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Un maillot porté par la légende de la NBA, le basketteur Michael Jordan, lors de sa dernière saison 1997-1998 avec les Chicago Bulls va être proposé aux enchères en septembre pour trois à cinq millions de dollars, a annoncé mercredi Sotheby's.

La maison new-yorkaise, propriété depuis 2019 du magnat franco-israélien des télécoms Patrick Drahi, a déjà vendu des baskets ayant appartenu à la superstar mondiale Michael Jordan qui a aujourd'hui 59 ans, atteignant en 2021 près de 1,5 million de dollars.

La vente aura lieu à New York du 6 au 14 septembre et le fameux maillot rouge flanqué du numéro 23 des Chicago Bulls porté par Jordan sera présenté au public à Monterey, en Californie, du 17 au 20 août, puis à New York durant les enchères de septembre, selon un communiqué de Sotheby's.

" La saison 1997-1998 est peut-être l'une des préférées des fans de Jordan parce que Michael était au sommet de ses capacités tout en sachant que c'était sa dernière chance avec les Chicago Bulls pour le championnat de la NBA ", a commenté le patron des objets modernes et vêtements de collection chez Sotheby's, Brahm Wachter.

Ce que les experts du basket et les auteurs d'un documentaire ESPN / Netflix de dix saisons en 2020 ont appelé la saison de la " dernière danse " (" The Last Dance ") en 1997-1998 marque la deuxième retraite sportive de Michael Jordan : il a joué chez les Bulls de 1984-1985 à 1997-1998 - avec une interruption d'une saison en 1993-1994 - avant de rejoindre les Wizards de la capitale fédérale Washington de 2001 à 2003.

Estimé à entre trois et cinq millions de dollars, le maillot de l'arrière des Chicago Bulls a déjà atteint la mise aux enchères la plus élevée pour un maillot de Jordan et pour n'importe quel objet de collection du joueur, selon Sotheby's.

En octobre 2021 à Las Vegas, la maison new-yorkaise avait vendu pour 1 472 000 dollars une paire de baskets, les Nike Air Ships, portée par Jordan au début de sa carrière en 1984-1985, établissant un record aux enchères pour des chaussures portées en match.

Un prix astronomique, pulvérisant le record de Nike Air Jordans vendues 615 000 dollars en août 2020 lors d'enchères organisées par la société concurrente Christie's.

Six fois champion NBA avec les Bulls de Chicago, inspirateur de la ligne de baskets Air Jordan de Nike, propriétaire des Charlotte Hornets, le natif de New York est considéré comme l'un des plus grands sportifs de tous les temps et aujourd'hui comme l'une des personnalités les plus en vue de l'industrie du sport.

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Dimanche 18 septembre, sur un podium protocolaire, une cycliste française a fait retentir La Marseillaise, tunique arc-en-ciel de championne du monde sur les épaules. Son nom ? Jeannie Longo. Nous ne sommes pas à Wollongong, station balnéaire du sud-est de l'Australie qui accueille les Mondiaux de cyclisme sur route jusqu'au 25 septembre, mais à Trente, en Italie.

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La cité transalpine organisait, loin des projecteurs braqués sur les Mondiaux australiens, les championnats du monde Gran Fondo, compétition de l'Union cycliste internationale réservée aux amateurs de tous âges. L'occasion pour la légende tricolore de venir enrichir un peu plus un palmarès dont on en vient même à se demander si elle arrive à en tenir le compte.

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En Italie, Jeannie Longo n'a pas ajouté une mais deux couronnes mondiales à sa collection : celles du contre-la-montre et celle de la course en ligne dans la catégorie des 60-64 ans. Dix sacres au total depuis sa première participation à l'événement, en 2015. Un record absolu.

En France, cyclisme féminin sur route et Jeannie Longo ont fini par devenir un pléonasme. Ses résultats - trente et un titres de championne de France , neuf de championne du monde chez les élites, l'or dans la course en ligne des Jeux olympiques de 1996 à Atlanta (Etats-Unis), auxquels s'ajoutent encore d'autres titres sur piste - ainsi que sa longévité y ont contribué.

