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I’m sure the Pakistani lads gave the Indian lads stick throughout this game. BUT… what are we teaching the next generation if we can’t all shake hands at the end of a game and say well played.
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Sam Masud retweeted
Superb investigation. The value of arms export licenses to Israel increased under the Labour government.
They need to hang their heads in shame.
Sam Masud retweeted
Do You Know......Randir Singh Was One Of The First Sikhs To Be Featured On Mainstream TV In Uk In 1983,
A Prominent Character On The Classic BBC Children's Drama Grange Hill, Portrayed By Actor Kaka Singh. He Appeared Across 16 Episodes During Series 6 And Series 7 (1983–1984).
Sam Masud retweeted
A seething MSF statement re the latest deadly Israeli airstrike on Gaza’s Nasser Hospital which killed 6. Nasser is one of the few (partially) functioning hospitals in the occupied territory. ‘Under international humanitarian law, hospitals must be respected and protected. In no conceivable circumstances can attacks on functioning hospitals in Gaza be treated as normal or acceptable’ says @MSF A prev Israeli ‘double tap’ strike on Nasser Hosp in Aug last year killed 5 journalists responding to the initial strike. IDF used the same claim then of targeting Hamas with no evidence. @MSF has urged the int community to move beyond condemnation and take action ‘The continued attacks on healthcare cannot be met with silence and impunity’, it continued
We are appalled and outraged by the Israeli airstrike on Nasser hospital in Gaza, Palestine, last night. We have already treated three people injured in the attack.
It is unconscionable that patients and medical staff are once again being killed and injured inside a hospital, a place where lives should be saved, not taken.
We urge world leaders to move beyond statements of condemnation and take concrete action to ensure the protection of patients, healthcare workers, and facilities in Gaza. The continued attacks on healthcare cannot be met with silence and impunity.
msf.org/gaza-msf-condemns-an…
Sam Masud retweeted
It’s so hard not to come off as negative when talking to people who want to get into film/tv, because you know how difficult it’s going to be for them.
‘Now people want safe bets. They want stories that aren’t gritty, aren’t working-class.’
There’s been a significant drop in people from less affluent backgrounds working in television, film and other creative industries since the pandemic, according to figures obtained exclusively for Channel 4 News.
Shane Meadows, who directed ‘This Is England’, tells Frances Read that he’s seen firsthand how the problem is getting worse.
Sam Masud retweeted
An Al Jazeera investigation has documented evidence of Israeli soldiers joining settler attacks in civilian clothes and then returning back to the same villages they attacked in military uniforms.
Al Jazeera’s @emma_withrow explains.
Sam Masud retweeted
I did an 8-day residential personal development course with #JemimaGoldsmith in 2008, and I can say without hesitation that she is one of the most decent and authentic women I've had the pleasure of meeting.
I was genuinely surprised to read about her relationship with Russell Brand, but that is absolutely no reflection on her. We know how manipulative men like Brand can be, and how adept they are at saying exactly the right things.
I won't share personal details of the course or our time shared, but we all became quite friendly during those eight days and were invited to her home in Fulham a few months later.
Despite her background and public profile, there was nothing remotely showy or self-important about Jemima. She is simply a very decent woman.
So if anyone is looking to tarnish her by association, forget it. Good women can be deceived by very persuasive men. That says absolutely nothing about their own character.
Jemima Goldsmith accuses ex Russell Brand of 'violence and abuse' dailymail.com/crime-desk/art… via @DailyMail`,
Sam Masud retweeted
Smaller sums but same play when it comes to publishing. Bestselling book, articles that go viral, work that changes conversations, calls to my agent from editors who fawn, but where is the money, and where are the deals? I know things would be different if I was a white man.
Taraji P. Henson asked for $500,000 to play Brad Pitt's mother. She got $150,000 and says about $30,000 of it was left. The movie made $335 million.
In the video below, Gayle King asks if she's quitting acting. Taraji covers her face and cries before she can say a word. Then she does the math out loud.
In 2008 she was third on the call sheet for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, behind Pitt and Cate Blanchett. Her 2016 memoir says she'd been promised "somewhere in the mid six figures." At a 2023 SAG-AFTRA event she said she asked for $500,000 and was first offered $100,000.
