In 1972, photographer Robert Frank was given carte-blanche to comply with and movie The Rolling Stones on their American tour. The consequence was a movie deemed unreleasable by the band, however not due to the overwhelming quantity of intercourse, medicine and rock ‘n roll on show. Hearsay has it the band banned the movie as a result of Frank unblinkingly confirmed the tedium of life on the highway and revealed the actual lives of the band members.

It is hardly the high-glam life that may be anticipated from the “World’s Best Rock and Roll Band,” however these are the scenes that humanize the group and put a pinprick within the bubble of fame that surrounded the Stones of their glory days.

Director Jim Jarmusch mentioned, “It makes you assume that being a rock star is without doubt one of the final belongings you’d ever need to do.”

I point out all of this as a result of I believe there’s a correlation between the Rolling Stones movie (whose title I can’t print right here) and “The Apprentice.”

The Trump marketing campaign unsuccessfully labored to suppress this movie, and I might guess – and that’s all that is – they needed it shelved not due to the harder-edged portrait of Trump within the movie’s second half, which falls according to the candidate’s strongman picture, however due to the softer, extra humanist tone of the primary hour.

Once we first meet Trump (Sebastian Stan) he’s a determined man, going door-to-door in his father’s buildings to gather rents from tenants who clearly detest him, a lawsuit looms that might doubtlessly bankrupt the Trump household and his brother Freddy is an alcoholic who’s slowly dropping his battle with the bottle.

Sebastian Stan as Donald Trump in ‘The Apprentice’

Enter Roy Cohn (Jeremy Robust), a lawyer Trump affectionately calls “evil incarnate.” The prosecutor within the espionage trial of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg and chief counsel to Senator Joseph McCarthy’s investigations of suspected communists, he had a fearsome, take-no-prisoners popularity. The lawyer took Trump below his wing, greasing the wheels for him socially and professionally in Nineteen Seventies New York Metropolis.

“You’re the consumer,” says Cohn, “however you’re employed for me. You do what I say, after I say.”

The bold Trump begins as a lump of clay, however is quickly molded into an effigy of Roy Cohn, cruel in enterprise and in life.

“The Apprentice” is a number of issues. It’s the making of MAGA. It’s a narrative of unchecked ambition. It’s a cautionary story. It’s a interval piece of New York Metropolis within the go-go Nineteen Eighties.

Largely although, it’s an entertaining character research of one of many world’s most well-known folks that comes with the nice, the dangerous and the ugly.

The great? Stan, who (largely) avoids doing an “SNL” fashion Trump caricature. Within the final hour, when he has absorbed Cohn’s classes and the scholar has surpassed the grasp, he’s recognizably Trump.

Jeremy Robust and Sebastian Stan in a scene from the movie ‘The Apprentice.’ (Pief Weyman / Briarcliff Leisure)

Earlier than that, he’s extra absolutely rounded as a personality. There are flashes of compassion when he interacts with Freddy, frustration at being below his father’s thumb and vulnerability. When he turns into the blustery Trump we’re extra acquainted with, it turns into much less fascinating, however nonetheless avoids imitation.

As Cohn, Robust is serpentine, to the purpose of predatorially flicking his tongue. Eyelids at half mast, he exudes most confidence in his skill to regulate each state of affairs. When the tide turns for him, Robust manages to create empathy for a personality who by no means had any in actual life. When he complains to Trump that he’s “misplaced the final hint of decency you ever had,” the phrases hit exhausting.

The dangerous? Whereas Maria Bakalova, who performs Trump’s first spouse Ivana, is credible within the function, it feels a bit cheeky to forged her, given her headline-making encounter with Trump affiliate Rudy Giuliani in “Borat Subsequent Moviefilm.”

Maria Bakalova and Sebastian Stan are seen in a scene from the movie ‘The Apprentice.’ (Pief Weyman / Briarcliff Leisure)

The ugly? The informal venality on show. It’s the sort that highly effective individuals use to intimidate and management the individuals of their lives, and it’s grotesque. It’s an unpleasant glimpse into the halls of energy the place cold-blooded mercenaries like Cohn will do something to win.

