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Beloved Maggie left behind her legacy, saying farewell as Lady Violet Crawley in “Downton Abbey”: “…and now it’s time to go” https://worldculturepictorial.com/wcp-blog/dame-maggie-smith-2024-beloved-actress-harry-potter-downton-abbey/ https://worldculturepictorial.com/wcp-blog/dame-maggie-smith-2024-beloved-actress-harry-potter-downton-abbey/#respond Sat, 28 Sep 2024 07:08:00 +0000 https://worldculturepictorial.com/wcp-blog/?p=1072 https://worldculturepictorial.com/wcp-blog/dame-maggie-smith-2024-beloved-actress-harry-potter-downton-abbey/feed/ 0 Actress Scarlett Johansson “shocked and angered” over OpenAi’s chatbot with voice “Eerily Similar to Mine” after saying no to Sam Altman both times https://worldculturepictorial.com/wcp-blog/scarlett-johansson-shocked-angered-openai-sam-altman-chat-gpt-voice-after-turning-him-down-twice/ https://worldculturepictorial.com/wcp-blog/scarlett-johansson-shocked-angered-openai-sam-altman-chat-gpt-voice-after-turning-him-down-twice/#respond Fri, 31 May 2024 07:39:00 +0000 https://worldculturepictorial.com/wcp-blog/?p=1035 https://worldculturepictorial.com/wcp-blog/scarlett-johansson-shocked-angered-openai-sam-altman-chat-gpt-voice-after-turning-him-down-twice/feed/ 0 1 January 2024: Mickey Mouse of “Steamboat Willie” enters public domain https://worldculturepictorial.com/wcp-blog/steamboat-willie-mickey-mouse-enters-public-domain/ https://worldculturepictorial.com/wcp-blog/steamboat-willie-mickey-mouse-enters-public-domain/#respond Wed, 03 Jan 2024 06:53:00 +0000 https://worldculturepictorial.com/wcp-blog/?p=1001 https://worldculturepictorial.com/wcp-blog/steamboat-willie-mickey-mouse-enters-public-domain/feed/ 0 One of America’s most iconic (and voted “most attractive”) accents is fading: the Southern drawl declining sharply in Gen Z https://worldculturepictorial.com/wcp-blog/iconic-american-southern-fades-with-gen-z/ https://worldculturepictorial.com/wcp-blog/iconic-american-southern-fades-with-gen-z/#respond Tue, 10 Oct 2023 07:47:00 +0000 https://worldculturepictorial.com/wcp-blog/?p=982 https://worldculturepictorial.com/wcp-blog/iconic-american-southern-fades-with-gen-z/feed/ 0 Michael Gambon (1940 – 2023), internationally known for playing Professor Dumbledore in Harry Potter, was “one of the last links to the great generation of actors” with six-decade-long career https://worldculturepictorial.com/wcp-blog/michael-gambon-82-years-old-laurence-olivier-richard-harris/ https://worldculturepictorial.com/wcp-blog/michael-gambon-82-years-old-laurence-olivier-richard-harris/#respond Wed, 27 Sep 2023 07:46:00 +0000 https://worldculturepictorial.com/wcp-blog/?p=980 https://worldculturepictorial.com/wcp-blog/michael-gambon-82-years-old-laurence-olivier-richard-harris/feed/ 0 Divers and fish or octopus meet now and then: how to recognize one another in vast waters, billions swimming… Karma? 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