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‘Warrior Nun’, ‘1899’, ‘Resident Evil’, ‘Midnight Club’: in recent months alot of Netflix series have been put in the trash. Which closures of the pastyears still make us heartbroken? And with which series is it still worthcatching up with them?

Stephen WerbrouckFriday, January 6, 202311:07

Also read our analysis: Why do Netflix series die so quickly? Binge-watching is actually Netflix’s Achilles’ heel

‘1899’

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After the success of ‘Dark’, Jantje Friese and Baran bo Odar from Netflixclearly received enough money to make an even more ambitious series, about aship on the high seas that becomes involved in an increasingly complex mysterywith a supernatural edge.

Worth catching up? No. ‘1899’ is certainly not bad, but it mainly has todo with the question of what exactly is going on. Unless the series is takenover by another streaming service and the makers can still give their answer,it is not worth eight hours of your life.

‘Teenage Bounty Hunters’

Teenage Bounty HuntersImage Netflix

Two teenage girls accidentally come into contact with a bounty hunter chasingcriminals and decide to do the same themselves bounty hunters become, inthis comical action series that briefly brought a sliver of sunlight into thelockdowns in the summer of 2021.

Worth catching up? A doubtful case. ‘Teenage Bounty Hunters’ is awonderfully funny and moving series and a textbook example of how you can makesomething that is completely believable with an out of the pot premise. Butthe first season ends with a cliffhanger and afterwards the feeling prevailsthat there could have been much more.

‘The Baby Sitters Club’

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Film adaptation of children’s books Ann M Martin , about some twelve-year-old girls who set up a babysitting service together in Stoneybrook, thefictional town where they grow up. Coldly stopped by Netflix after twocritically acclaimed seasons.

Worth catching up? Absolute. With no big riddles left unsolved, The Baby-sitter’s Club is also a unique series that portrays the problems in the livesof growing children – bullying, divorced parents, raging hormones – withoutbecoming sentimental or childish.

‘ GLOW’

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One of the main victims of corona on Netflix was this fact-based dramedy abouta group of female wrestlers in the 1980s. Preparations for a fourth seasonwere in full swing when the pandemic hit and the streaming service decidedthat with all the extra security measures a new series would still be tooexpensive.

Worth catching up? If you can live with her just stopping at some point,then yes. Even though they take place in completely different worlds, ‘GLOW’is actually the perfect successor to the drama series with which screenwriterJenji Kohan broke through at Netflix (and which she was allowed to closein beauty): ‘Orange is the New Black’

‘mind hunter’

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Officially, ‘Mindhunter’ has never been discontinued by Netflix, but after thesecond season appeared, the creator left David Fincher here and there thestreaming service found the series too expensive and the chance of a thirdyear was therefore very small. Since that second season already dates from2019, all hope seems to be gone.

Worth catching up? Certainly, because ‘Mindhunter’ is also an absolutemasterpiece in the aborted version. The series follows the work of a specialdivision of the FBI in the 1970s that first sought ways to catch serialkillers. profiling and is both a thrilling crime drama and an intelligentcommentary on our obsession with cruel psychopaths and true crime.

The smartest lookWhich candidate stood out? What was Maarten’s moment andwhich gallery offered the most conversation material? A look back at thesecond week of The smartest person.

Candidate

Amused, I watched actress Anniek Pheifer shout ‘chips’ this week. It’s such apedagogically sound swear word that only mothers use to set a good example.But it was too late for that. In almost every broadcast, Pheifer – so far themost fanatical and smartest of the candidates – dropped a strong expletive.Startled, she then clapped her hands to her face. How ironic it was that shewas asked a question about Tourette Syndrome and could only partially answerit. These are moments that TV makers cannot stage. Delicious!

Anniek Pheifer breaks down on the gallery round with eight mnemonics. © KRO-NCRV

Gallery

Small sample. Do you know what is meant by ‘Make Eight Meters of Fabric YourJapanese Pajamas’? Or: ‘I replaced Xander’s tasty lemons with mandarins’. Theyare two mnemonics that passed in the gallery round. In the first case, thecapital letters stand for the planets (M = mercury, V = venus, A = earth,etc), the second sentence refers to the Roman numerals (Ik = I/1, Verving =V/5, Xanders = X /10, etc.). Well, as if you remember Japanese pajamas easierthan the solar system? This round was way too hard. There are mnemonic devicesthat have benefited me more. For example, in my student days: ‘Beer after winegives poison, wine after beer gives pleasure.’ When the winter time startsagain: ‘You WIN time with it’. (In other words sleep an hour longer, huh). Orthe trick I use to tell Nick and Simon apart. Just pay attention: Nick isalways on the left of the picture, Simon on the right.

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Martin moment

After a question about the Battle of Arnhem, Maarten van Rossem told an almostunbelievable story. It would have been close if he had become a victim of war.When a residential area in Wageningen was bombed by the Allies on 17 September1944 – the bombs were actually intended for German barracks – little Maartenwas lying in a pram in the garden on Rijksstraatweg. The shards flew around,the neighbor and 42 others did not survive. It is a story that Van Rossem – ‘Isurvived, as you can see’ – likes to tell. But whether he really escaped deathas a 1-year-old is doubtful. In a broadcast by Omroep Gelderland, two yearsago, he says that his grandfather once wrote in a letter that the parentalhome and garden were never touched. Van Rossem felt ‘stolen from an incrediblyexciting story’ in which he was emotionally directly involved in the violenceof the so-called Operation Market Garden. So he calculated whether it waspossible that the shards had flown past his pram after all. “My theory is thatit can,” he said. Okay, he admitted, maybe it’s a bit of mythology. “But I’mattached to it.”

