The Movie Quiz: Who has never played Kevin Costner's wife?
Columbia
MGM
Warners
Universal
Which director did Stellan Skarsgård last week claim cried at the death of Hitler?
Federico Fellini
Ingmar Bergman
Carl Theodor Dreyer
Jean Renoir
Who is the odd celebrity out?
Judy Garland
Lucille Ball
Grace Kelly
Virginia Woolf
Which was not a posthumous release for the director?
The Dead
Eyes Wide Shut
The Other Side of the Wind
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
What was the last Paul Thomas Anderson film not to feature a score by Jonny Greenwood?
The Master
Hard Eight
Punch-Drunk Love
Licorice Pizza
Which is not a lesser-known Robert Altman film?
O.C. and Stiggs
Fool For Love
Too Late Blues
Countdown
What is missing: The Sorcerer's Apprentice, The Rite of Spring, Pastoral Symphony, Dance of the Hours?
Night on Bald Mountain
Finlandia
1812 Overture
Ride of the Valkyries
Who has never played Kevin Costner's wife?
Amy Madigan
Diane Lane
Meg Tilly
Sissy Spacek
With what did Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger share a name?
A toiletry brand
A radio soap opera
A string quartet
A hit by the Muppets
What is the only Raymond Chandler novel never to have been filmed?
The Little Sister
The High Window
The Lady in the Lake
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The Irish Sun
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- The Irish Sun
Iconic rock singer forced to reschedule tour after suffering painful injury as fans left devastated and concerned
AN ICONIC rock singer has been forced to reschedule their tour after enduring a painful injury. Stevie Nicks, 77, has shared with her fans how due to a recent injury, she will need time to recover before taking to the stage again. 5 Stevie Nicks has fractured her shoulder and has been forced to reschedule her tour Credit: Getty 5 She will be back on stage in October once she has recovered Credit: Getty 5 She has expressed her sadness for being forced to cancel the summer shows Credit: Getty The Fleetwood Mac icon fractured her shoulder and will need to recover throughout the summer and early fall. Her August and September tour dates will soon be rescheduled, with her October tour dates remaining unchanged. A statement was shared on Stevie's Instagram page. The message read, "Due to a recent injury resulting in a fractured shoulder that will require recovery time, Stevie Nicks' scheduled concerts in August and September will be rescheduled. Read More about Singers "Please note that October dates will be unaffected. "Stevie looks forward to seeing everyone soon and apologizes to the fans for this inconvenience." Stevie was originally set to kick off her tour in August. The earliest fans can hope to see the iconic rocker in concert after her shoulder injury will be in the autumn. Most read in Celebrity She is due to perform on October 1 in Portland, Oregon. Some fans, who were due to see her perform at the now-rescheduled shows, have expressed their upset under the post. Fleetwood Mac fans are convinced Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham are 'getting back together' after spotting 'clues' "NOOOOOOOOO I WAS SUPPOSED TO BE NEXT WEEK," said one. "I was so excited to go for my birthday. Wishing you a speedy recovery all the same," added another. But most of the comments underneath the post were wishing Stevie well and begging for her speedy recovery. "Heal quickly and safely goddess," penned one. "Get well soon! We will all be waiting on you," added another. "DONT TAKE UNNECESSARY RISKS STEVIE," demanded a third. While a third joked, "Someone was supposed to bubble wrap her!!" The news of Stevie's injury comes after the news of her out-of-print album Buckingham Nicks would soon be reissued. The album was a collaborative LP with her then-lover Lindsey Buckingham. The project preceded the musicians joining a revamped Fleetwood Mac lineup. The announcement of the reissuing of the LP came after Stevie posted a picture with her cursive handwriting that said 'And if you go forward…' Then, just 30 minutes later, Lindsey shared a post of his own that completed the lyric, which read: '… I'll meet you there.' Lindsey and Stevie began dating in the late 1960s and went on to form the musical duo, Buckingham Nicks, shortly after. They joined Fleetwood Mac in 1974 and found instant success with the band - catapulting all five members, including Mick, John McVie, and Christine McVie, into worldwide sensations. Although they were at the height of their careers and continued to have to work together in the same band, Stevie and Lindsey officially broke up in 1976. 