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The package arrived in a plain cardboard box. It was simply addressed to S Neumann & Co – a mining sales agency in the centre of London – and weighed just over a pound (around 500g). But this was no ordinary cargo.  . https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20220922-the-super-deep-royal-diamonds-revealing-earths-secrets JAHEL

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The package arrived in a plain cardboard box. It was simply addressed to S Neumann & Co - a mining sales agency in the centre of London - and weighed just over a pound (around 500g). But this was no ordinary cargo.

It was April 1905, and three months earlier, the surface manager at the Premier Mine in South Africa had been completing a routine inspection 18ft (5.4m) underground, when he glimpsed a reflected light in the rough wall above him. He assumed it was a large piece of glass hammered in by colleagues as a practical joke. Just in case, out came his pocket knife, and after some digging... the knife promptly snapped. Eventually the rock was removed successfully, and revealed to be a bona fide diamond - a monster 3,106.75-carat stone, almost the size of a fist. It was not only enormous, but unusually transparent.

The Cullinan, as it became known, is the largest diamond ever found. Once it had been polished and cleaved into several more manageable stones, the largest crystal it yielded would shine like the cool glow of a star in a distant galaxy. As a result, this diamond - the Cullinan I - is sometimes known as the Great Star of Africa.

But though the Cullinan diamonds are renowned across the globe for their size and transparency, these characteristics are no accident. They are "Clippir" diamonds - members of a special category of the very largest and clearest examples ever found. And there is more to them than meets the eye. In fact, these special diamonds are stowaways from the deep Earth - the only objects that have ever made it out of this alien world without being changed beyond all recognition. How did they get to the surface? And what can they tell us about the interior of our planet?

Nearly 120 years after it was found, the original mega-diamond has not been forgotten. Today the Cullinan's descendants are part of the British Crown Jewels, normally kept in the Tower of London and brought out for state events - and they will feature prominently in the coronation of King Charles III. Dressed in flowing robes of golden thread, the King will be crowned using the Sovereign's Sceptre, which contains the Cullinan I, and the Imperial State Crown, which is embedded with its next-largest sibling, the Cullinan II.

Meanwhile, several lesser-known diamonds, including the Cullinan III, IV and V, will also feature in the ceremony. The gemstones were part of the late Queen Elizabeth II's personal jewellery collection, and have been reset into a modified version of Queen Mary's Crown from 1911. This will be placed on the head of Camilla, the Queen Consort, during the ceremony.

However, before the rough diamond could have its makeover and take its place in history, it needed to be sold - and London was chosen as the most promising location to do this. This presented a problem: how do you transport such a valuable stone 7,926 miles (12,755km), without it being stolen?

In the end, the precious rock was sent all the way from Johannesburg by ordinary registered post, at a cost of just three shillings or about 75 US Cents at the time (around £11.79 or US$13.79 today). Meanwhile, a replica of the diamond made the long voyage to London by steamboat - it was placed conspicuously within the captain's safe and guarded by police detectives as a decoy. Amazingly, both made it to their destination. After years of failing to sell, the diamond - the real version, this time - was purchased by the Transvaal government for £150,000 (£20m or US$22.5m today) and gifted to King Edward VII.

For all their beauty, Clippir diamonds are really fragments of the deep Earth - intriguing geological anomalies disguised as mere jewellery. These strange gemstones are capsules from another world - a mysterious realm of unfathomable pressures, swirling green rock, and elusive minerals, far below the surface. Scientists around the globe have been studying them for decades to reveal the region's secrets - and intriguingly, it's the very diamonds that we value most that have the most unusual stories to tell. Now the largest examples, like the Cullinan, are transforming our understanding of Earth's interior.
An unusual opportunity
Sitting in front of a microscope at the Gemological Institute of America (GIA) in 2020, Evan Smith carefully stretched some rubber gloves over his fingers, and peered into the instrument's lenses. Beneath was a diamond worth almost as much as a small country - about the size of a walnut, with 124 carats of wonderous brilliance.

To reach this point, Smith had already navigated almost military levels of security - iris scans and identity checks, followed by layer after layer of locked doors, secure lifts and mysterious restricted corridors. While he worked, video cameras streamed a constant view of the room to watchful security guards.

Smith - a research scientist at GIA - was examining the diamond for inclusions, chemical hitchhikers from the interior of our planet that can reveal how the crystal formed, and under what conditions. But working with high-value diamonds is a tricky business - ordinarily, it's impossible for researchers to get their hands on the largest specimens. They're sometimes flown around the world to visit potential customers - alas, never scientists.