In the modern music world, in which songs fly like digital packets throughfiber optic cables, the cassette is primarily a beautiful memory: somethingthat is over and sometimes actually turned to dust. Put on another tape fromyour own collection or that of a previous generation, somewhere deep in theeighties. If you hear anything at all, it’s probably a murmur over a layer ofhiss.

The magnetic tape has often already fallen apart, partly because the adhesiveused has been diluted by a process known in chemistry as hygroscopic: theproperty of substances to attract water molecules by themselves. Gone band,gone music from days gone by.

In Syria, the cassette has a completely different status. The cassette hasshaped the country’s rich music and made it what it is today: the culturalmemory of a nation crushed by civil war for twelve years. A memory that alsobecomes increasingly important as the war continues and the regime ofPresident Bashar al-Assad survives.

Dance and party music

From the early 1980s, Syrian musicians discovered that they could spread theirart to the masses with the cassette, something that was almost impossiblebefore the tape. Folk singers, Islamic-inspired vocalists, but also dance andparty companies from the smaller rural communities could easily recordperformances. They could then multiply that music in a simple way and sell itin small editions on the market, or distribute it to fellow musicians ororganizers of the better wedding parties.

A unique music industry was created, set up by the makers themselves and notby greedy record bosses. On the markets of large cities such as Aleppo andDamascus, but also in shops in village communities, new stocks of Syrian musicwere constantly being presented: a rapidly growing mountain of traditionalfolk dance music such as the dabke but also whining pop on brokensynthesizers, which could develop thanks to those cassettes.

Because the sudden, wide distribution of music in Syria also created a mutualinfluence: artists who were able to become acquainted with each other’spioneering work and thus push their own music in a new direction.

Enchantingly beautiful

The musical heyday in Syria is actually called ‘the cassette era’, and runsfrom 1980 to the beginning of the Syrian popular uprising in 2011. Thecountless tapes from that era have captured an unprecedentedly rich musicalculture that sometimes goes beyond your understanding, no matter how longeryou listen to it.

And listening to that sometimes enchantingly beautiful cassette music is nowalso possible, thanks to a project that has cleverly linked the old musicindustry with new technology. The recently launched website of the SyrianCassette Archives institute contains many hundreds of cassettes, often withwonderfully obscure covers, neatly digitized online. The doors of thesyriancassettearchives.org site are open: anyone can walk in and simply clickon a tape.

Singer Turki al Abed on the cover of the cassette Bnayyat Al Abbadi (AlAbbadi’s daughter, 2007).Image Syrian Cassette Archives

Just the first tape, by singer Fariha Al Abdullah, who has printed the samephoto of herself side by side three times for the wonderful cover with thetitle Shaabi Dabke. The music is as alienating as the packaging: excitingand jubilant party music propelled by rattling percussion and a stutteringkeyboard. Overlaid with the razor-sharp voice of Al Abdullah, who sings thatthere is always hope for better times, for example in the song Hanni eidek latbkin which means something like ‘use henna on your hands and stop crying’.

Then a trip can begin through unknown music territory for non-Syrians.Particularly exciting is also the cheerful wedding music of singer Ahmed alKoseem from the city of Daraa, who on his own initiative combined deeptraditional folk music with funky bass runs and a fiery bamboo flute thatshoots into the sky.

American music historian

Al Koseem played this music in 2009 at the wedding of the Al-Rifai family inthe village of Oum Walad, according to an extensive explanation of the tape.And in an interview, the singer explains how important the tape industry wasfor the development of his music. He first sang on a small scale, at partiesin his city. But when he found out that he could also record and distributehis music, his stature grew. Thanks to the distribution of his performances,he was even asked for parties in Jordan and that’s how his musical careerstarted.

The cassette collection was built by the American music historian and producerMark Gergis, of Iraqi origin, who came across all those beautiful covers withcontent on the market during his first trip through Syria in the latenineties. He bought a series of tapes, but also made contact with the dealersand later the artists who had filled the cassettes.

Gergis built up a considerable archive, which continued to grow when the warin Syria broke out and many Syrians fled abroad. After the 2011 revolution andits bloody suppression, the vibrant music culture imploded. But Gergis wasstill receiving tapes, this time from Syrians who had left their country butpacked their suitcases with cassettes. They also realized that music was ofgreat historical importance until the revolution, precisely because of thecultural development **** ran into a wall.

Assad’s face as a dance floor

The archivist knew what to do, also because the Syrian cassettes were ofcourse also in danger of decay. Gergis started digitizing his collection inorder to unlock the unique music frozen in time in the most accessible way.

Singer Ahmed al KoseemImage Syrian Cassette Archives

Thanks to the Syrian Cassette Archive, the inscrutable party music of, forexample, the rattling dabke has been preserved for eternity, and has becomeuntouchable by any oppressive army. According to American ethnomusicologistShayna Silberstein, affiliated with the University of Chicago, this folk dancedates back to pre-Islamic times. Dancers, arranged in a circle, stamped theirfeet to ecstatic music, presumably to combine the useful with the pleasant:the stamping pushed loose earth. But later, and certainly in dictatorialtimes, the meaning of the dance changed.

Until just before and just after the outbreak of the revolution, the dabkeproclaimed the unity of the ordinary Syrian people and the feet of the dancersactually stamped the political oppressors into the ground. Sometimesliterally, by putting photos of Assad on the earth and promoting his face to adance floor. That knowledge makes this music collection even more interesting.

