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The actresses Evgenia Dmitrieva and Sarah Paulson really are very alike, are they not?
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Emperor Marcus Opellius Macrinus?
Emperor Marcus Opellius Macrinus? I hardly recognise you under the make-up Surprises of Ridley Scott's "Gladiator II"
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William Klein, Simone + Nina, Piazza di Spagna, Rome, 1960
William Klein's photograph "Simone + Nina, Piazza di Spagna, Rome", taken in 1960, is one of the finest examples of the innovative style of the American photographer William Klein. Klein was drawn to street photography and sought to take fashion photography out of the studio. Here he
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A Cameo by Saint Thérèse of Lisieux in the 2002 "Spider-Man"
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Vanessa Redgrave as Isadora Duncan was filmed at a temple in Paestum, not on the Acropolis
Vanessa Redgrave as Isadora Duncan, who danced in 1921 in the temples of the Acropolis. The scenes with Redgrave were filmed not on the Acropolis, as the Doric columns show, but in a Doric temple at Paestum, or Poseidonia, a Greek colony founded in the late seventh century BC in
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"Inside Out 2", as it would be shot inside my head
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BBC and CBS Studios Are Working on a Drama Series About William the Conqueror
Starring: Nikolaj Coster-Waldau as William the Conqueror, founder of the Anglo-Norman kingdom, and James Norton as King Harold Godwinson, the last crowned Anglo-Saxon king of England. Roll on 1066
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Reportedly, women played most of the Riders of Rohan in “The Lord of the Rings”
It is said that most of the Riders of Rohan in the filming of The Lord of the Rings were played by women with glued-on beards and moustaches, riding their own horses. It follows that, had Éowyn and Merry not slain the Witch-king of Angmar, any rank-and-
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NBC's 1980s miniseries based on Ray Bradbury's “The Martian Chronicles”
In the 1980s NBC screened a miniseries based on Ray Bradbury's "The Martian Chronicles", about the settlement of Mars by Earthlings who have left their home planet because of nuclear war. Having made a technological leap after the Second World War, humanity ends by destroying life
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Thank you, Donald Sutherland, for the many brilliant performances you have left us
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Three years ago, on receiving the Golden Lion, the actor and director Roberto Benigni addressed his wife, the actress and producer Nicoletta Braschi:
"We have spent 40 years doing everything together. I know only one way of measuring time: with you or without you."