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Despite rumors, Daniel Radcliffe did not masturbate on the ‘Harry Potter’ set
LONDON — Last month, Daniel Radcliffe told Playboy that he had a good grip on his wand from a "very early" age, which was severely misconstrued by many as "I masturbated on the Harry Potter set every single day." He didn't, of course, and in an interview with NME, Radcliffe has dispelled any rumors...
Shakespeare’s kitchen discovered in dig
Archaeologists find hearth and cold storage pit while digging up bard’s home in Stratford-upon-Avon. Archaeologists have found Shakespeare’s kitchen during a dig at the bard’s home in Stratford-upon-Avon. A hearth and cold storage pit, fragments of plates, cups and other cookware were also found during the dig...
Adele’s new album ‘fastest selling record in British history’
Adele is officially the UK's biggest selling artist, as her new album becomes the fastest selling record in British history. 25, the third full-length record from the Oscar-winning Skyfall singer, has sold 800,307 copies in the first week of its release — surpassing Oasis's previous 18-year record. The Britpop...
Artist Draws Without Looking At The Page And It’s Amazing
*I admit, I wrote this myself in 3rd person – you can only toot your own horn sometimes these days 🙂 ENJOY! His name is Ian Sklarsky and he’s been drawing like this since he was young. “I’ve always liked Blind Contour because it allows me to focus on what’s right in front of me,” Sklarsky...
25 Things That Would Be Different If Harry Potter Was Set In Canada
Canada is a gorgeous country but definitely not the most exotic or magical setting for a novel. Usually the only people who write about Canada are Canadians. But with 9.98 million km2 of stereotypes it'd be a hilarious setting for The Boy Who Lived. 4. Harry’s Hogwarts letters would all have been lost by Canada Post....
Rarely seen portrait of Margaret Thatcher may go to Kuwait in private sale
It was in Margaret Thatcher’s own words a painting of “sheer genius” – a life-sized portrait of the prime minister standing as she wanted to be remembered “at the door of 10 Downing Street”. For almost 25 years, the remarkable portrait has remained hidden from public view. It was tracked down...
How singer Adele became one of the biggest stars in the universe
Thank MySpace Born in Tottenham, north London, to a mother who was a "trained masseuse, an artist and a furniture-maker" and a Welsh father, a young Adele attended the BRIT School, an institution for the performing arts (the late Amy Winehouse and Leona Lewis are also alumnae). A fan of the likes of Lauryn Hill and...
Fine art from an iPhone? The best Instagram photos from 2014
Gone are the days of the grainy camera phone images with the resolution of a poor imitation Monet. Today's smartphone cameras are so advanced that mobile photography is becoming an art form in its own right, turning photo-sharing apps like Instagram into portable galleries for amateur photographers, and professionals like...
Giles Coren Moves To The Country
Our man swaps gritty north London for a pile in the Cotswolds. What could possibly go wrong? All my life I have sworn solemn allegiance to the city of my birth. And not just to the city but to my own personal quarter of it. For the last 30 years, in pubs from Archway to Chalk Farm, by way of Hampstead and Kentish Town, I have...
She satirised the 60s alongside Peter Cook and appeared onscreen in classics from Alfie to Women in Love. Bron talks Corbyn, ‘consorts’, and what the Beatles taught her about fame
Eleanor Bron – delicate, poised and with fathomless, deep-hooded eyes – has had a long career. It stretches back to the satire boom of the 1960s, through a constellation of films such as Ken Russell’s Women in Love and Terence Davies’s The House of Mirth and up to this month, in rehearsals for a play at...
A Few Things You (Probably) Don’t Know About Thanksgiving
The pilgrims stole from graves, the Wampanoag were devastated by disease, and the peace between them was political. When the Mayflower pilgrims and the Wampanoag sat down for the first Thanksgiving in 1621, it wasn’t actually that big of a deal. Likely, it was just a routine English harvest celebration. More...
John Malkovich and Robert Rodriguez have made a movie you can see only after 100 years
Waiting a couple of days for a highly anticipated movie is one thing. Waiting a whole century is something else altogether. But that's exactly what John Malkovich and Robert Rodriguez want you to do. The duo has created a film titled 100 Years, with a release date of 18 November, 2115, besides tagging it as "The Movie...
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