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Pioneering rapper Brother Marquis is being hailed as a “legend gone too soon” after his death aged 58. The member of rap group 2 Live Crew passed away on Monday (03.06.24), according to the band’s social media accounts – which said he had gone to “the upper room”. A post on its Instagram page announced: “Mark Ross AKA Brother Marquis of the 2 Live Crew has passed away.” The group’s manager also confirmed the rapper’s death to TMZ and didn’t give any further details on the cause or manner. But the outlet added: “Sources with direct knowledge say the death appears to be natural, and there isn't ...
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Former BBC DJ Danny Baker has hailed the late ‘Avengers’ composer Laurie Johnson a “brave maestro”. The broadcaster’s tribute was one of a flood of tributes to the British-born musician – best known for scoring the 1960s spy show as well as films including Stanley Kubrick’s ‘Dr Strangelove’ – who passed away in his sleep aged 96 on Tuesday (23.01.24) in North London. Ex-BBC presenter Danny, 66, said on X: “The magnificent Laurie Johnson has passed. Bravo maestro. He takes to the tomb the secret of whatever instrument it was leading on this.” Steve Rosenberg, Russia Editor for BBC News, posted ...
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Tom Hanks had “no ambition” when he was a teenager. The ‘Toy Story’ star, 67, is renowned for his many contributions to cinema throughout the years as an actor, producer, writer and director and has won numerous awards for his work, including two Oscars but he hasn't always aspired to greatness because he lacked drive as a younger man. In an interview with The Guardian, Tom explained: "I had no ambitions to do anything, except maybe to kiss Marie, in my school class, you know, or to make Dorothy laugh.” The actor did admit he was enthralled by space, and was awakened to the cinematic landscape...
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David Bowie was dismissed by the BBC’s all-powerful 1960s ‘Talent Selection Group’ as an “amateur” act who fronted a band “devoid of personality”. Despite going on to feature in countless BBC specials and documentaries after he shot to fame with his 1969 hit ‘Space Oddity’, David spent years in the wilderness after the corporation’s tastemakers sneered over his performances. David’s first unpleasant brush with the BBC’s talent scouts came on 2 November 1965 when his manager organised an addition for a TV spot for the singer’s band at the time, The Lower Third. Upcoming book ‘Bowie at the BBC: ...
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Shelley Duvall took a 20-year hiatus from Hollywood after her brother was diagnosed with spinal cancer. 'The Shining' star walked away from her acting career in 2002 following the release of her film 'Manna from Heaven' - retiring from her movie work and stepping away from public life - and she's now revealed she wanted to be at home in her native Texas to focus on her family as her sibling faced a life-threatening health crisis. She told PEOPLE: "It's the longest sabbatical I ever took, but it was for really important reasons - to get in touch with my family again." Shelley, 73, has now come ...
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M. Night Shyamalan wishes he “had come up” with the concept for ‘Knock At the Cabin’. The ‘Old’ director has helmed the movie adaption of ‘The Cabin At the End of the World’- which stars Dave Bautista, Jonathan Groff and Rupert Grint - but is such a fan of Paul Tremblay’s book because of how “it speaks” to all his favourite cinematic themes. The plot follows a family of three who are taken hostage by four strangers while holidaying at a remote cabin with the demand to sacrifice one of their own to prevent the apocalypse. The 52-year-old filmmaker told SFX magazine: “I wish I had come up with t...
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John Lennon’s former personal assistant was amazed by how quickly The Beatles icon kicked his heroin habit. Actor and mime artist Dan Richter, 83, who lived and worked with John and the singer’s wife Yoko Ono as their PA from 1969 to 1973, said he supplied the couple with the class-A drug in the late 1960s as he didn’t want them scoring drugs on the street. He told The Daily Telegraph in an interview on Wednesday (28.12.22) from his home in Sierra Nevada, Spain: “I didn’t want them to be using. But I really didn’t want them to be using street heroin, killing themselves. “There was a myth that ...
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Shelley Duvall is returning to acting after 20 years. The 73-year-old 'The Shining' star has landed a starring role in Scott Goldberg's upcoming indie horror, 'The Forest Hills', alongside Edward Furlong, Chiko Mendez and Dee Wallace. It follows "a disturbed man who is tormented by nightmarish visions, after enduring head trauma while camping in the Catskill Mountains." Duvall will play the mother of Chiko's mentally ill character Rico. Goldberg told Deadline: "We are huge fans of 'The Shining' and it’s honestly one of my favourite horror movies of all time, up there with John Carpenter’s 'Hal...
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Alessandro Michele's Gucci Exquisite campaign was inspired by Stanley Kubrick. The 49-year-old Gucci creative director was inspired by the legendary director for the autumn/winter 2022 collection, which features a collaboration with Adidas, and he compared it to filming a movie. He told Vogue.co.uk: "The strange marriage between the codes of Adidas and Gucci was a chemical experiment, in the most ambiguous way. So, I approached the campaign similarly. I had the intention of placing the collection in Kubrick’s iconic scenes, where my clothes exist organically in his world, but feel completely a...
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Malcolm McDowell says fans are still obsessed with 'A Clockwork Orange' 50 years on from the film's release. The 79-year-old star played Alex DeLarge in Stanley Kubrick's cult dystopian crime movie and explained that fans are still recreating his character's look on both sides of the Atlantic. Speaking to the Metro newspaper, Malcolm recalled: "Once I was driving around under the Hammersmith flyover and I passed the Tube station and out came four boys in the white boiler suits with the bowlers and codpieces and I'm driving past... and I put the window down and looked out but of course they wer...
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