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Fans of ITV's Who Wants to be a Millionaire "switched off" as they complained that a festive episode was "painful" to watch. Host Jeremy Clarkson welcomed a number of celebrity faces to the show as they tested their general knowledge skills in a bid to win up to £1 million. First up in the hot seat was English pianist, bandleader, singer, composer and television presenter, Jools Holland . However, he proved that his general knowledge skills were not as strong as his musical skills as he struggled to answered questions without help. Very early on in the game he had already used most of his lifelines, meaning that he got stuck on one of the lower amount questions. Playing for £16,000 - where he set his safety net - Jools was asked: The 'Football for Sale' investigation by the Telegraph newspaper led to the resignation of which England manager? The optional answers were Fabio Capello, Roy Hodgson, Sven-Goran Eriksson and Sam Allardyce. Working through the answers, Jools said: "Well, football isn't really my specialist subject but I remember Sven having to leave. "I don't know if it was this. So I'm going to try and go for C - because I seem to remember him having to leave. And that is my final answer." Unfortunately for Jools, Jeremy told the star guest that it was the incorrect answer as he revealed Sam Allardyce to be correct. The musician dropped his head in disappointment as he realised that he was out of the game. Consoling the star, Jeremy said: "If it makes you feel any better, I wouldn't have known that." Jools responded saying: "Oh, well that does make me feel better." He added: "Could I ask this - did anyone in the audience know that?" The audience replied with a choir of "yes". Despite the loss, Jools was leaving the ITV quiz show with £16,000 for his chosen charities - He had been playing for The Princes Trust & Caring Hands. While he secured a respectable amount for his charities, fans on social media were less than impressed. Posting to X (formerly Twitter), one user wrote: "God this is painful, it’s starting to irritate me. Switching off. #WhoWantsToBeAMillionaire." Another added: "Jools Holland proving to be detached from the real world here. #WhoWantsToBeAMillionaire," with a third saying: "A safety net at 16k Jules Holland is terrible at this game. #WhoWantsToBeAMillionaire." "I expected more of #JoolsHolland ... #whowantstobeamillionaire," one more noted while someone else shared: "Wow. It’s a good job Jools can play the piano well because he’s bloody useless at this.... #whowantstobeamillionaire."‘Oh, Canada’ review: Richard Gere shows the price of a lifetime of deceptionTokio Marine North America Services Named One of Computerworld's 2025 Best Places to Work in ITjili mnl 。

Amanda Bynes, who stepped out of the public eye after her retirement from acting in 2012, was spotted in Malibu on Tuesday, December 10, running errands in photos obtained by The Daily Mail . This is the first public sighting since the former child star, now 38, shared to her Instagram Story that she was seriously committing to losing weight. Bynes dressed casually in a grey sweatshirt, black leggings, and white loafers. Also visible were her nose ring and a small heart-shaped tattoo on her cheek. The Amanda Show actress posted a screenshot, captured by People , on November 5 that showed her efforts to get exercise by using a step counter. That day, she walked 14,895 steps, equaling 6.60, and burned 481 calories. "Down 6lbs! 154lbs now," the actress and fashion designer wrote in the caption. In March of the same year, she had explained via Instagram that she had gained 20 pounds due to depression, but that she was "doing a lot better," and pushing herself to work out even when she didn't "feel like" doing so. This news marked the latest in a roller coaster of struggles she's had with her physical and mental health. A 2018 Paper Magazine interview with Bynes revealed that she'd long struggled with body dysmorphia and "abused Adderall" to lose weight. Nowadays, Bynes is reclusive even on her Instagram , which only features two posts — one of the retired actress standing in her apartment, and another in which she shows off her formidable acrylic nails. The Story Highlights, however, reveal some details about her day-to-day life, such as an art show she will be hosting in Los Angeles on December 21 and her love for nail art. She graduated from Los Angeles' Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising in June of 2019 after five years of studying.

