‘Bolton bakes best bagel? My butt’ … Robert De Niro in the Warburtons TV ad. Photograph: Gary Salter/Warburtons/PA‘Bolton bakes best bagel? My butt’ … Robert De Niro in the Warburtons TV ad. Photograph: Gary Salter/Warburtons/PARobert De NiroPeddling bread on the mean streets of Bolton seems to suit the Hollywood star. Take note, Scorsese
You will be reading a lot this week about the death of Robert De Niro’s career. You will see stills from his newest role in a Warburtons bread commercial, and they will all be accompanied by doom-laden hand-wringing about the fall of a once unbeatable actor. Read More...
The amazing world of animals Animals Australia: where spiders rain down from the sky - video report The Australian town of Goulburn, NSW, was recently covered by spiders raining from the sky, but how did it happen and why? Whilst this would probably cause mass panic in the US or UK, 'spider rain' is not uncommon across parts of Australia. Some species of spiders climb to the tops of plants and trees and leap off, using their web-silk as tiny parachutes to help them migrate - a process known as ballooning Source: ITN Read More...
The ObserverArtShows in Athens and Istanbul have brought belated recognition for an artist long championed by David Attenborough. But why, 14 years after his death, is London still immune to his talents?
He was louche, larger than life, a lover of all things Hellenic and in his early years on the London art scene inseparable from the equally rakish Lucian Freud.
For decades John Craxton, viewed as a giant in the pantheon of painters of modern Greece, an unrivalled portraitist of the country he would come to adopt, languished in relative obscurity. Read More...
