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Every Monday we look ahead: which films do you definitely not want to miss?Unfortunately, we only have tips from Netflix and Prime Video; of the rest wedon ‘t know yet what’s new to see.

A Trip to Infinity (2022)

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Direction : Jonathan Halperin, Drew Takahashi | cast : AnthonyAguirre, Stephon Alexander, Eugenia Cheng, Moon Duchin | Release date :September 26 on NETFLIX

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Eminent mathematicians, physicists and cosmologists delve into the infiniteand its mind-boggling implications for the universe. The Dead Don ‘t Die(2019)

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Direction: Jim Jarmusch | cast : Bill Murray, Adam Driver, Tom Waits, Chloe Sevigny| Release date : September 27 on NETFLIX

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The Dead Don’t Die is a horror comedy from screenwriter and director JimJarmusch (Paterson, Gimme Danger) featuring an ensemble cast of actors whoregularly appear in his films: Bill Murray, Adam Driver, Chloë Sevigny, TildaSwinton, Iggy Pop, Steve Buscemi and Tom Waits. Also featuring Selena Gomez,Danny Glover, Caleb Landry Jones and Carol Kane. The Dead Don’t Die is anoriginal film that satirically illuminates the American people and theirdesires and portrays society in a comic yet terrifying way.

blonde (2022)

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Direction: Andrew Dominik | cast : Ana de Armas, Bobby Cannavale, Lucy DeVito,Adrien Brody | Release date : September 28 on NETFLIX

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After a traumatic childhood, Norma Jeane Mortenson grows into a movie star andsex symbol in 1950s Hollywood. She became world famous under the pseudonymMarilyn Monroe. But the clean appearance on the silver screen contrastssharply with the love problems, exploitation, abuse of power and drugaddiction she faces in her private life.

My Best Friend ‘s Exorcism (2022)

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Direction: Damon Thomas | cast : Elsie Fisher, Amiah Miller, Cathy Ang, RachelOgechi Kanu | Release date : September 30 on PRIME VIDEO

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It’s 1988. Sophomore Abby and Gretchen have been best friends since fourthgrade. But after a night of nude swimming goes horribly wrong, Gretchen startsbehaving… differently. She’s moody. She is excitable. And weird things keephappening when she’s around. Abby’s investigation leads her to some startlingdiscoveries – and by the time the story reaches its terrifying conclusion,Abby and Gretchen’s fate will be determined by a single question: Is theirfriendship strong enough to defeat the devil?

Paranormal Activity 3 (2011)

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Direction: Henry Joost, Ariel Schulman | cast : Lauren Bittner, ChristopherNicholas Smith, Chloe Csengery, Jessica Brown | Release date : October 1on NETFLIX

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Eighteen years before the events of parts 1 and 2, we follow Katie and hersister Kristi during a sleepover with their grandmother. Their dailyactivities are recorded on film as a reminder for the parents and Katie andKristi are also allowed to use the camera. Katie and Kristi get into bizarresituations and a pact is made with the devil about Hunter…

It started two rows behind me. A gasp in a fist. A chuckle spread through theroom like a fire. The couple in front of me looked around, disturbed. Thenthere was a liberating slash from the left – a woman laughed. I started tolaugh with relief myself. We watched Marilyn Monroe’s death scene in the newmovie blonde.

Earlier this month, during the Venice Film Festival, the premiere received ahistorically long standing ovation of over twelve minutes. The film is basedon the 2000 novel of the same name by Joyce Carol Oates.

There was an excited atmosphere at the cash register and popcorn. I too wasreally looking forward to it, whereas ten years ago I would have probablyturned my nose up at a Monroe biopic. I’m sure I’m not the only one. In anessay for the American vogue Lena Dunham describes her initial disinterestin Monroe. Dunham was more interested in women helping to shift the culturallandscape, contrarian forces. “I found women who called Monroe an inspirationcorny at best, boring at worst.” It wasn’t until she started reading aboutMonroe—like the classic Marilyn from Norman Mailer – she discovered thecomplexities behind the Hollywood star, her intellectual interests and hertraumas. About the ways sexism and the media pushed her to the top and toppledher at 36.

Typically something to make a film about in 2022 (see also: Princess Diana).Too bad it was done by director and screenwriter Andrew Dominik, whose scriptleaves no room for even a sliver agency. Instead, he drowns Monroe invictimhood and beautiful tears. Almost all looks are accurately based onexisting photo shoots. But that is precisely why the film maintains its goldencage, instead of bending the bars open.

