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COLIN FIRTH’S “TERRIFYING” WWII ROLE AWARD-WINNING actress Nicole Kidman, 44, who won the Oscar for best actress for The Hours in 2003, will co-star with British actor Colin Firth, 51, as his wife Patti in The Railway Man, set to begin filming in Scotland this month (April), then switching to Australia’s Gold Coast. The movie [...]

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TEARS OF JOY & SADNESS AT GRAMMIES WITH TEARS of joy, British singer-songwriter Adele, 23, from North London, took home six trophies in all six categories for which she was nominated, at the 54th Grammy Awards in Los Angeles last month. Her handful included Album of the Year for 21 Adele; Record of the Year [...]

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A RESTRAINED RICKY GERVAIS By Jerry Watson at the Golden Globe Awards BRITISH COMIC Ricky Gervais was more restrained with his caustic barbs, hosting, for the third time, the annual 69th Golden Globe Awards at the Beverly Hilton hotel in Beverly Hills, last month. Last year, Gervais left a number of stars in the ballroom [...]

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HAPPY NEW YEAR ACTRESS Helena Bonham Carter, 45, whose numerous film credits include the Oscar-winning The King’s Speech and wearing an ape costume in Planet of the Apes in 2001 – “I wanted to play an ape,” she says – was honoured by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts LA last month, with [...]

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LIBERACE ADORED HIS BRITISH FANS A FILM on the “colourful life” of flamboyant virtuoso Liberace – a project that has been sitting on the shelf at Warner Brothers for years – will finally be coming to the screen. Filming will begin next summer. Director Steven Soderbergh’s movie Behind the Candelabra will star Michael Douglas as [...]

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OBITUARY DONALD TAFFNER. The man who brought laughter to millions of. Americans and Brits in the US, and was awarded the OBE by Queen Elizabeth II in 2002, for syndicating the top British comedy TV shows from the BBC and, Thames Television, has died. Donald L Taffner, an, independent American distributor of television progamming was [...]

Royal Couple’s Visit Wins All Hearts

IT WAS “all work and little play” for Prince William and his wife Catherine, the Duchess of Cambridge, during their well-planned three-day visit to Los Angeles, last weekend, where they won the hearts of all who saw and met them. The “play” came when the royal newlyweds attended the Santa Barbara Polo Club, where 450 [...]

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Hugh Grant – An English “Pirate.” British actor Hugh Grant, 50, will voice the lead character in Sony Pictures new 3D animation, produced by Aardman Animations, titled The Pirates: In An Adventure with Scientists. Grant voices a bearded pirate captain sailing the seven seas to capture the coveted pirate of the year prize. *   [...]

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Robert Redford Bringing Sundance To London ACTOR Robert Redford’s Sundance Institute is bringing his highly popular annual Sundance Festival to London, in co-operation with sports/entertainment giant AEG Europe. Sundance Europe arts festival will be held at AEG’s Q2 venue in South East London, from April 26-29, in 2012. It not only will screen American films, [...]

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Colin’s Next Role – From ‘King’ To ‘Con-Man’ BRIT Colin Firth, 50, is following his triumphant victory at the recent Academy Awards, where he took home the Oscar for Best Actor, for his moving portrayal of King George V1, in The King’s Speech, with a costarring role with Cameron Diaz in a comic thriller titled [...]

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