July 2024

Teen stars of ‘Romeo and Juliet’ were tricked to act nude in the 1968 film

When Franco Zeffirelli’s film “Romeo and Juliet” was first released in 1968, a brief scene of its teenage star-crossed lovers waking up in bed together nude caused what the film critic Roger Ebert described as “a lot of fuss,” including blaring headlines that Queen Elizabeth II had witnessed the scene at the London premiere.   Earning two Oscars and critical acclaim, the film became a...

Why Rongai has endless traffic jams, they could be staged

Ongata Rongai bus operators are the reason the narrow road is prone to traffic jam. Bus operators in the area reportedly hire boda bodas riders to update them on the whereabouts of traffic cops and when it’s ‘safe’ to overlap. The boda boda operators are paid Sh100 for every update, a fact which was revealed during a recent meeting on how best to deal with the endless jams after Saccos failed...