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Outsource the Elderly: On the Origins of 'The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel'...
Deborah Moggach is the author of sixteen successful novels including most recently These Foolish Things and the best-selling Tulip Fever. No stranger to on-screen entertainment, she wrote the...
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Bob Hoskins Announces Early Retirement Due to Parkinson's Disease
Sad news: Bob Hoskins, the character actor you've seen in everything from "Snow White and the Huntsman" to "Who Framed Roger Rabbit," has announced his retirement from acting due to his battle with...
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Casting Call: Joan Didion in The Year of Magical Thinking
Welcome to Signature's Casting Call, where we exercise our creative muscles by focusing our attention on extraordinary characters from exceptional books - either fiction or nonfiction - and make the...
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One for the Books: Version Golden Globes 2014
When the 2014 Golden Globes nominations were announced last week, we at Signature were tickled to see adaptations showing some major muscle among the competition. In a year that some are calling the...
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Is 'The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel' Worth the Stay?
"The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel" has a title meant as an endearing malapropism, but it turns out to be truth in advertising. The original "Best Exotic Marigold Hotel" in 2012 introduced a gaggle...
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School Rules: The Do's of On-Screen Teacher-student Affairs
Editor's Note: Jules Moulin has a master's degree in journalism from Columbia University. She spent her twenties writing the Golden Globe- and Emmy Award-winning series "Party of Five" and "The West...
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Ian McKellen and Judi Dench Will Star in Live BBC Shakespeare Special
Editor's Note: Ian McKellen, Judi Dench, and Shakespeare. These are just a few of the things we're thinking about in our Friday roundup. Take a moment with your Daily Blunt before you take off for the...
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Bookish Broads: Our 10 Favorite Adaptation It Women
Gillian Anderson, Brie Larson, Lupita Nyong’o/Photos © Helga Esteb, Jaguar PS/Shutterstock This time of year, it seems like we’re inundated with a different awards show every week. So while everyone...
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Bard On-screen: 11 Must-See Shakespeare Adaptations
Judi Dench and Ian Richardson in ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’/Image © Filmways Pictures William Shakespeare adaptations come in all shapes and sizes – classic, interpretative, Branagh – and there are...
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Helen Mirren Cast in Next ‘Fast and Furious’; Makes Demands
Helen Mirren/Photo © Helga Esteb/Shutterstock Editor's Note: Helen Mirren’s love of driving inspires a ‘Fast and Furious’ move, a novel James Bond idea from the Reddit community, and more in today’s...
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