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Thu May 13, 2021 at 4:55pm ET Batman vs Elmer Fudd. Pic credit: DC Comics As one of the most popular superheroes on the planet, it’s no surprise Batman has seen more than his share of fantastic team-ups.  It’s not just with the usual DC heroes like Superman or Wonder Woman either. DC and Marvel have worked together for crossovers where Batman has met Captain America and Spider-Man for adventures. There are also intercompany crossovers that paired the Dark Knight up with Spawn, Hellboy, and...

Last modified on Mon 10 May 2021 16.18 EDT “I’d like to be remembered as the Dreaded Marcel Stellman,” Marcel Stellman once told me. “That’s what Spike Milligan called me. I produced I’m Walking Backwards for Christmas with the Goons in 1956 and I thought it would be a Christmas release. Spike insisted that it came out in the summer. It was a Top 10 hit and we followed it with The Ying Tong Song.” Stellman, who has died aged 96, had a long career in the music industry, both as a r...

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NOW pay attention, readers. The glitz and glamour of James Bonds super-spy lifestyle has more in common with Swindon than you might think. The latest on-screen incarnation of Ian Flemings tuxedo-clad womaniser is of course played by Daniel Craig - but did you know his middle name has a surprising link to this borough? His middle name is Wroughton, though the explanation for this unusual choice of appears to be classified. 007s creator used to live near Swindon in the manor Warnefor...

On the other hand, maybe Ginsberg does have some insight into werewolves. Howl isn’t going to help this reporter unlock the mysteries of The Colony, a forest retreat that appears to be populated by creatures of the night, but this is a poem about aberrant sexuality, the rejection of repressive societal norms and the implicit desire for communities that exist outside the mainstream. Then again, these are actual monsters, people who might imagine themselves to be expressing the primitive desire...

By Telegraph Obituaries  7 March 2021 • 1:21pm Tony Hendra, who has died aged 79, was one of the most brilliant satirists of the post-war period. He formed the link between the Cambridge Footlights team, in which he collaborated with John Cleese and Graham Chapman, and American institutions such as the satirical magazine National Lampoon and the NBC show Saturday Night Live where he was instrumental in launching the careers of John Belushi and Chevy Chase.  In Rob Reiner’s classic 1984 �...

THREE PEARS BRANDS ANNOUNCE ACQUISITION OF FIVE KEY HOUSEHOLD CONSUMER BRANDS FROM LORNAMEAD GROUP UK fragrance personal care and skincare brand owners Three Pears Brands continues to develop its consumer goods portfolio with the acquisition of five legacy brands. The company has acquired the global rights and brand ownership of Harmony Haircare, Stergene and Amplex from The Lornamead Group who has focused on personal care products since the early Nineties and bought Harmony from Unilever in 19...

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Every cloud: the humble brolly rains supreme after 3,000 years Patrick Mcnee as Steed in The Avengers, holding one of his famous umbrellas, with Diana Rigg as Emma Peel Trevor Laffan I WAS sitting in my car recently outside a hospital in Cork waiting for my wife. It was a dirty evening, pouring with rain. As I sat there, I noticed a nurse in the foyer pushing an elderly lady in a wheelchair towards the entrance of the hospital where, I presumed, she was going to be collected. The woman was wear...

10. Mary Portas used to live in Bushey. 10. Former children’s laureate Michael Rosen attended Watford Grammar School for Boys in the 1960s. 11. Watford has made huge contributions to the printing industry. Rotary photogravure was a technique which was first used in Watford to reproduce very fine, high quality fine art prints and then it went on to be used to produce colour magazines. All the ladies’ colour magazines, like Woman’s Weekly and Woman’s Own, were all printed in Watford, ...