> If you want to learn how to write Lovecraftian horror, there's no one better to study that its namesake himself. If you want to read it, however, you should know that the genre has evolved immensely since Lovecraft's heyday. Today's cosmic horror writers bring a diversity of experience to crafting novels that are lyrical, thought-provoking, and sometimes funny in addition to being suffused with measureless dread. > >To honor their achievements, this post will largely focus on titles other than those written by Lovecraft — not least because we already covered 10 of his must-read works in another post! Without further ado, dip your toes into this wide-ranging list of 15 chilling cosmic horror titles to get you started with the genre.

They are:

1. What the Hell Did I Just Read by David Wong
2. Shadows of Carcosa by Edgar Allan Poe, Bram Stoker, Arthur Machen, Henry James, and more
3. The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories by H.P. Lovecraft
4. Songs of a Dead Dreamer by Thomas Ligotti
5. The Imago Sequence and Other Stories by Laird Barron
6. White is For Witching by Helen Oyeyemi
7. Cthulhu’s Reign, edited by Darrell Schweitzer
8. The Croning by Laird Barron
9. Dreams from the Witch House, edited by Lynne Jamneck
10. Cthulhu’s Daughters, edited by Silvia Moreno-Garcia and Paula Stiles
11. The Ballad of Black Tom by Victor LaValle
12. Lovecraft Country by Matt Huff
13. The Fisherman by John Langan
14. Meddling Kids by Edgar Cantero
15. Agents of Dreamland by Caitlín R. Kiernan

> It Ends With Us is a bona fide box office hit, having narrowly missed the top spot last weekend thanks to the cinematic superhero juggernaut Deadpool & Wolverine, though in the weekdays since, it has reached No. 1. > > Despite its winning numbers, the production and release has been plagued by rumors of a feud, which has apparently led director-producer-star Justin Baldoni to hire a crisis management team. (Somewhere, Olivia Wilde is having flashbacks of her scandal-riddled press tour for Don't Worry Darling.) > > ... > > Stories of an alleged feud between Baldoni and his leading lady Lively popped up when Baldoni didn't take photos with her or the rest of the cast at the New York premiere on Aug. 6. Turns out, they weren't even in the same movie theater, with Lively and her guests in one and Baldoni and his guests in another. In fact, they two did no press together for the film, both appearing on separate morning and entertainment shows. > > And that certainly doesn't look good. Which is what the internet thought. That's when the rumors about tension and creative differences on the set really started churning, with various sources telling various outlets that Baldoni allegedly made Lively “uncomfortable” about her postpartum body on set, that he cultivated an “extremely difficult” work environment for the cast, and that there were two competing cuts of the film. > > ... > > According to The Hollywood Reporter, conflicting ideas between filmmakers during post-production resulted in two different edits of the film. The publication also reports that Lively (and Hoover) showed her version of the film in mid-June to some 2,000 attendees at Colleen Hoover’s Book Bonanza outside of Dallas. > > ... > > Though Baldoni has praised her in interviews, Lively hasn't really returned the favor, though she did reserve special praise for another man in her life. At the New York premiere, Lively revealed that her husband — Deadpool himself, Ryan Reynolds — made a major contribution to the film. > > "The iconic rooftop scene, my husband actually wrote it. Nobody knows that but you now," Lively told E! News. "He works on everything I do. I work on everything he does. So his wins, his celebrations are mine, and mine are his." > >And Reynolds and Lively both had reasons to celebrate during the opening weekend of It Ends With Us, as the couple had the No. 1 and No. 2 movies in the world. > > ... > > However, as with all scandals, each day brings new revelations. Baldoni has received the lion's share of questionable press, but Lively is not immune, as proven by a recent dragging the star took for promoting her hair care line on the back of It Ends With Us, a movie about domestic violence. A source exclusively tells EW that the launch of Lively's Blake Brown in Target stores was never meant to coincide with the release of the film, which was originally supposed to open in June. > >Lively has also been criticized for a promotional video where she encouraged women to "grab your friends, wear your florals" and go see the movie, which felt out of touch given the film's bigger themes of abuse and survival.

