While the world focuses on what Ben Affleck says about his second split from Jennifer Lopez, the star seems more concerned about that January visit from the FBI. Because it turns out the FBI was not at all concerned about him. FBI agents visiting his house while the Palisades fire burned is yet another episode … Read more
On the Shelf Retreat At Krysten RitterHarper: 272 pages, $29If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.orgwhose fees support independent bookstores. Krysten Ritter remembers the moment the idea for her new book came to her. She was vacationing with a good friend at a beach resort in … Read more
Burnout’s nothing new. Just ask Henry David Thoreau, who was lamenting in 1854 that our lives are being “frittered away by detail.” The smartphone may then have been unimaginable — Alexander Graham Bell was barely out of infancy —yet the impulse to reach for it was already there. “Hardly a man takes a half hour’s … Read more
For 20 years, students and teachers at Biloela State High School in Australia studied and worked next to a large beige boulder without realizing it was a window into a lost world. In 2021, following media coverage of dinosaur remains in the area, someone thought to have an expert look at the big rock sitting … Read more
Three artists have been commissioned to create the first wave of installations for the Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s new David Geffen Galleries, scheduled to open in April next year. The expansive site-specific works will help to define the look and feel of the Peter Zumthor-designed building, and in the case of one artwork … Read more
Good homes have good souls, just as beloved movies do. Rick Carter knows both. On Jan. 7, the renowned production designer — for “Jurassic Park,” “Avatar” and more — had just settled in for the night with half an Ambien and his wife, Adele, when a concerned friend called their Paris hotel. A raging wildfire … Read more
“Zero Day,” premiering Thursday on Netflix, is the vehicle that Robert De Niro, whose picture appears next to “actor” in the dictionary of our mind, has chosen to drive, for the first time in his six-decade career, onto television. (Not counting “Saturday Night Live” cameos.) Let’s make him welcome. De Niro plays former U.S. President … Read more
It’s an end of an era for the man who likes his cocktails shaken, not stirred. Amazon MGM Studios and the longtime producers of the James Bond film franchise — Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli — on Thursday said they made a deal that will give the tech giant creative control of the blockbuster … Read more
