coming to MAX on Friday, Nov. 1. The film follows a mother (Julianne Nicholson) and her 11-year-old daughter (Zoe Ziegler) one languid summer in rural Western Massachusetts in 1991. It’s the kind of film that transports you back to the wonder, boredom and agita of an endless summer break, before smart phones and social media.
For Zonias, keeping the language alive for the ages would be the crowning achievement of his career.“I don’t want to be the last teacher of Sanna,” he said.
Pope Leo XIV’s election as the first U.S.-born leader of the Catholic Church elevated him to the extremely rare, and legally thorny, position of being an American citizen who now is also a foreign head of state.Born in Chicago as Robert Prevost in 1955, the new pope for the past decade has held dual citizenship in the U.S. and Peru, where he spent time as a missionary and bishop.As pope, Leo serves as leader of both the Holy See, the governing body of the Catholic Church, and Vatican City, an independent state.
Can the pope remain a U.S. citizen while leading a foreign government? Here are things to know about Leo’s citizenship.In addition to being the spiritual leader for what the church says is roughly 1.4 billion Catholics worldwide, Leo is also the head of what’s recognized as the world’s smallest nation.
Vatican City covers just 0.17 square miles (0.44 square kilometers) and has a population of a few hundred people. It became an independent state in 1929 under a treaty between Italy and the Holy See.
Americans working for foreign governments aren’t automatically at risk of forfeiting their U.S. citizenship.Scarlett Johansson and Erin Kellyman at the photo call for “Eleanor the Great” at Cannes on Wednesday, May 21, 2025. (Photo by Scott A Garfitt/Invision/AP)
Scarlett Johansson and Erin Kellyman at the photo call for “Eleanor the Great” at Cannes on Wednesday, May 21, 2025. (Photo by Scott A Garfitt/Invision/AP)“At some point, I worked enough that I stopped worrying about not working, or not being relevant — which is very liberating,” Johansson says. “I think it’s something all actors feel for a long time until they don’t. I would not have had the confidence to direct this film 10 years ago.”
“Which isn’t to say that I don’t often think many times: What the hell am I doing?” she adds. “I have that feeling, still. Certainly doing ‘Jurassic,’ I had many moments where I was like: Am I the right person for this? Is this working? But I just recently saw it and the movie works.”So does “Eleanor the Great,” which Sony Pictures Classics will release at some future date. That’s owed significantly to the performance of Squibb, who, at 95, experienced a Cannes standing ovation alongside Johansson.