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The sons of Ragnar have avenged his death, now it is their turn to choose their destiny.

In the last season we saw how Ivar, after a fit of fury, decided to end the life of his brother Sigurd and it was to be understood after he made a fool of him in front of the entire community of warriors after his triumph. I don’t know if it was necessary to kill him, but we know that little by little, the boning’s courage was gained. Although the culprit mentions being completely sorry and says it was an uncontrolled act, it is hard to believe him due to the great role played by Alex Høgh Andersen and especially because of that withering look. To be honest, if he wants to become a leader, he will have to be able to go to the lengths to be respected.

Our dear and eloquent Floki, leaves the camp after the death of his beloved Helga. He decided to go aimlessly on a boat under the tutelage of the gods, who will choose the fate of one of our favorite characters. Luckily for him, the weather leaves him completely adrift. No wind. The sea is quiet. The best shipbuilder begins to fear a futile demise, one that would not be worthy of a great warrior like him. After being whipped and suffering the acts of nature, after a long dream he finally makes landfall and with the last of his energy, he travels the lands of the unknown until he reaches a beautiful waterfall where a god welcomes him. Asgard, the land of the deities. Hopefully this new episode in his life will lead us to learn more about the legends and fantastic stories that surround Nordic culture.

After the attack, the already rubble of the old house of King Ecbert, receive the visit of a new character, Bishop Heahmund – who seems to have nothing as a clergyman – played by Jonathan Rhys Meyers known for his old character in The Tudors. At least he restores peace and orders to bring back the villagers who managed to fight the battle at the hands of the pagans. Although it is not yet very clear what role he is coming to play, it seems that it will be important and challenging, since he did not find much grace that Prince Aethelwulf received the crown. Speaking of the now king of Wessex and Mercia, he is sheltered on the outskirts of the kingdom, accompanied by Judith and Alfred, the son he had with the former owner of the throne and who suffers from a disease that threatens his death, which allows him receive the message from his father that Northmen have invaded York. Without delay, the survivors and the remaining soldiers set out to meet with the bishop to regain their lands.

The beautiful and imposing Lagertha lies in Kattegat and is proudly visited by the King Herald, who was waiting to enter the red carpet and sit on ?his throne?. After obtaining his not so deserved punishment and being rejected to marry the current leader, Beautiful Hair decides to kidnap Astrid and continue with his plan to become regent of Norway at all costs. We will see what happens with this struggle for territories. There will be blood, that’s for sure although the truth, the goddess of weapons can hardly be dethroned.

Returning to York, Ivar’s brothers are not at all happy with his ambition to take the leadership of the army, much less with the actions he takes to achieve it. They know that this could lead him to rule and remain under their command for the rest of his life. Nothing less could be expected of Ragnar Lothbrok’s worthy heir, including – watch out for this spoiler! – standing on his own two feet.

Lan Del Campo is a collaborator at IGN Latin America, addicted to cinema, series and shooters. You can find it on Twitter as @MeDicenLan.

Watch out! This review contains spoilers.

The sons of Ragnar have avenged his death, now it is their turn to choose their destiny.

Lan Del Campo is a collaborator at IGN Latin America, addicted to cinema, series and shooters. You can find it on Twitter as @MeDicenLan.

Continuing its resilient acquisition of higher-profile commercial titles for distribution in the U.S. and Canada, Saban Films has picked up North American rights to ?The Hyperions,? an indie superhero movie headed by Cary Elwes (?The Princess Bride?).

Saban Films has set a theatrical release for Feb. 2022.

Archstone Entertainment is representing the worldwide rights to the film.

The North American deal marks one of the first to be announced at this week?s Pre-Cannes Screenings, a virtual market that kicked off Monday.

Also starring Penelope Mitchell (?Hellboy?), Tanner Buchanan (?Cobra Kai?), Elaine Tan (?Tully?), and Alphonso McAuley (?Walk of Shame?), ?The Hyperions? was written and directed by Jon McDonald (?Muddy Corman?). It is produced by McDonald out of his label American Millimetre, as well as Justin Bell Productions? Justin Bell Jon Michael Kondrath at ReKon Productions.

In ?The Hyperions,? Elwes plays Professor Ruckus Mandelabaum who by 1960 has come up with a device, the Titan Badge, which gives human beings one particular superpower. Taking in three down-on-their-luck youths, Mandelbaum forges an unusual family of superheroes which attains fame and prestige.

