News about James Coburn
Which Hollywood megastar hates his height being mentioned - and who insists on his suits being made from bamboo? A-lister tailor John Leyte reveals his trade secrets
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April 4, 2024
Tim (right) Everest, a junior sales assistant in Barrett's, Haverfordwest, and Hepworth's, Carmarthen, a chain that was purchased by Next in 1985, learned the fundamentals of sewing, selling, and marketing. He went to London and discovered the links between nightclubs, disco music, after-parties, and clothing: ripped Levis and studded jean jackets, lemon tank-tops, and white canvas shoes, spats and flamboyant handkerchiefs.
What happened to the Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit cast?From Whoopi Goldberg's tumultuous daytime television career to Maggie Smith's glittering on-screen success, 30 years since hit film premiered
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December 3, 2023
Fans of Sister Act may be surprised to learn that the sequel to the hit movie musical, Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit, was released 30 years ago. Sister Act (1992) was such a hit that it was a sequel to theaters the following year. Deloris (Whoopi Goldberg), along with her nun companion Sister Mary Patrick (Kathy Najimy) and Sister Mary Lazarus (Mary Wickes), are reunited in the film to save a struggling school's music department. Mr. Donnell, the administrator, was on alert when Mr. Crisp (James Coburn) threatens to end the service, Deloris comes back to the program and binds the children into a proper choir. Here's a look at what happened to the actresses from Sister Act 2 30 years ago.
CHRISTOPHER STEVENS WEEKEND TV: In Van Der Valk, the dodgy gymnasts didn't have a chance to cross a hurdle
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June 19, 2023
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.