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By Nick Ahad What do you do when you have an idle moment at work? Maybe a little internet shopping? Perhaps you pop out for a coffee? Sir Ian McKellen performs a bit of Shakespeare.

His years as a closeted gay man gave actor Ian McKellen an understanding, he says, of Jews who hid during the Holocaust.

SDNN theater critic also reviews hair-raising "Dreams in the Witch House" Love in the worst of times THE SHOW: "Bent," an intense drama, at Diversionary Theatre One night in 1985, I went to the Bowery Theatre, a small, underground company , to see a show that would change my life.

The reason why rumours Richard Gere enjoys gerbils up his ass keep dogging the actor after all these years is because Gere not only worked at the Provincetown Playhouse in 1971, but posed for Playgirl in 1983.

Whatsonstage.com has confirmed that actor Con O'Neill will take over Matt Lucas ' role of Kenneth Halliwell in the West End production of Simon Bent's Prick Up Your Ears at the Comedy Theatre on October 22.

Matchbox Twenty front-man Rob Thomas will be performing Oct. 23 at Pechanga Resort & Casino in Temecula as part of a tour to promote his latest solo album, "cradlesong." The album, his second solo release, features the top hit single, "Her Diamonds." Thomas's first solo album, "Something to Be," was released in 2005 and made history as the first ...

It's been 30 years since Kramer vs. Kramer took movie audiences by surprise with its tale of a workaholic dad forced to reorder his priorities to focus on being a caregiver .

Sean Mathias directs Anna Friel as Holly Golightly and Joseph Cross as William 'Fred' Parsons in Samuel Adamson's new stage adaptation of Truman Capote 's classic novella Breakfast at Tiffany's, currently in its 50th anniversary year.

Clive Owen, the British Oscar nominee and Golden Globe award winner, will be honored with an award for excellence in cinema at the 32nd annual Mill Valley Film Festival in October.

THE ROVING EYE The glitzy face of Eurabia By Pepe Escobar PARIS - Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani, the emir of Qatar, is a man, to quote rock geopoliticos Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, "of wealth and taste". Not to mention his second wife, the ravishing Sheikh Moza, one of the most powerful women in the Middle East.

Here come the atheists! In a little over a month, Toronto will be rolling out, it appears, the most God-unfearing red carpet in Toronto International Film Festival history.

Here come the atheists! In a little over a month, Toronto will be rolling out, it appears, the most God-unfearing red carpet in Toronto International Film Festival history.

Here come the atheists! In a little over a month, Toronto will be rolling out, it appears, the most God-unfearing red carpet in Toronto International Film Festival history.

Joining Anna Friel and Joseph Cross will be James Dreyfus , Suzanne Bertish , Dermot Crowley and John Ramm .

When people think of the saddest films they've seen, movies like Steel Magnolias or Terms of Endearment are usually at the top of the list.

Rob Thomas has two jobs - and he's happy about that. The singer/songwriter is the frontman for the rock band Matchbox Twenty, the voice and pen behind such hits as "Back 2 Good" , "Push" , "Real World" , "3 AM" , "Bent" and more.

The Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Colorado - a legendary venue that has been graced by rock luminaries from The Beatles to U2 - provides the awe-inspiring backdrop for three-time Grammy Award-winning artist Rob Thomas in his first-ever live performance DVD.

Everyone has the right to live openly, writes the actor as we approach the 40th anniversary of the Stonewall riots Sir Ian McKellen I remember when Michael Cashman, now an MEP, was the first chairman of the lobby group Stonewall.