There’s additionally a graphic and merciless scene of sexual assault, unflinchingly captured by director Ali Abbasi’s digital camera.

Donald Trump dismisses “The Apprentice” as “pure fiction” and for positive it isn’t the entire fact and nothing however the fact. A gap title card acknowledges that, asserting that “some occasions have been fictionalized for dramatic impact,” however it does seize the tenor of the instances and the dynamic between Trump and Cohn. It’s an origin story, and when you might not be taught something new, it paints a potent image of pure ambition run amok.

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TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — — Alabama was pushed to the brink of a second straight Southeastern Convention upset loss.

This time the Crimson Tide survived, if solely barely.

No. 7 Alabama (5-1, 2-1) botched the restoration of an onside kick to offer South Carolina one final probability, however Domani Jackson intercepted LaNorris Sellers as time expired and the Tide escaped with a 27-25 win.

It was Alabama’s third straight sport that went all the way down to the very finish, having crushed then-No. 2 Georgia 41-34 every week earlier than shedding 40-35 to Vanderbilt.

“One other sport all the way down to the wire,” Tide coach Kalen DeBoer stated. “We’re type of getting accustomed to these. There’s some issues that we will do to ensure it doesn’t get to that time. However we all the time discuss discovering a technique to win. As many occasions because it regarded like we weren’t, we did.”

With 43 seconds remaining, Sellers hit Nyck Harbor for a 31-yard landing, however the Gamecocks (3-2, 1-3) didn’t convert on their two-point try. They recovered the following onside kick, however Sellers’ desperation heave towards the top zone with 13 seconds remaining was intercepted on the objective line by Jackson.

“We anticipated to win this sport,” South Carolina coach Shane Beamer stated. “No person was coming in right here at halftime doing cartwheels as a result of we have been in a good sport with Alabama. We anticipated that, as a result of we have now a great soccer staff. Life on this convention is admittedly exhausting.”

Jalen Milroe rushed for a 7-yard landing within the fourth quarter after which hit Germie Bernard for a late 34-yard rating to assist Alabama survive the scare. It wasn’t fairly the emphatic rebound win they have been hoping to provide.

“It’s not the ‘W’ that we needed,” Alabama defensive lineman Tim Smith stated. “It ought to have been much more dominant and bodily, however a ‘W’ is a ‘W,’ man.”

Milroe delivered when he needed to in a sport the place he was intercepted twice and flagged for intentional grounding on a sack ultimately zone for a security. Dealing with third-and-10, he discovered Bernard downfield with no defender wherever within the neighborhood with 1:54 left to cap a 10-play drive.

“There was a variety of secure avenues and issues that we mentioned on that play and I feel that they have been aggressive in making an attempt to play a variety of these,” DeBoer stated. “There was a deeper route and I like that Jalen noticed it.”

Milroe was 16-of-23 passing for 209 yards with a landing and two dashing scores. Sellers was 23 of 31 for 238 yards with two TDs and the ultimate choose.

The Gamecocks entered the fourth quarter with a lead and had an opportunity to retake it. However Alex Herrera’s 51-yard subject objective try, which might have been a profession lengthy, was brief.

Milroe had taken benefit of a Sellers fumble together with his 7-yard landing run with 10:42 left however the two-point cross failed, leaving it 20-19.

He was relegated to cheerleader on the finish with the protection on the sector, identical to towards Vandy and Georgia.

“Once we discuss staff, that’s an important instance of simply discovering a means as a bunch to simply cheer on whoever’s on the sector and everybody simply shopping for in,” Milroe stated.

Alabama’s 14-0 lead was whittled down to 2 over the ultimate 1:37 earlier than halftime amid a sequence of South Carolina’s large performs and Tide snafus. It included the security, turnovers from every staff and Sellers’ fourth-and-9 cross to a wide-open Mazeo Bennett Jr. for a 36-yard rating.