See also:

• Blake Lively ‘It Ends With Us’ drama just reveals Hollywood’s entitled, opportunistic megalomania
• It Ends With Us writer responds to Ryan Reynolds' involvement

> The head of the universities watchdog in England has said the “golden age of higher education” could be over and all options should be on the table as the funding crisis facing the sector is “significant”. > >The Office for Students (OFS) interim chair, Sir David Behan, said increased tuition fees and lifting visa restrictions on international students could help revive embattled institutions. > > “I think the resilience of the sector overall has been tested by a number of different forces ... the global pandemic, the impact of leaving the European Union,” he told the Sunday Times. > >“We’ve had industrial action, the cost of living crisis, the increasing cost of pensions and decreasing number of international students, and then, finally, domestic undergraduate fees remaining frozen since 2012 ... and what it’s meant is that the fiscal deficit for some organisations is significant.” > >He called on universities to explore mergers or partnership arrangements with other institutions, amid fears some institutions could be facing bankruptcy. “It’s important that universities revise their medium-term financial strategies ... They can’t just carry on,” he said.

> One in four children are due to start school in September without being toilet trained, a charity has said. > >A report by early years charity Kindred found pupils are losing, on average, a third of their learning time each day due to teachers diverting away from teaching and towards supporting children who are not school-ready. > >Bristol charity ERIC - the children's bladder and bowel organisation - has now set up an "emergency intervention" campaign for those starting school next month. > >ERIC CEO Juliette Rayner said that, while the problem had been a "growing issue" recently, "this year seems to be particularly bad".

> So, it looks like the ‘Alien’ franchise will live on to see another day. Spurred by strong word of mouth, Fede Alvarez’s “Alien: Romulus” is headed towards a $45M opening this weekend. > >Alvarez, who directed 2016’s “Don’t Breathe,” is clearly not done with the franchise either. He’s already teasing a potential “Alien Vs. Predator” movie, but there’s a catch. > >“Maybe it’s something I’ll have to co-direct with my buddy Dan,” Alvarez says. That friend being Dan Tratchenberg who directed the 2022 ‘Predator’ prequel “Prey” for Hulu and is already working on another movie in the franchise. > >“Maybe we should do like Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez did with ‘Dusk Till Dawn’. I’ll direct a half, and he’ll direct another half.”

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> > TiddlyWiki is a “non-linear personal web notebook,” as well as an exemplar project in the open source community. It can be a note-taking or information-ordering system in a similar vein to Obsidian or Notion, although TiddlyWiki was launched back in 2004. It can also be thought of as producing a wiki with interactive components. > > > >However, as I discovered to my cost, TiddlyWiki has never had a strong “start here,” because it is not tailored to one specific task. Obsidian, by comparison, has the advantage of a clear vision of what it does. TiddlyWiki bewilders you with options at first because it hasn’t been designed to be sold. The community focus is on adapting it to different use cases. > > > >So I’m going to take the advice in this explainer and use TiddlyDesktop while mentioning that there are plenty of other arrangements. It is, after all, just HTML and JavaScript. Let’s get started…TiddlyWiki is a “non-linear personal web notebook,” as well as an exemplar project in the open source community. It can be a note-taking or information-ordering system in a similar vein to Obsidian or Notion, although TiddlyWiki was launched back in 2004. It can also be thought of as producing a wiki with interactive components. > > > >However, as I discovered to my cost, TiddlyWiki has never had a strong “start here,” because it is not tailored to one specific task. Obsidian, by comparison, has the advantage of a clear vision of what it does. TiddlyWiki bewilders you with options at first because it hasn’t been designed to be sold. The community focus is on adapting it to different use cases. > > > >So I’m going to take the advice in this explainer and use TiddlyDesktop while mentioning that there are plenty of other arrangements. It is, after all, just HTML and JavaScript. Let’s get started…