“You can’t believe anything you read in the magazines,” Monroe says in thefilm. You shouldn’t just believe director Dominik either. In one scene we seeMonroe and President Kennedy. There was plenty of gossip about their allegedaffair; little of it has ever been confirmed. Dominik let his imagination runwild. Kennedy calls Monroe his little slut in the movie. And we see hersucking off the leader of the free world while he’s on the phone with ajournalist. Close-up, from Kennedy, and insanely long. I looked away, not outof prudishness, but because I felt I was looking at something really perverse.A made-up sex scene about a woman who was plagued during her lifetime by hypedmedia scandals.

It is a film that, under the guise of a more progressive zeitgeist, glorifieswhat it pretends to criticize.

The final scene shows Monroe’s blond locks, luscious between the stark whitesheets, her hand voluptuously along her neck, her heart – so sexy – giving wayunder the barbiturate overdose. The laughter in the room showed no disrespectto the main character, but rather protected her. It was the refusal to takethis image for truth. It was one of the most loving bursts of laughter I’veheard in a long time.

Madeleijn van den Nieuwenhuizen writes a column on this site every other week.

Yvonne Coldeweijer throws one after the other celebrities in front of thebus. Often the juice that the gossip queen brings is right, but it alsosometimes happens that it is not right. There has been a lot of discussionabout the trustworthiness of her ‘spies’, and after the latest juice she’sshared, more and more questions arise. Is Yvonne going too far?

“Have you ever dated a celebrity? Or do you know someone who ended up in bedwith a celebrity and experienced something crazy / stupid / funny?”, was thequestion Yvonne asked her followers on Instagram yesterday.

Yvonne’s inbox soon filled with the craziest stories about celebrities. Anyonecould message her and the juice was immediately shared on her Instagramaccount. But the big question is: how reliable is that juice really?

‘sweetie’

For example, a follower shares a story about Hans Kraay Jr. “Not dated but hada big sjans behind the bar of our football club when he was a guest at thetime,” writes the follower, who calls Hans a ‘smeerkees’ because he is awanted to have a drink with her. ,,I couldn’t get rid of that guy… I wassmeared just before the end of the game.”

One night stand

Another follower starts talking about Martin Garrix. A friend of hers is saidto have had a one night stand with the DJ. ,,It only lasted 3 minutes and whenhe then asked what grade she would give him and she indicated that it wasdisappointing, he became very irritated. She also said that he was being veryoblivious/showy.”

secret dates

Juvat Westendorp is also not untouched. “Juvat Westendorp dated when he had agirlfriend,” writes another follower. “Secretly meet up in his car at theMediapark in Hilversum.”

Like Juvat, Eljerio Elia would also secretly meet with different women. “Wasin 2015, but then he was already with his current wife,” says a follower inconversation with Yvonne. “Sometimes he stayed all night, sometimes he leftafter a few hours.”

Bait

The gossip queen goes one step further: she shares a story from a follower whosays that Djarno Hofland used André Hazes as bait to lure women to a hotel.

,,He tried to lure you by saying he was with André. Fortunately, I neverresponded, it took about 2 years”, says this follower, who happens to haveanother story. ,,The other is Mart Hoogkamer, he still contacts me about twicea month. He has a secret Snapchat account that his girlfriend certainlydoesn’t know about.”

Fictional?

Some stories are confirmed by multiple followers, but some are not. Becauseanyone can submit a story and nothing seems to have been researched by Yvonne,it raises the question whether a number of stories were made up by herfollowers.

Little ‘juice’

In addition to a juice channel, Yvonne also has a paid Telegram group wheresubscribers receive the first scoops for ten euros a month. But in recentmonths, few videos are said to have been shared in the group. “In thebeginning really nice/lots of juice, but for the last 3 months really onlyonce a week or sometimes once every two weeks,” a member recently told juicechannel Realityfbi.

Also, not all videos would have been as ‘juicy’ as Yvonne suggested on herInstagram. ,I paid 2x 1 month because I was curious about the juice from Roseand Gregory”, said another. ,,That video was nothing like that… Via Instagramit seems indeed much more than the videos behind the paywall.” Starting to run

The high point of being funny at my seventies primary school was scribbling acapital T on the map of the Netherlands on the wall of the play-learning roomnear Urk. Woahah. With pencil, it was that cowardly. I can’t recall exactlywhy that was liked, but I fear that children in the last century used ‘Turk’as a container swear word for anyone who was not a native Dutchman.