La conversación sobre el belga la abrió ya la noche del partido el jugador delCacereño Carmelo Mereciano, que describió una actuación mortecina: “Como quele daba igual”. En el Príncipe Felipe pareció desvanecerse el último empeñodel futbolista por reflotar su historia con el Madrid. Sorprendió and Cáceres,pero mucho menos and los despachos blancos. Hazard es solo el 20º futbolistaen minutos esta temporada, y no se trata de un capricho de Carlo Ancelotti.Más bien al contrario, siempre ha tratado de impulsarlo, incluso cuando en eltrabajo diario se le aprecia algún escalón por debajo en intensidad respectodel grupo.

En el club han asistido ya a unos cuantos de sus empeños por reflotar sucarrera. El penúltimo, y quizá el que sonó más firme, lo hizo público elpropio futbolista a los pies de La Cibeles, mientras el equipo celebraba la14ª Copa de Europa. Empezaba ya a caer la noche del 29 de mayo del año pasado,y Hazard, con un vaso de papel en la mano izquierda, agarró el microfono conla derecha: “Mira. He hecho estos tres años con lesión, esto… muchas cosas.Pero el próximo año lo voy a dar todo para vosotros”, aseguró, y suscompañeros se arremolinaron a su alrededor, le abrazaron, y saltaron con él.Una celebracion. Un pequeño desahogo.

Durante tres años habían visto a su compañero enlazar una lesión tras otradespués de la entrada en la que Thomas Meunier le rompió el tobillo en un RealMadrid-PSG en noviembre de 2019. Tres operaciones, multitud de roturasmusculares, recuperaciones y recaídas enlazadas. Una época durísima para unfutbolista que apenas se había lesionado desde que debutó como profesional alos 16 años con el Lille en Francia. Los compañeros que lo abrazaron aquellatarde festiva habían presenciado el calvario desde primera línea, y habíanvisto también que Hazard lo había atravesado sin aparente pérdida de ánimo,como subrayan a menudo varias fuentes que siguen el trabajo diario enValdebebas.

El belga regresó del verano con un punto mejor de forma que los añosanteriores, y sin la placa de titanio del tobillo derecho, que se le habíainfectado y que le retiraron el pasado marzo, después de casi un año tratandode convencer al club para que le permitieran deshacerse de ella. Ya no teníadolor, y Ancelotti le dio media hora en el debut liguero y siete minutos en lasegunda jornada. Despues desaparecio.

Hasta la noche en que Karim Benzema se lesionó en Glasgow contra el Celtic ala media hora, y el técnico italiano recurrió a él por delante de un asombradoRodrygo, que volaba entonces bastante por encima del belga. Pero Ancelotti,que siempre ha tratado de protegerlo, realizó otro gesto en atención a suestatus y Hazard registró una de sus mejores noches en un encuentro que seabrió enseguida, y por el que circuló a sus anchas, con defensas que locontemplaban desde cierta distance. Incluso marco el 0-3 final.

Aquello le sirvió para ser titular cinco días después como falso nueve contrael Mallorca en el Bernabéu. La resurrección llegó hasta el minuto 59, cuandocon 1-1 lo sustituyó Luka Modric. El encuentro terminó 4-1, y el belga novolvió a asomar en ningún partido de Liga, aunque sí disputó 57 minutos en el1-1 contra el Shakhtar y 14 en la derrota contra el Leipzig (3-2).

Su siguiente intento por regresar lo fijó en el Mundial. La selección belga hasido a menudo un refugio en el que aún se sentía importante y donde RobertoMartínez disponía un esquema en el que podía aportar como mediapunta máslibre. Pocos días antes de viajar a Qatar concedió una entrevista a Mark enla que sonaba resuelto: “Tengo que demostrar a todos que puedo jugar alfútbol. La gente tiene dudas de lo que puedo hacer, pero yo no”, dijo. “Tengoque demostrar cuando juego, sean cinco minutos, 10 o 15. Quiero jugar y cuandolo haga tengo que hacerlo bien”.

La crisis con Belgica

Se mostraba convencido de que solo necesitaba minutos. Como después de ganarel primer partido contra Canada en Qatar (1-0), cuando se paró en la zonamixta para explicar en español que sabía que no había tenido una buenaactuación, pero que estaba contento por los minutos jugados, porque lo quenecesitaba para afinarse era solo eso: jugar minutos.

Sin embargo, el camino se torció cuando perdieron contra Marruecos en lasegunda jornada (0-2) y Bélgica se encontró en mitad de una formidable crisisinterna. L ‘Equipe aseguró que después de la derrota se había producido unafuerte discusión en el vestuario belga, en la que Hazard había recibidoreproches por haber dicho en público que sus defensas ya no eran tan rápidoscomo en 2018. Les quedaba un último encuentro contra Croacia para tratar depasar a octavos y Courtois y Hazard se vieron ante la prensa tratando deapagar el fuego, asegurando que nada de lo contado había sucedido.

El incombustible Modric aguantó con los suyos un 0-0 y Bélgica quedó fuera enun partido en el que Hazard, el gran capitán, solo jugó cuatro minutos, susúltimos con la selección. Unos días después de naufragar su último empeño deregresar anunció que nunca volvería a jugar con Bélgica. La siguienteopportunidad se le presentó el martes en Cáceres, donde dejó el recuerdo de unfutbolista rendido y ausente.

Tiene contrato hasta junio de 2024 con el Madrid, que no le pondría obstáculossi promoviera una mudanza. Aunque no será en este mercado de enero, comoexplicó antes del Mundial: a él ya su familia les gusta Madrid. La siguienteventana se abre el 30 de junio, pero en los despachos ven difícil que resulteatractivo con actuaciones como las de la Copa. No hubo ni un jugador delMadrid del que Opta registrara menos intervenciones que las 24 del belga.

