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Forbes
a day ago
- Automotive
- Forbes
Gooding Christie's To Auction Autos Owned By Francis Ford Coppola, Others August 15, 16
Gooding Christie's, the official auction house of the Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance, will present a series of gorgeous and rare vehicles from four highly regarded collections at its 21st annual Pebble Beach Auctions, held on Friday, August 15 and Saturday, August 16. Among the headline offerings are cars from the personal collection of legendary director Francis Ford Coppola as well as important selections from the Mitchell Rasansky, Brian Pollock, and Bethel Collections. From the Francis Ford Coppola Collection 1948 Tucker Filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola, known for The Godfather trilogy and Apocalypse Now, brings to auction a small but emotionally significant set of vehicles. His 1948 Tucker 48 (Estimate: $1,500,000–$2,000,000), featured extensively in his 1988 film Tucker: The Man and His Dream, is one of only 50 ever built and one of just 12 finished in #200 Waltz Blue Metallic. Anyone remember 'Hold that tiger?' This car has been the centerpiece of Coppola's private collection and displayed at his Inglenook Winery in Napa Valley. Also offered is the director's final Westfalia - a 1987 Volkswagen Vanagon GL Westfalia (Estimate: $30,000–$40,000, without reserve), purchased new and customized with a Sony sound system and drop-down video monitor. Rounding out the group are a charming 1913 Ford Model T Touring (Estimate: $15,000–$25,000, without reserve) and a ultra-stunning 1936 Cord 810 Cabriolet (Estimate: $90,000–$120,000, without reserve), showcasing groundbreaking Gordon Buehrig design. From the Mitchell Rasansky Collection Iconic cars for upcoming auction A lifelong enthusiast approaching his 90th year, Mitchell Rasansky is offering 10 historically significant and beautifully maintained vehicles. Leading the group is the 1927 Bugatti Type 35B (Estimate: $2,500,000–$3,000,000), a Grand Prix winner driven by Louis Chiron and long housed in the prestigious Dr. Peter Williamson Collection. A 1925 Bugatti Type 35 Supercharged Grand Prix (Estimate: $625,000–$850,000) also joins the sale. American prewar racing is well represented with a 1927 Miller Model 91 Front Wheel Drive (Estimate: $600,000–$900,000), the 1932 Ford 'Mitchell Auto Co. Special' Roadster (Estimate: $250,000–$350,000, Without Reserve), and a 1950 'McNamara Special' Sprint Car (Estimate: $100,000–$150,000, Without Reserve), a National Championship winner driven by Joey James. Other highlights include a pair of Kurtis-Kraft midget racers, a 1958 Jaguar XK150 S, and a 1956 Jaguar XK140 MC Roadster—each offered at no reserve. From the Brian Pollock Collection Brian Pollock Collection The late Brian Pollock's meticulously curated collection is a standout for this auction as well. A Pebble Beach class judge and passionate vintage rally participant, Pollock was renowned for his attention to detail and preservation of historical authenticity. Among the highlights is a 1970 Ferrari Dino 246 GT 'L-Series' (Estimate: $500,000–$700,000) that Pollock purchased on his honeymoon and a 1935 Bugatti Type 57 Drophead Coupe (Estimate: $400,000–$550,000) with rare James Young coachwork. Additional offerings include a 1937 Morgan Sports Two-Seater Barrelback (Estimate: $60,000–$80,000, Without Reserve) and a finely tuned 1966 Jaguar Mk II 3.8 (Estimate: $35,000–$50,000, Without Reserve). From the Bethel Collection Seven vehicles from the private, Dallas based Bethel Collection will be offered without reserve, representing a cross-section of iconic marques. Leading the group is a 2005 Porsche Carrera GT (Estimate: $1,250,000–$1,500,000) with under 8,000 miles, followed by a rotisserie-restored 1964 Aston Martin DB5 (Estimate: $725,000–$825,000) and a Classiche-certified 1966 Ferrari 330 GTC (Estimate: $500,000–$600,000, Without Reserve). Other entries include a rare-color 2014 Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG GT, a 1961 Porsche 356 B Super Roadster by Drauz, a Grabber Orange 1970 Ford Mustang Boss 302, and a 1980 Toyota FJ43 Land Cruiser in John Deere Green. The Dates for the auction are Friday, August 15, at 4 p.m. and Saturday, August 16, at 11 a.m. Both are Pacific times. General Admission: $50, includes access to the viewing and auction Bidder Registration & Live Broadcast:
Irish Examiner
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- Irish Examiner
Culture That Made Me: RTÉ broadcaster Áine Lawlor picks her touchstones
