Michelle Pfeiffer played Selina Kyle and her alter-ego Catwoman in Tim Burton's 1992 film Batman Returns. Birthplace: Santa Ana, California, USA Credits: Scarface, Batman Returns, Dark Shadows, What Lies Beneath Also ranks #6 on The 150+ Greatest Actresses Who Have Never Won An Oscar...
Besides his house, his retort, and his wolf, he had a flute and a violoncello on which he played prettily. He concocted his own elixirs. His wits yielded him enough to sup on sometimes. In the top of his van was a hole, through which passed the pipe of a cast-iron stove; so ...
On a dark, wet, winter weekend in the jerry-built cottage at Cleeve, with the river flooding part of the lawns, the wind howling through the badly made doors and windows, my memory pulled me back to a single night when I was 19 years old. I had slept for a few hours under Brighto...
“Well,maybe.” The Doctor clapped his hands and strode over to the console, flicking the first lever his fingers brushed against without even looking at it. “Right! Edinburgh. New Year’s Eve, 1999. Fireworks! Haggis! Aaaand…” He span on his heels, and the bottom of the kilt billo...
Subsequent to the band’s final demise, Buddy Beadle and Steve Gregory became members of ‘Gonzalez’ and later Steve played the sax featured on George Michael’s ‘Careless Whisper’. More recently they were both on tour with ‘Georgie Fame and the Blue Flames’ backing ‘Van Morrison’. ...
When Christmas Eve came, the mother said: “The children must have their Christmas-tree in my room, for baby is one of the presents, and I don’t think I can let him be carried out and put upon the table in the hall, where we had it last year.” So all day long the children ...
You have to be pretty bent to inflict that kind of pain on others who have done nothing wrong, especially when it’s all they have. Toys are made to be played with and to make children happy. Sucking the joy out of their sole purpose takes a new brand of evil. And finally, we ...
A former director of Israel’s Mossad spy service who warned that Israel was about to be attacked on the eve of the 1973 Mideast war. Jan. 2. Glynis Johns, 100. A Tony Award-winning stage and screen star who played the mother opposite Julie Andrews in the classic movie “Mary Poppins...
This is a direct homage to the filming of the 1929 film “The Wild Party” in which Bow played an amorous student who falls for her professor (played by Fredric March). Like Nellie, during the production of the film, Bow’s wild physicality meant she was unable to hit her marks. This...
On Christmas Eve, I took Communion – for the first time as a Bible-believing Christian in a little church in Kingston Upon Thames. The next morning I drove up to Holy Trinity Brompton. I loved the worship band. “I walk by faith ...