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We’re taking a look back at Formula 1 driver Charles Leclerc‘s dating history!

The 26-year-old F1 star currently leads the Scuderia Ferrari team, where he has been a driver since 2019.

Ahead of the 2024 racing season, it was announced that Charles had extended his contract with Ferrari for multiple seasons.

Throughout his career thus far, Charles has won five races, and made the podium 32 times, earning a total of 1133 points in 129 grand prix races.

Prior to Ferrari, he made his Formula 1 debut with Sauber in 2018, but signed with Ferrari the following year. Before his debut in 2018, he was a part of the Ferrari Driver Academy and was a test driver.

We’re taking a look back through Charles‘ rumored and confirmed girlfriends throughout the years, including the current woman who has his heart!

Keep reading inside to see who Charles Leclerc has been linked to over the years…...

Formula 1‘s Charles Leclerc dons a white striped suit while attending the Rolex Monte-Carlo Masters held at Monte-Carlo Country Club on Sunday (April 14) in Monte-Carlo, Monaco.

The 26-year-old racecar driver was joined by his girlfriend Alexandra Saint Mleux as they attended the Men’s Double’s Final, watching on as Stefanos Tsitsipas took home a win.

After the match, Charles posed for a photo with Stefanos and his trophy!

The day before, fellow Formula 1 driver George Russell and girlfriend Carmen Montero Mundt stepped out to watch the tennis matches at the Rolex Monte-Carlo Masters. Also in attendance that day were Challengers stars Zendaya, Josh O’Connor and Mike Faist, who had a photo call at the event!

“Beautiful day for tennis,” George wrote on his Instagram story the next day. “So great seeing the semi-finals and good luck to the finalists today.”

Just a few days before, Charles launched...

Charles Leclerc holds a pint of his brand new ice cream Lec on Thursday (April 11) in Milan, Italy.

The 26-year-old Formula 1 star officially launched his new business venture in the Italian city just a few days after competing in the Japanese Grand Prix in Suzuka.

“Proud, proud, proud...

Charles Leclerc holds a pint of his brand new ice cream Lec on Thursday (April 11) in Milan, Italy.

The 26-year-old Formula 1 star officially launched his new business venture in the Italian city just a few days after competing in the Japanese Grand Prix in Suzuka.

“Proud, proud, proud...

Formula 1 driver Fernando Alonso has secured his future in the motorsport!

The 42-year-old Spanish F1 driver is currently the oldest on the grid and he’s not going anywhere for at least two more years.

On Thursday (April 11), Fernando and his team, Aston Martin Aramco F1 Team, announced that he has re-signed a multi-year contract!

Keep reading to find out more…

“I am here to stay,” they first announced.

“This is only the beginning for this project and I am proud to be part of it. I am at my physical best and still hungry,” Fernando added in a statement. “I will give my all as we continue our journey to becoming a world championship winning team.”

Fernando has been doing very well since he joined Aston Martin in 2023, earning eight podiums that year, and finishing the season in 4th in the driver’s standings. In the 2024 season so far,...

David E. Diano, a veteran camera operator with credits including Tombstone, The Fast and the Furious, Wedding Crashers and Spider-Man 3, has died. He was 71.

Diano died Jan. 22 at Huntington Hospital in Pasadena of coronary issues after a battle with prostate cancer, his wife, still photographer Gemma Lamana, told The Hollywood Reporter.

Diano served as president of the Society of Camera Operators from 2003-04 before deciding not to run for a second term.

“To write that David was a one-of-a-kind friend to those of us who worked with him would be an understatement,” Soc historical chair Michael Frediani said in a statement. “His kindness, artistry and boyish smile endeared him to countess friends and fellow industry colleagues — and that is what set him apart from many,”

Diano shot 17 movies for cinematographer William Fraker, a six-time Oscar nominee, from 1983-2002. Those films included War Games (1983), Murphy’s Romance (1985), Baby Boom (1987), Memoirs of an Invisible Man...

It’s Britney, bitch. Britney Spears and Will.i.am released their highly-anticipated new track, “Mind Your Business.” The song marks their newest collaboration, following their beloved 2013 hit “Scream & Shout.”

In the new track, the duo sings, “Too much looky-looky, get up off mе, too much watchy/ Hands up in the cookie jar, they watchin’ me, they watchin’ ya/They got eyes up in the sky, so pose for that camera.”

