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Metro
23-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Metro
Classic film considered 'coolest of all time' is now streaming for free
Fans who are lovers of the best classic movies are in for a treat as a film considered one of the coolest ever made is now streaming for free. Starring iconic Hollywood actors Paul Newman and Robert Redford, 1969 flick Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid is currently available to watch at no cost on BBC iPlayer. The top-grossing film of its year, the Western buddy movie went on to be nominated for seven Oscars, including best picture and director, winning four. There is literally a Reddit thread titled 'Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid – coolest film ever?' where fans discussed its appeal, so don't take it just from me. Helmed by George Roy Hill (who also directed Newman and Redford in 1973's The Sting) and written by Academy Award winner William Goldman, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid follows the titular members of the outlaw Hole-in-the-Wall gang in 1899 Wyoming. They flee to Bolivia after a train robbery gone wrong with Sundance (Redford)'s lover Etta Place (Katharine Ross), attempting to go straight for the first time after struggling to rob banks in Spanish – but a posse is in hot pursuit. 'It's a classic, and I don't use that term lightly,' shared John W in an audience review on Rotten Tomatoes, while Jamie X posted: 'A beautiful film in every way. The cinematography, characters, story and soundtrack, are all on another level. I simply can't recommend enough.' 'This western movie had it all. Fast action, comedy, whimsical, intense [sic.] intrigue and fast gun play with two of the most dynamic male actors of their time,' added Edward B. Redford, 88, largely retired from acting in 2018, having also appeared in the likes of The Great Gatsby, All the President's Men and Out of Africa, as well as a stint in Marvel Cinematic Universe as Alexander Pierce. He was nominated for best actor and best director twice each at the Academy Awards, winning for his filmmaking in 1980 for Ordinary People, his directorial debut. Newman died in September 2008 aged 83 after a career that saw him nominated for 10 acting Oscars, winning best actor for The Colour of Money in 1987. He also starred in movies including Cool Hand Luke, The Hustler, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and Road to Perdition. 'Everything I wanted in a movie is here,' enthused another fan, while Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid was also praised as 'the ultimate buddy movie' and a 'classic Western that I just never get tired of watching'. 'Redford and Newman at it again. If you don't love Butch and Sundance, then you don't love cinema,' insisted another lover of the movie. Many cinema fans have intense nostalgia around the film as well, remembering first watching it upon its release decades ago. 'One of the best, a film from my childhood I've had the pleasure of discovering again as an adult,' shared Robin Sattahip on Google, while Ray Moore shared: 'I watched this wonderful movie the week it was released and fell in Love with K. Ross as well with R.R. and Paul whom [sic.] I was already a fan. I have seen it so many times.' Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid appears in multiple AFI lists, including ranking 73rd in the institute's 10th anniversary edition of their 100 Years… 100 Movies list of greatest American films. More Trending Based on real-life figures in the Old West, the film is famous too for its anachronistic use of the very 1960s Burt Bacharach and Hal David song Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head. It's also preserved by the Library of Congress in the United States National Film Registry by for its 'culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant' status. Other stone-cold classic films currently available to watch on iPlayer include The Shining, Don't Look Now and John Wayne classic Western The Searchers. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid is streaming for free in the UK on BBC iPlayer now. Got a story? If you've got a celebrity story, video or pictures get in touch with the entertainment team by emailing us celebtips@ calling 020 3615 2145 or by visiting our Submit Stuff page – we'd love to hear from you. MORE: BBC denies editing Irish verse out of CMAT song after backlash MORE: Danny Dyer wants to play Doctor Who – here's why we should let him MORE: The Celebrity Traitors 'confirmed' cast salaries make me feel incredibly uneasy
New York Post
15-05-2025
- Sport
- New York Post
This is Jalen Brunson's moment to cook
Some truths are self-evident. Thomas Jefferson, writing on deadline, noted one hot Philadelphia night in 1776: 'All men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.' Those were big ones. There are others: the inarguable pleasure of a hot-fudge sundae (or a cold beer) on a stifling summer day; the genius of 'Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid;' the four-sided brilliance of 'Exile on Main Street;' Jonathan Groff channeling Bobby Darin in 'Just in Time.' As it pertains to the Knicks, the self-evident truth is the simplest one of all:
Los Angeles Times
07-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Los Angeles Times
Kelsey Grammer reflects on sister's murder: 'It's not a badge of honor to have suffered grief like that'
Kelsey Grammer has released a memoir about his sister Karen on the 50th anniversary of her death. He writes that it's not so much a grief book as a life book. Karen Grammer liked to dunk Oreos in ice-cold Coca-Cola until the cream filling hardened and the cookie softened. She wore glasses. She didn't have a strong relationship with her dad, but was extremely close to her grandfather. She smoked Marlboro Lights. She once jumped naked on her bed in her college dorm room while listening to Leon Russell music. She, at least according to her high school yearbook, had a hell of a trip to Disney World before graduation. She got really into the movie 'Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.' If she were alive today, her older brother suspects, she'd be living in Florida. Maybe she'd work with animals or do something artistic. She always liked working with her hands. Karen was kidnapped, raped and murdered on July 1, 1975, just two weeks shy of her 19th birthday. The details of the attacks are more horrific than anything anyone, let alone a loved one, should ever have to know. And especially because