From Steve Martin as Indiana Jones to De Niro as Jack Sparrow - a guide to Hollywood’s strangest casting near-misses. He achieved global fame slipping beneath the wintry waves in Titanic , but had thi...
09.18.2024 telegraph.co.uk , nzherald.co.nzSir Ian McKellen believes coming out as gay back in the 1980s helped him forge meaningful connections with other people. The Lord of The Rings star went public with his sexuality back in 1988 and he i...
09.15.2024 huffingtonpost.co.uk , mirror.co.uk , yahoo.com and 41 sitesIt's most actors' dream to be considered a National Treasure but Sir Ian McKellen has rejected the title given to him and said it is directed more towards his Lord of the Rings character, Gandalf, tha...
09.15.2024 Dailymail.co.uk and 1 sitesAlmost 30 years ago, when I was the Mail on Sunday's television critic, a well-known female TV presenter came up to me at a party and slapped me, loudly and angrily calling me a 'wicked queen'. Quite ...
09.19.2024 Dailymail.co.ukAs the true horrors of Prince Andrew's Newsnight interview became apparent – to all except him – he was under pressure to do a second interview. . . with anyone but Emily Maitlis . My source whispers that 'friends' also tried to persuade him to go into print with a ghost-written book or extensive interview to highlight his good works, family life and Falklands exploits rather than going over his recent woes. It would need someone friendly who could also skate over his playboy past and his decade...
09.19.2024 Dailymail.co.uk and 1 sites‘Should be lurid fun’: Ian McKellen and Gemma Arterton in The Critic. Photograph: Sean Gleason An extravagantly malicious theatre critic who strikes fear into the thespians of 1930s London, Jimmy Ersk...
09.15.2024 Theguardian.com and 4 sites‘The friendship between a critic and an actor violates a boundary’ Arifa Akbar Oh, how I’d love to take bubble baths in the morning, long lunches at my club in the afternoon and arrive in the stalls b...
09.17.2024 Theguardian.com and 3 sitesThe night before the theater director Atri Banerjee was due to leave London for Manchester to start rehearsals for a new show, burglars broke into his house. First he was assailed with racist abuse, t...
09.19.2024 Nytimes.com and 1 sitesA brooding cloud of torpor hangs thickly above Samuel Beckett ’s revolutionary 1953 classic, one that’s famous for its frustrating pauses and pin-drop silences. Yet although it has its fair share of w...
09.20.2024 Independent.co.ukFor a play that plumbs the fathomless Godless tedium of existence, Beckett’s evasive 1952 masterpiece is surprisingly commercially resilient. Fifteen years ago Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart starred as the two ragged tramps in this very same theatr...
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