Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead.
So is Sir Tom Stoppard. THR.
Stoppard received his first Academy Award nomination for co-writing Brazil (1985) with director Terry Gilliam and Charles McKeown, adapted John le Carre‘s novel for The Russia House (1990) and did an uncredited revision on the screenplay for Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989), with director Steven Spielberg noting that “Tom is pretty much responsible for every line of dialogue.”
Colleen Jones, curler and curling commentator.
As a curling skip, or captain, Jones directed her teammates and devised strategies in a sport that is sometimes referred to as chess on ice. So adroit was she at gracefully sliding a granite stone weighing around 40 pounds with decisive precision that she was inducted into Canada’s Sports Hall of Fame in 2016 and named the second greatest athlete from Nova Scotia, behind only the hockey star Sidney Crosby, by the province’s sports hall of fame in 2017.
She won two world titles and six Canadian national championships.
In 1986, she joined the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation as the first female sports anchor in Halifax, Nova Scotia’s capital. Over her nearly 40 years with the network, she also worked as a reporter, commentator and weather presenter. In 2022, Jones was named a member of the Order of Canada, one of the country’s highest civilian honors.
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Although Jones never qualified to compete in the Olympics for Canada — the most decorated nation in curling, with six gold medals and 12 in total — she served as a commentator and analyst for nearly a dozen Winter and Summer Games for the CBC.
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