Born in 1961, Áine Lawlor grew up in Coolock, Co Dublin. In 1984, she joined RTÉ as a continuity announcer, going on to work as a reporter and presenter on several radio and television programmes, including The Week in Politics on TV. She joined the Morning Ireland radio presenting team in 1995. She narrated Mary Raftery's landmark documentary series States of Fear, which was broadcast in 1999. She co-presents Morning Ireland, Monday to Friday, 7am-9am. The Scarlet Pimpernel Growing up, I was a voracious reader. My grandfather had a book stall, so there were always books in my grandmother's house. I remember the Scarlet Pimpernel books; they were incredibly racy and exciting. They're about this English Aristo who is off rescuing people from the French Revolution in Paris, and there's this horrible French spy who's trying to catch him the whole time. There's a rhyme about him: 'They seek him here, they seek him there/Those Frenchies seek him everywhere. Is he in heaven, or is he in hell? That damned, elusive Pimpernel.' Jane Austen From my childhood books, Jane Austen is the go-back-to author. She has a kind but wicked eye for human foibles. Nobody's perfect in an Austen novel. It was such a difficult world for women to navigate, which she captures perfectly. Even Mrs. Bennett – if she'd only had a son her life would have been different. She's seen as a foolish creature, but no wonder – if you were facing destitution, you'd be desperate to marry off those daughters; as a younger reader, you don't read that into her character, but as you get older, you can see all these different ways. My favourite Austen novel is Persuasion. It's about disappointment, a very ordinary story in a way, and in another it's beautiful. The Godfather The best movie of all time is clearly The Godfather trilogy. I love the epic scale, the acting, the colour. It's like opera – it's got so many levels, and it hits the high notes so often. Al Pacino in the Godfather (1972). I love Al Pacino's eyes during the gun scene, when he has the gun hidden in the toilet or the Judas kiss for Fredo, the betrayal, or Pacino's eyes when saying goodbye to Diane Keaton's character when she comes back to see her son. Gabriel García Márquez I loved reading all the Gabriel García Márquez books. The Autumn of the Patriarch is my favourite. It's magic realism like One Hundred Years of Solitude, but it's much shorter. You need to be on holiday and have time to spend with it. It's a beautiful allergy on love and life, and how short life is. Pat Barker I love Pat Barker, not only her Regeneration trilogy. I loved her Greek mythology trilogy, the Women of the Troy series. It's rewriting history from the point of view of those Greek myths. It's a retelling and a re-understanding of a story that's universal, but in her telling we're able to reinterpret it through a woman's lens. That part of the story isn't in the original Greek myth. When looked at from the women's point of view whose daughters are being sacrificed, of course they plot their revenge. Say Nothing A book I've recommended to loads of people is Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden Keefe, the New Yorker writer. It's a fascinating story. Given my job, it's difficult to say what I'd want to say about it, but what I would say is I never met Dolours Price. She's a fascinating and complex figure, and having read it, I wish I had met her. Hamilton My daughters started me going to musicals. They made sure I saw Hamilton, which was unbelievable. You end up crying your eyes out over the American Constitution. Lin-Manuel Miranda and the cast of Hamilton. It's something that sounds like an old, dry political story, but through a modern lens and using modern forms of music and dance, they turn it into something that touches young people, old people and makes them all cry and laugh. It's fantastic. The Wire I loved The Wire. It told such a huge, epic story. I also read David Simon's books it's based on. In one book, he spent time with criminals and with cops in the other book. It's the scale of it, looking at the drugs problem from everyone's point of view. Also, neither solution gave you good outcomes, neither the criminal crackdown nor the zero tolerance, and keeping it to a specific area. I loved Bubbles, your man who pushed the buggy. Reality TV My secret vice is reality TV when I want to decompress. I like, say, The Valley. It's about a group of young people with young kids, living in the valley – if you can't afford to live in Beverly Hills, you live in The Valley – who squabble all the time. Another show is Below Deck. It's set on this yacht. Famous or rich people come and hire the boat. It's mostly about the crew, how they're getting on, who's not working, who's fancying who, and all their misadventures. Olivia O'Leary Olivia O'Leary is the best interviewer in my time. She had the smarts, the coolness, and the accuracy – the ability to make a question accurate. So, no matter how hard the person is trying to obfuscate, they must give you something like a fact or a truth in the answer. Olivia O'Leary. She understood all the nonsense and how to get past it and get at the fact and construct a question that will get