5 h. ago 6 lost car maintenance skills everyone had in the 60s and 70s, but most drivers today lack

Most drivers today wouldn’t know how to fix these faults

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7 h. ago ‘The public has been lied to’: secretly made documentary insists that aliens exist

The Age of Disclosure is a new film featuring high-ranking government officials who claim proof of extraterrestrial life has been covered upDirector Dan Farah grew up with aliens. As a child of the 80s and 90s, pop culture was awash with extra-terrestrial sightings. “How can you be a kid watching movies like ET and Close Encounters, TV shows like The X Files, and not end up curious about whether or not we’re alone in the universe?” he said in an interview with the Guardian. “And whether or not the US government does, in fact, hold secrets from the public.”Farah’s exposure to otherworldly beings in fiction kickstarted an interest that’s now morphed into a professional quest, and the subject of his documentary debut The Age of Disclosure. Here, Farah makes the case that the United States has been hiding, for decades, a font of information related to UAP (unidentified anomalous phenomena) – the acronym rebrand of the stigma-ridden UFO. Continue reading...

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64 h. ago Harry ‘loves boldly’ and ‘has childlike wonder and playfulness’ – Meghan

The duchess paid tribute to her husband, saying ‘no one in the world loves me more than him’.

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3 d. ago Tom Hanks receives mixed reviews as his new play This World of Tomorrow opens off

The play, directed by Kenny Leon and running at the Shed in New York was written by Tom and his collaborator James Glossman, based on the actor's short-story collection.

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3 d. ago The World of Tomorrow review – Tom Hanks returns to the stage for time travel charmer

The Shed, New YorkThe actor indulges his love of the past in a breezily enjoyable play about a man falling for a woman from the 1930s, played by a standout Kelli O’HaraTom Hanks is a star who’s always had one foot squarely in the past. As an actor he’s forever been likened to James Stewart, a reincarnation of the charming, essentially good American everyman, a from-another-era lead who’s increasingly been more comfortable in period fare (in the last decade, he’s appeared in just four present-day films). As a producer, he’s gravitated toward historical shows such as Band of Brothers, John Adams and The Pacific; his directorial debut was 60s-set music comedy That Thing You Do! and his undying obsession, outside of acting, is the typewriter, collecting and writing about its throwback appeal.In his new play, The World of Tomorrow, his fondness for the “good old days” has led to the inevitable, a story about a man with a fondness for the “good old days” who actually gets to experience on...

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3 d. ago Eyeliner 'so easy to blend' on mature skin shoppers in their 60s and 70s love it gets Christmas party shade

"The application of this is smooth as silk, and I love the touch of sparkle. Definitely want this in more colours"

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3 d. ago Wicked: For Good review – Cynthia Erivo sweeps the field in explosive second chunk of Oz prequel

Bringing her black-belt screen presence to the role of Elphaba, Erivo leads a fine cast in a zingily scored conclusion to the hit origin storyDirector Jon M Chu pulls off quite a trick with this manageably proportioned second half to the epic musical prequel-myth inspired by The Wizard of Oz – and based, of course, on the hit stage show. It keeps the rainbow-coloured dreaminess and the Broadway show tune zinginess from part one, and we still get those periodic, surreal pronouncements given by the city’s notables to the diverse folk of Oz, those non-player characters crowding the streets. But now the focus narrows to the main players and their explosive romantic crises, essentially through two interlocking love triangles: Glinda the Good, Elphaba the Wicked and the Wizard – and Glinda, Elphaba and Prince Fiyero, the handsome young military officer with whom both witches are not so secretly in love, as well as possibly having feelings for each other.Jeff Goldblum is excellent as the W...

