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El paddock del GP de Miami se llena de famosos
Fórmula 1 Este fin de semana se ha celebrado el Gran premio de Miami de la Fórmula 1 y muchos rostros conocidos se han acercado al paddock. Actualizado a 3 de mayo de 2026 18:20 CEST FOTO: NurPhoto / NurPhoto via Getty ImagesLionel Messi llega junto a su familia al circuito del GP de Miami. FOTO: Brett Farmer / LAT ImagesLionel Messi en el box del equipo Mercedes AMG Petronas F1 Team.
Scoring the Fault Line: Film Music and Postwar Industrial Rupture in on the Beach
There is a sequence midway through Stanley Kramer’s On the Beach (United Artists, Citation1959) that condenses many of the themes of the film and this paper alike. A nuclear war in the northern hemisphere has resulted in global human annihilation, and in Melbourne, Australia, the last known group of survivors awaits death as radioactive drift expands inexorably southward.
THE CONVERSATION: ‘Prima donna in pigtails’: how Julie Andrews the child star embodied the hopes of post-war Britain
In June, the American Film Institute presented its 48th Life Achievement Award, the highest honour in American cinema, to the beloved stage-and-screen star Julie Andrews. On conferring the award, the AFI praised Andrews as “a legendary actress” who “has enchanted and delighted audiences around the world with her uplifting and inspiring body of work”. As anyone who has seen Mary Poppins (1964) or The Sound of Music (1965) can attest, “uplift” is central to the Julie Andrews screen persona.
"Prima donna in pigtails": how Julie Andrews the child star embodied the hopes of post-war Britain
DEEP DIVE The idea of Julie Andrews as an uplifting figure has a long history 1st November 1948: Julie Andrews as a child singer, performing on stage at the Palladium during a Royal Command Performance. (Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images) This article was originally published on The Conversation. In June, the American Film Institute presented its 48th Life Achievement Award, the highest honor in American cinema, to the beloved stage-and-screen star Julie Andrews.
how Julie Andrews the child star embodied the hopes of post-war Britain
In June, the American Film Institute presented its 48th Life Achievement Award, the highest honour in American cinema, to the beloved stage-and-screen star Julie Andrews. On conferring the award, the AFI praised Andrews as “a legendary actress” who “has enchanted and delighted audiences around the world with her uplifting and inspiring body of work”. As anyone who has seen Mary Poppins (1964) or The Sound of Music (1965) can attest, “uplift” is central to the Julie Andrews screen persona.
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