A World War II drama, two drama series, and an adaptation of the novel
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- 10/4/2017
- by CS
- Comingsoon.net
The BBC has set a lineup of new drama and comedy series which are in the works for BBC One and Two in the coming year. Among them are epic WWII drama World On Fire from The A Word‘s Peter Bowker; The Trial of Christine Keeler from Apple Tree Yard‘s Amanda Coe; and House Productions’ half-hour Trigonometry, written by Duncan Macmillan and Effie Woods. BBC Drama Controller Piers Wegner unveiled the projects at the Broadcast Commissioning Forum this morning and also confirmed…...
- 10/4/2017
- Deadline TV
Screen International has revealed its Stars of Tomorrow, spotlighting the hottest up-and-coming actors and filmmakers.
Click here to access the Screen Stars of Tomorrow microsite, including full profiles, picture gallery and digital edition
Now in its 12th year, the annual showcase spotlights up-and-coming actors, writers, directors and producers who will be making waves in the years to come.
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Past Stars of Tomorrow selected by Screen include Benedict Cumberbatch (2004), Oscar-winner Eddie Redmayne (2005), Suffragette star Carey Mulligan, Star Wars: The Force Awakens actor John Boyega (2011) and last year’s cover stars Taron Egerton, Olivia Cooke and Sam Keeley.
Stars of Tomorrow editor Fionnuala Halligan curates the stars after considering hundreds of candidates and consulting with industry experts including casting agents, talent agents, managers, producers and directors.
This year marks a partnership with the BFI London Film Festival (Oct 7-18), which will present the Stars as part of its programme of events.
Halligan...
Click here to access the Screen Stars of Tomorrow microsite, including full profiles, picture gallery and digital edition
Now in its 12th year, the annual showcase spotlights up-and-coming actors, writers, directors and producers who will be making waves in the years to come.
Scroll down for the full list
Past Stars of Tomorrow selected by Screen include Benedict Cumberbatch (2004), Oscar-winner Eddie Redmayne (2005), Suffragette star Carey Mulligan, Star Wars: The Force Awakens actor John Boyega (2011) and last year’s cover stars Taron Egerton, Olivia Cooke and Sam Keeley.
Stars of Tomorrow editor Fionnuala Halligan curates the stars after considering hundreds of candidates and consulting with industry experts including casting agents, talent agents, managers, producers and directors.
This year marks a partnership with the BFI London Film Festival (Oct 7-18), which will present the Stars as part of its programme of events.
Halligan...
- 10/5/2015
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Screen International has revealed its Stars of Tomorrow, spotlighting the hottest up-and-coming actors and filmmakers.
Click here to access the Screen Stars of Tomorrow microsite, including full profiles, picture gallery and digital edition
Now in its 12th year, the annual showcase spotlights up-and-coming actors, writers, directors and producers who will be making waves in the years to come.
Scroll down for the full list
Past Stars of Tomorrow selected by Screen include Benedict Cumberbatch (2004), Oscar-winner Eddie Redmayne (2005), Suffragette star Carey Mulligan, Star Wars: The Force Awakens actor John Boyega (2011) and last year’s cover stars Taron Egerton, Olivia Cooke and Sam Keeley.
Stars of Tomorrow editor Fionnuala Halligan curates the stars after considering hundreds of candidates and consulting with industry experts including casting agents, talent agents, managers, producers and directors.
This year marks a partnership with the BFI London Film Festival (Oct 7-18), which will present the Stars as part of its programme of events.
Halligan...
Click here to access the Screen Stars of Tomorrow microsite, including full profiles, picture gallery and digital edition
Now in its 12th year, the annual showcase spotlights up-and-coming actors, writers, directors and producers who will be making waves in the years to come.
Scroll down for the full list
Past Stars of Tomorrow selected by Screen include Benedict Cumberbatch (2004), Oscar-winner Eddie Redmayne (2005), Suffragette star Carey Mulligan, Star Wars: The Force Awakens actor John Boyega (2011) and last year’s cover stars Taron Egerton, Olivia Cooke and Sam Keeley.
