Month: January 2021

Gerry Marsden, leader of the Merseybeat quartet Gerry & the Pacemakers, has died. Marsden’s friend Pete Price—a broadcaster based in Liverpool—broke the news on social media earlier today (January 3), stating that Marsden died following a short illness stemming from a heart infection. Marsden’s death was subsequently confirmed by the BBC. He was 78 years
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Robert Pattinson was the perfect, sparkliest Edward Cullen we could have asked for but, as you can imagine, he wasn’t the only actor who auditioned for Catherine Hardwicke’s Twilight. Before any camera tests got rolling back in 2007, Stephenie Meyer was using her blog to communicate with fans about her casting ideas for the to-be
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Emily Mitchell, an Instagram influencer and parenting blogger, died at age 36 while pregnant with her fifth child. The Rhode Island native and creator of The Hidden Way blog passed away unexpectedly three days before Christmas, according to a fundraising page set up for her family. Emily, whose maiden name is Giancaspro, is survived by her husband Joseph Mitchell and their four children
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Wonder Woman 1984 director Patty Jenkins is arguably the most in-demand female filmmaker in Hollywood right now. But that title comes with its own asterisk, namely the fact that Hollywood still insists on seeing female directors as a somewhat special breed, distinct from male filmmakers, who don’t need any gender qualifiers when describing their profession.
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Enigmatic UK group the KLF have surfaced, officially releasing a selection of songs to streaming services for the first time. The eight-track compilation Solid State Logik 1 appeared without fanfare on the first day of 2021, nearly three decades after they delivered an outrageous performance at the 1992 BRIT Awards, fired machine-gun blanks into the
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Saira Khan. (Chris J Ratcliffe/Getty Images) Saira Khan asked Loose Women bosses Sunday (3 January) to replace her with a “gay, transgender or non-binary host” after she announced that she has quit the lunchtime talk show after five years. In an Instagram post of her cover shoot for Notebook, a supplement of the Sunday Mirror, the British
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