Il Fatto Quotidiano: “Per Frankenstein ho dovuto costruire un corpo che sembrasse nato due volte. Come chef Bourdain, mi godo il cibo senza gabbia di regole”: lo rivela Jacob Elordi

Cancellare tutto di sé e ricostruire. È quello che fanno e hanno fatto i grandi attori da Marlon Brando a Robert De Niro, passando per Daniel Day Lewis. Per esigenze di copione spesso gli attori fanno drastiche diete – sia per ingrassare che per perdere peso – e si allenano. Jacob Elordi ha ammesso di aver lavorato sodo per essere credibile nel ruolo della “Creatura” di “Frankenstein”.
Già durante le riprese della miniserie di Prime Video sulla Seconda Guerra Mondiale, “The Narrow Road to the Deep North”, aveva perso parecchio peso, ma gli è stato utile per prepararsi per il ruolo della Creatura in “Frankenstein” di Guillermo del Toro. “Ero un po’ fuori controllo – ha ricordato al Los Angeles Times -. Avevo momenti di grande angoscia verso le 3 del mattino. Mi svegliavo e il mio corpo era dolorante. Ho capito che era una benedizione avere ‘Frankenstein’ in arrivo, perché potevo esprimere questi sentimenti, questa sofferenza”.
La trasformazione nella Creatura ha richiesto un estenuante processo di trucco: “Non dovevo più essere quella versione di me stesso. In quei sei mesi, mi sono completamente ricostruito. E sono uscito da questo film con una pelle completamente nuova.”
Elordi ha parlato delle 10 ore al giorno che ha impiegato per trasformarsi nel suo personaggio mostruoso: “Ci sono così tanti strati diversi nel costume. Quando nasce, non indossa quasi nulla. Ha il petto aperto e la testa alta. Poi, quando inizia ad avvertire dolore, come capita a noi da adolescenti, inizia a incurvare le spalle. E da adulto, si chiude”.
E poi anche la dieta perché “ogni ruolo ha una dieta diversa, calibrata con precisione quasi scientifica per modellare la fisicità e, insieme, il modo di abitare la scena. Per interpretare la Creatura ho dovuto costruire un corpo che sembrasse nato due volte: forte, ma anche fragile.
Ma l’attore ha un ottimo rapporto col cibo, proprio come chef Anthony Bourdain, morto suicida nel 2018: “Come lui, mi godo il cibo quando c’è, senza trasformarlo in una gabbia di regole”.
L'articolo “Per Frankenstein ho dovuto costruire un corpo che sembrasse nato due volte. Come chef Bourdain, mi godo il cibo senza gabbia di regole”: lo rivela Jacob Elordi proviene da Il Fatto Quotidiano.

“For Frankenstein, I had to build a body that seemed born twice. Like chef Bourdain, I enjoy food without any cage of rules,” he reveals, Jacob Elordi.

To erase everything about oneself and rebuild. That’s what the great actors do, have done, from Marlon Brando to Robert De Niro, passing through Daniel Day Lewis. For the sake of the script, actors often undergo drastic diets – both to gain and lose weight – and train. Jacob Elordi admitted he worked hard to be believable as the “Creature” in “Frankenstein.”

Even during the filming of the Prime Video miniseries about World War II, “The Narrow Road to the Deep North,” he had lost a lot of weight, but it proved useful for preparing for the role of the Creature in “Frankenstein” by Guillermo del Toro. “I was a bit out of control – he recalled to the Los Angeles Times –. I had moments of great anguish at 3 a.m. I would wake up and my body was aching. I realized that it was a blessing that ‘Frankenstein’ was coming, because I could express these feelings, this suffering.”

The transformation into the Creature required an exhausting make-up process: “I shouldn’t have been that version of myself anymore. In those six months, I completely rebuilt myself. And I came out of this film with a completely new skin.”

Elordi spoke of the 10 hours a day he spent transforming into his monstrous character: “There are so many different layers in the costume. When he’s born, he wears almost nothing. He has his chest open and his head high. Then, as he begins to feel pain, as teenagers experience it, he begins to hunch his shoulders. And as an adult, he closes them in.”

And then also the diet because “every role has a different diet, calibrated with almost scientific precision to shape the physique and, together, the way of inhabiting the scene. To portray the Creature, I had to build a body that seemed born twice: strong, but also fragile.”

