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No spy drama has ever matched The Sandbaggers, which featured a tiny, covert intelligence unit based in London during the Cold War. The show that the New York Times called the ôbest spy series in television historyö was the vision of Ian MacKintosh, who was among the first writers to present espionage...

J.J. Abrams is one of the most successful director-writer-producers working in Hollywood, and now that he is being offered the chance to visit a galaxy far, far away to direct the long-awaited Star Wars sequel, his reputation is set to shoot ever higher.Much like his hero Steven Spielberg, such has...

Young, cocksure, handsome and absurdly talented, Australian actor Heath Ledger shot to prominence with his first Hollywood film "10 Things I Hate About You": and a star was born. With huge charisma and smouldering looks lighting up the screen in a series of subsequent films, Heath was soon...

Of all the actors and personalities thrown up by that strangest of periods. The 1970s, surely Robin Askwith was one of the most 'of his time'? As star of the infamous CONFESSIONS films, as well as over 25 other movies, Askwith was huge. His cheeky, innocent face, his Mick Jagger lips and more often...

6-time Academy Award nominee Jeff Bridges is indeed a legend in Hollywood. Coming from a bloodline of actors, Jeff got exposed into the world of acting at an early age, and by 22, he earned his 1st Oscar nomination for the film The Last Picture Show. Over his 4 decades in the industry, he was hailed...

Focusing on Glasgow’s earliest surviving music hall, the Britannia, later the Panopticon, this book explores the role of one of the city’s most iconic cultural venues within the cosmopolitan entertainment market that emerged in British cities in the nineteenth century. Shedding light on the increasing...

These interviews cover the career to date of Neil Jordan (b. 1950), easily the most renowned filmmaker working in contemporary Irish cinema. Jordan began as a fiction writer, winning the distinguished Guardian Fiction Prize for his very first book of short stories, Night in Tunisia, in 1976. His film...

Born into a working-class family in Caterham, Surrey, in 1949, Bill attended the Guildford School of Dance and Drama before embarking on a two-year theatre stint in Liverpool. His London stage debut came in 1977 at the National Theatre, and many more theatre, radio and television appearances followed,...

Old Time Radio fans remember William Conrad from *Suspense (1947-1959), **Escape (1947-1954), *and *Gunsmoke *(1952-1961). Film Noir devotees recognize him in *The Killers *(1946), *Body and Soul *(1947),*Sorry, Wrong Number (1948), *and *One Way Street *(1950). Television viewers know...

For nearly 40 years, David Lynch's works have enthralled, mystified, and provoked viewers. Lynch's films delve into the subjective consciousness of his characters to reveal both the depraved darkness and luminous spirituality of human nature. From his experimental shorts of the 1960s to feature films...

It's a TOGs Life, written by Norman Macintosh, with Sir Terry Wogan and the TOGs.13 years of TOG activities, from Conventions to Voyages, Children in Need to Barnardo's, Deadly's Quizzes, Fire Engines, Buses, Bandaged and Longleat! A pictorial meander, with words to match, through the goings on of TOGs...

Fashion goddess; UNICEF heroine; Givenchy's twinkly-eyed muse: there'll never be anyone quite like Audrey Hepburn. But there's more to the effortlessly classy Hollywood starlet than meets the eye. Did you know, for instance, that Audrey kept a pet fawn named Pippin? That she was a gifted linguist,...

An American recording icon of the early 1900s, Cal Stewart created the popular Uncle Josh Weathersby character; Joshs town, Punkin Center; and the many colorful characters who inhabited his fictional town from Way Down East. Stewarts recordings were among the bestselling of the period, and through...

Dallas was the show business capital of Texas and much of the South throughout the 20th century. More than 100 theatres served the city�s neighborhoods, and Elm Street once boasted more than 15 vaudeville and movie theatres�second in number to Broadway. The quality of the show houses in Dallas were...