Maya Kopylova, a professor of mineral exploration at the University of British Columbia, says getting samples of any diamonds is hard, and most of the diamonds she works with would have otherwise been thrown away. "Researchers have to have a good relationship with companies and they will never give you valuable samples," she says. "So, they will never give us diamonds that are 6mm (0.2 inches) in size or larger."

Even then, acquiring them is convoluted and expensive - first, Kopylova has to visit the high-security facilities where diamonds are sorted and identify the specimens she'd like to study. Once the acquisition has been approved, then comes the paperwork - all diamonds must travel with a Kimberley Process certificate, which proves its provenance and helps to prevent conflict or "blood" diamonds from entering the market.

However, Smith's situation is different. At GIA, he has access to one of the largest collections of diamonds on the planet - millions of gems that have been sent there to be valued, so that they can be insured or sold. "If you want to see something rare and unusual, this is the perfect place to go because there are diamonds coming through here all the time," says Smith. "Every few days, you might get to borrow a diamond for maybe a few hours, maybe a day or two and study it."

A few years earlier, this is exactly what Smith had done. Together with an international team of scientists, he casually requisitioned 53 of the largest, clearest and most expensive available - including some from the same mine as the Cullinan diamond - and took them back to his laboratory to view under a microscope.

What Smith found was revolutionary. Nearly three-quarters of the Clippir diamonds contained tiny pockets, or "inclusions" of metal that had avoided rusting - not something you'd find in ordinary ones - while the remaining 15 contained a kind of garnet which only forms within the Earth's mantle, the layer above its molten core.

Together, these inclusions provide chemical clues that the diamonds could only have formed no fewer than 360km (224 miles) and no more than 750km (466 miles) underfoot. In this Goldilocks zone, it's deep enough to explain the metal inclusions that hadn't been exposed to oxygen, which is abundant higher up, and it's not so deep that the garnet rocks would have broken down under the immense pressures of the lower mantle. Ordinary diamonds, meanwhile, originate below the crust, just 150-200km (93-124 miles) down.

For his 2020 study - together with Wuyi Wang, who is vice president of research & development at GIA - Smith analysed the 124-carat diamond and found that it formed at the deeper end of the possible range - at least 660km (410 miles) below the Earth's surface.

From the depths
"From a geological perspective, diamonds [in general] are really strange minerals," says Smith. It just so happens that our species finds them so beguiling, we invest tens of millions every year in our quest for them - well beyond the budget of any research project.

And while these endeavours have led to much destruction, from wars and colonisation to the rerouting of rivers and upending of rare habitats, if it weren't for our enthusiasm for these sparkling lumps of carbon, "we would have no idea about this story [of their unusual properties], because we would never get to recover them and study them", says Smith.

Even the most ordinary diamonds are unique among rocks, forming far deeper than any others - there is nothing else at the Earth's surface that has emerged from further down into our planet. "There are no other materials at the surface coming from a depth of 600km [373 miles], absolutely not," says Kopylova. Magma that reaches us comes from around 400km [249 miles] down, but unlike diamonds, which reach the surface unchanged, this is melted rock. "And that adds another degree of uncertainty of what was the original material before it was affected by melting," adds Kopylova.

Every diamond that has ever been sold or worn, except those grown in the laboratory, is at least 990 million years old - formed at a time when strange, spaghetti-like lifeforms, primitive algae, were just beginning to creep onto land. But some are truly ancient, first crystallising at least 3.2 billion years ago, when the entire planet may have been one big ocean - a swirling blue orb with no visible land or continents whatsoever.

Once a diamond has formed, it takes a sequence of unlikely processes to bring it up to the surface. First, the natural movement of super-heated rock in the mantle brings it closer to the surface over hundreds of millions of years, possibly as part of giant "plumes" which can stretch thousands of kilometres from the edge of the core to the upper mantle.

Then the diamond has to be in the right place at the right time, to be blasted up in magma. "It [the molten liquid] has picked up those diamonds from a variety of different locations and kind of mixed them together," says Smith. This diamond-flecked magma then solidifies into rock within the Earth's crust - specifically one called kimberlite - where the gemstones may be discovered millions of years later.