But the actor has a great relationship with food, just like chef Anthony Bourdain, who died by suicide in 2018: “Like him, I enjoy the food when it’s there, without turning it into a cage of rules.”

The article “For Frankenstein I had to build a body that seemed born twice. Like chef Bourdain, I enjoy the food without a cage of rules”: it reveals Jacob Elordi comes from Il Fatto Quotidiano.

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Il Tempo: Dieci colpi di fucile contro la casa di Rihanna: paura per le strade di Beverly Hills

Una donna è stata fermata dalla polizia per aver presumibilmente sparato circa dieci colpi con un fucile semiautomatico AR-15 contro l'abitazione della cantante Rihanna in California. Lo ha riferito il Dipartimento di Polizia di Los Angeles (LAPD) ai media locali. Non sono stati segnalati feriti, né è noto il movente dell'attacco. La sparatoria è avvenuta intorno alle 13:21 ora locale (19:21 GMT), quando la sospettata si sarebbe avvicinata alla proprietà dell'artista e avrebbe sparato circa 10 colpi. Quattro dei colpi hanno raggiunto l'abitazione e almeno uno ha penetrato i muri, ha riferito una fonte della polizia al Los Angeles Times e alla NBC.

La cantante di "Umbrella" e "Diamonds in the Sky" era in casa durante l'attacco, ma non è rimasta ferita e non ha rilasciato dichiarazioni sull'accaduto. La presunta responsabile, una donna di 30 anni, è in custodia cautelare. Le autorità non hanno specificato se anche il suo compagno, il rapper A$AP Rocky, o i suoi tre figli fossero presenti nella villa di Beverly Hills. La sospettata, che guidava una Tesla bianca, ha tentato di fuggire, ma la polizia l'ha raggiunta.

Ten shots fired at Rihanna’s house: fear in the streets of Beverly Hills.

A woman was stopped by police for allegedly firing approximately ten shots with an AR-15 semi-automatic rifle at the home of singer Rihanna in California. The Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) reported this to local media. No injuries were reported, and the motive for the attack is currently unknown. The shooting occurred around 1:21 PM local time (7:21 GMT) when the suspect allegedly approached the artist’s property and fired approximately 10 shots. Four of the shots hit the residence and at least one penetrated the walls, according to a police source to the Los Angeles Times and NBC.

The singer of “Umbrella” and “Diamonds in the Sky” was home during the attack, but was not injured and has not made any statements about the incident. The suspected perpetrator, a 30-year-old woman, is in custody. Authorities have not specified if her partner, rapper A$AP Rocky, or her three children were also present at the Beverly Hills villa. The suspect, who was driving a white Tesla, attempted to flee, but police caught up with her.

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Agi: Spara 10 colpi contro l'abitazione di Rihanna, fermata una donna

AGI - Una donna è stata fermata dalla polizia per aver presumibilmente sparato circa dieci colpi con un fucile AR-15 contro l'abitazione della cantante Rihanna in California. Lo ha riferito il Dipartimento di Polizia di Los Angeles (LAPD) ai media locali. Non sono stati segnalati feriti, nè è noto il movente dell'attacco.
La sparatoria è avvenuta intorno alle 13:21 ora locale (19:21 GMT), quando la sospettata si sarebbe avvicinata alla proprietà dell'artista e avrebbe sparato circa 10 colpi. Quattro dei colpi hanno raggiunto l'abitazione e almeno uno ha penetrato i muri, ha riferito una fonte della polizia al Los Angeles Times e alla NBC.
La cantante di "Umbrella" e "Diamonds in the Sky" era in casa durante l'attacco, ma non è rimasta ferita e non ha rilasciato dichiarazioni sull'accaduto.
La presunta responsabile, una donna di 30 anni, è in custodia cautelare. Le autorità non hanno specificato se anche il suo compagno, il rapper A$AP Rocky, o i suoi tre figli fossero presenti nella villa di Beverly Hills. La sospettata, che guidava una Tesla bianca, ha tentato di fuggire, ma la polizia l'ha raggiunta.

Shoot 10 shots at Rihanna’s house, woman arrested

A woman was stopped by police for allegedly firing approximately ten shots with an AR-15 rifle at the home of singer Rihanna in California. The Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) informed local media. No injuries were reported, and the motive for the attack is unknown.

