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Book excerpt: “Playground” by Richard Powers
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“Playground” (W.W. Norton), the latest novel by Richard Powers (the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of “The Overstory”), explores artificial intelligence and the race to save the oceans. Its multi-track story concerns a computer genius looking back at his life; an oceanographer recounting her love for sea creatures; and the residents of a tiny South Pacific island who’ve been offered a fortune by a shadowy group of tech billionaires.
Read an excerpt below.
“Playground” by Richard Powers
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I’m suffering from what we computer folks call latency. Retreating into the past, like my mother did in her last years. This curse doesn’t always run in families, but sometimes it does. Who knows? Maybe my mother had it, too. Maybe the undiagnosed disease lay behind the accident that killed her.
As more recent months and years grow fuzzy, the bedrock events of my childhood solidify. Closing my eyes, I can see my first bedroom high up in the crow’s nest of our Evanston Castle in more detail than memory should permit: the student desk cluttered with plastic sharks and rays. The shelf of deep-sea books. The globe of a fishbowl filled with guppies and swordtails. The closet piled high with masks and snorkels and dried sea fans and chunks of coral and fish fossils from the Devonian Period, bought at the Shedd Aquarium gift shop.
On the wall above my bed hung a framed article from the Trib dated January 1, 1970: “First in Line for the New Decade.” I must have read that thing a thousand times, growing up. The black-and-white picture showed me, newborn Todd Keane, delivered in Saint Francis Hospital, Evanston, in the barest fraction of a second after midnight, staring at the camera with infant bafflement, trying to focus on the great mystery looming up in front of me.
Mr. First in Line: My parents called me that for years. It put some pressure on me when I was small. An only child, I took the title and the birthright seriously. I bent under the obligation to become the first person to reach the Future.
And here I am, successful at last.
My mother didn’t want to wreck her perfect body with childbirth, but my father needed someone he could play chess with at home, any time of day or night. I don’t know how they settled the matter. Maybe rock, paper, scissors. Feats of skill. Moot court or Oxford-style debate. Maybe I was born by a roll of the dice.
One continuous war game between the two of them dominated my entire childhood. Their tournament was driven as much by lust as by hatred, and each of them took their different superpowers into the fray. My father: the strength of mania. My mother: the cunning of the downtrodden. I was a precocious four-year-old when I realized that my parents were locked in a contest to inflict as much harm on each other as possible without crossing over the line into fatality—just enough pure pain to trigger the excitement that only rage could bring. It was a kind of reciprocal autoerotic strangulation of the soul, and both parties were generous givers and grateful recipients.
My father was a quick man, so quick that he found much of the rest of the world tedious. He worked in the pit at the Chicago Board of Trade, in the age before electronic trading. A warrior of the open-outcry system, he stood in the heart of the octagon as the furious waves of capitalism crashed all around him. Casting a cold eye on others’ fears and turning them to a profit, his brain knew no difference between thrill and stress. Keeping his head while others swelled and broke, making and losing insane amounts of money all with little twists of the palm and flicks of the finger (backed up by delirious screaming), had long ago flooded his cortex with so many surging neurotransmitters that he could no longer function without constant low-level threats to his well-being. These my homemaker mother dutifully supplied.
Other doses took the form of a souped-up 450SL convertible, a Cessna Skyhawk that he kept at Midway and liked to take out in rough weather, and a mistress who carried an unregistered Smith & Wesson Model 61 in her Louis Vuitton leather shoulder pochette.
My mother was a closet romantic. When she found out about my father’s secret life, she hired a private detective to hunt down a boy who had doted on her at New Trier High School and who went on to play utility infielder in the Cubs’ farm system for several years before buying into an AMC dealership in Elk Grove. She was constantly breaking up and furiously reuniting with this man in semi-public places, all but begging my father to put an end to it. My father rose lovingly to the bait, time and again.
Don’t get me wrong: If being rich meant having feckless parents, I accepted that. I loved being rich. The consolation prizes were many and outstanding. But I hated my father for betraying my mother, and I hated my mother for betraying me. I wasn’t old enough yet to know how to pretend that everything would be fine. The secret seemed to be to find some other place to live.
