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Daily Mail
17-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
EXCLUSIVE Iconic '80s star looks shockingly youthful on his 60th birthday during rare outing... can you guess who it is?
One of the most beloved stars of the '80s left fans stunned by how youthful he looked while celebrating his 60th birthday on Thursday. The actor — best known for playing Bill opposite Keanu Reeves ' Ted in Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure — was spotted during a rare public outing in Los Angeles. The appearance comes just a month after his reunion with Keanu at the 78th Annual Tony Awards, where the iconic duo thrilled longtime fans. Looking upbeat as he ran errands at a local dry cleaner, the birthday boy kept it casual in a black polo T-shirt and cargo pants — a far cry from his bloodsucking role as Marko in The Lost Boys with Kiefer Sutherland. Longtime fans may also recognize the London-born actor from his 2013 comeback in the thriller Grand Piano, starring Elijah Wood and John Cusack. So… can you guess the star? If you said Alex Winter, you nailed it! Just weeks ago, Alex and Keanu sent fans into a frenzy when they reunited on the red carpet at the Tony Awards, held June 8 at Radio City Music Hall. Sporting sleek black tuxedos, the longtime friends looked a far cry from their iconic roles as the chill, time-hopping teens who once wrangled historical figures for a school project in Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure. The crowd went wild not only for the nostalgic reunion but also for the actors' shockingly youthful looks—nearly four decades after they first teamed up on screen. Their glowing appearance came as they promoted their upcoming Broadway debut in Waiting for Godot, a major stage event set for 2025 under the direction of Jamie Lloyd. Reeves — famously dubbed the nicest guy in Hollywood — will take on the role of Estragon, while Winter will portray Vladimir in the modern revival. 'We're incredibly excited to be on stage together and work with the great Jamie Lloyd in one of our favorite plays,' Reeves and Winter shared in a joint statement. Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure was a surprise hit when it premiered in 1989, pulling in over $40 million at the box office on a $10 million budget. If you said Alex Winter, you nailed it!; (pictured July 13 at Smurfs premiere) Just weeks ago, Alex and Keanu sent fans into a frenzy when they reunited on the red carpet at the Tony Awards, held June 8 at Radio City Music Hall The success sparked a 1991 sequel, Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey, which saw the duo navigating heaven, hell, and everything in between—and built a dedicated cult following. Nearly thirty years later, they returned once again for Bill & Ted Face the Music in 2020, proving their chemistry hadn't aged a day. Outside of Bill & Ted, Winter is also known for his roles in cult classics like The Lost Boys, Freaked, and Death Wish 3. He's also made a name for himself behind the camera, directing acclaimed documentaries such as Downloaded, Deep Web, and HBO's Showbiz Kids. Winter has one son and largely keeps his personal life out of the spotlight—though fans have never stopped cheering him on.
The Guardian
16-07-2025
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
As we race headlong into our glorious AI-powered future, are we on the road to Idiocracy?
