“American Graffiti” is celebrating its 50th anniversary.
Since the release of the film five decades ago, it has gone on to be considered an American cinema classic.
While the 1973 movie was made on a budget of less than $1 million, it earned $115 million at the box office worldwide and was nominated for five Academy Awards, including best picture. Many attribute the success of the movie to the nostalgia it provided to audiences, who yearned to live in a
Angus Cloud shocked Euphoria viewers and his loyal fans with news of his death at just 25 years old on Monday.
And stars including Drake — who executive produces Euphoria — along with Kerry Washington, Gigi Hadid, the singer Chloe Bailey and the Sopranos and Euphoria actress Kathrine Narducci were quick to pay tribute to the late actor.
The rising star and budding fashion icon was discovered by his mother at his family’s house in Oakland, California, in the late
Nearly half of low-income pensioners in England have struggled to keep up with their broadband bill in the last six months, according to new figures.
Research from the older people’s charity Independent Age reveals the struggles that pensioners and those on low incomes have been facing when it comes to staying online.
One in five said they found their internet bill a ‘constant struggle’ and 28 per cent said they had struggled from time to time.
Independent Age says the
In the 17 months since Moscow ordered soldiers into Ukrainian territory, countries across Europe have moved with surprising speed to reduce their longstanding dependence on cheap Russian gas.
Germany, which got 55 percent of its supply from Russia before the war, now imports zero. Poland, Bulgaria and the Czech Republic have halted or are close to halting flows. And Italy has been steadily trimming imports, and pledges to be free of Russian natural gas by the end of this year.
There are places and people willing to help pregnant women who are in dire straits.
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ESTACADA, Ore. – Diners watched, bemused, as Plato approached their table. The three-and-a-half-foot-tall robot spun and paused, presenting them with their lunch. No one moved, unsure of what would come next, until a man in cowboy boots reached out and took his hamburger before passing another plate to his companions.
Then Plato rolled away, back to The Cazadero’s kitchen.
“How was the experience?” a neighboring customer asked the group, leaning over his chair.
“Phenomenal,” one woman answered, still looking a
Junior doctors will take to picket lines again next month, with tens of thousands of appointments expected to be cancelled.
The British Medical Association (BMA) is coordinating the four-day walkout in England, which will run from 7am on Friday August 11 to 7am on Tuesday August 15.
It marks the fifth strike by the medics since March.
The union said junior doctors, many of whom earn more than £50,000, ‘are not going anywhere’ in their bid for an inflation-busting 35
Depending on who you ask, sertraline will either ‘save your life’ or morph you into something resembling a sexless zombie.
And it’s precisely that side effect sparking alarm among psychiatrists.
In fact, men battling premature ejaculation are now even getting the powerful anti-depressant, taking advantage of the libido-killer in pursuit of lasting longer in bed.
University College London’s Professor Joanna Moncrieff, a world-renowned voice in her field, wants the medical community to urgently ‘rethink’ how selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs)
Britons are still struggling to get face-to-face GP appointments — despite multiple ministers promising to fix the situation.
Furious campaigners claim patients are being trapped in a ‘Catch-22’ system that bounces them between phone queues and online forms.
And when they do eventually get through, many complain they are still unable to secure an appointment in-person.
One GP practice is still partly blaming Covid for the mayhem.
An automated message at the surgery in Oxfordshire thanked patients stuck in a
In mid-December, I drove to Lake Mead, the nation’s largest reservoir, to see its infamous bathtub ring. The bathtub, in this metaphor, is Lake Mead, on the border between Nevada and Arizona; the ring is a chalk-white coating of minerals that its receding waters have left behind. The Southwest, which includes the Colorado River Basin, has been in a protracted drought since 2000; climate change has made it worse. “You go to Los Angeles or Denver or Las Vegas, and