After weeks of speculation surrounding the collab, Will.i.am first teased the project on Monday, sharing a snippet of the track.

Will.i.am dropped by CBS Mornings to tease his forthcoming collaboration with Britney Spears. During his appearance on the show, the producer described the meaning behind the single titled “Mind Your Business.”

“When you’re in the spotlight, a lot of times you just want to live your life,” Will.i.am explained. “And there’s lyrics in the song that point to that. Not just for people that are in the spotlight. Even on my verse I say, ‘Hands up in the cookie jar/ they watchin’ me/ they watchin’ y’all.

Yes, you can scream and shout and let it all out: Britney Spears has a new song coming. Will.i.am revealed that he and Spears will be releasing a new collaboration with Spears, which was originally slated to release today, July 18. (And he shared a snippet of the track.) It is now planned for Friday, July 21, according to a new post he shared on Twitter on Tuesday.

July 21st is the date…

I’m so excited for this release…

I feel like it’s the first released all over again…

I can’t wait for Friday…...

Kool Keith has announced he’s bringing back the pompadour and shades for Black Elvis 2. The long-awaited sequel album arrives on June 16th via Mello Music Group, but you can preview it now with the title track.

The follow-up to Kool Keith’s 1999 cult classic Black Elvis/Lost in Space features a reunion with Marc Live — who collaborated with the rapper on the production of the original album — as well as guest appearances from Ice-t, Raaddrr Van, Dynamite, L’Orange, J. Stylez, and Agallah. Pre-orders are ongoing.

Produced by L’Orange, “Black Elvis 2 (Intro)” features sinister strings and the non sequitur rhymes that Kool Keith fans have come to expect: “Gigantor express, big like a robot/ I walk ’cause I’m so hot/ Back and forth on any tour/ Watch it with my rain pour/ Make it a like headboard.” Stream it below.

In March, Kool Keith teamed up with...

When it came to primetime adult animated sitcoms of the '90s and early '00s, "King of the Hill" was somewhat of an outlier. It was steeped in suburban realism, trusting the audience to find the humor in co-creator Mike Judge's observational, mundane sensibility. While the show's contemporaries like "Family Guy" or "The Simpsons" (which sparked competition with the show over its use of guest stars) embraced a cartoony wackiness, "King of the Hill" adopted a relaxed, comfortable tone. And who better to command that tone than a character like Hank Hill (Judge)?

For one thing, Hank was an unusual choice to lead a sitcom. Where "The Simpsons" and "Family Guy" made a point of their lead patriarchs being very dumb and oblivious, Hank was smart and competent. Superficially, he probably looked a little boring, and there was little about Hank that would seem to lend itself to comedy.

Carla Gugino’s upcoming drama “Leopard Skin” and Roselyn Sánchez’s “‘Til Jail Do Us Part” are among the slate of new original series heading to Peacock that TheWrap can exclusively reveal the premiere dates for.

“‘Til Jail Do Us Part,” a Spanish-language dramedy starring Sánchez, Kate del Castillo, Jeimy Osorio and Sylvia Sáenz, will debut Sept. 15.

The show will follow four women who “suffer their worst nightmare after the police arrest their husbands for being linked to the same criminal organization. Accustomed to a life of abundance, they now must join forces in the most unusual manner as they move from a carefree life of luxury to unleashing all their wiles and weapons to survive,” per a logline from the streamer.

“Leopard Skin,” starring Gugino, Amelia Eve, Gentry White, Philip Winchester, Margot Bingham, Gaite Jansen, Nora Arnezeder and Ana de la Reguera, makes its Peacock debut Nov. 17.

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Apple Studios has officially acquired the Formula One racing feature starring Brad Pitt, with seven-time F1 champion Sir Lewis Hamilton coming on board the film as a producer.

As TheWrap previously reported, Apple has been in talks to snag the still-untitled feature since January. In addition to Hamilton and Pitt’s Plan B Entertainment, Jerry Bruckheimer Films’ Jerry Bruckheimer and Chad Omen will produce, with Copper CEO Penni Thow as executive producer.

“Top Gun: Maverick” director Joseph Kosinski and screenwriter Ehren Kruger have been attached to the project from the beginning.

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Lewis Hamilton Documentary on Formula One Driver Races to Apple

Pitt is set to star as a veteran driver who comes out of retirement to compete alongside a fresh-faced racer against other legends of the sport.

He will also co-star with George Clooney in an upcoming Apple film about two fixers given the same job. Jon Watts...

