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Trevor Peacock, the actor and songwriter, who has died aged 89 after suffering from dementia, was best known and much loved for his endearing performance as a bumbling parish councillor, Jim Trott, in The Vicar of Dibley (1994-2007), one of a delightful gallery of village worthies circling, and answering to, Dawn French's enthusiastic parish priest. Jim's particular dimness was manifest in an acute inability to say what he meant, prefacing a "Yes" with a string of stuttering "No's". This had landed him in deep trouble. He had, for instance, in a history of two marriages, been spliced, by accident, with another man. Peacock's charm as Trott came from purveying a sense of hopeless, otherworldly decency in which serving as the butt of others' dismissiveness was all part of his function. Peacock himself was no such weakling, operating over several decades as a character actor, founder company member of the Royal Exchange in Manchester, musical-theatr...

I t's not been too bad this year, I must say. Normally by the halfway point in October the TV schedules are crammed with schlocky horror stories, documentaries about the types of people who believe in ghosts and whose bathos is more terrifying than anything that could reach out from beyond the grave ("And this is where the teapot fell down, David, just as we were talking about teapots. It was like the teapot poltergeist of West Malling absolutely knew, David. You can still see the stain.") But this year – perhaps because it is so clearly a godforsaken one – there is room between The Fall of the House of Usher, the Interview With a Vampire adaptation and repeats of Uncanny for Halloween-haters to breathe. So for once I find myself with tolerance for this rotten, tat-filled season to spare, even when faced with the likes of The Burning Girls, a six-part series based on C J Tudor's bestselling book of the same name, that has risen up to greet us on the home straight. It ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — The "Block Party" got off to a rough start Thursday in the first round of the PGA Championship. Michael Block, the PGA professional from California who stole the show in the 2023 PGA with a T15 finish and a Sunday hole in one, opened bogey-quadruple bogey to start at Valhalla. Block hit the first tee shot of the tournament off the first hole—a nod to what he did last year in bringing so much positive publicity to the PGA of America and its professionals—and missed the fairway left. He had to pitch out to the fairway and bogeyed the opening par-4. Then on the 2nd hole, disaster struck. He was short of the green in two on the par-4 then sent his third over the green into thick rough. His fourth came back over the green again into a bunker and his blast out of there went long. His sixth shot settled safely on the green 11 feet from the hole, but he failed to convert the putt for triple bogey and walked off with an 8. Here's how it looked on the PGA's Sh...

Do you remember when Joe Pesci lived in Lavallette? Pesci's extravagant 8-bedroom, 9-bathroom home once sat on the bay in Lavallette, on West Point Island, until December of 2022. west point island Google Maps loading... The home was demolished a year and a half ago and two homes are to take its place. Pesci built this house in 1990 and from the looks of it, he never updated it since then. The Academy Award-winning actor attempted to sell his home a few times over the years. It was first listed in 2019 for $6.5 million, obviously, it didn't sell then. The house was listed again in the middle of 2021 for the same price. The 90s time capsule of a house finally sold in February of 2022 for $5 million. It was sold again in September of 2022 for $2.7 million. The Goodfellas actor's home featured a carousel horse, many, many movie posters and photos from movies Pesci starred in, a barber shop chair from the shop Pesci worked at before he was an actor, a pool with a hot tub on t...

READ MORE FROM OUR "HAPPY DAYS" FEATURE HERE. By the end of "Happy Days," Anson Williams and Don Most were inseparable. At the start, they were competition.   Williams first auditioned for the role of Potsie in Gary Marshall's proto-"Happy Days" pilot originally called "New Family in Town." His car broke down on the way to the audition, and he waited in the rain for a tow. "I looked like a drowned rat," he says. When he showed up late, he begged forgiveness and was brought back to read for Marshall, who, to Williams' bafflement, mostly just asked him about baseball, before having him read with Ron Howard, and then for ABC executives.    Submit your projects for our annual Home & Design Awards! "Afterward, they tell me, 'Thank you very much,'" Williams said. "Keep in mind, I've been there for ho...

Award-winning Breaking Bad actor Dean Norris told Yahoo Finance's The Final Round that for a moment, he was tempted by Wall Street over Hollywood. "I didn't come from a whole bunch of money, so when I was graduating Harvard, it was easy to get job interviews. I graduated 1985. The crash was 1986. Investment banking was the thing if you came out of Harvard," explained Norris. "They would fly you down, and you'd stay in a nice hotel, get up and chit-chat a little bit about commodities – then I would put on a t-shirt, go out, and do an audition." Does he regret not entering the Wall Street world? "No," said Norris. "I thought about it later, [but] when you're that age, the chance of becoming a successful actor seemed rather distant. After I got into L.A., I was glad I did what I did." It was a professional decision that certainly has worked to his benefit. LOS ANGELES, CA - JANUARY 18: (L-R) Actors Dean Norris, Jonathan Banks and Aa...

[Source] South Korean actor Jeon Jong-seo stole the spotlight at the Los Angeles Dodgers' exhibition game against South Korea's Kiwoom Heroes in Seoul. Key points: Despite the Dodgers' 14-3 victory, it was Jeon's ceremonial first pitch that garnered attention, particularly from the Dodgers dugout. The details: To kickstart the game, Jeon, who was donning a Dodgers shirt, leggings and knee-high baseball socks, threw the first pitch at the Gocheok Sky Dome on March 17. The 29-year-old star delivered a pitch that visibly amused spectators and players, including Chris Taylor and Tyler Glasnow. In a now-viral footage of the moment, the camera pans to Taylor and Glasnow shortly after Jeon pitches. The Dodgers players appear to look smitten with the actor. Social media users took to X to react to the players' apparent admiration, with many understanding their reaction. "Tyler looks smitten by her," one person said, as a different person added: "Can't...