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A Haunting in Venice is Kenneth Branagh's 20th film – what do we make of his prodigious output?

In an essay on Kenneth Branagh, screenwriter Scott Frank recalls meeting the future star and director of his screenplay Dead Again (1991) and wondering “why the guy would want to direct a loopy, film noir thriller like mine?”

The Conversation

Twiggy: I did not plan to get into modelling

The model said she has spent her life doing things she did not expect to.

The Independent UK

Twiggy says she never planned to become a model: ‘I must be mad’

The Sixties fashion icon says she has done many ‘things that I didn’t plan to do’

The Independent UK

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Streaming: Godland and the best priests in cinema

The slowly unravelling Lutheran pastor in Godland joins a colourful procession of men of the cloth on film, from all-singing, Oscar-winning Bing Crosby to Robert Mitchum’s psycho killer in Night of the Hunter

The Guardian - UK

Oscar-winning UK actress turned MP Glenda Jackson dies at 87: agent

LONDON - British actress Glenda Jackson, the two-time Oscar-winning actress who went on to become an MP, died on Thursday at the age of 87, prompting tributes from the worlds of entertainment and politics.

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Glenda Jackson obituary

Actor who was a fearless, ferocious presence in theatre, cinema and television, then turned to politics as a Labour MP

The Guardian - UK

Fierce, sensual, cerebral: Glenda Jackson brought class to cinema

The British actor was the epitome of countercultural chic in key 1970s films. It is just a shame she couldn’t be persuaded to do more of them when her political career ended

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Glenda Jackson, fearless actor and politician, dies aged 87

Her singular passion lit up performances from Women in Love to King Lear and drove her 23-year middle career as an MP

The Guardian - UK

Tina Turner: Acid Queen - Album Of The Week Club review

One side of classic rock bangers, one of R&B originals: the two sides of Tina Turner fight it out on 1975 solo album The Acid Queen

Louder

Ken Westbury obituary

Cinematographer who played a key role in bringing a dreamlike quality to many scenes in the BBC drama Pennies from Heaven

The Guardian - UK

Murray Melvin obituary

Actor, archivist of the Theatre Royal, Stratford East, and director, with a long career in theatre, film and television

The Guardian - UK

Murray Melvin, actor, director and theatre archivist, dies aged 90

Melvin’s roles included parts in Torchwood, The Phantom of the Opera and A Taste of Honey

The Guardian - UK

Torchwood star Murray Melvin dies as Russell T Davies leads tributes to iconic star

Actor Murray Melvin, known for starring in Phantom of the Opera and Torchwood has died aged 90.

Daily Mirror

Lawsuit accuses Miami of ‘racial gerrymandering’ in drawing new voting districts

MIAMI — A lawsuit filed Thursday accuses Miami of creating racially segregated districts when officials redrew the boundaries of the city’s voting map in the spring, a controversial process that drew opposition from neighborhood groups over concerns that the plan weakened the political power of Black voters in Coconut Grove.

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What links Lady Chatterley’s Lover to Walkabout and William Hurt?

The DH Lawrence classic inexorably leads to violent UK theatre, a stunning John Barry soundtrack and the erotic thriller Body Heat

The Guardian - UK

Ian Whittaker obituary

Set decorator who worked for Merchant Ivory productions, and with Ken Russell and Ridley Scott

The Guardian - UK

Timothy Spall: ‘Cockroaches in your mouth and a bucket of leeches – that’s when you know you’re in a Ken Russell movie’

The actor answers your questions, from his memorable impersonation of a sloth at Rada to what it was like having to execute one of his son’s best friends

Los Angeles Times

Politicians try to connect on TikTok, but risk the dreaded eye roll

LOS ANGELES — As Megan Thee Stallion raps about her desires for a lover, a young woman records herself in her room, strutting toward her phone in sweatpants and a tank top.

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Miami plans to donate guns to Ukraine. They are not going to the military

MIAMI — The city of Miami is sending more than 150 used guns to Ukrainian police — not to soldiers fighting on the front lines of the Russian invasion.

ABC News

Ukraine asked for more weapons to fight Russia, so Miami police are hosting a gun buyback scheme

As Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy calls on the West for more weapons, one US city answers the call in an unexpected way.

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In Benedetta, Paul Verhoeven tells the forbidden love story of two nuns while confronting gender bias in 17th century Italy

Drawing liberally on the historical record, director Paul Verhoeven delivers a sapphic love story which situates cloistered eroticism, stigmata and visions in 17th century Italy

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