MoviesObituaryGeorge Kennedy obituaryActor known for his roles in Cool Hand Luke, the Naked Gun trilogy and AirportGeorge Kennedy, who has died aged 91, was known mainly for three movie roles, each of which represented a different aspect of his career: as heavy, hero and clown. They were the bullying convict Dragline in Cool Hand Luke (1967) – for which he won the Oscar for best supporting actor – aviation expert Joe Patroni in the Airport series of disaster movies from the 1970s, and Captain Ed Hocken, the none-too-bright sidekick of bumbling cop Frank Drebin (Leslie Nielsen) in the spoof Naked Gun trilogy (1988-94).
Mad Men recap: season seven, episode 14 Person to Person (warning: spoilers) | Mad Men
Mad Men: notes from the break roomMad MenMad Men recap: season seven, episode 14 – Person to Person (warning: spoilers)For all the bold theories about how the show might conclude, it ended just as we probably suspected from the last few episodes
Spoiler alert: this blog is published after Mad Men airs on AMC in the US on Sundays at 10pm ET. Do not read on unless you have watched season seven, episode 14 (which airs in Australia on Showcase on Monday 18 May at 3.
Man's body 'dissolved' by Yellowstone hot spring after seeking place to swim | National parks
National parks This article is more than 7 years oldMan's body 'dissolved' by Yellowstone hot spring after seeking place to swimThis article is more than 7 years oldColin Scott, 23, was looking for a ‘hot pot’ to swim in with his sisterRescuers concluded that extreme heat and acidity dissolved remainsAn Oregon man who died and “dissolved” after falling into a boiling, acidic hot spring at Yellowstone national park last June had been looking for a place to swim, officials investigating the incident have concluded.
US guard tells how Nazi girlfriend duped him into helping Goering evade hangman | World news
World newsUS guard tells how Nazi girlfriend duped him into helping Goering evade hangmanAn enduring mystery of the 1946 Nuremberg trials was apparently solved yesterday when an American former prison guard claimed it was he who, as an unwitting accomplice, passed to Hermann Goering the cyanide capsule with which the Nazi number two cheated the noose.
Herbert Lee Stivers told the Los Angeles Times that a German girl called Mona had fooled him into smuggling a vial of liquid to Goering's cell hidden in a fountain pen, telling him it was medicine.
'I stole Gaddafi's sunglasses': a rebel tells his extraordinary story
The ObserverLibya'After Gaddafi's compound fell, we went back to where we were staying in a school building and we all cried, about 200 guys'I have a pair of Muammar Gaddafi's sunglasses. Cartier. My brigade was one of the first to break into his compound at Bab al-Aziziya. I was driving a vehicle with a 106mm gun on it. I'm the fifth man to drive this car: the last four died in battle.
I have fetishes for feet and tickling but my girlfriend wont play along
Best foot forward: is there a way to introduce my fetishes into our relationship? Photograph: Flying Colours Ltd/Getty ImagesBest foot forward: is there a way to introduce my fetishes into our relationship? Photograph: Flying Colours Ltd/Getty ImagesSexual healingSexWhile my partner hasn’t rejected me, she feels feet are inherently unhygienic and won’t let me worship her as I would like. Are there any ways I can change her mind?I have had fetishes for feet and tickling since I was a teenager, but have never been confident in opening up about it before.
Jukebox sommelier
FictionReviewPatrick Neate on a literary freestyler with brio to burnNot so long ago, hip-hop was the first musical genre since jazz whose nomenclature could plausibly be followed by the word "culture". People talked about hip-hop cinema and fashion, politics and argot; even hip-hop literature.
In so far as the last of these existed, a key book was Paul Beatty's 1996 debut, The White Boy Shuffle; a dazzling satire of the African-American urban experience, its diversity and lack thereof.
The Immortalists review a quartet facing the end of time
The ObserverFictionReviewChloe Benjamin’s ingenious novel follows four siblings who are told exactly when they are going to dieIn Chloe Benjamin’s second novel, Klara is a stage magician with a signature act called the Jaws of Life. The trick is that there is no trick: the rope feat simply requires death-defying strength and audacity. In this haunting saga about Klara’s family, The Immortalists is less concerned with gimcrack sleights-of-hand than the acrobatics we undertake in order to cheat mortality.
This Is What America Looks Like review: Ilhan Omar inspires and stays fired up
Ilhan OmarReviewThe Minnesota congresswoman has written a fine memoir of her journey from Somalia to America
Few things are more unexpected than a genuinely inspirational memoir by a freshman member of Congress. If you’re looking for the perfect antidote to the perpetual tweetstorm of insanity and hatred from Donald Trump, try this beautiful new book from the Minnesota congresswoman Ilhan Omar.
US Congresswoman Ilhan Omar: ‘I always stand up to bullies’Read moreThis migrant from Somalia came from a family of teachers and civil servants who lived in a guarded compound.
Top 10 love poems
Top 10sPoetryFor Valentine’s, or really any other day, here are some works by poets from Plath to Rilke that express some of our own most intimate feelings
Love makes poets out of all of us. The few who feel intimidated or embarrassed about writing out our love and longing often take recourse to sending lyric-heavy songs, or selections from a poem (like those included here), just to let the object of our affection know how they make us feel.