Sophia Loren, 84, looks fantastic in a flowing grey wig on set of new film The Life Ahead as she prepares to make a hotly anticipated return to screens after 10 years The glamorous screen siren is currently filming her first movie role in almost ten years, for a project being directed by her 46-year-old son Edoardo Ponti. This will be the Italian movie legend's hotly anticipated return to screens and fans will see the star take on the role of a Holocaust survivor who spends her time taking care of the children of prostitutes.
In a culture steeped in high technology, from wearable computers to the internet of things and rockets that fly themselves back to pinpoint touchdowns, the Apollo 11 moon landing and Neil Armstrong's "giant leap for mankind" are slowly fading from memory, a forever remarkable but increasingly distant bit of history. After all, for anyone born after July 20, 1969, the day Armstrong set foot on the surface of the moon, there has never been a time when humanity was bound to Earth alone. For many, the stories of Apollo 11, five subsequent moon landings and the near disaster of Apollo 13 are remembered from history class, not from personal experience.
Despite its controversial final episodes, HBO's unstoppable Game of Thrones earned 32 Emmy Award nominations, including best drama series — and shattered the record for the most nods for a show in a single season. Close behind were Amazon’s critic-favorite comedy The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel with 19 nominations, and HBO’s surprise hit Chernobyl with 18. NBC’s Saturday Night Live also walked away with 18, and landed plenty of noms for its celebrity guest hosts, including Sandra Oh, Emma Thompson, Matt Damon, Robert De Niro, John Mulaney and Adam Sandler. FX’s absorbing drama Fosse/Verdon and HBO’s dark comedy Barry tied with 17 each, while Netflix’s When They See Us, Ava DuVernay’s searing miniseries about the Central Park Five, scored 16 nominations. The 71st annual Primetime Emmy Awards air Sept. 22 at 8 p.m. on Fox.
Alan Turing (June 23, 1912 - June 7, 1954) was once a hero in England. He helped the government crack German Codes during World War II and developed the Turning Machine, establishing the framework for today's modern computers and was generally regarded as one of the nation's brightest stars. Then, in 1952, Turing was outed, leading to a very public trial, conviction and chemically castrated for "gross indecency." He killed himself two years later. Now, 60+ years on, the British government is honoring Turing by including him in a series of twelve new "Britons of Distinction" stamps set to be released to coincide with the year of the 100 anniversary of his birth. George Broadhead, secretary of the Humanist group the Pink Triangle Trust, celebrated Turing's inclusion in a press release. "This is richly deserved," he wrote. "It is well known that Turing was gay, but perhaps not so well known that he was a staunch atheist.