”Nuestro equipo ha sido el único en cumplir, ya en 2023, con parte de losobjetivos del programa Dakar Future”, se resigna Juvanteny. El nuevo enfoqueecológico del rally ha topado con la burocracia normativa de la FIA, y parasolventar la papeleta, la organización ha creado una nueva clase para permitirsu participación, la Challenge New Energy. El asunto, más allá de lacontradicción de promoter una cosa y luego prohibirla, una noticia queconocieron Juvanteny y compañía a un día de empezar la prueba, conlleva dosproblemas añadidos: hagan lo que hagan, serán los últimos en salir cada día, a15 minutos del penúltimo vehículo; y al no contar en ninguna categoría oficialde la FIA, no podrán auxiliar a otros participantes en apuros, ya que lanormativa lo prohíbe. Al equipo se le conoce, precisamente, por ser losángeles de la guarda de la caravana del Dakar por su disposición a ayudar alos vehículos accidentados pase lo que pase.

La solución que les daba la FIA para competir oficialmente era estrambótica:tenían que llenar sus tanques solamente con combustible diesel. Después detrabajar a contrarreloj desde marzo, jugando con una tecnología innovadora ycompleja, el chasco ensombrece, pero no frena, el noble propósito del equipo.“A pesar de las severas limitaciones de este nuevo escenario, nos centraremosen el desarrollo de esta nueva tecnología, siguiendo los objetivos previstos.Los resultados que obtengamos serán de gran ayuda para comparar el rendimientode nuestro camión MAN contra otros modelos similares alimentados porcombustibles tradicionales”, resume el piloto.

Xavier Ribas, ingeniero técnico industrial y director de EVARM, la compañíaespañola que ha colaborado con el equipo, explica la principal ventaja de supropuesta. “En carrera, tendremos un ahorro entre el 40 y el 50 por ciento degasoleo”, explica. En 2024 quiere ahorrarse hasta un 90% de combustible.“Creemos que nuestra experiencia puede contribuir a la innovación en elsector, que tiene un gran impacto en materia de emisiones y no puedebeneficiarse de forma tan clara de nuevas energías como la eléctrica”, añadeCriado, el copiloto. La polémica, sumada a unas cuantas otras, se dirimetambién en un Dakar 2023 que presenta una carrera deportiva y otra ecológicaen coches.

Todos quieren ser el primer ganador sostenible del rally de resistencia porexcelencia, con muchos equipos proponiendo soluciones distintas sin ningúnfavorito claro. Hay vehículos eléctricos, muchos proyectos que trabajan concombustibles renovables y otros que empiezan a apostar por el hidrógeno,aunque el único que ha llegado este año haya sido marginado. La transicióntecnológica hacia propuestas más sostenibles sigue la hoja de ruta de laindustria automotriz, a la que la organización de la prueba se suma con suprograma Dakar Futuro.

”Tenemos un objetivo y una fecha clara: en 2030 queremos un Dakar de bajasemisiones para la totalidad de la caravana. Es un trabajo muy interesante, queimplica muchos proyectos en paralelo”, explica David Castera, director delrally. ”Trabajamos para generalizar los biocombustibles que reducen hasta un80% las emisiones, queremos que estén en todos los coches y motos punteras yaen 2026″, añade.

La propuesta que aceleró esta nueva visión verde no fue precisamenteecológica. El proyecto de Audi —que se estrenó en 2022 con un vehículo híbridoimpulsado por un motor a gasolina que alimentaba dos propulsores eléctricosindependientes para cada eje— se presentó como un logro tecnológico y enningún momento se mencionó la apuesta por la movilidad sostenible. El vehículosufrió problemas durante la primera semana en su estreno, pero en la segundaasustó con cuatro victorias de etapa. Este año, la nueva evolución del RS Qe-Tron, más eficiente, ya ha ganado otra etapa pilotado por Carlos Sainz.

En la pasada edición, fue el Toyota de Nasser Al-Attiyah, una máquina diseñadapara quemar gasolina a todo trapo, el que se llevó el triunfo ante laspropuestas innovadoras de Audi o Prodrive (BRX), segundos en la general conSébastien Loeb mientras lograban reducer su huella de emisiones en un 80%. “Lasolución es, probablemente, hibrida. No hay una tecnología que se imponga y esdifícil de prever. Se trata de combinar las distintas posibilidades, y todasellas son muy interesantes”, explica Gonzalo Villa, ingeniero mecánico yprofesor asociado de la Universidad de Nebrija, sobre la carrera ecológica enel Dakar.

”Nadie puede decir: a partir de mañana, solo hidrogeno. Quizás surjan nuevasinnovaciones incluso mejores. Miramos lo que hay con interés, y nuestrotrabajo es preparar la llegada de soluciones como la del hidrogeno, querequiere un despliegue logístico para nada sencillo”, comenta Castera, quemientras tanto debe navegar las ventajas y desventajas competitivas de cadatecnología. La inclusión de distintas propuestas entre los equipos máscompetitivos de coches ha generado debat y ha obligado a la FIA a establecerun sistema de compensación de rendimiento confidencial.

ASO, la organizadora de la prueba, ha tomado decisiones que parecen perjudicarprecisamente a algunas de las opciones más novedosas. “Me sorprende que lanormativa no ayude a alguien como Audi, que ha tenido la valentía de intentarentrar con este tipo de coches sostenibles”, opina Sainz sobre el tema. Díasantes de arrancar, dirección de carrera anunció que al vehículo de la marcaalemana le imppondrían un peso mínimo 100 kg superior al de sus principalescompetidores.

