In the late 1960s, Gram Parsons, fresh from leaving The Byrds and becoming close pals with the Rolling Stones, signed on to star in a sci-fi film, Saturation 70.
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Before the internet, there was the Yellow Pages, an A-Z of local businesses – from advice centres to zoos – advertising for your business, all wrapped up in a fat phone directory of a certain colour. Back in the 1990s, the Reading-based firm became renowned for its memorable TV adverts, with each new one bringing a certain frisson of excitement, much as a fresh John Lewis Christmas commercial does today.
The TV ads even made temporary celebrities of its stars, in a world long before reality TV, and spawned several catchphrases.
Anyone old enough to have been around at the time will readily recall the old man searching for a book called Fly Fishing by J R Hartley, with the big reveal that it was Mr Hartley himself hunting down his aged tome.
There was also the small boy cheekily standing on a pile of Yellow Pages in order to bag a kiss under the Christmas mistletoe. In 2003, Cold Feet actor James Nesbitt was even called on to shake up the brand, with the actor playing up to the show's hapless Adam character, using the Yellow Pages to get out of tricky situations.
One of the other best-remembered ads, first shown in 1991, featured a floppy-haired teenager waking up on the living room floor in the aftermath of a house party he'd thrown while his parents were away. Wandering into a bedroom, he finds a stranger on a bed, urging: "Wake up! My parents fly back today" as a small group hurriedly sets things straight around the house.
Spotting a scratch on a wooden table, he reaches for the trusty Yellow Pages to find someone who can help. "Hello, French polishers?" he asks down the phone, adding: "It's just possible you could save my life." The scratch is expertly polished away just in time and all seems well, until the final
.In the late 1960s, Gram Parsons, fresh from leaving The Byrds and becoming close pals with the Rolling Stones, signed on to star in a sci-fi film, Saturation 70.
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Olga Tañon is opening up about her friendship with Selena Quintanilla during a recent interview with Enrique Santos. The singer revealed that they had planned to collaborate on a song with the iconic musician, and kept in touch with Selena even days before her tragic death.Selena Quintanilla: The legendary star that captivated the world with her music and charismaJennifer Lopez looks like a gold goddess in glamorous Schiaparelli ensembleThe Puerto Rican queen of Merengue also revealed that she was first offered the role of Selena for the 1997 biopic, which ended up being Jennifer Lopez’s big break, catapulting her to fame and becoming the start of her successful career in the entertainment business.“The love I had for Selena was something different,” Olga said about their friendship, admitting the reasons why she decided to pass on the opportunity.
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Spider-Man: No Way Home is the third outing for Tom Holland’s web-slinger in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.Directed by Jon Watts, the follow-up to 2019’s Spider-Man: Far From Home sees Spidey take on, thanks to multiverse shenanigans, villains from the superhero’s past – including Green Goblin (Willem Dafoe), Doctor Octopus (Alfred Molina) and Electro (Jamie Foxx).The sequel also features notable crossovers with past Peter Parkers, namely Andrew Garfield and Tobey Maguire, as they join forces to restore balance across multiple realities.After dealing with the villains, one of Green Goblin’s bombs takes out the confinement box holding Doctor Strange’s (Benedict Cumberbatch) botched spell. This leads to everyone across the multiverse knowing the identity of Spider-Man.To counter the spell, Peter Parker (Holland) decides that if everyone forgets who he is, then no one will know who Spider-Man is.
A three-part series about the high-profile court battle between Coleen Rooney and Rebekah Vardy has landed on Disney+.
, using a combination of facial tools and ice to bring down flare-ups.But this summer, all that changed. After a long flight to Paris, I landed with the worst plane ride-induced puffy face I’ve ever experienced. As I vigorously scraped my face with a in the bathroom mirror, the idea hit me.
You would be hard-pressed to pick three more modern-day Manchester United attacking greats than Cristiano Ronaldo, Wayne Rooney and Ryan Giggs. So to be compared to all three must mean you are doing something right.
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Spike Lee has commented on Oppenheimer, suggesting it should have shown “what happened to the Japanese people”.The recent Christopher Nolan historical drama follows the story of the Manhattan Project during World War 2, which developed the first nuclear weapons. These were ultimately dropped on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and are estimated to have killed up to 226,000 people.The film focuses solely on the US side of the events, and in a recent interview Lee – who has directed films such as Do The Right Thing and BlacKkKlansman – praised Nolan, though suggested a “comment” regarding the historical depiction of events.“Chris Nolan with Oppenheimer, you know, he’s a massive filmmaker.
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Ethan Shanfeld Spike Lee has offered his thoughts on Christopher Nolan‘s atomic bomb blockbuster “Oppenheimer,” calling it a “great film” but adding that he wishes it showed “what happened to the Japanese people.” “[Nolan] is a massive filmmaker… and this is not a criticism. It’s a comment,” the filmmaker said, speaking with the Washington Post. “If [‘Oppenheimer’] is three hours, I would like to add some more minutes about what happened to the Japanese people.
Loki season 2 arrives on Disney+ later this week (October 6), following a two-year wait for the next instalment of the Marvel series.In the new episodes, Tom Hiddleston will reprise his role as the titular god of mischief, while Owen Wilson, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Sophia Di Martino and Wunmi Mosaku will return as Mobius, Judge Renslayer, Sylvie and Hunter B-15, respectively.An official synopsis reads: “Loki season two picks up in the aftermath of the shocking season finale when Loki finds himself in a battle for the soul of the Time Variance Authority.“Along with Mobius, Hunter B-15 and a team of new and returning characters, Loki navigates an ever-expanding and increasingly dangerous multiverse in search of Sylvie, Judge Renslayer, Miss Minutes and the truth of what it means to possess free will and glorious purpose.”Season 1 of Loki kicked off in a familiar spot – with the god of mischief stealing a space stone called a Tesseract in a scene from Avengers: Endgame. Using the stone, he escapes to a Mongolian desert, where he’s arrested by the Time Variance Authority (TVA) and finds out that he’s created an alternate timeline with his antics.
Jordan Moreau SPOILER ALERT: This article contains spoilers for the season finale of “Ahsoka,” titled “The Jedi, the Witch and the Warlord,” now streaming on Disney+. With the finale of “Ahsoka,” the latest chapter of the “Star Wars” TV universe has come to a close, and for fans of “Clone Wars” and “Star Wars Rebels,” it gives some big moments that have been years in the making. The season finale, titled “The Jedi, the Witch and the Warlord,” ends on a bittersweet note, with Grand Admiral Thrawn (Lars Mikkelsen) escaping into space, while Ahsoka (Rosario Dawson) and Sabine (Natasha Liu Bordizzo) are stranded on the planet Peridea.
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As former EastEnders actress Mimi Keene returns to our screens as Ruby in the final hit series of Sex Education on Netflix, many fans have been left wondering whatever happened to her Walford alter ego, Cindy Williams,. As the fourth actress to play the character of Cindy Jr, Mimi starred on the soap between 2013 and 2015, before she famously quit the soap for good on 17 August 2015 to pursue other projects.