But over time the family fractures, Mandelbaum replacing it with a new cadre of teen heroes. By 1979, however, two of the original superheroes plan to do what it takes to get their Badges back.

ReKon Productions? Lisha Yakub, and Archstone?s Jack Sheehan, Scott Martin, and Michael Slifkin serve as executive producers. The Saban Films acquisition was negotiated by Steve Break on behalf of Saban Films and Archstone?s Sheehan on behalf of the filmmakers.

Archstone and Saban Films previously collaborated on Darren Lynn Bousman?s 2020 horror film ?Death of Me,? starring Maggie Q and Luke Hemsworth, Saban acquiring North America while Archstone represented worldwide distribution rights.

An affiliate of Saban Capital Group founded in 2014 by Haim Saban, SCG chairman and CEO, Saban Films has expanded its film industry presence by entering production and recently moving into the U.K. market, partnering with Altitude Media Group.

The company?s hits have run the gamut of theatrical movies such as ?The Homesman,? starring Hilary Swank; August?s digital hit ?The Silencing,? a thriller with Nikolaj Coster-Waldau; and Fathom Events? such as ?3 From Hell,? from Rob Zombie, and Kevin Smith?s ?Jay and Silent Bob Reboot.?

Recent theatrical hits take in horror reboot ?Wrong Turn,? produced by Constantin and starring Charlotte Vega and Matthew Modine, which opened in U.S. theaters in Jan. 26, grossing $1.25 million despite COVID-19.

Saban Films has continued to release films theatrically during the pandemic, bigger bows including Ian Nelms and Eshom Nelms? ?Fatman? with Mel Gibson in October 2020, and Brad Furman?s ?City of Lies,? starring Johnny Depp and Forest Whitaker, which opened in March 2021.

Saban Films has set a theatrical release for Feb. 2022.

Archstone Entertainment is representing the worldwide rights to the film.

The North American deal marks one of the first to be announced at this week?s Pre-Cannes Screenings, a virtual market that kicked off Monday.

But over time the family fractures, Mandelbaum replacing it with a new cadre of teen heroes. By 1979, however, two of the original superheroes plan to do what it takes to get their Badges back.

Journal Reference:

Hannah C. Williamson, Thomas N. Bradbury, Benjamin R. Karney. Experiencing a Natural Disaster Temporarily Boosts Relationship Satisfaction in Newlywed Couples. Psychological Science, 2021; 095679762110156 DOI: 10.1177/09567976211015677

The study, published this week in the journal Psychological Science, has implications for how best to help families as they navigate different types of stressors.

The research team had already surveyed 231 newly married couples about their relationship satisfaction shortly before Hurricane Harvey hit the Texas coast in August 2017, devastating much of the Houston area. With the advent of the hurricane, researchers saw a unique opportunity to track relationship dynamics through the aftermath of a natural disaster. A relationship study with data from before and after a natural disaster had not been done before.

?We originally set out to study the effects of everyday stressors, such as financial problems and the transition to parenthood, on couples in the early years of their marriage,? said Hannah Williamson, assistant professor of human development and family sciences at The University of Texas at Austin and lead author of the study. ?When the hurricane hit in the middle of the study, it allowed us to look at the effects of a major acute stressor. Unfortunately, more and more people are going through disasters such as hurricanes and wildfires.?

The study found that in the immediate aftermath of the hurricane, couples experienced a significant boost in relationship satisfaction. This surprised researchers because in previous studies looking at everyday stressors, couples typically experience ?stress spillover? in their relationships, which can decrease their satisfaction with their relationships.

?Based on previous studies, we expected to see people who were happy with their relationships before the hurricane would be even happier afterwards, and people who were unhappy would be more unhappy,? said Williamson. ?We actually saw the biggest jumps in relationship satisfaction among the couples who were the most unhappy before the hurricane.?

The researchers also examined how bad the hurricane experience was for couples, asking them about damage to their homes, financial losses and more. It turns out these differences in experiences did not factor into the results in relationship satisfaction.

None of this means that couples experiencing relationship problems should start planning to spend hurricane season in Florida now. Researchers noted that the boost in relationship satisfaction was not permanent, and couples returned to pre-hurricane levels of satisfaction within a year.