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> > TiddlyWiki is a “non-linear personal web notebook,” as well as an exemplar project in the open source community. It can be a note-taking or information-ordering system in a similar vein to Obsidian or Notion, although TiddlyWiki was launched back in 2004. It can also be thought of as producing a wiki with interactive components. > > > >However, as I discovered to my cost, TiddlyWiki has never had a strong “start here,” because it is not tailored to one specific task. Obsidian, by comparison, has the advantage of a clear vision of what it does. TiddlyWiki bewilders you with options at first because it hasn’t been designed to be sold. The community focus is on adapting it to different use cases. > > > >So I’m going to take the advice in this explainer and use TiddlyDesktop while mentioning that there are plenty of other arrangements. It is, after all, just HTML and JavaScript. Let’s get started…TiddlyWiki is a “non-linear personal web notebook,” as well as an exemplar project in the open source community. It can be a note-taking or information-ordering system in a similar vein to Obsidian or Notion, although TiddlyWiki was launched back in 2004. It can also be thought of as producing a wiki with interactive components. > > > >However, as I discovered to my cost, TiddlyWiki has never had a strong “start here,” because it is not tailored to one specific task. Obsidian, by comparison, has the advantage of a clear vision of what it does. TiddlyWiki bewilders you with options at first because it hasn’t been designed to be sold. The community focus is on adapting it to different use cases. > > > >So I’m going to take the advice in this explainer and use TiddlyDesktop while mentioning that there are plenty of other arrangements. It is, after all, just HTML and JavaScript. Let’s get started…

> Anti-racism campaigners are planning to organise unity gigs in the towns and cities blighted by anti-immigrant riots to combat the growing influence of the far right in some parts of Britain. > >Love Music Hate Racism (LMHR) – the successor organisation to the Rock Against Racism (RAR) movement which helped turn the tide against the National Front in the 1970s – is planning to follow a concert in London in September, featuring singer-songwriter Paloma Faith, with a series of local gigs across the country over the next 12 months. > > “We are doing the launch in London, which is home ground for us,” says Samira Ali, an organiser for LMHR and its sister organisation Stand up to Racism. “But we want to organise these gigs in the places the far right see as their territory because we want to show they are in a tiny, hateful minority.” > > ... > > Artists including Idles, Nadine Shah and Fontaines DC have backed an LMHR open letter calling for a “united cultural movement which will ward off the threat of the far right and strengthen communities damaged by the corrosive effects of racism”. > >LMHR is hoping to replicate the DIY ethos of Rock Against Racism, which inspired local activists to put on gigs featuring black and white musicians. RAR organised 300 local concerts and five anti-Nazi carnivals in the 1970s, with more than 80,000 gathering to hear the Clash and Steel Pulse in Victoria Park, east London, in 1978. > >“We’re going to be supporting people throwing gigs in their home towns,” said Alex LoSardo, another LMHR organiser. “We can help them with resources such as T-shirts, posters and stickers, and co-promoting their shows and linking them up with artists. > > “The aim is to turn LMHR into a mass grassroots movement like it was in the Rock Against Racism days.”

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> > TiddlyWiki is a “non-linear personal web notebook,” as well as an exemplar project in the open source community. It can be a note-taking or information-ordering system in a similar vein to Obsidian or Notion, although TiddlyWiki was launched back in 2004. It can also be thought of as producing a wiki with interactive components. > > > >However, as I discovered to my cost, TiddlyWiki has never had a strong “start here,” because it is not tailored to one specific task. Obsidian, by comparison, has the advantage of a clear vision of what it does. TiddlyWiki bewilders you with options at first because it hasn’t been designed to be sold. The community focus is on adapting it to different use cases. > > > >So I’m going to take the advice in this explainer and use TiddlyDesktop while mentioning that there are plenty of other arrangements. It is, after all, just HTML and JavaScript. Let’s get started…TiddlyWiki is a “non-linear personal web notebook,” as well as an exemplar project in the open source community. It can be a note-taking or information-ordering system in a similar vein to Obsidian or Notion, although TiddlyWiki was launched back in 2004. It can also be thought of as producing a wiki with interactive components. > > > >However, as I discovered to my cost, TiddlyWiki has never had a strong “start here,” because it is not tailored to one specific task. Obsidian, by comparison, has the advantage of a clear vision of what it does. TiddlyWiki bewilders you with options at first because it hasn’t been designed to be sold. The community focus is on adapting it to different use cases. > > > >So I’m going to take the advice in this explainer and use TiddlyDesktop while mentioning that there are plenty of other arrangements. It is, after all, just HTML and JavaScript. Let’s get started…