Well takes Özcan Akyol, in the second season of The Cousins ​​of Eus (NTR).the viewer already three weeks to the country of birth of his parents. Thefourth time, Sunday evening, he was able to explain with reasons that ‘the’Turk does not exist, not even in Turkey. He says that he belongs to a minoritynot only in the Netherlands, but also in Turkey. He is Turkish in theNetherlands, but Aleliet in Turkey. Alevism is a liberal-humanist offshoot ofIslam. In this episode he speaks with Kurds and Armenians, with Arabs andSuryoye. And then there are the Lazen and Circassians, the Zaza and Turkmen.

Travel programs also come in different types. You had Ruben Terlou in China,Jelle Brandt Corstius in Russia. They spoke the language, and they sought outthe people who told them the stories of the land. But they remained strangers,outsiders. And that’s not Eus. At least, that’s what I think, when I see howeasily he talks to people there too.

‘Happy and joyful’

Eus is looking for the ‘common denominator’ of all those population groups inthe country that has barely existed for a century (Turkey will celebrate itscentenary in 2023). Seems sensible to me, safer too, to look for whatfraternizes instead of what alienates. In Sanliurfa, a city of two millioninhabitants, he finds all togetherness. Kurds, Turks and Arabs live there andwhoever he speaks to, everyone is so “happy and happy” that you suspectsomething in the drinking water. Eus is there at the time of Ramadan, themonth of fasting, that certainly contributes to the best mood. Eus concludesthat faith brings and keeps the people in this prophetic city together. Andthat common denominator went just a little too fast for me. I was stillchewing on what the young men he spoke to on the street said. They raved abouttheir city, everyone was each other’s brother. One had been to Istanbul once,but he didn’t like it. Why? The girls. They were dressed too naked. This givesthe impression that people are not only kept there in Sanliurfa, but alsobelow it. No fasting during Ramadan for Eus, by the way. Not that he ate thewrap with lamb liver and lamb fat, prepared especially for him. But that wasbecause he doesn’t like liver.

Eus visits an Armenian village in southwestern Turkey where 130 people stilllive. A Suryoye village where of the 150 families, fifteen are left. Theinhabitants still speak their own language, profess their own (Christian)faith and they have their own culture and customs. They don’t have only youngpeople, one after the other leaves for the big city, or rather to Europe.Young people gone, culture gone, language gone, Eus argues. In the lastArmenian village he talks about it with ‘grandpa Musa’. He has been writingfor years about the history of his village and the seven neighboring villagesthat are already extinct. In what language?, asks Eus. Turkish, Grandpa says.Eus, surprised: “You are Armenian, aren’t you?” Grandpa, equally surprised:“What does that have to do with it?” In a single gesture he wipes Eus’snostalgic conservatism off the table. He is a ‘Turkish citizen’ and thuswrites in Turkish. Is it not a pity that his language is disappearing? Willgrandpa be a concern.

In the Suryoye village he meets a Turkish German who comes to live thereagain, his German-born adult sons also want nothing more. In Europe, he says,you remain that stranger. An outsider. To which Eus says more than asks: “And

TVIt will be your (new) husband… George Roberts (40), candidate in the Britishversion of ‘Married Blind’, is accused of assault, but the program makers wereallowed to tie the knot. Three exes can’t believe their eyes. “I’m shockedthat someone like that gets a podium.”

Three former partners filed a complaint against George. All three call himobsessive, manipulative and abusive. They cannot understand that such a personis allowed to participate in ‘Blind Married’. They therefore sounded the alarmwhen they saw their ex appear in the trailer. Although the makers of theprogram completely ignored them. “I’m shocked that someone like that gets astage on a TV show. I notified the creators and told them I was filing acomplaint with the police. They asked for additional information, but afterthat I didn’t hear from them again,” said one of the women.

Same story with a second wife: “I contacted ‘Blind Married’ and all theproducers to tell them that he is a known emotional and mental abuser.”

The third witness also tried to do everything he could to prevent hisparticipation. “I sent everything I had to the creators. They claimed theywould investigate.”

Police check

The production and broadcaster of the TV show defend itself by saying thatevery participant is thoroughly investigated and that all allegations of thisnature are taken seriously. “We work closely with our production partners toensure that all ‘Blind Married’ contestants are subject to a rigorousbackground and psychological check. A police check is also part of this,” saysa spokesperson for the channel. Another source of the channel claims that theywere only informed of the allegations after the recordings.

