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Bob Weir obituary

One of the founding members of the Grateful Dead, brilliant guitarist and writer of many of the group’s key songs

The Guardian - UK

Michael Douglas on One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest: ‘My half of the producing fee I gave to Dad’

The actor looks back on his first foray as producer as the Oscar-winning drama reaches its 50th anniversary

The Guardian - US

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest at 50: the spirit of rebellion lives on

The 1975 drama, one of the only films to ever receive the big five Oscars, remains a touchstone of American cinema with a resonant message of resisting conformity

The Guardian - US

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One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest at 50: Unruly, boneheaded, and still a classic

INSIDE FILM: Rejected by most major studios at the time and certainly not expected to win multiple Oscars and place second only to ‘Jaws’ in the biggest films of 1975, Milos Forman’s barbed mental hospital tale remains an underdog story for the ages in more ways than one, writes Xan…

The Independent UK

Michael Douglas and Danny DeVito revisit ‘One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest’ for its 50th anniversary

“One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest" is celebrating its 50th anniversary with a new 4K restoration and a theatrical re-release

The Independent UK

5 movies like 'Joker: Folie à Deux' but better

Let down by the 'Joker' sequel? Check out these five better movies instead.

Tom’s Guide

“We’re trying to uphold a delicate state of anarchy. Anarchy in Egypt”: The incredible story of The Grateful Dead’s legendary gigs at the Pyramids Of Giza

In 1978, The Grateful Dead and their entourage landed in Egypt for three gigs at the Pyramids of Giza. This is what happened

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17 writers who despised adaptations of their work: ‘If you like my stuff, don’t watch that movie’

From Truman Capote’s problem with Audrey Hepburn in ‘Breakfast at Tiffany’s’ to Lois Duncan’s very personal offence over ‘I Know What You Did Last Summer’ and Quentin Tarantino’s public beef with Oliver Stone, Annabel Nugent counts down 17 times writers hated adaptations of their work

The Independent UK

Going Infinite by Michael Lewis review – the downfall of crypto king Sam Bankman-Fried

In this extraordinary book, the author of The Big Short digs into the roots of the ideological fantasy land created by the cryptocurrency billionaire now on trial in the US

The Guardian - UK

The Lonesome Writing Guru

How the Texas author—and an editor of a new book of essays about him—helped shepherd a Lone Star literary community.

Texas Observer

Barbie and Ken baby names have soared in popularity - here's the meaning behind them

Barbie or Ken, are they in your Top 10?

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Bo Goldman, who penned the script for One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest, dies aged 90

Goldman found success in Hollywood in his 40s when he landed his first film credit in the Ken Kesey novel adaptation

Evening Standard

Louise Fletcher dead at 88

Fletcher's iconic role as Nurse Ratched in Miloš Forman's adaptation of Ken Kesey's novel won her numerous awards

Salon

Sterling Lord, uniquely enduring literary agent, dies at 102

The uniquely enduring literary agent who worked for years to find a publisher for Jack Kerouac’s “On the Road” and over the following decades arranged deals for everyone from true crime writer Joe McGinniss to the creators of the Berenstain Bears has died

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Sonny Barger obituary

Longtime Hells Angels president who cultivated his outlaw image and turned the motorcycle club into a global brand

The Independent UK

Review: Book recalls '64 coast-to-coast adventure in a bus

Author Ken Kesey, flush with cash from the publication of “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest,” filled an aging, broken-down school bus with friends in 1964 and led them on a drug-fueled drive across America, later recounted in vivid detail in Tom Wolfe’s 1968 best-seller, “The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test.”

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