As we race headlong into our glorious AI-powered future, a long-forgotten flick from the naughties is gaining cult status by posing a simple question: are we on the road to Idiocracy? In the tradition of Bill and Ted, Idiocracy, a 2006 American sci-fi comedy, depicts an average guy transported 500 years into the future to find he is the smartest man on earth. A wrestler is president, people worship 'the profit' and the world's biggest corporation is a sports drink company whose market strategy has taken humanity to the brink of collapse. Idiocracy is not a flawless film; it's jarring class eugenics and casual sexism seem more dated than its 20 years would suggest. But what it does brilliantly is challenge the assumption that the human race is on an uncontested journey to higher consciousness. This is a timely counterpoint to the zeitgeist about the self-evident benefits of machine learning built by large tech companies under the conceit of 'artificial intelligence'. Already we are seeing academic studies suggesting that Large Language Models are linked to cognitive decline, with a recent MIT study finding lower brain engagement among students using GPTs in writing essays. We've also seen AI chatbots accused of inducing vulnerable people to suicide and cheery predictions about the hollowing out of entry level knowledge economy jobs which loom as our next inter-generational betrayal. The question is whether these dumb outcomes are features or bugs of our emerging information ecosystem. Evidence is mounting it is the former. Exhibit A is OpenAI's Economic Blueprint for Australia, an embarrassing document seeking rapid government adaptation, investment and minimalist regulation for 'the most significant economic and strategic opportunity of our time' You could drive a truck through the holes in OpenAI's analysis: $115bn in predicted productivity improvements based on crude calculations of hours saved at work, with no trade-off for the costs of the jobs already being destroyed. To realise this promised dividend OpenAI says the government would need to lean into resource-sucking datacentres, socialising the costs of energy and water, steamrolling communities and putting new pressures on the grid and fast-tracking development at the cost of the energy transition. As our creativity is being stolen and repurposed, trading off our collective empathy for automated culture, OpenAI wants us to 'streamline and update copyright law', with industry groups already pushing hard for a general right to mine our data. But these self-serving policy asks are not the worst of the OpenAI blueprint; it is the very fact that this massive corporation purports to set our future agenda at all, defining rather than responding to our collective needs. This design principle could represent the inflection point between a smart future and an impending Idiocracy. It is true this technology carries amazing power to synthesise information and challenge higher order thinking in new and profound ways. OpenAI is right to describe the technology as 'like electricity' something that can illuminate the night sky. But would you get a power company to set the rules for electrical safety? The truth is OpenAI is nether open or intelligent: it's a play to dominate a new technology on commercial terms for its material benefit, using their copious venture capital as a shield against competitors and a sword against government to create a policy environment to suit them. We are witnessing the next phase of their corporate history. ChatGPT is a compelling shop front, but what if it is intellectual heroin? It tricks us to feel smarter, more seen and even loved, while actually providing the opposite by convincing us to commoditise our collective intelligence. Short of returning to a genuine not-for-profit mission, OpenAI can never be a good faith partner. Theirs is an operating model to be resisted but that relies on us having the time, the understanding and, yes, the leadership to do this intelligently. In the latest episode of my podcast Burning Platforms one of the godfathers of artificial intelligence, Prof Toby Walsh, differentiates between the richness of distributed intelligence and the homogeneity of the concentrated intelligence that chatbots serve up. High quality data is earned not stolen property; it is used mindfully to address problems humans identify, not commoditised to fill some market niche. While the tech broligarchs battle for world domination, maybe the smart money should be on the design and value of small data models, designed for purpose not for producing mainstream slop and brain rot, that chew up less energy and eradicate fewer jobs. Because of the power of the tech sector, all of whom have well-paid and well-positioned Canberra lobbyists, we also need to resist. Since shouting out the Luddites in my last column I've been delighted to discover there are people already doing this. Ben Zhao, a University of Chicago computer scientist has developed programs like Glaze which protects private photos being harvested to train facial recognition technology and Nightshade, a filter for artists that tricks AI into seeing a cat as a dog, like putting ink in a bag of stolen bank cheques. And Cloudfare, one of the dominant cybersecurity companies, has announced it will ban AI web crawlers from scraping content from their sites without paying compensation to the owner of those sites. As Cloudfare CEO, Matthew Prince, says: 'I go to war every single day with the Chinese government, the Russian government, the Iranians, the North Koreans, probably Americans, the Israelis, all of them who are trying to hack into our customer sites. And you're telling me, I can't stop some nerd with a C-corporation in Palo Alto?' In the battle for our future intelligence, we need to deploy all the grey matter at our disposal: workers' intelligence, cultural intelligence, collective intelligence and the power of technologists in the face of the artifice. Spoiler: in the movie the sports drink company, 'Brawndo' extends its market dominance in electrolytes by expanding into agriculture, poisoning the land in pursuit of 'The Profit'. Open AI's Blueprint for Australia would be a similar triumph of Idiocracy. Peter Lewis is the executive director of Essential, a progressive strategic communications and research company that undertook research for Labor in the 2025 election and conducts qualitative research for Guardian Australia. He is also the host of Per Capita's Burning Platforms podcast