Meanwhile, the new season of the British ‘Blind Married’ to the controversialRoberts is already halfway through. The man married April, but the fairy talewas reportedly too good to be true. April hinted on Instagram that theirrelationship was coming to an end. “The traumas that came up through the showmade me look at it differently. Since then I’ve also been seeing a therapistand I’m not ashamed of that,” she wrote.

(Read more below the photo.)

April Banbury © Channel 4

George himself did not respond directly to the allegations, but used hisspokesperson. “As the father of four daughters, he finds the allegationsdeeply disturbing and does not condone abuse at all. He doesn’t act that wayeither. The allegations have never been brought to the attention because theyare simply not true.”

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The story of podcasts in the Netherlands started around 2005 with a radiodeejay. The then 17-year-old Domien Verschuuren was one of the first in theNetherlands to podcast on a regular basis. His show was called cooling cast, he made fifty episodes of it. The technique for offering audio in this way –an audio program that you can play at a time of your choosing and to which youcan subscribe – was developed in America in the early nineties. The new mediumwas soon embraced in the Netherlands by radio makers, who experimented with itlong before money could be made from it.

Now dozens of radio makers are working on podcasts. What does the new mediumhave to offer them?

In the early years it was like playing a radio pirate. Chris Bajema, now oneof the most successful podcasters in the Netherlands, still vividly remembersit. „At that time I made for the VPRO program The evenings a weekly columnthat The Pod Guide was called. In it I showed what kind of podcasts weremade, that was actually almost exclusively American. A lot of it was aboutbarbecuing.” Podcasts were, especially compared to radio, still veryexperimental. “I remember a man who recorded sounds in New York and put themonline.”

I was happy that I finally got rid of the pinching formats>> Chris Bajema

Bajema decides to switch to podcasts in 2015. “I organized a crowdfundingcampaign and then my own show started, Man with the microphone. In thebeginning, it was very profitable for me financially. The kind of podcasts Imake are very labour-intensive, but I was happy to finally get rid of theconstricting formats that dictated how long something should take or whatexactly my research assignment was. For me, that fact outweighed the amount ofwork I had to do.”

That also applies to another podcaster from the very beginning, Botte Jellema.He also worked at The evenings of the VPRO Radio, but at the time theprogram was broadcast on Radio 6, the first public channel to broadcast onlyvia the internet. “No dog listened to that, you didn’t have apps andsmartphones and fast wireless internet connections. We thought that offering_The evenings_ if podcast might save our program.” He has no figures, butJellema remembers that the number of listeners “increased enormously” afterthey started calling the radio program a podcast.

Messing around without format compulsion

Stopped at the end of 2015 The evenings and Jellema decided to start her ownpodcast together with friend and artist Ype Driessen, The Century of theAmateur. He also remembers the freedom of making audio without formatpressure. “We just messed around a bit. And recorded with the cheapestpossible recorder. If it didn’t work, at least it wouldn’t have cost anything.What we did was explore what was possible in audio, without taking intoaccount the length of what we were making. I remember in the third episode Isaid that 400 people had listened. We are now, we are at episode 250, at50,000 listeners per episode.” With the listeners came the revenue models.“Initially, it was financially unsuccessful,” Jellema recalls.

Both Bajema and Jellema are now affiliated with Dag en Nacht Media, a podcastpublisher that was founded in 2016 by Tim de Gier and Anne Janssens. The twoknew each other from the editors of magazine Free Netherlands. Janssens: „Wewere both very interested in the new medium of podcast. He wanted morelisteners for his cycling podcast, The Red Lantern. And I wanted more Dutchpodcasts, so we decided to set up our own publishing house. We wanted tocreate a network that would allow creators to monetize their podcasts. In theend we succeeded, with trial and error. Every new podcast we add to ourportfolio brings its own group of listeners. We then encourage those listenersto listen to other podcasts as well.”

The corona pandemic gave the burgeoning podcast economy the final push. “Wedidn’t know what hit us. All ad revenues were lost. But then we saw that thelistening figures skyrocketed and the advertisers all came back again. Thegreater financial scope gave us the opportunity to start financing podcastsdifferently. At first we did that through the back door, we looked foradvertisements in podcasts. Now we can pay podcast makers in advance to workout plans and do research,” says Janssens.