Stars of Tomorrow editor Fionnuala Halligan curates the stars after considering hundreds of candidates and consulting with industry experts including casting agents, talent agents, managers, producers and directors.
This year marks a partnership with the BFI London Film Festival (Oct 7-18), which will present the Stars as part of its programme of events.
Halligan...
- 10/5/2015
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
The West End production of Stephen Ward will complete its run at the Aldwych Theatre on 29 March 2014. Stephen Ward received its world premiere in December last year with a cast led by Alexander Hanson in the title role, Charlotte Spencer as Christine Keeler and Charlotte Blackledge as Mandy Rice Davies. With music by Andrew Lloyd Webber, Stephen Ward has book and lyrics by playwright Christopher Hampton and lyricist Don Black. The production is directed by Richard Eyre with set and costume designs by Rob Howell, lighting design by Peter Mumford, sound design by Paul Groothuis, projection design by Jon Driscoll, and choreography by Stephen Mear.
- 2/24/2014
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
The prostitutes of London's red-light district are being evicted. Here, Rupert Everett argues, with wit and vehemence, that closing down the brothels has nothing to do with protecting women
The other night I watched Stephen Ward at the Aldwych Theatre, a morality musical about the destruction of an innocent man by the combined forces of Her Majesty's Government, her judiciary and her Metropolitan police force. Written by Lord Lloyd Webber, directed by Sir Richard Eyre, it is the best sort of British story, set against a world of stately homes and Soho drinking clubs, of peers, politicians, prostitutes and bent cops – with a few thrilling Jamaicans wielding guns thrown in – all ending up at the Old Bailey, where that deep wave of British hypocrisy (masquerading as fair play and crested by the usual police bullshit) drags Ward out to sea and drowns him. Convicted of being a pimp – he was...
The other night I watched Stephen Ward at the Aldwych Theatre, a morality musical about the destruction of an innocent man by the combined forces of Her Majesty's Government, her judiciary and her Metropolitan police force. Written by Lord Lloyd Webber, directed by Sir Richard Eyre, it is the best sort of British story, set against a world of stately homes and Soho drinking clubs, of peers, politicians, prostitutes and bent cops – with a few thrilling Jamaicans wielding guns thrown in – all ending up at the Old Bailey, where that deep wave of British hypocrisy (masquerading as fair play and crested by the usual police bullshit) drags Ward out to sea and drowns him. Convicted of being a pimp – he was...
- 1/19/2014
- The Guardian - Film News
Donmar; Aldwych, London; Crucible, Sheffield
Tom Hiddleston's Coriolanus is blazing but bleak, and there's as little love in a 60s sex scandal as there was in Dickens's London
The first time I saw Tom Hiddleston act was at the Donmar six years ago. He was 26, a doleful Cassio to Chiwetel Ejiofor's Othello, and he made a small part look essential. Now he takes centre stage as a blazing Coriolanus. Blazing but bleak. He is the ideal combination of emotional reserve and physical bravura.
Reserve has always been one of the problems of this difficult play. Where do spectators put their trust? The play's martial hero treats the audience as he does the populace – don't say plebs – he despises. He will not show his wounds to the public in order to get their vote. He will not let spectators into his thoughts with a soliloquy.
A couple of years...
Tom Hiddleston's Coriolanus is blazing but bleak, and there's as little love in a 60s sex scandal as there was in Dickens's London
The first time I saw Tom Hiddleston act was at the Donmar six years ago. He was 26, a doleful Cassio to Chiwetel Ejiofor's Othello, and he made a small part look essential. Now he takes centre stage as a blazing Coriolanus. Blazing but bleak. He is the ideal combination of emotional reserve and physical bravura.
Reserve has always been one of the problems of this difficult play. Where do spectators put their trust? The play's martial hero treats the audience as he does the populace – don't say plebs – he despises. He will not show his wounds to the public in order to get their vote. He will not let spectators into his thoughts with a soliloquy.
A couple of years...
