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First Best Actor Oscar winner Emil Jannings and first Best Actress Oscar winner Janet Gaynor on TCM (photo: Emil Jannings in 'The Last Command') First Best Actor Academy Award winner Emil Jannings in The Last Command, first Best Actress Academy Award winner Janet Gaynor in Sunrise, and sisters Norma Talmadge and Constance Talmadge are a few of the silent era performers featured this evening on Turner Classic Movies, as TCM continues with its Silent Monday presentations. Starting at 5 p.m. Pt / 8 p.m. Et on November 17, 2014, get ready to check out several of the biggest movie stars of the 1920s. Following the Jean Negulesco-directed 1943 musical short Hit Parade of the Gay Nineties -- believe me, even the most rabid anti-gay bigot will be able to enjoy this one -- TCM will be showing Josef von Sternberg's The Last Command (1928) one of the two movies that earned...

For 25 years the magazine has chronicled the births, marriages and lovely homes of the stars – and it has changed the media's agenda

So many contracts have been signed and so many celebrity parties photographed since the first edition of Hello! went on sale in Britain 25 years ago, it is hard to pick out the most celebrated. Would it perhaps be the wedding of Paul and Sheryl Gascoigne in 1996, or perhaps one of Elton John's regular white tie and tiara affairs? Only a few of the big ones, such as Madonna's marriage to Guy Ritchie at Skibo castle in 2000, have eluded its pages. On Wednesday, however, the magazine's joint editors, Rosie Nixon and Ruth Sullivan, will be throwing a party of their own in London "to say thank you to those who have contributed to the magazine over the years".

"It is going to be a glamorous cocktail party and very exciting,...

Richard Griffiths, the well-spoken, rotund presence perhaps best known for playing Muggle guardian Vernon Dursley in the Harry Potter series - and who costarred again with Daniel Radcliffe in the stage drama Equus - died Thursday from complications after heart surgery at University Hospital in Coventry, central England, his agent announced Friday. He was 65. "Richard was by my side during two of the most important moments of my career. I was proud to know him," Radcliffe said in a statement to the BBC. Griffiths also won a Tony in 2006 for playing slightly wayward teacher Douglas Hector in Alan Bennett's...

Actor known for his roles as clergymen, favourite uncles and tragic-comic characters

There is a great tradition in the rotundity of actors, and Roger Hammond, who has died aged 76 of cancer, stands proudly in a line stretching from Francis L Sullivan and Willoughby Goddard through to Roy Kinnear, Desmond Barrit and Richard Griffiths, though he was probably more malleably benevolent on stage than any of them.

He reeked of kindness, consideration and imperturbability, with a pleasant countenance and a beautiful, soft voice, qualities ideal for unimpeachable clergymen, favourite uncles and tragic-comic characters such as Waffles in Chekhov's Uncle Vanya (whom he played in a 1991 BBC TV film, with David Warner and Ian Holm), a man whose wife left him for another man on his wedding day but who has remained faithful to her and forgiving ever since.

Hammond grew up in Stockport, Lancashire. His chartered accountant father was managing director of his own family firm,...

Stephen Fry is perfectly cast as Oscar, but this sombre biopic attempts to cover too much of the writer and poet's life

Wilde (1997)

Director: Brian Gilbert

Entertainment grade: B+

History grade: A–

Oscar Wilde was a Victorian playwright and poet. Apparently, he had nothing to declare but his genius.

Celebrity

You may not expect this film to begin in the American west, but it does. Wilde (Stephen Fry, who could not be more perfectly cast) is on a speaking tour of the Us. A silver mine in Colorado is being named after him. Thoughtfully, the owners have filled it with hunky miners who are mostly naked. He addresses these "enormous, powerfully-built men … their brawny arms folded over their muscular chests, a loaded gun on each thigh" (his description) on the subject of 16th-century Italian goldsmith Benvenuto Cellini. They ask why Wilde hasn't brought Cellini along. Wilde explains sadly that he is dead.

A striking presence on stage and in the great days of British film, she played the prison governor of TV's Within These Walls

Followers of postwar cinema may well recall Googie Withers's striking presence in It Always Rains On Sunday, an unusually intense film for the Ealing Studios of 1947. A bored wife, she gives shelter to an ex-lover, now a murderer on the run, played by John McCallum, soon to be her real-life husband. The lovers were shown as unsympathetically as they might have been in French film noir, and the weather was bad even by British standards.

What Withers, who has died aged 94, brought to that performance was to define her strength in some of her most powerful roles. Too strong a face and too grand a manner prevented her being thought conventionally pretty, but she was imposingly watchable because of an obvious vigour and sexuality. Thus equipped,...

A political radical, as an actor he excelled at playing tortured establishment figures

Corin Redgrave, who has died aged 70, was both a formidable actor and a strenuous political activist. But, while it is fashionably easy to suggest that his career was blighted by his political activities, I suspect his talent was intimately related to his radical political convictions. And, if he enjoyed a golden theatrical rebirth from the late 1980s onwards, it may have had less to do with politics than with his determination to inherit the mantle of his revered father. Before he suffered a severe heart attack in 2005, Redgrave's later years yielded some of his finest work.

Redgrave was born, in London, into the theatrical purple. His father, Sir Michael, was both a great classical actor and a popular film star; his mother, Rachel Kempson, was also a distinguished actor. Educated at Westminster school, Redgrave won a scholarship to King's College,...

Hollyoaks star Gerard McCarthy has spoken of his delight after learning that his recent drama project Belonging To Laura has received an Irish Film & Television Award nomination. The Belfast-born actor took time out from his soap role as Kris Fisher last summer to star in the 90-minute feature, which is an adaptation of Oscar Wilde's Lady Windermere's Fan. Belonging To Laura, directed by Karl Golden and featuring largely unknown Irish actors, will now face competition from Liam Neeson and James Nesbitt's (more)...

Singer, songwriter, guitarist Chrissie Hynde is best known as the leader of the rock band "The Pretenders".

In recent years she has also become an outspoken 'animal rights' activist.

With her contralto vocal range and Fender Telecaster as the guitar of choice, Hynde's song "Message Of Love" includes a line from author Oscar Wilde's play "Lady Windermere's Fan", "...We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars..."

Hynde stays in the news as a member of PETA, confirmed vegetarian and vocal supporter of music file-sharing as a way for new artists to be heard.

In 2007, she opened "The VegiTerranean" Restaurant, Bar and Bakery at 21 Furnace Street in Akron, Ohio serving fusion Italian-vegetarian food.

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