Monthly Archives: August 2020

Tsitsi Dangarembga – Booker Prize nominee arrested in Zimbabwe

Image copyright PA Media Screenshot Tsitsi Dangarembga has been calling for reforms in Zimbabwe Zimbabwean award-winning author Tsitsi Dangarembga, nominated for this year’s Booker Prize, was arrested in the country’s capital Harare during an anti-government protest. Dangarembga, 61, and another protester were grouped in a police truck while carrying placards. …

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Tom Thibodeau, Knicks start looking for technical staff

As Tom Thibodeau and Knicks’ office review the names of the new coaching staff in the coming days, an explosion will emerge from Thibodeau’s past and New York’s past. According to an NBA source, Ed Pinckney, the former Villanova star who won an NCAA title and is a product of …

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X-Men producer recounts Michael Jackson release to play Professor X

Before Patrick Stewart was cast as Marvel Comics’ powerful telepath, “King of Pop” Michael Jackson launched into filmmakers to play Professor Charles Xavier in the 2000 film X-Men. That meeting was recounted as part of a The Hollywood Reporter’s biggest exposure about X-Men director Bryan Singer, detailing a long pattern …

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