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Illustration by João Fazenda https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/09/22/duck-cover-and-pass-the-atomic-bowl A former Crawdaddy editor produced a documentary on a peculiar postwar military football game in Nagasaki. THE NEW YORKER -  September 15, 2025 By Zach Helfand Published in the print edition of the  September 22, 2025 , issue, with the headline “Duck, Cover, and Pass.” FALLOUT DEPT. In 1972, Greg Mitchell was an editor at Crawdaddy , the proto-rock magazine, when someone called his desk. “It was some fast-talking manager, who said, ‘I’ve got this hot act. We’re getting a big press entourage, taking you all up to Sing Sing prison,’ ” Mitchell recalled. The act was playing for the inmates to début his new band. “I thought, Well, I don’t care about this guy, but I get to go to Sing Sing,” Mitchell said. He and Peter Knobler , the magazine’s editor-in-chief, rode along in the band’s van. The manager was Mike Appel . The act was Bruce Springsteen . Nobody el...

Davanti alla Madrague gendarmi, transenne e i fiori degli ammiratori  Il suo ultimo messaggio dopo i ricoveri recenti "Sto recuperando" Fiori e omaggi davanti a La Madrague la storica residenza dell'attrice a Saint-Tropez. dalla nostra inviata Brunella Giovara  La Repubblica - Lunedì 29 dicembre 2025 Pagina 12 Saint-Tropez - Un profumo amaro — di mare, cipresso, oleandri — avvolge questa villa dove una ex ragazza bellissima e piuttosto selvatica se ne è andata ieri, salutando un mondo che non le piaceva più da almeno 50 anni. BB, la sigla famosa che nei 60 tutti capivano al volo. Brigitte Bardot, donna difficile e regina di cuori, per dirla come dicevano i rotocalchi. Poi regina dei cani, i molti randagi che ha raccolto per le strade della Costa Azzurra e non solo, amandoli come figli e più dell'unico figlio, trovando nella missione della loro salvezza una causa di vita vera. L'altra è stata il cinema, ma per poco, abbandonandolo per sempre e addio, si è chiusa i...

https://artsfuse.org/313555/documentary-film-review-the-atomic-bowl-the-catastrophic-game-is-still-on/ The at times chilling narrative of The Atomic Bowl raises probing and vexing questions about why we continue to face the threat of nuclear peril today. The Atomic Bowl: Football at Ground Zero – and Nuclear Peril Today.   Directed by Greg Mitchell.  Narrated by Peter Coyote.  Produced by Lyn Goldfarb.  Streaming at PBS.org and via PBS apps and public TV stations on July 12.  Broadcast on New Hampshire PBS  on August 4 and 7, 2025. A scene from the documentary The Atomic Bowl. July 8, 2025 -  Arts Fuse   By Robert Israel Nagasaki, destroyed by the second atomic bomb dropped by the United States on August 9, 1945 — three days after the atomic destruction of Hiroshima — is the subject of Greg Mitchell’s engrossing and insightful documentary film. Broken into succinct chapters that explore the city’s history before and after the bombing, The Atomic...

Original title: “In 1946, German POWs awaiting repatriation played football against each other in Stockton, California. Organized by American military officials, the game became known as the Barbed Wire Bowl.” Subreddit: /r/NFL Post date: June 9, 2018 This isn’t related to the NFL in particular, but I thought it was an interesting-enough story to share during this offseason. Football. It’s about as American as apple pie, bald eagles, and killing Nazis, right? Well, what about Nazis playing football? After World War II, American troops overseeing German prisoners of war proposed an interesting way for their prisoners to pass the time until they were sent home: a game of football. This was the Barbed Wire Bowl. With World War II coming to a close, American military officials pondered what to do with German prisoners of war staying in camps located in the United States. At the Stockton Ordnance Depot in California, Colonel Kenneth M. Barager had an interesting idea: before repatriating th...

https://gregmitchell.substack.com/p/the-atomic-bowl-football-on-a-killing Greg Mitchell Jan 01, 2024 Greg Mitchell is the author of a dozen books, including “ Hiroshima in America ,” “ Atomic Cover-up ” (on sale now for $1.99 as an ebook) and the recent award-winning “ The Beginning or the End : How Hollywood—and America—Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb.” He has directed three documentary films since 2021 for PBS (including “ Atomic Cover-up” ) . He has written about the atomic bombings for over forty years.  The famed biologist Jacob Bronowski revealed in 1964 that his classic study Science and Human Values was born at the moment he arrived in Nagasaki in November 1945, three months after the atomic bombing (which killed at least 75,000 civilians ) with a British military mission sent to study the effects of the new weapon. Arriving by jeep after dark, he found a landscape as desolate as the craters of the moon. That moment, he wrote, “is present to me as I write, as ...

La diva sempre ribelle Libera e controversa, l’attrice francese è morta nel suo letto: «È tutto finito» le ultime parole. La scia delle polemiche per il suo sostegno all’estrema destra "Brigitte Bardot ha incarnato una vita di libertà. Un’esistenza francese, uno splendore universale. Ci ha commosso. Piangiamo una leggenda del secolo"    - Emmanuel Macron 29 Dec 2025 - Corriere della Sera Dal nostro corrispondente Stefano Montefiori © RIPRODUZIONE RISERVATA PARIGI - Se n’è andata all’alba, a 91 anni, nel suo letto nella celebre villa La Madrague di Saint-tropez. Aveva accanto, come sempre da 33 anni, il marito Bernard d’ormale. A raccontare gli ultimi istanti è Bruno Jacquelin, della fondazione per la protezione degli animali ai quali Brigitte Bardot ha dedicato la sua seconda vita, quella lontana dal cinema. «Ancora alle 5 e 50 la sentiva respirare normalmente. Poi, alle 5 e 55, lei gli ha detto molto dolcemente le piccole parole d’amore che si ripetevano tra loro, piou piou ...