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Keira Knightley Says ‘It Means Nothing’ to Her When Fans Quote ‘Love Actually’

by 725195 Nov 10, 2026

“Love Actually” might be one of the most beloved — if controversial — Christmas classics, but don’t try quoting the film to star Keira Knightley. The actress recently revealed that she actually hasn’t watched the film in decades, so interactions with fans who reference her lines mean “nothing” to her.

“I have not watched ‘Love Actually’ since the premiere, which was when I was 18,” she told Heart. “So, I think I’m the person that knows it the least of anybody. I know that people have a particular look on their face and then they say things to me and I know that means they’re quoting ‘Love Actually,’ but I don’t really know what it is. It means nothing to me.”

While filming, Knightley was just 17 and on set for only a week, which contributed to her inability to recall the script. “It was a week when I was 17, so I don’t remember it really,” she continued. “I mean, I quite like that it has this life, this, such a big life out there.”

In the 2003 film, Knightley plays Juliet, a woman who gets married only to learn that her husband’s best friend is actually in love with her. In a now infamous scene, the friend appears at her door and confesses his feelings using cue cards. The cards read: “Let me say, without any hope or agenda, just because it’s Christmas (and at Christmas you tell the truth) to me you are perfect.”

In 2024, Knightley described the moment as “quite creepy” in an interview with the Los Angeles Times. “The slightly stalker-ish aspect of it — I do remember that,” Knightley said. “My memory is of [director] Richard [Curtis], who is now a very dear friend, of me doing the scene, and him going, ‘No, you’re looking at [Lincoln] like he’s creepy,’ and I’m like, ‘But it is quite creepy.’ And then having to redo it to fix my face to make him seem not creepy.”

When asked if she felt there was a creep factor to the scene while filming it, Knightley responded: “I mean, there was a creep factor at the time, right? Also, I knew I was 17. It only seems like a few years ago that everybody else realized I was 17.”

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Dolly Parton's estate issues notice to drop lawsuit against her nephew

by 725195 Nov 8, 2026

According to Davidson County Chancery Court records, a notice of dismissal was filed on Thursday, Nov. 5.

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Exciting Photos Show Winter Transformation in Aspen, Colorado

by 725195 Nov 6, 2026

It’s starting to look a lot like winter in Aspen, Colorado.

A series of snowy days throughout this week has produced top-to-bottom coverage in the town and on the mountains, making for a nice tease ahead of the four local resorts’ planned opening dates, which begin arriving late this month.

From Snowmass to Aspen Mountain, as much as eight inches of snow piled up in the past 24 hours, the group of resorts said in an email. The Aspen Mountain snow stake looks like it may have even climbed a little higher than that.

The widespread snow made for more than a few wintry teases. Around Aspen, flakes zipped past the Silver Queen Gondola station overnight while the slopes looked ready—well, close to ready—for ski season as of Thursday morning.

It could be the last storm for a little while. The coming days look dry for Colorado, likely through the end of next week, according to an update published by OpenSnow meteorologist Sam Collentine.

Still, Aspen’s resorts have time to get their ski boots under them before the season starts. These are their opening dates.

Aspen Mountain: November 26
Aspen Highlands: December 12
Buttermilk: December 12
Snowmass: November 26

Now, without further ado, here are some scenes from the November snow.

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Cristian Mungiu’s Cinematographer Tudor Vladimir Panduru on Long Takes

by 725195 Nov 4, 2026

Known for his long-time collaboration with Romanian auteur Cristian Mungiu, cinematographer Tudor Vladimir Panduru shared his experience making “Graduation,” “R.M.N.,” “Fjord” and Iraqi director Hasan Hadi’s “The President’s Cake” during his masterclass at Jakarta World Cinema.

Benh Zeitlin, the Oscar-nominated director of “Beasts of the Southern Wild,” said he was moderating the session because “we hope to work together someday.” He praised Panduru as the kind of cinematographer who could “bring a dimension to your work that is beyond your personal imagination.”

The masterclass traced Panduru’s career chronologically, starting with the screening of one indoor and one outdoor scene from “Graduation.” Panduru trained under Oleg Mutu, Mungiu’s longtime cinematographer on films including “4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days,” and was introduced to the Romanian director while still a trainee. “Graduation” was Panduru’s second film as a cinematographer, but it was also the one that made his name internationally.