- 12/22/2013
- by Susannah Clapp
- The Guardian - Film News
London -- Sexual intercourse began in 1963, according to a much-quoted verse by the celebrated English poet Phillip Larkin. It was certainly a watershed year for sex scandal in Britain, with the resignation of Defense minister John Profumo in the face of shock revelations about his extra-marital affair with the teenage model and showgirl Christine Keeler. The man who introduced them, a suave London osteopath named Stephen Ward, was subsequently scapegoated as a pimp in the trumped-up court case that followed. Ward's life was destroyed by the same establishment of hypocrites who had previously solicited his connections to London's
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- 12/19/2013
- by Stephen Dalton
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
London, Oct. 1: A new West End production will be bringing back the story of the infamous 1960s Profumo Affair into the spotlight.
For the script, writer Andrew Lloyd Webber has rolled in Mandy Rice-Davies, who was one of the models involved in the British political scandal, to help him pen down the story, the Daily Express reported.
The project will chronicle the events after society figure and London osteopath Dr. Stephen Ward introduced John Profumo, former secretary of state for war, to showgirl Christine Keeler at a bash at Lord Astor's Cliveden home in Berkshire.
When the affair was exposed at the height of the Cold.
For the script, writer Andrew Lloyd Webber has rolled in Mandy Rice-Davies, who was one of the models involved in the British political scandal, to help him pen down the story, the Daily Express reported.
The project will chronicle the events after society figure and London osteopath Dr. Stephen Ward introduced John Profumo, former secretary of state for war, to showgirl Christine Keeler at a bash at Lord Astor's Cliveden home in Berkshire.
When the affair was exposed at the height of the Cold.
- 10/1/2013
- by Ketali Mehta
- RealBollywood.com
The cast for the World Premiere of Stephen Ward, directed by Richard Eyre, will comprise Alexander Hanson as Stephen Ward, Charlotte Spencer as Christine Keeler, Charlotte Blackledge as Mandy Rice Davies, Anthony Calfas Lord Astor, Daniel Flynn as John Profumo, Joanna Riding as Valerie Hobson, Ian Conningham as Ivanov, Chris Howell as Murray, Ricardo Coke Thomas as Lucky Gordon and Wayne Robinson as Johnny Edgecomp. Other cast members are Martin Callaghan, Kate Coyston, Jason Denton, Julian Forsyth, Amy Griffiths, Paul Kemble, Emma Kate Nelson, Carl Sanderson, Emily Squibb, John Stacey, Helen Ternent and Tim Walton.
- 9/6/2013
- by BWW Special Coverage
- BroadwayWorld.com
✒Some of those who relished the Pirandellian spectacle of the BBC's coverage of the Queen's visit to New Broadcasting House on Friday (climaxing in especially postmodern fashion with her contribution to a Radio 4 special about, well, her visit to New Broadcasting House) consulted the maps for BBC staff of the "goldfish bowl" newsroom, as previously reproduced in MediaGuardian. And, yes, the spot where Hm stood as she appeared panto-style behind the news presenters is the No 1 no-go area, marked "please don't stand here".
✒This wasn't the only instance of royal scorn for the rules, as she wore a hat in the newsroom and was accompanied by an equerry equipped with a sword, both contrary to BBC guidelines though more alarmingly so in the latter case. At one point it seemed possible the sword might come in to use, when a second chap in military garb could be glimpsed making a...
✒This wasn't the only instance of royal scorn for the rules, as she wore a hat in the newsroom and was accompanied by an equerry equipped with a sword, both contrary to BBC guidelines though more alarmingly so in the latter case. At one point it seemed possible the sword might come in to use, when a second chap in military garb could be glimpsed making a...
- 6/9/2013
- by Monkey
- The Guardian - Film News
London, Jun 09: Christine Keeler has come clean and has admitted for the first time that she betrayed her country.
Exactly 50 years after John Profumo resigned as Secretary of State for War, Keeler has confessed that she played a willing role in a high-placed spy ring in the Profumo affair, the Mirror reported.
