MediaObituaryDudley MooreTheatre and television comic, classical musician and jazz original, and briefly an unexpectedly adorable Hollywood movie starAfter Dudley Moore, who has died aged 66, metamorphosed into a Hollywood star in 1979 with his film 10, he told a reporter: "Isn't it incredible? It's something I've always wanted, but I never thought I stood a chance."
It was certainly a long way from his unpromising beginnings as the son of a railway electrician brought up on a Dagenham housing estate.
My husband is perpetually grumpy and Im desperate for some light relief. What can I do?
Leading questionsAgeingBitterness can be a mood-setter, writes advice columnist Eleanor Gordon-Smith, but you can separate your emotional experience from his
My husband, who is in his mid 70s, is perpetually grumpy and negative. He rarely smiles and always sees the worst side of people and places, including our family and home environment. This permanent negativity and dissatisfaction has reached a peak now that he has retired and no longer goes to work.
Seun Shote, 'superbly talented' actor, dies unexpectedly aged 47 | Theatre
Theatre This article is more than 2 years oldSeun Shote, 'superbly talented' actor, dies unexpectedly aged 47This article is more than 2 years oldShote appeared on the West End, television and stages across the UK, and was artistic director of Orísun Productions, focusing on talent from the African diaspora
Tributes have been paid to actor Seun Shote, who has died unexpectedly at 47. Shote was nominated for an Offies award for his blistering performance as a Trinidadian police commissioner in Mustapha Matura’s Play Mas at Richmond’s Orange Tree theatre in 2015.
State of emergency declared in Los Angeles after fire engulfs interstate | Los Angeles
Los Angeles This article is more than 2 months oldState of emergency declared in Los Angeles after fire engulfs interstateThis article is more than 2 months oldResidents advised to use public transit as hazardous materials crews cleared burned matter and engineers examined damages
Los Angeles motorists should expect traffic snarls indefinitely as crews assess how much damage was caused by a raging fire that closed a major elevated interstate near downtown, officials said on Sunday.
Thirteen bison killed after road crash near Yellowstone national park | Montana
Montana This article is more than 1 year oldThirteen bison killed after road crash near Yellowstone national parkThis article is more than 1 year oldHerd struck by semi-truck on Montana highway, with some of the bison needing to be euthanized ‘due to severe injuries’
Thirteen bison have died as a result of a road crash in the dark on a Montana highway near Yellowstone national park, authorities have announced.
In astatement released on Facebook, the West Yellowstone police department announced that around 6.
Unflappable. Unwavering. Unbelievable. Burrow is the NFLs new Joe Cool
Cincinnati BengalsWhen the quarterback joined the Cincinnati Bengals the franchise was a punchline. Less than two years later they’re going to the Super Bowl
The Cincinnati Bengals are going to the Super Bowl.
Repeat: The Cincinnati Bengals are going to the Super Bowl.
One more time, so it truly sets in: The Cincinnati Bengals, two years after sinking to the league’s basement, are 60 minutes away from winning it all.
Anant Pai obituary | India
IndiaObituaryAnant Pai obituaryHis comic books recounting Indian tales sold 90m copiesThe editor and publisher Anant Pai, who has died of a heart attack aged 81, was the creator of the educational Indian comic-book series Amar Chitra Katha (Immortal Picture Tales).
In 1967, while watching a television quizshow in Delhi, Pai was scandalised that Indian children could reel off the names of the gods of Olympus but could not name the mother of the Hindu god Rama.
Big Mac, pizza, duck's foot and deer's penis soup... | China holidays
The ObserverChina holidaysBig Mac, pizza, duck's foot and deer's penis soup...... that was the bizarre combination of old and new discovered by David Aaronovitch when he explored Shanghai and BeijingOn the river front in Shanghai, not long after dawn, the old chap with the red trousers let me fly his kite. The string stretched out from the reel into infinity, anchoring a white and red kite which soared above the Art Deco buildings of the Bund.
Bruno Zevi | | The Guardian
ObituaryBruno ZeviArchitectural philosopher who railed against the evils of classicismIf ours is the age of fragmentation in music, the novel, and art, then in architecture its theoretician was the Italian Bruno Zevi, who has died aged 81 of a coughing fit brought on by influenza. Initially a socialist, later a libertarian, he was fundamentally a Zionist. Deeply affected by his experience in the Mussolini era, he believed that all notions of architectural order, organisation, and clarity - as expressed in the bombastic buildings of Marcello Piacentini, an "
Ian McCulloch and Will Sergeant: how we made The Killing Moon | Echo & the Bunnymen
Seconds away from a curry break … Echo and the Bunnymen. Photograph: Kevin Cummins/Getty ImagesSeconds away from a curry break … Echo and the Bunnymen. Photograph: Kevin Cummins/Getty ImagesHow we madeEcho & the BunnymenInterviewIan McCulloch and Will Sergeant: how we made The Killing MoonInterviews by Dave SimpsonIan McCulloch: ‘My wife had a cob on because I’d been out all night – then I played the song and she cried’