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To summarise. Trolls, as those of you old enough may remember, were annoyingly cute, small plastic dolls with colourful, up-combed hair that were all the rage in the mid-1970s. They came from Denmark, were considered good luck by the feeble-minded, but their time in the sun was brief. After fading…

Trolls World Tour (Rakuten TV, U) Verdict: Inventive and fun  Rating: The Iron Mask (various streaming platforms, 12A) Verdict: A spectacular mess Rating: There's no snobbery quite like music snobbery. Dare to profess an admiration for the work of Phil Collins or Bono, let alone Justin Bieber, and in some circles you will be…

Real action heroes break down the best stunt-based scenes. Julia Cherruault/Observer Clint Eastwood tricking the bad guy into shooting at his protected chest in Sergio Leone’s Fistful of Dollars. Bruce Willis leaping, bloodied and bruised, from the top of Nakatomi Plaza in John McTiernan’s Die Hard. Arnold Schwarzenegger blasting away at the…

'What I'm really worried about is that the day this lockdown ends, we will all rush to work and we'll kill the lovely environment we are seeing now.' Photograph: Kind courtesy Juhi Chawla/Instagram "Isn't this (time) detoxing for us?" Juhi Chawla asks. The actress is enjoying the lockdown because it…

Here is your open thread for April 7, 2020. Billie Holiday was born 105 years ago today. It’s often noted that Billie Holiday didn’t have the range of other great singers, that she could barely reach both ends of an octave. But while there may be only a finite number…

Associated Press Published 6:00 AM EDT Apr 7, 2020Today is Tuesday, April 7. On this date:In 1798, the Mississippi Territory was created by an act of Congress, with Natchez as the capital.In 1862, Union forces led by Gen. Ulysses S. Grant defeated the Confederates at the Battle of Shiloh in…

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April 51588 - English philosoper Thomas Hobbes 1614 - Pocahontas marries English colonist John Rolfe 1726 - Benjamin Harrison (Signer of the Declaration of Independence) 1856 - American author/educator Booker T. Washington 1900 - American actor Spencer Tracy 1908 - American actress Bette Davis 1916 - American actor Gregory Peck…

Memories fade. There’s nothing we can do about it. Although nowadays, modern media devices – and platforms – are now able to keep significant moments in history alive, forever. So it is with September 4, 1981 and what went down inside the Queen Elizabeth Stadium in the Hong Kong waterside…

The increase in Arizona coronavirus cases has slowed. Here's what a UA professor's model shows11:59 PM EDT Apr 4, 2020Man dead after 3-wheeler crash in Phoenix12:16 AM EDT Apr 5, 2020Coronavirus updates: Trump says US to deploy 1,000 military personnel to New York City6:07 PM EDT Apr 4, 2020US official:…