The Cullinan diamonds

Once it had arrived in London safely, the rough Cullinan diamond was sent to be cut by Joseph Asscher. It's reported that the rock was so massive, the first heavy blow of the hammer led to yet another knife casualty (it broke) - and made him faint. However, eventually Asscher managed to divide the diamond into nine major stones, the largest of which was 530.20 carats - a measure of its weight - and 96 smaller ones. While the larger stones became part of the British Crown Jewels or the British monarch's private collection, the smaller fragments were sold to various clients around the world.

Back in the 1980s, geologists began to notice that some diamonds looked different to others - sometimes they contained minerals that could suggest they formed at higher pressures than regular ones (more on this later). "We started to wonder whether some diamonds might actually be formed deeper than others," says Smith.

Around the same time, they noticed a puzzling pattern. Most diamonds - called Type I - contain a significant amount of nitrogen, which affects their crystal structure and can add a hint of pale yellow or brown. Occasionally, though, a diamond has almost no detectable traces of this element. These are the Type II diamonds, and the phenomenon is extremely rare - except in the very largest diamonds.

"It's not just that they're big that sets them apart," says Smith. "When you look at these big, high-quality [type II] diamonds, like the Cullinan, there turned out to be something strange about them, that makes them more likely to fall into this category that should otherwise be something very rare. So this was kind of a long-standing mystery."

Eventually scientists discovered that some diamonds are "super-deep", and identified a handful of mines where they were most likely to be found - including the Cullinan mine in South Africa and Letseng mine in the nearby kingdom of Lesotho, where Smith's 124-carat specimen originated.

Today many super-deep diamonds come from the Cullinan mine in South Africa, and Letseng mine in the neighbouring country of Lesotho (Credit: Getty Images)

But for decades, most of the diamonds found to be from deeper in the Earth were small and not particularly valuable. Studying large, expensive diamonds has always been tricky - no one had checked if they could also fit into this category. "We never really thought of them as something that could be gem quality - that we would ever be wearing super-deep diamonds or, you know, putting them in crowns or sceptres or anything like that," says Smith.

The final clincher in Smith's 2020 study was an elusive mineral that was only seen for the first time six years earlier - found in a 4.5 billion-year-old meteorite that slammed into the Earth back in 1879.

It's thought that the ancient extra-terrestrial rock had once been part of a much larger celestial object, an asteroid, and broke off during a catastrophic impact. During this process, it experienced staggeringly high pressures, similar to those found within the Earth.

The Tenham meteorite, as it is known, broke up as it fell, scattering fragments across Queensland, Australia - many of which were collected and eventually gifted to the British Museum in London by a geologist's widow. Fast-forward 143 years, and the fragments have been extensively studied, particularly for what they might tell us about our planet's interior.

And in 2014, scientists glimpsed the mineral bridgmanite within one of these alien rocks. Though it's the most abundant material on Earth, it can only exist at the high pressures found in the lower mantle, the layer above the Earth's molten core. Like many high-pressure minerals, it breaks up when it gets to the surface - and this was the first time it had ever been seen.

Amazingly, the 124-carat gem Smith studied contained this very mineral, though in its broken-down form - even inside diamonds, it doesn't usually survive the journey up. This suggests that the glittering rock formed within the lower mantle, at pressures at least 240,000 times those at sea level. That's 240 times the crushing pressure in the deepest part of the ocean, the Mariana Trench.

But why does this all make super-deep diamonds so different? And what can they tell us about the hidden world they're made in?

The Cullinan diamond is rumoured to have been so large, the first attempt to split it broke the cutter's knife (Credit: Getty Images)

Ancient carbon
According to Smith, the unusual qualities of the world's largest and most valuable diamonds are all down to the way they form.

Even the origins of regular diamonds are still somewhat mysterious, but they're thought to start life as a fluid - most likely ancient seawater trapped deep underground along with sinking oceanic plates. Somehow, perhaps due to a sudden change in temperature or pressure, this mineral-rich water ends up rejecting the carbon that's dissolved within it, which is precipitated out - and under the immense pressures below the Earth's crust, the carbon crystallises into diamonds.

