FilmObituaryPhyllis Thaxter obituaryHollywood actor known for playing wholesome wives and Ma Kent in SupermanAlthough Phyllis Thaxter, who has died aged 92, had a successful career in films throughout the 1940s and 50s, many will remember her for her last movie role, in Superman (1978). It was the small but key part of Ma Kent, the childless farmer's wife who adopts a foundling baby and names him Clark. Together with her husband (Glenn Ford) – both made intentionally to resemble the couple in Grant Wood's American Gothic painting – they bring up the abnormally physically gifted boy until he's ready to fly off " Read More...
RapInterviewRick Ross: 24 hrs with The MastermindLanre BakareWe gatecrash the Tonight Show, smoke cigars with the Maybach Music maven and talk Illuminati conspiracy theories, dealing with the paparazzi and feuding with John McEnroeBackstage on the sixth floor of 30 Rockefeller Plaza there's a palpable tension. At the celebrated home of NBC's Tonight Show, interns scuttle about and wardrobe assistants hastily rearrange clothes racks. Just five days ago, Jimmy Fallon and his team took over from long-time host Jay Leno, while former Saturday Night Live man Seth Meyers is settling into Fallon's old seat across the corridor on Late Night. Read More...
ArtThis artist’s work took him from Scotland to the Arab world, and he saw the price of his work rise enormously – yet today he is largely forgotten. Now, a new exhibition reveals a lifetime of adventure
The story of art and its protagonists in the first half of the 20th century is a pretty familiar one. But the procession of star names inventing art’s various “isms” inevitably leaves out artists who chose to operate away from the cutting edge, yet who in their day were well known, celebrated and well rewarded for their work. Read More...
