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Prue Leith: I binged The White Lotus in one night

The Times/The Sunday Times 20 Mar 2025
Puzzles. Challenge yourself with today’s puzzles. Crossword. Polygon. Sudoku. My mother, Margaret Inglis, was an actress and ran a theatre company in South Africa. She knew everyone from John Gielgud to Alec Guinness ... Culture. TV & Radio ... Paloma Faith ... .
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The 50 Best Spy Movies of All Time

New York Magazine 19 Mar 2025
But, after a while, even Alec isn’t quite sure where the act ends and his true identity begins ... The Night Manager, The Little Drummer Girl, and this 1974 novel’s previous adaptation as a 1979 mini-series starring Alec Guinness).
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Newly uncovered letters offer rare glimpse behind the scenes of Sir David Lean's spellbinding 1965 ...

The Daily Mail 15 Mar 2025
Doctor Zhivago which starred Omar Sharif, Julie Christie and Sir Alec Guinness opened in the United States in December 1965 with what even its own trailer conceded was a 'monumental' running time of three hours and twelve minutes.
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Matthew Macfadyen to play George Smiley in John le Carré series

The Times/The Sunday Times 14 Mar 2025
Now Matthew Macfadyen is set to follow in the footsteps of Sir Alec Guinness and Gary Oldman and play John le Carré’s self-effacing spy George Smiley who famously ... Sir Alec Guinness as George Smiley.
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Matthew Macfadyen to play George Smiley in new John le Carré TV show

The Observer 14 Mar 2025
Gary Oldman, Rupert Davies, Alec Guinness and Denholm Elliott have all portrayed Smiley on screen ... Le Carré was very fond of Guinness’s portrayal of Smiley in 1979’s Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy and ...
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Review: ‘Black Bag’ Eschews Big-Budget Flash for Smart Camerawork and Deft Performances

The Village Voice 14 Mar 2025
Zoe Vaughan (Naomie Harris), and Col ...   ... But Mr. and Mrs ... Fassbender seems to be going for the tacit expressiveness of another George, namely George Smiley, in Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (Alec Guinness or Gary Oldman — take your pick) ... ❖ ...   ... .
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Matthew Macfadyen to Play George Smiley in John Le Carré Series ‘Legacy of Spies’

The Wrap 13 Mar 2025
The character has previously been played memorably by Alec Guinness in the BBC’s 1979 miniseries adaptation of “Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy,” Rupert Davies in 1965’s “The ...
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Dick Frizzell: 'I had my own private world all to myself that no one could enter'

RNZ 12 Mar 2025
His "staunch engineer" father wasn't into the idea of his creative future, but his mum had his back ... He remembers the Alec Guinness film The Horse's Mouth, in which Guinness plays an artist, as a lightbulb moment ... it's intriguing." ... ....
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Lord Of The Rings Icon And LGBTQ+ Advocate Ian McKellen Discusses Young Actors Who Won’t Come Out: ‘Get Into The Sunshine’

Cinema Blend 09 Mar 2025
He told the Times that Sir Alec Guinness once took him out to lunch and asked the Hobbit actor if he was sure he “should be getting involved in politics.” However, that was never something ...
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14 of the best hotels in Valletta

The Times/The Sunday Times 05 Mar 2025
Here’s our pick of the best in Valletta ... 1 ... JET2. ££ . SPA ... the elegant pile on the edge of Valletta has hosted luminaries as diverse as Queen Elizabeth II, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sir Alec Guinness since it revealed its art deco-infused looks in 1947.
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All 96 Best Picture Winners, Ranked by Tomatometer

Rotten Tomatoes 02 Mar 2025
This complex war epic asks hard questions, resists easy answers, and boasts career-defining work from star Alec Guinness and director David Lean ... William Holden , Alec Guinness , Sessue Hayakawa , Jack Hawkins.
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