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Happier Than Ever: A Love Letter to Los Angeles is a 2021 American concert film directed by Robert Rodriguez and Patrick Osborne. It stars singer-songwriter Billie Eilish (pictured), who performs all 16 tracks from her second studio album, Happier Than Ever, at Los Angeles's Hollywood Bowl. Inspired by Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988) and Cool World (1992), the film blends live action with animation; its animated scenes combine motion capture footage of Eilish with rotoscoping by Osborne. Principal photography at the Hollywood Bowl took place for one week and without a live audience due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Lacking a crowd, the crew recorded Eilish from very close distances, aiming to create a sense of intimacy between her and the viewers. The film, released exclusively to Disney+ in September 2021, was praised by critics for its performances, animation style, and cinematography. It received nominations for multiple awards, such as Best Music Film at the 2022 Grammy Awards. (Full article...)
Did you know ...
- ... that during the 1879 Anglo-Zulu War a British soldier committed suicide by throwing himself off the 300-foot-high (90 m) cliffs at Fort Pearson (depicted)?
- ... that Canadian running back Chase Brown ranked second in American college football with 1,643 rushing yards in 2022?
- ... that the Church of St Giles, Stoke Poges, which is claimed to have inspired the "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard", is featured in a James Bond film?
- ... that Edward Thonen, one of the miners killed in the Eureka Rebellion, had gained notoriety in England as a jewellery thief prior to his emigration to Australia?
- ... that although Blizzard's franchise Overwatch is centered around video games, its lore is mainly told through animated shorts, comics, and novels?
- ... that Azio Corghi composed his second and third operas with author José Saramago – the second for La Scala in Milan, and the third for a 1993 premiere at the Theater Münster?
- ... that Charles Baudelaire wrote "The Pagan School" in opposition to the veneration of Pan in 19th-century France?
- ... that the "Poetic Essay of the Great Bliss of the Sexual Union of Heaven and Earth and Yin and Yang" argues that heterosexual sex is the "ultimate human pleasure", but affirms homosexuality as well?
In the news
- At least 21 people are killed in a landslide near Batang Kali, Malaysia.
- The US National Ignition Facility (pictured) announces that it has achieved fusion ignition.
- A housing block collapses after a suspected gas explosion on the island of Jersey, killing nine people.
- Four people are charged in connection with the Qatar corruption scandal at the European Parliament.
On this day
- 546 – Rome was sacked by the Ostrogoths led by Totila after a year-long siege.
- 1583 – Cologne War: Forces under Ernest of Bavaria defeated Gebhard Truchsess von Waldburg's troops at the siege of Godesberg.
- 1918 – About 1,000 demonstrators marched (pictured) on Government House in Darwin, Australia, where they burned an effigy of Administrator John Gilruth and demanded his resignation.
- 1945 - The modern flag of Kurdistan was raised for the first time in Mahabad, Iran.
- 1983 – The Troubles: The Provisional Irish Republican Army detonated a car bomb outside Harrods in London, killing six people and injuring about 90 others.
- Nzinga of Ndongo and Matamba (d. 1663)
- Aubrey Faulkner (b. 1881)
- Kenneth E. Iverson (b. 1920)
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Buddy Hield (born December 17, 1992) is a Bahamian basketball player who currently plays for the Indiana Pacers in the National Basketball Association. Recruited to play college basketball for the Oklahoma Sooners, Hield went on to win the John R. Wooden Award in his senior year as the best college basketball player for the 2015–16 season, in which he averaged 25 points, 5.7 rebounds and two assists per game. He was selected by the New Orleans Pelicans in the 2016 NBA draft as the sixth overall pick, before moving to the Sacramento Kings in early 2017 following a trade. After five years in Sacramento, he joined the Pacers in 2022 in another trade deal. This photograph, taken in January 2016, shows Hield playing for the Oklahoma Sooners against the Texas Tech Red Raiders at the Lloyd Noble Center in Norman, Oklahoma. Photograph credit: ChristopherM01
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