She claimed that she helped her friend, osteopath Stephen Ward, whose clients included Winston Churchill, Frank Sinatra and Elizabeth Taylor, in uncovering secrets about missile movements in the West that were later passed to the Soviets.
The 71-year-old said that she knows the truth and it is far more shocking.
Exactly 50 years after John Profumo resigned as Secretary of State for War, Keeler has confessed that she played a willing role in a high-placed spy ring in the Profumo affair, the Mirror reported.
She claimed that she helped her friend, osteopath Stephen Ward, whose clients included Winston Churchill, Frank Sinatra and Elizabeth Taylor, in uncovering secrets about missile movements in the West that were later passed to the Soviets.
The 71-year-old said that she knows the truth and it is far more shocking.
- 6/9/2013
- by Smith Cox
- RealBollywood.com
Now according to the Evening Standard, John Profumo will only be a small part of the new musical. In fact, the relationship between showgirl Christine Keeler and Profumo will make up only 'about seven minutes of the narrative.' Additionally, Lloyd Webber revealed thet the show's working title is 'Stephen Ward,' who was the pimp that brought the two together.
- 3/13/2013
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
As BroadwayWorld previously reported, composer Andrew Lloyd Webber is at work on a musical based on the events surrounding the 1963 Profumo Affair. Today, the Daily Mail has confirmed that Lloyd Webber will be leading a sing-through of the musical's score with Alexander Hanson as Stephen Ward and Hal Fowler as Profumo. Joining them will be Iris Roberts as Christine Keeler, and Carly Bawden as Mandy Rice Davies.
- 2/8/2013
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Acknowledging the missile crises and cold war paranoia of the time would have lit a fuse under this well-researched but rather simpler tale of a lot of men lusting after a young showgirl
Director: Michael Caton-Jones
Entertainment grade: B-
History grade: B
In 1963, the British secretary of state for war, John Profumo, lied in Parliament about an affair he had had with Christine Keeler. She had also been having an affair with Yevgeny Ivanov, an alleged Soviet spy.
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Scandalmongering osteopath Stephen Ward spots Christine Keeler dancing burlesque at Murray's Cabaret Club in Soho, London (in the film, the Café de Paris). Keeler is played by Joanne Whalley, who looks astonishingly like the real thing. The film's producers have done an excellent job of casting actors who look right – including John Hurt as Ward, Jeroen Krabbé as Ivanov, and a Harold Macmillan lookalike in the House of Commons scenes who...
Director: Michael Caton-Jones
Entertainment grade: B-
History grade: B
In 1963, the British secretary of state for war, John Profumo, lied in Parliament about an affair he had had with Christine Keeler. She had also been having an affair with Yevgeny Ivanov, an alleged Soviet spy.
People
Scandalmongering osteopath Stephen Ward spots Christine Keeler dancing burlesque at Murray's Cabaret Club in Soho, London (in the film, the Café de Paris). Keeler is played by Joanne Whalley, who looks astonishingly like the real thing. The film's producers have done an excellent job of casting actors who look right – including John Hurt as Ward, Jeroen Krabbé as Ivanov, and a Harold Macmillan lookalike in the House of Commons scenes who...
- 7/11/2012
- by Alex von Tunzelmann
- The Guardian - Film News
Lord Andrew Lloyd Webber has revealed that he is planning a new musical. The composer said that he would like to write a story based on the life of Dr Stephen Ward, who became nationally known after his involvement in the infamous Profumo Affair in 1963. Ward was known to have introduced showgirl Christine Keeler to married cabinet minister John Profumo, who later began having an affair with her, causing a dramatic scandal within the Conservative government at the time. The osteopath was charged with living off the profits of so-called prostitution, and soon after committed suicide with a sleeping pill overdose. Lloyd Webber stated that Ward being a scapegoat would translate well to today's media often needing a similar person or company (more)...
- 7/6/2012
- by By Tom Eames
- Digital Spy
Andrew Lloyd Webber is developing a musical about the Stephen Ward, the man who introduced call girl Christine Keeler to war secretary John Profumo. The resulting Profumo Affair scandal began the end of Harold MacMillan's government in 1960s Britain. According to a post by Michael Riedel on nypost.com, Sunset Boulevard scriptwriter Christopher Hampton may be asked to write the script for Lloyd Webber's new project.
