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Daily Mirror
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- Daily Mirror
Ray Winstone slams 'rude' star he wanted to 'knock out' as he reignites feud
Ray Winstone didn't hold back on his thoughts on a fellow Hollywood actor as he hit out at the veteran for being 'rude' during their time on set together Ray Winstone reignited a huge Hollywood actor, 68, branded fellow star Jack Nicholson"rude" and slammed him for being "up his own a***" 20 years after the pair's initial falling out. The Quadrophenia actor starred alongside Jack in the Oscar-winning flick The Departed in 2006. However, despite the film's huge success, the two stars did not see eye-to-eye during production. And now, almost two decades on, it's clear Ray's thoughts of the 88-year-old icon haven't changed. He blurted out his thoughts in an open chat with Eamonn Holmes and Paul Coyte's podcast Things We Like with Eamonn & Paul. After Eamonn bluntly asked him for his thoughts on his fellow actor, Ray admitted the pair's issues. " We just didn't get on," he said. "I just found him... Listen, he's getting older, and maybe there are a lot of things going on with him. I didn't like him, I thought he was so far up his own a*** it was unbelievable. And he was very rude. " Ray went on: "He was very rude to me, he was rude to my wife, if he had been a younger man, I'd have definitely knocked him out." And after he admitted he is "brilliant at what he does," he said he "can't make an excuse for him". "y grandfather was an old man, but he was a gentleman. He was a lovely man. "So f*** him, basically. Really. Why should I say I like him? I don't. You ask me the question, you get the answer." Ray and Jack worked alongside each other in the film directed by Martin Scorsese. While Ray took on the role of mob handyman Arnold 'Frenchie' French, Jack was the mob boss. Speaking of their fall out back in 2014, Ray confessed: "Me and Jack did not seem to get on too well. Maybe he was going through a funny time." Saying they "didn't click," he continued: "'Everyone else loves him to death – I just wanted him to be a great guy. We just did not click." He later also told The Independent he wasn't a fan of arrogance, but confessed: "He's not the first person I've clashed with. He won't be the last." While Ray's thoughts on the actor are clear, others have been more full of praise for The Shining star. Morgan Freeman previously fondly remembered working with him in The Bucket List (2007). Talking to IMDb, he said: "I think we all have a private bucket list. It may not be written down, but I'm constantly checking them off. I just checked off Jack Nicholson. Every day was a holiday because I've been praying at the temple of Jack ever since Five Easy Pieces."
USA Today
14-06-2025
- USA Today
Top 5 family resorts and hotels in the Northeast
Top 5 family resorts and hotels in the Northeast Show Caption Hide Caption The Bucket List Family gives five tips for traveling with kids The Bucket List Family sold everything to travel around the world. Here are their tips for traveling with children. Top 5 family resorts and hotels in the Northeast, updated for 2025 Every year, FamilyVacationist ranks the top hotels and resorts in the United States based on a variety of factors important to traveling families. In the Northeast, you can have your pick of scenic settings such as mountains, beaches, and picturesque lakes. These are our top hotel and resort choices for a family getaway filled with fun activities and memorable views in this region of the country. You can also discover our picks for the South, Midwest, Southwest, Mountain West, and West Coast in our full report on the best family resorts and hotels across the country for a vacation to remember. 1. Inn by the Sea Cape Elizabeth, Maine Set on a stretch of sandy beach and just seven miles from Portland, pet-friendly Inn by the Sea helps families slow down and relax with activities like yoga, beach ecology walks, stargazing, and s'mores. A private boardwalk leads to the beach, and the on-site restaurant serves dishes made with locally caught seafood and ingredients from nearby farms. There's also a heated pool, bikes to borrow, and a full-service spa offering coastal-inspired treatments like the Sea Waves Massage. One- and two-bedroom suites done up in modern cottage style are ideal for families and include features like balconies and gas fireplaces. 2. Topnotch Resort Stowe, Vermont Just minutes from Stowe Mountain, Topnotch Resort offers year-round fun for the whole family. Snowy pursuits might be the focus during a wintertime stay, but at other times of the year you can enjoy indoor and outdoor pools, tennis and pickleball courts, hiking and biking trails, horseback riding through the on-site Equestrian Center, and a spa offering kid-friendly treatments. There are seasonal organized activities for kids and teens, lawn games, and outdoor firepits for family s'mores nights. In addition to standard hotel guest rooms, the resort also has one- to three-bedroom resort homes with full kitchens, fireplaces, and washers and dryers, with all the necessary gear for babies and kids readily available. RUSTIC STAYS: These stunning national park lodges are every bit as iconic as the parks they represent 3. Omni Mount Washington Resort & Spa Bretton Woods, New Hampshire No matter the season, it's never a bad time to whisk the family away to Omni Mount Washington Resort & Spa in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. Wintertime means activities like sleigh rides and cross-country and downhill skiing, while hiking, biking, horseback riding, and scenic gondola rides can be enjoyed during other seasons. The historic resort (three U.S. presidents have stayed there) offers amenities like indoor and outdoor heated pools, 27 holes of golf, a spa, multiple dining options, and supervised kids programs. And it sits within easy driving distance of a slew of family-friendly attractions, like Story Land and the Mount Washington Cog Railway. 