Role Model answered the phone while pacing around a Holiday Inn Express gym. The 27-year-old singer explained that he was trying to get a workout in before his Tampa, Fla., show later that night. Born Tucker Pillsbury, the in-demand musician was about two-thirds of the way through his tour’s North American leg. While talking about … Read more
OpenAI is pushing boundaries in creative writing. CEO Sam Altman tweeted on Tuesday that the company trained a new AI model that is “good” at creative writing. “This is the first time I have been really struck by something written by AI; it got the vibe of metafiction so right,” Altman wrote. The prompt was, … Read more
Getty Images As part of a new Channel 4 documentary, Michael Sheen has used £100,000 of his own money to write off £1m of people from South Wales’ debts Sheen said he did not have £100,000 to “throw around” and therefore wanted the project to be “effective”. Despite initial doubts, an encounter with a woman … Read more
Playwright Douglas Lyons, photographed at IAMA Theatre Company, where his play “Don’t Touch My Hair” will be performed this month. (Carlin Stiehl / For The Times) Douglas Lyons stays booked and busy. The seasoned stage actor, also a musical composer-lyricist and a writer on Apple TV+’s “Fraggle Rock: Back to the Rock,” is currently in … Read more