5 Buckingham Nicks will be reissued this September Credit: AP 5 Stevie and Lindsey were romantically linked in their early careers Credit: AP
Irish Daily Mirror
3 hours ago
- Irish Daily Mirror
Irish The Chase star shares 'brilliant' natural way to get rid of house flies
This summer, you could keep flies at bay with a "brilliant" tip shared by The Chase star Darragh Ennis. As an entomologist, Dublin-native Darragh has a smart way to rid your home of these insects, particularly if you have houseplants that attract them. In a recent TikTok video, the 44-year-old TV personality, also known as The Menace on the ITV quiz show, revealed a simple and natural method to deal with the small black flies that can be a nuisance during the summer months. These pests, known as fungus gnats, can be "really hard" to eliminate and often infest houseplants, causing irritation and leading many people to give up on their plants altogether. Darragh said in his video: "If you've got little insects flying around your house, it can be really annoying. "Now, I'm an entomologist, so I love insects, but I still don't want those tiny little black flies all over my house, and they're really hard to get rid of - especially when they live in your houseplants. The Chase's Darragh Ennis, also known as The Menace on the ITV quiz show, has a genius hack for keeping flies out of your home "They're called fungus gnats because they live in compost and stuff, and they're a big pest in mushroom growhouses and things. Getting rid of them with chemicals is really hard." Darragh suggests a plan to care for your houseplants while getting rid of the flies simultaneously - using nematodes, reports the Mirror. He explained: "You've probably never heard of them, but they're little microscopic worms that live in the soil. "They're probably the most common animal on the planet, but we can't see them. There's billions upon billions upon billions of them." He went on: "One type of them crawls inside insects and kills them. Now, it's a bit gruesome, but it's a natural way of killing them. "You can just order these online. You just put these into a watering can and then pour them on your house plants. The best bit about this is that they crawl through the soil and hunts through the larvae and everything so they're gone. "So if you want to get rid of those little flies and you don't want loads of chemicals, buy some nematodes. I studied them for my PhD, and now they're useful in my house." Darragh also displayed the packet of nematodes he had purchased online, labelled as Sciarid Fly Nematodes, which available on Amazon. You can stop flies from getting into your home using various natural methods, including using herbs and plants that these pests hate the smell of. These include basil, lavender, mint, bay leaves, and marigold. You can also create an essential oil spray by combining one cup of water, 10-15 drops of an essential oil such as peppermint, lemongrass, citronella, or lavender, and one tablespoon of vodka (optional, but helps in mixing the oils) into a spray bottle and misting it around windows, doors, and other access points in your home. Another favoured technique to deter flies, particularly the minuscule ones like fruit flies, is to concoct a DIY trap. This can be achieved by mixing apple cider vinegar and washing up liquid in a bowl, covering it with cling film, and then poking a few tiny holes in the top. Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest news from the Irish Mirror direct to your inbox: Sign up here.