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4 d. ago 9 of the most popular ready meals you'll remember if you grew up in the 70s, 80s or 90s

Some were more popular than others

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4 d. ago ‘Do we live in a war zone?’: how US schools prepare for a shooting

In the troubling HBO documentary Thoughts and Prayers, the $3bn active shooter preparedness industry shows the bleak reality of being a child in the USTalking about changes experienced by kids Ttday often runs the risk of sounding reactionary, not to mention naive. No, there wasn’t as much talk about autism, or transgender kids, or any number of topics growing up in the ‘80s and ‘90s, because they weren’t understood or discussed in the same way – not because they didn’t exist. But it’s striking, watching the new HBO documentary Thoughts and Prayers, the degree to which it shows a demonstrable change from the experiences of someone growing up 30 or 40 years ago versus today: the absolute universality of emergency action plans that go beyond the scope of the fire drills you might remember. Thoughts and Prayers surveys many of those lockdown drills, and the many supplements available to contemporary schools designed to offer further protection from an active shooter: bulletproof backpa...

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4 d. ago Seriously Silly: The Life of Terry Jones by Robert Ross review – portrait of a Python

An affectionate biography of the polymath includes details of never-produced gems such as Monty Python’s Third World WarTerry Jones was a Python, a historian, a bestselling children’s author and a very naughty boy. He loved to play women in drag, started a magazine about countryside ecology (Vole), founded his own real-ale brewery and was even once a columnist for this newspaper, beginning one piece in 2011 like this: “In the 14th century there were two pandemics. One was the Black Death, the other was the commercialisation of warfare.” He even used to write jokes for Cliff Richard.It would be tempting in view of all this to call him a renaissance man, except that Jones rather despised the highfalutin Renaissance, preferring the earthiness of medieval times: his first published book was a scholarly reinterpretation of Chaucer’s Knight’s Tale, arguing that the hero’s fighting and pillaging was being presented satirically by the poet as something deplorable. Later he raided the Norse ...

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5 d. ago Kit Harington admits playing Game of Thrones sister Sophie Turner’s lover in new film ‘felt very odd’

The pair who played Stark siblings in ‘Game of Thrones’ star as lovers in upcoming Gothic horror film ‘The Dreadful’

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5 d. ago 13 of the best Generation Game conveyor belt prizes in the 70s, 80s and 90s, when TV shows were stingier

Don’t forget the cuddly toy

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5 d. ago Man Utd news: Ruben Amorim handed ideal transfer solution as star admits 'dream' to join

Manchester United are expected to be busy in the January transfer window as Ruben Amorim looks to bolster his squad - and one player has already admitted he would love to join the Red Devils

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7 d. ago Bridget Jones is to get her very own statue in Leicester Square (and yes, she will be wearing her famous mummy pants)

A bronze of the much-loved fictional character modelled on the role played by Renée Zellweger for two decades will be unveiled in London 's West End on Monday.

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7 d. ago 7 popular things from the 60s and 70s that most people wouldn't know how to work today

You’d know how to use these if you were a child of the 60s or 70s

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8 d. ago Who is Chloe Bennet? A Very Jonas Christmas Movie star's life and real name

Marvel star Chloe Bennet plays Joe Jonas' love interest in the boyband's new comedy, A Very Jonas Christmas Movie.

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1 week ago Waitrose Actually wins the battle of the Christmas ads! Retailer taps up Keira Knightley to reprise her famous rom

Comedian Joe Wilkinson stars as sweet-natured singleton Phil, who overcomes his shyness to woo an equally lovelorn Keira Knightley - played by Keira herself in cosy scarves and PJs.

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1 week ago Waitrose Actually wins the battle of the Christmas ads! Retailer taps up Keira Knightley to reprise her famous romcom role alongside Celebrity Traitors favourite Joe Wilkinson

Comedian Joe Wilkinson stars as sweet-natured singleton Phil, who overcomes his shyness to woo an equally lovelorn Keira Knightley - played by Keira herself in cosy scarves and PJs.

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1 week ago Waitrose makes late entry to the battle of the Christmas ads

Comedian Joe Wilkinson stars as sweet-natured singleton Phil, who overcomes his shyness to woo an equally lovelorn Keira Knightley - played by Keira herself in cosy scarves and PJs.

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1 week ago 7 of the coolest things we all wished we owned in the 80s and 90s, from novelty item to tech game

You’re not a child of the 80s or 90s if you didn’t want one of these

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