Mark Kermode on… Kathryn Bigelow, a stylish ruffler of feathers

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From vampire noir to Bin Laden, Point Break to Detroit, the first woman to win an Oscar for best director has never pulled her punches Watching new Jeff Nichols release The Bikeriders , starring Austin Butler and Tom Hardy as 60s Chicago greasers, I was reminded of two other movies: László Benedek’s 1953 Marlon Brando vehicle The Wild One , explicitly cited as an inspiration, and The Loveless , the 1981 feature debut of Kathryn Bigelow , the American film-maker (b.1951) who would go on to become the first woman to win a best director Oscar with her 2008 war drama The Hurt Locker . A symphony of leather-clad posing (with just a touch of Kenneth Anger ), The Loveless was a staple of the late-night circuit in the 80s, often on a double bill with David Lynch’s Eraserhead . Sharing directing credits with Monty Montgomery, Bigelow playfully deconstructed masculinity and machismo in a manner that was one part wry to two parts relish. I remember seeing The Loveless at the Phoenix in East
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After A Series Of Regrettable Discrepancies, George Clooney Referred To His Marriage Proposal To Amal Clooney As A Fiasco

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Amal initially believed that the seven-carat diamond ring she was wearing belonged to one of George Clooney's exes, so when George Clooney proposed marriage to her, she assumed the ring belonged to one of his other girlfriends. George Clooney regarded the proposal as a fiasco. In the episode of The Drew Barrymore Show that aired on Friday, the actor shared with Drew Barrymore that although it was a disaster, he had planned out the entire thing. It had only been six months since we started dating when I hid the ring in a little drawer behind her. I was also the one who cooked dinner. The actor from Ocean's Eleven revealed that he intended to have Amal, 44 years old, take something out of the drawer where the ring was hidden as his aunt Rosemary Clooney's song Why Shouldn't I was playing in the background. However, things immediately went from bad to worse when Clooney's attorney found the ring and assumed it went to one of Clooney's exes. The attorney suspected the jewelry had been stolen. The Oscar winner explained that Amal scoffed when she saw the diamond ring as she "sort of pulls this thing out," referring to a little drawer. And when she examines it, she thinks to herself, "Uh, there's a ring in there." As if someone had left a ring there many years ago. He laughed and rolled his eyes as he quipped, "And I'm on my knee." She finally consented after the attorney repeatedly shouted "Oh my God" for twenty minutes. The wedding took place in Italy and was lavishly attended by the couple's closest friends and family. It took place only five months after the crazy proposal for the couple to be married. The happy parents of five-year-old twins Ella and Alexander recently celebrated their eighth wedding anniversary in grand style. A month ago, when the A-list actor was a guest on CBS Mornings, he confessed that the couple's intention to teach their children a second language didn't go as planned.

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