Guardian USCannibal KFC chickens, Cleo’s nude dudes and Whitlam’s fax: the 10 weirdest Australian commercialsverified_publisherThe GuardianRemember videotapes? Back before broadband internet and streaming services, if you wanted to watch a TV show but couldn’t be there when it was airing, your only option was to pop a tape into your VCR and hit record. And if you didn’t accidentally tape over it,chances are it’s still in the back of a …
Guardian USTen ways in which Shakespeare changed the worldverified_publisherThe Guardian - Robert McCrumBack in 2012, the British Library displayed a rare book that attracted as much media attention as a Gutenberg Bible. It was a mass-produced edition of a text once owned by Nelson Mandela, inked with his pen. Mandela had kept this volume by his bedside for more than 20 years and it had sustained him …
Guardian USStage, screen – and ship? Show charts history of performing Shakespeareverified_publisherThe Guardian - Maev KennedyThere were two unusual entertainments for the crew and passengers on board the Red Dragon on 5 September 1607, according to a tattered and stained page of the captain’s diary: “We had the Tragedy of Hamlet: and in the afternoon we went altogether ashore, to see if we could shoot an elephant.” Now on …
Guardian US‘The bedrock of my life’: Michael Palin announces the death of his wife Helenverified_publisherThe Guardian - Nadeem BadshahSir Michael Palin has announced the death of his wife, Helen, after 57 years of marriage. Palin, 79, described his wife as “the bedrock of my life” and said they first met while holidaying in the seaside town of Southwold, Suffolk, and he fictionalised the encounter in a 1987 BBC drama titled East …
Guardian USStephen Colbert on Tucker Carlson’s firing: ‘I can’t believe I finally get to say that’verified_publisherThe GuardianOn the eve of the writer’s strike which will shut down late-night television for the foreseeable future, Stephen Colbert returned to The Late Show after a weeklong holiday to celebrate the end of Tucker Carlson’s tenure on Fox News. “I can’t believe I finally get to say that on TV,” the elated host …
Guardian USThe future of pop culture: robot performers, an avatar Drake and a Kanye West superstoreverified_publisherThe Guardian - Steve Rose, Peter Robinson, Nick Gillett, Issy Sampson, Skye Sherwin, Hannah Verdier, James Kettle, Ian McQuaid, Graeme VirtueYou can star alongside Leo when cinema enters its ‘karaoke’ phase The blockbuster era will come to a close in about 2042 with the colossal failure of Jedi Transformers V Jurassic Avengers 12: Revenge Of The Minions, an expensive crossover epic that bankrupts all the Hollywood studios simultaneously. …