The shooting occurred around 1:21 PM local time (7:21 GMT) when the suspect allegedly approached the artist’s property and fired approximately 10 shots. Four of the shots hit the residence and at least one penetrated the walls, according to a police source to the Los Angeles Times and NBC.

The singer of “Umbrella” and “Diamonds in the Sky” was at home during the attack, but was not injured and has not made any statements about the incident.

The suspected perpetrator, a 30-year-old woman, is in custody. Authorities have not specified whether her partner, rapper A$AP Rocky, or her three children were present at the Beverly Hills villa. The suspect, driving a white Tesla, attempted to flee, but police caught up with her.

#Rihanna #AR-15 #California #theLosAngelesTimes #Umbrella #BeverlyHills #Tesla

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DrWeb’s Domain Brief: A Brief Look at National Newspapers – United States

In the United States, the designation of a “national newspaper” is
less a formal legal status and more a reflection of a publication’s
distribution footprint, cultural influence, and self-identity. And it varies over time and in history.

Most experts and industry lists (including the Alliance for Audited Media) categorize the following as the primary “National Newspapers” of the U.S.:

The “Big Three” (Pure National Reach)

These are widely accepted as the only papers that truly prioritize a national audience over a local one, with distribution available in nearly every major U.S. market.

Editor’s Note: Please note that The Washington Post is *not* recognized as a national newspaper, at this time. Given their editorial changes recently (2026 firings), they are even less “national” than ever. –DrWeb

• The New York Times: Frequently called the “Newspaper of Record.” While it covers New York, its primary focus and subscriber base are national and international.
  
• The Wall Street Journal: The definitive national paper for business and finance. Like the Times, it is a “newspaper of record” for economic matters and maintains a massive national subscription base.
  
• USA Today: Established specifically as a national daily in 1982. It lacks a “home city” in its reporting style and is famously found in hotels and airports nationwide.
  

The “National Scope” – Major Dailies

These are technically metropolitan newspapers, but they are often grouped with the “nationals” because their reporting on federal policy and culture is so influential that they are read by elites across the country.

• The Washington Post: Its proximity to the seat of power makes it a national authority on politics. Under Jeff Bezos’s ownership, it had pivoted aggressively toward a “national first” digital strategy. That is, sadly, no longer true. It has withdrawn from that strategy now. See the latest news on the Post withdrawal: https://news.google.com/search?q=washinton%20post%20firings%202026&hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US%3Aen
  
• Los Angeles Times: The largest newspaper not on the East Coast. It is often cited as a national paper for its west-coast perspective and deep coverage of the entertainment industry and environmental policy, and California and the Western states coverage.
  

Specialty & “Niche” National Papers

There are several papers that are “national” because they serve a specific interest group or industry rather than a specific geography.

• The Christian Science Monitor: While it has transitioned primarily to a weekly magazine and daily digital format, it has long been respected as a national paper for high-minded, non-sensationalist international news.
  
• Investor’s Business Daily: A national financial paper often seen as the primary competitor to the Wall Street Journal’s market data.
  
• The Chronicle of Higher Education: The national “trade” paper for academia and those interested in education.
  

Authoritative Reference Lists

If you are looking for specific rankings or “official” lists, these are the primary sources used by the industry:

• Alliance for Audited Media (AAM): The primary source for circulation data. They often separate “National” from “Metropolitan” dailies in their reports.
  
• The White House Correspondents’ Association: Their seating chart is often used as a “who’s who” of influential national news organizations.
  
• Editor & Publisher (E&P): The authoritative trade publication for the newspaper industry.
  

The Roberts court broadly expanded Trump’s power in 2025, with these key exceptions – Los Angeles Times

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The Supreme Court broadly expanded Trump’s power in 2025, with key exceptions

By David G. Savage, Staff Writer Follow. Jan. 1, 2026 3 AM PT

• For much of the year, U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. and the five other conservatives were in the majority ruling for Trump.
• The court has been criticized for handing down temporary unsigned orders with little or no explanation.

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court, led by Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., ended the first year of President Trump’s second term with a record of rulings that gave him much broader power to control the federal government.

In a series of fast-track decisions, the justices granted emergency appeals and set aside rulings from district judges who blocked Trump’s orders from taking effect.

With the court’s approval, the administration dismissed thousands of federal employees, cut funding for education and health research grants, dismantled the agency that funds foreign aid and cleared the way for the U.S. military to reject transgender troops.

