LIDO, Venice, Italy – Harry Styles arrived at the Venice Film Festival, greeted every step of the way by an “invasion” of his fans.
Styles attended Monday night’s red carpet world premiere “Don’t Worry Darling,” directed by and co-starring his girlfriend Olivia Wilde.
Florence Pugh, the period film’s endangered heroine Alice, has gone public with her dissatisfaction with the film and its director. She was not expected to show but was given a one-day break from filming “Dune 2” (like “Darling,” a Warner Bros. picture) to just walk the red carpet.
At the afternoon pre-premiere press conference, Wilde took the high road, thanking her profusely (“I’m so grateful she can be here tonight”) and dismissing “the tabloid gossip out there.”
“Darling” is a paranoid thriller set in the 1950s in a cult-like desert community where every husband works and every wife is thrilled to stay home, clean house and make meals. Naturally, there’s something not quite right in this rigorously ordained order.
“We want people to feel being heard and be inspired by a heroine like Alice,” Wilde said, “a revolutionary who’s ready to sacrifice to do what’s right. Those are the superheroes I want to see.”
Styles, low key and thoughtful, dominated the press conference (where he was seated as far from Wilde as possible), which included co-stars Gemma Chan and Chris Pine.
Asked about where acting fits with his music, “I don’t know,” he said. “I feel very lucky to get to do something I love as a job. I feel like being able to explore this has made me feel even luckier to do things I enjoy.
“As for the future? I try to go a day at a time. I enjoy both. It’s all fun and fun to be in this and see how they affect each other. But,” he added, “I don’t know, I haven’t thought about it that much.”
Styles was asked about the fans massed outside, one of whom was holding a sign that said, ‘You’re the only reason to live.’
“Wow,” he began. “I would say that I’m incredibly grateful to the people who have supported me in my life — and friends in particular who have allowed me to be myself and be comfortable and express myself and make the music I want to make. I would hope I can give that same space back to them. But,” he added, “say Hi to her.”
On a shoestring budget, and with the endorsement of the 45th president, Republican Geoff Diehl sailed to a primary victory and on to a November contest with Attorney General Maura Healey.
“I am proud tonight to accept the Republican nomination to be your next governor of Massachusetts,” Diehl said. “Today our hard work got rewarded by a convincing primary win.”
Diehl joined supporters in Weymouth for a victory party Tuesday night and to celebrate the win over his opponent, self-funded Wrentham businessman Chris Doughty, despite the fact the wealthy manufacturing executive dropped $2.4 million of his own fortune on the race.
Diehl’s campaign managed to win with less than $17,000 in the bank at the end and against an ongoing onslaught of television ads and the recent endorsement of his opponent by conservative radio legend and Herald columnist Howie Carr.
The endorsement of Trump, first announced last October, seems to have been enough to carry former state Rep. Diehl through the primary.
That endorsement was essentially the last voters heard from Trump about the race in Massachusetts until late Monday when the former president held a “tele-rally” for Diehl’s campaign, telling voters Doughty was nothing more than a tool of outgoing Gov. Charlie Baker.
“(Diehl is) the only conservative running for Massachusetts governor,” Trump said Monday night. “Geoff is a proven fighter who successfully pushes back on the liberal extremists.”
Trump’s endorsement of Diehl and outspoken distaste for Baker was enough to leave the incumbent with little hope of winning a GOP primary, despite generally being seen as a popular governor. Baker and Lt. Gov. Karyn Polito announced in December they would not seek re-election to third terms.
The Whitman Republican will have his work cut out for him in the general election. Healey’s war chest approaches $7 million.
Diehl has made a good start with a recent signature drive to add a question to the November ballot, collecting over 100,000 signatures to ask voters whether they would overturn a new law that allows illegal immigrants to get a driver’s license.
“One party rule does not work on Beacon Hill,” Diehl said. “I believe our state should never hand driver’s licenses to illegal immigrants. Maura Healey, she would just give them out.”
MassGOP chairman Jim Lyons was on hand to congratulate Diehl, who he said was the only candidate that would follow in the footsteps of Trump.
The frustration over violent crime in Prince George’s County is understandable. But Charles Adams, Bowie State University professor and chair of the Maryland school’s Department of Criminal Justice, doesn’t see curfews as the answer to juvenile crime.
“What we know as criminologists is that curfews, for the most part, have very little impact, if any, on violent crime,” Adams said.
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Adams was asked about a curfew for those under the age of 17, which would require them to be off the streets from 10 p.m. to 5 a.m. on weekdays, and from 11:59 p.m. and 5 a.m. on weekends. It goes into effect starting Friday. Prince George’s County Executive Angela Alsobrooks made the announcement on Monday.
Adams said data from the Justice Department’s Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention shows that most crimes committed by juveniles are likely to occur outside of the hours of the Prince George’s County curfew.
He said most crime committed by juveniles are likely to occur between 1 p.m. and 7 p.m.
(Courtesy Justice Department)
Data from the Justice Department’s Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention released in April found that violence committed by people between the ages of 7 and 17, are more frequent during school days. The time of day that acts of violence occur peaks at 3 p.m. on school days and 7 p.m. on nonschool days.
