News about David Marks

A pensioner has gone to war with his leafy village neighbours over plans to build a Grand Designs-style eco-house to move his wife into after she leaves her care home. David Marks, 75, wants to build an eco-friendly five-bed house in Smarden, near Ashford, Kent - but is facing a battle to get it approved. The village's parish council has said it strongly objects to the proposals, which it describes as an unsuitable 'overdevelopment' of the rural area. Mr Marks says he is saddened at the lack of support for the new home, which will be completely off-grid, powered by solar panels and sheltered by bunds of earth.

The Beach Boys legend Brian Wilson made his first red carpet appearance after being placed under conservatorship due to a 'major neurocognitive disorder.' On Tuesday night, the musician, 81, attended the  premiere of the new Disney+ documentary The Beach Boys at the historic TLC Chinese Theatre in Los Angeles. Brian, wearing a green button-up shirt and dark slacks, remained in a wheelchair as he met the film's crew and reunited with members of the band.

Ryan Gosling has given audiences several award-winning and coveted accolades over the past 20 years, as well as a spot as one of Hollywood's most respected actors. He began his television career as a young child on "The Mickey Mouse Club" in the early 1990s and went on to land minor roles throughout the remainder of the decade. Gosling started acting in movies in the 2000s, with his role as Noah Calhoun in the 2004 film "The Notebook" launching him into fame. Since then, he's appeared in Oscar-nomine films such as "La La Land" and "Blade Runner 2049," but he's recently received a lot of buzz for his new role in Greta Gerwig's "Barbie." Gosling appears as Ken, Barbie's counterpart and companion throughout the film "barbie," which stars Margot Robbie as the iconic fashion doll brought to life. According to Gosling himself, Ken's airheaded, lighthearted role is certainly a contrast to the more dramatic ones on his résumé, and his character isn't much different than his counterpart. "There's something about this Ken that I believe really refers to that version of myself," he wrote in GQ's summer 2023 cover story. Just like the guy in Hammer pants and dancing at the mall, who was waving Drakkar Noir and Aqua Net-ing bangs. I owe that kid a lot. When I first started making more serious films, I felt like I was right to distance myself from him. However, the truth is that, like, he's the reason I have everything.

In an attempt to combat hunger, prisoners clung to memories of simpler times and their favorite family dishes. Now, a new cookery book by 29 camp survivors has turned these memories into a book of recipes. The 110 recipes are divided into chapters, each of which starts with an introduction where the survivors' recall what the food means for them. Eva, a writer who died from typhus after being released from the camp and trying to walk home, wrote a recipe for Hungarian Layered Potatoes: "This particular dish of rakott-krumpli was the last meal we had on the night before the deportation to Auschwitz.'