Psst! If you want to peek into the past, Acorn Media is making it easy. Want to watch Keira Knightley at age 9? Try Acorn’s DVD of “A Village Affair,” a TV movie whose lesbian love story takes place in a small English village. How about Orlando Bloom at 23 in “Midsomer Murders,” a British series in which village sex is secondary to a rich crop of murders? In one case, the youthful actor was also the star. After Colin Firth won an Academy Award as best actor for his performance as King George VI in “The King’s Speech” (2010), Acorn bought “Lost Empires,” a 1986 mini-series about British music halls in which Firth had top billing as a young boy who joins his uncle’s magic act. “We picked up ‘Lost Empires’ in 2011 because of Colin Firth,” says Acorn publicity director Chad Campbell. "He was “the deciding factor.” ...
- 7/25/2012
- by Aljean Harmetz
- Thompson on Hollywood
Keira — you are a British beauty and a hot Hollywood star!
You might know Keira Knightley from Bend it Like Beckham or Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, but Keira started her career as a British film actress and model when she was a child. She completed her first movie, A Village Affair, at the age of nine! Her international success has made her one of Hollywood’s highest paid actresses! Get all the details from Astrology.com!
Happy birthday, Keira Knightley! From a footballer in ‘Bend it Like Beckham’ to a princess in ‘Pirates of the Caribbean,’ you’ve built an enviable career while capturing the hearts and eyes of millions. You’re markedly independent, and there’s a bit of the thrill seeker in you that keeps pining for adventure! While your Moon in Taurus may like to keep things simple, your career is...
You might know Keira Knightley from Bend it Like Beckham or Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, but Keira started her career as a British film actress and model when she was a child. She completed her first movie, A Village Affair, at the age of nine! Her international success has made her one of Hollywood’s highest paid actresses! Get all the details from Astrology.com!
Happy birthday, Keira Knightley! From a footballer in ‘Bend it Like Beckham’ to a princess in ‘Pirates of the Caribbean,’ you’ve built an enviable career while capturing the hearts and eyes of millions. You’re markedly independent, and there’s a bit of the thrill seeker in you that keeps pining for adventure! While your Moon in Taurus may like to keep things simple, your career is...
- 3/26/2011
- by HL Intern
- HollywoodLife
.An English village provides the severest test of .love thy neighbor... Author Joanna Trollope is a descendant of Victorian author Anthony Trollope. Not only did Ms. Trollope inherit her ancestor.s ability to tell a good story, she has a gift of characterization. Whether in print or on the screen, each of her people becomes real to readers and to audiences. As Anthony Trollope dealt with manners and customs of his time period, so Joanna Trollope tackles the problems of the modern age, but in microcosmic format, a village becomes the paradigm for the rest of the universe, as one person struggles with decisions that can mean personal growth, but with a price. In A Village Affair, the audience...
- 6/17/2009
- by June L.
- Monsters and Critics
After your favorable response to our first article on the subject, we decided to take another look at the (often) behind-the-scenes women who love and support the higher-profile women in their life.
Most of them are not yet as well known as Portia De Rossi (wife of Ellen DeGeneres) or Tammy Lynn Michaels (partner of Melissa Etheridge), but we thought you'd like to get to know a little more about them.
Melanie Goldstein (fiancée of actor Kirsten Vangsness)
Just this week, Kirsten Vangsness, the out star of the CBS crime drama Criminal Minds, announced her engagement to longtime girlfriend Melanie Goldstein, an assistant editor on Fox tv show 24.
Goldstein proposed to Vangsness in November, but the couple only recently shared the news with family and friends.
They told People.com that they plan to marry this Spring at the Texas home of Goldstein's parents, with Vangsness adding, "and since it's...
Most of them are not yet as well known as Portia De Rossi (wife of Ellen DeGeneres) or Tammy Lynn Michaels (partner of Melissa Etheridge), but we thought you'd like to get to know a little more about them.
Melanie Goldstein (fiancée of actor Kirsten Vangsness)
Just this week, Kirsten Vangsness, the out star of the CBS crime drama Criminal Minds, announced her engagement to longtime girlfriend Melanie Goldstein, an assistant editor on Fox tv show 24.
Goldstein proposed to Vangsness in November, but the couple only recently shared the news with family and friends.
They told People.com that they plan to marry this Spring at the Texas home of Goldstein's parents, with Vangsness adding, "and since it's...
- 3/5/2009
- by karman
- AfterEllen.com
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