Hollywood star, Sidney Poitier became the first black to win the Oscar for best actor for his performance in the film ” Lily of the fields In 1963. Sidney Poitier, the actor and activist who became the first black to win the Oscar for best actor died Friday at the age of 94. A source … Read more
By SudOuest.fr with AFPPosted on 12/27/2021 4:27 PMUpdated on 12/27/2021 at 6:00 p.m. EO Wilson, an American ant scientist, has died at the age of 92. He had notably received two Pulitzer Prizes The great American scientist Edward Osborne Wilson, internationally renowned expert on ants who was nicknamed “Darwin’s heir”, died Sunday, December 26 in … Read more
Sidney Poitier in a scene from the film “Le Lys des champs”, in 1963. BETTMANN ARCHIVE For a few months, in 1967, the year of In the heat of the Night and of Guess who’s coming to dinner ?, Sidney Poitier, who died Thursday January 6 at the age of 94 in Los Angeles, was … Read more
Peter Bogdanovich, the filmmaker behind the classics The Last Picture Show, Paper Moon and What’s Up, Doc? , is dead. He was 82 years old. Bogdanovich was also an indispensable Hollywood film historian, whose wealth of knowledge about the Golden Age of Hollywood has been passed on to younger generations of moviegoers. Even before he … Read more
GEORGE Floyd’s name became synonym of the fight for racial justice after a viewer’s video of his dying moments shocked the world. The 46-year-old was murdered in May 2020 by police officer Derek Chauvin who knelt on his neck for more than nine minutes during a brutal arrest in Minneapolis. Arianna Delane had to have … Read more
Nicknamed “Darwin’s heir”, the great American scientist Edward O. Wilson, internationally renowned expert on ants and defender of biodiversity, has died at the age of 92. Edward Osborne Wilson, who taught at Harvard University for a long time, has written dozens of books including two that won him Pulitzer Prizes: the first for Human nature … Read more
The great American scientist EO Wilson, an internationally renowned expert on ants who was nicknamed “Darwin’s heir”, has died at the age of 92, the foundation that bears his name has announced. Edward Osborne Wilson, who taught at Harvard University for a long time, has written dozens of books, two of which have won him … Read more
Novelist, essayist, critic and journalist Joan Didion died Thursday, December 23 from Parkinson’s disease. Joan Didion, renowned American author and icon of new journalism, best known for books like Play It as It Lays, The White Album and The Year of Magical Thinking died Thursday, report it New York Times. She was 87 years old. … Read more
KNOWN for her many books on powerful themes such as gender, religion and politics, Margaret Atwood is a famous author. On Monday, December 20, 2021, a fake Twitter account scared fans with the fake news of Atwood’s “death”. False allegations circulated Monday morning about the alleged death of beloved author Margaret Atwood Why is Margaret … Read more
Filmmaker Lina Wertmüller, queen of Italian comedy and “first female director nominated for an Oscar”, as the Italian Minister of Culture Dario Franceschini recalled, died at the age of 93 on the night of December 8 to 9, 2021. “Italy mourns the loss of Lina Wertmüller, a director who with her class and inimitable style … Read more