43 m. ago Pink smoke, pigs and Pixar: a dozen movie Easter eggs to feast on

Hidden references and in-jokes in cinema can be an acquired taste, but here’s a festive selection of the best arch nods for aficionados to enjoyOne of Hollywood’s most durable Easter eggs debuted in Howard Hawks’s His Girl Friday (1940) when Cary Grant’s character says: “The last man who said that to me was Archie Leach just a week before he cut his throat!” And in Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) his character sits pensively in a cemetery where Archie Leach’s gravestone is to be seen. In Charles Crichton’s A Fish Called Wanda (1988), John Cleese’s character is called Archie Leach. Leach is, of course, the real name of Cary Grant – a very goofy and unglamorous sounding name compared with the sonorous “Cary Grant” – and a rare example of Hollywood alluding to the open secret of rebranding its stars and effacing the bland ordinariness of their origins. Peter Bradshaw Continue reading...

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43 m. ago Ospreys v Cardiff team news as both sides make multiple changes for huge clash

Josh Adams will make his 50th appearance for Cardiff at Judgement Day

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47 m. ago Natalie Cassidy drops big hint about EastEnders future as fans beg for Sonia back

EastEnders icon Natalie Cassidy has hinted at a possible return to the BBC soap after bidding an emotional farewell to her character Sonia Fowler 11 years ago

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56 m. ago Neighbours legend was 'supposed to die last month' after terminal cancer diagnosis

Neighbours star Ian Smith has bowed out of iconic Aussie soap after nearly four decades in the job, and has now opened up about his heartbreaking terminal cancer battle

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57 m. ago James Tavernier warns sweeping Rangers changes will leave some stars behind if they don't do one thing

The skipper has challenged his teammates to prove they deserve to be part of the new era set to begin at Ibrox

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89 m. ago Where are the iconic stars of The Apprentice now? From reality show stints to celeb break

Some have appeared on I'm A Celebrity, while others were able to carve out a media career. Many, however, have completely faded from the public eye.

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91 m. ago Rochdale cult hero Joe Thompson dies aged 36 after third cancer diagnosis

Thompson came through the ranks at Manchester United before earning icon status at Rochdale

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98 m. ago Revealed: Taylor Swift is set to play Whitney Houston role in The Bodyguard remake... as insiders reveal hopes for Hollywood's biggest star to be her love interest

It spawned the best-selling soundtrack album of all time and cemented Whitney Houston's reputation as a global icon. 

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99 m. ago Scottish Ballet: The Crucible, Aberdeen review: 'prayer books wielded like weapons'

Choregraphy and score work in perfect tandem to evoke the hysteria and hatred engulfing Salem in Scottish Ballet’s revival of The Crucible, writes Kelly Apter

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1 hour ago Tunde Adebimpe: Thee Black Boltz review – a sparkling solo debut

(Sub Pop)The TV on the Radio frontman’s sharp pop instincts kick in on a multifaceted synth-punk-funk set born out of deep personal lossYou would not know, on first listen, that this effervescent debut solo album by the sometime frontman of TV on the Radio was steeped in grief. Tunde Adebimpe’s sister died during the pandemic when these songs were taking hesitant shape in an LA studio that Adebimpe, now a successful actor, shares with multi-instrumentalist and co-producer Wilder Zoby.Those difficult feelings – and others, about living in “a time of tenderness and rage” – became snaggle-toothed synth-punk cuts and bouncy synth-pop sounds. On Drop, there’s beat-boxing; on The Most, a Sleng Teng reggae riddim ambush; while on Somebody New, you can hear a punk-funk echo of New Order. Only ILY, a finger-picked folk song addressed to his sister, breaks character, adding “balladeer” to Adebimpe’s varied CV (former stop-motion animator, illustrator). “How’d you get so low?” asks God Knows, ...