“There was some loopy stuff however our guys simply stored hanging in there,” Beamer stated.

The takeaway

South Carolina: The Gamecocks largely turned issues round after a 27-3 dwelling loss to No. 9 Mississippi, with Sellers outplaying Milroe for a lot of the way in which.

Alabama: That dominant first half and win over Georgia looks as if a unique season now. However like that sport, the Tide managed to carry on.

Ballot implications

Alabama might fall within the rankings regardless of the win.

Up subsequent

South Carolina: At No. 18 Oklahoma on Saturday, Oct. 19.

Alabama: At No. 8 Tennessee on Saturday, Oct. 19.

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Rosh Hashanah has come and gone and with it, the enjoyment of welcoming a brand new 12 months. What follows is the good Jewish anti-celebration: Yom Kippur.

Crucial day on the Jewish Calendar, Yom Kippur – or the day of atonement – presents the possibility to make an apology. It concludes the “10 Days of Awe” that, sandwiched between Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur, provides a quick window for Jews to carry out “teshuvah,” or repent.

Rising up, I had a form of begrudging appreciation for Yom Kippur. The companies have been lengthy and the fasting uncomfortable, however I valued the way in which it demanded stillness. Whereas there was all the time extra prayer for individuals who sought it, my household often returned residence after the principle service and let time transfer lazily till the solar set. We traded notes on the sermon and waited eagerly for the outsized Costco muffins that often appeared at our neighborhood break quick.

This 12 months, because the world feels more and more un-still, the possibility to dedicate a day solely to solemn reflection feels significantly essential.

Yom Kippur dictates a generosity of spirit, imagining that God will see the most effective components of us and that we would be capable of find them ourselves. Within the identify of that generosity, I’m providing up a information – to Jewish and non-Jewish readers alike this 12 months.

Right here’s easy methods to hack atonement.

Take into account mortality

If Yom Kippur calls for one factor of us, it’s an acknowledgment of our fragile grasp on life. On the middle of the vacation is a studying, Unetaneh Tokef, that imagines – actually – how any worshiper would possibly die within the coming 12 months.

Have a look at the sharp edges of the world, it appears to say, see the way you would possibly impale your self? Don’t assume your self too massive, too invincible: You would possibly overlook that life is a valuable factor to be honored with good residing.

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However the good life imagined on Yom Kippur isn’t predicated on indulgence – it calls for acts of loving kindness: extra wealth shed to these in want, endurance for buddies in instances of wrestle, sticking your arm out to cease the subway doorways so a dashing commuter could make it inside.

The world is, in the end, extra more likely to be repaired with small bits of spackle than with a grand reworking.

Humble your self

“All of us dwell with a gun to our head and nobody is aware of when it’s going to go off,” Rabbi David Wolpe of Sinai Temple in Los Angeles instructed a New York Instances columnist in 2018.

Yom Kippur presents us the possibility to droop our retinol-fueled quest for everlasting youth and humbly acknowledge that no tomorrow is ever assured, regardless of our greatest efforts.

Asking for forgiveness additionally requires humility. Yom Kippur isn’t a passive vacation. You must take your atonement out into the world, humble your self in entrance of others, and supply honest apologies with out the assure that you can be granted forgiveness.

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In doing so, worshipers should carry out good acts with out the protection of reward on the opposite finish.

Goodness can’t exist as a mere gateway to acknowledgment or affirmation; it must be self-propagating.

Make room for hope

There’s a motive Yom Kippur exists facet by facet with Rosh Hashanah. We glance again on our shortcomings – individually and as humanity – for the aim of ushering in a greater 12 months.

The hope that emerges turns into then not only a blind want, however a extra sincere endeavor, guided by the information of the place we went flawed.

