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Celebrity birthdays for the week of June 22-28
Celebrities having birthdays during the week of June 22-28 include “Lady Bird” actor Beanie Feldstein, former “American Idol” ...
Film Academy’s Governors Awards: 100 People, Collaborators or Organizations Worthy of Honorary, Thalberg or Hersholt Awards
THR's executive editor of awards coverage makes the case for a wide variety of movie stars, auteurs, craftspeople, executives ...
25 Hollywood Legends Who Deserve an Honorary Oscar
With the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences set to announce this year’s recipients of the Governors Awards in the ...
Top Hollywood Legends Who Deserve an Honorary Oscar in 2025
With the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences set to announce this year’s recipients of the Governors Awards in the ...
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Documentary I Am Heath Ledger fails to set the record straight on revered actor
IN the words of the late Australian actor Heath Ledger’s sister Kate ... Janis Joplin and Nick Drake foreshadowed his own demise. RELATED: Heath Ledger’s sister sets record straight on ...
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Leigh Longhorns trample visiting Leland as six-run second inning sets the tone for run-rule win in San Jose
SAN JOSE — It was a serendipitous day of baseball on Friday at Leigh High School. The host No. 11 Longhorns welcomed in visiting Leland with a record of 10-1 at stake. Leigh’s early-season ...
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The Uncomfortable Genius of Mike Leigh
The uncomfortable genius of Mike Leigh. In “Hard Truths,” Leigh reminds ... the eponymous warm-hearted abortionist in Vera Drake; Poppy, the relentlessly upbeat kindergarten teacher who ...
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Mike Leigh Knows Someone Like Pansy, Too
That’s what Mike Leigh, the 82-year-old director of such ... That’s really how it works. Vera Drake started from the fact that I’m old enough to remember what it was like in the U.K. before ...
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Mike Leigh: ‘I did a film in Northern Ireland about Catholics and Protestants. I did a play about Jews. To me it’s about people’
Imelda Staunton, star of Vera Drake, told me that when actors ... there was no stopping the advance of bohemia. Leigh must have been a decent actor to get into Rada. What drew him elsewhere?
Los Angeles Times5mon
How does Mike Leigh make a movie? It’s complicated, but his actors wouldn’t have it any other way
He prefers to use existing spaces with multiple rooms and floors: “Vera Drake” was rehearsed in ... even though she wasn’t played by an actor,” Leigh remembers. “But they affected ...
New York Post5mon
Breakdowns, violence and the asylum: The secret ‘mad’ life of ‘Gone with the Wind’ legend Vivien Leigh
Of course, the one time Vivien Leigh played someone “normal,” she went insane. Leigh specialized in portraying mad women: Ophelia, Lady Macbeth, and the deranged and damaged Blanche du Bois ...
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Marianne Jean-Baptiste Gives a Performance for the Ages in “Hard Truths”
It’s possible that Jean-Baptiste, a Black British stage actor and musician with only a handful of small film roles to her name, didn’t know it yet herself. One of the curious effects of Leigh ...