Karen was the younger sister of Kelsey Grammer — then a 20-year-old Juilliard flunkie — it is easy to sensationalize her final moments. So the older Grammer did what he wasn't able to do 50 years ago: He protected his sister. In 'Karen: A Brother Remembers,' which came out Tuesday, the 'Frasier' actor sometimes references the atrocities the men committed (the verb 'slaughtered' is invoked a few times and he notes, from the coroner's report, that the gash on her neck was so big that you could see all the way into her lung). But his primary aim is to capture his sister's joyful and vivacious spirit and interview her friends about her final years. He writes that it's not so much a grief book as a life book; a detailed history of his and his sister's childhoods and how she stayed with him 'before and after her human experience.' Told in a free-flowing style that Grammer happily concedes he borrowed from Henry Fielding's 'The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling,' it features stories of their teen years along the Florida shore and explores how these events impacted his life and career. If these memories from five decades ago seem particularly sharp, it's because Grammer says his sister appeared to him a few years ago and told him what to write. Grammer regularly works with mediums — he was even an executive producer on the Patricia Arquette procedural 'Medium' — and says during a recent Zoom, 'I think all this stuff is immediately available to us as long as we drop the filters and just believe it.' It's not that grief, and coping mechanisms, don't appear in this book; one of the ways Grammer passed the time as a newbie actor at San Diego's Old Globe theater was to grab a crab sandwich from Point Loma Seafoods with some wine or beer, and head to the neighborhood's military cemetery to sit at the grave of a Vietnam soldier who was around Grammer's age at the time of his death. The actor says now, 'An old friend of mine said that the cause for addiction is usually unresolved grief, and that holds up for me' because '[I] had a pretty big basket load of grief that I had to deal with.' 'I was coming into a phase in my life where everything should have been wonderful,' Grammer says of his younger self, known as much for his multiple Emmy wins as the tabloid headlines about his myriad relationships and marriages, and substance abuse issues. Now happily married to his fourth wife, Kayte, with whom he shares three children, Grammer says that back then, 'I was wealthy and famous and successful and doing the thing I love more than anything in the world, and yet I couldn't forgive myself. So I had to find some way to do that. And this book actually helped kind of put the final bow on the package.' This means accepting that there are things he will never be able to answer, like how Karen, a waitress, came to be sitting in the Red Lobster parking lot when she wasn't scheduled to work that night (he theorizes she was lonely and wanted to wait for her friends to finish their shifts). Or if she knew what was coming when spree killer Freddie Glenn and two others approached her as she sat by a red Volkswagen Beetle, showed her a gun and told her to come with them. He does think her reported response — 'for what?' — sounds just like his brassy little sister. Working on the book also means reliving, and sometimes re-questioning, his own life choices. Grammer writes that Karen's spirit told him to forgive himself for the regret he felt about his college girlfriend's abortion. He says he no longer believes that Karen's death was some kind of eye-for-an-eye 'Old Testament nonsense.' In the book, he describes his 'limping faith' toward Christianity. During our interview, he talks of the 'reawakening' he experienced while promoting his 2023 film 'Jesus Revolution.' 'I don't go out proselytizing, but I am not going to deny my faith; I'm not going to deny Jesus Christ,' Grammer says. This, inevitably, brings up Grammer's complicated thoughts about the death penalty. Glenn was sentenced to the gas chamber for Karen's murder, but two years later Colorado abolished the death penalty. 'I've always had mixed feelings about the death penalty because I hate to be the society that puts to death the guy who is innocent,' Grammer says, before adding, 'This guy's not innocent.' In his book, Grammer writes that it eats at him that Glenn's petitions to the parole board are never about remorse but rather that he used to be a 'good kid.' 'Sometimes it was really overwhelming; it can still stop me in my tracks,' Kelsey Grammer says about the grief of losing his sister. 'I can love the young man,' Grammer writes. 'The young man whose hopes grew so dim, he could think of no way to empower himself other than to kill an innocent girl. And I am giving him a lot of credit in this characterization. It takes every fiber of my being, but my heart goes out to him. To that boy. To him only. Not the killer he became. The killer he remains. I leave him to God.' Grammer knows that revisiting the case gives it more publicity and he is also aware that there have been TV specials about it (although he stresses that these have not always been accurate). His family suffered other tragedies, such as his father's shooting death from a hate crime and the drowning deaths of two of his half brothers. He writes in the book that his paternal grandfather's response when Grammer told him of Karen's murder was, 'This family is cursed.' It's an odd thing to not only be famous, but to also know that the worst things that have happened to you and your family can be reduced to whispered gossip and Wikipedia entries. Grammer says he hasn't given much thought to the public perception of these events. Plus, he says, 'It's not a badge of honor to have suffered grief like that. That's just my constant companion.' He adds, 'It's never really letting [Karen] go, but it's letting some of the charge on the grief go.' 'Sometimes it was really overwhelming; it can still stop me in my tracks,' Grammer says. 'What's funny is now it's as though something has been lifted from me … when I think of Karen, I don't think of her death as much as I do of her life. That was the bargain; that was the payoff. And that's actually been great. I have remembered her and she walks with me now in a way that I wasn't so in touch with until I wrote the book.' Sign up for our Book Club newsletter Get the latest news, events and more from the Los Angeles Times Book Club, and help us get L.A. reading and talking. You may occasionally receive promotional content from the Los Angeles Times.
