News about Julie Christie

They were cheered on while scrambling up Gold Hill, a steep cobbled street in Shaftesbury in Dorset - immortalised by the ad directed by future Oscar nominee and knight Sir Ridley Scott. Each cheese block being lugged was 14in in diameter, weighed 55lb and needed 500 pints of milk to make. Crowds braved the rain as they huddled under umbrellas while encouraging the runners along the 72m-long route. The record time for completing the course stands at 15 seconds, in the event which forms part of the Shaftesbury Food and Drink Festival.

I was abused physically by my wife. In the 1980s, we had a six-year relationship but I left her for the third time because of it. Two years later we met by accident and got together again. When family and friends protested I told them she'd changed... I still think I had to leave my wife and do right by the boys and know that it's now pointless to fret. But how I long for a relationship with my adult sons.

BRIAN VINER: If I compiled my list again today, I still wouldn't have space for The Italian Job, Forrest Gump, The Great Escape, or Titanic, which all of which encouraged readers to write in. By the way, that doesn't mean I don't like or even love those photos (although not Titanic), which makes me wish the iceberg would strike a bit sooner). Here is a list of the Top 20 movies you should have included in my Top 100 list, as well as your reasons for... The Shawshank Redemption (left), Mary Poppins (right), and Saving Private Ryan (inset).

Dame Joanna Lumley has called for complete sex scenes to be deleted entirely, calling them "rude and tragic." The Absolutely Fabulous actress, 77, said the intimate scenes "slow down" the story and encourage the viewer to concentrate on the actors' attributes over the characters. Joanna said that being nude on screen had a 'playground element', and that the private scenes were akin to meeting someone on the toilet.

exclusive: The 'deeply offensive' word is often thought of as anti-semitic and a call to drive Jews out of Israel. Jamel, 60, the protester, had called on supporters to make 'the biggest lobby in parliamentary history.' The former social worker, who is in charge of the Palestine Solidarity Campaign, has continued to encourage followers to chant the 'deeply offensive' word, which has been described as a "racial trope.'

Will King Charles's attendance at climate change summit COP28 in Dubai next month help to defuse the combustible Middle East? Charles is able to communicate with confidence and knowledge as opposed to other leaders. He has always had good contacts with Jordan, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Bahrain, Qatar, and Oman. He is a friend of Israel. Princess Alice, her grandmother, spent the Second World War in Athens shielding Jews; for this she was given honour by Israel.

Kristina Hirsch, one of Hollywood's most popular lotharios, has been charged by a woman named Kristina Hirsch of raping her when she was just 14 years old on the 1973 set of The Parallax View. The recent accusation follows a long and well-documented tradition of bedding some of Hollywood's most popular women, including Julie Christie, Goldie Hawn, Diane Keaton, Elle Macpherson, Barbara Ross, Edie Sedgwick, Barbra Strobin. Cher once confessed that she had a one-night stand with Beatty when she was 16, and he was 25 years old. Joan Collins became pregnant and had an abortion during her tumultuous friendship with Beatty in the 1960s, and she said he was 'insatiable' for sex. Britt Ekland, a legendary Bond girl, said Beatty once seduced her with a pornographic film before they returned to a hotel room. Despite a 22-year age gap, Madonna said he was a "incredible lover" during their brief marriage in 1991.

RICHARD E. GRANT: I read the oncology paper that's just landed on the doormat. To Joan, left is Richard with wife Joan), but I have promised that she will never read it. A week ago, the nuclear bombshell diagnosis/prognosis was verbally delivered, in black and white. The hospital has decided to perform radiation therapy. In three days, the brain tumours will be identified. Joan's hair will all fall out a week later, and there will be brain swelling and potential incoherence, which we will combat by increasing her steroid doses. This will be followed by chemo or immunotherapy. Wanda Cui, an oncologist, receives a call from an astonishing world. "The FDA-approved tepotinib wonder drug has been given on compassionate grounds, with 100% free.' You're only supposed to take two pills a day.' It's a new drug that only works for a specific type of lung cancer. It's remarkable to find this end-of-week hope-filled news. Joan will no longer have to suffer chemotherapy. She won't lose her hair. It's like winning by a lottery. Top right is Charles's first meeting Richard in 2001, and bottom right is Richard and his daughter Oilly and Joan with Oilly.

In Amazon Prime's Ten Percent, renowned theatre actress Maggie Steed, 75, plays veteran agent Stella Hart. In the TV version of Emma Healey's book Elizabeth Is Missing, with Glenda Jackson, she was Richard Griffith's wife and Elizabeth in BBC1's Pie In The Sky and Elizabeth.