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Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeLynne Marta, whose three-decade film acting career ran from 1971 to 2002, has died. She was 78.The New Jersey-born actor was well-known for playing Lulu Warnicker, aunt of Kevin Bacon’s Ren, in 1984’s Footloose.She was also a regular on television, appearing on shows including Charlie’s Angels, Love, American Style, Starsky & Hutch and Columbo.Marta died on Thursday 11 January at…

Rob Lowe was one of the most prominent young actors of the ‘80s. The Ohio-raised celebrity was a member of the never-aging Brat Pack starring in St. Elmo’s Fire, The Outsiders and About Last Night, to name a few. Believe it or not, Lowe was also close to playing the character of Ren in the musical drama Footloose. Unfortunately, he said it was apparently an “awful” experience losing to Kevin Bacon.It’s hard to believe how close we were to seeing Rob Lowe show off his dance moves playing the Chicago native shaking things…

Image: Christos Kalohoridis/NetflixThe Umbrella Academy deals with serious issues—family drama, horrifying tragedies, impending apocalypses—but it’s at its heart a comic-book show, and it always tempers its approach with a sly sense of humor. A new blooper reel from season three showcases just how wacky things got behind the scenes for the Hargreeves siblings, not to mention their friends and foes.Misbehaving monocles, sticky hair, farting sofas, stunt punches gone amusingly wrong, several flubbed and forgotten lines, Tom…

Top tips for the perfect bacon sandwich? TopTrampSince the 80s, I’ve owned a farm with miniature horses and alpacas. We recently got a couple of pigs, June and Jonny, who I adore, so I don’t eat bacon any more. I don’t want to eat things that I have, so I don’t eat dog, horse, goat or pig.What was it like filming Apollo 13 in reduced gravity? BellaTheCookIncredible. We went up in an aircraft called the KC-135 that Nasa uses to simulate zero gravity. You fly over the Gulf of Mexico, the airplane dives, and as you come over…

Kevin Bacon seems ot have cleared up a mystery surrounding the ending to Footloose.Bacon played the lead role in the 1984 film, which follows students in a Chicago town that bans rock’n’roll music and dancing.The uplifting final scene sees Bacon’s rebellious Ren lead the characters in a prom dance together to the film’s title song, performed by Kenny Loggins.However, in a new interview with Entertainment Weekly, Bacon revealed that Footloose’s original ending was far less joyous and had to be completely changed – and the…

Footloose will always be an important movie to watch to remind you about the power of dancing. It had the best soundtrack that’ll make anyone want to cut loose. Do you know who else thinks so? The leading man himself, Kevin Bacon. He recently hit the living room floor with his wife, Kyra Sedgwick, to get in on the viral Footloose trend.There are some songs that you can’t help but dance a jig to as soon as you turn it on. Kevin Bacon, who played Ren MacCormack in the 1984 dance flick, posted an Instagram video of him and…

Spot, the most famous four-legged robot in the world, sometimes seems more like an animatronic entertainer than an industrial machine. But creators Boston Dynamic want to remind the world at large in a new video that this thing can do work, too. The new Spot spot, titled “No Time To Dance,” shows the quadrupedal bot carrying out a range of tasks in an industrial setting. Spot takes readings from gauges, uses an infrared camera to scan some equipment, and generates work orders for human employees. And, yes, then it does…