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THE GREEN ROOM

By Sameen Amer
Fri, 04, 23

72 Seasons by Metallica: Eleventh album by the American heavy metal band; follows 2016’s Hardwired...

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Albums

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* 72 Seasons by Metallica: Eleventh album by the American heavy metal band; follows 2016’s Hardwired... to Self-Destruct; includes the singles ‘Lux Æterna’, ‘Screaming Suicide’, and ‘If Darkness Had a Son’.

* Multitudes by Feist: The Canadian singer’s sixth album, her first since Pleasure (2017); preceded by the singles ‘Hiding Out in the Open’, ‘In Lightning’, and ‘Love Who We Are Meant To’.

Movies

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* Renfield (starring Nicholas Hoult, Nicolas Cage, Awkwafina, Ben Schwartz) – horror comedy, features characters from Bram Stoker’s novel Dracula (1897); after falling in love, Dracula’s (Cage) henchman Renfield (Hoult) decides to stand up to the Count in hopes of finally breaking free of his servitude.

* Mafia Mamma (starring Toni Collette, Monica Bellucci, Sophia Nomvete, Rob Huebel) – action comedy; an American woman (Collette) travels to Italy for her grandfather’s funeral, only to find out that he was a mafia Don and wished for her to assume his role.

* The Pope’s Exorcist (starring Russell Crowe, Alex Essoe, Daniel Zovatto, Franco Nero) – horror, based on Father Gabriele Amorth‘s memoirs; a priest (Crowe) investigates a young boy’s possession and ends up uncovering a centuries-old conspiracy.

STAR

Sarah Michelle Prinze

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* Born on 14 April 1977 in Long Island, New York, U.S.

* Is an only child.

* Parents divorced when she was seven.

* Competed in figure skating as a kid and earned a brown belt in taekwondo.

* Started acting as a child, making her screen debut in the television film An Invasion of Privacy (1983).

* Gained recognition for appearing in the teen drama series Swans Crossing (1992) and the daytime soap opera All My Children (1993–1995), before earning global fame for her leading role in the supernatural drama Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997–2003).

* Has since appeared in films including I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997), Scream 2 (1997), Cruel Intentions (1999), Scooby-Doo (2002), Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed (2004), The Grudge (2004), and Southland Tales (2006), and the television series Ringer (2011 – 2012), The Crazy Ones (2013 – 2014), and Wolf Pack (2023 – present).

* Co-founded the baking kit company Foodstirs in 2015 and released her cookbook Stirring Up Fun with Food in 2017.

* Has been married to Freddie Prinze Jr. since 2002. They have two children – a daughter (born in 2009) and a son (born in 2012) – together.