I found that place under Lake Michigan. When my mind raced and the future rushed at me with knives, the only thing that helped was looking out from the castle and seeing myself walking across the bottom of the lake.
All dramas sounded muffled, under the water. I knew this from summers on the Lee Street and Lighthouse Beaches. All friends and foes looked fluid and subdued, crawling through liquid resistance with a languid blue-green cast. On the floor of the lake, there were no people. I couldn’t imagine a better place to live.
From “Playground” by Richard Powers, published by W.W. Norton & Company. Copyright 2024 by Richard Powers. All rights reserved.
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Georgia Harrison ‘hallucinated’ during ‘degrading’ Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins finale
Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins champion Georgia Harrison has described the finale of the show as among the most “degrading” and “demoralising” moments of her life.
The reality star and campaigner, 29, was one of two winners of the gruelling reality competition’s latest season, after she and boxer Lani Daniels passed an SAS-style selection test in the last episode.
Harrison, Daniels, reality TV star Bianca Gascoigne and boxer Anthony Ogogo were the only celebrity contestants to reach the finale, after succeeding in an array of physically and mentally demanding challenges.
The final episode saw Harrison tasked with memorising a cover story and concealing secrets from an interrogation team in the face of tough questioning.
At one point, the former Love Island contestant was locked in a dog cage while fellow star Gascoigne poured a bucket of cold water over her.
“I really did think that the interrogation was going to be easy, because I would watch it on TV and think, ‘If that was me, I wouldn’t be shaking on the floor,’ but I really underestimated it,” Harrison admitted in an interview with The Sun.
“I was thinking that I could meditate through it, but it’s just so, so tough,” she added. “You get disorientated so much that you don’t know how long it’s been, who you’re with or if it’s even real any more.
“You lose all understanding of your surroundings. I was definitely hallucinating. It’s awful, excruciatingly hard, degrading, demoralising and one of the hardest things I’ve ever done in my life.”
As well as appearing on reality shows, Harrison has also starred in the ITV documentaryRevenge Porn: Georgia vs Bear, which saw the star open up about her image-based abuse trial against ex-boyfriend Stephen Bear, who shared a video of the former couple having sex on his OnlyFans account. In March 2023, Bear was sentenced to 21 months in prison.
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This year’s season of Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins previously saw actor and presenter John Barrowman leave the show just 32 minutes after arriving at base camp.
Former Dancing on Ice judge Barrowman declared that he was “done” with the show after being sick following the first challenge. “I thought, ‘I’m not going to make myself ill or hurt myself in order to try to prove something that I don’t need to prove,’” he told The Sun.
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EastEnders star Cheryl Fergison opens up on struggle to get acting work as she reveals money struggles
EASTENDERS star Cheryl Fergison has opened up on her struggle to find fresh acting work and only earning enough to “keep the roof over” her head.
It came just days after we reported the TV favourite had scrapped her upcoming show in Lytham, Lancashire, due to “unforeseen circumstances.”
Cheryl Fergison, 59, who played EastEnders‘ loveable Heather Trott, took to her page on X to give a candid update on her finances following her Albert Square stint.
She wore a checked shirt and went make-up free as she opened up on her “minus” bank balance figures and juggling jobs.
Cheryl said: “I’ve been out of EastEnders for around 13 years.
“I’ve done jobs in between, I was in panto this year, but jobs aren’t continuous.
“It’s not kind of like being in a soap all the time.
“Unless you’re like George Clooney or an A-Lister American star that gets millions for their films, it’s very difficult to be, in inverted commas, rich.
“You just kind of keep by, you keep the roof over your head and that’s about it.”
The BBC One star added: “Some people don’t understand that like everyone else, we have bills to pay, rent to pay, we have to keep everything ticking. We have to get other jobs.”
Cheryl, who is currently on her one-woman stand-up tour, told how people “failed to realise” that “we still have to keep a roof over our head and the bills being paid.”
