Robert Cabrales is preparing to take a bus-load of sightseers on a journey that he says aims to expose the city’s ”dirty little secrets”.
Charlton Heston, the chisel-jawed Hollywood icon best remembered for his Oscar-winning performance in the 1959 epic <i>Ben Hur</i>, died on April 5 at his home, his family said. He was 84. Heston’s family said in a statement that the actor died with his wife of 64 years, Lydia, by his side.
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/ 28 January 2008
Daniel Day-Lewis and British veteran Julie Christie underscored their status as Oscars frontrunners on Sunday after winning the top prizes at the 14th Screen Actors’ Guild awards. British-born star Day-Lewis was crowned best actor for his performance as a tyrannical oil prospector in There Will Be Blood.
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/ 22 October 2007
Forty years after two cowboys filmed an unidentified creature ambling through a California forest, hunters of "Bigfoot" say the grainy footage remains the cornerstone of their belief in the legendary ape-like beast’s existence. It has never been successfully duplicated, and it is that fact that Bigfoot devotees say is crucial.
A long time ago, in a Hollywood era far, far away, the story of an intergalactic battle between good and evil took the world by storm — and changed the movie industry forever. Thirty years after Luke Skywalker, Darth Vader and Han Solo were introduced to the world in Star Wars on May 25 1977, the seismic impact of George Lucas’s science-fiction saga is still being felt.
Detectives probing the murder of Pakistan cricket coach Bob Woolmer said on Wednesday that better-than-anticipated security video footage could provide vital clues in the hunt for his killer. A painstaking operation to transfer hours of footage from well-worn VHS tape into a digital format has been completed, and early results were promising
Detectives probing the murder of cricket coach Bob Woolmer said investigators were nowhere near identifying suspects as Pakistan’s shell-shocked team prepared to head home on Tuesday. Police Deputy Commissioner Mark Shields said reports suggesting that detectives were focusing attention on three Pakistani fans who left Jamaica soon after Woolmer’s murder were premature.
A gleaming, glass-bottomed walkway that juts out over the edge of the Grand Canyon welcomed its first visitors on Tuesday, with <i>Apollo 11</i> astronaut Buzz Aldrin taking one small step for man and one almighty leap for sufferers of vertigo. The Skywalk extends 21m over the western lip of the vast natural chasm.
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/ 26 February 2007
Crime drama The Departed blew away its rivals at the Oscars on Sunday, scooping best-picture honours and delivering a long-overdue director’s prize for Martin Scorsese. Steven Spielberg, George Lucas and Francis Ford Coppola presented the 64-year-old with his Oscar which finally came at the sixth attempt.
Zinedine Zidane fired France into their second World Cup final appearance in eight years on Wednesday, scoring the only goal in a 1-0 semifinal victory over Portugal. The French captain shattered Portugal’s dreams of a first appearance in the final after coolly converting a hotly disputed penalty midway through the first half at the 62 000-seat Allianz Arena.