- 3/16/2012
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Andrew Lloyd Webber, creator of the most successful theatrical production in history "The Phantom of the Opera," is trying his hand at a scandalous story with more of a political edge. In a radio interview, Webber announced his interest in the 1963 Profumo scandal; the Cold War affair across enemy lines, the Guardian reports.
It's no surprise this dramatic trifecta involving politicians, lust and death is appealing for a theatrical production. Webber -- who has composed a number of well-known productions, including "Evita," "Starlight Express," "Cats" and "Jesus Christ Superstar" -- has a lot of material to work with.
The Profumo incident involved Britain Secretary of State for War John Profumo's affair with Christine Keeler, mistress of alleged Russian spy Stephen Ward. Not only was the scandal swathed in the red of Sovietism, but Profumo went on to lie about the affair in the House of Commons and was forced to...
It's no surprise this dramatic trifecta involving politicians, lust and death is appealing for a theatrical production. Webber -- who has composed a number of well-known productions, including "Evita," "Starlight Express," "Cats" and "Jesus Christ Superstar" -- has a lot of material to work with.
The Profumo incident involved Britain Secretary of State for War John Profumo's affair with Christine Keeler, mistress of alleged Russian spy Stephen Ward. Not only was the scandal swathed in the red of Sovietism, but Profumo went on to lie about the affair in the House of Commons and was forced to...
- 2/27/2012
- by Amber Genuske
- Huffington Post
British film star known for her roles in A Town Like Alice and The Spanish Gardener
Never having had the chance to justify her initial build-up as "the next Vivien Leigh", the svelte brunette Maureen Swanson, who has died of cancer aged 78, deserved much better than she was given in the 1950s by the Rank Organisation, to whom she was under contract. Although Swanson was not a graduate of the much-maligned Rank Charm School, she was, to her chagrin, often referred to as a "Rank starlet", which implied that she was merely on screen in order to look glamorous. But unlike Rank charmers such as Diana Dors, Joan Collins and Belinda Lee, Swanson was not a "naughty" sex symbol, but more of a "good girl".
She might have gone on to better parts had not her marriage in 1961 to William Ward, Viscount Ednam (later the 4th Earl of Dudley) terminated her acting career for good.
Never having had the chance to justify her initial build-up as "the next Vivien Leigh", the svelte brunette Maureen Swanson, who has died of cancer aged 78, deserved much better than she was given in the 1950s by the Rank Organisation, to whom she was under contract. Although Swanson was not a graduate of the much-maligned Rank Charm School, she was, to her chagrin, often referred to as a "Rank starlet", which implied that she was merely on screen in order to look glamorous. But unlike Rank charmers such as Diana Dors, Joan Collins and Belinda Lee, Swanson was not a "naughty" sex symbol, but more of a "good girl".
She might have gone on to better parts had not her marriage in 1961 to William Ward, Viscount Ednam (later the 4th Earl of Dudley) terminated her acting career for good.
- 1/1/2012
- by Ronald Bergan
- The Guardian - Film News
Exhibit includes modern performers Russell Brand and Johnny Vegas, as well as stars from the past such as Kenneth Horne
From Benny Hill looking dirty-minded to Johnny Vegas looking sexy, the National Portrait Gallery in London is celebrating British comedy in a free display that includes several recent acquisitions.
The gallery said it had acquired a photograph originally commissioned by the Guardian, which shows Vegas mimicking Demi Moore's pregnant pose on the cover of Vanity Fair. The photograph is one of more than 20 taken by Karl J Kaul, including Sacha Baron Cohen as Michael Jackson and Russell Brand as Christine Keeler.
Other recent acquisitions include portraits of Jimmy Carr and Mitchell and Webb by Barry Marsden, Omid Djalili by Karen Robinson and Matt Lucas by Nadav Kander. The display charts 70 years of British comedy, from people such as Kenneth Horne in the 1940s to the Catherine Tate Show. Along...
