Coming close won’t cut it this time. Not in Philadelphia, a passionate sports city that measures success by championship parades.
The Beacon show was very much about where is he now, and how much he likes it. He dashed about the stage, rocked out on his Rickenbacker with the joy of a teenager on air guitar and even poured himself champagne. Fans clapped and danced, while being showered with confetti and dazzled with lasers and fog. The more informed sang along with “Have You Ever Seen the Rain” and the baseball anthem “Centerfield,” Fogerty’s most famous post-Creedence song. Virtually all stood and cheered to serenade the night’s guest of honor, whose birthday was the day before.filmmaker Joseph Kosinski came to
like many Americans: “Drive to Survive.”In that popular Netflix series, he saw the potential for a cinematic event, full of immersive thrills, the high stakes of the competitive racing world and the idea that your teammate could be your greatest rival.“I don’t think there’s any other sport that’s quite like that,” Kosinski said. “It’s ripe for drama.”
The movies have loved car racing since their earliest days, and the popularity of F1 has exploded in recent years. Giving it the “Top Gun” treatment made sense. But it would take nearly four years for that dream to become “F1,” which is speeding into movie theaters on June 27.It was a complex operation that would involve unprecedented coordination with the league, groundbreaking innovation in camera technology, and letting one of the biggest movie stars in the world,
, drive a real race car at 180 miles an hour on film. Many, many times.
Hollywood, it turned out, was a little easier to convince to make the film than the league. By the time Kosinski and producerruled Biden’s administration overstepped, and the Interior Department, in line with Trump’s executive order, is working to reinstate the leases.
There weren’t any bids in the second sale, held under Biden andas overly restrictive.
Debate over drilling in the refuge — home to polar bears, musk ox, birds and other wildlife — has long been a flashpoint. Indigenous Gwich’in leaders consider the coastal plain sacred land, noting its importance to a caribou herd they rely upon.who support drilling in the refuge felt their voices were not heard during the Biden era. During the Trump officials’ visit, they also hope to make a case for additional development in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska, which Trump has advocated, and for being included in planning decisions.