> TiddlyWiki is a “non-linear personal web notebook,” as well as an exemplar project in the open source community. It can be a note-taking or information-ordering system in a similar vein to Obsidian or Notion, although TiddlyWiki was launched back in 2004. It can also be thought of as producing a wiki with interactive components. > >However, as I discovered to my cost, TiddlyWiki has never had a strong “start here,” because it is not tailored to one specific task. Obsidian, by comparison, has the advantage of a clear vision of what it does. TiddlyWiki bewilders you with options at first because it hasn’t been designed to be sold. The community focus is on adapting it to different use cases. > >So I’m going to take the advice in this explainer and use TiddlyDesktop while mentioning that there are plenty of other arrangements. It is, after all, just HTML and JavaScript. Let’s get started…TiddlyWiki is a “non-linear personal web notebook,” as well as an exemplar project in the open source community. It can be a note-taking or information-ordering system in a similar vein to Obsidian or Notion, although TiddlyWiki was launched back in 2004. It can also be thought of as producing a wiki with interactive components. > >However, as I discovered to my cost, TiddlyWiki has never had a strong “start here,” because it is not tailored to one specific task. Obsidian, by comparison, has the advantage of a clear vision of what it does. TiddlyWiki bewilders you with options at first because it hasn’t been designed to be sold. The community focus is on adapting it to different use cases. > >So I’m going to take the advice in this explainer and use TiddlyDesktop while mentioning that there are plenty of other arrangements. It is, after all, just HTML and JavaScript. Let’s get started…

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> cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/18776912

> Extreme misogyny will be treated as a form of terrorism for the first time under government plans, it was reported. > >Yvette Cooper, the home secretary, has ordered a review of the counter-terrorism strategy to address violence against women and girls and identify gaps in current legislation and examine emerging ideologies, according to the Sunday Telegraph. > > Under the proposals, teachers would be legally required to refer pupils they suspect of extreme misogyny to Prevent, the UK government’s counter-terror programme. > > ... > > The review is expected to be completed this autumn as part of a new counter-extremism strategy which is set to be unveiled by the Home Office next year. > >There are several extremism categories ranked by the Home Office including “incel”, or “involuntarily celibate”, an online subculture in which a misogynistic worldview is promoted by men who blame women for their lack of sexual opportunities. > >Last month, a senior police officer warned that online influencers like Andrew Tate could radicalise young men and boys into extreme misogyny in the same way terrorists draw in their followers. > >Deputy chief constable Maggie Blyth, national lead for policing violence against women and girls (VAWG), said the influencing of young boys online is “quite terrifying”. > >She said the Online Safety Act needs to go further and that faster action should be taken to protect children. > >Blyth said senior officers who focus on violence against women and girls are in contact with counter-terrorism teams to look at the risk of young men being radicalised. > > ... > > Last year, counter-extremism workers warned of a rise in the number of cases being referred to them by schools concerned about the influence of Tate. > >Incidents included the verbal harassment of female teachers or other pupils and outbursts echoing the influencer’s views. > >One frontline worker handling cases under the Prevent programme told the Guardian: “He [Tate] obviously doesn’t fit within the Prevent sphere but incels do. He is parallel to them and has a crossover. When I’m in schools I find myself describing him, effectively, as toxic misogyny on steroids.”