But the court also put two important checks on the president’s power.

In April, the court twice ruled — including in a post-midnight order — that the Trump administration could not secretly whisk immigrants out of the country without giving them a hearing before a judge.

Upon taking office, Trump claimed migrants who were alleged to belong to “foreign terrorist” gangs could be arrested as “enemy aliens” and flown secretly to a prison in El Salvador.

https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2025-12-23/supreme-court-trump-national-guard-chicago – See more at the above link.

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Supreme Court rules against Trump, bars National Guard deployment in Chicago, Dec. 23, 2025

Roberts and the court blocked such secret deportations and said the 5th Amendment entitles immigrants, like citizens, a right to “due process of law.” Many of the arrested men had no criminal records and said they never belonged to a criminal gang.
Those who face deportation “are entitled to notice and opportunity to challenge their removal,” the justices said in Trump vs. J.G.G.

They also required the government to “facilitate” the release of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who had been wrongly deported to El Salvador. He is now back in Maryland with his wife, but may face further criminal charges or efforts to deport him.

And last week, Roberts and the court barred Trump from deploying the National Guard in Chicago to enforce the immigration laws.

Trump had claimed he had the power to defy state governors and deploy the Guard troops in Los Angeles, Portland, Ore., Chicago and other Democratic-led states and cities.

The Supreme Court disagreed over dissents from conservative Justices Samuel A. Alito, Clarence Thomas and Neil M. Gorsuch.

Editor’s Note: Read the rest of the story, at the below link.

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How this L.A. suburb fell in love with Craftsman homes – Los Angeles Times

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How this L.A. suburb fell in love with Craftsman homes

By Sam Lubell, Oct. 8, 2025 3 AM PT

• For over a century, Craftsman homes have been beloved across Southern California, but they are most prevalent in Pasadena.
• Pasadena Heritage’s Craftsman Week runs Oct. 12-19 with events and tours.
• The style’s authentic craftsmanship is key to its popularity.

When Annette Yasin and her husband, Tom, moved to Pasadena from Michigan more than a decade ago, they purchased a condo near Bungalow Heaven, a 16-block area northeast of Old Town known for its substantial collection of Craftsman bungalows. After regular walks in the neighborhood, the couple came across a home on Mar Vista Avenue and quickly fell in love.

The residence, known as the Dr. Robert H. Sutton Bungalow, is a great example of what makes Craftsman architecture so seductive to so many. Outside, its low-sloped roof, wide eaves, textured wood and brick surfaces, and its shaded porch set behind broad overhangs are welcoming and human scaled. Inside, chocolate brown wood is everywhere: walls, beams, window sills, paneling, wainscoting, furniture, not to mention built-in cabinets, benches and window seats. A large bank of windows lets in lots of light, but is protected by all those overhangs, so you don’t feel exposed — or overheated. Everything fits and flows together — spaces, furnishings, lighting fixtures, artworks.

“It’s cozy. It’s warm,” says Yasin, standing in her dining room, which is filled with Craftsman-style furniture either purchased or built by her now-late husband — a G.E. engineer who retired early and leaned into his passion for woodworking.

For over a century, Craftsman homes have been beloved across Southern California, from Orange and Long Beach to West Adams and Santa Barbara. But nowhere are they as prevalent as Pasadena. And in recent years, popularity has soared, as people crave its well-made, no-nonsense, and nature-embracing ethos. So much so, Pasadena Heritage’s Craftsman Week, taking place Oct. 12-19, has expanded from a weekend to a weeklong event this year.

“It’s the rusticity of it,” adds Juan Dela Cruz, a Bungalow Heaven resident and Craftsman homeowner who is guiding me on a tour of the neighborhood along with John G. Ripley, another local Craftsman owner and co-author of the book “Pasadena’s Bungalow Heaven,” ahead of Craftsman Week. “You notice the timbers overhanging. Sometimes you’ll see the roughness in the wood, or you’ll see a three-dimensional relief in the grain. It gives you that connection with nature; that connection with the source from which it came — the tree,” says Dela Cruz.

Craftsman had its heyday from around 1900 to the early 1920s. It grew out of the British Arts and Crafts Movement, a design philosophy reacting to the Industrial Revolution, with its mass produced goods and fast-paced lifestyle, and the Victorian era, with its frivolous excesses and formal, boxy spaces. It promoted, among other things, handcraft, honesty, unified design, natural materials and design simplicity.

