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  Former US poet laureate Donald Hall dies in New Hampshire

  Donald Hall, a prolific, award-winning poet and man of letters widely admired for his sharp humor and painful candor about nature, mortality, baseball and the distant past, has died at age 89. Hall's daughter, Philippa Smith, confirmed Sunday that her father died Saturday at his home in Wilmot, New Hampshire, after being in hospice care for some time. Hall was the nation's 2006-2007 poet laureate.

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  The Old Vic at 200: Eight seminal productions that defined the legendary London theatre

  The Old Vic Theatre first opened its doors in 1818 and this week celebrates its bicentenary. Home to such giants of the stage as Edmund Kean, John Gielgud, Ralph Richardson, Laurence Olivier, Peggy Ashcroft and Maggie Smith, the London venue has enjoyed a rich and sometimes turbulent history. From Kean berating his audience as "ignorant, unmitigated brutes" in 1831 to Gielgud and Richardson triumphing in Harold Pinter, the Vic has played host to some extraordinary evenings.

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  The Old Dark House review: James Whale’s 1932 comedy-horror classic is wonderfully subversive

  It is fitting that James Whale’s 1932 comedy-horror classic should be back in British cinemas in the same year that a new adaptation of RC Sherriff’s World War one drama Journey’s End reached the screen. Sherriff was also one of the screenwriters on The Old Dark House.

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  One Film Wonders: The club of filmmakers with only a single feature credit to their name

  If Steven Spielberg has a gap in his schedule, he can put everything together for a new movie at a few weeks’ notice. For other filmmakers, though, the idea of completing even a single feature is daunting in the extreme, something they are only able to accomplish once in their lives. A special season at HOME in Manchester this month explores the phenomenon of the “one film wonder” and the club of filmmakers with only a single feature credit to their name.

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  Movies You Might Have Missed: Billy Wilder's Witness for the Prosecution

  In 1957, Billy Wilder’s big screen version was released, at the time the only film based on one of her stories that Christie actually liked. Vole has been accused of murdering a rich, older widow and all the evidence seems to suggest he is the man responsible but Robarts isn’t so sure.

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  Actress Maureen O'Hara Dies at 95

  Updated | (Reuters) - Maureen O'Hara, the flame-haired Irish-American actress known for playing feisty women in classics like How Green Was My Valley and Miracle on 34th Street as well as her on-screen chemistry with John Wayne, died on Saturday of natural causes at the age of 95, her manager said. O'Hara passed away peacefully at her home in Boise, Idaho, surrounded by family members and listening to "her favorite music" from the 1952 film The Quiet Man, said Johnny Nicoletti, her manager and

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