Astara, una estructura 100% española que cuenta con Laia Sanz y Carlos Checaentre sus competidores, apuesta por otra solución y participa con combustiblesrenovables. “Se adaptan a cualquier motor de combustión de una forma sencillay relativamente barata”, comenta Óscar Fuertes, tercer piloto del Astara y unode los impulsores de la apuesta verde del equipo. “Se trata de acelerar ladescarbonización, sustituir los combustibles fósiles por otros que no emitanCO2 a la atmósfera”. La densidad energética de esta solución es superior a loque ofrecen hoy las baterías, mejores para “trayectos cortos”.”Nadie tieneclaro dónde está el futuro. No es la única opción, pero nosotros entendemosque es la mejor”, añade Gonzalo de Andrés, director del equipo. Otros, sinembargo, señalan también al hidrógeno, aunque todavía no está claro si algúncoche puntero llevará esta tecnología ya en 2024.

Un “unico” and apuros. Cristiano Ronaldo se ve unico. Pero hoy solo lo esand Arabia Saudí. Para una personalidad como la suya, ese dolor no se mitigacon dinero. Aunque to tape con billetes. El ego, que bombeaba adrenalina a suespíritu de superación, fue el motor de su extraordinaria carrera. El que nospermitía decir: “Si el genio nace, Messi; si el genio sobreviene, Cristiano”.Todo lo que un jugador puede mejorar en el camino, lo consiguió de un modoejemplar. La técnica, que mejora en la repetición; el físico, que se fortaleceen la exigencia; el gol, instinto al que la ambición aviva. Pero el ego, quetanto ayudó, le está eligiendo mal la puerta de salida. A sus casi 38 años esecuerpo que nos parecía inmortal sigue impecable, pero no para ser el líder deun gran equipo, de una gran selección, de un gran duelo como el queprotagonizó con Messi.

El tiempo, que les voy a contar… Es natural que Cristiano se rebele contraesa evidencia. Viene desafiando obstáculos desde su adolescencia, sinimportarle el tamaño y erigiéndose siempre como ganador. Pero hay un soloenemigo que no admite rival y es el tiempo. Nos derrumba a todos por lo menosuna vez. A los futbolistas dos, y una prematuramente. Si no lo aceptamos, larealidad se pone insoportable. La Juve se lo dijo sutilmente, el Manchester selo gritó a la cara y hasta su Selección olvidó los servicios prestados paraabandonarlo en pleno Mundial. Como la suerte no suele ser una compañera lealen la desgracia, la percepción dejó una evidencia dolorosa: Messi lo adelantóde un modo humillante en la última curva de la carrera. Lo hizo desde unfísico más cascado que el de Cristiano, pero exprimiendo hasta la última gotade su talento. Quedó claro qué tipo de armas usaron cada uno en elextraordinario duelo que protagonizaron.

La desmemoria de hoy. En el fútbol, ​​lo último puede con todo loanterior. Aunque lo anterior sea glorioso, como es el caso de Cristiano: ungrande de todos los tiempos. Por ello, nada me produjo más dolor que esaespecie de traición popular que vimos en Qatar. Según encuestas publicadas pordiarios de prestigio, el 70% de los portugueses deseaban su suplencia.Desconozco el nivel de credibilidad del dato, pero que lo leyéramos conindiferencia, como si se tratara de algo normal, me pareció el signo másdoloroso de esa decadencia que empezó en camara lenta hasta precipitarse. Laevidencia de que al derrotado solo lo quiere el olvido. Pero como ocurre confrecuencia últimamente, el dinero vino al rescate de la tristeza. No importade donde provenga: el dinero, cuando es grande, no se hace preguntas. ComoMessi también ganó la batalla del cariño popular, Cristiano será más aclamadopor agradecimiento que por admiración.

This week, country superstar Reba McEntire returns to the screen as “loosecannon” traveling circuit judge Kim Wheeler in a new Lifetime movie, RebaMcEntire ‘s The Hammer — and also returning, by McEntire’s side, is heroffscreen love interest, Rex Linn. McEntire and Linn, who started dating in2020 but with way back in 1991 when they co-starred in one of McEntire’s firstTV projects, The Gambler Returns with Kenny Rogers have also worked togetherin Young Sheldon and BigSky. But McEntire seems especially delighted toshare screentime with Linn’s The Hammer character, Bart Crawford, describedin a Lifetime press release as “a mysterious cowboy with unknown motives.”

“Well, I thought it was really neat that he made a very handsome mysteriouscowboy, too,” McEntire tells Yahoo Entertainment with a sly, flirty smirk.

The natural, easy chemistry between McEntire and Linn is readily apparent in> all of them Hammer scenes. McEntire reveals that she was “a little rusty> on my acting” before shooting the film, and says Linn “helped me> tremendously. … By the time we got to do our scenes together, it was just> like talking to each other. I love working with Rex. He’s a great actor, and> I just get the biggest kick out of the way he chooses to do a scene and then> change it up and do it some other way. I’ve learned a lot from him.”

The real-life, late-in-life love story between McEntire and Linn truly is thestuff of Lifetime movies. While McEntire admits that when she met Linn 32years ago — not long after she’d married her second husband, Narvel Blackstock— no sparks flew, they “just kept the friendship. And timing is everything,and everything happens for a reason.”

When McEntire shot an appearance on Linn’s show Young Sheldon in January2020, about four years after her 26-year marriage to Blackstock had ended, sheand Linn reconnected and went out for dinner, although she “didn’t know thenthat it was a date.” In fact, when Linn first asked her out, she declined. “Isaid, ‘Can I take a rain check?’ I’d had a long day, and I was exhausted.” Sheeventually met up with Linn, Young Sheldon actress Melissa Peterman(McEntire’s former Reba sitcom costar and current The Hammer castmate),and her tour manager, Marne McLyman, at a restaurant in Sherman Oaks, Calif.