In this way the medium matures slowly. Nevertheless, it will alwaysemphatically continue to seek cooperation with the public and commercial radiobroadcasters, since podcast and radio are, after all, closely related.

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1. Why radio makers are switching to podcasts 2. How far do podcasters go in sharing their children’s lives? 3. Is there room in the market for a Dutch player in addition to Apple and Spotify? 4. Is it possible to make podcasts for the deaf?

“I think it is a task of the public broadcasters to finance, as they call itin jargon, ‘narrative’ and therefore more expensive podcast series on socialthemes,” says Emmie Kollau. With her production company Aldus’ Productions shemakes multimedia productions, including podcasts. As an example of anarrative, social podcast, she mentions their own series about ex-prisoners_Outside the Walls_. “But despite the increasing popularity of podcasts, verylittle money has still been reserved for this genre from the NPO and thebroadcasters.” For a new production, _The Ranchi Babies; a colonial legacy_did we manage to work together with the NTR? The podcast is about the 37babies who were born in 1950 on the steamship Ranchi, which hurriedly leftIndonesia, which had just become independent, loaded with Dutchmen and KNILsoldiers.

Through such collaborations, radio and podcast can reinforce each other.Maartje Duin is someone who has extensive experience with this. She made theimpressive series in 2020 Plantation of our ancestors , in which sheinvestigates traces of the slavery past in her family. According to Duin,radio is ideally suited for broadcasting podcasts: “Many people do not yethave the podcast in their system properly. Radio is a very good addition toput them on the track of great programs, especially now that there is such aproliferation of podcasts. I’m glad the VPRO is broadcasting mine, sometimesin full, sometimes just one episode. After all, radio is a medium throughwhich you can suddenly be surprised. Sometimes I think it’s a shame thatpeople leave the radio.”

Podcasts are the rescue of radio

One of them is Pieter van der Wielen, who until recently hosted the interviewprogram four times a week Never sleep again presented, between twelve andone in the morning on Radio 1. He recently switched to NRC where he has aninterview podcast every Friday The hour presents. “I actually didn’t know ifmaking podcasts was for me. Until a baker once told me that while he wasthrowing the loaves of bread in the oven early in the morning, he was watchingthe podcast of Never sleep again listened. Because the program was live, butit was also offered as a podcast. So then I thought, what’s the differenceanyway? A long interview is a long interview.”

Podcasts are in a sense the salvation of radio, says Van der Wielen. “Podcastsare a gathering place for all the beautiful forms of radio that are in dangerof disappearing. It is the domain of all those good makers who are gettingless and less attention on the radio. A market has emerged in which all ofthis can be experienced again.” The flexible moment of broadcasting does notsuit him as a maker too bad. “When NRC first polled me I wasn’t ready atall. But when I was increasingly attacked by bouts of fatigue, I thought:maybe working during the day is not so bad after all. So that I now belong tothe podcast world has a big advantage for me. I can finally sleep again.”

Radio makers in podcast land

Chris Bajema (1971) he worked for many years as a documentary maker,reporter and radio play maker for the KRO, NTR and VPRO. Characteristic of hiswork is the fascination for the boundary between fiction and non-fiction. Hehas been making podcasts since 2015.

Blunt Jellema (1981) is a journalist, documentary maker and presenter, andmakes radio and podcasts. He has worked for various programs on NPO Radio 1and NPO Radio 4 and for Day & Night Media since 2006, and has had his ownpodcast series since 2015.

Emmie Kollau (1977) is a radio, podcast and documentary maker. Inaddition, Emmie is also a creative producer. She worked for years as an editorand editor-in-chief for various broadcasters behind the scenes, until she tookup the microphone and camera herself.

Maartje Dune (1975) is a radio and podcast maker. In her work she dealswith social themes such as our colonial past, dementia and loneliness, andseeks experimentation in the form.

Pieter Van der Wielen (1974) is a presenter and journalist. He presentedradio programs like How so! , Labyrinth , With a view to tomorrow and_Never sleep again_. He recently made the switch to NRC Podcasts.

‘Go quietly to the toilet’, José De Cauwer advised us after Remco Evenepoelhad run off with a Kazakh in his wheel, although immediately throwing afterit: ‘But take your television with you!’ Thirty kilometers later we sawEvenepoel on that television as the new world champion cycling on the road.Where we were then is nobody’s business.

