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Geoffrey Rush on Pirates, Pinter and pugs: ‘Just be happy we evolved on this bit of rock’

The Oscar winner answers your questions about playing everyone from Peter Sellers to the Marquis de Sade, his home town of Toowoomba and new care-home horror The Rule of Jenny Pen

The Guardian - UK

Donald Trump isn’t even in office yet and silly season has already begun

He wants to seize the Panama Canal, Canada and Greenland. And now wants to rename the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America

The Guardian - US

Friends who turned tiddlywinks into a competitive sport mark 70 years of club

They established competitive rules, wrote a thesis ‘The Science Of Tiddlywinks’ and coined new terminology.

Evening Standard

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Marshall Brickman obituary

Screenwriter, musician and director who won an Oscar, with Woody Allen, for the screenplay of Annie Hall

The Guardian - UK

The week in theatre: Dr Strangelove; Barcelona; Quiet Songs – review

In a week of underused talent, Steve Coogan, Armando Iannucci and Sean Foley merely recreate Kubrick’s satire; Lily Collins totters through a bland night in Spain; and Ruth Negga graces a trance-like hour

The Guardian - UK

Dr Strangelove at the Noël Coward Theatre: Steve Coogan’s masterclass performance is the highlight of this Kubrick adaptation

In September last year, the Stanley Kubrick estate announced that actor, impressionist and comedian Steve Coogan would be taking the lead role (all four of them) in a play of Dr Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb. This is the first ever stage adaptation…

The Conversation

Dr Strangelove review: Steve Coogan is stellar but this is a safe spin on a classic

3/5 Armando Iannucci and Coogan team up to bring Stanley Kubrick’s Cold War satire to the West End, but the production is constrained by aiming too hard for cinematic perfection

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Dr Strangelove review – Steve Coogan scores a quadruple cold war coup

Adding a fourth role to Peter Sellers’ three turns in the classic film, the comic excels in a fun yet unadventurous adaptation

The Guardian - UK

‘The worse the world gets, the better for this play’: Armando Iannucci on staging Dr Strangelove with Steve Coogan

Stanley Kubrick’s pitch-black comedy about nuclear armageddon was once called ‘sick’. Iannucci explains why – in the age of Trump, Putin and Musk – this madcap story is as relevant as ever

The Guardian - UK

Shirley MacLaine left Morgan Freeman shaking his head after she 'propositioned him'

Shirley MacLaine was in an open relationship with her ex-husband but one famous star she failed to attract was Morgan Freeman.

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OPINION - All-out nuclear war is inching closer — and now it could take place in space

Once again there is a lot of loose talk about the possibility, and practicality of nuclear war — in northern Europe, the Middle East, and maybe even the United States. “There is serious concern now that the old theories of deterrence are failing, and nuclear war is now a viable…

Evening Standard

Happy 90th birthday Sophia Loren! Her greatest films – ranked

The screen icon shows her range in roles ranging from Italian sirens to an Oscar-winning turn as a mother fleeing wartime horrors

The Guardian - UK

Charles Blackwell obituary

Music producer, arranger and songwriter who worked with everyone from Marlene Dietrich to Tom Jones, and was behind many pop hits of the 1960s and 70s

The Guardian - UK

Peter Charlesworth obituary

Streetwise entertainment agent and producer who worked with stars such as Shirley Bassey, Judy Garland and Joan Collins

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Happy 90th birthday, Shirley MacLaine: her 20 best films – ranked!

Kooky kid sister, romantic lead, comic turn, cantankerous old dame … we pick out her greatest roles

Evening Standard

Shooting Marianne Faithfull and more secret stories behind the greatest rock 'n' roll photos

Gered Mankowitz is the man behind some of rock ‘n’ roll’s greatest photos. He recalls shooting Marianne Faithfull, Jimi Hendrix and more

The Guardian - US

Dr Strangelove at 60: is this still the greatest big-screen satire?

Stanley Kubrick’s sharp and persuasive comedy about nuclear war remains a hilarious act of provocation

The Guardian - UK

Steve Coogan to star in Armando Iannucci’s Dr Strangelove play

Coogan will follow in Peter Sellers’ footsteps to play multiple roles in stage adaptation of Stanley Kubrick’s 1964 satirical war film

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Jim Parker obituary

Prolific Bafta-winning composer of music for Midsomer Murders, the BBC’s House of Cards and Victoria Wood’s TV dramas

The Guardian - UK

Britt Ekland: ‘I was the first naked female a lot of young lads ever saw’

The actor discusses marriage to Peter Sellers, getting semi-naked with John Hurt, Rod Stewart’s legs and why she is happier now than in the swinging 60s

Los Angeles Times

Oscar winner Alan Arkin, seasoned trouper of ‘Little Miss Sunshine,’ dies

Oscar winner Alan Arkin, whose background in improvisation and knack for comic drama were cornerstones of his extensive genre-hopping career that yielded enduring characters from the 1960s comedy “The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming” to “Little Miss Sunshine” and “Argo,” has died.

The Guardian - UK

Eddie Murphy lined up to be Inspector Clouseau in Pink Panther reboot

The actor is set to reprise the role originally made famous by Peter Sellers in a ‘live action/CG hybrid’ version directed by Sonic the Hedgehog’s Jeff Fowler

Total Film

Eddie Murphy in talks to star as Inspector Clouseau in Pink Panther

Eddie Murphy could be taking on the iconic role in the new MGM film

Cinemablend

Fresh Off Returning For Beverly Hills Cop 4, Eddie Murphy's Reportedly Joining Another Beloved Comedy Franchise

After reprising Axel Foley for Beverly Hills Cop 4, now Eddie Murphy is getting ready to board another popular comedy franchise.

The Independent UK

King Charles will have his ‘dream fulfilled’ during coronation, says Britt Ekland

The film star said she has known the King since he was a teenager

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