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Metro
8 hours ago
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- Metro
Netflix fans are sweating after watching all 8 episodes of 'hot' new drama
To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video Up Next Previous Page Next Page Netflix viewers have been left reeling by a sizzling new sports drama that has landed on the streamer. Olympo is a Spanish-language show starring Clara Galle, Nira Osahia, Agustín Della Corte which focuses on the Pirineos High Performance Centre which trains young athletes for potential Olympic glory. When a swimmer collapses at the HPC, Amaia Olaberria (Galle) begins investigating the extreme risks her fellow competitors take to chase their dreams. All eight episodes of the show have arrived on Netflix, so you can escape the weekend heat for a few hours to catch up. It has been described as 'unexpected and highly bingeable' as well as 'so hot' thanks to its intimate scenes. Get personalised updates on all things Netflix Wake up to find news on your TV shows in your inbox every morning with Metro's TV Newsletter. Sign up to our newsletter and then select your show in the link we'll send you so we can get TV news tailored to you. Olympo has also been praised for its LGBTQ+ storylines, with SteMelMan writing on Reddit: 'And people wonder why I love Netflix so much! I love how they generally include gay storylines in most of their productions.' All eight episodes of Olympo have arrived on Netflix (Picture: Netflix, Inc./Matias Uris. All Rights Reserved) The Spanish drama series follows the events at a sports academy and the extreme lengths its athletes push themselves to (Picture: MATíAS URIS/NETFLIX) BringAltoidSousBack added: 'Spain really does make the best 'teen drama' shows. I also love that no one on those shows looks like a teenager (a point they made fun of in the final season of elite).' It comes after another Spanish title based on a spine-chilling true story caused waves on Netflix. A Widow's Game was released on the streaming platform in May and quickly made its way to the top of the movie charts in the UK. The Spanish-language thriller, starring Ivana Baquero, Tristán Ulloa, and Carmen Machi, follows the investigation into the slaying of engineer Antonio Navarro Cerdán (Álex Gadea). As police dig further into the matter, led by veteran homicide detective Eva (Machi), his widow's perfect façade is shattered, exposing a hidden double life. In May, Spanish series A Widow's Game shot into the Netflix charts (Picture: MANUEL FERNANDEZ VALDES/NETFLIX) Thriller series The Gardener also took Netflix viewers by storm (Picture: JAIME OLMEDO/NETFLIX) A month prior, Spanish series The Gardener also shot up the Netflix charts. Created by Miguel Sáez Carral, The Gardener follows a gardener named Elmer (Álvaro Rico), but he is not your typical horticulturalist. Elmer isn't your typical horticulturist, though. He's actually a deadly assassin, with less of a green thumb and more of a red one. Under the strict guidance of his controlling mother, La China Jurado (Cecilia Suárez), the pair run a successful garden centre and murder-for-hire business. Olympo is streaming now on Netflix 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. Arrow MORE: Netflix star Sara Burack, 40, killed in hit-and-run as police hunt driver Arrow MORE: 'I beat the system and proved I didn't need a TV licence' Arrow MORE: Netflix's rudely axed Mindhunter could be returning with a twist
Dominion Post
11-06-2025
- General
- Dominion Post
Gailord Elmer Taylor
Gailord Elmer Taylor, 87, of Masontown, passed away Friday, June 6, 2025, in his home. He was born December 20, 1937, in Masontown, a son to the late Parley L. Taylor and Dorothy Gamble was Protestant by faith and attended the Masontown Church of the proudly served his country in the United States leaving the military, Elmer worked at Quality Glass in Morgantown, retired from Youngstown Sheet and Tube after 31 years, and was employed part-time for Andrew Morris was a member of the Flint Glass Union and for 31 years a member of the United Steel Workers of America Local was president of the Valley District Hunting Club for more than 20 is survived by his best friend, companion and caregiver, Delores 'Dee' Radabaugh; his loving children, Cheryl (James) Dear, and Gerald 'Jerry' (Kelli) Taylor; six grandchildren, Christopher Braithwaite, Zachary