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Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeWhite Christmas star Anne Whitfield has died aged 85, her family have shared. Whitfield played Susan Waverly, the grand-daughter of Captain Bob Wallace, in the 1954 film featuring Bing Crosby and Rosemary Clooney. Her death comes following an “unexpected incident” during a walk in her neighbourhood in Washington. Family have released a statement confirming that the actor passed away on…

What sort of a mind produces a whole book as though it might be an error, each sentence a fault line? The Canadian poet Anne Carson – here chiefly writing prose – explains Wrong Norma is thus named because she knows the pieces within the book do not add up. We are not to expect them to be on speaking terms with one another. I have interviewed Anne Carson, a classicist frequently tipped as a contender for the Nobel prize, for this newspaper – but interview is not the word for what took place between us by email. I sent her…

SAG Awards 2024: Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway and Emily Blunt – lead actors of The Devil Wears Prada – reunited 18 years after the release of their 2006 film. The trio was seen together on stage at Screen Actors Guild Awards 2024 (SAG Awards) in Los Angeles on Saturday (Sunday in India) to present the award for best actor in a comedy series. Also read: Meryl Streep and Anne Hathaway reunite 17 years after The Devil Wears Prada, fans want to see them in sequel The Devil Wears Prada featured Anne Hathaway, Meryl…

Hollywood star Anne Hathaway attended the Versace Fall-Winter 2024 fashion show during Milan Fashion Week on Friday. The Princess Diaries star later attended an afterparty as well, and left everyone spellbound with her dance moves once again. (Also read: Anne Hathaway pulls plug on Vanity Fair shoot, storms out in makeup due to THIS unexpected reason) Anne Hathaway is the queen of afterparties. A video shows her in a black and white checkerboard print dress, dancing to Nicki Minaj's hit song Anaconda. She…

Anne Edwards, known as `The Queen of Biography` for her best-selling books on Vivien Leigh and Katharine Hepburn, as well as 14 other celebrity biographies, died in Beverly Hills, California, Deadline reported. She was 96 years old, and her daughter reported that she died of lung cancer at a senior care facility. In addition to her biographies, the prolific author wrote eight novels, three children`s books, two memoirs, and one autobiography. Edwards, a child actor on radio and stage, sold her first screenplay in 1949…

December and January are traditionally lighter months for publishing, but February is ramping things back up again—just in time for picking out a book for your Valentine (or yourself)! Romance is a theme this month—but you’ll also find space adventures, inter-dimensional hijinks, magical libraries, monsters, and more.What Makes Immortal Longings an Epic Fantasy? | io9 InterviewImage: Thomas & MercerThe Bad Weather Friend by Dean R. KoontzA man who’s having a string of bad luck inherits an unlikely champion: an…

During a particularly memorable scene in Night Watch, which is set around the American civil war, a little girl is lowered headfirst into an open grave by her mother in order to pull a rifle off a fresh corpse. That this harrowing exploit ultimately proves pointless – the protection offered by the retrieved weapon is insufficient for the danger they face – is emblematic of the book’s unsparing vision.This is Jayne Anne Phillips’s sixth novel, and her third, after Machine Dreams and Lark and Termite, to take up the cost of…

In a surprising turn of events, actress Anne Hathaway departed a Vanity Fair photoshoot on Tuesday morning. The actress left the shoot in the middle while she was still in makeup and dressed. Her departure coincided with the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA) joining a one-day picket line organized by the Condé Nast Union. Although we don't know exactly why Hathaway left, it adds a new aspect to the current disagreement between the media company and its workers.…

Film star Anne Hathaway reportedly walked out of a photoshoot in New York on Tuesday for Vanity Fair in a show of solidarity with striking workers for the magazine’s publisher, Condé Nast.The actor had been prepared with make-up and hair styling but had not begun posing for pictures when word reached her that media workers were taking part in a 24-hour work stoppage amid union-corporation negotiations, Variety magazine was first to report on Tuesday.About 400 workers who are union members at Condé Nast and working for…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeAnne Hathaway reportedly walked out of a Vanity Fair photoshoot on Tuesday (23 January) in solidarity with Condé Nast’s labour union strike.More than 400 staffers of Condé Nast – the parent company of publications including Vanity Fair, Vogue and GQ – staged a 24-hour walkout to protest the “unlawful handling of layoff negotiations and bad-faith bargaining”, according to CNN Business.…