From Benny Hill looking dirty-minded to Johnny Vegas looking sexy, the National Portrait Gallery in London is celebrating British comedy in a free display that includes several recent acquisitions.
The gallery said it had acquired a photograph originally commissioned by the Guardian, which shows Vegas mimicking Demi Moore's pregnant pose on the cover of Vanity Fair. The photograph is one of more than 20 taken by Karl J Kaul, including Sacha Baron Cohen as Michael Jackson and Russell Brand as Christine Keeler.
Other recent acquisitions include portraits of Jimmy Carr and Mitchell and Webb by Barry Marsden, Omid Djalili by Karen Robinson and Matt Lucas by Nadav Kander. The display charts 70 years of British comedy, from people such as Kenneth Horne in the 1940s to the Catherine Tate Show. Along...
- 9/21/2011
- by Mark Brown
- The Guardian - Film News
This flashy thriller, an English-speaking co-production between Belgium, the Netherlands, Malta and the United States shot partly in Jordan, is a fictionalised biography of Latif Yahia, the hapless double for Saddam Hussein's elder son Uday from the Iraq-Iran war to the first Gulf war. The screenwriter, Michael Thomas, handled similarly salacious political material with greater skill in Scandal, the 1988 study of the John Profumo/Christine Keeler affair, and while the film is fairly entertaining, it has nothing new to say about Iraq and little that is original about doppelgangers. Dominic Cooper, however, gives a convincing, at times truly chilling dual performance as Latif and Uday, making an effective distinction between the man of honour, forced to assume another's identity to protect his family, and the sadistic libertine and homicidal psychopath who becomes his puppeteer.
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- 8/13/2011
- by Philip French
- The Guardian - Film News
Errol Morris's documentary makes unlikely stars of a former Miss Wyoming and a Fleet Street gentleman
The London film festival begins this week, and – though it's early days to start picking winners – I'm tempted to say that if the festival could somehow, like an American high school prom, crown a king and queen of the festival, these titles might go to Peter Tory, the diffident former diary journalist of the Daily Express, and Joyce McKinney, the 61-year-old former Miss Wyoming. They are the unlikely stars of Errol Morris's new documentary Tabloid, about the strange case of the sexually voracious American former beauty-queen McKinney and her brush with 1970s Fleet Street. It does not have the gravitas or chill of his recent films The Fog Of War and Standard Operating Procedure. But it's a fascinating insight into the pre-history of the celebrity industry: a lost world where newspapers, with buccaneering,...
The London film festival begins this week, and – though it's early days to start picking winners – I'm tempted to say that if the festival could somehow, like an American high school prom, crown a king and queen of the festival, these titles might go to Peter Tory, the diffident former diary journalist of the Daily Express, and Joyce McKinney, the 61-year-old former Miss Wyoming. They are the unlikely stars of Errol Morris's new documentary Tabloid, about the strange case of the sexually voracious American former beauty-queen McKinney and her brush with 1970s Fleet Street. It does not have the gravitas or chill of his recent films The Fog Of War and Standard Operating Procedure. But it's a fascinating insight into the pre-history of the celebrity industry: a lost world where newspapers, with buccaneering,...
- 10/12/2010
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
London, Sept 27 – Actress-cum-singer Sinitta has stripped off to pose nude in a recreation of Christine Keeler’s famous 1963 portrait.
Sinitta, 41, posed nude on the back of a chair for Now Magazine, imitating the portrait of Keeler, who was at the centre of the notorious Profumo affair, the Daily Mail reported.eeler had simultaneous affairs with war minister John Profumo and Russian naval attache Yevgeni ‘Eugene’ Ivanov, a political sex scandal, which dogged Harold Macmillan’s government.
In the magazine, Sinitta also revealed that she is worried about her former boyfriend Simon Cowell’s health. (Ani)...
