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theguardian.com | David SMith |David Smith
Half a century later, Richard Dreyfuss still won’t go in the water. “I have never done it, not since the film,” the Oscar-winning actor says, “because you’re totally aware of what you’re not aware of and you’re not aware of anything underneath.”The film is Jaws, whose release 50 years ago on 20 June marked a turning point in both the history of cinema and public perception of sharks.
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theguardian.com | David SMith |David Smith
Hollywood. Silicon Valley. An agricultural sector that grows more than three-quarters of fruits and nuts in America. All contributed to April’s news that California had officially overtaken Japan to become the fourth biggest economy in the world, its GDP of $4.1tn trailing only the entirety of the US, China and Germany. But two months later this superpower is locked in a bitter power struggle with Washington DC.
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2 weeks ago |
theguardian.com | David SMith |David Smith
“Do you hear the people sing? / Singing the song of angry men? / It is the music of a people who will not be slaves again!”When the rousing anthem of revolution filled the Kennedy Center on Wednesday night, Donald Trump may have had a Pavlovian response along the lines of “Get me Stephen Miller” or “Send in the marines”. We will never know.
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2 weeks ago |
theguardian.com | David SMith |David Smith
The trouble began when the ceiling above the toilet collapsed. The Bravo family lost hot water and heat – sometimes the temperature would drop to 20F – and they had to boil water to bathe. Nathan, the youngest in the family, has asthma and needs a machine to help him breathe. A doctor blamed mould and cockroaches. “It was because of a leak,” says his sister Samantha Bravo-Huertero. “When someone doesn’t fix it, it does start filling with mould. It’s disgusting to see.
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theguardian.com | Nour Haydar |David SMith |David Smith |Karishma Luthria |Ima Caldwell |Miles Martignoni
US President Donald Trump’s decision to deploy 2,000 national guard troops against demonstrators protesting widespread immigration crackdowns in Los Angeles has been criticised as the ‘act of a dictator’Washington DC bureau chief David Smith tells Nour Haydar why Trump’s involvement in the protests is a diversion from his feud with billionaire Elon Musk• You can support the Guardian at theguardian.com/fullstorysupport
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