5 h. ago ‘Very significant’ Jack Kerouac story discovered after mafia boss auction

Exclusive: Two-page 1957 manuscript signed by author linked to his classic of beat literature, On the RoadA “very significant” unpublished story by Jack Kerouac described as “a lost chapter of the On the Road saga” has been discovered after languishing in the files of an assassinated Mafia crime boss for at least 40 years.The two-page typewritten manuscript signed by Kerouac in green ink is titled The Holy, Beat, and Crazy Next Thing and is dated 15 April 1957, five months before his classic of beat literature, On the Road, was published. Continue reading...

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25 h. ago Moment one of Italy's most dangerous mafia boss fugitives is arrested while sleeping in his hideout after five years on the run

Dramatic body cam footage shows armed police entering the fugitive's home in Foggia, Southern Italy, catching him asleep and dragging him out of bed.

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31 h. ago Kerouac’s Road: The Beat of a Nation review – revisiting the legacy of a counterculture classic

Wild-spirited but laced with dim views on race and women, On the Road is due a reckoning. This elegant talking-head doc works best when its unpicking is most forensicThis is a generous-spirited and elegantly made, but not entirely persuasive, documentary that wants to open up the legacy of Jack Kerouac’s On the Road by making it relevant for younger generations, while still acknowledging how problematic and dated it is. In a way, that self-cancelling, internal contradiction is true to the spirit of the 1957 book itself: a work that alternates between passages of beauty and purple pulp, profound insight and dim-witted idiocy tied to the times in which it was written, especially when it comes to race and women.Director Ebs Burnough and his starry lineup of interviewees valiantly try to outline those complexities with honesty, and the film is at its best when it homes in on the literary criticism – bringing in articulate readers of the text such as novelist Jay McInerney, who details t...

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3 d. ago One of Italy’s most wanted Mafia bosses is finally caught in police raid after five years on the run

This is the moment a Mafia boss in charge of one of Italy’s most notorious crime families was arrested by armed police.

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3 d. ago Moment armed cops arrest mafia boss in charge of one of Italy's bloodiest clans

Leonardo Gesualdo, 39, who is suspected of leading one of the most brutal organised crime families in Italy, was arrested by the Italian Carabinieri

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2 w. ago Scotland’s hidden history: Book a tour to discover how a rural village minister changed our financial future

The pioneering parish minister and the piggy bank discover Scotland’s hidden story which charts how one man changed the face of banking forever.

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3 w. ago 'Flawless' Martin Freeman true crime drama that 'shouldn't be missed' is leaving Netflix

A Martin Freeman six-part drama tells the true story of how a killer was discovered in 2011.

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3 w. ago New discovery shatters caveman myth and solves 'missing part of the story'

Both cavewomen and cavechildren went scavenging for food back in the Stone Age as new research finally shatters the centuries-old caveman myth

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3 w. ago Rolling Stones fans shocked to discover tragic story behind one of their biggest songs

Many fans have been shocked to discover the dark past to one of their favourite songs

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3 w. ago ‘I laugh out loud’: why Johnny Stecchino is my feelgood movie

The latest in our ongoing series of writers remembering their go-to comfort picks is a tribute to Roberto Benigni’s Italian comedy farceI’ve never been drawn to humour built on exaggerated mishaps. Roberto Benigni’s Italian comedy Johnny Stecchino is the exception. Yes, it’s farce, but it’s also sly social commentary, ridiculing the mafia without sanctifying its opposition, and playing with the gap between how things are and how they appear.Six years before his Oscar-winning role in Life is Beautiful introduced him to a global audience, Benigni wrote, directed and starred in this 1991 box office hit that instantly became a national classic. Stecchino is Italian for toothpick, and mafia boss Johnny Stecchino always has one between his lips, a prop that defines his swaggering persona. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago 'We joked my mum was related to celeb as they looked so alike – then discovered truth'

A woman has shared the story of how her mum discovered she was related to a Hollywood A-lister after finding her birth parents

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last month Couple buy new house but make heartbreaking discovery in garden

A couple who bought a new home made a heartbreaking discovery when they made their way to the garden. The captivating story has left people in floods of tears

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