Their ages vary. But a conspicuous handful of filmmaking lions in winter, or let’s say late autumn, have given us new reasons to be grateful for their work over the decades — even for the work that didn’t quite work. Which, yes, sounds like ingratitude. But do we even want more conventional or better-behaved work from talents such as Francis Ford Coppola? Even if we’re talking about “Megalopolis” ? If Clint Eastwood’s “Juror #2” gave audiences a less morally complicated courtroom drama, would that have mattered, given Warner Bros.’ butt-headed decision to plop it in less than three dozen movie theaters in the U.S.? Coppola is 85. Eastwood is 94. Paul Schrader, whose latest film “Oh, Canada” arrives this week and is well worth seeking out, is a mere 78. Based on the 2021 Russell Banks novel “Foregone,” “Oh, Canada” is the story of a documentary filmmaker, played by Richard Gere, being interviewed near the end of his cancer-shrouded final days. In the Montreal home he shares with his wife and creative partner, played by Uma Thurman, he consents to the interview by two former students of his. Gere’s character, Leonard Fife, has no little contempt for these two, whom he calls “Mr. and Mrs. Ken Burns of Canada” with subtle disdain. As we learn over the artful dodges and layers of past and present, events imagined and/or real, Fife treats the interview as a final confession from a guarded and deceptive soul. He’s also a hero to everyone in the room, famous for his anti-Vietnam war political activism, and for the Frederick Wiseman-like inflection of his own films’ interview techniques. The real-life filmmaker name-checked in “Oh, Canada” is documentarian Errol Morris, whose straight-to-the-lens framing of interview subjects was made possible by his Interrotron device. In Schrader’s adaptation, Fife doesn’t want the nominal director (Michael Imperioli, a nicely finessed embodiment of a second-rate talent with first-rate airs) in his eyeline. Rather, as he struggles with hazy, self-incriminating memories of affairs, marriages, one-offs with a friend’s wife and a tense, brief reunion with the son he never knew, Fife wants only his wife, Emma — his former Goddard College student — in this metaphoric confessional. Schrader and his editor Benjamin Rodriguez Jr. treat the memories as on-screen flashbacks spanning from 1968 to 2023. At times, Gere and Thurman appear as their decades-young selves, without any attempt to de-age them, digitally or otherwise. (Thank god, I kind of hate that stuff in any circumstance.) In other sequences from Fife’s past, Jacob Elordi portrays Fife, with sly and convincing behavioral details linking his performance to Gere’s persona. We hear frequent voiceovers spoken by Gere about having ruined his life by age 24, at least spiritually or morally. Banks’ novel is no less devoted to a dying man’s addled but ardent attempt to come clean and own up to what has terrified him the most in the mess and joy of living: Honesty. Love. Commitment. There are elements of “Oh, Canada” that soften Banks’ conception of Fife, from the parentage of Fife’s abandoned son to the specific qualities of Gere’s performance. It has been 44 years since Gere teamed with Schrader on “American Gigolo,” a movie made by a very different filmmaker with very different preoccupations of hetero male hollowness. It’s also clearly the same director at work, I think. And Gere remains a unique camera object, with a stunning mastery of filling a close-up with an unblinking stillness conveying feelings easier left behind. The musical score is pretty watery, and with Schrader you always get a few lines of tortured rhetoric interrupting the good stuff. In the end, “Oh, Canada” has an extraordinarily simple idea at its core: That of a man with a movie camera, most of his life, now on the other side of the lens. Not easy. “I can’t tell the truth unless that camera’s on!” he barks at one point. I don’t think the line from the novel made it into Schrader’s script, but it too sums up this lion-in-winter feeling of truth without triumphal Hollywood catharsis. The interview, Banks wrote, is one’s man’s “last chance to stop lying.” It’s also a “final prayer,” dramatized by the Calvinist-to-the-bone filmmaker who made sure to include that phrase in his latest devotion to final prayers and missions of redemption. “Oh, Canada” — 3 stars (out of 4) No MPA rating (some language and sexual material) Running time: 1:34 How to watch: Opens in theaters Dec. 13, running 1in Chicago Dec. 13-19 at the Gene Siskel Film Center, 164 N. State St.; siskelfilmcenter.org Michael Phillips is a Tribune critic.

Some Spotify users this year lambasted the music streaming app's popular year-end round-up, Wrapped. A former Spotify engineer described what was different about Wrapped this year. Despite the negative reception, this year's Wrapped was the biggest the company has seen. When Spotify dropped its viral year-end musical round-up Wrapped earlier this month, the disappointment online was palpable. Advertisement "I'm not usually one to complain but this was one of the most boring Spotify Wrapped recaps I've been a part of and I've been a member since 2017," Business Insider reported a Reddit user said. "Spotify wrapped flopped this year so bad like where are the music cities, the playlists, the top genres or the listening auras... all that wait for WHAT," a user on X wrote. Related Video Garbage spikes during the holidays — can wrapping gifts in plastic trash reduce it? Spotify superfan Sydney Brown told The New York Times her annual Wrapped release is "like my Super Bowl," but this year, she felt like her round-up was "a homework project that was turned in late." While the company said a record number of users checked out their Wrapped this year, an engineer who once worked on the feature said he understands why many online were disappointed. Glenn McDonald is a former Spotify software engineer who worked on projects including Wrapped for over a decade before being caught in one of several rounds of sweeping layoffs that saw a 25% staff reduction. Advertisement This year, Wrapped "didn't give me any context," McDonald told Business Insider. "It didn't connect me to communities or the world, or put my listening in relationship to anything," he said. "So, for me, it misses the important potential of a streaming service where everybody is listening together and just treats it as if each individual listener is