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Goodfellas actor Ray Liotta has died at the age of 67, US media reports say.
His representative confirmed the news to several outlets, saying the actor had died in his sleep in the Dominican Republic, where he was filming his latest film, Dangerous Waters.
Liotta found fame playing ex-con Ray Sinclair in 1986 film Something Wild, for which he received a Golden Globe nomination.
He went on to star as Shoeless Joe Jackson in the 1989 film Field Of Dreams and is best known for his portrayal of Henry Hill in Goodfellas, directed by Martin Scorsese.
Liotta was the adopted son of a town clerk and car-parts shop owner, who insisted he never contemplated acting while growing up in Newark, New Jersey.
After graduating he moved to New York City and worked as a barman until he was cast in the soap opera Another World in 1980.
I am utterly shattered to hear this terrible news about my Ray.
— Lorraine Bracco (@Lorraine_Bracco) May 26, 2022
I can be anywhere in the world & people will come up & tell me their favorite movie is Goodfellas. Then they always ask what was the best part of making that movie. My response has always been the same…Ray Liotta. pic.twitter.com/3gNjJFTAne
In recent years Liotta appeared in The Many Saints Of Newark and starred alongside Taron Egerton in the Apple TV series Black Bird.
Liotta leaves behind his daughter Karsen and his fiancee Jacy Nittolo.
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The top baby names in Australia have been revealed, with a new name topping the girls list for the first time since 2015
Move over Charlotte - Isla is now the number one baby name for girls, according to McCrindle’s Baby Names Australia Report 2022.
Isla has pushed Charlotte - which held the top spot for the past seven years - into second place, followed by Olivia, Amelia and Ava.
Oliver continues its nine-year reign as the most popular name for boys, followed by Noah, Jack, Henry and William.
The report shows the top 100 boys and girls names given to Generation Alpha across Australia, which are babies born from 2010 (the year the iPad debuted, in case you need a marker) through to 2024.
Top 10 girls names for 2022
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Top 10 boys names for 2022
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What names are falling out of favour?
For girls, Jasmine, Lara and Summer have seen the biggest falls in their ranking in the top 100, while Connor, Luke and Nicholas have fallen the most for boys names.
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How are names being influenced?
Millennial parents of Generation Alpha are still looking to be unique for girls’ names, while relying on more traditional names for boys.
Some of the trends that are influencing parents as they choose names include:
- Botanic-inspired names for girls - eg Willow, Lily, Ivy, Violet
- Nature and atmosphere names - eg Luna, Aurora, Stella for girls; and Kai, River, Bodhi for boys
- Nicknames for first names - eg, Jack outranks Jackson, Bella outranks Isabella
- Place names - eg Charlotte, Sienna, Georgia,
- Colours - eg Ruby, Hazel, Scarlett
- And what the report calls the “100-year-return” where popular names from the turn of the previous century make a come-back - eg Grace, Stella, Jack
What names are gaining popularity?
New names in this year’s top 100 include for the girls, Riley, Lyla, Indiana, Nora, Heidi and Zoey; and just three new entrants for boys being Miles, Nicholas and Elias.
The biggest increases in popularity for girls include Willow (+66), Florence (+64), Violet (+64), Ivy (+53) and Audrey (+50); while for boys it is Theodore (+88), Leo (+85), Hudson (+81), Hugo (+66) and Arlo (+65).
Some of the most popular names that have debuted in the last decade for girls include Hazel, Florence, Daisy, Frankie, Luna, Ayla, Sadie, Billie, Millie, Aurora and Mila. And the popular boys names are Theodore, Hudson, Arlo, Archer, Harvey, Carter, Arthur, Sonny and Asher.
Names to watch
The girls names Mila and Sadie first appeared in the top 100 list in 2019 and are steadily rising up the ranking along with Remi, Maeve and Delilah.
For boys, Arthur, Ari, Ezra, River, Theo, Billy, and Luka have been steadily growing in popularity.
The Royal influence
The British Royal Family continues to have a strong influence on Alpha baby names in Australia. Although Charlotte has dropped one spot and William has dropped three spots since 2017, in this same time period Archie has moved up 20 spots to 13th, George has moved up eight spots to 27th and Louis has moved up 28 spots to land at 45th in the boys ranking.
The celebrity influence
On the celebrity front, the increasing popularity of girls’ name Isla can be attributed to Aussie actress Isla Fischer. Other celebrities whose names have had big jumps in popularity in the top 100 ranking include actress Millie Bobby-Brown of Stranger Things fame along with singers George Ezra (with parents choosing both his names for their bubs) and Billie Eilish.
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Netflix has dropped the first trailer for "The Gray Man", its upcoming spy thriller from the directing team The Russo Brothers (Avengers Endgame).
The Gray Man is CIA operative Court Gentry (Ryan Gosling), aka, Sierra Six. Plucked from a federal penitentiary and recruited by his handler, Donald Fitzroy (Billy Bob Thornton), Gentry was once a highly-skilled, Agency-sanctioned merchant of death.
But now the tables have turned and Six is the target, hunted across the globe by Lloyd Hansen (Chris Evans), a former cohort at the CIA, who will stop at nothing to take him out. Agent Dani Miranda (Ana de Armas) has his back. He’ll need it.
Ryan Gosling is The Gray Man and Chris Evans is his psychopathic adversary in the Netflix/AGBO-produced thriller directed by Anthony and Joe Russo, starring Ana de Armas, with Regé-Jean Page, Billy Bob Thornton, Jessica Henwick, Dhanush, Wagner Moura and Alfre Woodard.
Based on the novel The Gray Man by Mark Greaney, the screenplay is by Joe Russo, Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely.
The producers are Joe Roth, Jeffery Kirschenbaum, Joe Russo, Anthony Russo, Mike Larocca and Chris Castaldi. Executive producers are Patrick Newall, Christopher Markus, Stephen McFeely, Jake Aust, Angela Russo-Otstot, Geoff Haley, Zack Roth, and Palak Patel.
The Gray Man will launch in Australia on July 22nd, 2022 at 5:00 PM GMT+10
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Think back to only a few months ago when you would be at the supermarket and the toilet paper aisle was a barren wasteland of forgotten dreams.
You'd be searching for the packet with the familiar cute cuddly puppy picture and instead be left thinking of how you would be able to deal with an inevitable issue later that day or night.
Well one family has given up the search and instead decided to go "TP Free" and the amazing thing is they have been doing it for 3 years, so they never had to deal with a shortage.
They released this video to show others just how they do it and the system is not for everybody.
Mother of 3 and Youtuber Amber Allen (The Fairly Local Family) even says at the beginning "this is one of my grossest videos probably, but you guys love these videos"
They started removing toilet paper from their lives to get out of debt, making life-changing decisions in order to get ahead.
She chose to research alternate options to loo paper and found reusable cloth wipes were a popular choice online.
Rather than purchase new cloth though, she cut up old clothes and blankets from thrift stores, Facebook Market place and other stores and gave them new life as homemade dunny paper.
When the wipes are "soiled" they go in a bucket and wash them every second day (in a separate load to the clothing)
If the toilet paper thing doesn't shock you enough, they even cancelled their Netflix subscription, that's when you know they were serious.
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