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Angelo Gabriel - Metz (A) - 0-1 (W) - 24/09/2023 Brief overview: This was Angelo’s 2nd consecutive start in the league, he is firmly starting to nail down a place in Patrick Vieira’s team now. Stats show you a factual outlook on any performance, but they can only take you so far, I strongly believe in the eye test as well and upon watching this game Angelo certainly impressed me on the eye.

With the 2023 Premier League season underway, I wanted to revisit one of the most interesting Concacaf/Premier League stories you will find. There have been several Honduran players to play in the English Premier League. You may know Maynor Figueroa, Roger Espinoza, or Wilson Palacios, but before any of those players made their names in England, there was Milton “Tyson” Nuñez…sort of. Across two seasons at Sunderland, Tyson played in just 2 games.

The new Netflix adaptation of Jane Austen’s Persuasion starring Dakota Johnson as Anne Elliot is not a good movie. Though it should be congratulated for managing to turn Jane Austen’s final, best novel into a broad, flat social comedy. I have been accused in the press of being a purist and for being riled up about my beloved Jane Austen being made modern and updated. There is a sly implication in these articles that as a fan and reader of Austen, I am anti-adaptation, anti-change, that I want to see Austen kept sterile and white and silly.

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[This interview was first published in the Kennedy Beacon on Jan. 23, 2024] David Talbot and I first bonded with Peter Dale Scott over a wine list. We were in the research phase of “Brothers: The Hidden History of the Kennedy Years,” David’s 2007 New York Times bestseller about Robert Kennedy’s secret search for the truth about the assassination of his b… ncG1vNJzZmiilqCzoq%2FTrGWsrZKowaKvymeaqKVfpXyxsdOeqWackaGybr%2FCqKutZZ%2BjequyymaYp5xdmbKmvA%3D%3D

This week on Sinica, the highly-regarded writer Peter Hessler joins to talk about his new book, out July 9: Other Rivers: A Chinese Education. Over 20 years after teaching with the Peace Corps in Fuling (the subject of his first book, Rivertown, Pete returns to China to teach at Sichuan University in Chengdu. He writes about the two cohorts of students, with whom he has maintained extensive contacts, to offer fascinating insights into how China has changed across this momentous period with touching, deeply human stories.

I’ll admit to scratching my head a bit when I heard Disney was planning a new adaptation of the Peter Pan mythology for its streaming service. Obviously it’s a rich piece of intellectual property based on the books by J. M. Barrie, which by my count has been adapted for the big screen more than a dozen times, not to mention television and stage. But at what point is it content overload?

Yesterday, in an entry titled The Dirty Ghostwriter, I recounted how I met Peter Robbins, a former child actor best known as the original voice of Charlie Brown in the Peanuts TV specials. We stayed in contact for more than a decade (though interrupted for four years while he was serving time in Chino State Prison). Over three days and nights in November 2019 we sat down to compile a book proposal: a memoir of his life in Hollywood, his descent into mental illness and a second life thanks to medication and therapy.

“I saw an incredibly beautiful bright loving white light above me. I wanted to go to that white light more than anything.” The British actor Peter Sellers was one of the world’s great comedic geniuses. Like many comedians—and creative people in general—he was also a complex and sometimes very troubled human being, with psychologically crippling low self-esteem. In 1964, at only 38 years of age, Sellers suffered a series eight heart attacks over a period of just three hours.