the person to address that fact or has the best chance. She could cut through the waffle. The Settlers Louis Theroux's documentary The Settlers is excellent. It's about the settler movement [in the occupied West Bank]. He shows you a reality that's not normally captured. His style is very open, but it was clear even he was shocked at what he saw or was disturbed by it. It's a very disturbing documentary. Druid O'Casey The Druid Theatre Company trilogy in the Abbey last year of Sean O'Casey's plays about the Irish revolutionary years – The Plough and the Stars; Juno and the Paycock; and Shadow of a Gunman – was stunning. To think those plays were written within a couple of years of the Rising, and the commentary is as modern, critical, radical and shocking then as today. I can't imagine the impact of it back then. When something is good, it's still fresh a hundred years later. Seeing the three of them together was hard work on your bum, but worth it. David Hockney A book I'm waiting for my holidays to read is A History of Pictures by David Hockney and Martin Gayford. I was at the Hockney exhibition in Paris recently at the Foundation Louis Vuitton, which runs until the end of August. I can't tell you how brilliant it is. It's huge. It covers his whole career. It has everything – you've all the famous stuff from earlier on, but his later work – which he did during Covid – is mind-blowing. He got this new youthfulness, this new explosion. You walk out of there happy, just from the colour. It's gorgeous. Read More The story of Barry Lyndon: 50 years since Stanley Kubrick made his epic in Ireland
Time of India
4 days ago
- Entertainment
- Time of India
From Las Vegas strip club to becoming The Godfather of WWE - How a Sylvester Stallone movie changed the life of a wrestling legend
The Godfather (Image via WWE) The name Charles Wright might not ring a bell with fans of wrestling but The Godfather sure does. He was still working at a strip club in Las Vegas when a sudden conversation and a subsequent phone call changed his life completely. Gone was Charles Wright, and instead, fans got to see a legendary wrestler who became one of the biggest names in WWE during the Attitude Era. But what really went down that made a once non-believer into one of the top performers in wrestling? Let's find out. The Godfather reveals how he became a top wrestler Charles Wright had no prior experience as far as wrestling was concerned. For him, it was just people who did play-fighting for viewers and had no other thoughts on it. But one night, a conversation led to changing his whole perspective on the matter. Sylvester Stallone was filming his movie, Over the Top, in Las Vegas, and the shoot had a lot of wrestlers in it. A little chat with them, and Wright was completely blown away. In a conversation with the No-Contest Wrestling Podcast, he said: 'I was working in a strip club in Las Vegas… and they were filming a movie called Over The Top. A lot of guys in that were wrestlers… and they come in, they're like, 'Dude, you should become a wrestler.' And I'm like, 'Man, I don't want to do that phony shit.'' Hall of Famer The Godfather, Plus Reactions to AEW's All In & WWE Evolution | No-Contest Wrestling But when he heard one of the wrestlers present there had "made a million dollars last year," Wright was astonished. He could not believe that wrestling could pay that much. And even though he did not have any idea how wrestling worked, he decided maybe he could try his luck and see what happened. A phone call led to the birth of Soultaker That one conversation led to Charles Wright making a phone call, and that one call changed the trajectory of his life. Further into his conversation, the Hall of Famer revealed: 'Literally, less than two years from that call, I'm wrestling Jerry Lawler in Memphis, Tennessee, on a Monday night on my very first match ever, not knowing anything about wrestling, because I never went to wrestling school. I beat Jerry Lawler on a Monday night." And that one night alone was enough to make him the Soultaker. It also led to a friendship that defined the Attitude Era, as the Soultaker and the Undertaker became an unlikely duo in wrestling. "I was The Soultaker in Memphis, Tennessee, man.' He became the Soultaker, a name he had taken from one of the tattoos on the arm of the wrestlers from the bar in Las Vegas, who had convinced him to try professional wrestling. He went through many gimmicks and name changes throughout his career, but later, it was the moniker of The Godfather that became his identity. It was as The Godfather that he was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame in 2016, and is today regarded as one of the legends in wrestling. Also Read: WWE: Unreal is ready to pull back the curtain on the world of wrestling with its newest docuseries Catch Rani Rampal's inspiring story on Game On, Episode 4. Watch Here!
