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Apalachee Audubon series features author Jeff VanderMeer
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Jeff VanderMeer, local author with an international following, will discuss how nature serves as an inspiration for his writing along with thoughts about the rewilding of his Tallahassee yard at Apalachee Audubon Society’s last program before the summer break.
The Zoom presentation takes place from 7-8 p.m. Thursday, May 20. Zoom registration: https://bit.ly/2LAhX9W
VanderMeer’s New York Times-bestselling Southern Reach trilogy has been translated into over 35 languages. The first novel, Annihilation, won the Nebula Award and Shirley Jackson Award, and was made into a movie by Paramount in 2018. Recent works include Dead Astronauts, Borne (a finalist for the Arthur C. Clarke Award), and The Strange Bird.
Actors will play White House lawyer John Dean and his wife
Reid Nakamura | May 13, 2021 @ 10:38 AM
“Glow” alum Betty Gilpin and “Legion” star Dan Stevens have joined the cast of Starz’s upcoming Watergate series “Gaslit,” the premium cable network announced Thursday.
The duo will play the “infamous” couple Mo and John Dean, the young duo who were wrapped up in the political scandal while John was serving as a White House lawyer under the Nixon administration. Also joining the cast as series regulars are Shea Whigham as G. Gordon Liddy and Darby Camp as Marty Mitchell.
Based on Slate’s “Slow Burn” podcast, “Gaslit” stars Sean Penn as Richard Nixon’s loyal attorney general, John Mitchell, with Julia Roberts playing Mitchell’s Arkansan socialite wife, Martha. Executive producer and creator Robbie Pickering will serve as showrunner.
Good Wednesday morning!
Violence between Gaza and Israel intensified last night, with Hamas shooting hundreds of rockets towards the Tel Aviv metropolitan area for the first time since 2018. More than 1,000 rockets have been fired at Israel since the latest round of clashes began.
Rockets rained down nearly nonstop on much of Israel yesterday evening and continued overnight. The death toll in Israel rose to six, including an Indian foreign worker killed in Rishon Lezion and an Arab father and daughter killed near Lod.
The IDF continued heavy strikes on Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip. Palestinian Health Ministry officials put the death toll in Gaza at 43 Palestinians, including 13 children.
Matt Damon-Led Drama Stillwater Trailer Released
Focus Features released the debut
Stillwater trailer for the upcoming Matt Damon drama. Damon plays an American oil-rig worker in France that is trying to free his daughter (played by Abigail Breslin), who has been charged with murder. The Tom McCarthy-directed film releases July 30, 2021, so we’re just a few months away from it releasing in theaters.
Stillwater focuses on Bill Baker (Damon), an American oil-rig roughneck from Oklahoma who travels to Marseille to visit his estranged daughter, who is in prison for a murder she claims she did not commit. Confronted with language barriers, cultural differences, and a complicated legal system, Bill builds a new life for himself in France as he makes it his personal mission to exonerate his daughter.