Justin Theroux plays an eccentric inventor on the run in first trailer for series The Mosquito Coast

The upcoming Apple TV + series –The Mosquito Coast — takes a different approach  to telling the story of inventor Allie Fox than the 1986 film that starred Harrison Ford in the lead role. While the movie had Fox living with his family in Mexico, the upcoming prequel series comes through the lens of the madman … Read more

Tesla’s actual creators hit out at Elon Musk and describe the eccentric billionaire as ‘complicated’

The creators of Tesla appeared to hit out at Elon Musk in a newly revealed interview, slamming claims he’s the founder of the electronic vehicle giant, when he was actually originally just an early investor. True founders Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning, who set up Tesla in 2003, made the comments in an CNBC interview … Read more

Owners of ‘magical’ Oxfordshire mansion to sell off £2million eccentric art collection

Looking to stave off lockdown boredom with a little online shopping? This week sees one of the UK’s most eclectic art collections going on sale in a live virtual auction – and you could pick up a 65-million-year-old dinosaur skull, a floating giraffe named Gerard, or an antler chair that has housed the derriere of Liam … Read more

Dr. Harold Bornstein, Trump’s eccentric former personal physician, dies at 73

Dr. Harold N. Bornstein, Donald Trump’s former physician who once declared him to be ‘the healthiest individual ever elected to the presidency’ only to later claim he was coerced into making the claim, died on Friday, it has been revealed. Bornstein, the Manhattan-based doctor, was 73 years of age at the time of his death, … Read more

Apple Electronics: Inside the Beatles’ eccentric technology subsidiary

Say the word Apple today and we think of Steve Jobs’ multi-billion-dollar technology company that spawned the iPhone and the Mac computer. But a decade before the California-based firm was even founded, Apple Electronics, a subsidiary of the Beatles’ record label Apple, was working on several pioneering inventions – some of which were precursors of … Read more

Artist pens eccentric memoir chronicling his adventures around the world

ART  TRAVELS OF A PAINTER   by James Reeve (Unity Press £25, 320 pp) James Reeve belongs to that rare breed of artists who can write. Not that you will learn anything about his painting methods in this book, but it is a delightfully entertaining, if often shocking, memoir, an escapist antidote to our lockdown times. … Read more

Katy Perry croons in an eccentric Xmas tree costume for Disney Holiday Sing-along: ‘lil TREE(T)’

The always eccentric Katy Perry is bestowing an early Christmas ‘TREE(T)’ on her fans.  The 36-year-old singer released a soulful rendition of I’ll Be Home For Christmas mixed with her song Cozy Little Christmas on Instagram with a playful video twist.  Dressed up like a Christmas tree in honor of the Disney Holiday Sing-along, the … Read more

Eccentric Sir Alex Allan, who quit over Priti Patel bullying inquiry

Standards tsar with a taste for a stunt: How Sir Alex Allan – who quit following the Priti Patel bullying inquiry – once windsurfed down the Thames to Parliament in a pinstripe suit and bowler hat to get around a train strike Latest Priti Patel row is not the first time Sir Alex Allan has … Read more

Tales of gloriously eccentric British pensioners

BOOK OF THE WEEK THE GRAN TOUR    by Ben Aitken (Icon £14.99, 306 pp) When Ben Aitken discovers that for £109 he can get a four-night coach trip to Scarborough, with a cooked breakfast every morning, three-course dinner every night and excursions to York and Whitby, his first thought is: ‘That’s how much my sister … Read more