New York Post
5 days ago
- Entertainment
- New York Post
Executive producer of hit mob show named LIU's women's flag football coach
Jimmy Barbarise was made for this. The pride of Centereach, creator and star of the hit mob show 'Capo: Rise to Power,' was named the first Long Island University women's flag football coach ahead of the Sharks' inaugural season. Advertisement 'The beauty of being the executive producer is that I can fit this into my schedule,' Barbarise, an LI flag football hall of fame inductee, told The Post. 'I've been asked to be on some other shows, some major shows. I politely turned them down because of the fact that coaching is really important to me.' The local legend, who led the University of Tampa team to a top-three nationwide ranking, said he turned down five other offers so that he could return to LI from the Sunshine State. Advertisement 'What would be a better opportunity than to go back home and coach the first D-I school offering women's football on the island? It was just a perfect match,' said Jimmy the coach, who wrote alternate endings to 'The Godfather' as a boy. Barbarise's late brother, who died of cancer nearly a decade ago, reminded him of the boyhood passion not just for the silver screen but also his love for flag football that began at age 10. 'He said, 'There's no tomorrow for me, but you've always had a dream,' ' Barbarise said. 'He encouraged me to go chase that.' The next step is to build a powerhouse roster, which should come naturally on Long Island given the area's growing reputation as a flag football powerhouse at the high school level. Advertisement Jimmy Barbarise, creator and star of the hit mob show 'Capo: Rise to Power,' was named the first Long Island University women's flag football coach ahead of the Sharks' inaugural season. Photo courtesy of Jimmy Barbarise 'I'm already inundated with inboxes and the announcement isn't even a week old. … I have hundreds of messages from girls who want to stay home [on Long Island] and play flag on the college level.' NIL deal for teen soccer star She's the biggest thing in Syosset since Natalie Portman. Soccer phenom Loradana Paletta just inked her first name, image, and likeness (NIL) deal at the ripe old age of 14. Advertisement Loradana Paletta (right), who plays for the U.S. Soccer under-16 girls national team, signed her first NIL deal. Getty Images The midfielder, who plays on the U.S. Soccer under-16 girls national team and the NYCFC youth under-14 academy boys team, now proudly represents the Italian sportswear brand Lotto as she continues to strive for greatness on the North Shore. 'This just feels really natural,' Paletta, proudly of Italian descent, told The Post. 'Once a year, my family has one special day just to make tomato sauce — homemade tomato sauce. We would gather buckets of tomatoes, we would clean them, and we all would spend quality time together.' Although the Syosset High School-bound ninth-grader won't be able to play varsity due to her other pressing athletic commitments, she's all for rooting on the girls in red. 'I'd love to give them pointers here and there, and I would definitely go and watch their games.'
Daily Mirror
14-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mirror
Horror blockbuster poster has sent fans crazy ahead of a huge new movie release
A strange film poster resembling a children's drawing has sent fans crazy, as speculation ramps up to new levels ahead of the release of Zach Creggar's new horror film Weapons Horror film fans have been going crazy after the release of one of the 'most interesting film posters of all time', sparking masses of speculation and hype around an upcoming blockbuster. There have been some incredible film posters over the years, whether it's the iconic Uma Thurman smoking a cigarette on the Pulp Fiction flyer or Marlon Brando in the background for The Godfather's striking promotion. A solid movie poster can make or break a film's promotion even lining walls in university halls for decades after its release. But one new film has caught the attention of cinephiles around the world for its distinctly unique take. With no floating head of the film's big star, no dramatic tagline or title, and no fancy graphics - you'd easily walk past this poster thinking it was something else entirely. Resembling a young children's drawing of their family, the new poster for Weapons shows an almost scrunched-up drawing of two parents labelled 'Mom' and 'Dad' and a young child in the middle labelled 'me'. While the poster seems completely innocent at first glance, when you learn about the film's plot, the poster takes on a much more sinister meaning. According to the trailer, the film follows the mysterious disappearance of a group of schoolchildren. At 2.17am all 17 children from Mrs Gandy's class woke up, stepped out onto the streets and walked away never to return. In the aftermath of their strange night-time walk their parents try to uncover the sinister truth behind their disappearance and bring them home for good. For more stories like this subscribe to our weekly newsletter, The Weekly Gulp, for a curated roundup of trending stories, poignant interviews, and viral lifestyle picks from The Mirror's Audience U35 team delivered straight to your inbox. Warner Bros gives only a brief explanation of what audiences can expect, they said: "When all but one child from the same class mysteriously vanishes on the same night and at exactly the same time, a community is left questioning who or what is behind their disappearance." Little else is known about what will play in cinemas, with many of the film's details being shrouded in mystery. Barbarian director Zach Creggar created even more mystery as he told Entertainment Weekly: 'I didn't have an outline. I didn't know what it was about. It was just like, let the movie show itself to me. I want to watch the movie as I'm writing it.' The film is set to star Avengers Endgame 's Josh Brolin and Ozark's Julia Garner along with appearances from Alden Ehrenreich, Austin Abrams, Cary Christopher, Benedict Wong and Amy Madigan. Just weeks away from its release on August 8, fans have been crazy with anticipation with the bizarre poster only adding to its mystery. Taking to Reddit one user posted: "This film has some of the best marketing I've seen in recent years. If it sucks I'll be disappointed," while another added: "Honestly. One of the most interesting horror posters I've seen in years".
