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Elizabeth Taylor Next Up for ABC News ‘Superstar’ Special

A look at her movies, her marriages, her impact on popular culture

Broadcasting & Cable

Queen Cleopatra: A Timeline Of The Drama Surrounding Netflix's Upcoming Series

Here are the major points of the drama surrounding Netflix's Queen Cleopatra docudrama series.

Cinemablend

The week in theatre: The Motive and the Cue; A Play for the Living in a Time of Extinction; Jules et Jim; Supernova – review

Sam Mendes reignites Gielgud and Burton’s Broadway Hamlet; a climate crisis play is powered by bikes (and eco-shaming); Timberlake Wertenbaker has fun with Jules et Jim; and Rhiannon Neads hits escape velocity

The Guardian - UK

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Johnny Flynn: ‘rehearsal spaces can turn toxic’

The star of hot new Sam Mendes play The Motive and the Cue talks fame, fraught rehearsals and theatre’s big culture shift. By Alexandra Jones

Evening Standard

I relate to Hollywood star’s love affair with theatre, says Tuppence Middleton

Tuppence Middleton is joined in The Motive and the Cue by Johnny Flynn as her husband Richard Burton and Mark Gatiss as Sir John Gielgud

Evening Standard

The Motive and the Cue review: Burton/Gielgud luvvie-off will give you goosebumps

Mark Gatiss is superb as Sir John Gielgud in Jack Thorne’s affecting play about Hamlet rehearsals with Richard Burton

The Independent UK

The Motive and the Cue review – Gielgud and Burton battle it out

Mark Gatiss and Johnny Flynn star in Jack Thorne’s play about the prickly pair’s 1960s Broadway production of Hamlet

The Guardian - UK

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Jack Thorne on his new play about Richard Burton and John Gielgud’s Hamlet: “Rehearsals can be brutal”

Sam Mendes was inspired to commission The Motive and the Cue after finding a book on the tumultous 1964 staging of Hamlet on Broadway - now it’s at the National Theatre

Evening Standard

Director of Netflix series starring a Black Cleopatra fires back at Egyptian backlash

Was Egypt's Queen Cleopatra Black?

Los Angeles Times

Netflix Is Getting Sued For Portraying Cleopatra As Black. Now The Film’s Director Speaks Out

A new Netflix series is being sued over its depiction of Cleopatra.

Cinemablend

Queen Cleopatra: release date, cast, plot, trailer, interview and all about Jada Pinkett Smith's docu-drama series

Queen Cleopatra on Netflix stars Casualty’s Adele James plus former EastEnders actors John Partridge and Michael Greco.

WhatToWatch

‘What if Johnny has norovirus?’: Tuppence Middleton reveals how OCD affects her work

The actor, who is preparing to play Elizabeth Taylor in The Motive and the Cue at the National Theatre, said the condition made rehearsals difficult

The Guardian - UK

Al Jaffee death: Mad magazine cartoonist dead at 102

Jaffee died from multiple organ failures, according to his granddaughter

The Independent UK

Al Jaffee, iconoclastic cartooning legend of Mad Magazine fame, dies at 102

Al Jaffee, the iconoclastic cartoonist who created Mad Magazine's most enduring feature — the Fold-In — and served as the publication's longest-running contributor, died at a hospital in Manhattan. He was 102.

Los Angeles Times

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WEKU

Al Jaffee, longtime 'Mad Magazine' cartoonist, dies at 102

Mad Magazine's ageless wise guy delighted millions of readers with the sneaky fun of the Fold-In and the snark of "Snappy Answers to Stupid Questions." Al Jaffee had retired at age 99.

Chicago Sun-Times

Al Jaffee, Mad magazine ‘Fold-In’ artist, dies at 102

Satirist contributed regular features, including “Snappy Answers to Stupid Questions,” for decades.

The Independent UK

Al Jaffee, longtime Mad magazine cartoonist, dead at 102

Former Mad magazine cartoonist Al Jaffee died Monday at the age of 102

The Guardian - UK

‘We get inside their shame, their ego, their destruction’: Jack Thorne brings Burton and Gielgud back to the stage

The Motive and the Cue depicts John Gielgud’s struggle to direct Richard Burton in Hamlet on Broadway. Its writer describes the task of putting his words into such celebrated mouths

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Wales Online

The Welsh adventure playground named one of the best in UK

With the Easter holidays coming up it's always good to have places to go with the kids and this Welsh park has been picked as a fun destination by The Times

Birmingham Post

The story of getting Richard Burton a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame

It was a decade ago that one of Wales' greatest ever actors was recognised after the successful Star for Burton campaign

Wales Online

Cunard online exhibition features Hollywood stars and cruise ship passenger memories

The Sea Views exhibition has been curated by British photographer and filmmaker Mary McCartney

The Independent UK

Hollywood stars and cruise ship passenger memories feature in photo exhibition

Former passengers sent in their holiday snaps for the digital exhibition.

Daily Mirror

Stars who enjoyed multiple marriages as Patsy Kensit prepares for fifth wedding

As Patsy Kensit prepares to wed her fifth husband, we take a look at other stars who have racked up multiple marriages, from Zsa Zsa Gabor's nine weddings, to Sean Bean's five

Nottingham Post

Meet the Nottingham woman who looks like she's walked straight out of the 1940s

'I feel nostalgic for an era I have never even lived in'

The Independent UK

The Blonds close out NYFW in bejeweled, glitzy glamour

The Blonds shined like gaudy, shimmering jewels in the label's fall/winter debut, which closed out New York Fashion Week

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