That’s the hope that we as Jews channel because the solar units on Yom Kippur annually. It’s a clear-eyed acknowledgment of the unlikeliness of fine, and a solemn vow to pump our lives, our communities, and our world as stuffed with it as we will.

Anna Kaufman is a search and optimization editor for USA TODAY. She covers trending information and relies in New York.

Tim Smith was not shocked with how powerful Saturday’s win in opposition to South Carolina was for Alabama soccer. 

The Alabama graduate defensive finish has been navigating SEC schedules since 2020. He’s been part of 4 SEC regular-season losses since his arrival at Alabama: Texas A&M in 2021, Tennessee and LSU in 2022, and Vanderbilt in 2024. 

So when an SEC staff involves Bryant-Denny Stadium to play Alabama, Smith is aware of precisely what the Crimson Tide will get. 

“We play at Alabama, you already know what I’m saying?” Smith mentioned. “We everyone’s Tremendous Bowl.” 

And for the previous 10 quarters, Alabama has seen SEC groups’ bests, from the second-half comeback by Georgia to the four-quarter collapse in opposition to Vanderbilt and Saturday’s slender win in opposition to the Gamecocks. 

Smith mentioned he is aware of what outsiders say. He harkens again to Alabama coach Nick Saban, calling different ideas and opinions “rat poison.” 

“However relating to us, after they play us, you won’t acknowledge who the staff is,” Smith mentioned. “They got here out to ball and beat our behinds. That’s one of many incredible issues in regards to the SEC: Everyone desires our head.” 

That narrative has continued by the Saban period and into Kalen DeBoer’s. 

On ESPN’s “School GameDay,” Saban mentioned he noticed “somewhat little bit of complacency, virtually even conceitedness” from the Crimson Tide after the Georgia recreation and into Vanderbilt week.

After what Alabama noticed from Vanderbilt, and from the scare South Carolina gave the Crimson Tide Saturday, a well-recognized chorus rang out from contained in the Alabama locker room. 

“We speak about it on a regular basis, it’s onerous to win within the SEC,” Alabama working again Justice Haynes mentioned. “They’re a extremely good staff, they usually took care of it right this moment. That’s all we will ask.” 

It’s a mindset that retains Alabama grounded in a convention that got here into Saturday with 9 groups within the newest top-25 of the US LBM Coaches Ballot together with future opponents Tennessee, Missouri, LSU and Oklahoma. 

Alabama nonetheless has notoriety within the SEC with what Saban constructed throughout 17 seasons in Tuscaloosa. However it’s a repute that has hit considerably of a roadblock over the course of DeBoer’s first six video games with the Crimson Tide, particularly over the previous 10 quarters of convention play. 

Previously 10 quarters, Alabama has both regarded beatable or been overwhelmed. And as Alabama faces the meat of SEC play — what may very well be 4 ranked video games in 5 weeks — adversity stays for the Crimson Tide, one thing extensive receiver Germie Bernard mentioned the staff all the time talks about. 

“I imply, we knew it could come,” Bernard mentioned. “It simply is determined by the way you reply. We responded properly this week and, I imply, we’ll simply proceed to sort things in apply that we’d like all through subsequent week and play a greater recreation.”

Colin Homosexual covers Alabama soccer for The Tuscaloosa Information, a part of the USA TODAY Community. Attain him atcgay@gannett.com or comply with him@_ColinGay on X, previously often called Twitter. 

CHICAGO — Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement and holiest of the Excessive Holy Days, begins at sunset Friday.

Yom Kippur is noticed with a full day of fasting from sunset to sunset, in addition to rituals and prayer at synagogues throughout the Chicago space. The statement is concluded with a break quick meal with household and group.

Judaism’s Excessive Holy Days yearly present an emotional mixture of celebration, introspection and atonement for Jews worldwide. This 12 months, for a lot of, the feelings will probably be terribly highly effective, on condition that the midpoint of the ten days spanning Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur is Oct. 7, the one-year anniversary of the Hamas assault that killed 1,200 Israelis and triggered the still-ongoing conflict in Gaza.