New York Times
27-06-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Times
Pep Guardiola and the age of football amnesia
When Keanu Reeves was doing press for Bill & Ted Face the Music in 2020, he had to explain the narrative tension underpinning the film. In essence, it was about facing your own mortality. Bill and Ted had failed to write a song that would unite the world. This had consequences for them and their families. They now had to come up with one to save the universe — otherwise it would end. Advertisement After giving a light-hearted, semi-serious answer in keeping with his character Ted, Reeves was asked a serious follow-up question by the late-night host Stephen Colbert: 'What do you think happens when we die?' Reeves leaned back, inhaled, thought about it for a second and gave an unexpectedly excellent and profound answer. 'I know that the ones who love us will miss us,' he said, a sweet and moving sentiment. Manchester City coach Pep Guardiola doesn't seem to share it. In the build-up to the FA Cup final in May, Guardiola did not get the same question as Reeves. But he did reflect on his life and legacy up until now. 'When we die,' he said. 'Our families cry for two or three days and then that's it — you're forgotten. In the careers of coaches, there are good and bad ones, the important thing is that the good ones are remembered.' Guardiola's place in football history is assured. He has won trebles, plural. He is credited with changing the game. The Spanish and German national teams lifted the World Cup during his time working in their leagues, an indicator of his influence. England have yet to do so. Next year perhaps? Regardless of whether England do or not, Guardiola's eight seasons with City have undeniably altered the football landscape in the U.K. And yet, his bleak outlook on remembrance appears to have been greatly shaped by how quick some corners of the football world were to forget Istanbul and the treble of 2023. How much of that was City-specific — Wasn't it about time they did it? — is one thing. How much of it is due to our ever-decreasing attention spans is another. As the calendar gets more congested, teams play more and more games and the turnaround time from one season to another shortens, football is, perhaps, entering its own age of digital amnesia — the phenomenon whereby the abundance of information on the internet is apparently affecting our ability to retain and remember it. Advertisement Every game risks becoming like a reel on Instagram or a TikTok video. We scroll through it, laugh or smile, share it, forget it, go blank. Onto the next one. Wydad, Al-Ain, Juventus again. They played each other in December, didn't they? Yes, in the new, extended Champions League 'League Phase'? Feels like another season ago, doesn't it. Dusan Vlahovic scored. Weston McKennie too. Remember it well? Prior to City and Juventus meeting in Orlando, Guardiola was asked by a reporter from La Repubblica about the Club World Cup and how invested he is in winning it. 'Well, now we're here we want to do well. I don't know,' he said in Italian. 'Maybe after two or three days at the end of the tournament it'll be forgotten.' Covered by the sands of time, buried by the scirocco of a new season, the golden edge of a Tiffany trophy poking through a dune as the Premier League nears on the horizon. After all, there's Wolves away already on August 16. If City win the Club World Cup, it will no doubt be a source of pride within the club. But Guardiola is probably right. The newness of the competition and the dismissive reception of the Club World Cup back in the UK — being able to say you're world champion seemed to mean little to English clubs even in the smaller, old format — mean it probably wouldn't be heralded as significant. That's in part the island mentality of England, the belief our competition is best and its only rival is the Champions League, not the Club World Cup. Not yet. 'I don't think we should ever live thinking about whether we're going to be remembered,' Guardiola said in that interview in May. So what's the purpose? Why renew for another two years? Does Guardiola keep doing what he does because he doesn't know anything else? Only football. Or is there meaning beyond being remembered? Advertisement Guardiola said after City's 5-2 win over Juventus his players made a statement to themselves. The challenge this coming season, he added, is to redefine themselves too. Whether people remember City's season or not is out of his control. The 6-0 against Wydad and 2-0 over Al Ain isn't and while they will be swiftly forgotten, they are part of the process he is overseeing. The bigger question is more for us — and the football calendar: Less still feels like more. Meaning isn't to be found in the many, but the few. More than amnesia, there is nostalgia for how the game used to be; smaller World Cups, shorter seasons, competitions that genuinely did boast the best teams from their respective continents. What will happen to football then if it dies? It won't perish, surely. The game goes on and on. But if it did, the ones who loved it will probably remember those, apparently, better days when the memories made were memories that lasted.