Netflix long has been asked whether it eventually would move into live sports. Ted Sarandos, co-ceo of the streamer, revealed Tuesday during the company’s first-quarter earnings call, what it would need to make that happen.

He said he wasn’t so sure that it could add a “big profit stream” with the addition of live sports. “I’m not saying that we’ll never do sports, but we’ll have to see a path to growing a big revenue stream and a great profit stream with it,” he said.

The comments come as the streamer’s interest in sports-adjacent content grows. It has had success with the Formula 1: Drive To Survive docuseries – credited with growing interest in the motorsport in the U.S. as it recently premiered its fourth season. It also has similar projects around NASCAR driver Bubba Wallace and golf’s PGA Tour.

Sarandos’ co-ceo Reed Hastings...

London, Feb 10 (Ians) British manufacturer Aston Martin on Thursday unveiled the car that they hope will propel them further up Formula 1’s pecking order in 2022 season. The team launched their new challenger, the AMR22, at Aston Martin’s Gaydon base, with both Sebastian Vettel and Lance Stroll present to reveal a classic, but updated, […]...

Interlagos (Brazil), Nov 13 (Ians) Formula 1 drivers’ championship leader Max Verstappen has been fined 50,000 euros for touching and examining the rear wing of title rival Lewis Hamilton’s Mercedes car after the qualifying round for the Sao Paulo Grand Prix on Friday. Red Bull driver Verstappen conducted the examination of Hamilton’s car when it […]...

“We Are Lady Parts” is a sly wink to the audience, a rebel yell from its characters, and an interrogation of our assumptions. In the six-episode half-hour comedy from showrunner, director, and writer Nida Manzoor, the jokes, sight gags, and fantasy sequences fly fast and furious. The friendships and romantic relationships are tenderly developed and organically rendered. And the cast of Middle Eastern, Arab, South Asian, Black, and biracial actresses and actors who embody this nuanced, thoughtful, confrontational, and adoring portrait of modern Muslims are summarily pitch-perfect.

Continue reading ‘We Are Lady Parts’ Invigorates The Girl-Power Formula With Wit, Rowdiness & Faith [Review] at The Playlist.

The similarities between Nobody and John Wick are pretty obviously legion, and though screenwriter Derek Kolstad doesn’t have much else on his resume, it shouldn’t be written off too quickly as simply going back to the same well. Bob Odenkirk‘s Hutch Mansell is a “man out of the game,” trying to live a normal life, […]

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Legendary movie star, Last Call‘s Bruce Dern, joins Josh and Joe to discuss a few of his favorite movies and moments.

Show Notes: Movies Referenced In This Episode

The Cowboys (1972)

Last Call (2021)

Silent Running (1972)

The Long Goodbye (1973)

The Reivers (1969)

The War Wagon (1967)

Support Your Local Sheriff (1969)

The Shootist (1976)

Sands Of Iwo Jima (1949)

Wild River (1960)

Viva Zapata (1952)

Castle Keep (1969)

The Big Knife (1955)

Attack (1956)

What Ever Happened To Baby Jane? (1962)

Hush… Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964)

Suspicion (1941)

Lawrence Of Arabia (1962)

The Great Gatsby (1974)

Something Wicked This Way Comes (1983)

Ben-Hur (1959)

The Trial (1962)

Great Expectations (1946)

The Sound Barrier (1952)

Oliver Twist (1948)

The Bridge On The River Kwai (1957)

Rko 281 (1999)

Citizen Kane (1941)

Mank (2020)

The Chase (1966)

The Formula (1980)

Shine (1996)

All That Jazz (1979)

A Decade Under The Influence (2003)

Shane (1953)

The Sons Of Katie Elder (1965)

The King Of Marvin Gardens (1972)

Deliverance (1972)

Nebraska (2013)

Twixt (2011)

The ’Burbs (1989)

About Schmidt (2002)

Sideways (2004)

The Descendants (2011)

The Manchurian Candidate (1962)

The Manchurian Candidate (2004)

Charade (1963)

The Truth About Charlie...

Berlin, March 24 (Ians) Sebastian Vettel knows he will have to be patient when he starts his latest Formula One adventure with the Aston Martin team.

"You have to give the whole thing time," the four-time world champion has said, Dpa news reports.

But the 33-year-old German eventually wants to return to the top after six mainly difficult years at Ferrari where he didn't win another title and where his contract was eventually not extended beyond 2020.

