My family valuesFamilyInterviewDonny Osmond: ‘I told Dad I planned to marry. He said: “There goes your career”’Interview by Roz LewisThe singer on growing up in a religious show-business family, lightening up as a dad and being married for 39 yearsI am the seventh of nine children, so when I arrived, there was already Virl, 12; Tom, 10; Alan, eight; Wayne, six; Merrill, four, and Jay, two. We first lived in Ogden, Utah, in a rural area – it had plenty of fields around it and there was a cow and other animals. Read More...
Michael Douglas paid an emotional tribute to Jim Brown on Friday after the American football player, civil rights activist, and actor died at the age of 87.
In a heartfelt social media post, Michael offered up his and his family's condolences in a message alongside a photo of the late, former NFL star.
"I am deeply saddened to hear the passing of Jim Brown," he wrote. "One of the greatest players in NFL history, a true legend, and leader on and off the field. Read More...
Carol Rumens's poem of the weekPoetryPoem of the week: Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard by Thomas GraySchoolchildren used to learn this resonant memorial to humble rustic folk, and they still should"Gray's Elegy" is a poem that most older adults in the UK can quote, if only a few lines. In my ideal school curriculum, it would still be required reading. Musical, eloquent, moral, the "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" Read More...