But super-deep diamonds like the Cullinan are different. Instead of a beginning within water, these start life as carbon dissolved within liquid metal, far down in the planet's interior. "It's like molten iron nickel alloy with sulphur and carbon dissolved in that," says Smith. "So it's a totally different kind of fluid, but it's still carbon fluid. It's undergoing whatever chemical or temperature changes, and that's causing carbon to crystallise out." In this case, the initial fluid contains less nitrogen, so they end up with very little of this element - and are consequently more transparent.

Reclaimed treasures

In short, Clippir diamonds aren't just regular ones that have somehow grown to remarkable proportions - they're fundamentally different. In fact, their unparalleled size and transparency are a direct result of the unusual way they form. And since their discovery, super-deep diamonds have revealed some of our planet's most closely guarded secrets.

Many of the Crown Jewels come from countries that were colonised by the British. As a result of this legacy, the Cullinan diamonds remain controversial in South Africa, and recently there have been calls to return them. Separately, several countries have asked for the return of the Koh-i-Noor, which is currently set in the Crown of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother. This diamond, which is also of super-deep origin, is thought to have been mined in India up to a thousand years ago - its early history has been lost. It was passed between the hands of generations of rulers in South Asia before it was acquired by Queen Victoria when the Punjab Region was annexed by the British in the mid-19th Century. The Koh-i-Noor will not be making an appearance at the coronation of King Charles III and the Queen Consort, Camilla.

"I think the biggest thing they [super-deep diamonds] inform us about is the process of subduction - when an oceanic tectonic plate, sinks down into the Earth," says Smith.

This is the phenomenon we all learn about in classes at school - the Earth is split up into seven tectonic plates, which "float" around on the surface, generating earthquakes when they rub against one another, and volcanoes when they move apart or get too close. Crucially, while new plates are constantly being formed, some are also slowly slipping below the crust, never to be seen again.

But though scientists have long suspected that these vanished, subducting plates - which are usually heavier, oceanic ones - eventually drift down into the lower mantle, this has never been confirmed. "You can go to a volcano and say, 'yeah, this magma comes out of the Earth', or go to spreading centres of the oceans and see, that there's new crust forming... But it's really difficult to do the opposite and say, what's going down into the Earth?" says Smith.

The 'cursed' royal diamond

Super-deep diamonds can provide important clues, because amazingly, these disappeared tectonic plates might be what they are made of. "So we've seen diamonds that look like they're essentially pieces of the oceanic crust that have been carried down to the lower mantle," says Smith. "These diamonds are physically telling us that this process is physically true."

Other than confirming what happens to oceanic plates that end up in the interior of our planet, super-deep diamonds also tell us about the kinds of things you might find in the lower mantle. For a start, there must be carbon, or the diamonds wouldn't exist. But in 2021, the discovery of a rare super-deep diamond from Juína, Brazil, hinted that there may also be whole "oceans" of water.

The diamond contains a pocket of a vivid blue mineral, hydrous ringwoodite, which is a high-pressure form of olivine, the green mineral that makes up most of the upper mantle. Under the microscope, it looks like a tiny shard of indigo glass - and this type contains around 2.5% water.

For years, scientists have believed that all the water at the Earth's surface - in rivers, ice sheets, lakes and oceans - ultimately comes from the mantle. But where exactly it could be stored has been up for debate, particularly because olivine does not store water well. However, the discovery of water-saturated ringwoodite suggests that it's stored lower down, in the same region where many super-deep diamonds form.

The more scientists learn about them, the clearer it becomes that super-deep diamonds aren't just extraordinary valuable in monetary terms - without them, many of the processes inside the Earth would have remained hidden from view.

"There is definitely a wow factor when you're trying to scrutinise something under the microscope, but then you also have in the back of your mind this idea that the object you're handling is worth millions of dollars," says Smith. "And it struck me a few times, I mean, just looking at some of these things, and thinking about, 'Oh wouldn't it be great if we could break this open or study in more detail just because it's such a fascinating scientific sample'... but then you can't because it's such a valuable gemstone. There's kind of a weird duality."

Since smashing diamonds is generally frowned upon, Smith can't help longing for a less destructive - though no less radical - alternative: leaving diamonds in their rough form. When the rocks emerge from the Earth, they're lumpy and coarse, with none of the sparkle they acquire after they've been cut and polished - but the surface you see reads like a history of their adventures underground.

