What made you want to do a movie about Emily Dickinson?
I was interested in telling the truth about her life. We’ve been told that she was a recluse spinster who never wanted to be published. But [some scholars] came to realize that a lot of her poems were written to her brother’s wife, Susan. It makes you look at her poetry in a whole different way.
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Nigeria has recorded 86 new cases of coronavirus (COVID-19) in the West African country.
Naija News reports that the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) confirmed this in a series of tweets on the micro-blogging site, Twitter on Sunday evening, April 19.
According to the NCDC, of the eighty-six new coronavirus cases recorded on Sunday evening, seventy were detected in Lagos, Nigeria’s commercial city, seven in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja, three in Katsina, three in Akwa Ibom, one in Jigawa, one in Bauchi and one in Borno State, northern Nigeria. Read More...
People Are Naming Their Kids "Barbie" Now in Latest Movie/TV Life-Imitating-Art CrazeBy Mustafa GatollariPublished Aug. 11 2023, 5:44 p.m. ET
Source: Getty | Twitter - @ethanterziYou knew it was bound to happen. After Barbie's massive $1 billion worldwide box-office success — with people opining their love for the Greta Gerwig–directed flick led by Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling, going so far as to say that the film moved them to tears — there are now people who want to name their kids after the wildly popular Mattel doll. Read More...