Dirk Bogarde

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Each of the five films in TCM's marathon earned the group's top prize, Best Picture. Read More

Just a few weeks ago, Peter Hall brought you the news that Dwight Schultz , aka the original Howlin' Mad Murdock, had earned a cameo in Joe Carnahan's remake of The A-Team . Read More

Precise as a hole punch through a sheet of paper, craters surround a Nazi doodlebug factory in an extraordinary image showing the devastation wreaked by an Allied bombing raid. Read More

Opposite the old town hall in Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent, down the road from the Red Lion (aka "the pub where Robbie Williams was born"), round the corner from the Methodist Mission and next to a now sadly shuttered jewellery shop called What Women Want, is the Leopard Inn. All stained glass, mosaic tiles, decorative mirrors and polished wood, it has in its time served HG Wells, Dirk Bogarde, Ava Gardner and Arnold Bennett. Read More

Albert Camus, Jackson Pollock, James Dean, Jayne Mansfield, General George Patton and Princesses Grace and Diana? Read More

In one of his less felicitously phrased essays, the youthful Clive James once described the poet WH Auden, who had succumbed to premature old age in his ill-judged Oxford retirement, as a "fag at bay". Read More

When Harris was cast in the role that would forever allow him to escape the mantle of Doogie Howser, he wasn't yet an out gay man. Read More

It's not as though he can comfortably retire to civilian life. Read More

G raham Greene called Lionel Davidson, who has died at the age of 87, the first contemporary storyteller to have recaptured the high adventure of Rider Haggard, while Rebecca West once said he was a young Kipling. Read More