With no vacancy at world champions Mercedes or at his former team Red Bull, Aston Martin was all but the only option for Vettel to keep racing, and to do so at a team which has shown some competitiveness.

Known as Racing Point until last year, the team finished fourth in the 2020 constructors' standings. Canadian billionaire Lawrence Stroll funded the team and has also acquired a large stake at Aston Martin as the famed British...

Mumbai, March 1 (Ians) Indian Premier League (Ipl) champions Mumbai Indians (Mi) on Monday announced its partnership with Dhl Express. The international express service provider has joined Mi as a principal sponsor and official logistics partner ahead of the 2021 season of the Ipl.

This is Dhl Express's first cricket sponsorship. It has previously been involved with Rugby Sevens Series, Esl One, MotoGP and Formula 1 along with being involved with Premier League giants Manchester United.

"We are delighted to partner with global brand Dhl Express. The combination of Dhl Express' international market network, and Mumbai Indians' global fan following, brings in a unique dimension to our partner association programme, allowing both brands to leverage its vast consumer interface," said an Mi spokesperson.

"Globally, Dhl supports some of the world's largest and most popular sports formats -- from football to rugby, Formula One and even e-sports. Today marks our foray into another crowd favourite,...

As principal photography gets underway on Pablo Larrain’s Princess Diana feature, ‘Spencer’, a first look image of Kristen Stewart as Diana has been released.

The film focuses on one weekend in the life of Princess Diana, as she spends the Christmas holiday with the royal family at the Sandringham estate in Norfolk, and decides to leave her marriage to Prince Charles.

Set in December 1991, The Prince and Princess of Wales’ marriage has long since grown cold. Though rumours of affairs and a divorce abound, peace is ordained for the Christmas festivities at Sandringham Estate. There’s eating and drinking, shooting and hunting. Diana knows the game. This year, things will be a whole lot different.

Stewart is Princess Diana, cast members joining Stewart include BAFTA Award nominee Timothy Spall, Academy Award nominee Sally Hawkins and Sean Harris.

Also in news – Robert De Niro & John Boyega set for Netflix feature ‘The Formula’

Directed by Larrain,...

Robert De Niro and ‘Star Wars’ actor John Boyega have jumped on board the Netflix original feature film ‘The Formula’.

The story will follow a Formula One racing prodigy who is forced to become a getaway driver to save the only family he has left.

‘Burning Sands’ helmer Gerard McMurray will write and direct and produce the project via his recently formed production company Buppie Productions. Jane Rosenthal, De Niro and Berry Welsh will also produce. Sam Shaw and Buppie Productions’ Ephraim Walker will also co-produce.

Also in news – ‘No Time to Die’, ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife’, ‘Morbius’ & more amongst latest release delays

Boyega was last seen in Steve McQueen’s Small Axe anthology film ‘Red, White and Blue’, He is currently filming on ‘They Cloned Tyrone’ with Jamie Foxx.

De Niro shows no signs of slowing down, having last starred in Martin Scorsese’s ‘The Irishman’, his upcoming projects include David O. Russell...

Tomb Raider 2, Liz, The Formula, and more Film Casting News — Tomb Raider 2, Liz, The Formula, Where The Crawdads Sing, and Women’s Stories have made recent film casting, screenwriting, and director news. These films come from movie studios and streaming services primarily based in the United States (and abroad). [...]

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John Boyega and Robert De Niro are headed to Netflix for The Formula, a new film from director Gerard McMurray (The First Purge). The story follows a Formula One racing prodigy who ends up becoming a getaway driver, and that’s the type of high-concept thriller idea we need more of these days. Just imagine all the chase […]

The post ‘The Formula’: John Boyega and Robert De Niro Will Star in Netflix Film About a Formula One Racer Who Becomes a Getaway Driver appeared first on /Film.

Gerard McMurray, whose director credits include The First Purge as well as the Netflix Original film Burning Sands, is teaming up with the streamer once again for The Formula, an upcoming film starring John Boyega and Robert De Niro. Directed, written, and produced by McMurray via his Buppie Productions label, The Formula will follow a Formula One racing…...

John Boyega and Robert De Niro will star together in a crime thriller called “The Formula” at Netflix, and Gerard McMurray, the director of “The First Purge” and Netflix’s “Burning Sands,” will direct.

