Michael Apted,
Heddy Honigmann has only gone and raced ahead of you by about 40 years. An unofficial spin-off of the
Up series (which saw its most somber chapter yet with
63 Up), the pleasantly warm
100Up looks at the daily lives of a handful of centenarians to examine what life means at that grand old age.
The issue with
Honigmann’s film compared to
Apted’s blueprint series, though, is that half of the subjects are relatively famous. There’s sex therapist Shirley Zussman, who became known in the Swinging Sixties and was eventually invited by Oprah to discuss her work on TV, and who formed half of a power couple with Leon Zussman, a doctor famed for performing one of the first legal abortions in New York. Then there’s Irwin Corey, a fellow New Yorker and retired stand-up comic who was affiliated with a who’s who of 50’s/60’s icons including fellow comedian Lenny Bruce, acclaimed author Thomas Pynchon, and the one and only Fidel Castro.
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1 Lion’s share: In the US, Facebook and Google together account for 90-95% of the total advertising revenue. Reuters
Paranjoy Guha Thakurta
Senior Journalist and Author
IN recent weeks, a series of attempts have been made by governments in different countries, notably Australia and the United States, to curb the overweening dominance of two of the biggest digital monopolies on the planet. Unlike many parts of the world where a consensus has emerged that the unrestrained dominance of Alphabet (the parent company of Google, YouTube and the Android operating system on mobile phones) and Facebook (including WhatsApp and Instagram) is terrible for humankind, the Indian government has chosen to go rather soft on these two giant conglomerates who have invested in this country’s biggest player in the telecommunications and Internet services market, Reliance Jio, headed by India’s and Asia’s richest person, who is also one of the world’s richest people.
The Supreme Court, on Thursday, granted interim protection from arrest to TV Czarina Ekta Kapoor in relation to an FIR registered against her for alleged objectionable content in the second season of the web series XXX .
The Bench headed by Chief Justice SA Bobde was hearing a petition filed by Kapoor against the order passed by Madhya Pradesh High Court which refused to quash the FIR against her.
According to the wesbite
Bar and Bench, Bobde, while granting interim relief to Kapoor remarked, We don t like the Madhya Pradesh High Court order .
In his November 11 order, Justice Shailendra Shukla of the Madhya Pradesh High Court opined that applying the test of obscenity from the point of view of an ordinary person, there was some substance in the State s stance that the XXX episode could cater to the prurient interest of a normal major person.
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