Braithwaite, Jacob (Sarah) Braithwaite, Eric (Tiffany) Castle, Cortni (Colleen) Taylor, and Cody Taylor; grandson by choice, Caleb Radabaugh and wife Olivia; along with three great- grandchildren, Eleanor Braithwaite, Ethan Castle and Delaney Castle; great-grandchild by choice, Sadie Jane Radabaugh; and sister, Alberta addition to his parents, Elmer was preceded in death by the mother of his children, Hilda M. Cale Chaplow; sisters, Eldora Taylor and Alvada Taylor; brothers, Duane 'Bob' Taylor and Llewellyn 'Lee' may call at the Field Funeral Home in Masontown, from 6 to 8 p.m. Friday, June 13, and and again Saturday, June 14, from 12 until the 1 p.m. time of service, with the Rev. Tim Heaney officiating. Interment will follow at the Pleasant Grove Cemetery. Condolences may be extended to the family at
Boston Globe
06-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Boston Globe
On Broadway, death does not take a holiday
Advertisement Images of theater and death are entwined in the opening lines of 'My Way,' which became a signature song for Frank Sinatra, with its karaoke-ready opening lines: 'And now, the end is near/ And so I face the final curtain…' The fact that so many current Broadway shows are taking a peek behind that curtain could be nothing more than coincidence, a case of a bunch of death-themed shows making their way through the developmental pipeline and arriving on Broadway at the same time, though it's an unusually large number. Or perhaps the current prevalence of death-as-leitmotif on Broadway stages represents a theatrical response to the COVID-19 pandemic that shut down playhouses for 18 months and forced millions to confront their own mortality while, not so incidentally, causing the deaths of more than a million people in the United States. Advertisement Or maybe it's yet another illustration of the baby boom generation's market power. More than 70 million strong, and now in their 60s and 70s, boomers form the core of the theater audience. They have always sought nontraditional approaches to music, marriage, fashion, parenting, careers — and now, perhaps, death? Are they counting on theater to provide them with a way to think about what is not an abstract matter anymore — and, in some cases, even enable them to laugh at what they most fear? Whatever the reason(s), The cast of "Death Becomes Her." Matthew Murphy Consider the bonkers musical spectacle that is 'Death Becomes Her' (10 nominations, including one for best musical). Directed and choreographed by Christopher Gattelli, this stage adaptation is superior to the 1992 Meryl Streep and Goldie Hawn movie that inspired it. In a nation obsessed with youth, frenemies Madeline Ashton ( Advertisement In the raucous, darkly comedic musical 'Dead Outlaw,' which is inspired by a true story and earned seven nominations, death serves less as an ending than a context. Only two songs into the show comes a song titled 'Dead,' with the cast ferociously blasting out the lines at the audience against a driving rock 'n' roll beat: 'Your mama's dead! John Gotti's dead! Dillinger's dead! And so are you! Balzac is dead! Tupac is dead! Anne Frank is dead! And so are you, and so are you!' And so is a train robber named Elmer McCurdy (Andrew Durand), slain by a posse. So Elmer's story is concluded, right? Nope. For decades after his death, Elmer's mummified corpse is presented for public viewing in a carnival sideshow, an amusement-park funhouse, and a wax museum, among other venues — a posthumous journey that combines a gruesome kind of afterlife with a bizarre form of celebrity. Fittingly, the strongest part of Durand's Tony-nominated performance occurs after Elmer is deceased. The actor's ability to 'play dead' while propped up vertically in a casket is extraordinary. You sit in the audience, sometimes ignoring the other actors onstage as you search for a sign that Durand is breathing. That sign never comes. In the entrancing 'Maybe Happy Ending' (10 nominations ), Oliver (Darren Criss), a helper robot in South Korea, begins to develop human feelings for another robot, Claire (Helen J. Shen). He enlists her in his search for his kindly former owner, only to discover the heartbreaking downside of being immortal — when someone you love is not. Jon Michael Hill, left, and Harry Lennix in "Purpose." Marc J. Franklin, 2025 In Branden Jacobs-Jenkins's 'Purpose' (six nominations), which won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama last month, Solomon 'Sonny' Jasper (Harry Lennix), preacher, civil rights legend, and the patriarch of a prominent Black family, is cold and remote until the sudden death of his bee colony brings out his vulnerable humanity. 