?A natural disaster can really put things in perspective. People realize how important their partner is to them when they are jolted out of the day-to-day stress of life,? Williamson said. ?There may be therapeutic applications to this if couples can shift their perspective in a similar way without having to go through a natural disaster.?

Thomas N. Bradbury and Benjamin R. Karney of the University of California, Los Angeles also contributed to the research, which was funded by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development.

Journal Reference:

Hannah C. Williamson, Thomas N. Bradbury, Benjamin R. Karney. Experiencing a Natural Disaster Temporarily Boosts Relationship Satisfaction in Newlywed Couples. Psychological Science, 2021; 095679762110156 DOI: 10.1177/09567976211015677

The study, published this week in the journal Psychological Science, has implications for how best to help families as they navigate different types of stressors.

Warning: Major spoilers ahead for “No Time to Die.”
Daniel Craig told Variety he came up with the idea for how his time as Bond would end back in 2006.
He pitched it to “Bond” producer Barbara Broccoli after making “Casino Royale” and she agreed.

In a franchise that practically has done everything, it came as quite a shock when James Bond dies at the end of “No Time to Die,” basically giving Daniel Craig the best 007 exit ever.

Now, Craig is finally ready to talk about what led to the end of his Bond. And it turns out it was an idea that has been on the actor’s mind since making his first 007 movie, “Casino Royale.”

“It was 2006,” Craig recalled in a recent interview with Variety. “[Bond franchise producer] Barbara [Broccoli] and I were sitting in the back of a car driving away from the Berlin premiere of ‘Casino Royale.’ Everything was going well. People liked the movie. And it looked like I was gonna get a chance to make at least another movie.”

Craig said it was in that moment that he threw an idea at Broccoli.

“I said to Barbara, ‘How many of these movies do I have to make?’ Because I don’t really look at contracts or any of those things,” he recalled. “And she said, ‘Four,’ and I went, ‘Oh, okay. Can I kill him off in the last one?’ And she didn’t pause. She said, ‘Yes.'”

Barbara Broccoli with her arm holding Daniel Craig — Daniel Craig and Barbara Broccoli.

“It’s the only way I could see for myself to end it all and to make it like that was my tenure,” Craig added.

But it wasn’t an easy task for Broccoli to keep her word. Through the years, Craig’s Bond portrayal became a box-office sensation. She had to convince her producing partner on the Bond movies, Michael G. Wilson, that this was the way for Craig’s Bond to go out.

“It was ‘no’ for a long time,” Craig said. “I thought it was forgotten about, put it that way. I didn’t bring it back up again until this one.”

After “Spectre,” Craig’s fourth time playing Bond, Wilson said Craig was ready to leave the franchise.

“We wanted Daniel back [for a fifth movie] and he was very reluctant,” Wilson told Variety. “I think we thought, all of us had thought, that [Bond dying] was the best way to end this whole thing.”

But how Bond would die became the next conversation.

“How he meets his end wasn’t decided yet,” “No Time to Die” director Cary Joji Fukunaga told Variety. “It was just the fact that he would, so the question then became how to do it.”

Fukunaga said there were many ideas for how Bond would die, including “an anonymous bullet.”

“I remember that one,” he said. “But it just seemed like a conventional weapons death didn’t seem appropriate.”

What they finally came up with was Bond single-handedly saving the world by killing the villain, Safin (Rami Malek), but in the process getting a virus that makes it impossible for him to have contact with Madeleine (Léa Seydoux) and their child without killing them. So he dies on the island that contains the virus when it is bombed.

“It couldn’t feel like a random act,” Fukunaga said of Bond’s fate. “It had to have weight ? without it, it wasn’t gonna work. And if we hadn’t have got that weight, I don’t think we would’ve done it.”

Warning: Major spoilers ahead for “No Time to Die.”
Daniel Craig told Variety he came up with the idea for how his time as Bond would end back in 2006.
He pitched it to “Bond” producer Barbara Broccoli after making “Casino Royale” and she agreed.

In a franchise that practically has done everything, it came as quite a shock when James Bond dies at the end of “No Time to Die,” basically giving Daniel Craig the best 007 exit ever.

Now, Craig is finally ready to talk about what led to the end of his Bond. And it turns out it was an idea that has been on the actor’s mind since making his first 007 movie, “Casino Royale.”

Craig said it was in that moment that he threw an idea at Broccoli.

