Follow updates from Tuesday’s tennis action in Turin
Fritz has been getting closer to a big breakthrough – he made last year’s US Open final, beating Alexander Zverev en route, and he gave Alcaraz trouble in the semis at this year’s Wimbledon. And though he’s yet to beat one of the greats on the big occasion, he’ll feel he’s in good enough for so to do. He has the balls and is preparing to serve. Ready … play.
Out comes Fritz, followed by Alcaraz. The crowds so far have been great, and who doesn’t want to spend a weekday afternoon enjoying genius?
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© Photograph: Valerio Pennicino/Getty Images
Supporting my mother as she grew older meant facing pride, minimization and resistance. The key to a healthier relationship was empathy
One evening as I was using my key to let myself into my mother’s apartment for a visit, I glanced toward the kitchen table where she usually sat reading the newspaper and saw her rolling walker standing alone. Surprised, I said loudly: “Where are you, Mom?”
“Here,” I heard her respond from her bedroom down the hall. “I’m fine.”
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© Photograph: Jennie Hart/Alamy
© Photograph: Jennie Hart/Alamy
This new addition to the Exhibition on Screen series features an alarmingly plausible-looking actor as the great man himself
The latest offering from the estimable Exhibition on Screen strand takes on one of the biggies – and with a title like that, it is also perhaps treading on other hallowed ground: that of Derek Jarman, whose 1986 biopic is arguably the most brilliant rendering of the great painter’s life and death. By contrast, this Caravaggio is a much more orthodox art-documentary treatment of its subject, playing to the strengths that the EoS films have built up over the years: beautifully crisp and detailed closeups of the work, well-informed and articulate talking-heads, and a nicely judged overall approach that is intelligent but not indigestible.
To be fair, this particular artist is well worked territory, so to spruce things up, the joint directors, David Bickerstaff and Phil Grabsky, cut in sequences with a monologuing actor, Jack Bannell, in character as Caravaggio. The aim is to fill in the void of the painter’s personality, of which, outside police and court reports, very little is known. Bannell certainly gives it his all and, tricked out in full beard and makeup effect facial wound, definitely looks the part – alarmingly so when the film cuts to a shot of David with the Head of Goliath, which gruesomely contains Caravaggio’s own features on the severed head. It’s not a totally successful device: there’s occasionally something of the one-man-fringe-play about it, but conversely it gets across the trigger points in Caravaggio’s life, particularly the final few years when legal troubles forced him to regularly move, from Rome to Naples to Malta, and back again.
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Exclusive: Border patrol arrested José Bertin Cruz-Estrada while he was battling a wildfire in Washington. He is now in Mexico, separated from his family in Oregon
José Bertin Cruz-Estrada was responding to a wildfire in Washington state on 27 August when four unmarked vehicles drove up to his crew’s remote location in a national forest.
Cruz-Estrada, part of a team of 20 Oregon-based firefighters, had spent a week hiking through dense terrain, battling smoke and clearing fallen trees and other debris to prevent the Bear Gulch fire, a 9,000-acre blaze, from growing. That morning, they were waiting for a taskforce leader to provide instructions, but Cruz-Estrada quickly realized the men arriving in trucks were not emergency responders.
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© Photograph: Courtesy José Bertin Cruz-Estrada
© Photograph: Courtesy José Bertin Cruz-Estrada
Smash them up and put them in soup or serve with pasta sauce, says our overstocked panel of pasta pundits
• Got a culinary dilemma? Email feast@theguardian.com
I’ve accidentally bought too many boxes of dried lasagne sheets. How can I use them up?
Jemma, by email
This is sounding all too familiar to Jordon Ezra King, the man behind the A Curious Cook newsletter. “It’s funny Jemma asks this,” he says, “because I was in this exact same situation earlier this year after over-catering for a client dinner.” The first thing to say is there’s no immediate rush, he adds: “It sounds obvious, but you can keep the boxes for a long time.” Fortunately for Jemma and her shopping mishap, however, lasagne sheets are also flexible, and their shape doesn’t have to dictate what you do with them.
With this in mind, soupy things are good to get on the weekly dinner rotation, be that pasta e ceci or minestrone, the latter being the go-to of choice for Mattie Taiano, chef and co-owner with Ravneet Gill of Gina’s in Chingford, Essex: “Just bash up the lasagne sheets with a rolling pin and chuck in all the bits.” Theo Randall, chef-patron of Cucina Italiana at the InterContinental London Park Lane, meanwhile, would break the pasta lengthways and cook it in boiling salted water: “Add that to a ragu-like sauce with some of the pasta cooking water and a generous knob of butter. Just make sure you cook the pasta and sauce together for at least three minutes, so they combine in texture and flavour.”
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Actor said discussions about animal cruelty with director John Chu had led him to join Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo in renouncing meat
The actor Jeff Goldbum has credited working on the Wicked movies with his decision to turn pescatarian.
Speaking on This Morning, Goldblum, 73, said that he had been affected by the film series’ themes of animal cruelty to such an extent that he stopped eating meat.
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Twelve people were killed and 27 injured in a suicide bombing outside district court buildings in the capital
At least 12 people have been killed in a suicide blast in Pakistan’s capital, Islamabad, as the defence minister said a deadly surge in terror attacks had put the country in a “state of war”.
The explosion, which was described as a suicide attack by several government ministers, took place outside the district court buildings in Islamabad on Tuesday at about 12.30pm. The area is usually heavily crowded with lawyers and litigants attending trials.
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© Photograph: Mohammad Yousuf/AP
© Photograph: Mohammad Yousuf/AP
Announced in 2020 by the Game Awards as an inclusive programme for the industry’s next generation, the Future Class initiative has now been discontinued. Inductees describe clashes with organisers and a lack of support from the beginning
Video games have long struggled with diversification and inclusivity, so it was no surprise when the Game Awards host and producer Geoff Keighley announced the Future Class programme in 2020. Its purpose was to highlight a cohort of individuals working in video games as the “bright, bold and inclusive future” of the industry.
Considering the widespread reach of the annual Keighley-led show, which saw an estimated 154m livestreams last year, Future Class felt like a genuine effort. Inductees were invited to attend the illustrious December ceremony, billed as “gaming’s Oscars”, featured on the official Game Awards website, and promised networking opportunities and career advancement advice. However, the programme reportedly struggled from the start. Over the last couple of years, support waned. Now, it appears the Game Awards Future Class has been wholly abandoned.
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© Photograph: Frank Micelotta/PictureGroup/Shutterstock
© Photograph: Frank Micelotta/PictureGroup/Shutterstock
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