For Jews within the U.S., the previous 12 months has been difficult in some ways linked to Oct. 7. There’s been a surge in antisemitic incidents, and plenty of faculty campuses had been wracked by divisive pro-Palestinian protests. Jews grieved for these killed or taken hostage by Hamas; many additionally grieved for the Palestinians subsequently killed throughout Israel’s navy offensive in Gaza.

ABC7 Chicago contributed to this report

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Winner

Texas
TEX

6-0 , 2-0

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Oklahoma
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4-2 , 1-2

Winner

34

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TEX Texas	0	21	3	10	34
OKL Oklahoma	3	0	0	0	3

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Texas strikes to 6-0 for first time since 2009

DALLAS, Texas – The clock struck 6:05 P.M. Central Time contained in the Cotton Bowl and the Golden Hat Trophy was on the pinnacle of Texas soccer head coach Steve Sarkisian as his top-ranked Longhorns had been celebrating their 34-3 thumping of the No.18/16-ranked Oklahoma Sooners on Saturday afternoon. 

It took six video games into the 2024 season for an opponent to take the lead in opposition to Texas (6-0, 2-0), however the Longhorns rapidly overcame Oklahoma’s 42-yard area objective on the Sooners’ (4-2, 1-2) third offensive drive of the sport, a drive that took 4:42 off the clock and noticed OU transfer the ball simply 38 yards on 11 performs. The drive, which started with 4:52 left within the first quarter and ended with 10 seconds left, was the one one on the day for the crew up north that didn’t finish in both a punt, turnover or finish of half. 

After receiving the following kickoff minutes later, quarterback Quinn Ewers, in his first motion for Texas since UT’s 56-7 win over UTSA on Saturday, Sept. 14, orchestrated a 10-play, 75-yard drive that resulted in a 7-yard landing reception from redshirt-junior sign caller to tight finish Gunnar Helm three minutes and 50 seconds later. The drive was the primary of six totally different scoring alternatives — on 12 offensive possessions — for the Longhorn offense that rolled up 406 complete yards of offense on 61 performs in opposition to a Sooner protection that ranked forty third within the nation in complete protection. 

Over the course of the ultimate 5 minutes of the second quarter, Texas capped its 21-unanswered factors through the second quarter with back-to-back touchdowns as Silas Bolden fell on a unfastened soccer in the long run zone following a 36-yard run by Quintrevion Wisner. Wisner, once more, torched the Sooner protection for one more prolonged run through the Longhorns’ subsequent offensive collection because the sophomore operating again out of Glenn Heights, Texas, trotted into the top zone from 43 yards out for a 1-play landing drive following the primary of two Oklahoma misplaced fumbles on consecutive drives. 

Though Ewers and large receiver Ryan Wingo had been unable to attach on a 4th-and-2 play on the Oklahoma 10-yard line throughout Texas’ first possession within the third quarter, Bert Auburn added to the Longhorns’ 21-3 halftime lead the following time the offense took the sphere because the senior place kicker related from 41 yards out. The Flower Mound, Texas, native went on to make a 29-yarder with 7:44 remaining within the sport to push UT’s lead out to 27-3. 

After the Texas protection stopped the Oklahoma offense, which totaled 168 yards of complete offense prior its 17-play, 5:21 drive to finish the sport, on fourth down at its personal 32-yard line with 6:21 left within the contest, Helm out-jumped two members of the Sooner secondary on a cross thrown by large receiver Matthew Golden from 30 yards away. The Longhorn tight finish fell to the bottom on the 2-yard line to setup a 1-yard rush by Jerrick Gibson that proceeded a 1-yard landing run by Ewers. 

The dashing landing by the Southlake, Texas, native concluded a second half that noticed the Texas offense rating on its remaining three possessions of the sport and 6 of its final 9 relationship again to the Ewers-to-Helm passing landing early within the second quarter.  

