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Jane Birkin & Serge Gainsbourg Serge Gainsbourg may have been an accidental sex symbol, but sex symbol he most certainly was. Just ask Jane Birkin, Catherine Deneuve and Brigitte Bardot, all of whom played a major role in his rich and colourful l (read full article)
Frankenstein is a 1910 film made by Edison Studios that was written and directed by J. Searle Dowley. It was the first motion picture adaptation of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. The unbilled cast included Augustus Phillips as Dr. Frankenstein, Char (read full article)
Lena Horne & Cab Calloway In a 60-year career, Lena Horne , who has died aged 92, broke down numerous racial barriers. In the 1940s, she was one of the first black singers with a major white band, the first to perform at the famous Copacabana nig (read full article)
Simon Callow writing in the Independent remembers the composer Stephen Oliver, who would have been 60 this year. I miss him still. He was instinct with the life force; his work was rich and witty and direct and accessible. He had achieved astonishin (read full article)
Before After Mickey Rourke has told the Orlando Sentinel that he is to play Genghis Khan, the Mongol emperor who died in 1227 after conquering Asia from the Pacific to the Caspian Sea. Directing and writing is John Milius, responsible for the Apocaly (read full article)
Jean Simmons, the British film star who played Ophelia to Laurence Olivier’s Hamlet, sang with Marlon Brando in Guys and Dolls and co-starred with Gregory Peck, Paul Newman and Kirk Douglas, has died at the age of 80. Here’s Wendy Ide reviewing (read full article)
Another of my heroes has gone. I suppose when one gets to my age, one must get used to this happening. Strangely enough, I watched The Wicker Man yesterday. Now I’ll have to watch Breaker Morant as well. R.I.P. Edward Albert Arthur Woodward 1930-2 (read full article)
The “I want breakfast” scene from Joel Schumacher’s excellent 1993 film is probably the one most people remember, although there are funnier and more powerful scenes (I’m thinking of Michael Douglas’s first encounter with the Hispanic gang (read full article)
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