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While Labour scarcely has a surfeit of celebrity supporters these days Sir Michael Caine's defection to the Tories was the last thing that the party needed Ben Bradshaw has just seen fit to give Emma Thompson a sound thrashing.

UK Film Council estimates actor's value based on factors including her salary as well as her films' effect on British tourism and UK-based film production Monday, 09 November 2009 She has been appraised and audited and metaphorically slapped with a price tag.

Actress and double Oscar winner Emma Thompson has erased her name from a terrible document.

ACTRESS Emma Thompson stunned students by telling them BNP leader Nick Griffin would love their university as she hit out over racism.

Ang Lee's children encouraged him to take drugs. The 'Sense and Sensibility' director - who says he has tried cannabis - said his two sons told him he "must try" hallucinogenic mushrooms while researching his sixties music film 'Taking Woodstock'. Lee said: "I was tempted to do it, but I couldn't take it.

In one way, "Place of Execution," which premieres Sunday on PBS' "Masterpiece Contemporary," is a typical "cozy" mystery.

Ronnie Corbett, comedian: 'I claim not to like chardonnay, but curiously my current favourite white is just that, the ripe, buttery and smooth 2007 Christophe Cordier Vire-Clesse Vieilles Vignes ' Photo: GRAHAM JEPSON James Wilby, actor: 'I dont even try to drink anything other than bordeaux.

Ang Lee was not the most likely director to create a film about Woodstock, and his authentic-looking LSD scene is from imagination not experience, he tells James Mottram Ang Lee was not the most likely director to create a film about Woodstock enlarge Rather like Bruce Banner, the Marvel Comics character he once wrestled with in Hulk, there lurks ...

"An Education," the story of a London teenager's coming of age in the epoch just before the Beatles, stars Carey Mulligan.

Ang Lee was a 14-year-old schoolboy preparing for his exams in conservative Taiwan when he saw clips of the Woodstock festival on the television news.

Q What can you tell me about British movie star Emma Thompson? Does she live in the U.S. or England? - Tracy Matthews, Hartford, Conn.

Earlier this month Kate Winslet celebrated her birthday. To this aging fan, she still seems astonishingly young, but of course, success came fairly early for her.

Taking Woodstock Directed by: Ang Lee Starring: Demetri Martin , Henry Goodman , Imelda Staunton , Emile Hirsch , Eugene Levy , Mamie Gummer , Jonathan Groff ; Liev Schreiber Running time: 110 minutes Taiwan release: Today Since Ice Storm in 1995, Taiwan-born director Ang Lee has made a number of forays in Americana.

Shows, films and the week's radio. BEST REALITY Big Brother's Celebrity Hijack Channel 4 and E4, Thursday The original big daddy of reality TV programming was never really going to disappear, now was it? For as much as the execs at the top of BB towers eventu ally hung their heads in shame over the 'Shilpagate' race row last year, a show which ...

Unfortunately I've been pretty hammered by the flu so I'm just now getting around to it.

The extraordinary life, work, and legacy of one of the greatest novelists in the English language, Jane Austen , are the focus of a new exhibition at The Morgan Library & Museum from November 6, 2009, through March 14, 2010.

Five-time Oscar bridesmaid Kate Winslet must have caught the bouquet when Helen Mirren flung it over her shoulder, because she finally got her turn at the altar this year.

If you thought Pride and Prejudice and Zombies was a ridiculous idea, then go ahead and skip to the next review; and while you're at it, loosen up your sphincter a little.

Lest we forget that women in England can be knighted, or made a dame as the case may be, I have prepared my list of nominations for actresses from Harry Potter for her majesty's perusal when next she awards the OBEs.

No.10 - Kate Beckinsale Kate Beckinsale began her career as a lady-boner popper in Kenneth Branagh's film adaptation of Much Ado About Nothing.