"The diamond can be chemically etched away by magma, and you end up with these really unusual shapes and intricate features... the natural surfaces that have been sculpted by all these different forces over millions of years. That is unique, and I see a lot of beauty in that."

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* This article was updated on 23 September 2022. It was updated further on 14 February and 4 May 2023 to include details about which of the crown jewels will be used in the coronation of King Charles III and The Queen Consort.

* Zaria Gorvett is a senior journalist for BBC Future and tweets @ZariaGorvett.

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Il aura suffi de quelques secondes, le temps que le visage de Halle Bailey s'affiche à l'écran, pour que les réseaux sociaux s'enflamment. Ariel, la célèbre sirène de Disney, est désormais noire. L'actrice et chanteuse américaine apparaît à la toute fin de la bande-annonce, dévoilée début septembre par la compagnie californienne, d'une adaptation en prise de vues réelles, réalisée par Rob Marshall, du dessin animé de 1989. Depuis, le hashtag #notmyariel charrie son lot de commentaires négatifs - pour beaucoup racistes - qui crient à la trahison et regrettent la chevelure rousse, les yeux bleus et la peau diaphane de la princesse à queue de poisson.

Sur Twitter, une capture d'écran montrant la figure de Halle Bailey blanchie et les traits modifiés a largement eu le temps de circuler avant que le compte de son auteur ne soit suspendu. A l'inverse, des vidéos, accompagnées des hashtags #representationmatters ou #blackgirl, sont devenues virales, notamment sur TikTok. Des enfants, filmés par leurs parents, y affichent un énorme sourire en découvrant la nouvelle héroïne de Disney. " Elle est noire, oh mon Dieu ! ", " Yes, yes, yes ", s'enthousiasme une fratrie devant la bande-annonce.

Halle Bailey s'est émue du phénomène sur Twitter. " Je suis bluffée ", a-t-elle réagi. Quant au reste, la jeune femme de 22 ans s'est contentée d'un " ce qui ne vous tue pas vous rend plus fort ". Connue avec sa sœur pour leur duo de R'n'B Chloe × Halle et pour leur rôle dans la série Grown-ish, elle a déjà dû affronter un déferlement de haine quand, en 2019, a été annoncé qu'elle incarnerait Ariel. En août, elle expliquait au magazine Variety l'importance du soutien de ses grands-parents. " C'était inspirant et magnifique d'entendre leurs mots d'encouragement me disant : "Tu ne comprends pas ce que cela fait pour nous, pour notre communauté, pour toutes les petites filles noires et non blanches qui vont se voir en toi" ", a-t-elle raconté.

Un pas significatif pour la diversité

Un avis que partage Stephanie Troutman Robbins, professeure associée à l'université d'Arizona. Coautrice de Race in American Television (Greenwood, 2021, non traduit), elle met en avant le poids des représentations pour les enfants. " Il n'y a qu'à voir la joie de ces petites filles noires à regarder quelqu'un qui leur ressemble dans un rôle qui d'habitude ne leur ressemble pas, souligne-t-elle. C'est fondamental. Même si des gens ont du mal avec ça, avoir une littérature jeunesse et des films pour enfants plus représentatifs va dans la bonne direction, y compris pour les enfants blancs qui ne vivent pas dans un environnement multiculturel. " En 2020, selon un sondage du National Research Group, deux Afro-Américains sur trois jugeaient que leur vie n'était pas correctement représentée à l'écran et 74 % des personnes interrogées assuraient qu'un contenu inclusif était un facteur déterminant pour regarder un programme.
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Il aura suffi de quelques secondes, le temps que le visage de Halle Bailey s'affiche à l'écran, pour que les réseaux sociaux s'enflamment. Ariel, la célèbre sirène de Disney, est désormais noire. L'actrice et chanteuse américaine apparaît à la toute fin de la bande-annonce, dévoilée début septembre par la compagnie californienne, d'une adaptation en prise de vues réelles, réalisée par Rob Marshall, du dessin animé de 1989.

