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

Caption: Emma Thompson Premiere of 'An Education' BFI 53rd London Film Festival London, England .... THOMPSON 'WITHDRAWS POLANSKI SUPPORT' British actress EMMA THOMPSON has agreed to withdraw her name from a petition to free ROMAN POLANSKI after a fan called on her to stop supporting the incarcerated filmmaker.

EASTBOURNE MP Nigel Waterson has been congratulated by local Greenpeace campaigners after becoming a beneficial owner of Airplot!, the piece of land owned by Greenpeace and Emma Thompson at the centre of the site of the proposed runway at Heathrow.

ACTRESS Emma Thompson stunned students at Exeter University by telling them: "Nick Griffin would feel very comfortable here". The Oscar-winning actress made her comments in a speech to students after claiming her Rwanda-born son Tindyebwa Agaba suffered racist abuse during his studies in the city.

Actress Emma Thompson said she would remove her name from a petition in support of film director Roman Polanski enlarge Emma Thompson is an Oscar-winning actress whose charisma and outspoken personality have earned her admiration and a reputation as a "strong woman". But when one of her fans realised that Thompson had signed a petition calling for ...

Photograph: Fotos International/Getty Images The actor Emma Thompson has urged a university to work to stamp out racism after her adopted son endured "unpleasant" experiences while studying there.

Alfred Hitchcock's 1959 masterpiece has never looked better, and it's among this week's platinum picks.

Lucas Coe, the 27-year-old Magnolia man accused of injury to a child in the death of 4-year-old Emma Thompson, now faces a new charge: that he also raped the young girl before her death in June.

So have Twitter's 15 minutes of fame almost expired, or what? British comedian and actor Stephen Fry, said to have 924,399 Twitter followers, told them the other day that "I think I may have to give up on Twitter.

When the Merchant/Ivory movie machine was in full force - A Room With a View, Howards End , The Remains of the Day - their output was not only narratively extraordinary, but nearly inescapable.

Emma Thompson, left is the headsmistress in "An Education" - a story of a 16-year-old girl involved with an older man in early '60s London.

Michael Mann may be the most inventive thriller director working in contemporary cinema, but Public Enemies is far from his finest work.

Audio for this story from Weekend Edition Saturday will be available at approx. 12:00 p.m. ET Transcript Enlarge Simon Clark / Eyebox "I Wasn't Me Anymore:" Emma Thompson tours Journey , an art installation she co-created with a woman who was victimized by sex traffickers.

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.

It's not often you can write this with complete conviction but in An Education a star is born.

Our second dose of Emma Thompson's warty Mary Poppins is almost upon us. Unless Anna Pickard can work out what's going on in two minutes, it's off to the naughty step Children's movies come and go.

The Canyon Eion Bailey and Yvonne Strahovski star in this thriller as a couple who get lost while taking a mule tour of the Grand Canyon.

British actress and Oscar hopeful Carey Mulligan talks to us about taking her first leading role in An Education , getting into the mind [and school uniform] of a 16-year-old, mixing it up with Emma Thompson.

Actress Keira Knightley will portray Cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle in the forthcoming film remake of the classic 1956 Lerner and Loewe musical My Fair Lady .

Which onscreen couple emitted so few romantic sparks that when they finally started doing the horizontal mambo, you were vertical and on your way out the door? I can think of one.