For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Alan Arkin, who has died aged 89, was an Oscar-winning actor and director who starred in dozens of popular films and television programmes in a career spanning seven decades. He moved seamlessly from …
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Carmen Sevilla: Glamorous queen of Spanish film
For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Carmen Sevilla, a beguiling actor, singer and dancer who became one of the biggest stars of mid-century Spanish cinema, then gained a wider audience playing Mary Magdalene – opposite matinee idol Jeffrey Hunter …
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For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Cormac McCarthy, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author whose lyrical and often brutally violent novels propelled him to the first ranks of American fiction, immersing readers in scenes of savagery, despair and occasional tenderness in …
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For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Peter Brooke was Westminster’s Renaissance man. In the course of an extraordinary political career, he filled a multitude of roles with a style and gravitas that marked him out as a true gentleman …
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