“It’s the only way I could see for myself to end it all and to make it like that was my tenure,” Craig added.

“It was ‘no’ for a long time,” Craig said. “I thought it was forgotten about, put it that way. I didn’t bring it back up again until this one.”

After “Spectre,” Craig’s fourth time playing Bond, Wilson said Craig was ready to leave the franchise.

But how Bond would die became the next conversation.

“How he meets his end wasn’t decided yet,” “No Time to Die” director Cary Joji Fukunaga told Variety. “It was just the fact that he would, so the question then became how to do it.”

Fukunaga said there were many ideas for how Bond would die, including “an anonymous bullet.”

“I remember that one,” he said. “But it just seemed like a conventional weapons death didn’t seem appropriate.”

Journal Reference:

Thatiane De Oliveira Sergio, Leah Wetherill, Claudina Kwok, Farrah Khoyloo, Frederic W. Hopf. Sex differences in specific aspects of two animal tests of anxiety-like behavior. Psychopharmacology, 2021; DOI: 10.1007/s00213-021-05893-w

Researchers from Indiana University School of Medicine recently studied the behaviors associated with anxiety ? published in Psychopharmacology ? examining how biological factors impact anxiety disorders, specifically in females. They found that anxiety in females intensifies when there?s a specific, life-relevant condition.

The team, led by Thatiane De Oliveira Sergio, PhD, postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Woody Hopf, PhD, professor of psychiatry and primary investigator at Stark Neurosciences Research Institute, studied male and female rodent models to better understand sex differences in biological responses related to anxiety.

Anxiety disorders occur in twice as often in women than men, and social and cultural factors likely play an important role in the development of anxiety in females, De Oliveira said.

The COVID-19 pandemic heavily influenced anxiety in people. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, in June 2020 ? a few months into the pandemic ? 13 percent of Americans started using or increasing substance use to cope with their emotions and stress due to the unknowns at that time about the pandemic.

Knowing that women have more incidence of anxiety than men, De Oliveira said the roles for many women have amplified during the pandemic ? working remotely, teaching children in virtual school, everyday tasks, errands. She said these life-relevant conditions could have increased their anxiety.

?This work is giving us a foundation to start and explore anxiety behaviors that are very important and even more relevant now,? De Oliveira said.

While anxiety in humans is complex, anxiety in animals is based solely on biology.

?Biological factors play an important role in these types of mood disorders, but it can be hard to untangle the mechanisms that drive anxiety in humans,? De Oliveira said. ?This rodent work is important to do to help develop more effective and personalized treatments.?

Through studying both male and female rodent models, they found that females and males were very different in their response to the most life-relevant aspects related to anxiety, Hopf said.

In one of the behavioral tasks, rodents had to grab pellets of food which were in the brightly lit center of a big arena. Rats don?t like the light, so this creates an anxious conflict. In this task, female rats took longer to touch the food and ate less food relative to males.

The researchers also gave the rodents diazepam ? a drug used to treat anxiety ? and it greatly reduced anxiety in females, but it had little effect in males when interacting with food. There were also other measures that showed similarities between males and females, Hopf said, including how many times a rat approached the lit center and how long it remained there. Thus, only the parts of the task that were most life-relevant ? in this case food ? showed sex differences.

Previous studies support the idea that anxiety in females is focused on the most life-relevant aspects of a situation, Hopf said, which aligned with their findings. For example, females ? more than males in both studies ? showed greater responses to the urine of a predator and had higher anxiety when in the presence of a second rat that was free to wander around.

?Knowing that anxiety can manifest from different concerns in males and females, with females particularly attuned to the most life-relevant conditions, is a valuable step towards seeking better treatments based on sex differences,? De Oliveira said.

This research was funded by the National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, part of the National Institutes of Health.

Journal Reference:

Thatiane De Oliveira Sergio, Leah Wetherill, Claudina Kwok, Farrah Khoyloo, Frederic W. Hopf. Sex differences in specific aspects of two animal tests of anxiety-like behavior. Psychopharmacology, 2021; DOI: 10.1007/s00213-021-05893-w

Anxiety disorders occur in twice as often in women than men, and social and cultural factors likely play an important role in the development of anxiety in females, De Oliveira said.

?This work is giving us a foundation to start and explore anxiety behaviors that are very important and even more relevant now,? De Oliveira said.

