Tag: A Midsummer Night’s Dream
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‘My father thought actors were one step above cat burglars!’: Alfred Molina meets David Oyelowo
The actors talk about applause, auditions, how they fell in love with the theatre – and the extraordinary high of delivering the perfect lineDavid Oyelowo and Alfred Molina have been friends since they appeared together on screen in As You Like It directed by Kenneth Branagh in 2006. Molina now has a role in Oyelowo’s…
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‘The Glorias’: Julie Taymor’s Gloria Steinem Biopic Will Stream on Amazon Next Month
Since directing 2007’s operatic, Beatles-inspired musical Across the Universe, filmmaker Julie Taymor has only directed two movies: 2010’s The Tempest, and a filmed version of her stage show Julie Taymor’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream in 2014. Now she’s back with The Glorias, a biopic of feminist icon Gloria Steinem which stars Julianne Moore, Alicia Vikander,…
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Olivia de Havilland, Oscar winner and star of ‘Gone With The Wind’, dies aged 104
Talent, awards, tempestuous relationship with sister Joan Fontaine, and legal wrangles with Warner Bros.Olivia de Havilland, the double Oscar winner and one of the last icons of Hollywood’s Golden Age who starred in Gone With The Wind, has died from natural causes at her home in Paris. She was 104.de Havilland lived in France for…
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Ian Holm, Shakespearean Actor Who Played Bilbo Baggins, Dies at 88
Ian Holm, the classically trained Shakespearean actor best known to film audiences for his performances in films including the “Lord of the Rings” and “Hobbit” movies, “Chariots of Fire” and “Alien,” has died. He was 88.A rep for the actor has said Holm died in hospital on Friday morning. The actor had been battling Parkinson’s…