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Greenaway then promptly set out not to build on this success, undertaking one eccentric film project after another.

SEVERAL PEOPLE have appeared in two consecutive Best Picture Oscar winners. Meryl Streep was in "The Deer Hunter" and "Kramer vs.

The tremendous merit of Mr. John Gielgud's long-awaited "Hamlet" is its fidelity.

Let's keep talking about movies. Lots of critic-types have been looking back to the year of 1939 but how could they have overlooked 1979 and the release of 'Caligula'? The controversial, X-rated epic - which tanked at the box office - starred Helen Mirren, Peter O'Toole and Sir John Gielgud, among others.

THERE could be no more apt and atmospheric place to play Hamlet than at Kronborg Castle, built here in the 16th century at the edge of the sound separating Denmark from Sweden.

Olivier plays the cruel and deformed monarch of Shakespeare's imagination , and he directs the movie in lengthy single-takes in order to let the ripe color, the rich costumes, and the quality cast ravish the audience.

Gielgud the predator: He was one of our most flamboyant actors but Sir John had an altogether darker side... By Michael Thornton Last updated at 9:08 AM on 27th August 2009 The scene was an idyllic thatched cottage, Knots Fosse, set in five acres of landscaped gardens on the Essex borders, complete with tennis court, croquet lawn, a covered, heated ...

A major concert series this month in August features Pinchas Zukerman conducting and performing in four concerts at the Auckland Town Hall Music New Zealand Symphony Orchestra The Zuckerman Experience Auckland Town Hall Elgar Thursday 13 August 6.30pm Brahms Academic Festival Overture Symphony No 3 Hungarian Dances Double Concerto for Violin and ...

If nothing else, the Peter Hall Company summer season in Bath is refocusing the repertoire in regional theatre like no other current enterprise.

Gielgud, Redgrave and Coward turn up in Sheridan Morley's correspondence. AS ageing thespians go, he kept his lust for life.

It's tough to squeeze fresh life out of a legend as overtilled as Camelot, but Merlin , a 13-part summer series on NBC, debuting tonight, finds a workable approach: Dial the traditional tale back a few decades and twist the premise.

Terence Alexander, who has died aged 86 from Parkinson's disease, was best known for his role as Charlie Hungerford in the BBC TV detective series Bergerac.

Run your finger down the CV of any major actor or actress and chances are that finger will soon trip over a work by Shakespeare, be it a big or small-screen production, a play or radio recital.

I have been stubbornly resisting signing on to Twitter.com probably because I think I am so busy.

So far only 10 people have won the grand slam of showbiz peer-group prizes a ' the Oscar, Emmy, Grammy and Tony: Mel Brooks , John Gielgud , Whoopi Goldberg , Helen Hayes , Audrey Hepburn , Marvin Hamlisch , Mike Nichols , Rita Moreno, Richard Rodgers and Jonathan Tunick .

Ben and Sarah Terry , parents of the more famous Ellen, were jobbing actors. Six of their nine children had stage careers.

"Toward evening find a silent shuttered room./ Sit or lie; let your eyes slide shut./ Your heart slows; your mind will likely race - / A smear of pictures, leering sideshows, tunes,/ Bodies you've tasted, geeks, your private crimes -/ All ways to bribe you from the dare you take,/ this risk of a trek toward home, a healing journey./ But coax your ...

Josephine Tey was a master of English detective fiction, rivaling in her time even the Grand Dame of them all, Agatha Christie.

Jasper Britton seems to have hit a formidable stride. Son of the veteran actor Tony Britton, Britton fils has been a near-ubiquitous stage presence of late.

These men are both playing Richard III. How can acting styles have changed so much? Simon Callow on the fashions, theories and hypnotic faces that have shaped the stage A world of difference ... Laurence Olivier and Jonathan Slinger playing King Richard III Photograph: Hulton Archive/Getty/Tristram Kenton I have been acting for 35 years now, and ...