News about Spike Jonze

An article that brought a cop's 'woman in the short blue dress' who shoved a cop into a bush on Monday chronicles Melbourne Cup's sad decline

www.dailymail.co.uk, November 7, 2023
Near the end of the 2015 Cup race day, Sarah Finn, wearing a short blue dress and black stilettos, asked waiting media: 'What do I have to do to get on the news?' 'Before shoving a top cop on his back, he stabbed him on his back.

When surfing in Malibu, Jonah Hill shows off her svelte frame

www.dailymail.co.uk, March 29, 2023
Jonah Hill, a two-time Oscar nominee, was focusing on riding the waves during a surfing session in Malibu on Monday, the same day his mother appeared to be pregnant and wearing an engagement ring. The 39-year-old native of Los Angeles - who also practices Brazilian jiujitsu - looked slimmer than ever, shielding his 5ft7in frame with a black wetsuit.

Miss Grit Isn't A Cyborg, But That's OK

www.mtv.com, February 21, 2023
It's easy to forget that the cyborg — AI's distant cousin — has existed in the human imagination for more than six decades. The prospect of partially human, partially mechatronic beings has captured artists and culture commentators alike, resulting in a number of seminal works since 1960, when Manfred Clynes and Nathan Kline first coined the term in an Astronautics paper. The list continues to expand as Donna Haraway's 1985 feminist essay "A Cyborg Manifesto" Spike Jonze's 2013 film Her, Japanese writer Chiaki J. Konaka's 1998 anime film Serial Experiments Lain. Miss Grit's debut album, Follow the Cyborg, was inspired by these and many other works about bionic people. Miss Grit, a British woman, tells MTV News, they were attracted to the automaton for its liberatory functions: it is often depicted as free from outside influences and aspirations.