News about Sam Mendes

Margate residents have spoken out about the influx of drugs in the coastal tourist hotspot after a bad batch of MDMA killed a 17-year-old schoolgirl and hospitalised 21 others after a gig at the town's Dreamland venue (left). Emily Stokes (inset), 17, died after a suspected MDMA overdose during a drum 'n' bass gig on June 29 at Dreamland - which has now been dubbed by some locals as 'Drugland'. Another 21 youngsters fell ill after suspected drug use - with one left in an induced coma. The shocking incident has alarmed locals and led to some calling for Dreamland's licence to be revoked. Margate stalwart Ray Voss (right), 78, has lived in the coastal town since 1966 and slammed the influx of ex-Londoners. He said: '60 or 70 per cent of the people who came down here take drugs. When you walk around you can smell it. They smoke cannabis. It's bad when the gigs are on at Dreamland too. It's more like Drugland, Margate.'

Rumours have begun to swirl about who could be playing the famous four in Sam Mendes' Beatles Biopic.  The 58-year-old director announced earlier this year that he would be directing four separate films about the legendary band and has now reportedly cast the leading quartet.  According to The InSneider, Paul Mescal will play Paul McCartney, Barry Keoghan is to portray Ringo Starr, Harris Dickinson is to star as John Lennon, and Charlie Rowe will take on the part of George Harrison. 

Locals have embraced the plans at Arlington House due to the constant 'rattling, howling, and thumping' of windows. However, a group of hipsters, some of whom have flocked to the tower in recent years, has protested the proposals. The tower's windows have been dubbed the "jewel" in Margate's crown and a "classic example" of 1960s brutalist architecture. However, one outraged local told MailOnline, 'I am not sure why.' Margate itself is great, but the block is not. It comes in a wide variety of countries.'

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At the Noel Coward Theatre on Monday, Cel Spellman sported a nasty black eye as he opened The Motive and the Cue. As he posed for photographs ahead of watching Jack Thorne perform, the actor's eye looked bruised and bloodied. It's unclear how Cell recovered the injury, and he hasn't updated followers on his social medias.

This week, Kate Winslet and her 19-year-old son Joe Mendes were outing in New York City for the first public outing. Sam Mendes, 48, the Academy Award-winning actress, shares the adolescent with her husband ex-husband Sam Mendes, 58. After seven years of marriage and one child together, the former couple separated in 2010. In 2011, they declared their divorce.

Mendes, the James Bond double-whammy of Skyfall and Spectre, has applied to the local authority for permission to carry out a massive Ground Force makeover of his swimming pool and gardens. However, the artist, who is also known for American Beauty and the First World War epic 1917, must obtain permission from local planners to carry out the works because his 17th century Buckinghamshire home is listed as Grade II. Mendes also plans to demolish his existing pool pavilion and replace it with a new one measuring 45ft by 12ft with a separate seating area, laundry room, and shower.

It shocked not only the United Kingdom but also the world. And so what's the nation's memory is firmly held on today, 26 years old. We republish Jonathan Mayo's powerful reconstruction of 31 August 1997 as seen through the eyes of royals, politicians, Diana's family and friends, and the mourning public. It was a day that started in the small hours with a high-speed car crash in the Pont de l'Alma tunnel under the Seine in Paris. It was not long before the horrific news reached those closest to her.

On Centre Court, a slew of sporting fans watched Novak Djokovic face Jannik Sinner in the Wimbledon men's semi-final this afternoon. Princess Beatrice, 34, was one of the first celebrities to secure a prime seat to the games today. As she and her husband Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi, 39, arrived in the Royal Box, the Duke of York's eldest daughter spent the evening in a plush pink dress. But Beatrice wasn't the only royal on the day today, as she was joined by Lady Sarah Chatto, Duchess of Gloucester, and Princess Michael of Kent. Sam Mendes, a British film producer, brushed shoulders with Sir Cliff Richard and actress Felicity Kendal, while actress Felicity Kendal brushed shoulders with him. Here's a look at yet another celebrity-studded line-up for the Centre Court trial.

On Thursday, West End theatre worker Kieren Curran, 23, of Ealing, west London, was seen trembling after being sentenced to eight months in jail suspended for two years. On February 16, 2021, he was arrested after police searched his house on suspicion of an Instagram account that had indecent photos of children. With a total of 293 images, including photographs of children aged 5 to 14, police recovered a Macbook, iPhone, and San Disk USB. The 'appalling offences' warranted a prison term, according to Judge Kaplan, but Curran's good character and time on parole did not make him a danger to the public.

RICHARD EDEN: Princess Diana's butler Paul Burrell may be wishing for a more happy life now that he has reached the age of 65. Alas, it appears, is going to be dissatisfied. Burrell, who has gained a reputation as a talented water colourist of animals and landscapes in recent years, is being confused by another artist who prefers a different subject matter - the male nude. 'It was signed "Paul Burrell" - bottom right, as you might imagine - and dated 2021,' I'm told by an art lover who recently saw a painting in the latter very distinctive category

Following a vote of 4-3, the Hudsonville Public Schools (HPS) board barely decided to ban 'Jarhead' from its libraries last Monday. Anthony Swofford's 'Jarhead' addresses his time in Saudi Arabia during the Gulf War. After parents expressed their displeasure with the use of aggression and sex in the book that depicted the Marines in a negative light, it was decided that the book would be withdrawn from the school district's libraries.

