Spying on the spiesThe other side of the spy ring – the communications experts – had developed the perfect cover story. Peter and Helen Kroger were, to their neighbours in sleepy suburban London, an antiquarian bookseller specialising in Americana and...
The most recent study from Annenberg also found that from Hollywood's top 100 films last year, there were only four women aged 45 plus who featured as a lead or co-lead, and one was a voice character in an animation:...
According to biographer Marc Eliot, in To The Limit: The Untold Story of the Eagles, the push to release a "best of" came from incoming Asylum boss Joe Smith, who was seeking to raise funds while the band themselves (responsible for...
When Euphronious jump-starts the corpse, the electrified Bride comes to life with her platinum hair on end, an echo of Elsa Lanchester's in the original film. A reanimating chemical has left black stains on her face and she doesn't remember...
Yet as much as Crash presented a flawed cross-section of LA society "crashing into each other", as Don Cheadle's weary cop Graham Waters utters in the opening minutes, many felt it too often prioritised its white characters' perspectives. " have...
Burton used gouache to create this piece, a type of water-soluble paint that gives the painting the vivid colours it is so well-known for. Gouache is also light-sensitive and prone to fading over time if exposed to direct sunlight or high...
Churchill reminded people how he had warned in the 1930s against the appeasement of Hitler and Nazi Germany but "no one would listen and one by one we were all sucked into the awful whirlpool". He added that "surely we...
Since then, the phrase revenge dress has increasingly been used in celebrity culture. Revenge dresses as they are understood by the mainstream have typically been flattering, revealing, and likely a bit risqué – a reminder of what an ex is missing...
In 1999, an artwork of a dishevelled divan strewn with condoms and lager cans sparked a media frenzy and turned artist Tracey Emin into a celebrity. Why? And what happened next?Back when the world was spinning towards the 21st Century,...
Alamy9. Project Hail MaryIf you fancy a deeply researched story of a scientist stuck on his own in space, then Andy Weir is your man. His debut novel, The Martian, was made into a hit film scripted by Drew Goddard,...
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