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@kerrka Perhaps you should take your own advice.

Tom Hardy fibbed a lot about his background until a few years ago. The biggest: He claimed he grew up on a tough council estate and struggled to become an actor in poverty. He actually grew up in a posh home and when he was 18, his parents bought him a flat and paid him an allowance… Read More

So many choices. All right, random five of favourite action-driven scenes off my head: - the leap of faith in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade - the house battle in One Generation of Tattoos (US title: Tattooed Life) - the Statue of Liberty in A Man Called Hero - the montage during… Read More

Yul Brynner was such a braggadocious liar that it took his son, Rock Brynner, nine years to learn actual facts about his family background. My favourite quote about Brynner from actor Frank Langella: "Yul was never far from a full-length mirror, and the word 'I' passed Yul's lips… Read More

While we were watching a documentary about music of the 1980s, I said The The was a stupid band name. My aunt's friend said it wasn't. I laughed and said it was. She laughed and said I didn't know what I was talking about. I said, "Please be serious." I mean, how could anyone Google… Read More

It was bad in the 1920s when some fans took their lives as a response to Hollywood heartthrob Rudolph Valentino dying unexpectedly. The wife of Sessue Hayakawa, another Hollywood sex symbol from that era, recalled in her memoir that a fan was so obsessed with Sessue that she showed… Read More

@michellew4b8eb1500 The official team name is "Great Britain and Northern Ireland Olympic Team", which for some reason is shortened it to Team GB. Another weird fact I learnt recently: Team GB includes athletes from the Channel Islands (Jersey, Guernsey, etc), the Isle of Man and… Read More

Gah. This was meant to be a response to someone's comment. Sorry about that.

Lively and Reynolds owe Justin Baldoni and Alex Saks an apology, actually. Especially Baldoni, who's optioned, raised finance and produced this adaptation for six years. It was going well until the writers' strikes, which put the filming on hold. During the 'break', Lively and… Read More

My stepmum is a district nurse and used to work as a ward nurse. The one that haunts her most was an elderly male patient, who regretted allowing his 'lack of courage' and indecisiveness use his widowed father as an excuse to avoid leaving home to live his life the way he wanted.… Read More