Admitting many actors can’t purely rely on on-screen gigs she continued: “It’s not a downgrade, its not terrible, it’s just life.
“I am, so grateful for having them [acting jobs] because I know I am lucky enough to do the job I was meant to do.”
She added: “Not all of us are rich by any stretch of the imagination.
“You can look at the minus in my bank account at any time.
EastEnders stars who QUIT
MICHELLE Collins has seen her second EastEnders stint boost her bank balance. Yet what stars have quit this year?
The Sun exclusively reported how Michelle, 62, was down to £20,000 in her company accounts when she agreed to a shock back-from-the-dead return to Albert Square last year.
Her character, Cindy Beale, was presumed dead off-camera in 1998.
Yet what about the 2024 exits?
Earlier this summer, loyal soap fans appeared to note how Stevie Mitchell had “quit” the long-running series.
It came after Alan Ford enjoyed just six-months on-screen.
Bobby Beale actor Clay Milner Russell also left this year after five years in Walford.
Fans also feared Martin Fowler actor James Bye would “quit out of boredom” over recent storylines.
Additionally, a host of stars have quit the BBC soap for Hollywood fame.
One of the most successful stars to come from the BBC One soap is Rob Kazinsky.
He played Stacey Slater’s brother Sean Slater from 2006 to 2009, he has starred in Hollywood blockbusters Pacific Rim and Captain Marvel.
Ben Hardy, who quit EastEnders as Bobby Beale almost a decade ago, went on to break Hollywood the following year, when he starred as Archangel in X-Men: Apocalypse.
Since then, he has played Roger Taylor in Queen biopic Bohemian Rhapsody, and he starred in Michael Bay’s Netflix movie 6 Underground.
Michelle Ryan played Zoe Slater until 2005.
She starred as the lead in short-lived American series Bionic Woman from 2007 to 2008.
“But just have a bit of empathy for some people, when you see them doing other jobs.”
We recently reported how Cheryl has bagged a brand new acting role after struggling to bag new acting gigs following her stint in Walford.
She is now set to star in this year’s pantomime production of Cinderella at The Cresset Theatre.
The actress will be playing the Fairy Godmother during the festive season from December 14 to 31 2024.
It came after the screen star revealed a crippling new health battle after being diagnosed with womb cancer.
SOAP BOOT
Cheryl’s soap character, Heather, was a fan favourite on EastEnders until her untimely demise.
The actress’ character was bludgeoned to death by troublemaking Ben Mitchell in 2012.
She never chose to leave the programme, and the decision was made by EastEnders executives.
At the time, a source told The Sun: “Heather’s character has been hugely popular over the years, but the decision has been taken to cut her out of the show before viewers tire of her.”
Yet, back in April, she teased her return to Walford with a cryptic post.
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Strictly star Wynne Evans defended by Katya Jones in hand fiasco admission
Katya Jones has made an admission about her interactions with Wynne Evans on Strictly Come Dancing.
The latest episode of the BBC competition aired on Saturday (12 October), with the results show, which sent home the third celebrity, airing the following night.
Opera singer Evans received his highest scores of the series so far, but this was outshadowed by a furore caused by videos showing his background interactions with Jones.
After the Saturday episode, a video showing Evans awkwardly placing his hand on his professional partner’s stomach, in which Jones removed it and placed it on her hip instead, went viral on social media.
Later, a separate clip was shared from viewers who noticed that Jones refused to give Evans a high five while standing behind the show’s co-host Claudia Winkleman. Jones turned her back on Evans and seemingly rolled her eyes at the opera singer.
Many fans predicted something was “off” between the pair, with some adding they felt tension – but Jones and Evans, realising there was a social media furore brewing, shut down any suggestion of a feud with a video shared online.
However, despite Jones calling the fiasco “nonsense” and “absurd”, Evans still found himself receiving criticism, leading the pro to defend the star on companion show It Takes Two on Monday (16 October).
Jones said that she “can’t bear” seeing Evans in distress over the situation, calling the interactions nothing more than an “inside joke”. However, Jones admitted the joke was “silly” and “bad”.
