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About two months ago, Meghan Linsey woke up to a nightmare: She had an “awful” stinging pain in her face, and a dying spider in her hand. The singer, a runner-up on the 2015 season of The Voice, had been bitten by a brown recluse in her sleep.
“The swelling was the first thing, and then I ended up just having crazy, crazy symptoms,” the country singer, 31, told People. “I had muscle spasms, and I had a body rash all over.” Nine days after she was bitten, she developed an open wound around the bite,...
About two months ago, Meghan Linsey woke up to a nightmare: She had an “awful” stinging pain in her face, and a dying spider in her hand. The singer, a runner-up on the 2015 season of The Voice, had been bitten by a brown recluse in her sleep.
“The swelling was the first thing, and then I ended up just having crazy, crazy symptoms,” the country singer, 31, told People. “I had muscle spasms, and I had a body rash all over.” Nine days after she was bitten, she developed an open wound around the bite,...
- 4/14/2017
- by Kathleen Mulpeter
- PEOPLE.com
'Playing Fagin was one of the happiest times of my life. I loved the boys' mischievous minds – I wanted to make them laugh'
Mark Lester, actor (Oliver Twist)
The auditions had narrowed down to two other boys and me. We were put in a room in a London hotel and Carol Reed, the director, ordered the dismayed hotel barber to cut our hair badly to resemble a workhouse style. Then he just looked and looked at us, and we were sent home with this awful hair. When I heard I'd got the part, my reaction was that it was a chance to miss a lot of school. Actually, I spent most of the time in my dressing room reading Sherlock Holmes.
Ron Moody, who played Fagin, was very jolly and used to play cards with us boys between shoots. But we were all terrified of Oliver Reed. He was one...
Mark Lester, actor (Oliver Twist)
The auditions had narrowed down to two other boys and me. We were put in a room in a London hotel and Carol Reed, the director, ordered the dismayed hotel barber to cut our hair badly to resemble a workhouse style. Then he just looked and looked at us, and we were sent home with this awful hair. When I heard I'd got the part, my reaction was that it was a chance to miss a lot of school. Actually, I spent most of the time in my dressing room reading Sherlock Holmes.
Ron Moody, who played Fagin, was very jolly and used to play cards with us boys between shoots. But we were all terrified of Oliver Reed. He was one...
- 12/4/2012
- by Anna Tims
- The Guardian - Film News
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