'I really loved those bees,' Sonny says somberly. Advertisement In 'Buena Vista Social Club' (10 nominations), Omara, a famous Cuban singer played with magisterial command by Natalie Venetia Belcon, resists the entreaties of a record producer that she resume her career — a career she abandoned six years earlier when her estranged but beloved sister died. That sister fled to the United States after Fidel Castro took over in Cuba; Omara remained. Issues of morality as well as mortality surface in 'Operation Mincemeat' (four nominations), a musical comedy based on real events in World War II. British intelligence operatives plant false documents on a dead body and place him on a beach to mislead Nazi Germany about the invasion plans of the Allies. (Among the operatives is a chap named Ian Fleming, who is hard at work on a novel about a fellow named James Bond.) One of the operatives jokingly refers to 'a Trojan corpse,' but at another point in the musical, the tone shifts into a much more somber key as the operatives question what they are doing — exploiting the death of a fellow human being, and treating him as an object, a chess piece. 'Have we done a bad thing?,' one of them asks. In 'Sunset Boulevard' (seven nominations), faded silent-movie star Norman Desmond (Nicole Scherzinger, earning a Tony nomination in her Broadway debut), mad with jealousy, fatally shoots her lover, screenwriter Joe Gillis (Tony nominee Tom Francis). Advertisement In 'Oh, Mary!' (five nominations), one of the most famous deaths in American history is — let's say reimagined : its cause, its perpetrator, the whole thing. The comic genius Cole Escola has concocted a fever dream of a show about a bibulous Mary Todd Lincoln (Escola) and a gay Abraham Lincoln (Conrad Ricamora). ('Oh, Mary!' is nominated for best play and Escola is nominated for best actor in a play.) Mary is determined to resume her career in cabaret; as part of that effort, she hires an acting coach named … John Wilkes Booth (James Scully). Matters proceed from there, in an unexpected way. The musical 'Floyd Collins' (six nominations) is about the death of cave explorer Floyd Collins, played by Tony nominee Jeremy Jordan. The nation was transfixed by the ultimately unsuccessful operation to rescue Collins when he was trapped underground by a fallen boulder in a Kentucky cave in 1925. Half a dozen characters die by suicide, murder, or accident in the stage adaptation of Oscar Wilde's 'The Picture of Dorian Gray' (six nominations, including one for star Sarah Snook of 'Succession,' who plays all 26 roles in the one-woman show). The body count is often high with Shakespeare, but the Tony count added up to zero for the high-profile Broadway production of 'Othello,' with Denzel Washington in the title role and Jake Gyllenhaal playing the treacherous Iago. It received not a single Tony nomination. Also shut out by Tony voters was 'Redwood,' in which a New York gallerist played by Idina Menzel ('Wicked'), locked in deep mourning for her son who died of a drug overdose, leaves her wife and takes a cross-country trip that lands her in the redwood forests of Northern California. There, she finds a kind of community and a chance to begin to heal. Advertisement Everyone is still alive, at least physically, at the end of 'Glengarry Glen Ross,' the revival of David Mamet's 1984 drama about real estate salesmen and fraudsters. But death can take many forms. The salesmen are dead inside, none more so than the one we care about the most, Shelley Levene, portrayed as a man pushed over the edge of desperation by Tony nominee Bob Odenkirk, of 'Better Call Saul.' Death has always had a place in the dramatic literature and on the stage. It's there in the title of one of the greatest of all American plays: 'Death of a Salesman.' Dead bodies serve as ingredients for meat pies in Stephen Sondheim's masterwork, 'Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street.' After young Eurydice descends to the Underworld in 'Hadestown,' a musical by Vermont native Anaïs Mitchell, her lover Orpheus heads down after her in hopes of rescuing her. Winner of eight Tony Awards in 2019, 'Hadestown' is still going strong after nearly 2,000 performances. For further evidence of Broadway's ongoing fascination with death, look no further than Tuesday's announcement that 'Beetlejuice the Musical' will be revived for a second time this fall, just six years after it premiered. In its deranged way, 'Beetlejuice' explores the line between life and death. Near the start of the show, the mischief-making ghost of the title jovially serenades the audience with 'The Whole Being Dead Thing': 'Welcome to a show about death/ You're gonna be fine/ On the other side/ Die!