Daily Mail
08-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
Bill and Ted stars Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter look shockingly youthful as they reunite at Tony Awards 2025
Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter had Bill & Ted fans buzzing as they reunited on the red carpet at the 78th Annual Tony Awards at Radio City Music Hall on Sunday. The John Wick star, 60, and his longtime friend and co-star, 59, looked thrilled to be back together decades after their breakout roles in the cult 1989 comedy Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure. Dressed in classic black tuxedos, the actors looked worlds away from the laid-back, time-traveling teen slackers who once rounded up historical figures for a high school history project. The pair lit up the star-studded event ahead of their highly anticipated Broadway debut in Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot. But it wasn't just the reunion that had fans in a frenzy—it was the duo's shockingly youthful appearance, with the iconic pair looking almost ageless nearly 40 years after they first shared the screen. Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter had Bill & Ted fans buzzing as they reunited on the red carpet at the 78th Annual Tony Awards at Radio City Music Hall on Sunday The John Wick star, 60, and his longtime friend and co-star, 59, looked thrilled to be back together decades after their breakout roles in the cult 1989 comedy Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure The pair's healthy glow comes as they are preparing for the latest adaptation of Samuel Beckett's existential classic Waiting for Godot. Reeves – who is known as the nicest guy in Hollywood – makes his Broadway debut as Estragon and Winter will be Vladimir in the play which will run in 2025 in an as-yet- to-be-disclosed theater on the Great White Way. 'We're incredibly excited to be on stage together and work with the great Jamie Lloyd in one of our favorite plays,' Reeves, 59, and Winter, 59, said in a joint statement. Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure was a surprise box office hit, grossing over $40 million on a modest $10 million budget. Its success led to a 1991 sequel, Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey, which took the duo on a bizarre ride through heaven, hell, and the afterlife, earning a devoted cult following. Nearly three decades later, Reeves and Winter reprised their roles in Bill & Ted Face the Music (2020). The 78th Annual Tony Awards, the most prestigious ceremony honoring theatre, is showing off the best of Broadway and beyond tonight. The show is being held on the hallowed stage of Radio City Music Hall and it is hosted by three-time Oscar nominee Cynthia Erivo. The three-hour show, which starts at 8 p.m. ET/ 5 p.m. PT, can be watched live on CBS or streamed on Paramount+ with Showtime. Users with the Paramount+ Essential subscription will have the option to begin watching the show on the following day. This year features major star power in the lead actor and actress categories. George Clooney is competing for his massively successful play Good Night, And Good Luck — an adaptation of the film of the same name that he directed, co-wrote and costarred in — for the lead actor in a play category, while acting legend Mia Farrow is competing against Succession star Sarah Snook and Stranger Things star Sadie Sink in the lead actress in a play category. Darren Criss and Jonathan Groff are adding some star power to the lead actor in a musical category, while Megan Hilty, Nicole Scherzinger and Broadway legend Audra McDonald are some of the biggest names in the lead actress in a musical category. Bob Odenkirk is best known for his film and television work, including his acclaimed run on Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul, but he's now nominated in the Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Play category for his turn in the revival of David Mamet's iconic drama of desperation, Glengarry Glen Ross. Presenters this year include Charli D'Amelio, Michelle