McMurray will write, direct and produce the film based on an original idea but that’s reminiscent of “Drive” about a Formula One racing prodigy who becomes a getaway driver in order to care for and rescue his family.

De Niro will also produce “The Formula” along with Jane Rosenthal and Berry Welsh.

Rosenthal and Welsh have an overall deal with Netflix, and “The Formula” came together under that arrangement. Jason Michael Berman is executive producing the film, and Ephraim Walker, working under McMurray’s banner Buppie Productions, is co-producing, as is Sam Shaw.

Boyega, who broke out in the latest “Star Wars” trilogy, most recently starred in one of the five installments of Steve McQueen’s “Small Axe” anthology,...

John Boyega. Robert De Niro. “The First Purge.” Separately, they’re all enjoyable in their own right. Together? We’re intrigued, if not a bit optimistic. But you can’t deny that a project combining Boyega and De Niro with the filmmaker behind “The First Purge” is a bit surprising on paper.

Read More: John Boyega Calls Franchise Acting Roles “Luxury Jail” & Is Excited To Work On More Projects Like ‘Small Axe’

According to Deadline, those three folks are coming together for a film titled, “The Formula.” John Boyega and Robert De Niro will star in a new thriller from director Gerard McMurray that tells the story of a Formula One driver that must become a getaway driver to save his family.

Continue reading ‘The Formula’: John Boyega & Robert De Niro To Star In New Netflix Thriller From ‘The First Purge’ Filmmaker at The Playlist.

Exclusive: Gerard McMurray, who directed Burning Sands, one of Netflix’s first original features for the streamer, has made his return to the studio and is set to direct The Formula with John Boyega and Robert De Niro attached to star. McMurray will write, direct, and produce the film via his recently formed production company Buppie Productions. Jane Rosenthal, De Niro and Berry Welsh will also produce.

The story will follow a Formula One racing prodigy who is forced to become a getaway driver to save the only family he has left. The project came together under Rosenthal and Welsh’s overall deal with Netflix. Jason Michael Berman is exec producer, with Sam Shaw and Buppie Productions’ Ephraim Walker on as co-producers.

Boyega most recently starred in Steve McQueen’s acclaimed anthology film series Small Axe starring in the Red, White and Blue installment. His previous credits include the Star Wars sequel trilogy and Detroit.

Star Wars franchise actor John Boyega and Robert De Niro are on board to star in Netflix’s car race prodigy drama The Formula.

Gerard McMurray (Burning Sands) will direct the movie about a Formula One race car prodigy who becomes a getaway driver to save his family. McMurray will write, direct and produce the film via his production banner Buppie Productions; Jane Rosenthal, De Niro and Berry Welsh will also share producer credits.

British actor Boyega broke out with his role as Moses in the 2011 sci-fi flick Attack the Block. He is best known for playing Finn in Star Wars: ...

Star Wars franchise actor John Boyega and Robert De Niro are on board to star in Netflix’s car race prodigy drama The Formula.

Gerard McMurray (Burning Sands) will direct the movie about a Formula One race car prodigy who becomes a getaway driver to save his family. McMurray will write, direct and produce the film via his production banner Buppie Productions; Jane Rosenthal, De Niro and Berry Welsh will also share producer credits.

British actor Boyega broke out with his role as Moses in the 2011 sci-fi flick Attack the Block. He is best known for playing Finn in Star Wars: ...

Bahrain, Dec 6 (Ians) India's Jehan Daruvala on Sunday recorded his first Formula 2 victory after winning the Sakhir Grand Prix sprint race as Mick Schumacher won the 2020 championship despite finishing 18th.

Daruvala, 22, had a good launch from second on the grid and was up alongside pole sitter Daniel Ticktum. Tictum squeezed Daruvala on the inside which allowed championship leader Schumacher to go around the outside of both of them.

Eventually, Ticktum emerged in the lead, followed by Schumacher and Daruvala in third. A few corners later, Daruvala made a good move to pass Schumacher and get into second.

The pair battled for a few laps for the position with Daruvala going back to third and passed Schumacher again a few laps later to regain the position.

He eventually managed to put distance on the German, who will race in Formula 1 for Haas next season, and caught the race leader.

Daruvala kept...

Chennai, Nov 27 (Ians) The abridged Mrf Mmsc Fmsci Indian National Car Championship 2020 draws to a close with the third and final round being held at the Mmrt this weekend behind closed doors.