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Evenepoel’s ultimate attack – which, as usual with him, was no attack: he justpushed a little harder on the pedals – took place in the penultimate lap. Thattiming was predicted by most experts: “Usually a World Cup is decided in thelast two rounds,” he said. Dirk De Wolf in Humo. Evenepoel, not only afellow countryman of De Wolf, but apparently also a Humolese, quickly droveaway from Alexey Lutsenko and went into the final round solo. “If hecrosses the finish line the last time before the finish line with a two-minutelead, they won’t see him again,” he said. Karl Vannieuwkerke. He wasright. Almost two and a half minutes later sprinted Wout van Aert for thesilver, but finished fourth.

“I don’t think I will ever have a better season,” Evenepoel said afterwards,remarkably controlled. That serenity is perhaps the greatest metamorphosisthat the child prodigy from Schepdaal has undergone in the past year. Withoutsharp edges, he is again the spontaneous boy who wishes you every success.’There will be no criticism here,’ said mother agna to the Sporza reporterwho had gone to the supporters cafe of the new world champion. With that shereferred to last year’s World Cup in Leuven. Evenepoel broke the course openfrom much too far and guided Julian Alaphilippe so in a seat to the worldtitle. That got him a lot of criticism. Justifiable criticism, because if hethen raced in Australia as he does now, Wout van Aert in particular would havehad better chances of winning in Leuven. With the rainbow win in Wollongong,Evenepoel has now finally settled that discussion in his favor.

Van Aert finished just outside the medals. Just as Evenepoel Lutsenko brokeloose, he accelerated in the background. A striking effort that could count onlittle understanding from De Cauwer: ‘Van Aert must check, this is against therules of the game!’ According to Van Aert, he did not know how far Evenepoeldrove ahead and how many riders separated him from his compatriot. He didn’teven know that he was sprinting for a medal. The handshake with Evenepoel washearty, and it was even a joke. But they didn’t hug each other – in view ofthe cameras anyway. Evenepoel has already won his first world title – he is 22- time is running out for Van Aert – 28.

The question, raised by Evenepoel himself, remains whether he will ever drivea better season. With someone who mocks all the current theories, anything ispossible. Earlier this season, Evenepoel won a monument (Liège-Bastogne-Liège), a Grand Tour (the Vuelta) and now the rainbow jersey. Only threeriders did that before him: Bernard Hinault , Eddy Merckx and anItalian almost 100 years ago. The last to combine a Grand Tour win with theworld title was Greg LeMond in 1989 – he then won the Tour. The fact thatEvenepoel also took the World Cup bronze in the time trial, barely one weekafter he won the Vuelta, went against every current theory about fitness andjet lag processing.

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2022 will be a year not to forget for Evenepoel, with his marriage to fiancélater on Oumi. The ‘Remcomania’ will only increase in strength. RenaatSchotte gave a foretaste: ‘Deep bow! Congratulations! Cheers!’ he concludedhis interview with the new world champion with three exclamation marks beforefalling out of the picture in a swoon. “It’s sport, it’s entertainment!”Earlier during the race, Vannieuwkerke had already let himself go in a bizarreattack against the Dutch who find his reporting too chauvinistic. As long ashe keeps calling Remco Evenepoel.

Ten years after Philippe Gilbert – who will ride his last professionalrace in two weeks – Belgium has another world champion on the road. WhetherEvenepoel will give up on it ten years after his world title, like Gilbert, isa question that cannot be answered now. Should he wish to appropriate theepithet ‘Merckxian’, he will be able to use it every year. Merckx won 525races in his career, Evenepoel is at 38. Go, Rem… Evenepoel!

The tenants of small business spaces in the Koepelgevangenis in Breda couldnot believe their eyes last week. They unexpectedly received an emailannouncing a huge rent increase. Due to the increased energy rates, the rentis three times higher. About eighty tenants in the complex are frustrated andfurious. Some entrepreneurs are even planning to leave.

In July, the old prison behind the Chasséveld was sold by the government toproject developers. As of October 1, they are the new owners. The complex willbe transformed into the ‘Koepel District’, an open area with houses,businesses, leisure and cultural facilities, which is connected to the citycenter of Breda. For the time being, the complex is still managed by vacancymanager VPS. The tenants received the bad news from that organization lastweek.

To combat vacancy, the complex now houses about eighty small businesses andcreatives. They rent a space through vacancy manager VPS. Last week, aftermonths of radio silence and uncertainty, they suddenly received an e-mail fromthe manager: as of October 1, the service costs will be increased to 100 eurosper square meter per year due to the increased energy rates. In concreteterms, this means that rents will triple.

