Not much is happening

[sasha_feather]

I need things to watch so I tried "The Angel," on Netflix, because it has Marwan Kenzari from the Old Guard. He is pretty, but this movie is a massive bore. Not recommended. Kenzari plays a real-life Egyptian spy, Ashraf Marwan, a government official who spied for Israel during the 1970s. His motives aren't clear and as a character he's not especially well-developed. The acting is good but the script is just flat.

Some good news today from around the world:
1. Elliot Page, actor from the X-Men, Inception, and the Umbrella Academy, came out as trans. I'd link to an article but they all seem to either dead-name Page, and/or use a screen shot of text that is inaccessible.

2. Cher helped re-home an elephant called Kaavan. He was alone at a zoo in Pakistan, but is now in Cambodia at a sanctuary with other elephants. They put him on a plane and he slept on the journey.
Here's an article, note that it has an auto-play video: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-pakistan-elephant-idUSKBN28A0VP

Comments

[sovay]

1. Elliot Page, actor from the X-Men, Inception, and the Umbrella Academy, came out as trans. I'd link to an article but they all seem to either dead-name Page, and/or use a screen shot of text that is inaccessible.

The Guardian appears to transcribe the full text of Page's announcement (although not in a block of its own, which would have been even handier) and uses the actor's former name once to identify him for the public, which is in accordance with GLAAD's style guide.

[davidgillon]

I was about to say the Guardian got it right. Right enough it took me a minute to figure out who they were talking about.

[sasha_feather]

That's interesting; the Guardian has a history of supporting a lot of TERF nonsense.

[sovay]

That's interesting; the Guardian has a history of supporting a lot of TERF nonsense.

They screwed up Jan Morris' obituary completely! But as far as I can tell, they handled Page's announcement fine.

[jesse_the_k]

Best quote from elephant article: “The flight was uneventful, which is all you can ask for when you transfer an elephant.”

That's so lovely!

We enjoyed a very creepy thriller series called TRUST ME. It features Jodie Whittaker as a whistle-blowing nurse who's trying to escape reporters who really want the details. She has a creepy partner she'd rather never see again. She escapes into a new persona in Scotland. She needs to escape and yet she's lying and hiding and it's intriguing. There are no jump scares or gore -- hints of child harm but none occurs.