No one played an emotionally stunted protagonist out of step with the world around him as well as the late Ryan O’Neal. He never really stopped looking like a child, did he? All the way until the end. Ryan O’Neal’s gift and his curse was that face — those pleading eyebrows, that placid mouth, those round cheeks. It was what allowed him to play, at the age of 34, Irish teenager Redmond Barry in Stanley Kubrick’s masterpiece Barry Lyndon.
Dressed to kill: Henry VIII's life in armour Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email As the Tower of London unveil a vast exhibition of Henry VIII’s armour on the 500th anniversary of his coronation, we go behind the scenes to bring you the highlights of the collection
Fri 3 Apr 2009 04.19 EDT First published on Fri 3 Apr 2009 04.
For all of the dad murders and ‘80s era synthpop we’re subjected to in Black Mirror: Bandersnatch — we chose Thompson Twins, obviously — perhaps the one thing we didn’t think of while ruining Stefan’s life is how exactly Netflix was able to create its first-ever interactive project. The short answer for pioneering a new genre as we know it: Very hard indeed. As outlined in a new THR feature, the streaming service had to heavily invest in and create a brand new in-house tool for Bandersnatch, called Branch Manager, in order to properly accommodate showrunner Charlie Brooker’s sprawling, nonlinear narrative.
Blast from the past. Even Taylor Swift had a pop-punk phase. Now, like the rest of us, she’s returning to it — on Speak Now (Taylor’s Version), that is. Swift’s self-written 2010 album contains some of her punkiest music, such as “The Story of Us” and “Better Than Revenge.” And now she has tapped some of her pop-punk heroes to help with the rerecorded version. Both Hayley Williams of Paramore and Fall Out Boy feature on new “From the Vault” tracks for the album, “Castles Crumbling” and “Electric Touch,” respectively.
Actor Brad Pitt portrayed Edward Norton’s better half in David Fincher’s Fight Club. As Tyler Durden, the movie’s star, Pitt comes across as everything Norton’s character, the nameless narrator, wants to be.
Comparing the two, Pitt’s Tyler Durden is much more charismatic, confident, and fashionable than Norton’s narrator. But between the two actors, which one was actually taller?
How tall is Edward Norton In Fight Club, Pitt and Norton appear to be around the same height, with neither significantly towering over the other.