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A review of the movie "the Whale" that wille be released on December 9th in the USA.
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They're calling it "The Brenaissance". After years in the Hollywood wilderness, Brendan Fraser is getting parts in major films again - including DC's shot-but-shelved Batgirl movie - and his fans are hoping that this will lead to a career revival to compare to Matthew McConaughey's "McConaissance" a few years ago. The most important stepping-stone on Fraser's route back to the A-list is Darren Aronofsky's The Whale, which premiered at the Venice Film Festival on Sunday. Why is it so important? For one thing, it's a high-profile drama from a big-name director. For another, Fraser has the lead role, and he appears in almost every scene. For a third, Fraser undergoes one of those has-to-be-seen-to-be-believed physical transformations that awards voters can't resist. It's a far cry from George of the Jungle.
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Fraser plays Charlie, a gay Ohio literature professor who never leaves his dingy, cluttered apartment, and keeps his camera switched off during his Zoom lectures. The reason for this shyness is that he has been depressed since the suicide of his lover, several years ago, and he has kept eating to the point where he is morbidly obese. Indeed, he is so heavy now that his heart is failing, and he may well die within days. His loyal, loving carer, Liz (the excellent Hong Chau) urges him to go to hospital, and a gauche missionary (Ty Simpkins) from a local evangelical church is determined to save his soul. But all Charlie cares about is talking to Ellie (Sadie Sink), the 17-year-old daughter he hasn't seen since he left her and her mother (Samantha Morton) eight years earlier.

The Whale

Directed by: Darren Aronofsky
Starring: Brendan Fraser, Sadie Sink, Samantha Morton
Film length: 1h 57m

The Whale requires Fraser to wear the biggest "fat suit" since Terry Jones exploded in Monty Python's The Meaning of Life. (One of Charlie's favourite books is Moby Dick, so the title isn't just a reference to his size.) It's rare to see prosthetic make-up on this scale outside of a body-horror movie, but it's so well done that the viewer comes to accept it within minutes. What's even more impressive is that, despite being encased in a mountain of rubber, Fraser is expressive enough to melt your heart. There's a remarkable nimbleness to his facial movements and a soulful gentleness to his voice, but it's his wide, pleading, hopeful blue eyes that make it hard to imagine anyone else being as captivating in the role.

It's not so hard to imagine a better film, though. The Whale is a kind of companion piece to the director's 2008 hit, The Wrestler (although, unusually for Aronofsky, he didn't write either of them), in that it involves a man with an estranged daughter, a heart condition, and a body he has pushed to painfully unhealthy extremes. It's worth remembering, too, that The Wrestler revived the career of its leading man, Mickey Rourke, if only briefly.

The key difference between the two projects is that The Wrestler had so much grit and dynamism, whereas The Whale, which is adapted by Samuel D Hunter from his own play, never lets you forget its theatrical origins. That's not just because Aronofsky chooses to shoot it simply, on one unconvincing set. It's also because it retains the pacing, structure and conventions of a solid but clichéd melodrama. The staginess is there in the way that the characters take it in turns to visit Charlie and have polished, thematically relevant conversations with him, the way that so many people conveniently enter his life within a week-long time span, and the way that they conveniently reveal the hidden connections between them.

For a film that opens with a 40-stone man suffering chest spasms after masturbating to online pornography, The Whale turns out to be disappointingly stodgy and sentimental. Charlie talks - and talks and talks - about the importance of honesty in writing, but much of this well-meaning redemption story is too corny to ring true - the cynical daughter, in particular. And when Fraser makes his impassioned, tearful speech towards the end, as the camera holds his face and syrupy strings drip all over the soundtrack, it is almost a parody of the clips that are shown at awards ceremonies when the nominations are read out.

Still, parodic or not, this sequence is definitely going to be used a lot in the months to come. Fraser richly deserves to be nominated for a best actor Oscar, and if that doesn't happen, I won't just eat my hat, I'll eat as many pizzas and cheese-and-meatball sandwiches as Charlie gets through in the film. The Brenaissance is here.

★★★☆☆
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The US space agency's Perseverance rover is close to completing its first set of objectives on Mars.

The Nasa robot has collected a diverse set of rock samples that it will soon deposit on the surface, awaiting carriage to Earth by later missions.

It's 17 months since the vehicle arrived in an area called Jezero Crater, slung below a rocket crane.

Everything "Percy" has seen since confirms to scientists the rover is in the perfect place to hunt for life.

It's not looking for any organisms that are alive today; the harsh environment on Mars makes their presence highly improbable. Rather, the robot is searching for the traces of a biology that could have existed billions of years ago when Jezero was filled with a lake.