Panduru said the camera in Mungiu’s films is meant to stay low-profile and avoid steering the audience toward certain things, because viewers are “smart enough to understand what’s going on there.”

“With Cristian Mungiu’s work, he usually shoots plan-séquence, one scene per shot. There is no editing, no cuts. From a cinematographer’s point of view, things can be quite difficult because we end up shooting a lot of takes, and the performance comes as somehow the most important thing on set,” said Panduru. “We end up shooting 20, 30, 40 takes sometimes to reach the best outcome.”

The grueling repetition of long takes, however, was not as dreary as one might imagine, as Mungiu is able to keep everyone fresh throughout. Panduru also pointed out that the responsibility to stay fresh lies with each individual, since shooting is about living the moment with everyone on set.

“It’s also a matter of trust. When you get to work in this kind of style, everybody gives a bit of himself into that process, so there’s a moment of synchronicity,” he said. “We don’t shoot 30 takes because the takes are not good. [The one that works] needs to have all the elements get together so you have the best outcome of everything.”

Zeitlin said Mungiu’s films value “directness and truthfulness” and criticize “hypocrisy and dishonesty.” Panduru agreed, saying Romanian cinema has often been rooted in social issues and that what Mungiu addresses is important. “I’m just trying to help him tell that,” he said.

On his choice of projects, Panduru said artists should collaborate based on shared values, and that he has been lucky enough to choose the subjects that drew him. He ruled out making an action film, “or maybe only if it’s something that has a social drama behind. Everything relates to affinities.”

During the masterclass, several of Panduru’s defining scenes were screened, each followed by a technical breakdown of how it was shot: the 20-minute take of more than 100 people gathered in the town hall in “R.M.N.,” the long shot alongside a sailing boat on the water in “The President’s Cake,” and two scenes from Mungiu’s latest film, “Fjord.”

The use of light in “R.M.N.” led the discussion, with Panduru revealing that the daytime scene was in fact shot at night. “You’re basically using the focus pulling as a way to edit and also reframe in the same shot without having the camera moving at all,” he said of the hardest part, keeping more than 100 people in focus in a single frame.

Zeitlin said that when he saw the clip from “The President’s Cake,” he realized the same person had shot the Mungiu film. “I was like, I have to talk to the cinematographer,” he said, adding that the film’s aesthetic was distinctly different from Mungiu’s.

Panduru said the film was a children’s fairytale that naturally called for a different visual language. The natural landscape inspired him to build scenes more creatively, freeing him to use running jib arms and wheels, techniques he went on to use again on “Fjord.”

The first clip from “Fjord,” a family gathering that appeared to be shot at “magic hour,” the brief window just before sunset, turned the discussion back to light. Panduru explained how he blocked the natural light from outside to buy more time for the performances.

The masterclass ended with another long take from “Fjord,” in which the camera follows star Renate Reinsve from searching on the ground to jumping into the sea.

“It was really important to have the entire arc of the scene of the emotional trajectory of the characters, [so] it was really important for Cristian not to cut in this moment,” said Panduru.

The cinematographer, who jumped into the freezing sea alongside Reinsve, said he thought that would be the most straightforward way of shooting it, but that the hardest part was synchronizing with the actor mid-jump. “And the second, while I was doing [it], if I lost the camera in the moment of the jump –” he said, as the audience laughed. “I had a really great team of grips who were supporting me in the water and also outside the water.”

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NASA telescope is on the verge of plunging back to Earth after failed rescue mission

by 725195 Nov 2, 2026

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — An aging NASA telescope is barely clinging to space after a failed rescue effort left it tottering lower and lower. The U.S. Space Force predicts the Swift Observatory will come crashing down on or around Friday. Most of the 1 ½-ton telescope is expected to burn up in the atmosphere. […]

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Alberta Ski Resort To Open Days Earlier Than Planned as 2026-27 Season Kicks Off

by 725195 Oct 31, 2026

Out West, another resort contender is joining the early-season shuffle: Lake Louise, Alberta, will kick off winter earlier than planned on Sunday, November 1, per a recent announcement.

The resort originally planned to open on November 6.

This marks Lake Louise’s second-earliest opening in history and, according to the resort, comes courtesy of cold October weather and its hardworking team.