Williams, Hacks' Jean Smart, LaTanya Richardson Jackson and Lea Salonga, all of whom are currently appearing on Broadway. The stage icon Kristin Chenoweth will also be presenting, while Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter will have a Bill and Ted reunion on stage ahead of their upcoming production of Samuel Beckett's Waiting For Godot. Glee star Lea Michele will also be joined on stage by Aaron Tveit. Several former Tony winners will be helping to announce awards, including Oprah Winfrey, Bryan Cranston, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Sarah Paulson, Renée Elise Goldsberry, Kelli O'Hara and Rachel Bay Jones. And the other presenters aren't exactly slouches, as several of them have Oscars and Grammy Awards to their names. They include Ben Stiller, Samuel L. Jackson, Katie Holmes, Jesse Eisenberg, Allison Janney, Ariana DeBose, Adam Lambert, Carrie Preston, Danielle Brooks and Sara Bareilles. Going into the 2025 ceremony, three musicals are leading the pack with 10 nominations each: Buena Vista Social Club, Death Becomes Her and Maybe Happy. Buena Vista Social Club is inspired by the beloved Cuban ensemble of the same name, which recorded a hit eponymous album in 1997 and was documented in Wim Wenders' acclaimed documentary (also of the same name) in 1999. Death Becomes Her is based on the Robert Zemeckis fantastical black comedy from 1992, which starred Meryl Streep, Goldie Hawn and Bruce Willis. Unlike those musicals, which are adapted from existing music and films, Maybe Happy is a science fiction–romance that originated in South Korea. It follows two android helper-bots who develop feelings for each other, despite the fact that their short life spans threaten any future plans. Dead Outlaw, John Proctor Is The Villain, Sunset Blvd. and The Hills Of California are all tied for seven Tony nominations, while Floyd Collins, Justin In Time, Purpose and The Picture Of Dorian Gray are tied for six. Dead Outlaw and Operation Mincemeat: A New Musical are also competing in the Best Musical category, while English, The Hills Of California, John Proctor Is The Villain, Oh, Mary! and Purpose are vying for Best Play. Purpose and English have already been honored with Pulitzer Prizes. This year's nominated revivals include Eureka Day, Romeo + Juliet, Thornton Wilder's Our Town and David Henry Hwang's Yellow Face in the play category, while Floyd Collins, Gypsy, Pirates! The Penzanze Musical and Sunset Blvd. fill out the Best Revival of a Musical category. The performances this year will highlight all of the new and revived musical nominees, as well as Just In Time and Real Women Have Curves, which weren't nominated in best musical or revival but did receive other major nominations. The 2025 Tonys will look to the past as well with a tribute to Hamilton for its 10th anniversary as the original cast reunites for a performance. Miranda will be accompanied by Leslie Odom Jr., Phillipa Soo, Renée Elise Goldsberry, Daveed Diggs, Ariana DeBose, Jonathan Groff and Christopher Jackson, all of whom were part of the original production. Erivo, 38, was better known for her work in the theatre before expanding into a successful film and television career. The Wicked Star — who recently stirred up controversy when she was announced as the star of a production of Jesus Christ Superstar being held at the Hollywood Bowl in August — is already three-quarters of the way toward completing the rare and coveted EGOT after winning an Emmy, a Grammy and a Tony. Along the way, she also received nominations for four Golden Globe Awards, two British Academy Film Awards and two Screen Actors Guild Awards. She previously starred on Broadway in the popular adaptation of The Color Purple, which led to her performing its song I'm Here at the 2016 Tonys. Tony Awards 2025 nominees Best Musical Buena Vista Social Club Dead Outlaw Death Becomes Her Maybe Happy Ending Operation Mincemeat: A New Musical Best Revival of a Play Eureka Day — Author: Jonathan Spector Romeo + Juliet Thornton Wilder's Our Town Yellow Face — Author: David Henry Hwang Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play