/ You're all gonna die!/ I'll be your guide/ To the other side/ Though in full disclosure/ It's a show about death.' Um, Mr. Beetlejuice, sir? Make that another show about death. Don Aucoin can be reached at
Yahoo
03-06-2025
- General
- Yahoo
High school lacrosse: South Jefferson, Watertown girls claim Section 3 titles
Jun. 3—CORTLAND — Monday proved to be a banner night for the Frontier League in girls lacrosse. One team successfully defended their sectional title and another returned to the championship ranks. South Jefferson defeated Westhill, 13-7, in the Class D final at SUNY Cortland. Advertisement In Class B, Watertown rallied to beat Auburn, also 13-7, at the same venue. With the win, the Spartans repeated as sectional champion. Meanwhile, the Cyclones prevailed to claim their first Section 3 title in nearly a decade. SOUTH JEFFERSON 13, WESTHILL 7 The top-seeded Spartans rode a surge in the fourth quarter to turn back the third-seeded Warriors and prevail in the Class D final. Amalia Netto scored three goals and assisted on two others, and Lily Morrison supplied three goals and an assist for South Jefferson (18-1). "It's amazing to be back here and get a two-peat again," Spartans senior Chloe Elmer said. "We're excited to be here obviously and excited for states." Advertisement Lydia Tremont tallied two goals and two assists, including the go-ahead goal in the fourth quarter, and Emma Kelley contributed two goals and an assist. The Spartans dominated in the possession game as Elmer won 16 draw controls. "Defensively we played well, but Chloe was dominant on the draw and we didn't have to play much defense," South Jefferson coach Jen Williams said. "Later on, we were winning ground balls at that point and we were possessing the ball, we were getting better looks and the girls came through." In an encounter which was close nearly throughout until the fourth quarter, South Jefferson finished with a flourish by generating the last six goals of the game. Advertisement "We knew they were going to give us a fight, there were matchups that are pretty consistent," Elmer said of Westhill. "But we knew we had the heart and we knew we had the confidence to go in and win and we executed, which is really important." "I think just our intensity was up, we were excited, we knew we had one goal and we wanted to do it as a team," Morrison, a senior midfielder, said. "And I think we all just kind of came together, like we put it together and got it done." After Westhill tied the game at 7-7 on a goal from Kara Rosenberger with 9:24 left in regulation, Tremont scored the go-ahead goal with 7:41 remaining, while the Spartans were a player up after a Westhill player was assessed a two-minute penalty. "The draws obviously helped, but the execution our offense had, we had good opportunities, we were man up for most of the game," Elmer, a senior defender, said. "And later on when were able to execute when we were a man up, that execution was important." Advertisement Kelley then followed with back-to-back goals, the first an unassisted effort and the second set up by Tremont with 4:58 left to build an 10-7 advantage. Netto would score 57 seconds later after Elmer won yet another faceoff and Morrison followed with a goal to extend the scoring run to five. Hodges would then add a goal to complete the scoring. "We had our last-minute push, the draws started clicking, the defense started clicking, the offense started clicking and we just really ran with it," Elmer said. Also with the triumph, South Jefferson also claimed back-to-back sectional titles for the first time in program history. Advertisement "It's something every team wants to do once, but we wanted to do it twice," Morrison said. "We really wanted this and we were excited to come back and get the opportunity to do it again and go as far as we can." "I