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Quintuplets Nightmare


Lottie Davies photo won London’s National Portrait Gallery’s top photo prize.  I admit it: I love things that give me the creeps and this does.  Referencing Caravaggio in a modern horror tale captures both the miracle and the nightmare, reminding us what a strange animal we are.  It sets my mind a wandering — which is what my favorite work does.

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Ted Hope is a “holistic film producer”: he aims to be there from the beginning and then forever after, involved in every aspect of a film’s life cycle and ecosystem, as committed to engineering serendipity as preventing problems, as obsessed with lifting the good into the great, as he is…

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