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Yahoo
6 days ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Jeff Buckley's Enigmatic Life and Career Are Analyzed in 'It's Never Over, Jeff Buckley 'Trailer: Watch
NEED TO KNOW Jeff Buckley's life and career will be analyzed in the upcoming documentary, It's Never Over, Jeff Buckley Never-before-seen footage and home videos are featured in the film directed by Amy Berg It's Never Over, Jeff Buckley, premiered at Sundance and hits theaters in AugustJeff Buckley's enigmatic life and career is front and center in this new film. The trailer for the documentary It's Never Over, Jeff Buckley, was released on Wednesday, July 16 and gives fans an intimate look at the singer's life and career, which was cut short. "How would you like your fans to think of you?" an off-camera voice asks the late musician in the trailer. "Just the music," the musician responds in a candid and now-haunting manner. "Because when I'm dead, that's the only thing that'll be around." At another point in the trailer, Buckley, who died in 1997 at 30 after drowning in a Memphis river, is asked, "Where would you like to see yourself in 10 years?" An answer is never revealed in the clip. The trailer features never-before-seen archival footage and home videos from Buckley's life. Those interviewed for the documentary include his mother, Mary Guibert, along with former partners Rebecca Moore and Joan Wasser. Former bandmates, including Michael Tighe and Parker Kindred, also participated in the film. "I've been wrong, and completely ugly, I've been beautiful, I've been totally in love, I've been hideous, but I've never been dead," Buckley says in voiceover at another part of the poignant trailer. Directed by Amy Berg and with the help of Guibert, the documentary came to be after there were talks of it being a narrative film starring Brad Pitt 25 years earlier. Never miss a story — sign up for to stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories. "Once I started listening to his voicemail messages and his DAP player and demos and reading his journals, I just couldn't imagine it being anything but a documentary," Guibert told Variety in January. "I just didn't know how you could kind of replicate Jeff in that scripted sense." Academy Award nominee Berg, 54, meanwhile, said that the singer is having "another moment in pop culture history." "One of the great things about Jeff Buckley is you discover him when you're meant to discover him,' Berg said to Variety. "He has definitely made a big impact on TikTok, where I was surprised to see that he has more followers on the Jeff Buckley hashtag than even Bob Dylan." Buckley was born in 1966 in California. His father, folk musician Tim Buckley, died in 1975 from a heroin overdose. His star began to rise in New York City's avant-garde club in the 1990s. He was a session musician when he signed with Columbia and released his only album, Grace, in 1994. His cover of Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah" was also a highlight of his career. He was working on his second record, My Sweetheart the Drunk, at the time of his death. It was released as a compilation titled Sketches for My Sweetheart the Drunk in 1998. The album received a Grammy nomination in the Best Male Rock Vocal Performance category for "Everybody Here Wants You." The documentary made its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival in January. It's Never Over, Jeff Buckley will be released in theaters Aug. 8. It will be available to stream on HBO Max in the winter as part of Bill Simmons' Music Box series. Read the original article on People
The Independent
26-06-2025
- General
- The Independent
15 best baby books for budding bookworms
Author Emilie Buchwald once said: 'Children are made readers on the laps of their parents.' But you don't have to wait until little ones can understand the words on the page to start bonding with them over books. In fact, publisher Penguin says the best age to start reading to your baby is from three to six months, or once they are able to focus on items such as a toy. Beyond fostering an early love of reading, the developmental benefits are well documented, from enhancing language to developing fine motor skills as they turn the pages independently. The tactile experience of holding and turning pages, the visual appeal of pictures, and the stimulation of hearing a voice reading contribute to sensory development. However, finding a book that keeps both your attention and theirs can be tough. Young babies often love board books with clear images and anything that's noisy, whereas toddlers squeal with delight at pop-up designs or lift-the-flap tales. To help you find some great options for baby's first bookshelf, we've rounded up our pick of the best baby books. How we tested With the help of our 17-month-old tester, we've reviewed a variety of baby books, reading the words on the pages, lifting the flaps, pressing the buttons, and watching the pop-up elements come to life. We were looking to see which books captivated our little bookworm the most, and which titles saw our mini tester returning for more, time and time again. Why you can trust IndyBest reviews Rebecca Moore is a writer who specialises in the parenting sector. She has since written about the best parenting products on the market, such as pram mittens, musical toys, baby carriers and more. In each of her reviews, Rebecca will only recommend the products and titles she believes are worth your time and money. The best baby books for 2025 are:
Irish Times
09-05-2025
- General
- Irish Times
Irish Blood, Irish Heart: Frank McNally on a Mancunian hibernophile, Sir Norman Moore
Manchester-born and Cambridge-educated, the baronet, pathologist, and historian Sir Norman Moore (1847 – 1922) was in some ways a pillar of the English establishment. But the defining events of his life included an encounter at Crewe railway station, one night while waiting for a connection, with two travelling harvest workers from County Mayo. Moore was able to greet them in their native language, after which they all drank coffee together, discussing Irish history at length. Eighteen years later, one of the men wrote to him, having seen his address in a newspaper, and this time seeking his expertise on a chronic illness. The English medical man helped cure the patient, eventually, and they became regular correspondents thereafter. This is one just example of a deep entanglement with Ireland and its culture, including the language, that Moore inherited from his unconventional parents. READ MORE He was the only child of the political economist Robert Ross Rowan Moore and his Limerick Quaker wife, Rebecca (née Fisher), already estranged by the time of Norman's birth. Raised mostly by his mother and her liberal non-conformist friends in Manchester, Moore Jnr left school early to work in a cotton mill. But he later studied at St Catherine's College, Cambridge, and