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Pitt’s other recent credits include last year’s Wolfs alongside George Clooney and Chazelle’s 2022 movie Babylon.
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Ryan Gajewski, HollywoodReporter, 28 Mar. 2025
That pleasurable little paradox can be traced as far back as the 1952 classic melodrama The Bad and the Beautiful, or as recently as 2022's bilious Babylon.
—Tom Gliatto, People.com, 26 Mar. 2025
To do this, the Space Force needs to have assets in the form of maneuverable spacecraft in orbit at all times – not as individual vehicles, but stored in a mothership that can launch them as needed, rather like the fictional Battlestar Galactica or Babylon 5, though not quite as cool.
—David Szondy, New Atlas, 26 Mar. 2025
Three more Stragglers — drummer Jake Lynn, keyboardist Aaron Bair, and guitarist AJ Slaughter — played on The Last Kings of Babylon but left the band in the time between studio and release.
—Josh Crutchmer, Rolling Stone, 22 Mar. 2025
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Ryan Gajewski, HollywoodReporter, 28 Mar. 2025
That pleasurable little paradox can be traced as far back as the 1952 classic melodrama The Bad and the Beautiful, or as recently as 2022's bilious Babylon.
—Tom Gliatto, People.com, 26 Mar. 2025
To do this, the Space Force needs to have assets in the form of maneuverable spacecraft in orbit at all times – not as individual vehicles, but stored in a mothership that can launch them as needed, rather like the fictional Battlestar Galactica or Babylon 5, though not quite as cool.
—David Szondy, New Atlas, 26 Mar. 2025
Three more Stragglers — drummer Jake Lynn, keyboardist Aaron Bair, and guitarist AJ Slaughter — played on The Last Kings of Babylon but left the band in the time between studio and release.
—Josh Crutchmer, Rolling Stone, 22 Mar. 2025
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“Babylon.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Babylon. Accessed 6 Apr. 2025.
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Babylon
geographical name
Bab·y·lon
ˈba-bə-lən 
-ˌlän
ancient city and capital of Babylonia
Note: The site of Babylon is about 55 miles (89 kilometers) south of Baghdad near the Euphrates River.
see also babylonian
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