While anxiety in humans is complex, anxiety in animals is based solely on biology.

Through studying both male and female rodent models, they found that females and males were very different in their response to the most life-relevant aspects related to anxiety, Hopf said.

This research was funded by the National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, part of the National Institutes of Health.

Tom Hanks has a knack for the unexpected. After all, no one thought his wild Saturday Night Live character David S. Pumpkins would become a phenomenon. And even Hanks himself had little faith that his breakthrough movie, 1988?s Big, would put him on track to become an A-list Hollywood star. So perhaps viewers of the Paramount+ series 1883 shouldn?t be too surprised to see the Forrest Gump icon sweeping his way across the screen.

Tom Hanks | Steve Granitz/WireImage

Tom Hanks started his career on television

Hanks? legacy will always be as a movie star. The actor has spent decades as one of the most beloved, bankable, and charismatic screen legends of his generation. Yet, ironically, his career really started on the small screen. From 1980 to 1982, Hanks played Kip Wilson opposite Peter Scolari?s Henry Desmond on ABC sitcom Bosom Buddies. On that show, the actors played two single men who disguise themselves as women to live in a female-only apartment.

And in the early years of his career, Hanks was all over television. In addition to Bosom Buddies, he appeared on The Love Boat, Taxi, and Happy Days. He even guest-starred in three episodes of Family Ties as Uncle Ned. It wasn?t until 1984?s dual hits Splash and Bachelor Party that Hanks started to gain some traction as a movie star. A few years later ? particularly after Big ? his trajectory as an A-list star was off and running.

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How the actor made a cameo on ?1883?

Over the years, Hanks returned to TV every once in a while. Perhaps most notably, he?s hosted and appeared on SNL roughly 20 times over the years. And he?s produced projects like the HBO miniseries From the Earth to the Moon and Band of Brothers, making a cameo in the latter. Some fans might surmise Hanks? interest in history led him to 1883. The actor appeared briefly as an army captain surveying the bloody aftermath of the Battle of Antietam. However, Hanks appeared on the Yellowstone spinoff for a different reason, said star Tim McGraw.

?You never want to botch a scene when you got Tom Hanks in there with you,? McGraw told CinemaBlend. ?But yeah, he?s a great guy. We?ve been friends for a long time. Rita [Wilson], his wife, and Faith [Hill, McGraw?s wife] are best friends. And Tom and I?ve been friends for 25 years, 24 years. I knew that there was this part in there, and I gave him a call said, ?Hey, would you be interested in showing up doing a cameo in this show that we?re doing?? And he goes, ?Tell me when to be there,? and he just showed up.?

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What movies is Tom Hanks doing next?

Of course, Hanks remains principally a movie star. His brief cameo on 1883 has more to do with a personal favor to a friend than anything else. Still, it?s a real treat for fans to see him show up. And the actor certainly elevates the emotions of the moment. But Hanks already has several movie projects in the works for the next couple of years.

In 2022, Hanks will star as Colonel Tom Parker in director Baz Luhrmann?s Elvis Presley biopic, aptly titled Elvis. That film will release on June 24, 2022. Then Hanks will reunite with Forrest Gump director Robert Zemeckis for Disney?s live-action musical Pinocchio. The film ? in which Hanks will play Geppetto ? is slated to hit Disney+ in late 2022.

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Tom Hanks | Steve Granitz/WireImage

Tom Hanks started his career on television

RELATED: Tom Hanks? First Movie Was a Slasher Film Inspired by ?Halloween?

How the actor made a cameo on ?1883?

What movies is Tom Hanks doing next?

RELATED: Why Tom Hanks? ?Cast Away? Inspired Fans to Change Careers

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Journal Reference:

Taito Murakami, Toshiya Shibata, Yuta Yasui, Kotaro Fujii, James R. Hester, Masatomo Yashima. High Oxide?Ion Conductivity in a Hexagonal Perovskite?Related Oxide Ba 7 Ta 3.7 Mo 1.3 O 20.15 with Cation Site Preference and Interstitial Oxide Ions. Small, 2021; 2106785 DOI: 10.1002/smll.202106785

The ever-increasing demand for clean energy and high-performance devices in the modern technological era has called for the development of alternate energy materials. In particular, oxide-ion conductors have garnered a lot of attention on this front. The presence of highly mobile oxide ions in their crystal structure imparts unique electronic properties to these materials with potential applications in the design of solid oxide fuel cells (SOFCs), a promising technology for generating clean energy.