After Evans said he can see why viewers “may have misinterpreted” his hand placement, his professional partner continued: “The idea that it made me feel uncomfortable or offended in any way is total nonsense, and those that have doubts, you guys have got it wrong. So hopefully this will be the end of it, and you just keep making me smile.
“I can’t sit here watching this man being portrayed as someone he’s not. In fact, it couldn’t be further away from the truth. So I have to make this absolutely clear that this whole incident, with the hand and the high five on Saturday night, was an inside joke between Wynne and I.
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She then stated: “Was it a silly joke? Yes, was it a bad joke? Yes.”
Jones previously told her fans: “The hand incident that happened on Saturday night was a very silly inside joke between Wynne and I, so even the idea that it made me feel uncomfortable or offended me in any way is complete nonsense.
“It’s quite absurd, actually. Can we focus on how brilliantly he’s doing and what an amazing dancer he’s become?’”
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Gail Platt rushed to hospital clutching her chest in harrowing Coronation Street exit storyline
GAIL Platt will be rushed to hospital while clutching her chest in her harrowing Coronation Street exit storyline.
The long-running character will suffer a massive health setback after Jesse Chadwick returned to the street.
Actress Helen Worth previously announced she would be leaving Coronation Street after a 50 year career on the cobbles.
Events will soon take a drastic turn on the popular ITV serial drama in forthcoming scenes.
It will start when Audrey (Sue Nicholls) and her grandson David (Jack P. Shephard) both have Gail on their minds.
They are both in agreement that she should not trust Jesse (John Thomson) and is a fool if she does.
After Gail was forced to take out a loan to cover Bethany’s medical costs, Carla (Alison King) will then make an interesting move.
She will tell David and Shona (Julia Goulding) that she wants to buy their home and has put in an offer to do so.
But the family tension is not getting easier as the Platt family are engulfed in a huge row.
Gail will snap at her kids as David and Sarah (Tina O’Brien) continue to argue with Jesse, and she tells them to get out of their home.
Meanwhile, Jesse is on the hunt for Lilly’s bicycle pump and will be completely bewildered by what he will find in the stair cupboard.
However, he will soon become panicked as Gail will be in need of urgent medical assistance.
Jesse is forced to call for an ambulance after he sees Gail clutching her arm with unsteady breath.
David, Sarah and Nick (Ben Price) arrive back on the street, just as Gail is carted out the house.
Just as the siblings blame themselves for starting the row with Jesse, he’s more concerned with his discovery from under the stairs.
Although Jesse will try and get a confession from David, will he own up?
Gail’s biggest Corrie storylines
Over the years the character of Gail Platt has been the centre of several major plots.
Here we take a look back over actress Helen Worth’s biggest storylines:
Teenage daughter’s pregnancy
One of Gail’s most controversial storylines was in 1999.
It came when her 13-year-old daughter Sarah became pregnant.
Multiple marriages
Gail holds the record for the series’ most married female character.
She has been wed a whopping six times, each one worse the last.
Married to a serial killer
One of Gail’s multiple marriages saw her wed Richard Hillman, who turned out to be a serial killer.
At the climax of the storyline, 19 million fans tuned in to watch Hillman drive his wife and her family into a canal.
Scrapping on The Street
Gail has proved over the years she can’t resist a good scrap.
Her most memorable bust-up saw her attack Eileen Grimshaw on the cobbles in 2004 while in her dressing gown.
Jail bird
In 2010, Gail found herself wrongly banged up in jail.
She was wrongfully arrested for murdering her 4th husband Joe McIntyre.
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Strictly Come Dancing star Chris McCausland hits back at Lord Alan Sugar for calling his act a ‘gimmick’
Strictly Come Dancing contestant Chris McCausland has hit back at Alan Sugar after The Apprentice boss appeared to call his recent dance performance a “gimmick”.
The 47-year-old comedian is the show’s first blind contestant, and performed a Salsa to “Down Under” by Men at Work with his professional partner Dianne Buswell on Saturday night (12 October).