New York Times
26-03-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Times
I Love ‘Severance.' Now End It.
This article contains spoilers for the Apple TV+ series 'Severance.' When we left Mark S. and Helly R. in the final moments of the final episode of the second season of 'Severance,' the bedraggled lovers were frozen, midmotion, while running down the blinding white nowhere hallways of Lumon Industries, like Paul Newman and Robert Redford at the end of 'Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.' Running down hallways leading nowhere is what Lumon's severed workers — their 'innie' worker personalities severed from their 'outie' lives off the clock — have done for two seasons in the brilliant, unsettling series on Apple TV+. The couple's season-finale sprint, set to the 1960s lilt of Mel Tormé crooning 'The Windmills of Your Mind' ('Like a tunnel that you follow to a tunnel of its own / Down a hollow to a cavern where the sun has never shone') was about as perfect an ending as this show could have conjured. Holding hands, our heroes face an unknown world of more hallways, forever without sunlight. What future do they have? We don't know. Will the nefarious corporate banality of Lumon Industries be dismantled from within? We haven't found out. The devoted fan (including this one) is left with many unanswered questions, as well as that greatest of adult freedoms: the space to think through multiple meanings for ourselves, with no answers imposed on us by the storytellers. This is as it should be. And this is how it should conclude. In that final freeze-frame shot, this devoted fan thought the series was concluded. Bravo! What a compliment to trust an audience to tolerate uncertainty. But the next day, when a third season was announced, this devoted fan felt a little betrayed. Many are cheering. I think it's a pity. I know this is a strange way to respond to a TV show I love, and I don't doubt that the creators of 'Severance' have another season in them. But what if they left it unmade? Not because the creators of 'Severance' can't find more to say; no doubt they can. Maybe they can make the enter-the-marching-band absurdities even bigger, the hinted-at underpinnings of Lumon Industries even more chilling, the sci-fi elements creepier and the psychological musings even more woo-woo. Yet the originality of the series is embedded in those hallways we don't understand and those fleeting symbols we can't quite decipher. The genius of the show lies in the very obscurities the audience loves to dissect. But that's the way we take our popular culture now: Enough is never enough. Do viewers really want their favorite shows to go on without end, continuing to manufacture ingratiating resolutions and treating us like cranky children who want to hear the same bedtime story over and over again? Many of us might wish that 'The White Lotus' had ended after Season 2 and the death of Jennifer Coolidge's character, Tanya McQuoid. 'Ted Lasso,' which seemed to end succinctly after Season 3 in 2023, just announced it will be back for Season 4. Even the exalted series 'The Wire' lost its tautness in its fifth and final year. (It happens in movies, too. Exhibit A: 'The Godfather Part III.') Never mind that for a show's creators to explain more is to ruin the excitement of conjecture. There is timeless wisdom in the rusty showbiz adage of always leave 'em wanting more. Teasing the plot further for the sake of stringing an eager audience along is to risk becoming lost. (Or 'Lost.') Yet as an audience, we apparently can't bear to live with the tension of ambiguity. Are we really those petulant, dully literal guys? The entertainment-industrial complex sure seems to think so, feeding us sequels and prequels and reboots and sure things renewed for one more season until every shark is well and truly jumped. Will I watch the third season of 'Severance'? Of course I will. I'm an unsevered human with hope integrated into my circuits. And when an extended narrative works — I'm thinking of 'Downton Abbey' or 'The Sopranos' — it's a rare and glorious experience. Still, remember the uproar about that 'Sopranos' ending? Nearly two decades ago, after six seasons and 86 episodes, the saga signed off with a breathtaking jolt: The world was closing in on Tony Soprano, and the huge population of fans who had been following his mayhem for years were pleasantly queasy with the understanding that something bad was bound to happen to him soon. But what? And when? We waited. We knew we were watching the last episode, and we waited, and … in the stunning final minutes, the screen cut to black. What precisely happened to Tony? We don't know. More than that, we'll never know. And more than that, we shouldn't know. That's art. There are many who, nearly two decades later, still resent the violent originality of that choice. They're many of the same people now saying they absolutely need to know what is going to happen to Mark S. and Helly R. I'm here to say that nothing about Season 3 of 'Severance' will ever be as satisfying as where they — and we — are now, with a perfect ending and a story full of questions that's faded to black.