Irish Times
4 hours ago
- Irish Times
Give me Helen Mirren's refusal to ‘age gracefully' over the tech bros who refuse to age at all
My mother recently attended the funeral of an acquaintance. In true Irish mammy fashion, she relates these outings with a detour through the family tree of the deceased: 'Her youngest was great friends with your older brother when they were in play school ... a very clingy child.' This woman – let's call her Janet – was always a great beauty, my mother tells me. At 80 she was still handsome – a face you would stop to look at on the street. Janet, it turns out, was striking even in repose. My mother describes how elegant she looked, laid out – like a much younger dead woman. 'An ageless beauty,' she pronounces. While I draw the line at worrying how I'll look in an open casket, I'm not immune to the allure of ageing gracefully. It's the promise behind the peptide serum I bought last week without knowing – at all – what a peptide is. It's an ideal I see presented more and more by luxury brands. Joni Mitchell channelling chic Americana for St Laurent, Joan Didion a kind of cerebral restraint for Celine. Actresses like Meryl Streep, Iman and Helen Mirren also embody what it means to age gracefully. Inspired by this 'ageless beauty' trend, my personal ambition is to look like Olwen Fouéré when I'm older – elegant, sharp, a little formidable. Never mind that Fouéré has the cut glass cheekbones of a Celtic Goddess and mine are procured with a contouring crayon clutched in my fist. I won't look like Fouéré in 20 years, any more than I'm going to wake up at 60 and suddenly play the trumpet. 'But seriously, Mum, you don't look that old,' my eight year old told me last week apropos nothing. (Why? When did he learn that looking old is bad?). 'You don't look 40. You could pass for ... 38.' A devastating pause as he takes me in, slumped on the couch in my pyjamas ' ... 39' Ageing is so undignified. READ MORE Mirren agrees. 'I'm not ageing gracefully at all. I hate that term,' the actress said last week, when asked to reflect on turning 80. 'We just do grow older, there's no way you can escape that. You have to grow up with your own body, your own face and the way it changes.' I think – somewhat unkindly – that it's easy for the genetically blessed to dismiss our anxieties about ageing. By refusing to entertain the concept, isn't Mirren simply refusing to play a game she has already won? And isn't that what beauty, youth and elegance is all about? 'Graceful ageing' is code for look good, but don't try hard; accept decline, but discreetly correct it; grow old, but make it luxury. It's the kind of grace that takes a lot of free time and even more money. 'It's not always easy but it is inevitable.' Mirren says of the ageing process. 'You have to learn to accept it.' Or not. While many in the entertainment industry aspire to the sort of 'natural' ageing that takes a top-notch aesthetician, a billionaire class has emerged who want to conquer age entirely. Jeff Bezos has poured billions into Altos Labs, a research institute working to halt or reverse the ageing process. Peter Thiel – who else? – is a patron of Aubrey de Grey's LEV Foundation , which aims for 'longevity escape velocity', adding more than one year of life expectancy per year of research. Recently Thiel donated more than $1 million to the Methuselah Institute with the goal of making '90 feel like 50 by 2030', including programmes focused on rejuvenating bone marrow and blood cells. Meanwhile, the fintech mogul Bryan Johnson is probably best known for his anti-ageing protocol Project Blueprint (also known, bluntly, as 'Don't Die'), which, along with supplements and full body tracking, includes plasma infusions from his son. [ A tech entrepreneur chases immortality: Bryan Johnson is 46. Soon, he plans to tur Opens in new window ] A recent fictional bestseller – Notes on Infinity by Austin Taylor – extrapolates from real-world research on senescence happening at the author's alma mater. David Sinclair's Harvard lab is controversially at work on so-called Yamanaka factors, a set of genes that researchers hope might be used to 'reprogramme' ageing cells back to a more youthful, embryonic-like state. Anti-ageing was once a woman's pastime, but these innovations suggest a wider preoccupation with the process. 'Bro science', for example, is a grassroots movement that emerged online in the pandemic. Proponents treat ageing like an open-source design challenge – the term most often used is 'biohacking' – with testosterone injections, gym rituals and a dizzying variety of supplements: creatine, protein, collagen, NAD+, metformin. The focus here is less on looking younger than your years so much as a refusal to submit to anything as weak as cellular death. On the surface, these worlds couldn't look more different: Dame Helen marking her 80th in Elie Saab versus some guy named Travis shilling NMN supplements on TikTok. But whether it's 'age gracefully' or 'don't die,' both frame time as a threat to be managed through purchasing power. Karl Marx famously wrote about capital as a kind of 'living death' – a vampire draining the life-force from workers and natural resources. A bloodsucking Johnson was probably not what the German economist had in mind, but the resonance is hard to ignore. Graceful ageing and biohacking both offer to smooth the rough edges of mortality – but only for those who can pay. Youth might soon be wasted on the super-rich. Janet, I think, didn't have a peptide or a protocol. She had a good haircut, maybe a lipstick she liked, and people who turned out to remember her face. That isn't nothing. It might even be grace.