Sinitta, 41, posed nude on the back of a chair for Now Magazine, imitating the portrait of Keeler, who was at the centre of the notorious Profumo affair, the Daily Mail reported.eeler had simultaneous affairs with war minister John Profumo and Russian naval attache Yevgeni ‘Eugene’ Ivanov, a political sex scandal, which dogged Harold Macmillan’s government.
In the magazine, Sinitta also revealed that she is worried about her former boyfriend Simon Cowell’s health. (Ani)...
- 9/27/2010
- by News
- RealBollywood.com
Louis Mellis, the writer behind Sexy Beast and 44 Inch Chest, is set to tackle royalty in his next project, The Princess' Gangster. It's based on the true story of Princess Margaret's* alleged affair with notorious gangster John Bindon in the late 1960s.Bindon was a bit of a wide boy, serving time in a Borstal institution for possession of ammunition as a young man, but then spotted by Ken Loach and introduced to films, where he went on to appear opposite Mick Jagger in Performance and for Stanley Kubrick in Barry Lyndon. He then started dating the daughter of a Baron, who took him on holiday to Mustique, where he is said to have had it off with the Princess (she was apparently Not Amused at the stories in the press to that effect, and denied it). Bindon also had affairs with Playboy bunny Serena Williams (no, not that...
- 2/1/2010
- EmpireOnline
The Manchester-born actor on why she has played truants, schemers and tearaways all her life
"Am I blind or are you hiding?" I get this text from Joanne Whalley as I'm looking directly at her, eye to eye, at a coffeeshop near her home in West Hollywood. She's the one who seems to be hiding: slender and on the small side, wearing sombre colours and sunglasses on a gloomy winter's day. She might be a suburban mother picking up the kids, or one of those quietly dangerous film-noirish women – in shades, dressed to blend in – she has played on more than one occasion.
After the release of Scandal in 1989, in which she played Christine Keeler, Whalley seemed on the verge of something huge. She had recently married the Hollywood star Val Kilmer and moved to the Us. But the marriage lasted eight years, and the career did not. Some people...
"Am I blind or are you hiding?" I get this text from Joanne Whalley as I'm looking directly at her, eye to eye, at a coffeeshop near her home in West Hollywood. She's the one who seems to be hiding: slender and on the small side, wearing sombre colours and sunglasses on a gloomy winter's day. She might be a suburban mother picking up the kids, or one of those quietly dangerous film-noirish women – in shades, dressed to blend in – she has played on more than one occasion.
After the release of Scandal in 1989, in which she played Christine Keeler, Whalley seemed on the verge of something huge. She had recently married the Hollywood star Val Kilmer and moved to the Us. But the marriage lasted eight years, and the career did not. Some people...
- 1/28/2010
- by John Patterson
- The Guardian - Film News
The new Bond film favours Carry On jokes over Cold War antics
James Bond first appeared between hard covers in 1953, the year of the Coronation, and became established between warm sheets a decade later with his second movie, From Russia With Love, in the year that, according to Philip Larkin, sexual intercourse began with the ascendancy of The Beatles, the Great Train Robbers and Christine Keeler.
He is, in effect, both a national institution to be paraded in On Her Majesty's Secret Service every couple of years, and a survivor of that short-lived period of heady hedonism dubbed Swinging Britain. He's also managed to retain his post-imperial role as the playboy hero of the Western world, a position firmly established in 1961 when White House publicists, to further Jack Kennedy's image, put it around that Ian Fleming was the President's favourite light reading.
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James Bond first appeared between hard covers in 1953, the year of the Coronation, and became established between warm sheets a decade later with his second movie, From Russia With Love, in the year that, according to Philip Larkin, sexual intercourse began with the ascendancy of The Beatles, the Great Train Robbers and Christine Keeler.
He is, in effect, both a national institution to be paraded in On Her Majesty's Secret Service every couple of years, and a survivor of that short-lived period of heady hedonism dubbed Swinging Britain. He's also managed to retain his post-imperial role as the playboy hero of the Western world, a position firmly established in 1961 when White House publicists, to further Jack Kennedy's image, put it around that Ian Fleming was the President's favourite light reading.
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- 11/24/2002
- by Philip French
- The Guardian - Film News
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