54 h. ago Hollywood star who shot to fame as a heartthrob in the eighties looks unrecognisable as he returns to TV

The actor, now aged 58, was just 20-years-old when his breathrough movie released and had only one other acting credit to his name. Can YOU guess who it is?

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3 d. ago This Morning fans amazed over The Sound of Music stars' 'ageless' appearance 60 years on

This Morning viewers were left gobsmacked on Friday as they were reunited with two of the original The Sound of Music cast members to mark the musical movie's 60th anniversary

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3 d. ago The Sound of Music fans all say same thing after Brigitta and Marta von Trapp stars' interview

This Morning viewers were left stunned after the show's hosts Dermot O'Leary and Josie Gibson caught up with the stars of The Sound of Music to celebrate the musical film's 60th anniversary

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3 d. ago The Sound of Music fans says Brigitta and Marta von Trapp stars 'haven't aged' 60 years since movie

This Morning spoke to The Sound of Music's Brigitta and Marta von Trapp stars to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the musical movie

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5 d. ago War over 'The Muppet Show' mogul's £29m fortune: TV producer's girlfriend fights his estranged wife for multi

Movie producer Justin Bodle died suddenly aged 58 after suffering a catastrophic stroke while holidaying in the south of France with his partner Lucinda, 38, in July 2019.

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6 d. ago Nathan Lane says ‘homophobia is alive and well’ in Hollywood

In a Vanity Fair interview The Producers and The Birdcage star claimed that being an out gay actor cost him roles in his careerThe Producers star Nathan Lane says that “homophobia is alive and well” in Hollywood and that being an out gay actor cost him roles.In an interview with Vanity Fair, Lane said that his breakthrough film role in the 1996 comedy The Birdcage, in which he played a flamboyant drag queen in a long-term relationship with Robin Williams’ club-owner, failed to lead to a significant movie acting career, reporting that his then agent told him: “Maybe if you weren’t so open about your lifestyle, it would have.” Continue reading...

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9 d. ago Sound of Music star who turned down Playboy unrecognisable 60 years later

Sound of Music star Angela Cartwright reveals how she turned down the adult magazine - and has no regrets as the cast celebarte hit musical's 60th anniversary year

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1 week ago BBC Breakfast halted for 'really sad' announcement as stars pay tribute to Eddie Jordan

BBC Breakfast presenters Nina Warhurst, Ben Thompson and Mke Bushell halted the live show to pay a moving tribute to Formula 1 legend Eddie Jordan, who has died aged 76

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1 week ago Calls for service of thanksgiving for last Battle of Britain pilot John 'Paddy' Hemingway and other heroes of 'The Few' after his death aged 105 as Prince William leads moving tributes

Former military chiefs Lord West and Lord Dannatt lead calls to honour 'The Few' to 'remind new generations of the time when a handful of very brave men stepped up to the mark'.

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1 week ago Prince William issues moving tribute to last Battle of Britain pilot John 'Paddy' Hemingway after his death aged 105

Writing on social media, Prince William said: 'I was sad to hear about the passing of John 'Paddy' Hemingway this morning, the last of "The Few".

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1 week ago Theft by Abdulrazak Gurnah review – a masterclass in quicksilver storytelling

The Nobel laureate’s wonderful new novel connects a trio of east African teens as they come of age, moving from small-scale dramas to wide-ranging social panoramasThe receipt of a big award inevitably ramps up the pressure on whatever the winner publishes next, but there can be no such fears over Abdulrazak Gurnah’s new novel, Theft, his first since becoming a Nobel laureate in 2021. Set between his birthplace, Zanzibar, and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, it’s a quietly powerful demonstration of storytelling mastery, at once coming-of-age chamber piece and wide-angled postcolonial panorama, pegged to the inner lives of its central trio – all teenagers followed into adulthood. Meanwhile, sketched between the lines, is family heartache spread over several generations, all narrated in a quicksilver style that gives you the pleasurable sense that you’re putty in the hands of a warm yet clear-eyed authorial intelligence.It begins by tracing the marital misery that led to one of its characters,...

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2 w. ago ‘Something must have gone wrong with us’: David Cronenberg and Howard Shore on four decades of body horror

One is the master of gruesome horror, the other is the composer who scored his most famous films. They sit down to discuss their 46-year collaboration, and the unlikely source of their darkest, most disturbing inspirationWhat would having sex in a car crash sound like, as music? What about a gynaecological exam performed by identical twins, or a man’s transmogrification into a grotesque human-insectoid hybrid? These are just some of the challenges faced, over more than 40 years and upwards of a dozen films, by the composer Howard Shore as part of his long collaboration with the director David Cronenberg. Shore, 78, may have won three Oscars for the magisterial sweep of his Lord of the Rings score, but it is his work on the 81-year-old Cronenberg’s notorious body-horror movies, from The Fly to Dead Ringers and Crash, that is most indelible. Those last two films will be screening this month as part of a wider tribute to Shore’s work at the London Soundtrack fe...

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2 w. ago Broadway's Eva Noblezada, Jonathan Groff, Jeremy Jordan, Ben Platt and Kelli O’Hara star on album

Lea Salonga stepped onto a Manhattan stage last spring and sang something unusual for her — “Edelweiss” from the musical “The Sound of Music,” a song usually performed by the paternal Captain von Trapp

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2 w. ago 'I tried a viral Japanese head spa in Greater Manchester with an Ibiza

A relaxing head massage and dance music may not sound like they go hand in hand but I was pleasantly surprised

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3 w. ago In Mexico City, this German organist says music is a gift from God and the organ's sound is proof

Being an organist might seem like a solitary job, but German maestro Leo Krämer never feels too far from his listeners

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4 w. ago The Sound of Music at 60: a flawed but enduring cultural touchpoint

The 1965 musical has its faults but it remains a deserving and enduring point of reference for so many of usMany of the formative films of my childhood come with crisp sense memories of the first time I saw them: precisely what cinema or whose couch, the time of day and the weather outside, who I was watching with, my in-the-moment reactions to what delights or shocks the film threw at me.The Sound of Music, however, is an exception. Robert Wise’s swirling, swollen 1965 film version of the Rodgers & Hammerstein musical has been a personal favourite since long before I ever thought to list personal favourites – a seasonal staple, a constant generator of unprompted earworms, a point of good-natured familial conflict between those who love it and those who merely pretend not to, a film so laden with short-cut iconography that it rushes quickly to mind when I see a certain shade of upholstery, a particular bob haircut or even a passing nun. Continue reading...

Culture

last month "The hope and defiance that weaves through it like a tapestry" : Celebrating the The Sound of Music

There’s no time like the present to take solace in this absolute masterpiece as it prepares to celebrate its 60th birthday.

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last month The Sound of Music turns 60: There doesn't feel like a better time to enjoy this masterpiece

There’s no time like the present to take solace in this absolute masterpiece as it prepares to celebrate its 60th birthday.

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