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‘28 Days’ (June 30)Stream it here.Years before winning an Oscar for “The Blind Side,” Sandra Bullock revealed the first hints of her considerable range in this engaging serio-comic drama from the director Betty Thomas (“Private Parts”) and the screenwriter Susannah Grant (“Erin Brockovich”). Bullock stars as a fast-living New York writer whose functional alcoholism is becoming less functional; she checks into a rehabilitation facility only when ordered to do so to avoid jail time for a D.U.I. As Michael Keaton did in 1988’s “Clean and Sober,” Bullock allows the loose formula of the rehab narrative to stretch her acting chops…

Mr. Biden had anticipated that the plan would be unacceptable to some members of the Israeli government, Matthew Miller, a State Department spokesman, said on Monday.“And of course, we’ve seen some members of the Israeli government already come out and oppose it,” Mr. Miller said. But he said that the proposal was “in the long-term security interests of Israel. It’s obviously in the long-term interests of the Palestinian people, as well.”Mr. Miller said that since Mr. Biden announced the plan on Friday, Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken had spoken to the foreign ministers of Turkey, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Jordan,…

EDMONTON — You’re Miro Heiskanen. You are one of the best defensive players in the world. Rather than being a modern-day “defenceman,” he was essentially the fourth forward on the ice, receiving the majority of Norris Trophy votes in the offensive zone. You are a defender. you play defense, man. Probably better than all but a few people alive today. You know what you’re doing out there.So when you see Connor McDavid take a pass from Leon Draisaitl, you prepare yourself accordingly. You know his speed. You know his shot. You know his creativity. When he blows past Sam Steel…

[Estamos en WhatsApp. Empieza a seguirnos ahora]Cuando, la semana pasada, un artículo de opinión del semanario británico The Spectator cuestionó la deseabilidad de Penelope Featherington, personaje de la serie de Netflix Bridgerton interpretado por la actriz irlandesa Nicola Coughlan, se desató una tormenta de objeciones. La gente se apresuró a criticar la afirmación de que su emparejamiento con Colin Bridgerton, el esculpido y apuesto protagonista interpretado por Luke Newton, nunca sucedería en la vida real porque ella no es delgada.Después de que la tercera temporada de la serie se estrenara en Netflix este mes, los fans se sintieron ofendidos por…

A new frontier has opened in fashion’s fur wars, as protesters targeted the homes of more than a dozen employees of Marc Jacobs in recent months, using signs, noisemakers and fake blood in an effort to force the designer to officially renounce the use of fur in his collections.Over the weekend, Mr. Jacobs accused the protesters of “bullying” in a statement on Instagram, but averred: His brand “does not work in, use or sell fur, nor will we in the future.” He also emphasized that he had not used fur in any of his own brand’s collections since 2018.“This organization…

Margot Benacerraf, a critically acclaimed Venezuelan documentary filmmaker whose hypnotic “Araya,” a visual tone poem chronicling the daily lives of salt workers on an austere peninsula on her country’s coast, shared the critics’ prize at the 1959 Cannes Film Festival, died on Wednesday in Caracas. She was 97.Her death was announced by the country’s culture minister.Hailed as a major figure of Latin American cinema, Ms. Benacerraf founded Venezuela’s national cinematheque and in 2018 was given the Order of Francisco de Miranda, honoring outstanding merit in the sciences and humanities, by the country’s president, Nicolás Maduro.But although Ms. Benacerraf was celebrated,…

Harman also pointed me to a moment in “The Castle,” an unfinished novel published after Kafka’s death, in which the antihero K. tries to phone that bureaucratic fortress. “At first, he hears only what sounds like high-pitched singing,” Harman said. But after an official picks up and methodically interrogates K. about his identity, K. is left wondering: “Who am I, then?”“Kafka was a notoriously severe judge of himself, and would certainly not have wanted completely uncritical admiration,” Harman said of the author’s online fans. And yet it is precisely Kafka’s painful self-awareness that plays so winningly on social media, among…

As a rule of thumb, sneakers with suits are a terrible idea. Unless, perhaps, you are Rupert Murdoch, the billionaire media mogul who — seeming to chase Elizabeth Taylor’s lifetime tally of eight marriages — married his fifth wife on Saturday in a ceremony at his Tuscan-style vineyard in the Bel Air neighborhood of Los Angeles.Mr. Murdoch’s new bride, Elena Zhukova, 67, is a retired molecular biologist who was previously married to Alexander Zhukov, the billionaire Russian energy investor. She was dressed for the occasion in an ankle-length off-white cocktail dress with a squared-off portrait neck and matching pumps.Age appropriate…

On Sunday night, minutes after Will Lewis, the chief executive of The Washington Post, informed employees that the newspaper’s executive editor, Sally Buzbee, was being replaced, managers gathered on a conference call to hear from their boss one last time.Ms. Buzbee told them that a new organizational structure created by Mr. Lewis — effectively splitting the Washington Post newsroom and opinion section into three smaller divisions — didn’t work for her. She added that Mr. Lewis was pushing for aggressive moves to turn around The Post, and asked editors to reserve judgment for now.“I would have preferred to stay to…

“My blood speaks Spanish to me,” Angélica Garcia sang in “Red Moon Rising,” a track on her 2016 debut album, “Medicine for Birds.” Garcia, who was born in California, was living in Virginia; the album leaned toward indie-rock and Americana. But the lyric turned out to be prophetic.She was already thinking about the legacy of her maternal grandparents, who are from Mexico and El Salvador, and the musical heritage her parents maintained. Garcia’s second album, “Cha Cha Palace,” delved further into what it meant to be a Chicana growing up bicultural in the San Gabriel Valley — a quintessentially American…