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Where you can (and can’t) watch 8 of Julian Sands’ most notable movie roles

Julian Sands, whose remains were found Saturday and identified this week five months after he went missing while hiking near Mount Baldy in Southern California, emerged in the 1980s with a cohort of other actors who rode a British cinematic rebirth to Hollywood stardom. Those peers and sometime co-stars included…

Los Angeles Times

‘The theatricality of that costume is off the scale’: celebrating two centuries of diva fashion

From Victorian opera singers to Debbie Harry, a new exhibition celebrates the historic and iconoclastic fashion of women in charge of their own destinies

The Guardian - UK

History of Warner Bros. studio is behind-the-scenes look at stuff dreams are made of

“Warner Bros. 100 Years of Storytelling” by Mark A. Vieira; Running Press Adult (368 pages, $40)

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Batmobiles, Bugs Bunny and James Dean’s jeans: a day inside the Warner Bros top-secret archive

To celebrate 100 years, the studio is letting reporters into a protected vault of movie treasures. Just don’t try and find it on Google maps

The Guardian - US

Pssst! Wanna buy an Oscar? The mysterious case of the missing Academy Awards

An Oscar can only, officially, be sold for $1 – but that hasn’t stopped a small but lucrative black market. Where are all those that have disappeared?

The Guardian - UK

Where the Oscars gets its beloved nickname from: ‘I wanted to make the gold statuette human’

One theory suggests Bette Davis and her husband’s bottom might have something to do with the affable nickname but the origin story remains up for grabs. Annabel Nugent looks at the potential backstories behind who exactly christened the golden statuette

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‘I wanted to make the gold statuette human’: Where the Oscars gets its beloved nickname from

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‘She had to hide’: the secret history of the first Asian woman nominated for a best actress Oscar

Merle Oberon, a pick for best actress in 1936, was born in Bombay and spent her career passing for white

The Guardian - US

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'

Nottingham Post

Toadzilla to join other giant cane toads at Queensland Museum

Giant amphibian "Toadzilla" will join others like "Yuk" and "Bette Davis" at the Queensland Museum — but it may be a few months before the frozen specimen is ready for visitors.

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‘Just too frightening’ – the most terrifying art, from horror films to haunted ruins and sinister songs

A bear-infested casino, a horse-drawn hearse, a humanoid stalker and the ghost of Mr Pipes who was eaten by his cats … in a Halloween special, Guardian critics pick their scariest ever work

The Guardian - UK

Ian Whittaker obituary

Set decorator who worked for Merchant Ivory productions, and with Ken Russell and Ridley Scott

The Guardian - UK

The Nightingale to In Bruges: the seven films to watch on TV this week

Aisling Franciosi goes on a heart-rending quest for revenge, while Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson are two hitmen in hiding

The Guardian - UK

Dame Angela Lansbury obituary

Versatile actor with a long career on stage and screen, best known as the TV sleuth Jessica Fletcher in Murder, She Wrote

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Streaming: the best Marilyn Monroe films

Ahead of Netflix’s biopic of the Hollywood star, what better time to catch up on her deft, joyous screen performances, from Some Like It Hot to The Misfits

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Martha Marcy May Marlene to Persuasion: the seven best films to watch on TV this week

Elizabeth Olsen makes her escape from a sinister cult, while Dakota Johnson frocks up for a trip to Austenland

Benzinga

10 Weirdest Game Show Experiences Of All Time: Jackie Gleason's Mega-Bomb, Andy Kaufman's 'Dating Game' Chaos And The Lascivious Popsicle Twins

Truth be told, most game shows are anodyne distractions that rarely produce classic moments. But on some occasions, either the concept is so wrong that it becomes hypnotic in its awfulness or the contents are so bizarre and unexpected that they transcend the genre to become a warped version of…

The Guardian - AU

What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? Still brilliantly shocking at 60

Featuring one of cinema’s most famous villains and two grand dames of Hollywood – Bette Davis and Joan Crawford – going toe to toe, this 1962 film packs a punch

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‘I wanted to make the gold statuette human’: Where the Oscars gets its beloved nickname from

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