News about Sir Laurence Olivier
Creepy AI tool narrates audiobooks in the style of deceased actors including Judy Garland and Sir Laurence Olivier - and it's eerily realistic
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July 5, 2024
Her place in film history was secured when she famously sang 'Somewhere over the Rainbow'. Now, fans of Judy Garland can continue to listen to her voice from beyond the grave, as part of a new deal to narrate audiobooks using artificial intelligence. ElevenLabs, a London-based business launched by two Polish entrepreneurs, said it had reached deals with the estates of Ms Garland and Sir Laurence Olivier to clone their voices.
Jeremy King is on a trip to revive Le Caprice, a French restaurant
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October 14, 2023
A trip down memory lane for the 69-year-old King, who was hidden in Le Caprice behind a side street in St James' behind The Ritz London hotel. As the pair established a restaurant empire whose brightest stars were The Ivy and The Wolseley on Piccadilly, he managed and then owned it for 17 years beginning with Chris Corbin, his business partner. Now he's back at Le Caprice for the second time after taking over the lease from former owner Richard Caring in August.
After Sir Michael Gambon, a Dumbledore actor, died of pneumonia following a bout of pneumonia, Harry Potter co-stars pay their respects to him
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September 28, 2023
Sir Michael Gambon died in hospital aged 82 from a bout of pneumonia, and Harry Potter paid tribute to him today. Sir Laurence Olivier's 60-year career as Albus Dumbledore in six of JK Rowling's films began with him troding the boards with younger audiences. 'Magnificent Michael Gambon has died,'s Jason Isaacs, who starred Lucius Malfoy in the Harry Potter film series, posted a tweet.' I learned what acting in Michael's The Singing Detective is like - difficult, fragile, and utterly human. He knew my name and shared his fearless, filthy pleasure with me, which was the most thrilling part of being in the Potter films.' Fiona Shaw, an Irish film and television actress, has said she'll remember her Harry Potter co-star for being a "brilliant, majestic trickster." 'I will remember him because he was also a gun designer,' and he could trick the V&A into believing they were 18th century weapons,' says Shaw, who starred Petunia Dursley in the film franchise.' I'll remember him as a tweep, brilliant, dazzling trickster, but with text, there was no such thing as him, and he should do everything.'
When the world remembers the legendary actor, Harry Potter fans recall Dumbledore after Sir Michael Gambon's death
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September 28, 2023
Following Sir Michael Gambon's death at the age of 82, tributes have been sent from around the acting world. Gambon, a gentle giant of British theatre and film, began his 60-year career on the boards with Sir Laurence Olivier and was adored by younger audiences for his portrayal of Albus Dumbledore in six of the eight Harry Potter films. Following the death of his family's fight with pneumonia, the Irishman died peacefully in hospital. household names and film enthusiasts alike have paid their respects to him.
EDEN CONFIDENTIAL: According to Beatrice's mother, Britain defeats gun-mad US as a place to grow up
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December 28, 2022
RICHARD EDEN: Her son was welcomed so warmly into the Royal Family that he joined the King and Queen on their walk to church in Sandringham on Christmas Day. Dara Huang (right), a retired architect, has expressed her admiration for Christopher Woolf Mapelli Mozzi's (left with Princess Beatrice and Edolfie) education in this region rather than her native America. She is concerned that the six-year-old may have become yet another victim of a school shooting in the United States.
Nicholas Evans, a writer who wrote The Horse Whisperer, has died at the age of 72 after suffering a heart attack
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August 15, 2022
His publisher's agency announced today that the best-selling author died on Tuesday. 'United Agents are extremely sad to learn the sudden death of the well-selling author Nicholas Evans, who died on Tuesday this week after a heart attack aged 72,' a spokesperson said in a tweet released this morning.' The Horse Whisperer, which appeared in 1995, has sold about 15 million copies around the world and is the most popular bestseller in 20 countries. Because of the book's success, actor Robert Redford's book was turned into a film starring and produced by him, alongside Scarlett Johansson and Sam Neill.