The two-day, seven-race programme, starts on Saturday, November 28 and concludes the following afternoon. The track, which received a drenching from cyclone Nivar earlier in the week, has recovered well for the races to be held as scheduled.

The titles in all four categories –- the premier Indian Touring Cars (Itc), Super Stock, Formula Lgb 1300 and the Mrf Saloon Car series –- are up for grabs with very little separating the contenders, both individual and team championships.

"We began last month by conducting the two-wheeler Drag races and followed it up with the Round-2 of the four-wheeler championship three weeks back," said Madras Motor Sports Club (Mmsc) president Ajit Thomas.

"We put in place strict safety measures such as face masks,...

Ginny Weds Sunny(Disney-Hotstar)

Starring Vikrant Massey, Yami Gautam

Just when you begin to think that 2021 can’t get any worse, Ginny Weds Sunny comes along, a film so devoid of qualities you struggle for two hours thinking of a reason why you should see this abomination to its conclusion when simply giving up and walking off would be a better option.

For those who have been trying to convince you into believing that ‘Ginny’ Yami Gautam and ‘Sunny’ Vikrant Massey can actually sustain an anorexic imbecilic plot about a man who can’t find a suitable match and a woman who can’t decide whom to marry and her immature spoilt rich fiancé who wants it all and wants it now (dial ‘M’ for Manmarziyan) , here’s the thing: sorry,they can’t.

Vikrant, a good actor, is no hero material. No matter how many hangdog expressions he...

Director John G. Avildsen has passed away from pancreatic cancer. He had an eclectic body of work that began in earnest with his work as a cinematographer on several high profile films of the 1960s including "Hurry Sundown" and "Mickey One". Avildsen graduated to the director's chair with the surprise indie hit "Joe" in 1970 a serio-comic look at an ultra conservative working man (Peter Boyle) whose rage boils over from what he believes are anti-American protest movements against the Vietnam War. Three years later Avildsen directed the acclaimed drama "Save the Tiger" which won Jack Lemmon the Best Actor Oscar. In 1976 he directed the most unlikely of blockbusters, "Rocky", which won the Best Picture Oscar. Avildsen took home the Best Director award. He also scored with the "Karate Kid" franchise and also directed the zany comedy "Neighbors" with John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd as well as "The Formula" with Marlon Brando...

John G. Avildsen, who won an Academy Award for directing Rocky and helmed the first three original Karate Kid movies, has died. He was 81.

Avildsen died Friday of pancreatic cancer at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, his son, Anthony, told the Los Angeles Times.

Avildsen also directed Susan Sarandon and Peter Boyle in the ultimately violent drama Joe (1970); guided Jack Lemmon to the Academy Award for best actor in Save the Tiger (1973) in a story about a businessman having a mid-life crisis; and kept things together on the set of The Formula (1980), which starred...

Once again 2012 saw the passing of another cult favorite with the death of one of the exploitation cinema’s greatest villains. On 19 June 2012, the versatile and highly underrated Richard Lynch was found dead at his home in Yucca Valley, California by his good friend, actress Carol Vogel. She had not heard from him for several days and turned up at his home only to find his front door ajar and the actor’s body in the kitchen.

The death of Richard Lynch marked an end to a career that many fans felt should have been a lot better. After a promising start in films following extensive theatre training, Lynch never achieved the major success he deserved. It was a big shame because had real screen presence. He always brought a raw and dangerous edge to his many cinema and TV roles, that was made all the more powerful by his handsome,...

They've tried everything. One host. Two hosts. Four hosts. 32 hosts. Comic hosts. Serious-thespian hosts. Hollywood-legend hosts. Young hosts. Old hosts. Hip hosts. Square hosts. Singing-and-dancing hosts. Every year, it seems, the Academy Awards goes back to the drawing board to figure out what sort of emcee will keep the show lively, attract viewers (especially younger viewers) and keep them from flipping channels during the slow parts. It's a thankless gig; no wonder Billy Crystal, who's done it eight times, decided to sit out for eight years before agreeing to return to host this year's Academy Awards on Sunday night. The job requires a difficult and rare set of skills: a host must entertain both the Hollywood big-shots in the auditorium and regular folks at home. They can poke fun at the huge egos in the room, but can't deflate them with too much snark, and they can't be too inside-baseball.

