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Hilary Mantel, the celebrated author of the Wolf Hall trilogy, was working on a “mashup” of Jane Austen novels when she died suddenly, her literary agent told a packed memorial service at Southwark cathedral on Thursday.“She was having the greatest fun dissecting a literary icon,” said Bill Hamilton before a “fragment” of the unfinished novel, Provocation, was read by the actor Aurora Dawson-Hunte.Mantel was working on the book when she had a stroke at her home in Devon last September. The double Booker prize winner was…

Oscar-winning actor Hilary Swank has welcomed twins with her husband, entrepreneur Philip Schneider. The "Million Dollar Baby" star made the announcement that she has given birth to twins, a boy and girl, on her official Instagram page Sunday on the occasion of Easter. "It wasn`t easy. But boy (and girl!) was it worth it. Happy Easter! Posting from pure Heaven," Swank captioned a photo of her holding the newborns while looking at an ocean at sunset. View this post…

Alaska Daily star Hilary Swank took to Instagram to announce that she has given birth to twins -- a boy and a girl. Sharing a frame holding two babies while looking at an ocean at sunset, Hilary captioned the post, "It wasn't easy. But boy (and girl!) was it worth it." She also added an Easter wish, “Happy Easter! Posting from pure Heaven.” Also read: Hilary Swank interview: Oscar-winner on being inspired by Kalpana Chawla to play astronaut in Netflix’s Away Hilary Swank has shared a picture with her twins.…

A celebration of the Wolf Hall trilogy author Dame Hilary Mantel, who died aged 70 last year, is to take place at Southwark Cathedral next month.Family, friends and colleagues of Mantel will gather in London on 20 April for the memorial event, which will include tributes and readings from the double Booker prize winner’s body of work.“It was a terrible shock to lose Hilary so suddenly last autumn,” said Nicholas Pearson, Mantel’s editor. “The outpouring across the world of literature in the days that followed was a…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeHilary Duff is on board with the Jennifer Coolidge renaissance.During an appearance on Bravo’s Watch What Happens Live on Thursday, the Lizzie McGuire alum was asked by a fan about her favorite memories of working with Jennifer Coolidge in the 2004 movie, A Cinderella Story.“I can’t even begin to tell you how much I’ve just been, like, obsessed with this past year for Jennifer…

Jennifer Coolidge is having a huge Hollywood moment right now on the heels of her success from starring in The White Lotus, recently taking home a Golden Globe and starring alongside Jennifer Lopez in the new comedy Shotgun Wedding. However, the real ones remember her hilarious role as the stepmother to Hilary Duff’s Sam in 2004’s A Cinderella Story. Obviously, Duff remembers it too and shared her most memorable moment working with the actress as a teen. Hilary Duff was asked by a fan about her experience working…

Romantic comedies: They’re not supposed to be dangerous! This isn’t Tom Cruise driving a motorcycle off of a European cliff so he can transition into a base jump. It’s Sandra Bullock having a meet-cute with Keanu Reeves, or Julia Roberts falling for Hugh Grant at a bookstore in Notting Hill. That’s what makes the list of the Best Romantic Comedies of all time. However, Gerard Butler will tell you a story about the time that he almost killed Hilary Swank while the two of them worked on a rom-com, proving that sometimes,…

The Disney Channel icon recently shared her struggle with eating disorders when she was a teen. Actor Hilary Duff, best known for portraying the well-known Disney character `Lizzie McGuire`, recently recalled her pressures to be skinny as per a report by The New York Post. "I am on camera, and actresses are skinny. It was horrifying," the 35-year-old actor was quoted by The New York Post. Duff became a household name with her breakout role in the 2001 Disney Channel series, which lasted till 2004. Also Read: `I…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeHilary Duff has criticised a book publisher for announcing its plans to release the late Aaron Carter’s unfinished memoir.The actor described Ballast Books as “heartless” and “disgusting” as she accused the publisher of capitalising on the death of her ex-boyfriend and former Disney co-star.Carter was found dead at his California home on 5 November 2022, aged 34.In a statement to E!…

On the day that Mark Rylance video-calls from Pittsburgh, where his wife, Claire van Kampen, is directing an opera, the news is dominated by the death of Hilary Mantel. Rylance, now 62, played a furtive, whispering Thomas Cromwell in the BBC adaptation of Mantel’s Wolf Hall in 2015. Prior to that, he was revered for stage roles such as Johnny “Rooster” Byron, the uncouth mystic layabout in Jerusalem, which brought him his third Tony award.It was Wolf Hall, though, that made him a household name in households that never…