News about Boris Karloff

Mary Parker, a pioneer of Australian television, has died at the age of 92. Parker became the first female television presenter in Melbourne in 1956 when she began her ground-breaking work as an anchor for Channel HSV-7, Melbourne's first television station. It came at a time when women were deemed "not strong enough" to be news readers.

EPHRAIM HARDCASTLE: During Monday's Westminster Hall oath, one Labour MP pulled his fingers behind his back while taking the oath in the hopes of swearing allegiance to King Charles. Steven Bonnar, a SNP MP, and Tony Banks, a late Labour MP, did the same in 2019 to avoid pledging allegiance to the Queen. Lord Moore rages over accusations that his gesture was 'funny'. 'By doing so, he was not expressing legitimate (if misguided) republican sentiments: he was cheating.' Name the anti-Royalist Charles!

After a US museum asked for it to be repatriated, a replica of Frankenstein's (right) being held at the V&A (inset) has sparked a trans-Atlantic row. Boris Karloff, who played the creature in 1930s films, is the wooden mannequin, which stands at seven feet tall. (left) It's dressed in the late English actor's original costume, with bolts in the neck and metal fastenings on the skull. The Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County (NHM) is contesting the creature's ownership, claiming that it owns both the mannequin and its clothing.

On Monday, third-generation actor Chris Pine graced the premiere of his father Robert Pine's latest film Five Days at Memorial at the DGA Theater Complex in West Hollywood. In Carlton Cuse and John Ridley's eight-episode Hurricane Katrina drama, which premieres on Apple TV+ this Friday, the 81-year-old CHiPs alum plays Dr. Horace Baltz.