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Mood for the evening: Mikhail Bulgakov, Darya Moroz, Igor Mirkurbanov, Ivan Rudin, an orchestra of 70 and Plus Dacha
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In "Attack of the Clones", the scenes with Padmé Amidala, Queen of the planet Naboo, and Anakin Skywalker in the city of Theed were filmed in the semicircular gallery of the early twentieth-century Neo-Moorish ensemble of the Plaza de España in Seville
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Since Fantômas is returning, perhaps one of our producers will have the wit to buy the rights to Vil Lipatov's novella and screenplays about the village detective Aniskin?
Since Fantômas is returning, perhaps one of our producers will have the wit to buy the rights to Vil Lipatov's novella and screenplays about the village detective Aniskin? To my mind, against the backdrop of our seven-league strides into the radiant past, it could make quite an
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New Fantômas series to be based more closely on novels by Souvestre and Allain
Fantômas is to return to the screen as the hero of a new series. The new holders of the rights to adapt the novels about the first European superhero assure us that the image of the legendary hooded villain will now be far closer to the original texts of Pierre
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Sir Ian McKellen has said that he knows his life is drawing to a close, and is still waiting for a call from the showrunners offering him Gandalf in the series The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power
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It feels as though Franco Zeffirelli's 1968 "Romeo and Juliet" cast not Leonard Whiting as Romeo but Zac Efron of 2008
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When You Feel Like a Happy Walrus
Bette Davis and Joan Crawford, 1962
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The Panagia Chozoviotissa Monastery on Amorgos, Founded in 1017
Panagia Hozoviotissa is an Orthodox monastery for men, perched on a rock on the island of Amorgos in the Aegean Sea, where Luc Besson filmed "The Big Blue". The monastery was founded in 1017 and remains active; today it is home to three Orthodox monks. The monks produce
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Catherine Deneuve and David Bowie Playing Chess
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Tatler highlights the grey hair of Elizabeth McGovern, Letizia and Caroline of Hanover
Tatler has taken note of gracefully greying celebrities, among them Princess Caroline of Hanover, Queen Letizia of Spain and, the most striking of all, Elizabeth McGovern. The steel-coloured locks swept back from the face of the 60-year-old American actress, who played the mistress of Downton Abbey, together
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The Brides of Dracula
The Brides of Dracula. 1931, and all of them made up
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