4. Weekapaug Inn Westerly, Rhode Island Not far from the Atlantic Ocean on the southwestern shores of Rhode Island, Weekapaug Inn gives families a luxurious way to enjoy the outdoors. Complimentary daily activities at the Relais & Chateaux property range from naturalist-led beach walks and birdwatching sessions to s'mores around the firepit. Kids can head to the Boathouse, where staff lead supervised activities, games, and crafts, and the whole family can gather for pool and beach time, bike rides, kayaking, lawn games, and boat tours of the nearby salt pond. The family pooch also gets pampered here, with welcome treats, a designer dog bed in your guest room, and the option to join the family on a private walk with the on-site naturalist. WATER WORLDS: Orlando's wildest hotel pools and water parks are so cool that your kids will never want to leave 5. The Sagamore Resort Bolton Landing, New York Set on a private island on Lake George and dating from 1883, The Sagamore Resort makes for a modern family getaway brimming with historic charm. Families will find multiple dining venues as well as fun amenities like The Rec, a sprawling indoor entertainment zone with a nine-hole mini golf course, climbing wall, basketball courts, and table and video games. The all-seasons lakefront resort is home to indoor and outdoor pools, tennis and pickleball courts, a dock where families can go fishing, and a spa featuring the new Salt & Sound Lounge. Rides aboard The Morgan, the resort's replica 19th-century touring vessel, are included in the resort fee and provide stellar views of the lake and the Adirondacks. The 25 best U.S. family resorts and hotels for a vacation to remember originally appeared on More from FamilyVacationist: The views and opinions expressed in this column are the author's and do not necessarily reflect those of USA TODAY. and are owned and operated by Vacationist Media LLC. Using the FamilyVacationist travel recommendation methodology, we review and select family vacation ideas, family vacation spots, all-inclusive family resorts, and classic family vacations for all ages. TourScoop covers guided group tours and tour operators, tour operator reviews, tour itinerary reviews and travel gear recommendations. 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Observer
02-06-2025
- Health
- Observer
Living to die well: Find freedom the body offers
My patient, stoic and pensive, told me that he'd made it through his last year of work by dreaming of the European cruise he and his wife planned to take the week after he retired. 'I thought I'd paid my dues,' he whispered. 'I was just waiting for the best part of life to finally start.' He rarely took time off and had pushed through nausea and occasional abdominal pain that had worsened during his final months of work. Freedom, he'd thought, lay just beyond the newly visible finish line. But a diagnosis of stomach cancer, which had spread to his liver and lungs, had left him too breathless to walk, too nauseous to endure a boat ride, too weak to dress himself. Instead of living out his dreams, he was living out his death. We live alongside death. It speeds down highways recklessly and blooms clandestinely within our bodies. We have no idea when we will meet death, or how. Living with an awareness of this specific uncertainty can be terrifying, yet I've found that death also shimmers with a singular magnificence: the possibility of living freely. Popular culture would have us believe in cliché bucket lists, which call to mind outlandish activities that defy the physical limitations imposed by illness or the emotional limitations of common sense. Morgan Freeman and Jack Nicholson skydive in 'The Bucket List", despite terminal lung cancer. Queen Latifah withdraws her life savings and jets to Europe after learning she has weeks to live in 'Last Holiday". Greeting death with the fantasia of daredevil activities or adopting a newly carefree persona is a tempting salve for our fear of that last great unknown. But in my experience, considered reflection on mortality nudges people towards a more complicated version of the ordinary, not novel permutations of extremes. I often hear variations on similar wishes: A daughter wants a small wedding ceremony in the hospital so her dying parent can attend. A brother calls an estranged sister, asking her to visit so that he can say goodbye. I have heard uncommon goals too: wanting to take a long-postponed trip to the Alamo, to write a romance novel, to breed one last litter of puppies and inhale, one final time, the milky sweet of their young fur. These wishes are at their core the same desire, reconciling the differences between the life we have and the one we longed for. While contemplating our deaths can guide us to a place of deep honesty with ourselves, sometimes helping us to live more fully, it also can teach us to inhabit and understand our bodies