To develop efficient SOFCs, solid oxide-ion conductors with high conductivity and chemical and electrical stability are necessary. Unfortunately, conventional oxide-ion conductors do not show sufficient conductivity below 700°C. An alternative material with high ion conductivity at lower temperatures (300 ? 600 °C) is, therefore, highly sought after.

Fortunately, perovskite-type oxides could come to the rescue. In particular, hexagonal perovskite derivatives composed of barium (Ba), molybdenum (Mo), and niobium (Nb) oxides have been reported to exhibit high ionic conductivity. However, certain drawbacks still remain: the amount of oxygen in the interstitial spaces of the crystal structure, necessary for high conduction, is still low, electronic conduction competes with and hampers ionic conduction in a reducing atmosphere, and diffraction techniques are unable to shed light on the underlying oxygen migration mechanism.

In a recent study published in Small, a team of researchers led by Prof. Masatomo Yashima from Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech), Japan, addressed these issues. The team developed a new hexagonal perovskite-related oxide, Ba7Ta3.7Mo1.3O20.15, which showed excellent ionic conduction at intermediate and low temperatures. ?We aimed to design materials that allowed for the introduction of a large number of interstitial oxygens into their structure and showed high conductivity at intermediate and low temperatures. Additionally, the ion conduction remained dominant in a reducing atmosphere,? elaborates Prof. Yashima. This study came from collaborative research done by Tokyo Tech, Japan, Kojundo Chemical Laboratory Co. Ltd., Japan, and the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (ANSTO), Australia.

The team then carried out structural analyses of the materials using a combination of synchrotron X-ray and neutron diffraction data and numerical calculations. They found that introducing tantalum (Ta) into the structure resulted in improved stability and a larger number of interstitial oxygens compared to the other hexagonal perovskite-related oxides. Additionally, the analyses and calculations showed that the Mo ions preferentially occupied the oxygen-deficient layers responsible for the oxide-ion conduction.

The team is delighted with these findings and Prof. Yashima is optimistic about their practical ramifications. ?The results obtained in our study could provide an effective strategy for the development and commercialization of SOFCs,? he expects.

Journal Reference:

Taito Murakami, Toshiya Shibata, Yuta Yasui, Kotaro Fujii, James R. Hester, Masatomo Yashima. High Oxide?Ion Conductivity in a Hexagonal Perovskite?Related Oxide Ba 7 Ta 3.7 Mo 1.3 O 20.15 with Cation Site Preference and Interstitial Oxide Ions. Small, 2021; 2106785 DOI: 10.1002/smll.202106785

Before Dax Shepard met and fell in love with his wife, Kristen Bell, he met his best friend, Bradley Cooper. More than a decade later, the two have quite a few stories to tell ? that is, when they can get through them without laughing.

In honor of his latest film, Nightmare Alley, hitting theaters, Bradley joined Dax and cohost Monica Padman for an episode of Armchair Expert. During the two-hour episode, which premiered on November 29, Dax and Bradley went down memory lane and opened up about how their friendship began back in 2006. According to the duo, they were introduced by fellow actor and comedian Will Arnett, and they quickly bonded over similarities, including their birthdays and sobriety.

Just like any other best friend duo, Dax and Bradley filled in the blanks for each other during their conversation and couldn’t stop cracking up. During one particularly hilarious moment, Bradley attempted to jog Dax?s memory about a time he asked him to come to Paris with him for an appearance on a French late-night show. Although Dax was very impressed with Bradley?s French speaking skills, the A Star Is Born actor and director admitted to panicking and looking to his friend for help.

Dax Shepard and Bradley Cooper in Hollywood in June 2009.

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?Do you remember when we were the guest stars for the New Year?s Eve special? Do you remember they brought us out on that stage in France?? Bradley said on the podcast. ?They may not have known who we were, but we were the final act of this New Year?s Eve countdown special. We walked out to the center of the stage. It was so bizarre. Do you remember that??

?So vaguely. But yes, I do remember you bringing me along,? Dax said.

?I remember I didn?t know what it was and I was like, ?Come with me to this thing. Just come with me on stage,?? Bradley said. ?And then we walk into the middle of this stage and there are hundreds of people. Everybody was in tuxedos but us, dude. It was crazy. It was like these two Americans on a tour. That was so funny.?