At Lake Louise—as at most other ski resorts that open this time of year—the digs will be modest to start, with access to the Easy Street trail via the Juniper Express. But Lake Louise will offer two terrain parks with jumps and rails. The resort’s set to be open from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Lake Louise’s webcams show solid fall snow coverage.

At the time of writing this, Lake Louise’s neighbor, Banff Sunshine Village, hasn’t shared any news about opening. But both resorts tend to open around the same time. You can check Sunshine Village’s Instagram page for the latest news.

Lake Louise’s planned opening comes after two regular frontrunners, Arapahoe Basin and Keystone Resort, Colorado, kicked off the North American season this week. Another ski area in the state, Wolf Creek, plans to open on Halloween.

Beyond that, many resorts aren’t slated to open until late November. Even if you’re too far away to stop by Alberta or Colorado, though, it’s worth seeing these openings as a sign we’re all headed in the right direction. Before too long, it’ll be time to click in.

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Jimmy Fallon and Jamie Lee Curtis Spoof ‘You Can See Everything’

by 725195 Oct 29, 2026

On Wednesday night’s episode of “The Tonight Show,” host Jimmy Fallon went full Nathan Fielder while guest Jamie Lee Curtis played Elizabeth Holmes to spoof A24’s buzzy documentary, “You Can See Everything.”

“Now, be honest. Do you really want to be on the show tonight?” asks Fallon, doing his best Fielder impression. “Of course I do. I love talking to you,” responded Curtis with her best Holmes-like voice while donning a blonde wig and looking deeply into the late-night host’s eyes. “So, you’re not just here to promote your new show. ‘Newlyweds’?” “No, I’m engaging with you as a human being,” said Curtis. “Why would I deceive you? There’s no reason for me to do that. There’s nothing for me to deceive you on.”

“Good chat,” concluded Fallon, but not before one last question: “You’re being real right now?” “I’m always being real,” responded Curtis. As Fallon leaves, she yells, “Thank God! Fuck, what an asshole!”

As mentioned in the cold open, Curtis was on the show to promote “Newlyweds,” her new NBC sitcom that premiered on Oct. 23. The logline for the show, starring Téa Leoni and Tim Daly, describes it as “a later-in-life love story about a free-spirited woman and a buttoned-up professor who marry impetuously after a whirlwind courtship.”

Curtis will appear on the show in a recurring guest star role, and also co-created it with Gail Lerner, who was fired from the show earlier this month for “creative differences.” In Lerner’s statement when the news broke, she described the experience working on the show as “the most joyous TV experience of my life.”

“You Can See Everything,” which debuted in theaters earlier this month on Oct. 16, has been a hit both critically and at the box office, where it’s already grossed $45.1 million domestically to date. Fielder and co-director Lance Oppenheim quietly worked on the movie for more than three years, which offers an unhinged look at the Theranos founder a month before she began an 11-year prison sentence for defrauding investors.

Watch the full cold open here.

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Trump campaigns in Mississippi, highlighting Republicans' challenges

by 725195 Oct 27, 2026

CORINTH, Miss. (AP) — President Donald Trump campaigned Monday in Mississippi, as he continued a closing midterm rally blitz that has highlighted Republicans’ challenges ahead of an election that could drastically shift power in Washington and statehouses across the country. “I’m here because Cindy’s doing great, but I just got to make sure. I can’t […]

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Rumor Skis, A New Brand Owned by a Woman, Reimagines How Women's Skis Are Designed

by 725195 Oct 25, 2026

Since the beginning of time (or the invention of the patriarchy), men have been trying to design things for women without actually consulting women or considering that perhaps women are not just “small, weak men,” when it comes to biomechanics.

Things as simple as the pockets on women’s pants and as complex as most modern birth control methods provide fantastic (and cringey) examples of this, as do nearly 100% of women’s skis on the market, until now.

Palisades Tahoe-bred skier, Anna Dailey, is no stranger to entrepreneurship or catering to women’s needs. Dailey worked as Chief of Staff at the robotic delivery company Coco, coached the ski team she grew up on at Palisades, and, most recently, worked as the Director of Operations and Chief of Staff at the audio-erotica company Quinn.

This week, Dailey officially launched her own ski brand, Rumor, with their aptly named new ski, the Debut 102. Despite the relatively wide breadth that calling a ski all-mountain can cast, there’s nothing unintentional about the construction of Rumor’s first product.