Also, young people under 17 are most likely to become victims of violence at roughly the same times, according to federal data.
(Courtesy Justice Department)
Adams said the impulse to enforce curfews is a reasonable one on the part of adults. “We want our kids, especially our young kids, to be home between 10 p.m. and 6 a.m. That’s obvious,” but he said policymakers should be wary of assuming that there will be a drop in crime by juveniles as a result.
Curfews could be “part of a comprehensive approach” to deal with juvenile crime, Adams said. That should involve leaders in education, recreation, criminal justice and parents “coming to the table and creating a comprehensive plan and approach to dealing with this kind of program.”
While Alsobrooks said juveniles involved in crime “don’t just need a hug” but need to be held accountable for their actions, Adams said he understands
“I get the message that she was trying to send … there’s a perception that we coddle our kids,” he said.
When it comes to dealing with juvenile offenders, “the behavior that they exhibit is not acceptable, but we have to understand that the person is a long way from being finished. They’re a work in progress,” Adams sad. “There are opportunities for growth.”
Mask mandates have been proven to be practically useless for protecting the wearer or the people in proximity. Unfortunately, a majority of our population, the old as well as the young, followed these unscientific government mandates for fear of dying from COVID-19. File photo: Zigres, Shutter Stock, licensed.
SPRING HILL, FL – COVID-19 lockdowns are slowly being lifted. The mask mandates have been proven to be practically useless for protecting the wearer or the people in proximity. One way grocery aisles, plexiglass dividers, social distancing of six feet were also useless. “Track and trace” sounded technologically positive but did not work to slow the spread of the virus. Schools, libraries, churches, sporting events are now open. The number of people in one’s house is not important anymore.
Unfortunately, a majority of our population, the old as well as the young, followed these unscientific government mandates for fear of dying from COVID-19. Above all else, parents wanted to protect their offspring and senior citizens knew they had physical vulnerability to the virus. However, there was a significant segment of the population that refused to follow the CDC mandates.
The CDC’s so called “scientific experts” broadcast their edicts without substantial evidence while cancelling highly qualified scientists that questioned their data and projections which prevented open debate. The process of not being open to new scientific data and theories is not science, it is a top-down political control of the population. This occurred not only in the U.S. but worldwide and increased the ruling class’s power to eventually establish a one-world-government. This crisis formula of creating fear continues to be perfected until people finally realize the end goal of this technological technique is mass control of the globe.
The global lockdown demonstrated to narcissistic, evil world leaders and egotistical intellectuals how they can create paralyzing fear, that would allow them to curtail the people’s freedom and eventually enslave them. The more they can increase ridiculously restrictive mandates to gain greater power that restricts and eliminates the people’s freedom, the easier it will be to gain a bloodless world coup.
As soon as the fear of COVID-19 decreased, new potential strains of Omicron 4 and 5 were highlighted. Using testing on eight mice, the pseudo-scientific community declared that citizens should receive a new booster shot for the new strain. Other new potentially more dangerous viruses will appear as needed. The good news is that citizens are becoming wiser and more aware of “experts” like Dr. Anthony Fauci who can use their platform to spew lies to advance their career.
Dr. Fauci boldface lied to Dr. Rand Paul in a Congressional Hearing that he had no connection to the Chinese Wuhan lab. He emphatically insisted that it was not financed by American tax dollars. Fauci forcefully asserted Its purpose was not to enhance the viruses’ detrimental effect and to be more transmittable, and difficult to curtail. Dr. Fauci denied any participation in the Chinese experiments to develop more virulent viruses that could cause a worldwide epidemic. Newly released documents show that Dr. Fauci is a sophisticated liar.
Although the COVID-19 epidemic is ebbing, California is calling for school shutdowns and compulsory mask wearing. In Washington, D.C. unvaccinated students will not permitted to attend school. There will be no online classes, so the students will not receive even academic instruction online. Many psychologists remarked that the shutdowns took a toll on children’s social and psychological development as well as delayed academic skills in reading and math, that will take years to remedy, if ever. These unprepared students will eventually come of age to join the labor market ill prepared to make a positive impact on our economy. Our economic future is bleak which has weakened America on every front. The U.S. is no longer the world leader inspiring other nations through our freedom, military dominance, technological innovation and with economic strength.
The COVID-19 pandemic was used to change the U.S. voting laws to allow universal mail in voting. Are Klaus Schwab of the World Economic forum and his cabal of world leaders going to win by spreading fearful scientific lies that frighten citizens into being zombies? Destroying the U.S. economy through these mandates will increase illness and death to panic others that weakens the nation.
This scheme by the world leaders is nothing more than psyops to crush the will of the people. These changes would usher in mass mind control. Some weak people will still run to whatever is introduced by the government elite and intellectual allies who want to control the people by proclamation from the top down. According to their mission, independent, free-thinking people must be eliminated.
The American people know these “scientific” edicts did not work in the past several years. This central planning is an attempt to remove our God given freedoms to control all the nations of the world. It is slavery for all of us except the wealthy and media elites.
Our forefathers worked and fought for retaining our constitutional republic. We need not to give up our individual freedoms out of fear. We need to stand up to preserve our Godly life, that has allowed us to innovate and prosper like no other civilization.
