ducournau, was on this year’s jury. Cannes’ Grand Prix, its second prize, went to Jonathan Glazer’s The Zone of Interest, a chilling Martin…

SUNDAY, MAY 28, 2023 ASTRO ADVICE WEEKLY by Eugenia Last May 28 – June 3, 2023      ARIES (March 21-April 19): An honest appraisal of situations you face on the 28th and 29th is essential if you plan to finish things on time. Let your imagination fill your mind with possibilities and your budget fit your dreams. Drama will take over on the 30th and 31st if you aren’t willing to look at all sides of a situation. Put your energy where it will make the most significant difference. Don’t let uncertainty hold you back. It will be challenging to…

SWNS More than 5,000 new marine species have been discovered by an English expedition in the Pacific. They include strange shellfish, carnivorous sponges, sea cucumbers, worms, and urchin-like spiny invertebrates. The research published in the journal Current Biology supports the notion that we know more about space than we know about the deep ocean. They were found in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone (CCZ)—a region covering nearly four million square miles between Mexico and Hawaii. “There’s some just remarkable species down there,” said team member Muriel Rabone, a deep-sea ecologist at London’s Natural History Museum. “Some of the sponges look like classic…

The French filmmaker Justine Triet becomes the third woman to win the top honor at the Cannes Film Festival.The 76th Cannes Film Festival ended Saturday with the Palme d’Or awarded to “Anatomy of a Fall.” Directed by Justine Triet, this intellectual thriller centers on a woman who is brought to trial after the mysterious death of her husband. Written by Triet and Arthur Harari, the film was an early favorite with critics.Triet is the third woman to have won the Palme; Julia Ducournau won in 2021 for “Titane,” and Jane Campion took the prize in 1993 for “The Piano.”The Palme…

His two-volume study, written with Robert W. Fogel, used data to challenge commonly held ideas about American slavery, including that it was unprofitable and inefficient.Stanley Engerman, one of the authors of a deeply researched book that, wading into the fraught history of American slavery, argued that it was a rational, viable economic system and that enslaved Black people were more efficient workers than free white people in the North, died on May 11 in Watertown, Mass. He was 87.His son David said the cause was myelodysplastic syndrome, a rare form of blood and bone marrow cancer.In their two-volume “Time on…

Gift of Adoption An American nonprofit is celebrating a huge milestone after helping to unite three brothers at risk of separation—into a new forever family. The Illinois-based Gift of Adoption Fund has facilitated the placement of 5,000 children since its founding 26 years ago—with over $15 million in grants awarded. They provide grants of up to $15,000 to help families complete adoptions of kids in vulnerable circumstances—including, most recently, three brothers born in Ecuador. “Gift of Adoption is elated to mark this milestone by helping to keep together three siblings at risk of separation,” said Gift of Adoption CEO Pam…

Ilkley Lido – SWNS Nine different lottery victors with winnings that would total $20 million banded together and restored an historic lido to its former glory in West Yorks, England. A lido is an open-air swimming pool open to the public—and Ilkley Lido is regarded as one of the best in the country, but the landscape has been left to turn almost ‘threadbare’ in recent years. Now, thanks to the team of lottery winners, the grounds were transformed by new planter boxes full of eye-catching color and glorious flower blooms. They spent the day building the boxes, then positioning them…

In concerts and on dozens of recordings, she applied a delicate touch that critics said set her apart from other performers.Ingrid Haebler, a pianist who drew particular acclaim for her performances and recordings of the works of Mozart, impressing critics while still in her 20s with elegant interpretations that set her apart from other musicians of her day, died on May 14. She was believed to be 96.Decca Classics, which last year released “Ingrid Haebler: The Philips Legacy,” a boxed set of dozens of recordings she made for the Philips label, posted news of her death on Facebook. The Austrian…

The pop megastar’s first of three shows at MetLife Stadium featured an appearance from the rising rapper Ice Spice, a fan-favorite song and loads of sequins.On Friday afternoon, a seemingly endless parade of Taylor Swift fans wearing flowery dresses, sparkly cowboy boots, sequined T-shirts and handmade friendship bracelets made their way to East Rutherford, N.J., turning the vast asphalt parking lot at MetLife Stadium into a pop-up performance space, a fashion runway and a meeting ground for friends, old and new.Two months and 25 shows after the pop megastar’s career-spanning Eras Tour began, the show arrived in the New York…

Habíamos hecho concesiones en nuestros matrimonios, negado partes de nosotros mismos, a menudo nos sentíamos solos, pero ¿quién no? ¿No éramos lo suficientemente felices?Un lúgubre día de noviembre estaba sentada en DK Donuts, en Boise, Idaho, hablando por teléfono con mi terapeuta en Londres, donde estaba mi marido, y donde yo también debería haber estado, si no me hubiera enamorado de otro hombre y volcado nuestro mundo.Fue una traición espectacular. Hacía años que estaba unida a la mujer de David, como él lo había estado a mi marido. Compartíamos largos almuerzos dominicales, comidas en vacaciones, teníamos cinco décadas de matrimonio…