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Elvis Presley famously had two types of girls. He liked them sweet and demure like Anita Ward or his teenage girlfriend Priscilla Beaulieu, who lost his interest when she became a mother to Lisa Marie. Or The King liked them sexy and sassy like Debra Paget and Ann Margret. But …

Reddick should have been celebrating this week. The 60-year-old was enjoying another surge in a career that had taken him from TV success in The Wire, Fringe and Bosch to late-life film stardom in the John Wick franchise. He had been on the road recently promoting the imminent release of …

Martin told a reporter for Time: “Someone else would have laid around, feeling sorry for himself, for a year. But Duke, he just doesn’t know how to be sick. He’s recuperating the hard way. He’s two loud-speaking guys in one. Me, when people see me, they sometimes say, ‘Oh, there …

Charles Bronson was an imposing figure on and off the screen in films from The Magnificent Seven to Death Wish, which is back on TV screens this weekend. He may have only been a regular 5’9 in height but he was physically brawny and muscular, and brought an intense, dominating …

John Wayne, whose 1949 film She Wore a Yellow Ribbon airs on TCM from 6.15pm this Saturday, offered a brutal evaluation of where his Hollywood roles would go as he aged. Wayne, affectionately known as the Duke, was renowned for delivering his honest assessment of situations, often wearing his heart …

On screen the grand set-pieces looked spectacular and convincing as did the central passionate affair. But behind the scenes, that was also far less glamorous and passionate than it appeared. Hilariously, it was Christie’s love of a good old-fashioned British egg sandwich that caused the problem, especially when it came …

With a year and a half having passed since the release of Daniel Craig’s final James Bond movie, speculation continues to be rife over his replacement. Producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael G Wilson have let slip that the next 007 can be of any race but must be male and …

Initially, she had refused to say the mystery words, writing in her memoir years later, “I couldn’t possibly say that to Duke!” However, Ford insisted that the actress do it, so as to get a genuinely shocked reaction from her co-star, which totally worked. Only those three knew what the …

It’s been a year and a half since the last James Bond movie was released. Daniel Craig bowed out so spectacularly and definitively at the conclusion of No Time To Die, but at the end of the credits it was promised that 007 would return. Of course, the reboot will …

Meanwhile, the post-credits scene depicts the return of Mark Strong’s Dr Sivana, the villain from the first Shazam! movie who’s now in jail with scrawlings all over his cell. We previously saw him there in the mid-credits scene for the first movie, when he was visited by Mister Mind, an …