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maltatoday | SUNDAY • 14 APRIL 2024 4 ALMANAC My essentials MARK GRENSIDE Author, entrepreneur, producer I moved from Lloyds of London specialising in Kidnap and Ransom Insurance to working for Jim Henson and The Muppets to producing films and TV mini-series. I bought and sold a network (Hallmark Channel) and invested in businesses from farming to digital. I wrote a book, indulge in cooking, travelling and classic cars! My blog www.andanotherthing.com is read in 40 countries. 4 5 1. Book 2. Film 3. Internet / TV 4. Music 5. Place I follow themes. Cars, cooking, and world and local events. I am not influenced by others but certainly follow the well-informed and the funny. EVERY day this chang- es! Music so reflects your mood that one artist one day may not be suitable the next! I have mixed com- pilations from Spotify for Sonos and iPhone and in my car, USB toggles with 2,000 tracks each. So, your mood of the moment is the music. Don't ever stick to one genre! I have been incredibly lucky to have visited nearly 120 coun- tries. It's very difficult to pick one. As a favourite holiday destination, it's either Halong Bay in Vietnam or Arrow- town in New Zealand. As a place I love to revisit it has to be Cernobbio on Lake Como or Carmel in California and for the future Antarctica, Tas- mania and Patagonia! 'ELON Musk' by Ashlee Vance. People like Musk, Branson, Jobs, and Zuckerberg fascinate me. When did they decide to keep on going despite amass- ing vast fortunes? I'm sure that when they were in short pants if you said they would be bil- lionaires at 30 they would have said, "Great. I can party the rest of my life." I doubt Musk (like Jobs) is an easy person to have around. However, I would love to have him to dinner. As that is never going to happen, reading this is the closest thing! CRUELLA. By far the best Dis- ney film in years. Excellent script and storyline with breath- taking art direction. The scene that sticks in the mind is Cruella (Emma Stone) driving away af- ter sabotaging an event for The Baroness (Emma Thompson) in a Ford Transit van with sumptu- ous dress material flowing out of the back like a river. For TV, Succession. Brilliant cast and inter-family betrayals on an in- dustrial scale. Compiled by Laura Calleja suggestions by email lcalleja@mediatoday.com 1 This page is supported by Arts Council Malta 2 3