never had a doubt, I was just anticipating it would have been a little bit easier," Williams said of the win. "But at the same time, I just think that, it's a championship-style game, this is a big stage for kids. And they handled it and they did well, they've earned it and I'm glad they came through with it." The Spartans now advance to a state quarterfinal when they'll face an opponent to be determined at 3 p.m. on Saturday at Christian Brothers Academy. Last year, the Spartans defeated Westhill in the final and went on to reach the state final in Class D. Advertisement WATERTOWN 13, AUBURN 7 Olivia Macutek and Alena Clough each scored four times to propel the top-seeded Cyclones past the second-seeded Maroons in the Class B title game. "This is so awesome, we have no words to describe it," Macutek said. Julia Covey and Delaney Callahan each contributed two goals to propel Watertown, which improves to 10-8 on the season. "I'm speechless, like genuinely speechless, it's like the greatest feeling ever," Clough said. Goalie Lilah Bieri made seven saves, including several clutch saves in the second half, to record the win. She was supported by a strong defensive effort as the Cyclones yielded only one goal in the second half. Advertisement Watertown trailed by two goals at halftime, but mounted a determined rally to take command. "I think we handled that well and we were just like 'who wants it?" Clough said of the team being down at halftime. "And we were like, 'we want it more,' so we went out there and we had to prove it." "I think after the first half, after we were able to kind of take it all in, this is a different atmosphere for us, obviously," Watertown coach Taylor Purvis said. "And we knew we had adjustments to make and we did a really good job of coming out in the second half and playing more confidently." Callahan and Adriana Arthur each scored a goal within a span of two minutes to draw the Cyclones even at 6-6. Advertisement Clough then struck for back-to-back goals, scoring twice within a span of 24 seconds. First, she converted on a free-position attempt with six minutes left in the quarter to provide Watertown with its first lead of the game at 7-6, then followed with an unassisted tally. Macutek followed by generating two quick goals within 48 seconds, first scoring 1:21 into the final period. After Auburn's Anna LeFevre scored just 12 seconds later, Macutek responded with tally set up by Clough to extend the lead to 10-7 and the Cyclones never looked back. "She (Clough) assisted one of mine and our teammates did a great job opening up lanes for us and we all just played together as one unit and really fed the ball well," Macutek said. Advertisement "Alena is one of our seniors so that was really awesome to see her perform the way she did and be successful with it," Purvis said. "Olivia, everyone knows she's one of our go-to (players), she's all over the field, she never gives up, her tenacity is something I hope all of our girls strive for all the time." In the meantime, Auburn went scoreless for nearly 15 minutes since their last goal in the second quarter. "I think energy, everyone was communicating and defense did a phenomenal job on really stopping the ball," Clough said of the team's success in the second half. "And heads up to our goalie Lilah Bieri, she had an amazing second half, had some key saves that really helped us translate to the offensive end and get those quick goals." "We knew that possession in the midfield was probably going to be where we struggled," Purvis said. "So being able to adjust to that in the second half and come up with the ball. Even when the times we didn't come up with it, the defense knew it was their job to stop them, and our goalie Lilah did great, she had a really great second half for us." Advertisement The Cyclones also secured their fourth sectional title and their first since the 2016 season. "We've had an up and down season, so for us to come out with a sectional title really means a lot to all the girls and us as coaches," Purvis said. "Just to know that we were working towards that and capable of achieving that goal is great." Watertown advances to a state quarterfinal to play Columbia of Section 2 at 2 p.m. on Saturday at Queensbury High School in the Glens Falls area.
Buzz Feed
05-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Buzz Feed
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