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“I left [McLyman] out at the valet station; I just had to get in and seeRex. And, you know, Melissa and Marne said it was a date!” says McEntire.“We just had a really nice evening, and I hugged his neck goodbye to get inthe car with Marne to go back to the hotel. And I said, ‘Come see me.’ And onJune 16, he did.”

Reba McEntire and Rex Linn on ABC’s ‘Big Sky: Deadly Trails.’ (Photo: MichaelMoriatis/ABC via Getty Images)

McEntire and Linn’s second in-person date probably would have happened a lotsooner than June 2020, if unfortunate life and world circumstances hadn’tintervened. But they maintained a remote courtship until Linn could takeMcEntire up on her invitation. Upon McEntire’s return to Nashville after theirfateful Sherman Oaks dinner, she and Linn “kept texting,” but sadly, she soonlearned that her mother had bladder cancer. “I was texting him and he said,’Hey, call me anytime, if you need to talk.’ And I just called him and wetalked every day; I think that was around the 1st of February. And we talkedevery day since,” McEntire recalls.

McEntire’s mother died on March 14, 2020, but that same month, the COVID-19pandemic began, so Linn couldn’t come out to Nashville to visit. But he andMcEntire eventually reunited in June. “I’ve just loved him even more forgetting on a plane during the pandemic,” McEntire gushes. “So, it was truelove, and it’s lasted, and we’re having more fun now than we did when we firstgot together.”

McEntire, now age 67, didn’t expect to fall in love again, with 66-year-oldLinn or anyone else — “I wasn’t looking for it, wasn’t looking at all,” sheinsists — and when Yahoo Entertainment asks her to give advice to any singlesof a certain age who might think their chances of finding romance have passedthem by, she chuckles, “Well, I promise you, I’m the burden person you needto start asking love advice, after being divorced twice!”

More seriously, McEntire, who was also married to steer wrestling champion andrancher Charlie Battles from 1976 to 1987, answers: “It’s a good idea to kindof make a mental note of past comments from past relationships, about thethings you did wrong, and analyze that — admit if that’s right, or if that itwas wrong, what I did, and how to be a better partner, be a better listener,be a more considerate, take more time. Instead of knowing that there’s 50,000things I’d rather be doing, maybe sit down and watch a football game, or four[games] in one day. Yes, that’s true love! I’m a bigger fan of football now —that’s what’s come out of this! But wow, I love hanging with Rex. We’re goodfriends. We love each other, and it’s just really, really special. And I’mvery grateful and thankful to God that he came into my life, at this period ofmy life. I mean, it’s the best.”

Another fantastic development of McEntire’s personal and professionalpartnership with Linn has been the opportunity to take on edgier, darker, moredramatic acting roles alongside him, whether it be in David E. Kelley’s crimethriller BigSky (in which she and Linn portray a married couple) or in TheHammer , which tackles serious subjects like drug policy reform and sexualmisconduct. “Just to do something different, more challenging… it’s just somuch fun to go dark,” says McEntire. “I’m known as a very bubbly, uptempoperson, and to go into that dark place was just interesting. It was fun toplay with.”

But as it turns out, back in the ’90s, McEntire had an opportunity to take> on another sort of against-type dramatic role: Molly Brown in Titanic> which eventually went to Oscar winner Kathy Bates. Titanic could have> changed the entire course of McEntire’s acting career, but as she has> already pointed out, timing really is everything.

“I with with James Cameron. I went and auditioned in person and wanted thepart really, really bad,” McEntire reveals. “But when our schedules didn’tline up, I had to go with my schedule of [concert] touring, because I had allmy band, crew, all of the venues already booked. And when they said, ‘No, notthese three months; we need these three months,’ I had to pass, because you’vegot a lot of people’s livelihoods standing there looking at you. And if we hadmoved those dates, well, we wouldn’t have gotten the venues that we wanted. …I wished I could have [acted in Titanic ], but you have to take care of yourpeople. And they [the band] were number one.”

More than 25 years later, McEntire has no regrets. Her career is more bustlingthan ever, with “a lot of plates spinning” in 2023, including her first-everheadlining concerts at two iconic venues, the Hollywood Bowl and MadisonSquare Garden; “a lot more acting things in development,” possibly with Linn;and other ventures like a new Oklahoma restaurant called Reba’s Place, aclothing line at Dillard’s, a footwear line with Justin Boots, and a newlifestyle book. And she’s certainly enjoying her fun lifestyle at the moment.

“I’m very thankful, very grateful, and I absolutely did not think, even threeyears ago, that I’d be as busy as I am now,” McEntire says, beaming. “But Ilove being busy. I love to work. Rex and I both love to work — but I like toplay hard, too. I love to go on vacations. I love to see the world. And we’regoing to do a little bit of that, too, now that we’ve worked so hard in 2022.But boy, when the job offers come in, if it’s something that you really wantto do, we’ll be doing it —if they let us!”

Reba McEntire ‘s The Hammer, executive-produced by and starring McEntire,premieres Jan. 7 at 8 pm on Lifetime. Check out McEntire’s full, extendedYahoo Entertainment interview above for more discussion of the film, as wellas talk about her acting debut in the 1990 Kevin Bacon cult classic _Tremors_the challenges of being a woman in country music, and whether she and Linnwill ever record a musical duet.