This ancient history, scientists hope, is now recorded in the "amazing" rock samples that will be laid down in "a depot" in the next couple of months.

"If [Jezero's ancient] conditions existed pretty much anywhere on Earth at any point in time over the last 3.5 billion years, I think it's safe to say, or at least assume, that biology would have done its thing and left its mark in these rocks for us to observe," said David Shuster, a Perseverance mission scientist from the University of California, Berkeley.

Nasa and the European Space Agency are working up a plan to retrieve the rock cache. It's an audacious plan that will involve another landing system, some helicopters, a Martian rocket and an interplanetary freighter.

The goal is to have the samples back on Earth in 2033.

The delivery will include some examples of igneous, or volcanic, rocks that Perseverance drilled out on the crater floor. These will tell the story, mostly, of Jezero before it was filled with lake water.

Critically, the samples are of a rock type that can be definitively dated. At present, ages on Mars can only be inferred indirectly.

The other part of the cache will include sedimentary type rocks that Perseverance has been collecting in recent months from the delta deposits in the western sector of the 45km-wide crater.

A delta is a structure built up from the silt and sand dumped by a river as it slows on entry into a wider body of water.

It's the kind of geological feature that might just have trapped traces of past microbial life.

One of the sedimentary samples, from a rock nicknamed "Wildcat Ridge", was formed when muds settled in the Jezero lake as it was evaporating. It's full of salts. But the rover's instrumentation shows that Wildcat Ridge also contains abundant organic, or carbon-rich, compounds.

This is a tantalising observation but comes with important caveats.

"All life as we know it is made up of organics. But, importantly, organic matter can also be made up by processes that are chemical and not related to life; for instance, through water rock interactions. And organics are also found in interstellar dust," said Sunanda Sharma, a mission instrument scientist at Nasa's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL).

For the last four months, Perseverance has been working on the 40m-high scarp that represents the edge of the delta.

The robot will shortly drive off this slope to a nearby flat area of the crater floor where the rock samples, in their protective titanium tubes, can be deposited on the ground.

"We're looking at the potential of putting down 10 to 11 sample tubes here on the surface," said JPL project systems engineer Rick Welch.

"It would then take about two months to probably put those samples down and actually carefully document where they are, so that a future mission can actually find them."

Nasa engineers have been practising how the tubes, currently in the belly of Perseverance, will be ejected. They have a full-sized copy of the rover at JPL on which to simulate manoeuvres before sending up commands to Mars to carry out the actions for real.

A go/no-go decision is expected to be made by Nasa following a meeting on 19 October.

It may be that this first depot dropped by Perseverance becomes an insurance back-up, to be collected for return to Earth only if the rover suffers a catastrophic failure on the rest of its mission.

Scientists want to collect many more samples, in which case the retrieval plan may focus on where the robot goes in future.

A final determination will be driven by events on Mars.

Lori Glaze, the director of Nasa's planetary science division, lauded the "incredible Perseverance team" for the mission achievements so far.

"We not only went to the right place, but we sent the right spacecraft with the right science instruments to explore this amazing ancient environment on Mars," she told reporters.

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Tennis champion Serena Williams says farewell.
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One of sport's greatest ever legends has played her final professional match. Serena Williams bowed out of the US Open tennis tournament on Friday after being defeated in the third round. The 40-year-old showed her customary grit and determination in the gruelling three-hour match. The watching crowd stood and erupted in thunderous applause and an outpouring of love at the moment defeat arrived. "Happy tears" streamed down her face as Ms Williams showed her appreciation to the crowd and waved farewell. In her post-match interview, she said: "I just thank everyone that's here, that's been on my side so many years, decades...literally decades. But, it all started with my parents."

Serena Williams is arguably the greatest tennis player of all time. Her 23 Grand Slam titles, her 319 weeks spent as the world's number one, and her 27 years at the top as a professional are testament to that. However, her achievements have spread far beyond tennis. She has been an inspiration to girls worldwide. Former tennis great Billie Jean King said her "greatest contributions may be yet to come". Current American player 18-year-old Coco Gauff cited Williams as her hero. She said: "The impact you've had on me goes beyond any words that can be put together." Former United States First Lady Michelle Obama said: "I can't wait to see the lives you continue to transform with your talents."

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