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Photo: Rick Diamond/Getty Images Country-music legend George Jones, best known for his 1980 hit “He Stopped Loving Her Today,” died today in Nashville, Tennessee, where he’d been hospitalized for the last week, the AP reports. He was 81. Jones, nicknamed the Possum, had his first No. 1 hit in 1959, and he went on to record more than 150 albums over the course of his career, notching thirteen additional No. 1 songs, including “The Grand Tour” and “She Thinks I Still Care.” He was married to Tammy Wynette from 1969 to 1973, but the two continued to perform together and released an album of duets in 1995. Jones was perhaps equally famous for his silky baritone voice — Frank Sinatra once called him “the second best singer in America” — as for his drug-and-alcohol-induced offstage behavior, including a televised police chase through Nashville in 1980. Jones was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1992, was a Kennedy Center honoree in 2008, and received a Grammy Lifetime … [Read more...] about George Jones, Country-Music Star, Dies at 81

January 30, 2019 - 16:10 GMT Emmy Griffiths There are some great shows coming to Netflix, NOW TV and Amazon Prime in February 2019 like The Handmaid's Tale and Nightflyers - we're only sorry we won't have time to watch them all! Oh, is it too cold to go outside still? We guess that means we'll have to stick on the telly and catch-up on some of our favourite shows. Luckily, there are some brilliant ones coming to Netflix, Amazon Prime and NOW TV in February in the UK. From dystopian dramas to wholesome comedies, take a look through our top picks of shows to stream… Netflix American Crime Story: The Assassination of Gianni Versace - 1 February Finally tune in and watch the show that has made perhaps the biggest wave during awards season, with Darren Criss (who plays Andrew Cunanan) picking up all of the awards. The series follows the real life assassination of fashion icon Gianni Versace at the hands of the serial … [Read more...] about What’s on Netflix, NOW TV and Amazon Prime – The Walking Dead, Shadowhunters – February 2019

Photo: Magnolia Pictures and Amazon Studios Inside God’s waiting room, an abnormality bides his time. Dennis Dean resides in the Villages, the nation’s largest retirement community, but only in the most tangential sense. He does not live anywhere, precisely; his home is a van, and it is also a hunting blind. He is looking for women and for something else. He wants security, he says in Some Kind of Heaven , Lance Oppenheim’s new documentary about Florida’s strangest enclave. At 83 years old and on the run after an out-of-state drunk-driving fine, Dean sees that his goal is almost beyond his reach. “What I’m looking for is a companion, a nice-looking lady with some money,” he says bluntly. He needs a home, and for that, he needs a wealthy girlfriend. Widows abound in the Villages, and so does money. But the “classic lady” of his dreams is “rare,” Dean complains, so he becomes a poltergeist. He haunts the bars, the churches, the swimming pools. His van rattles down well-groomed … [Read more...] about No Country for the Old: On

Last week, the Mystery Writers of America handed out the 2016 Edgar Awards, the most prestigious of the crime-writing awards. Among the winners was The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen, named Best First Novel — a win that, while well-deserved, was the opposite of notable, given that his novel has already garnered a host of accolades, including the Pulitzer Prize the week before. And yet, for this exact same reason, his Edgar win is remarkable, even momentous — and likely unprecedented. The Sympathizer — a literary thriller about a Vietnamese double agent who moves to Los Angeles after the Vietnam war — is the first novel (or at least the first I can unearth) that’s won both a major literary award and a major genre award in the same year. The cross-pollination of “literary” fiction and “genre” fiction has been a hot subject of contention for years in bookish circles, “a lover’s quarrel among literati,” as critics, both online and off , bandy questions like What … [Read more...] about Won a Pulitzer and an Edgar, and May Herald the Great Literary Convergence

November 28, 2011 - 16:54 GMT hellomagazine.com Twilight romance in Washington State VIEW GALLERY Up in the far northwest of America, on the border with Canada, the State of Washington is a land of contrasts with mountains, deserts, steppe landscapes and active volcanoes. Its Pacific edge boasts a fantasy of fjords and glacial bays, with dense conifer forests including the Hoh Rainforest, a perfect setting for Stephanie Meyer's supernatural teen romance . "No vampires beyond this point," declares a sign at the entrance to the small town of Forks, on the edge of the Olympic National Park , around 225 kilometres from Seattle. But despite the warning, the streets of this lovely town are lined with shops selling Twilight souvenirs - vampire fangs, t-shirts emblazoned with the faces of Bella and Edward, bags, mugs and, of course, both the DVDs of the movies and the original books. VIEW GALLERY Since … [Read more...] about Twilight romance in Washington State