listening by themselves." The Wrapped 2024 round-up skipped the genre stories and cultural comparisons found in previous editions, instead creating an AI " podcast " of computer-generated voices talking through users' listening stats and briefly describing what emotional "era" their listening habits might suggest. Advertisement While some users called it a flop, a Spotify spokesperson told Business Insider it was the biggest year yet for the music streaming app 's year-end round-up. "In the first 12 hours this year's Wrapped was the biggest we've seen, up over 26% compared to day one in 2023," the Spotify spokesperson told BI. And while the company tracks user reactions on social media — both negative and positive — internal engagement statistics showed a record number of individual shares "and the biggest volume we've ever seen across the entire experience." Related stories A missed bet on the cutting-edge Spotify wanted to embrace the cutting-edge features that AI has made possible, the spokesperson said. Still, it did not intend to diminish the humanistic elements of the Wrapped experience that users love. Advertisement In prior years, McDonald was on the team that brought Spotify users Wrapped features, including a Myers-Briggs-style description of the way users listen to music, comparisons of their music tastes to cities around the world, and genre stories that revealed the top types of music users were listening to. He said those cultural elements weren't a priority this year, and the company leaned too much into "AI that doesn't really add anything to your life." McDonald, a proponent of artificial intelligence who now works for an AI startup, said Spotify has always treated Wrapped primarily as a marketing exercise meant to go viral as users share their results. While he was at the company, he had to push for more community-focused features, he told BI. Advertisement "It's sort of hard to try to infuse humanity into a marketing exercise. It's not easy, and you're not always thanked for it," McDonald said. He pointed to last year's layoffs as one reason remaining engineers may not have felt motivated to go the extra distance this year: "It doesn't surprise me that maybe anybody the following year looking at what happened last year goes, 'maybe I won't stick my neck out,'" he said. While Spotify hasn't decided what future editions of Wrapped may include, the spokesperson said its features change each year to give users more of what they want.FORT WORTH, Texas — Fort Worth Mayor Mattie Parker continues to get pushback on Tuesday’s council vote to name the next city manager. Parker believes former deputy city manager Jay Chapa, the single finalist for the job , is the right choice despite criticism about the process. Instead of hiring an independent search firm Parker supported the city's human resource department to conduct a nationwide search. "We had over 150 applicants," said Parker, "Let me make it really clear, our process was flawless, and we ended up with the very best manager in the country. It just so happens that Jay Chapa already lived in Fort Worth.” But the selection process is coming under fire by Council members Chris Nettles, and Dr. Jared Williams, along with dozens of Forth Worth community leaders calling it flawed. Now they want the council vote confirming Jay Chapa put on hold. “This process has been flawed from the start to the finish with predetermined decisions made behind closed doors without meaningful conversation, input from our public, our community, and our faith leaders," Councilman Nettles said. Nettles spearheaded an online petition through change.org about postponing the vote signed by community leaders across Fort Worth and Tarrant County. By Tuesday afternoon the petition had more than 170 signatures towards the goal of 200 signatures. As Deputy City Manager Chapa played a huge role in several big projects for the city including Dickies Arena. Before retiring in January 2022, Chapa served as deputy city manager. He started his consulting business facilitating the multi-million-dollar deal on the Texas A&M downtown campus in Fort Worth. As the new city manager Chapa would make $435,000.00 a year, which is $120 thousand more than the current city manager. His employee benefits would include a $600 monthly car allowance. WFAA reached out repeatedly to Mayor Mattie Parker for a response to the request to delay the vote on hiring Jay Chapa but has yet to receive a response. Despite pushback from the community, If Mayor Parker and the council move forward confirming their only finalist for the job, Chapa would start on January 27, 2025. 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Regency Centers Co. ( NASDAQ:REGCO – Get Free Report ) was the target of a significant decline in short interest during the month of December. As of December 15th, there was short interest totalling 18,100 shares, a decline of 21.3% from the November 30th total of 23,000 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 10,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 1.8 days. Regency Centers Stock Down 0.7 % NASDAQ:REGCO opened at $22.05 on Friday. Regency Centers has a twelve month low of $21.47 and a twelve month high of $24.90. The stock’s 50 day moving average price is $23.41 and its two-hundred day moving average price is $23.02. Regency Centers Dividend Announcement The company also recently announced a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Friday, January 31st. Investors of record on Thursday, January 16th will be issued a dividend of $0.3672 per share. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, January 16th. This represents a $1.47 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 6.66%. Regency Centers Company Profile Regency Centers is a preeminent national owner, operator, and developer of shopping centers located in suburban trade areas with compelling demographics. Our portfolio includes thriving properties merchandised with highly productive grocers, restaurants, service providers, and best-in-class retailers that connect to their neighborhoods, communities, and customers. Read More Receive News & Ratings for Regency Centers Daily - Enter your email address below to receive a concise daily summary of the latest news and analysts' ratings for Regency Centers and related companies with MarketBeat.com's FREE daily email newsletter .

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