Cops probe flats deaths
POLICE are probing two “unexplained” tower block deaths.
The men, aged 48 and 54, were found at a flat in Oxcars Court, in the Muirhouse area of Edinburgh, on Friday. NOT many Hollywood pin-ups have fond memories of eating chips and cheese outside a Glasgow nightclub in the early hours of the morning.
And even fewer have enjoyed a Celtic v Rangers match in full song.
But Alison Brie has never been a predictable actress.
The former Mad Men star is the lead in the new blockbuster Netflix series GLOW – about female wrestlers in the 80s – from the team behind hit shows such as Orange is the New Black.
LA-born Brie, 34, is best known as strait-laced wife Trudy in Mad Men. She has also had hit runs in series such as Community, but started her career in Scotland at Glasgow’s renowned RSAMD drama school, now renamed the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.
She studied in the city as an exchange student and said the skills and experience she learned working with Scots artists and teachers have been invaluable in her career.
But she admitted that her favourite memories are of nights out at The Garage nightclub in Glasgow and enjoying Scottish football at its noisiest.
The actress – who stars in the wrestling drama alongside Scots actress Marianna Palka – said: “I loved Glasgow and I loved the RSAMD. They were always bringing in different artists to do workshops with us, so the curriculum was really exciting. It’s such an artistic society and they did some great avant garde theatre while I was there.
“But my fondest memories are of walking down Sauchiehall Street, going to The Garage nightclub with my friends and eating chips and cheese when we were drunk at 2am – the people I met were really wonderful. “I went to a Celtic v Rangers game, too. That was fantastic, it was so intense. I’d never been to a football match before that, nor have I since. I went with friends who were Celtic fans so I had a green-and-white scarf on. “I was mostly impressed with all the singing. At American sports events, it’s mostly shouting, they don’t have as much rhythm. The way the fans would sing and sway together, it was very powerful.” Alison said the lessons she learned studying in Glasgow have stuck with her right through to her work on GLOW. She said: “As a student abroad, it was the furthest I’d ever been from home. I went to