Half a century after jazz great Thelonious Monk appeared on a French television program, a new documentary revisits outtakes from the 1969 interview to cast light on the racism and exploitation of black musicians.. In his day, Monk was one of the United States' most celebrated black musicians.
A US paratrooper who participated in the 1944 D-Day invasion, and lived to reenact the famed World War II landing 75 years later, has died aged 101, his unit -- the 101st Airborne Division -- announced Thursday.. "Today we say farewell to a 101st Airborne Legend, Tom Rice," tweeted the US Army division.
Leaving 10 Downing Street was a political hammer blow for Boris Johnson but is doing no harm to his depleted bank balance.. She is now freer to earn outside politics. jit/jwp/rox
Oscar-winning actor Charlize Theron has sparked a firestorm in her native South Africa for suggesting that Afrikaans, a language descended from Dutch settlers, was heading for oblivion. . Afrikaans is descended from Dutch spoken by settlers who began to arrive in South Africa in the mid-17th century.
Cult Australian soap opera "Neighbours" is to return to television screens next year after being cancelled by Britain's Channel 5, streaming site Amazon Freevee said Thursday. . The premiere will appear exclusively on Amazon Freevee in the UK and United States and the site will also stream thousands of Neighbours episodes from previous series.
Oscar-tipped actor Brendan Fraser will not attend next year's Golden Globes ceremony, he said in an interview published Wednesday, four years after he publicly accused the former head of the awarding body of sexual assault.. "No, I will not participate," Fraser told GQ in an interview when asked if he would attend the awards, organized by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA), were he invited.
British artists Lucian Freud and Francis Bacon were friends for decades before a bitter falling out.. Freud's first wife Caroline Blackwood famously said of Bacon that he came over for dinner "nearly every night for more or less the whole of my marriage to Lucian".
Kansas City TV Series Daddy’s Divas is the winner of Best Comedy Series Episodes in the Austin Comedy Film Festival as well as the Houston Comedy Film Festival.
Frozen with Desire, a new sculpture by Brendan Murphy encrusted with 6,213 diamonds will be exhibited by Burgess Projects at Art Miami in booth #AM425, from Nov 28 - Dec 5, 2022.
In less than a year, Kazakhstan's President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev violently suppressed the worst unrest in his country's history, neutralised his all-powerful predecessor and stood up to Russia's Vladimir Putin.. Protests broke out across the vast country that turned into violent unrest and centred on Kazakhstan's economic centre, Almaty.