Women are the fastest-growing demographic in snowsports, but Dailey’s new brand, Rumor, is the only women-owned ski brand on the market since the folding of Coalition Snow earlier this year.

The Debut 102 will be available for $959 at rumor-ski.com. Skiers who join Rumor’s waitlist will get first access to the ski.

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Rumor Debut 102 Specs & Construction

Lengths Available: 162cm, 169cm, 176cm, 183cm, 190cm
Sidecut: 136mm-102mm-127mm (176cm)
Radius: 20m (176cm)
Profile: Rocker-Camber-Rocker
Weight: 2086g
Colorway options: Hearysay, Redacted, Grapevine

The Debut 102 has a 102mm waist width, putting it squarely in the middle of the all-mountain range, with wide tips and tails for soft-snow performance. The ski is available in a range of lengths that definitely trend towards the longer end of the spectrum for women’s-specific skis, but it has sizes broken out into nice intervals for a range of options.

For reference, Stöckli’s women’s specific ski, the Nela 93, only comes in three lengths ranging between 156cm and 170cm.

Notably, the Debut 102 has a 20m turn radius, give or take a tiny bit depending on the ski length. Dailey noted in a recent Instagram post that many women’s skis tend to have shorter turn radii and sidecuts, which can feel a bit like the ski is helping you initiate a turn, because they’re built with the assumption that those skiing them need or want that help.

However, women tend to have a shorter hip-to-knee-to-foot angle (Q Angle) than men, which actually makes it easier for women to create the knee/ankle angulation that initiates a ski turn. As a result, a longer radius can actually feel smoother through a turn and less reactive for folks with shorter Q angles.

A good bit of tip rocker, and just a touch of tail rocker combined with 7mm of camber underfoot also gives the Debut 102 a really nice, long effective edge, but allows for skiers to release turns easily in the tail and float in soft snow, making them a bit more playful than a fully directional ski.

Dailey also addressed one of the biggest elephants in the room for women’s skis: structure. The Debut 102 uses a combination of poplar/ash cores, which give the ski energy while keeping it durable and sturdy with the ash. Two sheets of Titanal sandwich the core, giving the ski a refreshingly burly construction that dampens them and creates more edge-to-edge stability.

Lastly, a layer of triaxial fiberglass helps provide a more progressive flex along the length of the ski while increasing torsional stability.

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The final construction of the Debut 102 was decided upon with input from skiers with a range of abilities, from intermediate resort skiers to IFSA 4* competition winners like Mari Hanson.

“I was blown away by their power and well-roundedness. This is a ski that can do it all-moguls, groomers, corn, powder, chopped powder, etc. This is a ski that still has a backbone and something to press against while being more playful in the tip and tail. A friendly, maneuverable, yet strong ski that can take you anywhere,” said Hanson.

Skiers have three minimal yet tasteful colorway options to choose from at launch, in a further nod to Dailey’s deep understanding of what so many women skiers are looking for.

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Authors Tim Greiving, Steven C. Smith Win ASCAP Music Writing Awards

by 725195 Oct 23, 2026

The winners of annual awards given out by ASCAP for the year’s most outstanding music writing and broadcasts include biographies of film composers John Williams and Bernard Herrmann, as well as a documentary about cult R&B artist Swamp Dogg, liner notes for an archival release from Frank Zappa, Rick Beato’s YouTube podcasts, and books about Broadway musicals and Black opera innovators.

These disparate writings are among the recipients of the 77th annual ASCAP Foundation Deems Taylor/Virgil Thomson Awards, voted on by a select committee of four ASCAP members to recognize the best in books, articles, liner notes and broadcast programs about all forms of music.

The film composer biographies being recognized were Tim Greiving‘s “John Williams: A Composer’s Life,” the first-ever biography about Hollywood’s most successful living composer, which got a Deems Taylor/Virgil Thomson Book Award in the field of concert music, and Steven C. Smith‘s “Hitchcock and Herrmann: The Friendship and Film Scores that Changed Cinema,” the author’s second book about Herrmann (with a twist that makes it dually the story of his greatest filmmaker collaborator), which was given a special recognition award in the same category.

Another book award in the concert music field, this one outside the realm of film music, went to Lucy Caplan for “Dreaming in Ensemble: How Black Artists Transformed American Opera.” Awards for books in the pop music field were given to Gayle Wald for “This Is Rhythm: Ella Jenkins, Children’s Music, and the Long Civil Rights Movement” and James O’Leary for The Middlebrow Musical: Between Broadway and Opera in 1940s America.”