more fully, too. Death will unravel our bodies in ways we cannot predict. Will we die in a sudden car crash, avoiding the indignities of a physical decline? Or will dementia claim our bodies and minds in an uncertain sequence? Our bodies absorb our lives; terror and joy alike live in our skin. My patient began to cry regularly about the traumas of his youth and losing his loving relationship with his wife. Dying offers the opportunity to face what we have simply accepted as part of our lives — formative events and experiences that we don't challenge or question, but simply accept and accommodate like a messy roommate. But we don't have to wait until we are dying to consider what it means to live freely. For all of us, reconceptualising death as a guide can help us to begin an ongoing conversation with ourselves about who we are and what we'd like our lives to mean. Think about how you spent the last six months. What and who brought you fulfilment and joy? What would you do differently if you could? If those were the last six months of your life, what would your regrets be? These questions, deceptively simple, are as commonplace and ordinary as death itself. Our answers to these questions evolve as our lives unfold. What and who seems to matter the most to you right now may change. If we begin this inquiry before death arrives, we may die as fully as we have lived. Rearranging our waning lives around previously buried desires isn't always practical or possible, emotionally or financially. But even if we cannot upend our existence in the name of slumbering passions, we can find freedom in the life the body offers, paying attention to the burn of grief and the pulse of joy, the intensity of an embrace or the taste of butter on toast. Even as we die, our bodies are capable of more than devolution from illness. Several months after I first met my patient who dreamed of European travel, his wife rushed him to the emergency room, her voice trembling as she described the way his skin glowed yellow seemingly overnight, the ferocity in his voice when he refused to go to the hospital, their daughter's decision to leave school to help care for him. He smiled when I pulled up a chair next to his bed. 'It would have been so nice to see Belgium,' he murmured. 'I could have brought you some really good chocolate.' — The New York Times
ITV News
24-04-2025
- Entertainment
- ITV News
'No cap': the slang terms 'kicking the bucket'
Whether you're "keeping it real", having a "glow-up", or "eating and leaving no crumbs' could have a lot to do with how old you are. The British Council, an organisation which promotes and educates on UK culture, claims some older expressions are falling out of fashion as new ones rise in popularity - driven largely by social media and Gen Z. In its report on 100 phrases which show how the English language is changing, they said that whilst classic idioms such as 'kill two birds with one stone' remain widely used, newer phrases are gaining momentum. 'No cap', meaning no lie or I'm serious, was the most popular of the 100 phrases for Gen Z. First used in 2011, the slang term comes from African American English where 'cap' means exaggeration or falsehood and is used across the generations, the study found, but most prominently by Gen Z. Other phrases are being replaced by modern alternatives as younger generations embrace the shift. 'Spill the beans' was first recorded in 1919, the report said, but saw a surge in the 1990s. The British Council says the rise in social media is partly to blame for the rising popularity of similar phrase, "spill the tea" - an idiom popular with gen Z. Some phrases like "step up to the plate" and "below the belt" are frequently used among older generations but could be falling out of fashion as they're rarely seen in internet comment sections which skew to a younger audience. The British Council said the phrase 'bucket list', meaning a list of things to do before you die, was 'practically unheard of' until 2007, when comedy-adventure film The Bucket List was released. It is thought to have come from another idiom: 'to kick the bucket'. The research, led by computational linguistics expert Dr Barbara McGillivray and natural language processing specialist Iacopo Ghinassi, analysed millions of online documents to track when expressions emerge and how their use changes Dr McGillivray said: 'Analysing the frequency and emergence of idioms, proverbs, and phrases, we uncover not only the impact of historical events but also how the digital era shapes the language we use today. The British Council found some idioms appeared to skip a generation, with phrases like "throw in the towel" and "joie de vivre" being popular among older generations and gen Z, but not with millenials. This could show that some idioms are being revived or reinvented among younger speakers, the British Council said. Mark Walker, director of English and exams at the British Council, said: 'This latest study into the evolution of English explores the phrases we use to express shared ideas and experiences – it shows how much English is shaped by people around the world and how it continues to grow and adapt. 'By celebrating the richness of our language, we're not just looking at its past, but also at the future of English. 'Whether for work, study, travel, relationships, or lifelong learning, as the global lingua franca, English is one of the key ways that people connect and engage across cultures.'