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SpaceX pulled off its boldest check flight but of the large Starship rocket on Sunday, catching the returning booster again on the launch pad with mechanical arms.

Towering virtually 400 ft (121 meters), the empty Starship blasted off at dawn from the southern tip of Texas close to the Mexican border. It arced over the Gulf of Mexico just like the 4 Starships earlier than it that ended up being destroyed, both quickly after liftoff or whereas ditching into the ocean. The final one in June was probably the most profitable but, finishing its flight with out exploding.

This time, SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk upped the problem and threat. The corporate introduced the first-stage booster again to land on the pad from which it had soared seven minutes earlier. The launch tower sported monstrous metallic arms, dubbed chopsticks, that caught the descending 232-foot (71-meter) booster.

“The tower has caught the rocket!!” Musk introduced through X. “Science fiction with out the fiction half.”

Firm staff screamed in pleasure, leaping and pumping their fists into the air because the booster slowly lowered itself into the launch tower’s arms.

“Even these days, what we simply noticed is magic,” SpaceX’s Dan Huot noticed from close to the launch web site. “I’m shaking proper now.”

“People, it is a day for the engineering historical past books,” added SpaceX’s Kate Tice from SpaceX headquarters in Hawthorne, California.

An hour later, the empty spacecraft that was launched atop the booster made a managed touchdown within the Indian Ocean as deliberate, including to the day’s success.

It was as much as the flight director to resolve, in actual time with a guide management, whether or not to try the touchdown. SpaceX mentioned each the booster and launch tower needed to be in good, secure situation. In any other case, it was going to finish up within the gulf just like the earlier ones. All the things was judged to be prepared for the catch.

The retro-looking chrome steel spacecraft on prime continued world wide as soon as it was freed from the booster. Cameras on a buoy within the Indian Ocean confirmed flames capturing up from the water because the booster impacted exactly on the focused spot. It was not meant to be recovered for this demonstration.

“What a day,” Huot mentioned. “Let’s prepare for the subsequent one.”

The June flight got here up quick on the finish after items got here off. SpaceX upgraded the software program and reworked the warmth defend, bettering the thermal tiles.

SpaceX has been recovering the first-stage boosters of its smaller Falcon 9 rockets for 9 years, after delivering satellites and crews to orbit from Florida or California. However they land on floating ocean platforms or on concrete slabs a number of miles from their launch pads — not on them.

Recycling Falcon boosters has sped up the launch fee and saved SpaceX hundreds of thousands. Musk intends to do the identical for Starship, the most important and strongest rocket ever constructed with 33 methane-fuel engines on the booster alone. NASA has ordered two Starships to land astronauts on the moon later this decade. SpaceX intends to make use of Starship to ship individuals and provides to the moon and, ultimately Mars.

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Chris Martin clearly feels a duty to make use of his bully pulpit to unfold positivity. Nothing mistaken with that. One of many causes Coldplay are the most important ticket-shifters in rock historical past is that Martin is an incredible frontman, each for his witty, participating persona and his heartfelt supply. But solely the latter ever makes it on to Coldplay’s albums. There is no such thing as a wit on Moon Music. He utterly erases that a part of himself. All that continues to be is empty, cloying optimism and an excessive amount of ingratiating tosh in regards to the stars and the sky and spheres and moons and rainbows and clouds and heaven. It’s the Magic FM delivery forecast.

The tosh is bearable the place Coldplay’s golden melodic contact survives – We Pray and Good Emotions are significantly pleasurable. However, as on Music of the Spheres (2021), Max Martin’s anaemic manufacturing saps the weaker tracks: oodles of generic playlist pop that, other than the piano ballads, cut back the band’s glorious gamers to ornamental equipment. Hopefully, for his or her deliberate remaining two albums, Coldplay can conjure extra trippy bangers equivalent to 2015’s Journey of a Lifetime or Hymn for the Weekend. And switch up the wit.