Some stars — from Mel Brooks to Betty White — show no signs of slowing down as they approach their 100th birthdays.
Betty White (born 1922)
The Emmy-winning star of “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” and “Golden Girls” had another sitcom hit in her 90s with “Hot in Cleveland.” She also voiced a character in 2019’s “Toy Story 4.”
Every Wes Anderson film is filled with musical delights, from offbeat songs to unexpected score cues, and “The French Dispatch” is no exception. Composer Alexandre Desplat and music supervisor Randall Poster are among the first to read any new Anderson script. “He and I have been corresponding with music since the day we met,” says […]
Instead of spiking the ball, chaos ensued when the 'fast field goal' team unexpectedly took the field in the final seconds of the game.
Slain long-distance Olympic runner Agnes Tirop, a rising star in Kenya's highly competitive athletics scene, was buried on Saturday at a funeral attended by over 1,000 mourners. Tirop was found stabbed to death in her home in the Rift Valley town of Iten on Oct. 13, in an incident that has shone the spotlight on violence against women https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/two-deaths-shine-spotlight-violence-against-women-kenya-2021-10-15 in Kenya. A picture of Tirop, grinning and holding up a bronze medal, was placed on top of the coffin.
Newcastle reversed a call for fans not to celebrate the club's Saudi-backed takeover in Arab-style dress on Saturday, claiming the craze had not caused offence.
KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 23 — Prime Minister Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob today officially announced the introduction of Key Happiness Outcome (KHO) as an instrument among the key performance indicators...
New Zealand reported 104 new coronavirus infections on Saturday, including the first community case of the virus in the country's South Island in nearly a year, health officials said.Most of the new infections were reported in Auckland, New Zealand's largest city that has been under a strict lockdown for more than two months. Looser restrictions are in place in most of the rest of the country of 5 million.The risks of a further spread from the case reported in Blenheim, in the north east of the South Island, remained low, health officials said.On Friday, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said that New Zealand will end its strict lockdown measures and restore more freedoms only when 90% of its eligible population is fully vaccinated. As of Saturday, 70% of those eligible were fully inoculated.Once the poster child for stamping out COVID-19, New Zealand has been unable to beat an outbreak of the highly infectious Delta variant of COVID-19 centred in Auckland, forcing Ardern to abandon her elimination strategy and switch to living with the virus. New Zealand has recorded 28 coronavirus-related deaths so far in the pandemic.
Lifelong addiction to Looney Tunes and their imaginary characters and real creators is not required to enjoy journalist Jaime Weinman’s “Anvils, Mallets & Dynamite: The Unauthorized Biography of Looney Tunes,” but it will help the reader stay engaged when the tome becomes, shall we say, a bit academic. Any “serious” accounting of that place once […]
Sean Howarth, 31, also emptied the victim's bank account.
Ecuador's 2019 200 metres world bronze medallist Alex Quinonez who allowed his countrymen to "dream" has been shot dead in the port city of Guayaquil according to the Sports Ministry.
Supporters of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange march to London's High Court ahead of his appeal in his extradition case. The United States government will on October 27th begin an appeal to extradite Assange to face trial for publishing military secrets, after a British judge blocked a request earlier this year.
Marcus Stoinis and Matthew Wade stood unbeaten to help Australia prevail in a tense finish against South Africa and win by five wickets in the Twenty20 World Cup on Saturday.
Composer Andrew Lloyd Webber performed an unexpected set as a DJ outside the Majestic Theater on New York’s West 44th Street on October 22 after the return to Broadway of his musical, The Phantom of the Opera.Lloyd Webber waved his arms in the air as a jubilant crowd danced. He declared the earlier performance of The Phantom of the Opera “incredible”. Credit: kindadeirdre via Storyful
Composer Andrew Lloyd Webber performed an unexpected set as a DJ outside the Majestic Theater on New York’s West 44th Street on October 22 after the return to Broadway of his musical, The Phantom of the Opera.Lloyd Webber waved his arms in the air as a jubilant crowd danced. He declared the earlier performance of The Phantom of the Opera “incredible”. Credit: David Gallagher via Storyful
When U.K.-based Camelot Films’ “Prizefighter: The Life of Jem Belcher” was forced to relocate to Lithuania earlier this year, after the film’s Welsh financing fell through, executive producer Kestutis Drazdauskas knew the first challenge facing director Daniel Graham’s period drama would be re-creating 19th century England in 21st century Vilnius. “It was an extensive set […]
Farha Bushra, 20, complained there wasn’t enough to eat.
Boo them and tweet trash can emojis if you'd like. The Astros are prepared for their role on baseball's biggest stage.
Clare Polkinghorne, Mary Fowler and Emily Van Egmond all scored as the Matildas overpowered Brazil 3-1 Saturday, shrugging off a difficult few weeks marred by allegations of harassment and abuse in Australian football.
They are reportedly being disguised so animal shelters will take them in.
Public health expert Professor Linda Bauld explains the simultaneous Covid and flu jab campaigns mean the NHS is facing a "big ask" to deliver the same number of vaccines as earlier in the pandemic but in half the time. She adds that face coverings should be required across the UK to prevent a rise of hospitalisations.
KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 23 — Pakatan Harapan leaders issued today demanded explanation and urged authorities to launch a thorough probe into the government’s decision to revive projects seen as...
