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It was not until after his wunderkind years wrapped up with Magnolia that Paul Thomas Anderson started sincerely working with adapted material. Never one for a traditional approach, his first “adapted” film, Punch-Drunk Love, was an extrapolation on a news story about a man who manipulated an airline points promotion by buying pudding cups to get flights for pennies on …

Co-founder and Chief Science Officer at Hugging Face, Thomas Wolf, speaks at the opening ceremony of the Web Summit, in Lisbon, Portugal, November 11, 2024.  Pedro Nunes | Reuters Current artificial intelligence models from labs like OpenAI are unlikely to lead to major scientific breakthroughs, a tech co-founder said, pouring cold water on some of the hype around the technology …

Everything is connected in Shadow Ticket, Thomas Pynchon’s fleet-footed noir fiction about a lindy-hopping detective in prohibition-era Wisconsin. The homemade bomb connects to the runaway cheese heiress, the cheese heiress to the federal agents, and the feds to the pro‑Nazi leagues at the bowling lanes outside town. Early-30s Milwaukee, in turn, is connected to powder-keg central Europe, where paramilitary groups …

At least four people were killed and eight others were wounded in a mass shooting at a chapel of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Grand Blanc, Michigan. Police identified the suspect as Thomas Jacob Sanford, 40, who they said deliberately set the church on fire, sending smoke billowing from the building. Sanford was also shot dead …

“I’d like a Coke, with ice,” Paul Thomas Anderson says, addressing the waiter standing before his table. “And I’d like a Coke, with ice,” Leonardo DiCaprio echoes, emphasizing the words to the point that the renowned filmmaker sitting to his right immediately starts laughing as the server walks off. Anderson turns to the Oscar-winning star, who’s endured vicious bear attacks …

This article contains spoilers for “One Battle After Another,” now in theaters. Ever since “One Battle After Another” entered development, rumors percolated that Paul Thomas Anderson‘s new film would be based on Thomas Pynchon‘s 1990 novel “Vineland.” The director, who is a fan of the post-modern author and previously adapted his 2009 novel “Inherent Vice” with the 2014 film of …

The 45th Ryder Cup gets underway on Friday morning at Bethpage Black with the opening foursomes session. And it will start with a bang. American linchpin Bryson DeChambeau will lead things off alongside Justin Thomas against the European foursomes duo of Jon Rahm and Tyrrell Hatton. DeChambeau is 0-2 in his foursomes career, both losses coming in his debut in …

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Paul Thomas Anderson’s latest film, One Battle After Another, is considerably his most expensive effort to date. It was also, like There Will Be Blood, The Master, Phantom Thread, and the rest of his subversive filmography, written on Microsoft Word. “I’m still stuck on the world’s worst programme,” the 55-year-old director tells me over the phone from LA, laughing. “It’s stubbornness. It makes no …

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