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First they came for the immigrants. Then they took down our Latino senator – Los Angeles Times

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First they came for the immigrants. Then they took down our Latino senator

By Anita Chabria Columnist
June 12, 2025 Updated 2:46 PM PT

Federal agents manhandled California Sen. Alex Padilla out of the room, shoved him down onto his knees and handcuffed him. Sen. Adam Schiff, our other California senator, came to his colleague’s defense, demanding an investigation.

Things were looking tense in Los Angeles on Thursday even before federal agents took down U.S. Sen. Alex Padilla.

We had the Marines, slightly trained in domestic crowd control, heading out to do crowd control. We had ICE raids, sweeping up a man from a church. Or maybe it was ICE — the armed and masked agents refused to say where they were from.

But then the situation went further south, which to be honest, I thought would take at least until Monday.

Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem was in town to cosplay at being an ICE agent herself. You know she loves to dress up. Padilla, who was in the same building to meet with a general, went to a news conference she was hosting and tried to ask her a question.

Bad idea.

Federal agents manhandled him out of the room, shoved him down onto his knees and handcuffed him. By the end, he was face down on the ground. The FBI has confirmed to my colleagues that he was not arrested, but that’s little comfort.
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Sen. Alex Padilla forcibly removed from press conference

While officers may not have known Padilla was a U.S. senator when they started going after him, they certainly did by the time the cuffs were snapping.

Padilla was heard saying, “Hands off, hands off. I’m Sen. Alex Padilla,” as the officers pushed him back.

The hands remained on.

Shortly after the video of this frightening episode hit social media, Gov. Gavin Newsom posted on X, “If they can handcuff a U.S. Senator for asking a question, imagine what they will do to you.”

Indeed.

After he got back on his feet, Padilla made it clear all he was trying to do was get some information because his questions have gone unanswered so far.
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“I was there peacefully,” he told reporters. “At one point I had a question, and so I began to ask a question. I was almost immediately forcibly removed from the room. … If this is how the Department of Homeland Security responds to a senator with a question, you can only imagine what they’re doing to farm workers to cooks to day laborers out in the Los Angeles community and throughout California and throughout the country.”

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Want to feel 50 at 80? ‘Super Agers’ researcher shares his do’s and don’ts – The Los Angeles Times

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Want to feel 50 at 80? ‘Super Agers’ researcher shares his do’s and don’ts

By Paul von Zielbauer
June 6, 2025 3 AM

Cardiologist Eric Topol is one of the leading medical researchers in the world. A founder of the Scripps Research Translational Institute in La Jolla, Calif., Dr. Topol is also the author of a New York Times bestselling new book, “Super Agers: An Evidence Based Approach to Longevity.”

I recently sat down with Topol to discuss his book’s insights into slowing down, or turning back, our aging clocks to become more like super agers — or who he calls the “Wellderly” — people who live well into their 80s and 90s without any chronic illness or disease.

A comprehensive answer to that question requires reading his book, written for a lay audience curious about the latest (and upcoming) scientific breakthroughs in longevity medicine. But in our hour-long conversation, Topol discussed several do’s and don’ts for anyone seeking to make 80 the new 50.

1. Do: Strengthen your immune system

If there is one main thesis to Topol’s book, it’s that healthy aging is a function of a strong immune system, which can defend against diabetes, cancer, heart disease and other chronic conditions. “I keep saying to myself that old thing about the economy: ‘It’s the immune system, stupid,’ you know?” Topol told me. “Because it really is.”

He suggests focusing on habits that support and build immune health:

Regular strength and resistance training builds strong immune systems and is the single best way to extend lifespan and, importantly, health span.
Keep a Mediterranean-style diet that maximizes whole foods, colorful vegetables, lean meats, olive oil and minimal dairy, and minimizes ultra-processed food.
Get deep, restorative sleep — crucial for supporting your body’s immune function.
Maintain so-called “lifestyle+” factors, like spending time in nature, avoiding environmental pollution like food-borne plastics and airborne toxins, and maintaining strong friendships and a regular social calendar.

I’ll go deeper into some of these specific strategies, like sleep and nutrition, below. But the common denominator is supporting a robust immune function, Topol said.

“We should be having immune system testing as we get older,” he said, “because it is the reason why aging can hurt us.”

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