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Sky News AU
5 days ago
- Entertainment
- Sky News AU
Columbia Uni agrees to pay out around $220 million for violating Jewish students' civil rights
Filmmaker Ami Horowitz discusses Columbia University's $220 million payout after violating Jewish students' civil rights. 'It's not nothing, that's for sure,' Mr Horowitz told Sky News host Rita Panahi. 'Columbia University has a nearly $15 billion endowment, which is larger than 120 countries' foreign currency reserves. 'Will it break them? No. Will it make them think twice before they allow Jews to be harassed on campus? Yeah, I think it will.'
IOL News
16-07-2025
- Entertainment
- IOL News
Cher and Dionne get the Barbie makeover: celebrating 30 years of 'Clueless'
Fashion, friendship, and fun! The new 'Clueless' Barbie dolls are here to celebrate three decades of style and iconic moments. Image: Instagram It has been 30 years since the iconic 1995 film 'Clueless' hit the screens, captivating teenagers with its memorable characters, witty dialogue, and not forgetting its unapologetic love for fashion. To celebrate these memorable moments, Mattel and Paramount have announced that they are teaming up to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the beloved film. The two organisations are releasing Barbie doll versions of Cher Horowitz and Dionne Davenport, the film's stylish and charismatic leads, portrayed by Alicia Silverstone and Stacey Dash. The partnership was announced on July 10, with the dolls set to debut on July 19. The Horowitz and Davenport Barbie dolls showcase the characters in their most iconic outfits from the film. Horowitz's doll features her signature yellow plaid two-piece ensemble, complete with a cropped blazer, white crew-neck T-shirt, fuzzy yellow sweater vest and a matching plaid skirt. Video Player is loading. Play Video Play Unmute Current Time 0:00 / Duration -:- Loaded : 0% Stream Type LIVE Seek to live, currently behind live LIVE Remaining Time - 0:00 This is a modal window. Beginning of dialog window. Escape will cancel and close the window. Text Color White Black Red Green Blue Yellow Magenta Cyan Transparency Opaque Semi-Transparent Background Color Black White Red Green Blue Yellow Magenta Cyan Transparency Opaque Semi-Transparent Transparent Window Color Black White Red Green Blue Yellow Magenta Cyan Transparency Transparent Semi-Transparent Opaque Font Size 50% 75% 100% 125% 150% 175% 200% 300% 400% Text Edge Style None Raised Depressed Uniform Dropshadow Font Family Proportional Sans-Serif Monospace Sans-Serif Proportional Serif Monospace Serif Casual Script Small Caps Reset restore all settings to the default values Done Close Modal Dialog End of dialog window. Advertisement Next Stay Close ✕ Ad Loading Davenport's doll features her signature style, including black knee-high socks and heels, a distinctive patent-leather 'Dr. Seuss' hat, chunky gold earrings, a nose ring, and a coordinating blazer and skirt. The film's high-fashion aesthetic, which still holds up today, is undeniable. The iconic outfits, like Horowitz's signature plaid skirts and blazers, are still referenced and emulated in fashion today. The film captivated viewers, drawing them into the characters' lives, especially the privileged world of Horowitz and Davenport at Beverly Hills High School, where fashion and wealth overshadowed academic achievement. The 'Clueless' style has become a staple of 90s fashion, with many fans still dressing up as the popular characters for Halloween or other events. Meanwhile, fans of 'Clueless' have more to look forward to beyond the new Barbie dolls. Silverstone is set to reprise her role as Horowitz in a sequel TV series, set to stream on Peacock. The show is being developed by Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage, creators of 'Gossip Girl', with Amy Heckerling, the original writer and director of 'Clueless', on board as executive producer alongside Silverstone. However, not much information about the reboot has been shared.
Time of India
08-07-2025
- General
- Time of India
Learning To Walk The Walk
By Jug Suraiya Walk the walk has become a popular trope, meaning practise what you preach. But walking the walk has other, more consequential meanings. In the Australian Aboriginal community the 'walkabout' is a traditional rite of passage, a coming of age from youth to adulthood, which requires the adolescent male to go alone into the bleak desolation of the Outback following the 'Songlines', the trails in the bush left by generations of his forebears. More than a trial of physical and mental endurance, the walkabout is the initiation of an individual seeking a sense of oneness with the land of his ancestral legacy, a holy communion linking a single consciousness with the universal. In contemporary investment idiom Random Walk Theory refers to the principle of unpredictability that underlies the rise and fall of stock markets. An often used analogy for this is that of an inebriate who wanders aimlessly about and ends up not knowing where he is. Stock market analysis apart, Random Walk Theory is used in a number of disciplines, from the sociology of group behaviour to devising military strategy. However, as cognitive scientist Alexandra Horowitz shows us in her delightful book, On Looking: Eleven Walks with Expert Eyes , we don't have to venture into the Australian wilderness, or be a market analyst, or military strategist, to learn new ways to walk the walk. Horowitz begins her walkabout of discovery by noting how our ability of mental concentration, of focusing and harnessing our minds to immediate tasks, enables us to get on in the practical, workaday world. But this laser-like concentration also blinkers us and narrows our field of outer and inner vision. By the act of reading, you are 'marshalling your attention to these words…You are ignoring the vast majority of what is happening around you…The events unfolding in your body, in the distance, and right in front of you'. So, while concentrating on reading, or anything else, is essential for us to get on with everyday living, it also makes us literally lose sight of a world unseen and unlived. Horowitz explores this unlived world by taking eleven walks of the same block of her native New York City with eleven different companions, ranging from Pumpernickel, her 'curly-haired, sage, mixed breed' canine buddy, to an artist, a geologist, and other 'Experts', each with a different way of seeing the same things. 'Minor clashes between my dog's preferences as to where and how a walk should proceed and my own indicated that I was experiencing…an entirely different block than my dog…I had become a sleeper on the sidewalk…what my dog showed me was that my attention invited…inattention to everything else'. Horowitz's walks became excursions into the art of observation, of seeing with a fresh set of eyes. 'Together, we became investigators of the ordinary…in this way, the familiar becomes unfamiliar, and the old the new.' The next time you go for a customary stroll, make it uncustomary by taking along a walking companion, with two legs or four. Who knows what new world, or worlds, you might find yourself in. Facebook Twitter Linkedin Email Disclaimer Views expressed above are the author's own.
Sky News AU
07-07-2025
- Politics
- Sky News AU
‘Negotiation at this point': Ukraine war won't end without concessions to Russia
Filmmaker Ami Horowitz discusses the Russia-Ukraine war, suggesting it is a 'negotiation at this point'. 'I've denounced Russia over and over again,' Mr Horowitz told Sky News host Rita Panahi. 'I do not want the offer of bringing Ukraine into the EU, or into NATO, that's something I've not wanted even before this war.' 'You have to give up the enclaves that Russia controls right now .. that's the answer, I think it becomes a negotiation at this point.'
Sky News AU
07-07-2025
- Politics
- Sky News AU
‘The left hates that': Democrat's dislike towards successful countries rises
Filmmaker Ami Horowitz discusses a recent poll showing Democrats are increasingly sympathetic to the Palestinian cause. 'The left hates that, everything is looked through the oppressor-oppressed pyramid,' Mr Horowitz told Sky News host Rita Panahi. 'They see whoever is at the tippy top of that pyramid of success, you are the most oppressive because you could have only gotten to the top of that pyramid by stepping on the necks of people below you. 'They look at the Jews and Israel on the top of that economic pyramid and that's why they have so much hatred for the state of Israel … it's currently what we are seeing today.'