El segundo cuarto comenzó con la misma letra, el triple fallado por elMaccabi, que no anotó desde el perímetro hasta su lanzamiento número 14, obrade Martin. Por el contrario, el Madrid hacía sangre por dentro y por fuera.Cornelie y Sergio Rodríguez continuaron abriendo la brecha afilando la muñeca,igual que Musa en posición acrobatica (33-13). El triple, maldición para elMaccabi, era una alegría para los de Chus Mateo: nueve bingos en 16 intentos.El Chacho mandaba a volar a Poirier para su mate de cada noche y la distanciase estabilizó en esos 20 puntos de diferencia. El Madrid hasta podíapermitirse que Tavares no lanzara ni una sola vez a canasta en toda la primeraparte, y pese a ello era decisivo, la demostración de que el baloncesto no essolo meter canastas. Con tres rebotes, dos robos, una asistencia y dostapones, Tavares dictó su ley sin mirar el aro propio. El Maccabi sobrevivíacon algún chispazo de Brown y los puntos de Adams y Nebo, y llegó con ciertavida al descanso (51-34) gracias a un parcial de 0-8.

Made his mark on 2022 with panache: Fred Gibson, the 29-year-old DJ andproducer you can call Fred Again.. His ‘Marea (We’ve Lost Dancing)’ wasalready a lockdown hit, last year the last part of his Current Life trilogywas received with cheers and dancing, and he gave a five-star concert atPukkelpop. Moreover, the Briton was one of the first headliners to beannounced for Rock Werchter 2023. About Belgian regional beers, Brian Eno andasthma puffers: Humo spoke to the breakthrough of the year.

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A viral TikTok video showed how a fan bumped into your turntable, causing thesound to cut out in the room. You did not scold the man, but gave him a hug.That was the most heartwarming thing I’ve seen this year.

Fred Gibson ( laughs ): “ fucking Rodney! He was dancing so hard he bumpedhis beer belly into my table. You could see the fear in his eyes when themusic stopped. But I can’t be angry because someone gives everything? Everyoneshould have that much energy on the dance floor.

”In the meantime I met him again: a sympathetic man. And he just sent me amessage: if I can’t put him on the guest list for a concert. So a true friend_grins_ ).”

You have made three records in a year and a half, performed almost fifty timesin recent months and also work as a producer for Ed Sheeran and Stormzy, amongothers. Don’t you run the risk of colliding with a burnout?

Gibson: “Ask me again in a year when I’m on the couch recovering ( laughs ).No, at the moment I’m happy with how everything is going, I’ll see what thefuture brings. You have a point, but when you put it like that it soundsheavier than it is.

“The blessing of my job is that it never really feels like work. Plus: thereare plenty of moments to relax. During a tour there are also evenings withouta show. Well, then chances are you’ll find me dead drunk in the city center (smile ).”

Remarkable: almost all the photos I find of you seem to have been taken eitherin a car or on public transport.

Gibson: “I like to travel. I also like to work and write in vehicles. Theinspiration then comes more smoothly, it’s my best state of mind. Muchbetter than waking up and rushing straight to a studio where it has to happen.

“By the way, the train to Brussels was one of the best I’ve taken.”

I will pass it on to the NMBS. What’s the craziest place you’ve ever made asong?

Gibson: “The smoking room of a club in Berlin, while there was plenty ofdancing around me. Well, I don’t need much more than a laptop: I can workanywhere. I don’t need to drag a cello or anything ( laughs ).”

‘The train to Brussels is one of the best I’ve ever taken.’Image rv

Do you sometimes drink before or during a show?

Gibson: “No! If I make it a habit to drink two beers before a show, one day itwill be three. And then four and five and seventeen, until things getcompletely out of hand. I know myself.

“Even if I only drink two beers, I’m less focused and my voice soundsdifferent. People don’t pay for that. I want to give them the best possibleperformance.”

Recently you had to bring out your asthma inhaler during a performance.

Gibson: “I always give my all during a show and sweat like crazy. It’sexhausting. But I smoke, so it’s entirely my own fault if I get out of breath.Don’t write it as if I’m fishing for pity.”

You played everywhere this year: from small venues to Coachella. What suitsyou best?

Gibson: “I recently played in the velodrome in Berlin in front of 12,000people, the night after in Hamburg with an audience of barely 600 people.Well, both shows are among my favorites of 2022.”

Does your next record have a track called ‘Rodney’? Every song of yours_Current Life_ trilogy is named after the person you sampled.

Gibson (vague) : “Often I just run into someone online who lives on theother side of the world. I send them a message to ask if I can use theirvoices for my music, and get almost nothing but positive responses. Kyle,Sabrina, Angie… They were so much fun!”

Cards on the table: you have become a world star this year. Is that alreadyreflected in your rider?

Gibson: “Absolutely not. I only ask for scented candles. I used to have morewishes: Kinder Bueno and Guinness, especially. But you quickly get tired ofthe same food and drink every day. Henceforth I will be content with what isavailable. In the AB that was a good selection of regional beers ( laughs).”

What is your favorite meeting of the past years?

Gibson: “I got to know Jay-Z thanks to Stormzy. Special: Jay speaks non-stopin quotes, like a kind of prophet. I filmed my first conversation with him onmy iPhone, which later became the intro to Stormzy’s set at Glastonbury.”

You have been aspiring to a music career since you were 6.

Gibson: “I already played the piano then, yes, and thought it was fantastic.(Fast) I was not a prodigy, because I turned out to be untalented in almostevery other way. I wrote my first song when I was 9 and by my 10th birthday myfirst album was ready. There were surprisingly many power ballads on it (laughs ).”

Will we ever hear it again? Whether or not mixed with newer work?

Gibson: “ Mate, that ‘s brilliant! (Makes note in his cell phone) I willimmediately look for those songs at home and see what I can do with them.”

