55 h. ago The bizarre story of the Groundhog Day actor who inspired Radiohead's band name

Radiohead are massive but if it wasn't for one actor in a classic comedy, they could have been called something entirely different

Culture

56 h. ago How 'psychic' Groundhog Day star accidentally inspired Radiohead's name

In a bizarre series of events, one of Bill Murray's co-star's in Groundhog Day is actually behind how one of the biigest bands in the world got their name

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2 d. ago Val Kilmer's family hot tub tragedy haunted actor and inspired Hollywood role

Val Kilmer's family suffered an awful tragedy involving a hot tub many years ago which left the Top Gun actor scarred, which he later used to influence one of his on-screen characters

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3 d. ago Val Kilmer's heartbreaking tragedy that struck his family when he was a teenager and an inspired acting role

Val Kilmer's family suffered a horrific tragedy when he was just 17 years old which the actor previously revealed inspired one of his acting roles.

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3 d. ago Inside story of Steven Spielberg's bizarre arrangement with ex

Amy Irving has remained surprisingly close with the 78-year-old legendary filmmaker since their 1989 split

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4 d. ago Virginia Giuffre story takes bizarre twist as cops say car crash was 'minor with no injuries'

Prince Andrew accuser Virginia Giuffre, 41, claimed in a post on social media platform Instagram she was given just four days to live after her car was hit by a bus - now police have issued a statement

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7 d. ago Will Smith raps about Chris Rock slap in new song as he teases album release

Will Smith has used his infamous Oscars 2022 slap on Chris Rock as inspiration for his new music, with the actor rapping about the incident on his upcoming album

Culture

7 d. ago ‘A different philosophy of things’: how Solvej Balle got ahead of Groundhog Day’s time

Solvej Balle had been planning her time-loop novel for a decade when the Bill Murray comedy beat her to it. Thirty years and five volumes later, it is longlisted for the International BookerIf you’ve heard about Solvej Balle’s On the Calculation of Volume I, longlisted for this year’s International Booker prize, you may have experienced a sensation that is central to the Danish writer’s brand of philosophical speculative fiction: deja vu.In Balle’s five-book opus (of a planned septology), the first three of which won the prestigious Nordic Council literature prize in 2022, someone wakes up to find they are reliving the same day over and over. Their partner, family, neighbours: they all experience this day for the first time in their life. Only the protagonist has been there before. That person is a woman called Tara rather than a man called Phil, and the day is 18 November rather than 2 February, but the plot resemblance to Groundhog Day ...

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8 d. ago Influencer catfish scam: Social media stars have their identities stolen in elaborate scheme by mystery woman who's spent 15 YEARS hoodwinking sports stars and celebs

The bizarre story of two influencers who were caught up in a catfishing scam has been exposed by the Irish podcast The 2 Johnnies.

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1 week ago Good morning Britain – prepare to be told yet again that decline is all you deserve | Owen Jones

It’s Groundhog Day: the party may change but even under Labour, the script remains stubbornly the sameIt is time to resuscitate Margaret Thatcher’s catchphrase: “There is no alternative.” With a twist, of course. Back then, “Tina” was deployed in favour of an economic model that gave us badly distributed low growth, shambolic rip-off privatised utilities, a housing crisis and social insecurity. It is now devastatingly clear that there is no alternative to discarding this failed experiment.Yet this week, our supposedly Labour chancellor, Rachel Reeves, will take a scalpel to departmental budgets already devastated by 15 years of austerity. Our government has robbed most pensioners of the winter fuel payment, and announced £5bn worth of cuts to disability benefits, which strip support from citizens unable to independently clothe themselves, or who need an aide to use the toilet. By the time of the next election, according to the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, all households will have suf...

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2 w. ago Good American Family review – the strange case of Natalia Grace

Ellen Pompeo plays a mother disturbed by her adopted daughter in a mostly entertaining limited series based on the tabloid sagaThere remains unending interest in the bizarre story of Natalia Grace, the Ukrainian girl adopted by an American family who then claimed she was actually an adult. The saga starts in 2010 but a similar tale had already been told in 2009’s Orphan, a horror film hinged on a similar twist, itself inspired by the real case of the Estonian impostor Barbora Skrlová. It’s the ghoulish stuff of nightmare, shocking enough to turn Orphan into an unlikely franchise (the second was released in 2022, the third now in the works) and Grace into a tabloid sensation and, easily vilified, hate figure.But the lurid People.com headlines only told half of the story or barely a third as it turns out, an unfolding series of revelations soon starting to show that things were not what they appeared to be. After a popular, and even more revelatory, docuseries, we now have the inevita...

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2 w. ago Radiohead's Thom Yorke's Fife village roots revealed as band announce 2025 tour

Radiohead’s 2025 tour has been confirmed and will undoubtedly lead to a rush for gold-dust tickets.

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2 w. ago Adam Thomas breaks down in tears over 'emotional' Squid Game

Adam Thomas is gearing up to host a new game show on ITV that has been inspired by Netflix hit Squid Game and the former Emmerdale actor admitted that filming the series was an "emotional experience"

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3 w. ago Actor who inspired Homer Simpson's famous catchphrase is honoured with painting in hometown theatre

The Scots actor James Finlayson, who inspired Homer Simpson's famous 'D'oh!' exclamation, has been memorialised at the theatre where he first tread the boards.

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3 w. ago Scottish actor who inspired Homer Simpson catchphrase and starred in Laurel and Hardy captured in portrait

Scottish actor James Finlayson was the inspiration for Homer Simpson’s iconic “Doh!” catchphrase

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