> A deep love of sandwiches of all types runs through my veins, but wearing the scent of a sandwich spread feels like a step too far. Hellmann's disagrees — the company has decided to bottle the smell of its signature mayonnaise in a classy cologne. > > The mayonnaise brand has just dropped a special new collaboration with Tennessee Titans quarterback Will Levis. In 2023, the quarterback went viral for putting mayonnaise in his coffee. This led to Hellmann's striking a deal with Levis for a lifetime supply of the spread. > >Levis's deal with Hellmann's was intended to showcase the many uses of mayonnaise. While we all know how useful mayo can be in the kitchen, this new partnership is ready to highlight the scent of a jar of Hellmann's, bringing the condiment into the world of personal grooming. Hellmann's sent me a bottle of its new Will Levis No. 8 mayonnaise cologne so I could try it myself. Mayonnaise with a little lime in it is this author's preferred mayo spread, but maybe Levis and Hellmann's can dress things up enough to convert me into a Hellmann's fan. > > ... > > On the one hand, I don't think anyone truly wants to smell like a jar of mayonnaise (no hate if you do), so going light pungent scent might not be a bad decision for Hellmann's. On the other hand, as a Takeout writer, one of my biggest pet peeves is when brands do not fully commit to the bit. Take for example, when Heinz released a pickle ketchup not too long ago. Though the dill taste was present and appreciated, it just wasn't enough for a true pickle lover like myself. The same is true of this mayonnaise cologne. > >All in all, this is an unexpectedly enjoyable cologne. I imagine asking someone who was wearing it, "Hey, you smell great. What do you have on?" Would you be happy to say it's Parfum de Mayonnaise? If so, then this collaboration is for you.

> George Orwell’s archives provide an invaluable insight into one of the most influential British writers of the 20th century, casting light on how he produced his most memorable books, his sensitivity to criticism, and his fears that legal threats could ruin his work. Now the treasure trove that is the extensive archive of correspondence and contracts amassed by Orwell’s original publisher, Victor Gollancz, could be scattered to the winds in what has been described as an act of “cultural vandalism”. > > Crucial correspondence involving the Nineteen Eighty-Four author and Observer correspondent is being offered for sale on the open market, following a decision in 2018 by the publisher’s parent company to sell the archive because the warehouse was closing.

Richard Blair, 80 – whose father Eric Blair wrote under the pen-name George Orwell – is dismayed by the loss: “It’s terribly sad … Once Gollancz material is acquired by private collectors, it could disappear into the ether for ever.” > > ... > > Rick Gekoski, a leading antiquarian bookseller, was asked to dispose of the archive, which included correspondence with Kingsley Amis and Daphne du Maurier, among other Gollancz authors. Last week, he dismissed criticisms of the disposal as “misguided”, saying: “The whole thing was sanctioned by Malcolm Edwards, publishing director of Orion, and it was sold at the request of the board.” In Gekoski’s 2021 book Guarded by Dragons, he wrote: “No one on the Orion board cared where they went, or to whom.” > >He recalled a warehouse full of tens of thousands of volumes as well as dozens of filing cabinets – “rusty and dusty, stuffed with all of the production, editorial and rights files of Gollancz publishers, the vast majority unopened for perhaps 50 years”. > >After he tried in vain to sell the entire archive to various institutions for around £1m, it was divided up between dozens of dealers, private collectors and libraries: “All the board asked us to do was to get rid of as much material as possible… and the rest… had to be thrown away.” > >Jean Seaton, director of the Orwell Foundation, said: “That nobody had opened those filing cabinets for 50 years was because they were idiots and didn’t understand the archive’s value. Why didn’t their board consult experts and historians, who would have understood that they needed perhaps to make some revenue from it, but would have understood the real public worth? Instead, they have dispersed a national archive.”

> A Florida man has been charged with second-degree murder after allegedly shooting another driver in a dispute over a handicapped parking space, shortly after telling him “Your day is coming.” > >Richard Minor, 66, became “agitated and confrontational” after Jonathan Lee Arias, his wife and their friend, arrived at Hart’s Landing fishing pier in Sarasota and parked in the space. > >Minor – a left-leg amputee – questioned whether Arias was disabled according to the probable cause arrest affidavit obtained by Law and Crime. A further back-and-forth between the two men resulted in Arias being sprayed with bear spray, and then shot, the report stated.