Among the articles that won recognition from the ASCAP judges were a piece by the New York Times’ Ben Sisario about efforts to rescue decaying master tapes, a story by Esteban Meneses about Mexican symphonic composers and an article by the New York Times’ Max Keller about cellists debating the right way to hold their instruments. A piece in the Atlantic by Gabriel Kahana won for outstanding music criticism.

The top broadcast award went to Gail Wein for her podcast series “Classical Gas,” with a special recognition honor for Beato for his YouTube series “Everything Music.”

A liner notes award was given to percussionist Ruth Komanoff Underwood for her personal essay contained in the boxed set for “Cheaper than Cheep,” a live 1974 concert film by Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention.

A broadcast/media award in the pop field went to directors Isaac Gale, Ryan Olson and David McMurry for their documentary “Swamp Dogg Gets His Pool Pained.”

The judges for this year’s honors were Robbie Fulks, Julie Flanders, Carman Moore and Betsy Schramm.

The full list of winners, as provided by ASCAP:

The Deems Taylor/Virgil Thomson Broadcast/Media Award in pop music recognizes directors Isaac Gale, Ryan Olson and David McMurry for their documentary film “Swamp Dogg Gets His Pool Painted,” released in 2025, a unique storytelling of the legendary cult R&B musician Jerry “Swamp Dogg” Williams’s and his housemates’ musical creative life in Los Angeles surrounding his pool.

The Deems Taylor/Virgil Thomson Broadcast/Media Award in concert music recognizes radio host and producer Gail Wein for “Classical Gas,” produced by Classical Voice North America, the 2025 podcast series of interviews with classical musicians available on multiple platforms.
A Special Recognition Award in the above category is given to Rick Beato for his 2025 YouTube series, “Everything Music,” exploring music, technology and issues facing music creators in today’s industry.

The ASCAP Foundation Paul Williams “Loved the Liner Notes” Award honors percussionist Ruth Komanoff Underwood for her personal essay for “Cheaper than Cheep,” the live box set from the 1974 concert film by Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention, on ZAPPA RECORDS/UMe.

The Deems Taylor/Virgil Thomson Book Awards in pop music are presented to: Gayle Wald for “This Is Rhythm: Ella Jenkins, Children’s Music, and the Long Civil Rights Movement,” the life story of “the first lady of children’s music,” published by University of Chicago Press.
James O’Leary for “The Middlebrow Musical: Between Broadway and Opera in 1940s America,” an exploration of how musicals such as Oklahoma!, Beggar’s Holiday, and Street Scene embraced weighty stories in ways not seen before 1943, published by Oxford University Press.

The Deems Taylor/Virgil Thomson Book Awards in concert music go to:
Lucy Caplan for “Dreaming in Ensemble: How Black Artists Transformed American Opera,” an account of Black innovation in American opera during the Harlem Renaissance, published by Harvard University Press.
Tim Greiving for “John Williams: A Composer’s Life,” the first biography of one of the most important film composers of all time, published by Oxford University Press.
Special Recognition Award in the above category is given to Steven C. Smith for “Hitchcock and Herrmann: The Friendship and Film Scores that Changed Cinema,” published by Oxford University Press.

The Deems Taylor/Virgil Thomson Award recipients for articles published in 2025 are as follows:
The Deems Taylor/Virgil Thomson Award for an article in the pop music field goes to Ben Sisario, “The ‘Race Against Time’ to Save Music Legends’ Decaying Tapes,” on the intricate efforts to restore analog tapes with original recordings from Bruce Springsteen, Bob Dylan and more, published by The New York Times.
The Deems Taylor/Virgil Thomson Award for an article in the concert music field goes to Esteban Meneses, “Revolución: Mexican Composers on the Rise,” a look at Mexican composers whose works are being performed, commissioned, and recorded by orchestras around the world, published by Symphony Magazine.
Special Recognition Award in the above category is given to Max Keller, “Does It Matter How A Cello Is Held? It’s a Centuries-Old Debate,“ published by The New York Times.

The Virgil Thomson Award for Outstanding Music Criticism is presented to Gabriel Kahane for his article, “A Love Letter to Music Listings,” published by The Atlantic.

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