ON THIS DAY IN 2025:
Rowan Atkinson (pictured), perhaps best known as bumbling Mr Bean, turns 70 today, Oscar-winner Eddie Redmayne turns 43 and AC/DC guitarist Malcolm Young, who died in Australia in 18 November 2017, would have turned 72 today.
American film director John Singleton, who died, aged 51, on April 17,2019, following a massive stroke, was born on this day in 1968
The Brutalist took the Best Drama film award at the 82nd Golden Globe Awards, held in the US on this day in 2025, and its director, Bradley Corbet, took the statuette for Best Director. Its star, Adrien Brody, was named as Best Actor in a Drama. Emelia Perez was named Best Comedy/Musical and also Best Non-English Language Film. Wicked took the Golden Globe award for Cinematic and Box Office Achievement. Zoe Saldana took the award for Best Actress in a Comedy/Musical (for Emelia Perez) and Demi Moore took the Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy/Musical for her role in The Substance. Flow was named as Best Animated Film.
It was on this day in 1964 that the Rolling Stones started their first tour as a headline act, alongside the Ronettes, and on this day in 1968 that The Beatles saw their Magical Mystery Tour album hit No 1 and stay there for eight weeks.
On the theatre scene, Playbill reports that this day in 1980 marked the Broadway opening of the David Hare play, Plenty, starring Kate Nelligan as a former member of the French resistance who searches for meaning in her post-war life. The drama ran for 92 performances at the Plymouth Theatre.
The Rick Astley toe-tapper, Never Gonna Give You Up, was crowning the South African Springbok Radio singles chart this week in 1987. It spent five weeks at No 1 after having toppled the Los Lobos hit, La Bamba, from the top spot. Just saying…
.....SoSuterBill..... 