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> A pair of colonoscopies that included a screaming patient and a surgical tech without a medical license handling scope insertion put a Tampa doctor on probation last week by the state’s Board of Medicine. > >Dr. Ishwari Prasad also was fined $7,500, must pay $6,301 in Florida Department of Health case costs and has to take a five-hour continuing medical education course in laws, rules and ethics before Aug. 7, 2025. But the probation provides the meat of Prasad’s punishment. > > ... > > Prasad has never been disciplined by the Board of Medicine previously, but state records show some insurance payouts to patients of $250,000 in 2017 to the estate of a patient, who alleged a mistake caused a year-long delay in diagnosing colon cancer; $115,000 in 2008 to a patient who suffered “a spontaneous perforation of a diverticula in the third portion of the duodenum” and died after a long hospital stay; and $250,000 in 2004 to a patient who “sustained a colon perforation following the colonoscopy.” > >Prasad’s current problems started on June 5, 2023, at the Ambulatory Surgery Center, 4500 E. Fletcher Ave. in the Tampa area. > > According to the Florida Department of Health administrative complaint, Prasad uses hearing aids, but wasn’t wearing them during the two colonoscopies he was in charge of that day. > > “During one or both procedures, the surgical team was unable to effectively communicate” with Prasad, the complaint said. > >During the first colonoscopy, the complaint said, Prasad “improperly delegated” to a surgical tech, someone without a medical license, at least one of the following tasks: scope insertion, scope manipulation, manipulating the snare over polyps or tissue or removing polyps or tissue. > > (During the second colonoscopy, the complaint said, Prasad “began inserting the scope before the patient was fully sedated. The patient began yelling. > > Prasad “did not immediately stop the procedure when it became apparent that the patient was not fully sedated. [Prasad] failed to realize that the patient was not fully sedated due to [Prasad’s] failure to wear” his hearing aids.

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> A pair of colonoscopies that included a screaming patient and a surgical tech without a medical license handling scope insertion put a Tampa doctor on probation last week by the state’s Board of Medicine. > >Dr. Ishwari Prasad also was fined $7,500, must pay $6,301 in Florida Department of Health case costs and has to take a five-hour continuing medical education course in laws, rules and ethics before Aug. 7, 2025. But the probation provides the meat of Prasad’s punishment. > > ... > > Prasad has never been disciplined by the Board of Medicine previously, but state records show some insurance payouts to patients of $250,000 in 2017 to the estate of a patient, who alleged a mistake caused a year-long delay in diagnosing colon cancer; $115,000 in 2008 to a patient who suffered “a spontaneous perforation of a diverticula in the third portion of the duodenum” and died after a long hospital stay; and $250,000 in 2004 to a patient who “sustained a colon perforation following the colonoscopy.” > >Prasad’s current problems started on June 5, 2023, at the Ambulatory Surgery Center, 4500 E. Fletcher Ave. in the Tampa area. > > According to the Florida Department of Health administrative complaint, Prasad uses hearing aids, but wasn’t wearing them during the two colonoscopies he was in charge of that day. > > “During one or both procedures, the surgical team was unable to effectively communicate” with Prasad, the complaint said. > >During the first colonoscopy, the complaint said, Prasad “improperly delegated” to a surgical tech, someone without a medical license, at least one of the following tasks: scope insertion, scope manipulation, manipulating the snare over polyps or tissue or removing polyps or tissue. > > (During the second colonoscopy, the complaint said, Prasad “began inserting the scope before the patient was fully sedated. The patient began yelling. > > Prasad “did not immediately stop the procedure when it became apparent that the patient was not fully sedated. [Prasad] failed to realize that the patient was not fully sedated due to [Prasad’s] failure to wear” his hearing aids.