It came up to $150,000 with a condition. She had to cover three months of New Orleans hotel bills herself. "Insult, meet injury," she wrote.
On The Real she did the sum. Half the $150,000 went to taxes. Her team took 30% of the full fee, $45,000. That left $30,000, and her son's school tuition that year was $30,000. "Literally, for five months, that's what I made."
The memoir puts her pay at less than 2% of what the studio paid the top name on that call sheet, Pitt.
She got an Oscar nomination for the role. Fifteen years later she said she almost walked away from The Color Purple over pay. That same month she told Gayle King: "Every time I do something and I break another glass ceiling, when it's time to renegotiate, I'm at the bottom again."
The case for the studio: Pitt sold the tickets, and she doesn't dispute his money. "They deserve to earn what they get," she said of Pitt and Blanchett.
Her side: "I too worked my ass off, and at the time I couldn't say no. I didn't have any power."
$335 million at the box office. An Oscar nomination. One year of school fees.
Every day, one star's real paycheck.
Was that Hollywood paying for box office power, or paying a Black woman less because it could?
Sam Masud retweeted
Taraji P. Henson asked for $500,000 to play Brad Pitt's mother. She got $150,000 and says about $30,000 of it was left. The movie made $335 million.
In the video below, Gayle King asks if she's quitting acting. Taraji covers her face and cries before she can say a word. Then she does the math out loud.
In 2008 she was third on the call sheet for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, behind Pitt and Cate Blanchett. Her 2016 memoir says she'd been promised "somewhere in the mid six figures." At a 2023 SAG-AFTRA event she said she asked for $500,000 and was first offered $100,000.
It came up to $150,000 with a condition. She had to cover three months of New Orleans hotel bills herself. "Insult, meet injury," she wrote.
On The Real she did the sum. Half the $150,000 went to taxes. Her team took 30% of the full fee, $45,000. That left $30,000, and her son's school tuition that year was $30,000. "Literally, for five months, that's what I made."
The memoir puts her pay at less than 2% of what the studio paid the top name on that call sheet, Pitt.
She got an Oscar nomination for the role. Fifteen years later she said she almost walked away from The Color Purple over pay. That same month she told Gayle King: "Every time I do something and I break another glass ceiling, when it's time to renegotiate, I'm at the bottom again."
The case for the studio: Pitt sold the tickets, and she doesn't dispute his money. "They deserve to earn what they get," she said of Pitt and Blanchett.
Her side: "I too worked my ass off, and at the time I couldn't say no. I didn't have any power."
$335 million at the box office. An Oscar nomination. One year of school fees.
Every day, one star's real paycheck.
Was that Hollywood paying for box office power, or paying a Black woman less because it could?
Sam Masud retweeted
Michael Mann on preserving Neil McCauley’s “internal paranoia” in Heat’s opening hospital scene. From his notes to the editors, September 12, 1995:
“Compare this to the last cut because […] we have lost some of the sharpness of Neil’s internal paranoia, i.e., the sense that he is moving through the corridors of the Emergency Ward seemingly passive, but that in fact he is acutely looking at things and seeing more details so we have a conflict between those two perspectives: his external appearance and his subjective hyper-attentiveness to everything in his surroundings.”
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Sam Masud retweeted
Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy is a Pakistani-Canadian #journalist, #filmmaker and #activist. Known for her work in #films that highlight the inequality with #women, as of 2019, her accolades include two Academy Awards, seven Emmy Awards and a Knight International Journalism Award.
Sam Masud retweeted
For last 24 hours I’ve seen footage of horrific scenes from Gaza, just absolute human misery. Yet..it’s not there on any news outlet’s home pages, not discussed on our witless political shows. We’re just going to ignore it? Is that the plan?
Sam Masud retweeted
What has happened to micro-budget features?
"Everybody's shied away from the idea that you get a group of friends together and try and make something in two weeks, three weeks. But it's often the thing that gives people a career," Helen said on The Screen Podcast
Sam Masud retweeted
slinking back onto twitter to share this wild news - I've been named as a
✨ 2026 @BAFTA BREAKTHROUGH ✨
Subhanallah, to be named among this cohort - a program w alumni like Florence Pugh, Letitia Wright, Callum Turner, Charlie Covell - is an honour and blessing. Alhamdulilah!