Veteran actress Marthe Keller, among whose credits are Claude Lelouch's And Now My Love and John Schlesinger's Marathon Man, will be inducted as a chevalier ("knight") in the French Legion of Honor, a civilian distinction that has been around since the early 1800s. Born in Basel, Switzerland, Keller will turn 67 next Jan. 28. In the last 45 years, she has appeared in more than 40 films, whether in leading or supporting roles. Apart from the aforementioned — ludicrous but financially successful — Marathon Man, in which she was featured opposite Dustin Hoffman and Laurence Olivier, Keller wasn't very lucky in her several Hollywood try-outs in the late '70s. She was a terrorist in John Frankenheimer's thriller Black Sunday (1977); romanced Al Pacino in Sydney Pollack's expensive autoracing flop Bobby Deerfield (1977); and was a mysterious Greta Garbo-like former actress pursued by William Holden in Billy Wilder's bomb Fedora (1978). Keller's last...

Character actor who portrayed smarmy politicians, sadistic generals and unspeakable authoritarian figures

There is a scene in Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather: Part II (1974) that crystallises the entire film career of the character actor Gd Spradlin, who has died aged 90. As the corrupt senator Pat Geary, Spradlin asks the mafia boss Michael Corleone (Al Pacino) for a bribe, so that he can grant gaming licences to the "family" for several casinos in Nevada. During the meeting, Geary launches into an attack on the Corleones, a name he pronounces with derision. "I intend to squeeze you. I don't like your kind of people. I don't like to see you come out to this clean country with oily hair and trussed up in those silk suits trying to pass yourselves off as decent Americans. I'll do business with you, but the fact is I despise you masquerading in the dishonest way you pose yourself.

Vivien Leigh, Marlon Brando, A Streetcar Named Desire Marlon Brando Movies on TCM: The Wild One, Julius Caesar, The Chase Schedule (Et) and synopses from the TCM website: 6:00 Am The Fugitive Kind (1960) A drifter ignites passions among the women of a Mississippi town. Dir: Sidney Lumet. Cast: Marlon Brando, Anna Magnani, Joanne Woodward. Bw-121 mins, Letterbox Format 8:15 Am Julius Caesar (1953) An all-star adaptation of Shakespeare's classic about Julius Caesar's assassination and its aftermath. Dir: Joseph L. Mankiewicz. Cast: John Doucette, George Macready, Michael Pate. Bw-121 mins. 10:30 Am The Chase (1966) A convict's escape ignites passions in his hometown. Dir: Arthur Penn. Cast: Marlon Brando, Jane Fonda, Robert Redford. C-133 mins, Letterbox Format 1:00 Pm Reflections In A Golden Eye (1967) A military officer becomes obsessed with an enlisted man. Dir: John Huston. Cast: Elizabeth Taylor, Marlon Brando, Brian Keith. C-109 mins, Letterbox Format 3:00 Pm Teahouse Of The...

Marlon Brando is the first star in the 2011 edition of Turner Classic Movies' annual Summer Under the Stars series, which kicks off August 1. [Marlon Brando Movie Schedule.] Unfortunately, none of the 11 scheduled Marlon Brando movies is a TCM premiere; in fact, nearly all of them were shown on Brando Day three years ago. In other words, don't expect The Island of Dr. Moreau, Morituri, A Bedtime Story, Burn!, A Dry White Season, or The Appaloosa. And certainly no frolicking with Maria Schneider in Last Tango in Paris. That's too bad. But then again, those who would like to check out Julius Caesar for the 118th time will be able to do so. And perhaps they won't be sorry, as this great-looking Joseph L. Mankiewicz effort remains one of the best-liked film adaptations of a Shakespeare play. Those not into Shakespeare can take a look at The Fugitive Kind and A Streetcar Named Desire, both from Tennessee Williams' plays.

While writing this review, I became unstuck in time. Suddenly, I was seeing stars on Halloween 1988 in New York City, then shooting off to Australia to meet people in February 1993 followed by Christmas caroling edged with snowflakes in 1974 West Virginia. Before I knew what I was doing, I was watching The Hunger in a Manhattan screening room in 1983. And then Chicago, briefly, in the 1990s, don’t know exactly when—July something. The women kept changing. But they were the same in that they all married someone else, not me. What’s up with that?

Was it something I said?

Or more likely done (or maybe not done or will yet do)? I blame time travel. You see, in studying time travel romance (as presented in this movie), I have discovered/will discover that going missing at (in)convenient times can stress a relationship. “Honey, can you take out the trash?...