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2 h. ago Girl, 3, beaten to death by other kids as mum leaves eight of them to go gambling

Blessing Buckles, three, was left with seven other children unattended in a home in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, when her mum Dineshia Yates and her friend Terica Scott went to a casino

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2 h. ago All the Cardiff city centre roads closed on Easter Saturday for major rugby event

Here's everything you need to know ahead of Judgement Day

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3 h. ago Lionel Messi believes Pep Guardiola 'did harm' to football as Barcelona legend reveals transfer plan in rare interview

The World Cup-winner and Argentina icon has won it all in the game and has made some revealing admissions

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3 h. ago Stuck on repeat: NHL’s playoff format keeps delivering déjà vu matchups

From Kings v Oilers to Leafs v Bruins, the league’s divisional structure has turned once-thrilling postseason clashes into stale reruns. Is it time for a change?“It’s the stupidest thing ever.” This was Washington Capitals’ forward Daniel Winnik’s review in 2017 of the NHL’s still (somewhat) new playoff format. Three seasons earlier, along with realigning its divisions, the NHL had abandoned it’s previous, simple playoff arrangement. For 20 years, the top eight teams from each conference qualified for the playoffs, with the first-placed team playing the eighth-placed team, the second-placed team played the seventh, and so on. “I don’t know why it’s not one to eight,” Winnik said. “I don’t know why we got away from that.” A lot of people are still asking the same question.On Sunday, as the NHL locked in its first Western conference playoff matchup, confirming that the Dallas Stars will face the Colorado Avalanche, some fans took to online forums to both celebrate and lament. “Anybody...

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3 h. ago 'Blackweir isn't Hyde Park' Anger grows over Stevie Wonder and Alanis Morisette gigs

Critics say it will leave sports pitches out of action at an important time of the year and rob the people of Cardiff of an important space

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3 h. ago 'Blackweir isn't Hyde Park' Anger grows over Stevie Wonder and Alanis Morissette gigs

Critics say it will leave sports pitches out of action at an important time of the year and rob the people of Cardiff of an important space

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3 h. ago Various artists: Disk Musik – A DD Records Compilation review | Safi Bugel's experimental album of the month

(Phantom Limb)The 80s label released hundreds of oddball DIY recordings. Their final compilation, now repressed, jerks from folk to punk to ambient – with moments worthy of great kids’ TVIn 1980, a group of friends in Japan started DD Records, a platform for amateur musicians to share bizarre homespun recordings across their network. The label released an impressive 222 cassettes and a handful of vinyl records in five years, then disbanded and faded into relative obscurity. Their last known release, the compilation Disk Musik – a multi-genre compilation bringing together 13 Japanese artists – is so rare that even the prolific music catalogue database Discogs bears little trace of it.Four decades on, it’s been re-pressed – and it still sounds as mind-warping as it probably did to its small circle of listeners back in 1985. The opening track by trio Circadian Rhythm may as well be three songs in one, drifting haphazardly from stray humming vocals to wistful coda, by way of a tangle of...

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4 h. ago Victoria Beckham celebrated her birthday by releasing her own personal custom lip liners for a limited time

The former Spice Girl has released three exclusive lip liners in her private custom shades for her birthday, but they're only available for a limited time and are guaranteed to sell out

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4 h. ago Could Blue Prince be one of the greatest games of all time? Pay a visit to my dead uncle's mansion, take a peek behind every one of the 45 (or is that 46?) doors, and see for yourself

Some rooms contain puzzles; some have equipment and supplies; some are just plain... strange. You're building the mansion as you go.

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4 h. ago ‘She had no interest in the comfort zone’: celebrating the centenary of Celia Cruz, Cuba’s Queen of Salsa

Exiled from Castro’s Cuba, she became a superstar – and a trailblazer in the macho world of salsa. Fans and collaborators including Angélique Kidjo hail an icon of Black empowermentOn 13 November 1973, at Roberto Clemente Coliseum in Puerto Rico, Celia Cruz took to the stage in a bejewelled, psychedelic blue dress and vast afro, saluting the 12,500-capacity arena with her trademark rallying cry: “Azucar!” – sugar.The Cuban singer had been a star for more than two decades by this point, but this concert marked a rebirth. Backed by the Fania All-Stars, the in-house orquesta of the label that brought salsa to the US, Cruz performed Bemba Colorá. Devotees have variously decoded its lyric and “big red lips” metaphor as a repudiation of a neighbourhood gossip, a commentary on anti-Black racism or an anthem for female empowerment. Stretched out to a righteous 12-minute call-and-response in Puerto Rico, she recast the song as a cry of anguish over her exile from her homeland, adding lines l...

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