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According to forensic pathologist Dr. Matthew Miller, Mark Iskander's body was imprinted with a pattern that matched that of the grill Rebecca Grossman's white Mercedes. Mark and his brother Jacob, 8, were killed in a horrific auto crash on September 29, 2020, and Grossman is now on trial for his murder. Grossman denies the charges, while her defense team has argued that the children were struck by her lover's car.

Rebecca Grossman's attorneys attempted to have Nancy Iskander barred from the Van Nuys courtroom after she began sobbing during testimony. The defendant's counsel told the judge that "perceptible expressions of emotion" in front of jurors might'impact the defendant's fundamental right to a fair trial.' Grossman, 62, has been charged with murder for the November 29, 2020 disaster that killed Jacob Iskander, 8, and his brother Mark.

ANSWERS: ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS: Holmes' iconic photograph of him sporting his deerstalker cap and Inverness cape came from artist Sidney Paget's illustrations (1860-1908). In 1891, the short story A Scandal In Bohemia became the first of 24 stories in The Strand magazine and illustrated by Paget. These adventures will be published in book form as The Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes and The Memoirs Of Sherlock Holmes.

Brain VINER: In the classic folk-horror film The Wicker Man, Britt Ekland, above, bared all. Or so audiences in December 1973 were led to believe. 'But I've got an **** like a ski slope,' she cried as she learned that her backside will be revealed to the camera, so director Robin Hardy obligingly recruited a comely 'bottom double'. Despite the filmmaker's sleight of hand, or rather haunch, The Wicker Man was a thrillingly daring film. It's a little old now, but it's still horribly scary and, in some cases, scary. Edward Woodward was sent by a devoutly Christian policeman, Neil Howie, to look for a missing teen on a remote Hebridean island where the locals, including the pub landlord's flirtatious daughter Willow (Ekland), were in thrall with the sinister laird. (Christopher Lee). Lee, who used to say he had appeared in more films than anyone else, had no idea that The Wicker Man was the pick of them. Despite Woodward's tragic ending, he did.

David Berglas (left in 1974; right and inset after receiving his MBE from Prince William in 2019), one of the twentieth century's most influential magicians who even fooled fellow conjurers, has died at the age of 97. Berglas, the Magic Circle, who was dubbed the world's most popular magic society, died in London on Friday night. Meet David Berglas, also known as the International Man of Mystery, was the first magician to have his own show on British television.

Although the popular vampire is fictional, he is widely believed to have been based on a true Romanian prince named Vlad the Impaler. A new analysis has revealed a bloody link between the Romanian prince and Count Dracula. Vlad the Impaler suffered from a rare disease that caused him to cry tears of blood, according to University of Catania experts.

CHRISTOPHER STEVENS: You're the tenth of the pop star on the planet. What have these people got in common: James Coburn, Michael Parkinson, Kenny Lynch, Clement Freud, John Conteh and Christopher Lee? They are the criminal crew attempting to escape on the back of Paul McCartney's Wings album Band On The Run, half a century ago, dressed in black and trapped in a spotlight. The scene in Van Der Valk (ITV1) was faithfully recreated as the Dutch detective rounded up a crew of 'freerunners' - urban athletes who used their running-and-jumping skills to retrieve drug consignments from dockyard containers. They were less than persuasive fugitives, pinned in police headlights against a 6ft fence, and frozen to the spot, but they were incapable of crossing a hurdle, never mind jumping bail.

After a chair collapsed under him on the set of Marvel superhero blockbuster Black Widow (right), William Forbes-Hamilton (left), 90, is suing a production firm for £50,000. (right) In the August 2019 crash, the veteran screen actor (inset) says he suffered serious burns in his right shoulder when shooting scenes in east London's sci-fi action thriller. He said he suffered head and leg injury as well as psychological injury.

Dracula's first film film adaptation appeared in 1922 with the German silent film Nosferatu (left), which was directed by F.W. Murnau is a fictional character. Lead character Count Orlock, played by Max Schreck, was seen writhing over his wife's estate agent in what was a loose adapation of Stoker's novel. Nosferatu's bald head, pointed ears, hooked nose, and hunched shoulders - a figure portrayed by one reviewer as the'strangest and most hideous leading man of all cinema' - is immediately recognisable. Bela Lugosi was the Count in the 1931 American version (centre), the newest Dracula adaption to stand the test of time. Even though his appearance differed sharply from the cadaverous white-haired old man of Stoker's book, his result - complete with black slicked back hair and sinister cape - is still regarded as the best by many analysts. Dracula was depicted in ten separate films by Christopher Lee. Dracula AD 1972 (right), his penultimate outing, was mocked by critics as the bloodsucker came to 1970s London, but fans have a long love for him. In 1979 film Nosferatu the Vampyre (inset bottom left), directed by celebrated German filmmaker Werner Herzog, Nosferatu made his own comeback. Both critics and viewers were raving over the film's popularity. This month, viewers were treated to Nicolas Cage's more light-hearted depiction of Dracula (inset bottom right) with the release of Renfield, which focuses on his servant, played by Nicholas Hoult

In a new teaser for Renfield, Nicholas Cage put his own kooky and unique spin on the normally frightening Dracula. In the aftermath of sucking blood from the necks of unsuspecting young virgins, blood was sipped from a martini glass while still channeling the main characteristics of the bloodthirsty undead, centuries-old vampire. Exposure to sunlight led him to fire, but not before he could deliver a zingy one-liner to his long-suffering servant R. M. Renfield, played by Nicholas Holt.

Sir Michael Caine paid tribute to Oscar-winning composer and lyricist Leslie Bricusse, who died at the age of 90. Sir Michael Caine, a friend of 60 years, admitted he was still struggling with his absence at the London memorial service. The 89-year-old actor admitted, 'I have a chat with him every day like a nutcase.'