In 2022, then-Canadian Defense Minister Anita Anand announced a $4.9 billion (US $3.52 billion)
A poster for the 1999 documentary about underground cartoonist R. Crumb, “Crumb,” also hangs on the wall in one scene, a vague reference, Johansson acknowledges, to her loosely connected 2001 breakthrough film “Ghost World.”“I was very young when I made that movie. I think I was 15, and the character is supposed to be 18 or 19. When I was a teenager, I often played characters who were a bit older than myself,” Johansson says. “Even doing ‘Lost in Translation,’ I think I was 17 when I made it. I think I was playing someone in their mid-20s.”
“It’s a funny thing,” she says. “I wonder sometimes if it then feels like I’ve been around so long, that people expect me to be in my 70s now.”ROME (AP) — The Roman basilica ofreligious order — preserves an iconic painting of the
by Caravaggio, the blockbuster artist who revolutionized the use of light and darkness in Western art.A new exhibit of works by the Baroque painter is now on view in Rome until July 6, allowing for an updated look at his connection with spirituality.
From the Pilgrims’ Madonna at the Basilica of St. Augustine to the Martyrdom of St. Ursula that closes the “Caravaggio 2025” exhibit, art historians and clergy are highlighting the connections between religious belief and Caravaggio’s “chiaroscuro.”
“It’s the light that directs us toward what for him are the key points of the story,” exhibit curator Francesca Cappelletti said about the artist’s spotlight on the main characters that emerge from encroaching darkness. “Our life experience makes sense only if invested by a spiritual light.”Former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was born in New York to British parents in 1964. He left the U.S. as a young boy and renounced his American citizenship
while serving as the U.K.'s foreign secretary. Johnson became prime minister three years later.Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed was an American citizen when he was elected president of Somalia in 2017. Born in Somalia, he moved to the U.S. in 1985 and became a citizen in the 1990s. Mohamed
two years into his presidency.Valdas Adamkus became a U.S. citizen after his family fled Lithuania to escape Soviet occupation. He returned to win Lithuania’s presidency in 1998, years after the Soviet Union collapsed. He relinquished his American citizenship after being elected.