Shirley

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeCommunity fans are expressing concern following Yvette Nicole Brown’s comments about the movie.In September, it was announced that the sitcom’s promise of “six seasons and a movie” would finally come true.US streaming service Peacock shared the news seven years after the series came to an end.It was revealed that creator Dan Harmon was overseeing the project, and that the majority of…

In 1982, Shirley Hazzard flew to Britain for a reunion with Alec Vedeniapine, a man with whom she had been in love more than 30 years before. Vedeniapine and his wife farmed in Wales, and their world – cats and cows; damp, rural isolation - couldn’t have been more different from that of Hazzard, who lived with her husband, Francis Steegmuller, a biographer of Cocteau and Flaubert, on New York’s Upper East Side in an apartment filled with paintings by Matisse and Picasso. Yet the contrast only made her feelings for…

If there was ever a name that was synonymous with the amazing history of James Bond movies and their theme songs, two candidates always tend to jump to the front of the line. Obviously, composer John Barry is one of them, as he scored the majority of the 007 movies from Dr. No until The Living Daylights. However, the other person that’s inexorably linked to that tradition would have to be legendary singer Dame Shirley Bassey, who sang three separate Bond songs in that same window. And believe it or not, there’s one tune…

When you were young and appearing on the Edinburgh fringe, singing a song while waving a rubber chicken around your head, did you think, “Shirley, one day you will sing the theme tune to a Bond movie ”? Tictoon. The song they’re referring to is Only the Chuckies – meaning chickens – Gang Cheep, which I sang in a musical with Edinburgh Youth Theatre. I never in my wildest imagination thought I was going to amount to very much at all.My 10-year-old son likes Stupid Girl, but is concerned that the song title could be…

Shirley Manson has seen it all, and then some. Over her 20-plus years as a songwriter and performer – under her own name, as part of Angelfish and Goodbye Mr Mackenzie, and with legendary alt-rock band Garbage – the Scottish musician has sold millions of records, performed with Iggy Pop and Gwen Stefani, starred as a Terminator (in the TV series Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles) and campaigned extensively for Aids foundations, cancer charities and the 2010 Haiti earthquake relief fund.Garbage’s Stupid Girl –…

Dune: The Sisterhood has reportedly cast Emily Watson and Shirley Henderson as the two leads in the upcoming HBO Max series that serves as a prequel to the Oscar-winning movie. As per Variety, the pair will portray Valya Harkonnen and Tula Harkonnen respectively, the sisters who rose to power in a titular secret organisation, the Sisterhood. Years from then, it will grow into the more commonly known, fabled sect, the Bene Gesserit. Dune director Denis Villeneuve was attached to direct the pilot at one point, though now,…

Photo: Pascal Le Segretain (Getty Images), Jeff Spicer (Getty Images)The universe of Denis Villeneuve’s Dune is getting bigger with official casting announced for the prequel spin-off series Sisterhood of Dune. Variety announced that Emily Watson (Chernobyl) will play Valya Harkonnen and Shirley Henderson (Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker) will play Tula Harkonnen. The show is set 10,000 years before the events of Dune and is based on the novel Sisterhood of Dune by Brian Herbert (son of original Dune series writer and…

Two previously unpublished short stories by Shirley Jackson, the queen of gothic fiction, have been released.Charlie Roberts and Only Stand and Wait were both published on 9 June in Strand magazine, a US-based print magazine that publishes short fiction and interviews.In Charlie Roberts, a couple are planning a dinner party, and much of the story is a conversation about who they will be inviting. Beneath their familiar banter, however, is palpable but unexpressed tension. The title refers to the owner of a pocket-knife…

Born in Edinburgh, Shirley Manson, 55, was in the bands Goodbye Mr Mackenzie and Angelfish before she relocated to the United States to become lead singer of Garbage. Their self-titled debut album was released in 1995 and went multi-platinum, and in 1999 they recorded the theme tune for the Bond film The World Is Not Enough. Last year, they released their seventh album, No Gods No Masters. Manson is also an actor and hosts The Jump podcast. She lives in Los Angeles with her second husband, the sound engineer Billy…