Comment on Obituary: VS Naipaul

Every time a filmmaker or showrunner takes a gamble on a big Western, a million journalists and critics start tippety-typing about how “The Western is back!” or “The Western never went away!” or “The Western is the genre we need now!” or even just—apropos of the enormous popularity of Yellowstone—“At last the ‘older’ audience gets the Western it craves and deserves!” It will be easy for those writers to apply most of those truisms, if not all of them, to Kevin Costner’s Horizon: An American Saga, an ambitious four-part epic about white people pushing into the west—and, with barely a moral qualm, taking for themselves land that had been inhabited by indigenous people for thousands of years.

Scarlett Johansson said Monday that she was “shocked, angered and in disbelief” when she heard that OpenAI used a voice “eerily similar” to hers for its new ChatGPT 4.0 chatbot, even after she had declined to provide her voice. Earlier on Monday, OpenAI announced on X that it would pause the AI voice, known as “Sky,” while it addresses “questions about how we chose the voices in ChatGPT.” The company said in a blog post that the “Sky” voice was “not an imitation” of Johansson’s voice, but that it was recorded by a different professional actor, whose identity the company would not reveal to protect her privacy. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] But Johansson said in a statement to NPR on Monday that OpenAI’s Chief Executive Officer Sam Altman had asked her in September to voice the ChatGPT 4.0 system because he thought her “voice would be comforting to people.” She declined, but nine months later, her friends, family and the public noticed how the “Sky” voice resembled hers. “When I heard the released demo, I was shocked, angered and in disbelief that Mr.

New York City Mayor Eric Adams said Monday that his administration is considering revoking Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs’ key to the city after shocking security video footage showed the music mogul assaulting his ex-girlfriend. The mayor told PIX11 News that he and his team were “taking everything under analysis” and would make a final decision at a later date.

We independently selected these deals and products because we love them, and we think you might like them at these prices. E! has affiliate relationships, so we may get a commission if you

Tori Spelling has quite the new bling. But it's not what you'd expect. After all, the Beverly Hills, 90210 alum recently showed off her four dermal piercings on her stomach near each hip

Nina Dobrev's latest health update really bites.  The Vampire Diaries star revealed she's recovering from an injury that left her in a hospital bed with a neckbrace and knee brace. In one snap,