> Brian Cox thinks cinema is “in a very bad way,” with the Marvel and DC Universes partly to blame. > >The legendary actor of stage and screen – who most recently garnered critical acclaim for his award-winning role in HBO’s Succession – spoke at an Edinburgh International Film Festival panel on Saturday. When asked about the recent successes of globally popular TV shows, Cox cited the latest MCU installment Deadpool & Wolverine as a great example of cinematic “party time”. > > “What’s happened is that television is doing what cinema used to do,” Cox told the audience of television’s originality. “I think cinema is in a very bad way. I think it’s lost its place because of, partly, the grandiose element between Marvel, DC and all of that. And I think it’s beginning to implode, actually. You’re kind of losing the plot.” > > He discussed Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman of Deadpool & Wolverine while referencing how films are “making a lot of money that’ll make everybody happy, but in terms of the work, it becomes diluted afterwards. You’re getting the same old… I mean, I’ve done those kind of [projects].” > >Cox starred as William Stryker Jr. in X2: X-Men United (a military scientist who persuades Logan to become Wolverine), and admittedly said he “forgets” about the fact he “created” Wolverine. “Deadpool meets the guy… Wolverine, who I created, but I’ve forgotten. Actually,” he jokes, “When those films are on, there’s always a bit of me [as Stryker] and they never pay me any money.” > > “So it’s just become a party time for certain actors to do this stuff,” Cox added. “When you know that Hugh Jackman can do a bit more, Ryan Reynolds… but it’s because they go down that road and it’s box office. They make a lot of money. You can’t knock it.” > >Television is pulling ahead, he continued, with incredible shows like Jesse Armstrong’s Succession and Netflix’s Ripley, starring Andrew Scott. “There’s so many [shows] and you’ve got the honor of telling the story over a period of time.” The actor said movies of his childhood such as On the Waterfront are what made him want to “be the actor I’ve become,” but it’s partially eradicated.

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> > As you can tell, Scorsese is a tremendous fan of the Stones, using their songs at any chance he can get. Naturally, then, he has watched Nicolas Roeg and Donald Cammell’s 1970 film Performance, which starred Mick Jagger. The movie is one of many British films that Scorsese loves, although he once claimed that he “never quite understood it”. > > > > Performance follows James Fox’s Chas, a gangster who, in a rage, shoots an old friend and subsequently flees the scene. Looking for somewhere to stay, he pretends to be a performer and manages to blag his way into an apartment where Jagger’s rock star character, Turner, is living with two women, including Anita Pallenberg’s Pherber. > > > >There’s plenty of crime, a topic often explored by Scorsese, although Performance is also defined by its sex and drugs, making it a quintessential British ‘sex, drugs and rock and roll’ era movie. For Scorsese, he “didn’t understand any of the drug culture at that time.” > > > >Still, he “liked the picture,” and found inspiration in one of the songs used in the film. The same version of ‘Memo From Turner’, a Stones song that Jagger re-recorded for Performance, is used by Scorsese in Goodfellas. Scorsese explained: “I love the music and I love Jagger in it and James Fox — terrific. That’s one of the reasons I used the Ry Cooder [song] ‘Memo to Turner’.

> As you can tell, Scorsese is a tremendous fan of the Stones, using their songs at any chance he can get. Naturally, then, he has watched Nicolas Roeg and Donald Cammell’s 1970 film Performance, which starred Mick Jagger. The movie is one of many British films that Scorsese loves, although he once claimed that he “never quite understood it”. > > Performance follows James Fox’s Chas, a gangster who, in a rage, shoots an old friend and subsequently flees the scene. Looking for somewhere to stay, he pretends to be a performer and manages to blag his way into an apartment where Jagger’s rock star character, Turner, is living with two women, including Anita Pallenberg’s Pherber. > >There’s plenty of crime, a topic often explored by Scorsese, although Performance is also defined by its sex and drugs, making it a quintessential British ‘sex, drugs and rock and roll’ era movie. For Scorsese, he “didn’t understand any of the drug culture at that time.” > >Still, he “liked the picture,” and found inspiration in one of the songs used in the film. The same version of ‘Memo From Turner’, a Stones song that Jagger re-recorded for Performance, is used by Scorsese in Goodfellas. Scorsese explained: “I love the music and I love Jagger in it and James Fox — terrific. That’s one of the reasons I used the Ry Cooder [song] ‘Memo to Turner’.