George Clooney — Good Night, And Good Luck Cole Escola — Oh, Mary! Jon Michael Hill — Purpose Daniel Dae Kim — Yellow Face Harry Lennix — Purpose Louis McCartney — Stranger Things: The First Shadow Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical Darren Criss — Maybe Happy Ending Andrew Durand — Dead Outlaw Tom Francis — Sunset Blvd. Jonathan Groff — Just In Time James Monroe Iglehart — A Wonderful World: The Louis Armstrong Musical Jeremy Jordan — Floyd Collins Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Play Glenn Davis — Purpose Gabriel Ebert — John Proctor Is The Villain Francis Jue — Yellow Face Bob Odenkirk — Glengarry Glen Ross Conrad Ricamora — Oh, Mary! Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Musical Brooks Ashmanskas —SMASH Jeb Brown — Dead Outlaw Danny Burstein — Gypsy Jak Malone — Operation Mincemeat: A New Musical Taylor Trensch — Floyd Collins Best Direction of a Play Knud Adams — English Sam Mendes — The Hills Of California Sam Pinkleton — Oh, Mary! Danya Taymor — John Proctor Is The Villain Kip Williams — The Picture Of Dorian Gray Best Book of a Musical Buena Vista Social Club — Marco Ramirez Dead Outlaw — Itamar Moses Death Becomes Her — Marco Pennette Maybe Happy Ending — Will Aronson and Hue Park Operation Mincemeat: A New Musical — David Cumming, Felix Hagan, Natasha Hodgson and Zoë Roberts Best Scenic Design of a Play Marsha Ginsberg — English Rob Howell — The Hills of California Marg Horwell and David Bergman — The Picture of Dorian Gray Miriam Buether and 59 — Stranger Things: The First Shadow Scott Pask — Good Night, and Good Luck Best Costume Design of a Play Brenda Abbandandolo — Good Night, And Good Luck Marg Horwell — The Picture of Dorian Gray Rob Howell — The Hills Of California Holly Pierson — Oh, Mary! Brigitte Reiffenstuel — Stranger Things: The First Shadow Best Lighting Design of a Play Natasha Chivers — The Hills Of California Jon Clark — Stranger Things: The First Shadow Heather Gilbert and David Bengali — Good Night, And Good Luck Natasha Katz and Hannah Wasileski — John Proctor Is The Villain Nick Schlieper — The Picture Of Dorian Gray Best Sound Design of a Play Paul Arditti — Stranger Things: The First Shadow Palmer Hefferan — John Proctor Is The Villain Daniel Kluger — Good Night, And Good Luck Nick Powell — The Hills Of California Clemence Williams — The Picture of Dorian Gray Best Choreography Joshua Bergasse — SMASH Camille A. Brown — Gypsy Christopher Gattelli — Death Becomes Her Jerry Mitchell — BOOP! The Musical Best Play English — Author: Sanaz Toossi The Hills of California — Author: Jez Butterworth John Proctor Is The Villain — Author: Kimberly Belflower Oh, Mary! — Author: Cole Escola Purpose — Author: Branden Jacobs-Jenkins Best Revival of a Musical Floyd Collins — Book/Additional Lyrics: Tina Landau; Music & Lyrics: Adam Guettel Gypsy Pirates! The Penzance Musical Sunset Blvd. Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play Laura Donnelly — The Hills Of California Mia Farrow — The Roommate LaTanya Richardson Jackson — Purpose Sadie Sink — John Proctor Is The Villain Sarah Snook — The Picture Of Dorian Gray Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical Megan Hilty — Death Becomes Her Audra McDonald — Gypsy Jasmine Amy Rogers — BOOP! The Musical Nicole Scherzinger — Sunset Blvd. Jennifer Simard — Death Becomes Her Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Play Tala Ashe — English Jessica Hecht — Eureka Day Marjan Neshat — English Fina Strazza — John Proctor Is The Villain Kara Young — Purpose Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Musical Natalie Venetia Belcon — Buena Vista Social Club Julia Knitel — Dead Outlaw Gracie Lawrence — Just In Time Justina Machado — Real Women Have Curves: The Musical Joy Woods — Gypsy Best Direction of a Musical Saheem Ali — Buena Vista Social Club Michael Arden — Maybe Happy Ending David Cromer — Dead Outlaw Christopher Gattelli — Death Becomes Her Jamie Lloyd — Sunset Blvd. Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre Dead Outlaw — Music & Lyrics: David Yazbek and Erik Della Penna Death Becomes Her — Music & Lyrics: Julia Mattison and Noel Carey Maybe Happy Ending —Music: Will Aronson; Lyrics: Will Aronson and Hue Park Operation Mincemeat: A New Musical — Music & Lyrics: David Cumming, Felix Hagan, Natasha Hodgson and Zoë Roberts Real Women Have Curves: The Musical — Music & Lyrics: Joy Huerta and Benjamin Velez Best Orchestrations Andrew Resnick and Michael Thurber — Just in Time Will Aronson — Maybe Happy Ending Bruce Coughlin — Floyd Collins Marco Paguia — Buena Vista Social Club David Cullen and Andrew Lloyd Webber — Sunset Blvd. Best Scenic Design of a Musical Rachel Hauck — Swept Away Dane Laffrey and George Reeve — Maybe Happy Ending Arnulfo Maldonado — Buena Vista Social Club Derek McLane — Death Becomes Her Derek McLane — Just In Time Best Costume Design of a Musical Dede Ayite — Buena Vista Social Club Gregg Barnes — BOOP! The Musical Clint Ramos — Maybe Happy Ending Paul Tazewell — Death Becomes Her Catherine Zuber — Just In Time Best Lighting Design of a Musical Jack Knowles — Sunset Blvd. Tyler Micoleau — Buena Vista Social Club Scott Zielinski and Ruey Horng Sun — Floyd Collins Ben Stanton — Maybe Happy Ending Justin Townsend — Death Becomes Her Best Sound Design of a Musical Jonathan Deans — Buena Vista Social Club Adam Fisher — Sunset Blvd. Peter Hylenski — Just In Time Peter Hylenski — Maybe Happy Ending Dan Moses Schreier — Floyd Collins
Android Authority
03-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Android Authority
Retroid fans are losing their minds over potential dual-screened handheld teaser
Andy Walker / Android Authority TL;DR Retroid made a cryptic post linking to a song titled 'Two Heads Are Better Than One.' Fans have been clamoring for a dual-screened handheld for years, and this might finally be it. Recent releases like the Pocket Flip 2 have proven there's interest in unique form factors. Earlier today we got our first look at ANBERNIC's Xperia Play-like sliding handheld the RG Slide, but Retroid has now swooped in to steal the limelight with a single cryptic post linking to a song from Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure. The title of that song is 'Two Heads Are Better Than One,' and fans are taking that to mean there's finally a dual-screen device on the horizon. Fans have been begging for a dual-screen device that can comfortably play Nintendo DS and 3DS games for years. The closest that's been available so far is the AYANEO Flip DS, but that's a costly Windows-based machine. The upcoming MagicX Zero 40 takes another approach with a very tall screen, but it just doesn't hit the same as an actual dual-screen device. The Surface Duo 2 would be another alternative if it weren't, well, the Surface Duo 2. The recent release of the Retroid Pocket Flip 2, which has a very similar clamshell design as a Nintendo DS but without the second screen, has brought the issue back to the forefront. That device has an auspiciously empty space where the second screen would go. Fans have been asking for a dual-screen handheld for years, and this might be it. While Retroid hasn't confirmed anything, Retroid fans have latched onto the post as confirmation of an upcoming dual-screened device. Community reactions range from a picture of former Nintendo of America President Reggie Fils-Aimé with the text 'My body is ready' to claims that 'Retroid can have my firstborn if they release a half decent dual screen clamshell.' Whether or not the dual-screen handheld is a reality, what's clear is that there's a real desire for unique form factors in the retro gaming handheld space. The Nintendo DS and 3DS are particularly interesting cases, since even the best emulators can't truly replicate the experience with a single screen. As a result, the market for second-hand and modded devices remains strong years after they've been discontinued. Whichever company releases the first affordable dual-screened emulation device will fill a very underserved niche. Got a tip? Talk to us! Email our staff at Email our staff at news@ . You can stay anonymous or get credit for the info, it's your choice.