What actors in their right minds would let themselves be measured against three of the greatest names of stage and screen in the last century: Sir John Gielgud, Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor? Many people would consider this a suicide mission. However, Mark Gatiss (of BBC's Sherlock), Johnny Flynn (Ian Fleming in Operation Mincemeat and David Bowie in Stardust), and Tuppence Middleton (Lucy Smith in the Downton film) have all accepted the challenge. The Motive And The Cue, directed by another Sir, Sam Mendes, and narrated by Jack Thorne, is an extraordinary, behind-the-scenes account of Gieland's 1964 Broadway performance of Hamlet, with Burton in the title role.

EPHRAIM HARDCASTLE: Prince Albert of Monaco's premature acceptance of an invitation could put shame on those who choose representatives rather than turning up personally. Albert's parody foiled after receiving the confirmation of the delegates they were expecting from Buckingham Palace's heads of state.

Lesley Paterson, a pint-sized Scot with a groaning trophy cabinet, gave an interview to a cycling website in which she revealed she would love to get her hands on an Oscar. I want to win an Oscar for best screenplay,' she said. 'That's a lofty goal but -f*** it - I have to have it!' It seemed that it was a strange thing to say amid all the rumors surrounding race times and flat tyres and injuries to her metatarsals. She admits, 'It was bananas.' But at the time she had co-written a screenplay, an adaptation of the classic All Quiet On The Western Front, which she had read at school in Stirling. Now the film, which has stunned audiences and deeply moved with its unrelent portrayal of WW1's terrors, is Hollywood's toast.

Lesley Paterson, Scotland's five-time world champion Triathlete, will know if her film All Quiet on the Western Front has been nominated for any Oscars next week. The original, which was from 1930, received an Academy Award. On the Bafta long list, the film, which is being streamed by Netflix, has 14 nominations so far.

When film people are banning the public drum and giving one interview after the other, they get to a point where they simply let it all out. Sam Mendes, a British film director who produced 1917, Skyfall, and now Empire Of Light, starring Olivia Colman, has to go to that location. Mendes dropped quite a bombshell when he said of his latest film - plus Oscar front-runners The Fabelmans, Babylon, Armageddon Time and Bardo - 'No one has gone to see them! Cinema is obviously in danger.'

Sam Mendes has said that moving to gender-neutral categories in the future is "inevitable." 57 years old film producer and screenwriter Robert Scherk said that separating male and female categories when it comes to awarding prizes is 'fully necessary.' I have complete sympathy with it, yeah, and I think it will be inevitable in the end,' the film industry's efforts to make it more inclusive.'

In a new interview this week, Sam Mendes talked about his childhood and being raised by a single parent, following his parents' divorce when he was just three years old. Valerie, the film producer and screenwriter, admitted that he had to'parent' his own mother from a young age - and it was growing at a much faster rate than most.

PATRICK MARMION: With the holidays disappearing into the rear-view mirror, and weeks more of bleak midwinter to survive, why not cheer yourself up by getting a few dates in your diary? 2023 seems to be a thrilling year for theatre, bucking the trend. Patrick Marmion's top advices are here. . .

Having sifted the most illuminating quotes by public figures in 2022 from the billows of hot air that were expelled (much of it from a certain royal residence in Montecito), PAUL DONNELLEY asks, who said what? For example, which Wimbledon champion was unexpectedly knocked out of tennis when he unexpectedly fell in for tea: 'I have won this tournament eight times, please believe me.' Where do I get in?'

HARDCASTLE is a newspaper published in the United Kingdom. Prince Charles is keeping his mother's staff - apart from Susan Hussey who has resigned - as the ladies of the household to assist him in planning formal functions. They go back as far as Catherine of Aragon, who was once called ladies of the bedchamber. There has been no word on whether Camilla will select a Mistress of the Robes, the senior lady of the household. During her reign, the Queen had just two children: Mary, Dowager Duchess of Devonshire, and then Fortune FitzRoy, Duchess of Grafton. Although Camilla defies history, Charles follows suit. On the death of the monarch, ladies-in-waiting traditionally mourn.

Sir Sam Mendes has admitted that he blames himself for the on-screen death of James Bond in the 2021 film No Time To Die. Despite not being involved in the newest film, the director, who was behind Skyfall and Spectre from the series, explained that his decision to kill Judi Dench's character M during Skyfall may have inspired this.

GUY ADAMS: Everyone loves a good comeback tale, but no sports stars have written so many Oscar-worthy scripts as English cricket's pugnacious superstar Ben Stokes. Yesterday, it was the second time our national team's talismanic all-rounder has reached a World Cup final by the scruff of the neck in circumstances that were perhaps more shocking off the field than on it. The first appeared in the summer of 2019, when he scored 84 to pip New Zealand in a thrilling run at Lord's. On that enthralling afternoon, his heroics on a'super over' (cricket's equivalent of a penalty shootout) brought his return from a game nine months ago when he was suspended and fined for bringing the game into disrepute during a late-night street brawl continued.