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‘At my signal, unleash hell!’ What the Gladiator films tell us about 21st-century men

Paul Mescal’s thoughtful Lucius is worlds away from Russell Crowe’s stony Maximus, 24 years ago. Why have our masculine ideals changed so much?

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Lend me your ears: great Shakespearean actors given hi-tech talking portraits

A radical new exhibition celebrates stars including Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart by combining subtly moving artworks with their own voices. The results are uncanny

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When Laurence Olivier revealed the secrets behind his wax nose

Letter: Bill Gilmour relates André Morell’s tale of being advised by Olivier that mortician’s wax and a red lipstick made all the difference

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Laurence Olivier’s prosthetic nose put up for sale by widow

It comes with a birthday note, addressed to him.

Evening Standard

Laurence Olivier’s Richard III prosthetic nose among hundreds of actor’s items to be auctioned

Exclusive: About 350 props, awards and personal items will be auctioned by his estate and his widow

The Guardian - UK

A crackling US film version of Pride and Prejudice

Brief letters: Reel gem | Tory gravy train | Female priests | England coaches | Carry On Cleo

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7 classic movies just added to Prime Video with 90% or higher on Rotten Tomatoes

Prime Video just added a slew of class movies including several legendary James Bond flicks and an iconic sci-fi horror-thriller.

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Alvin Rakoff obituary

Stage and film director who contributed to the success of the single play on television

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'True National Treasure' Maggie Smith Dies Aged 89

Oscar-winning British actor Maggie Smith, a star of stage and screen for more than seven decades, died in hospital in London on Friday, her sons announced, prompting a flood of tributes.

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Maggie Smith, British Theatre And Cinema Legend Dies At 89

Maggie Smith, who died on Friday, was an Oscar-winning legend of stage and screen, renowned for playing wide repertoire of characters during a decades-spanning career and personifying a particular kind of English eccentricity.

International Business Times

Maggie Smith: the magisterial star of Harry Potter and Downton had the courage and talent to do absolutely everything

The real-life dame and on-screen dowager countess, who has died aged 89, earned fame in her 70s and 80s for blockbuster roles. But her early work at the National Theatre marked her out as a talent for the ages

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Dame Maggie Smith: Oscar-winning Harry Potter and Downton Abbey star dies, aged 89

Giant of stage and screen was one of Britain’s most successul stars

The Independent UK

Maggie Smith, Oscar-winning star of stage and screen, dies aged 89

In a career that began in the 1950s, her roles ranged from Desdemona to Miss Jean Brodie, Virginia Woolf and Minerva McGonagall

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From Mick Jagger to Crossroads: the pioneering career of Cleo Sylvestre

The black British performer started out recording with the Rolling Stones, was on the West End stage by 19 and made breakthroughs in TV and theatre

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Harry Hamlin: ‘Clash of the Titans was fraught – the producers didn’t speak to me again for 25 years’

The ‘L.A. Law’ star – and one-time reality TV husband – speaks to Tom Murray about bonding with Laurence Olivier, his former relationship with Ursula Andress, and why playing one of mainstream American cinema’s first gay leading roles put him in a 40-year exile from major movies

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How you can get (AI versions of) Judy Garland or Burt Reynolds to read to you

ElevenLabs licenses right to offer AI version of celebrity voices for its Reader App

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‘It definitely got me a seat in therapy’: Diane Lane on child stardom, sleazy execs and thriving in her 50s

She was on the cover of Time magazine in her teens, and decades later the acclaimed actor is having another big moment. She discusses Feud, A Man in Full and the highs and lows of Hollywood

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Has it come to this? We must act now to save Birmingham’s culture from cuts

Austerity-hit Birmingham’s decision to stop funding the arts is a calamity for a city whose rich contribution to UK culture – from Tolkien to the Streets – is such a vital source of civic pride

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Billy Dee Williams Defends Actors Performing In Blackface Controversy

Actor Billy Dee Williams shares his views on actors in blackface, sparking a debate on artistic freedom and harmful stereotypes in the entertainment industry.

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Billy Dee Williams says actors ‘should’ be allowed to wear blackface

Star Wars actor says he believes actors should be free to ‘do anything you want to do’, in a discussion about Laurence Olivier’s performance in Othello

The Guardian - UK

Trevor Griffiths obituary

Politically committed dramatist and screenwriter admired for his radical stage and television work created over the last 50 years

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Trevor Griffiths: Mancunian Marxist whose political plays deserve revival

Griffiths, who has died aged 88, explored the conflict between reform and revolution in plays and scripts from the film Reds to dramas such as Occupations, The Party and Comedians

Evening Standard

Our guide to the best Shakespeare film adaptations of all time, from Hamlet to Macbeth

More than four centuries later and we still can’t get enough of Shakespeare’s thrilling, tortuous plots

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Eleanor Fazan obituary

Theatre director who took Beyond the Fringe to the West End and worked on hit productions throughout the 1960s and 70s

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32 of the Most Legendary Hollywood Rivalries

Whether they lasted a month or a decade, these feuds are legendary.

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