Paramount Stunt casting can always be really hit or miss — sometimes audiences are excited to see a fun guest star in a surprising role, and sometimes the gimmick ends up feeling, well, gimmicky. Even when it works, like Marlon Brando playing Jor-El in Richard Donner’s “Superman,” it’s frequently…

Writing her will as she reached her 70th birthday, retired headteacher Margaret Jarvis decided to leave her money to charity. As a devout Methodist, she believed in helping others less fortunate. There would be cash for South African orphans, abandoned donkeys and for guide dogs, for research into Alzheimer’s and for those already suffering from…

Forty-six seconds of a boxing match was all the world needed to sidetrack the 2024 Olympics into a heated controversy about the gender of two women in the field: Imane Khelif of Algeria and Lin Yu-ting of Taiwan. That bout, which ended when Angela Carini of Italy quit against Khelif,​​ spawned intense interest in numerous…

Universal Pictures Whether you feel Ridley Scott’s Best Picture winner “Gladiator” is a red-blooded, fist-pumping swords and sandals brouhaha or a “muddy, fuzzy, and indistinct” affair (as Roger Ebert put it in his two-star review at the time of its release, referring to Scott’s epic as “‘Spartacus’ Lite”),…

Most preteens would rarely deign to be spotted in public with their parents. Not North Korea‘s Kim Ju Ae. After all, she’s the daughter of a ‘living god’ – and, if South Korean spies are correct, the heir-apparent to the nuclear-armed hermit kingdom. Over the last two years, Ju Ae has been seen accompanying her…

San Daniele del Friuli was an atmospheric neighbourhood trattoria in Highbury that was once a regular destination for Arsenal’s players and management. It was located a five-minute stroll from the stadium’s marbled entrance. On Champions League nights, it stayed open late and diners would clap warmly as manager Arsene Wenger came in for a bite…

Universal Pictures David Lynch is not very fond of his film adaptation of Frank Herbert’s “Dune,” feeling that it was too much a studio monster than his personal vision. After the success of “The Elephant Man” in 1980, Lynch was approached by multiple studios to handle gigantic blockbuster…

If Ima the gorilla has seemed a little smug of late, perhaps it is not surprising. In a remarkable world first, he is the only zoo-born male gorilla ever to move to the jungle and father a baby with a wild-born female. In fact, he has done so twice – with different mothers. Ima was…

Warner Bros. We all know who Superman is. Superman, created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Schuster in 1938, wasn’t the first superhero character in modern media, but he tends to be held up as one of the genre’s central archetypes. His red wrestler’s cape and red strong man’s…

By Alastair Talbot Published: 11:05 EDT, 3 August 2024 | Updated: 07:35 EDT, 4 August 2024 Anthony Ammirati has gone viral at the Paris 2024 Olympics, after failing to reach his target height because his manhood caught the bar.  The 21-year-old Frenchman looked set to clear 5.70m until a sensitive part of his body denied…