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Commentary: What a difference a revival makes: 2 famously tricky Sondheim musicals shine in new outings

NEW YORK — At lunch recently in New York with a retired theater critic, I asked if he’d care to join me later in the week for a matinee of the touted Broadway revival of “Into the Woods.” No, he demurred. He had reviewed the original production, and the show,…

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Sharon Stone says backlash over Aids activism ‘destroyed’ her career: ‘I didn’t work for eight years’

The Total Recall star claimed that her dedication to HIV/Aids research left her without work for eight years during a talk at the Red Sea Film Festival in Saudi Arabia

Evening Standard

Elizabeth Taylor's 'Lucky Charm' Oscar Dress Found in Suitcase in London

A "lucky charm" Christian Dior dress worn by Elizabeth Taylor on the night she won best actress at the 1961 Oscars is to be sold at auction next month, after being stored in a suitcase in London for over 50 years. It had been assumed the floral print gown with…

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Elizabeth Taylor's 'lucky charm' Oscar dress found in suitcase in London

London (AFP) - A "lucky charm" Christian Dior dress worn by Elizabeth Taylor on the night she won best actress at the 1961 Oscars is to be sold at auction next month, after being stored in a suitcase in London for over 50 years.

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Elizabeth Taylor’s 1961 Oscar dress discovered in an old suitcase

Taylor called the dress her ‘lucky charm’

The Independent UK

9 Angela Lansbury favorites to watch and where to find them

You're not alone if you saw the news of Angela Lansbury's death Tuesday, at 96, and thought about turning on an episode of "Murder, She Wrote," the beloved mystery series she starred in from 1984 to 1996 as a writer and amateur detective on the coast of Maine. Or, for…

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Dame Angela Lansbury obituary

Versatile actor with a long career on stage and screen, best known as the TV sleuth Jessica Fletcher in Murder, She Wrote

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Angela Lansbury: Celebrated star of stage and screen who put her family first

Dame Angela Lansbury, who won global fame as the star of the US TV crime series Murder, She Wrote, has died aged 96.

The Independent UK

Cucumber sandwiches, Cary Grant and pitch-side glamour: Remembering the Hollywood Cricket Club

Throughout the 1930s and 1940s Errol Flynn, Boris Karloff and David Niven could be found in LA sporting cricket whites. Leonie Cooper raises a gin and tonic to the movie industry’s most English sporting team

The Independent UK

Made in Madrid: The Spanish tailors outfitting world cinema

Algete (Spain) (AFP) - With a vast wardrobe catering to everything from "House of the Dragon" to "The Crown", Spain's Peris Costumes has carved out a well-tailored niche for itself, renting costumes to producers across the globe.

AFP

The terraced house in the Valleys that hosted Hollywood royalty

Liz Taylor used to sleep in the spare room

Wales Online

Queen Elizabeth and her sister Princess Margaret were very different women who shared a 'primal bond'

The crown usually dooms royal siblings to a life of jealousy and suspicion. But the love between Queen Elizabeth and Margaret endured through scandals, a constitutional crisis and a string of heartbreaks.

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Tributes paid to legendary Welsh broadcaster Mavis Nicholson following her death aged 91

The presenter interviewed some of the world's biggest stars from David Bowie to Elizabeth Taylor

Wales Online

Mavis Nicholson obituary

Television interviewer, broadcaster and writer best known for Afternoon Plus and Mavis on 4

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Janet Jackson front row at Siriano's glam fashion week show

Resplendent in a black trouser suit, Janet Jackson sat front Wednesday at Christian Siriano's New York Fashion Week show

Los Angeles Times

All the behind-the-scenes drama of ‘Don’t Worry Darling,’ explained

Sometimes the story of a movie’s making is as compelling as the movie itself. Think of the days of Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor, “Apocalypse Now,” even the recent “Mad Max: Fury Road,” all of which have inspired countless behind-the-scenes tales.

The Guardian - UK

Peter Davison obituary

Leading authority on the life of George Orwell who edited the mammoth 20-volume George Orwell: The Complete Works

Evening Standard

San Domenico Palace, Taormina: discreet glamour in Sicily

Overlooking Mount Etna, the Four Seasons hotel takes up a prime spot in one of the most mesmerising locations in the world, says Jonathan Prynn

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Sole survivor of Hollywood’s golden age? The hotel that has seen it all

Celebrating 110 years of notoriety, the Beverly Hills Hotel is swimming in stories about showbiz royalty, from Dietrich to Monroe, Elizabeth Taylor to John and Yoko. Leonie Cooper goes in search of gossip and finds out which actor used to sunbathe naked by the pool

ABC News

Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck have married after rekindling their relationship and they're not the only big names to do so

Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck have finally made it down the aisle, a moment that was 20 years in the making, however, their rekindled love story is not unique in Hollywood.

Wales Online

Welsh family completely restore Richard Burton's overgrown and neglected grave in Switzerland

'We are Welsh and can't tolerate a situation where Richard Burton has been forgotten about his grave stone has been neglected'

Edinburgh Live

When Edinburgh locals were trapped in floods at Cameron Toll just weeks after it opened

The flood that hit the then newly-opened Cameron Toll in November 1984 was one of the worst in living memory, with scores of terrified shoppers stranded and up to 100 cars submerged in the car park.

Edinburgh Live

Edinburgh's worst-rated hotel that used to attract David Bowie and Elizabeth Taylor

Edinburgh's worst-rated hotel was once the kind of place that attracted David Bowie and Elizabeth Taylor - how fortunes have changed for the old Dragonara Hotel.

Tribune News Service

Scott Fowler: NASCAR’s Bruton Smith had a one-of-a-kind life, knocking down doors the whole way

Bruton Smith was a character, and I mean that in the best sense of the word. He died Wednesday at age 95, but he leaves a remarkable legacy, full of tall tales that often turned out to be true.

Asharq Al-Awsat

Berlin Hosts Hollywood-Themed Photography Exhibition

Do you remember the iconic shot of actress Elizabeth Taylor in a swimming pool holding a green parrot?

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