won an eight-year residential scholarship there, to help set up a school of science, before he was 'rusticated' (a polite word for expelled) because of involvement in a scuffle. Staying with a friend near Ballymena, he discussed Virgil and Homer with a local ploughman. After that, he enrolled in St Bartholomew's, London, to study anatomy, and was involved with that hospital for the rest of his life, writing its history in a two-volume set, published in 1918. Alongside his medical career, meanwhile, he had become a scholar of Irish, a language he learned in childhood. One measure of his engagement with it is that, to help him understand the 11th century Leabhar na Huidri (Book of the Dun Cow), he read an Irish grammar book by a German professor, and was so impressed with that as to contact the author and ask permission to translate it into English. His version of the book was later considered by at least one expert to be an improvement on the original. Moore was also a frequent visitor to his ancestral homeland, a country he approached with the zeal of a pilgrim. On first seeing the Rock of Cashel, for example, he eulogised: 'My mother's ancestor Ceallachán was king of Caisil and when I crossed the plain and saw the grand old rock […] I rejoiced to feel that it was no strange or foreign grandeur which surrounded its old towers but a kindly family love.' Walking Ireland's back roads, he sometimes slept rough. He was in west Donegal the night that, unbeknownst to him, his father died. Many years later, he recalled: 'I slept on a wild mountain ... called Lough Salt. I was ignorant of his illness. I had lost my way and was very tired so I lay down in a hollow and covered myself with pieces of turf to keep off the wind which swept furiously across the mountain. Fierce driving rain followed but at last I fell asleep and when I awoke it was a clear, starlight morning. I walked on thinking of the protecting care of God. My father had been dying that night and I had walked on, as far as strong worldly protectors go, alone in the world. But God has always been my helper and to Him I will always turn for help.' Moore was struck by, among other things, the level of classical learning in 19th century Ireland, even among the poor. Staying with a friend near Ballymena, he discussed Virgil and Homer with a local ploughman and reflected critically on the writings of a previous scholar a century earlier: 'Dr Charles Smith, whose survey of Kerry, [was] published in 1774, noted that 'classical reading extends itself, even to a fault , among the lower and poorer kind in this county.' The `fault', in his estimation, was that it took their attention away from more useful knowledge.' Even when in England, Moore could commune with the old country, something he did on his 30th birthday. 'As I could not be in Ireland on that day I chose Glastonbury', he wrote, because 'many Irishmen spent religious lives there'. Kneeling at what he thought was the former location of a high altar, he made a vow 'that I would always prefer duty and learning to money.' Of his sense of identity, Moore said this: 'I am myself, but I am more. I have received a sort of trust from my dead ancestors.' After winning the affections of his future wife, Amy Leigh Smith, he wrote: 'In giving your heart to me, my dear one, you gave it to Ireland. You are all the world of people to me and Ireland is all the world of land.' This extraordinary man seems to have been largely ignored in the country he loved and has since been forgotten. But he will get some overdue recognition next week, when Dr Elizabeth Boyle of Maynooth University gives a talk on his life and work at the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies. The event is on Thursday, May 15th, at 5.30pm. More details are at
BBC News
13-02-2025
- General
- BBC News
Colchester Zoo says Brexit had 'major impact' on breeding
Brexit has had "a major impact" on zoo breeding programmes across Europe, according to an Essex than 60 species at Colchester Zoo have taken part in breeding programmes, but its zoological director, Rebecca Moore, said the number of transfers has dropped since the UK left the European Union, with an increase in paperwork and told the BBC projects with other zoos had become "a lot more difficult…time-consuming [and] expensive".It came as the government said it was seeking a new veterinary agreement with the EU and was trying to minimise disruption when importing and exporting zoo animals. 'Critically endangered' Colchester Zoo has welcomed several new arrivals in recent months, including two Amur leopard cubs, of which there are fewer than 100 left in the wild."The species itself is critically endangered, so anything that zoos can do to help breed is vital in its importance to its existence," said Emma Rasey, team leader of the zoo's carnivore section. Roo, a baby aardvark, is the 13th offspring of OQ, the most successful breeding aardvark in the UK. Her keeper, Jo Burch, said breeding programmes were vital for education purposes."A lot of people would never get the opportunity to see anything apart from their British wildlife, so it is important that we house these animals to educate people," she told the Moore said animals at the zoo which are involved in breeding programmes are coordinated on a European level, but leaving the EU has made this process more complicated."Previously we used to move animals relatively easily between the UK and mainland Europe," she said, adding that since Brexit, "the transfers have got less and less in number"."It really sees an impact on us being able to contribute to those European breeding programmes," she continued. The zoological director said changes in paperwork and legislation were needed."We hope that the government will look to do an agreement that will make it easier to move animals," Ms Moore said."That would then speed up the process and make the whole organisation of it a lot simpler."A spokesperson for the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs told the BBC: "We continue to work closely with our European counterparts when importing and exporting zoo animals to minimise disruption."They added: "We are also seeking a new veterinary agreement with the EU to strengthen our trade ties." 'Part of life' Speaking publicly for the first time about the recent death of one of its zebras, Ms Moore said there were "no plans" to make any changes to the shared enclosure where it the zebra was fatally wounded by a rhino in an accident in January, described by Ms Moore as "a sad, unfortunate incident"."It was a huge impact for all of the staff," she told the BBC."It wasn't the result of a vicious attack or anything like that," she added."It is part of life - they have lived together for many years peacefully."The zoo, which recently started life as a charity after years of private ownership, has more than 1.5 million visitors a year. Follow Essex news on BBC Sounds, Facebook, Instagram and X.
