‘Dad transformed himself in a very American can-do way’ … Cary Grant. Photograph: New York Daily News Archive/NY Daily News/Getty ImagesBorn into extreme poverty, Grant was told as a child his mother had died. She had actually been placed in a psychiatric institution. It was the start of a life of repression and extraordinary reinvention
by Emma BrockesDuring the casting process for Archie – a forthcoming series for ITVX – about the life of Cary Grant, the late actor’s daughter, Jennifer, had several, unbreakable criteria. Read More...
England rugby union teamTuilagi set to miss start of England’s Six Nations campaign with groin injurySale centre to be out for ‘five or six weeks’ with muscle tearTuilagi picked up injury against Saracens this monthManu Tuilagi faces being ruled out of the start of England’s Six Nations campaign with a groin injury.
Tuilagi pulled up in Sale’s home win against Saracens on 22 December and Alex Sanderson, Sale’s director of rugby, predicted on Thursday that the centre will be out for “five or six weeks” with a grade-three muscle tear. Read More...
Fight to voteUS voting rightsVoters in Ulster county, New York, may receive a sticker of Hudson Rowan’s design this November – and many say it’s ‘a fitting image’ of the political scene
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One morning a few months ago, Ashley Dittus, a Democratic election commissioner in Ulster county, New York, came into work and saw that someone had sent in the first submission in a countywide contest for an “I voted” sticker. Read More...