A lesson for May from tearful Churchill
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TO SOTHEBY’S for a dinner in honour of The Vivien Leigh Collection, with actresses Joanna Lumley and Kim Cattrall perusing the screen goddess’s possessions, as well as Cecil Beaton photographs to be auctioned to raise funds for The Old Vic.
Among the lots are items given to Leigh by Winston Churchill, who was a bit of a fanboy: a
TALKRADIO presenter Julia Hartley-Brewer hosted an event at Westminster last night, with ex-footballer Frank Lampard among the speakers. He recalled an occasion when he was naked in the shower with Jose Mourinho at Chelsea: halfway through the story, a woman in the audience fainted. “You must have this effect on women all the time,” HartleyBrewer said. “I’ve never actually made a woman faint before,” Lampard replied. Now he knows how to. diary entry records that he watched her in That Hamilton Woman, about Lady Hamilton, for the fifth time and was moved to tears. He loved the movie so much that he sent it — presumably on old film reels — to Joseph Stalin, and discussed it with him at the Tehran Conference of 1943. Could Theresa May try that with Vladimir Putin? SIR Ian McKellen will be treading the boards as King
Lear at the Chichester Festival Theatre
from tonight and shared throwback photo to mark a
the occasion. Standing in the auditorium, on “a fine front of
summer’s day in 1965”, the looks the picture of youth. actor
O, let me kiss that hand!