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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AT6HIfhwtKo The actor, author, and talk show host Charles Grodin died at his home in Connecticut on Tuesday at the age of 86 years old. With a hempishly dry and indefatigably probing sense of humour, Grodin forged a career on the shabby margins of the mainstream, and remains best known for the classic comedy capers The Heartbreak Kid and Midnight...

In November 2015, the World Anti-Doping Agency released a highly anticipated report into allegations of misconduct within Russian athletics. Finding that the Russian authorities had engaged in a widespread pattern of doping, cover-ups, and extortion, WADA recommended the banning of Russia from all international athletic endeavour. The International Association of Athletics Federations - recently rebranded as World Athletics -...

When Henry Graham and Henrietta Lowell first meet in Elaine May's 1971 film A New Leaf, it is over a cup of tea, or rather three cups, and quite literally over them for Henrietta has just spilled all three. 'Incredibly clumsy woman isn't she - no wonder she's doesn't ride', utters Henry's friend Bo, who has problems of his...