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While the best friends might not remember every single detail of every moment they?ve shared, Bradley and Dax can agree that they won?t ever forget what it’s been like having each other?s company.

?We fell deeply in love with each other, period,? Bradley said. ?Being in this business and finding somebody that you have such a connection with. Hollywood is the farthest place ever from how we grew up. And so, to meet a likeminded person in this forest of unknown land, you just want to grab on and hold on. You were certainly my lifeline for years.?

Dax agreed and revealed that he could be his most authentic self. ?There?s this dance you?re playing when you?re newly in the business … I was acting like I belonged in all of these places,? Dax said. ?But then when I met you I could ? geek out and be a fan ? It was like we were childhood friends ? We could together go, ?Look at all of this crazy s–t.? We were allowed to expose our naiveté to one another.?

For Bradley, their friendship felt like a safe space. ?Just a feeling, a comfort,? he said. ?When I was with you, everything felt okay in Hollywood. To go out with you, and I was like, ?Everything is going to be fine.??

That’s what we call an amazing friendship!

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Dax Shepard and Bradley Cooper in Hollywood in June 2009.

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?So vaguely. But yes, I do remember you bringing me along,? Dax said.

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While the best friends might not remember every single detail of every moment they?ve shared, Bradley and Dax can agree that they won?t ever forget what it’s been like having each other?s company.

That’s what we call an amazing friendship!

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ReportageThe Brazilian city is preparing to celebrate its famous carnival. But time is running out, because, since the end of December 2021, cases have started to rise again in Brazil, already severely affected by the Covid-19.

Feet in the sand, comfortably seated on his lounge chair facing the ocean, Marcelo nevertheless looks worried. He glances right then left, watching warily the crowds of thousands of bathers crowded together on Ipanema Beach. ?This is the first time that I have returned to the beach in two years of the pandemic! “, admits this fifty-something, living in Rio de Janeiro and part of a cosmetics company.

?I admit it: I’m a little scared! I sit a little apart, I came only with my daughter and my wife and I do not consume anything? ?, details Marcelo, graying hair and chest reddened by the sun. On this radiant Brazilian summer afternoon, he was the only one to take such precautions. The beach is packed and the sea is wet with suntan lotion and oil. No clouds on the horizon. No mask.

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After two years of pandemic, Rio is coming back to life. The city is now seeing its indicators in green after having gone through an unprecedented tragedy, burying more than 35,000 of its own (620,000 in Brazil), carried away by the Covid-19, We only diagnose a handful of new cases daily, against more than 2,000 at the height of the epidemic. Barely twenty patients are now hospitalized. They were nearly 1,500 in July 2021.

?The fear is gone! “

City of pleasure and enjoyment, Rio has found a smile again. On the first aid station number 8, in Ipenama, the rescuers wrote in red and in bold: ” happiness “, “Joy” in Portuguese. A few meters away, on the sand, Dayla, 27, an azure blue bikini adorned with flowers, seems more concerned about sunburn than about the Covid-19. ?I live in the neighborhood. Here, it’s armored every day. It’s unreal, even in this season ?, she says.

Zêêne evening in Madureira, in the northern zone of Rio de Janeiro, on December 27, 2021.

On the dance floor during the Zê êne party, in Madureira, in the northern zone of Rio de Janeiro, on December 27, 2021.

?The fear is gone! “, repeats the young woman. In Rio, everything has reopened, without exception, and almost without restriction. The “deal” proposed by the mayor, Eduardo Paes (center right), to his town is simple: okay for the party, but only if everyone gets vaccinated. The Cariocas “toped”: 97% of adults received their two doses. The campaign for the booster shot has started and that of the fourth in preparation. The anti-ax movement is non-existent.

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Result: for a summer, Rio takes off again. Literally. In the shadow of Sugarloaf Mountain, a long line of visitors waits to take off to one of the most beautiful views in the world. They are more than 10,000 to board the cable car every day, as full as a metro at rush hour. ?There are no more gauges. We only check the vaccination certificates ?, explains an employee.

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By Bruno Meyerfeld

Posted on January 01, 2022 at 10:10 a.m., updated yesterday at 5:42 a.m.

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?The fear is gone! “

?The fear is gone! “