Brian Eno became your mentor at 16. What did he see in you?

Gibson: “No idea. But recently my mom sent me an interview in which Brian saidthat I’m his mentor as well, and that he’s even started listening to musicdifferently because of me. To hear that from someone like Brian is… crazy.”

Did you know who he was when you met him?

Gibson: “He was the neighbor of a friend of the house, and I knew he was doingsomething in music. I hoped to learn something from him, so I courted him bymaking tea every week with the singing group he met with. I had no idea howbig Roxy Music had been, nor did I know he had collaborated with David Bowieand Talking Heads. Perhaps better this way: if I had known all that, I wouldhave been terrified and intimidated.”

What’s the best advice he’s ever given you?

Gibson (thinks) : “Brian told me about his postman in Norfolk not long ago.Perhaps a job that doesn’t seem exciting to everyone, but that man did saythis fantastic sentence: ‘Someone’s existence is just as interesting as whatyou make of it in your head’. Verily: words to live by.”

How interesting is your own life?

Gibson ( laughs ): “Very fascinating! And I will always find that. Even if Iever become a postman.”

There is much uncertainty in life, but one thing is certain: it is neverboring with the Hazes family. The latest chapter in the saga is that RoxeanneHazes takes her mother, Rachel Hazes, to court. And of course one findssomething about that.

Roxeanne and Rachel have been at odds for some time. In _The Best Singers_Roxeanne opened another book about her traumatic childhood and the wounds hermother left with her.

Roxeanne Hazes institutes summary proceedings against Rachel Hazes

RTL Boulevard announced the news in a big way last night: Roxeanne has fileda lawsuit against Rachel. The case has to do with the legacy of André Hazessenior. Roxeannes spokesman Bernard Tomlow has previously questioned Rachel’sheirship. According to him, only the children were heirs.

Few details are known about the case, but the singer’s spokesperson said RTLBoulevard say: ‘Behind the scenes, outside the media and without procedures,efforts have been made for months to get clarification on a number of relevantmatters. Unfortunately, given the investigations that have been carried out,there is nothing left but for the judge to take the plunge, no matter how mucheffort has been made to prevent this.”

The case was not only brought by Roxeanne, but also by the person who was thewill administrator after the death of Hazes senior in 2004. According to theshowbiz program, the summary proceedings will be held in court in Utrecht onFebruary 9.

Reactions: ‘Roxeanne is right’

Roxeanne is often praised as the nicest of the Hazes litter and can count onacclaim again. “And she’s right. Ras was even on the verge of divorcing Andréwhen, due to a twist of fate, that fell through,” someone writes, for example,on Twitter. Another: “Sad for her. That she should take her own mother tocourt.” There is little sympathy for Rachel. Among other things, she is calleda “narcissist at its best” and an “ordinary money-grubber”.

That Rachel is just an ordinary money grab. She really didn’t marry André> out of love to become famous herself…. 🧐Roxeanne takes mother Rachel to> court for inheritance’ https://t.co/XqhbnUkrWw through> @Telegraph>> — Johan (@Johan55961986) January 5,> 2023

and she is right!! > 👍👊>> Roxeanne Hazes takes mother to court for Hazes senior inheritance via> @Telegraph> https://t.co/Rv08TAzgD1>> — EddeSah (@EddeSah) January 5,> 2023

Rachel Hazes, the narcissist at its best. For her, 1 was, is and will be the> most important thing in her life…Rachel herself🤮🤮🤬🤬>> — Gianni (@Gianni5nov1972) January 6,> 2023

You cannot disinherit your child. They are always entitled to the child’s> portion or part thereof. Roxeanne Hazes takes mother Rachel to court for> inheritance https://t.co/Wtp88qBIHt>> — Emma2028 (@Emma20282) January 5,> 2023

Yet there is also a few who do not support Roxeanne’s decision. “A little girlrejects the inheritance. That’s cool,” says someone, for example. And ofcourse there are also a lot of people who are fed up with the media attentionfor the family. “The year starts well for the Tokkie family….pardon Hazes.” Itis also joked about: “I slept very badly because of that hassle between Racheland Roxanne Hazes. I don’t mind that subconsciously.” People also wonder whatHazes senior would have thought of it all.

Roxeanne Hazes takes mother Rachel to court for inheritance> https://t.co/0wfHjQ6C7z>> What a strange family!!>> — Diny strouken (@DStrouken) January 5,> 2023

Will this slinging of mud in this Tokkie family ever stop? Who is waiting> for this reading material? Stop giving them a platform> @NUnl#Hazes> #paupernews>> Roxeanne Hazes takes mother Rachel to court over André Hazes’ inheritance> https://t.co/2npt2BXnpJ through> @NUnl>> — Goeloise (@doggeltje) January 5,> 2023

Roxeanne Hazes takes mother Rachel to court for inheritance. That family is> rotten through and through https://t.co/W3gXkfdwPW>> — Terence (@tessi58) January 6,> 2023

Still a close-knit family.>> Roxeanne Hazes takes mother Rachel to court over André Hazes’ inheritance> https://t.co/i0ivZyRN4I>> — Max Moos fuck off facists. Fuck Trump and Putin. (@MaxMoos9) January 6,> 2023

Guido den Aantractor is astonishing

Story boss Guido den Aantractor took it last night Show news up for LaHazes, who is a good friend of his. “I have always said and I will continue tosay that Rachel is a very good mother, who would rather amputate her lower legthan put both of her children at a financial disadvantage.” There is anoutraged reaction on Twitter to the fact that Van Aantrekker is standing upfor mother Hazes. “Very good mother? Go away Guido!”, says, among other