I got the impression Blake’s 7 was just going to be “space opera” and, having worked as a director on Doctor Who, I wanted to move on and do other things, but the script for the first episode won me over. It was 1977, before the mass surveillance we have today, so the idea ...
Saltburnstar Barry Keoghan, 32, had a very tough childhood. His mother was a heroin addict, and he stayed in 13 foster homes between the ages of 5 and 12. His mother would visit him and his brother — until she died. “It was the worst day of my life,” Keoghan toldIreland Unfilte...
Professional wrestler Steve Austin was previously tight-lipped about his thoughts on gay marriage, but in 2014, he laid into anti-gay Christians. Austin said, "Okay, so two cats can’t get married if they want to get married, but then a guy can go murder fourteen p...
Before the Comedy Channel, even before there was the Tonight Show, Sullivan discovered, anointed and popularized young comedians. Before there were 500 channels, before there was cable, Ed Sullivan was where the choice was. From the start, he was indeed 'the Toast of the Town'." In 1996,...
She quickly made education a priority through her mother’s insistence after her dad died when she was 9 years old. “I was going to college, and I was going to become an attorney, and I knew that when I was 10. 10. That’s no jest,” she told New York Daily News in 1998. ...
He did things like mukbanging right before getting surgery. As he got heavier, he seemed to deteriorate mentally, getting more and more unhinged with each video. About four months ago, Avocado stopped posting videos online. Leading many to speculate that he’d died or was having such ...
Died: December 20, 2009 Britanny Murphy was an American singer and actress. She received critical acclaim for playing important roles in films like 8 Mile before leaving for heavenly abode due to pneumonia at age 32. A month after her demise, her mother and widower established a charitable fun...
River Phoenix was absolutely on top of the world. Though his acting career began at 10, it was in his teens that he really came into his own. Sadly, despite his star potential, his career was never to reach any greater heights. In 1993, Phoenix collapsed and died of combined drug intox...
But Burtons decision to cast hisBeetlejuicestar was a controversial one at the time, with Warner Bros. receiving thousands of letters from fans in protest—and even some of the executives were skeptical. "I thought they were joking when they told me Michael Keaton was cast," producerMichael ...
Sadly, Weintraub died on July 6, 2015, while The Legend of Tarzan was in post-production and almost exactly one year before the film hit theaters. Mel Gibson Getty Images/Paramount Pictures The Hacksaw Ridge director recently revealed that he almost played Norse god Odin in the Marvel ...