“Weird that you only hear this ten days in advance.”

Artist Jasper Verhulst and boxing gym owner Gijs Haverman were shocked by thenews about the rent increase. “We only received that e-mail last week, whilethe contract should already start on October 1. It is bizarre that you onlyhear this ten days in advance,” says Jasper.

Artist Jasper Verhulst in his shared space (own photo).

The artist rents a space together with seven others. That now costs them about800 euros. That will soon be 2,500 euros. “We thought the new owner and VPSwould like to continue with us, but it doesn’t seem like that.” The e-mail hasarrived quickly, Jasper says: “The tenants immediately started a WhatsAppgroup to see what we should do with this.”

“I have only seen a proposal, but no contract yet.”

Gijs Havermans has had a boxing gym in the attic of the old Koepelgevangenisfor six months now. He now pays about 900 euros per month. That will be 3,000from October 1. “I’m curious how they will do that, because I’ve only receivedan email with a proposal from VPS, but haven’t seen a contract yet. It’s verystrange.”

Gijs Haverman thought he had found a stable place for his boxing gym.

He trains small groups in his boxing gym. “What they’ll ask for later.. forthat I have to work seven days a week and then I still have to put in money.So not possible.” Gijs thinks the increase is unreasonable. “Red-hot heatingpipes run through my room and in the summer it’s so hot that I can’t reallytrain there.”

“This is the death knell for many.”

The number of square meters that he rents has also been adjusted. “The managerhas now also included the stairs, hallway and toilets. These are common areasthat I can’t close, but that I do have to pay for.” The boxing school ownerhas his doubts whether this is all possible. “We sought legal help, becausethis feels very wrong. You don’t just have any other affordable space in thecity.”

Artist Jasper also sees it gloomy if he really has to pay that much rent more.”Then it stops for me and it is the death knell for many here.” According toboth men, the necessary tenants are already leaving, but Jasper is not givingup yet. “Most want to fight for their place here!”

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Now that young people mainly seek entertainment from streaming services, theNPO has taken it upon itself to profile the channels even more clearly.entertainment like The smartest person will therefore soon be moving to NPO1, in-depth programs such as Cash desk , Search requested and Radar makethe switch to NPO 2. Incidentally, very against the sore leg of consumer guruAntoinette Hertsenberg, who has reduced the number of episodes of her _Radar_this year has already seen a decline.

The Outlaws – Start Season 2

During their community service, Bristol’s most unlikely criminal group ends upon the wrong side of the law once again. The money that ‘accidentally’ wentinto their pockets is becoming an increasing problem; the criminal underworldholds them tighter and tighter. Literal. Although Rani has managed to give thegroup some extra time, there is a catch: they have to deal drugs themselves torecoup the stolen money. Isn’t that a step too far?

Fault lines

While the average boa is already nervous about the Schilderswijk in The Hagueor the Enschede Velve-Lindenhof, in certain European neighborhoods they are nolonger surprised by youth with weapons or burned-out cars. Sinan Can spends ayear delving into the Sharia and no-go zones of Paris, London, Stockholm andBrussels to see if these enclaves have indeed become deep fault lines.

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Hunted

A new season means a fresh hunt for a pack of ordinary citizens who try toevade the hunters for three weeks. While in the first seasons one or morefugitives managed to escape from their clutches, the detainee van was full inseason six. Unjustly according to many viewers, because the cleverly playingfinalists Kelly and Romy turned out not to have a fair chance to race towardstheir freedom.

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Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle (2017)

Starring: Dwayne Johnson, Kevin Hart, Karen Gillan, Jack Black, Nick JonasDirector: Jake Kasdan.

The game from the title is a computer game, in which the players have tosurvive in their game forms. That gives the otherwise not so special adventurestory a funny twist, because just like in a real game the heroes can die andcome back. The big draw is the comical interplay of Johnson and Hart. Thefirst one in particular gives an excellent imitation of an insecure teenagerin the body of a wardrobe.

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The death of Her Majesty the Queen of England has left people around theworld in mourning. But understandably, her family is most affected.

The Queen leaves behind four children. And while mothers always claim tohave no favourites, the Queen always seemed to have a soft spot for one of herchildren…

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The Queen had four children with her husband Prince Philip. Her firstborn, whois now king, was Charles, followed by Princess Anne, Prince Andrew and finallyPrince Edward.

