Maria Schneider and Last Tango in Paris: ‘Her No and her tears are real, she isn’t acting any more’
The Last Tango in Paris episode is a relatively small part of Jessica Palud’s new film Being Maria, but it is clearly pivotal
Marlon Brando
When Muhammad Ali came to Ireland: how a ‘splendid spoofer’ from Kerry planned to lure the boxer to Dublin
Kerryman Michael ‘Butty’ Sugrue was known as ‘the splendid spoofer’, so few believed he’d convince the most famous athlete in the world to fight in Croke Park
Paul Mescal in a Streetcar Named Desire: Known for portrayals of hurting hunks, he is ferocious as Stanley Kowalski
In this revival of Tennessee Williams’s story, Mescal’s half-despised, half-beloved brute has but one decent emotion
Actor Anamaria Vartolomei: ‘I’m 25 now. I started when I was 10. I’ve been working for 15 years. It sounds weird when I say it’
The star of Happening, Being Maria and Traffic appears next in Bong Joon Ho’s futuristic new film, Mickey 17
Paul Mescal rides A Streetcar Named Desire to New York stage
Gladiator II actor reprises role of Stanley Kowalski, following in footsteps of Marlon Brando
Life in Hollywood: Golden-age photographs of Marilyn Monroe, Elizabeth Taylor, Grace Kelly and more
A two-volume collection drawn from the Life magazine archive features outstanding portraits of many of the biggest names in American cinema
Was arch-prude Mary Whitehouse really ahead of her time?
TV review: A new documentary resists painting the moral crusader as a crank
Will Smith breaks character – after 40 years playing the energetic, merry prankster
Oscars 2022 should have been the culmination of Smith’s extraordinary career. But he snapped
Oscars 2022: Will Smith slapping Chris Rock overshadows CODA’s best picture award
Kenneth Branagh takes best original screenplay for the autobiographical Belfast
Patrick Freyne: Britain has four armed forces – army, navy, air force and Ross Kemp
Kemp is a celebrity vassal for Bridge of Lies, a whimsical TV entity that has needs
Francis Ford Coppola: ‘I didn’t really know how to make The Godfather’
50 years on from its release, the director is working on restoring his crime epic
Rita Moreno: ‘Was Brando a good lover? Oh, yes! Incredible’
The Hollywood veteran on West Side Story, dating Brando and Elvis Presley, and joy at 90
Kin ends with a shameless rip-off of The Godfather
Clare Dunne is utterly convincing as a grieving mother turned avenging angel
Back to the Future’s Christopher Lloyd: ‘Retire? No, no, no, no, no’
The star is 82 now, and on wife number five. But he has no plans to stop working anytime soon
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Stardust
Inquests into the nightclub fire that led to the deaths of 48 people
Common Ground
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
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