The Independent
04-04-2025
- Entertainment
- The Independent
Michelle Williams's raunchy terminal illness dramedy Dying for Sex is a joy
TV series adapted from podcasts are in search of one thing: intimacy. It is what the audio format thrives on. A familiarity with the voices whispering in your ear that makes you feel like you are amongst friends or with family. Dying for Sex was just such a podcast: the story, told through its host Nikki Boyer, of her friend Molly Kochan and the existential journey she took after a terminal diagnosis. Now the podcast gets sexed up for the small screen, with Michelle Williams taking the lead role in a charming, warm Disney+ adaptation. Molly's cancer is back. Back, and incurable. 'If you're dying,' her best friend Nikki (Jenny Slate) asks her as she reels from the diagnosis, 'why are you weirdly vibing right now?' If the cancer has turned Molly's life on its head, her subsequent decisions have her spinning like a 90s breakdancer. She leaves her irritating husband Steve (Jay Duplass), putting her care in the hands of Nikki, who she describes as 'a beautiful flake'. Then Molly embarks on a 'sex quest', a voyage through New York City's eligible (and ineligible) men in pursuit of something she has never experienced: a partnered orgasm. Created by Elizabeth Meriwether, the writer behind New Girl, one of the best sitcoms of the 21st century, and Kim Rosenstock, Dying for Sex could easily have been a knockabout raunchfest. The Bucket List with dildos and riding crops and cock cages. But Meriwether keeps her taste for zany oddballs largely in check here. Molly is thoughtful, curious but, ultimately, played rather straight (Williams has one of the great faces, but is not a natural comic actor). Nikki is a conduit for a more chaotic energy, but even she is played closer to the timbre of Lena Dunham's Girls (in which Slate made a fleeting appearance) than the overblown mania of New Girl 's breakout character, memeable fuss-pot Schmidt. This is a project in a lilting minor key, where the comedy plays second fiddle to notes of melancholy. Which isn't to say that Dying for Sex is a weepie either. The necessity for a box of Kleenex is split quite evenly between the two parts of its title. 'There's a whole world out there,' Molly's palliative care nurse Sonya (Esco Jouléy) tells her. 'If you want it.' And so rather than focus on the gruelling regimen of chemo and radiation, Molly's story is told largely through a picaresque series of sexual encounters, which often culminate in stolen moments – sometimes involving sexually degrading commentary; sometimes involving tenderly eating snacks – with her vaguely disgusting unnamed neighbour (Rob Delaney). There's the man who wants to be humiliated for having a small penis (the twist: it's big) or the 25-year-old desperate for her to 'clasp' his balls. Her journey into kink is rendered vividly but palatably: even her human pet, who she pees on, is rather handsome. More Kennel Club than dive bar. With its interest in fetish, Dying for Sex is, in a way, more explicit than many TV shows that have dealt directly with sex in the past. And yet it has a softness that might blunt its edge for some viewers. The comedy, too, is a gentle thing, more often dictated by the situations in which Molly finds herself (such as Steve's arrival at her chemo session with his new girlfriend) than big set-piece yucks (though I did laugh out loud at a joke about Bill de Blasio). It feels like there is an emerging model for American limited series – like Painkiller or The Shrink Next Door – which straddle a line between comedy and drama without fully committing to either. The 30-minute format of Dying for Sex makes it feel like it's in classical sitcom territory, yet it is played with a deep attention to Molly's interiority (she simultaneously narrates the action) and focused on issues, like childhood trauma and mortality, that hit hard. It is credit, then, to Williams's performance, and the lightness of touch that Meriwether brings, that Dying for Sex manages to bottle the intimacy of the podcast form. In spite of its subject matter, it feels soothing, a parasocial balm to the ills of the human condition. It might not be family viewing, but it has a universality. To love, to lose, to fight, to f***: these are the experiences that round out a life. Dying for Sex is, in the end, the ultimate switch: an ode to both taking control and losing it.