McCausland’s routine included a series of impressive lifts, which were praised by the Strictly judges and fans at home alike.
Head judge Shirley Ballas was lost for words at the end of the comedian’s performance. “I can’t even imagine how you managed to do that so flawlessly when you can’t see,” she said.
However, Sugar appeared less than impressed as he posted a scathing critique of Saturday’s performances on X/Twitter.
“I don’t know when Strictly Come Dancing are going to run out of contestant gimmicks,” he wrote. “I would not be surprised if they had a AI mechanical robot next year.”
Fans interpreted the attack to be aimed at McCausland, as one wrote, “Gimmicks? Says the man who literally just points a finger. I hope Chris wins.”
But McCausland waded into the conversation to defend himself as he hit back, “I am sorry my gimmick offends you oh mighty Lord. #YoureTired.”
“There’s nothing gimmicky about you Chris. You are the real deal” commented one person as people flocked to support the comedian.
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Many called the comment “ugly” and “awful”. Others took issue with the apparent targeting of McCausland’s disability as one person wrote, “Good for you Chris. I love seeing Strictly show that ANYONE can learn to dance and enjoy dancing, no matter your size, sexuality, disability, etc.”
Another commented, “If I’d realised my deafness was a gimmick, I’d have monetized that s*** years ago.”
“There’s nothing gimmicky about you Chris. You are the real deal,” wrote another supporter.
After the judges’ scores, McCausland flew straight to the top half of the leaderboard with a total of 30 points after receiving six from Craig Revel Horwood and eight points each from the remaining three judges.
It comes shortly after McCausland addressed the backlash surrounding comments made by eliminated Strictly Come Dancing star Toyah Willcox last week when she advised the celebrities still on the show: “If you don’t wanna do a dance off, get rid of Chris!”
However, McCausland has since defended Willcox online, saying that the singer has been “nothing but beautiful and supportive” during their few weeks together on the dancing competition.
“What she said on It Takes Two was funny and an incredible bloody compliment,” he said.
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Phillip Schofield’s daughter shares emotional tribute to her late grandmother as TV star’s mum dies
PHILLIP Schofield’s eldest daughter, Molly, has shared a heartfelt tribute to her late grandmother following the news of her passing.
The emotional statement comes after her father announced the sad news of his mother’s death on social media.
Phillip took to Instagram tonight to inform his 2.7 million followers of the devastating loss.
Sharing several touching photos of his beloved mum, the former This Morning presenter expressed his heartbreak.
He revealed that Pat Schofield passed away earlier that day after what he described as a “heartbreaking weekend”.
In his emotional post, Phillip wrote: “Today, at 3pm and after a heartbreaking weekend, my magnificent mum decided it was time to go to her beloved Brian.
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“Over three days, we held her, loved her, hugged her, and said everything that needed to be said.
“She was calm, peaceful, beautiful, and dignified. I will forever be proud and privileged that she was my mum. I love you mum, forever.”
The TV star also expressed his gratitude to the medical staff who had cared for his mother, praising the paramedics and the critical care team for their support.
He also shared more personal moments, including a video of his adventurous mother wing walking on a plane.
Shortly after Phillip’s announcement, his daughter Molly shared her own tribute on Instagram.
Reposting her father’s message, she added a broken-heart emoji, before sharing a nostalgic photo of herself and her sister Ruby posing with their grandmother.
“Love you so much, Bo” Molly wrote over the image, affectionately referring to her grandmother by her family nickname.
She added a final emotional request referencing Pat’s late husband Brian, saying: “Give a huge kiss to Bri when you see him.”
Molly’s tribute comes after she appeared in Cast Away last month.
She appeared on the Channel 5 show alongside her father and sister Ruby as Phillip made his return to TV over a year after his departure from This Morning.
His exit in May 2023 followed his admission of an “unwise but not illegal” relationship with a junior colleague during his time on the ITV show.
Despite the challenges of the past year, Phillip has received unwavering support from his family, with Molly, Ruby, and their mother Stephanie Lowe remaining by his side throughout.
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