The Queen’s last born child, Edward, was born at 8:20 p.m. on March 10, 1964.He was the Queen’s lightest baby in terms of weight with a weight of 2.5kilos. This was the first birth of a child of his own that Prince Philiphimself attended, making the occasion all the more historic.

Queen Elizabeth was 37 years old at the time of Prince Edward’s birth and shehad asked Prince Philip to attend. The Duke of Edinburgh had complied with hiswife’s request and even held her hand as she went into labor in the deliveryroom.

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It was during her fourth pregnancy that the Queen had read magazines thatsuggested the importance of a father’s involvement in the life and birth ofhis children. She was intrigued by the idea and decided to implement it in herlife with the birth of her next and last child. This also made history becausein the past royal births were not attended by fathers.

With the birth of her first three children, the monarch found it difficult tocombine work and motherhood. And as much as she would have liked to be therefor her children, she often had to leave them in the care of nannies while sheperformed her royal duties.

But things changed with the birth of Edward, Earl of Wessex, when she had beenqueen for over ten years. She was better able to combine her duties as a queenand her job as a mother, and thus had more time to be the latter.

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So Edward had a much closer relationship with his parents than his oldersiblings. It was reported that the Duke of Edinburgh was also particularlyfond of his youngest, as he entrusted him with the responsibility of Awardscheme of the Duke of Edinburgh.

Prince Edward’s childhood was also much more exciting than that of his oldersiblings. The young prince even had the opportunity to meet Neil Armstrong,the first man on the moon, after which he was inspired and said he wanted topursue a career as an astronaut too!

After completing his schooling at Gordonstoun School, the young prince took agap year. In the gap year, he started working as a junior master and tutor atWanganui Collegiate School in New Zealand. He later attended Jesus College,graduating in 1986.

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Edward decided to join the Royal Marines for a while, but dropped out halfwaythrough the year-long introductory course. He wasn’t a fan of the gruelingphysical training it took.

Instead, the young prince took a completely different direction in his careerand pursued a career in the theater. In doing so, he became the first personin the royal family to embark on a career in entertainment. He founded ArdentProductions in 1993, but the company was unsuccessful, so the prince returnedto his royal duties full-time.

Prince Edward met Sophie Rhys-Jones in 1987 at Capital Radio. At the time theprince was dating her friend, the two had never even thought of ending uptogether.

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But in 1993 they met again at a charity event and sparks flew. The couplestarted dating and the prince made things official by taking Sophie as hisplus-one to important official events.

After witnessing the failed marriages of his older siblings – Charles toPrincess Diana, Andrew to Sarah Ferguson and Anne to Mark Phillips – PrinceEdward was more aware of his decision to marry. He deliberated for a while,and finally in 1999 he made up his mind.

The prince announced his engagement to Sophie in January 1999. He proposed toher with a beautiful Asprey and Garrard white gold ring with a two-carat ovaldiamond and two heart-shaped gemstones on either side.

They married in the summer of the same year in a small ceremony with nomilitary involvement. On the occasion of their wedding, the Queen presentedSophie with a tiara made from pieces from her jewelry collection.

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After his marriage, the prince qualified for the title of duke, which is thehighest rank according to the British system of peerage. However, he declinedthe title and chose to become an earl instead.

During their marriage of more than two decades, the couple has welcomed twochildren. Their daughter Louise Alice Elizabeth Mary Mountbatten-Windsor andson James Alexander Philip Theo Mountbatten-Windsor, both were born at FrimleyPark Hospital in Surrey.

Lady Louise is said to have been the Queen’s favorite grandchild. And hermother Sophie, the favorite daughter-in-law.

Sophie, the Countess of Wessex, was closest to the Queen. After the Duke ofEdinburgh passed away, she made sure to visit her mother-in-law every otherday and make sure she was well.

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Royal reporter Duncan Larcombe said: “Sophie Wessex has emerged as the Queen’sunlikely ‘rock’ as the monarch adjusted to life without Prince Philip. PrinceEdward’s wife has made it her personal mission – according to sources – toensure that Her Majesty is fully supported by the family.”

Edward and Sophie also live near Buckingham Palace and often stopped by to seethe Queen.

Earlier in the day of her death, Sophie and Edward arrived at Balmoral Castle,where the Queen was, concerned for her health. With Charles becoming king,Edward is expected to help with royal duties as well.

After the death of the Queen, the royal family has to go through a prettyrough time. Our hearts go out to all who mourn the death of the Queen.

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