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  James Caan struggling to find roles to crown his career

  James Caan is struggling to find the role that will complete his storied career - despite being a movie legend. The Academy Award and Emmy nominee wants to follow in the footsteps of actors like Anthony Hopkins, who won an Oscar for his performance in The Father this year, and win acclaim in his 80s - but has found the best parts are drying up. "I want to do a good piece of work," he told CBS Sunday Morning's Ben Mankiewicz. "I'm frustrated. I'd love to do a real character thing." The 81-year-ol

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  Hollywood’s blackmailer-in-chief: the dirty cop behind Confidential, the tabloid the stars feared

  “Being a private detective is a dirty job. There is no two ways about it,” Fred Otash admitted at the peak of his reign as Hollywood’s most notorious, sleazy private investigator. The former vice cop worked for anyone who paid him: The White House, the mafia, film studios, politicians and gossip magazines. He drew the line only at working for “communists”. James Ellroy, author of L.A. Confidential, has featured Otash as a fictional character in four books, including his newly-released novel Wide

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  The 75 best horror movies of all time for Hallowe’en

  The grim and psychologically-straining realities of the Covid-19 pandemic can make every day feel like Hallowe’en at the moment. So, as the day itself approaches, what could be more cathartic than a horror movie? The Telegraph’s film team have created the definitive list of the best 75 ever made, presented in chronological order. The Fall of the House of Usher (1928) Uncanny lyricism abounds in this early Poe adaptation, which manages to suggest that things are indefinably wrong in the Usher res

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  Rhonda Fleming, flame-haired beauty who ruffled the film censors in Hitchcock’s Spellbound – obituary

  Rhonda Fleming, who has died aged 97, was a film star of the 1940s and 1950s whose startling flame-haired beauty and reliable screen presence saw her proclaimed “the Queen of Technicolor”. Though she had made an impressive start at the age of 22, working with Alfred Hitchcock and beginning a lengthy career in westerns, it was the rise of colour films that showed her to her best advantage. In 1949 her first Technicolor role, opposite Bing Crosby in A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, lau

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  Rhonda Fleming obituary

  Rhonda Fleming obituaryAmerican actor who enjoyed success in many striking Hollywood films of the 1940s and 50s

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  Rhonda Fleming, star of Hollywood’s Golden Age, dies aged 97

  She was discovered while walking to school in Beverly Hills as a 16-year-old.

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  How chaos created classics for Hollywood's unluckiest studio RKO

  The studio responsible for King Kong, Citizen Kane and Bringing Up Baby was beset by bad fortune.

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  Streaming: the best Hollywood golden age classics now on iPlayer

  Streaming: the best Hollywood golden age classics now on iPlayer. The BBC has snapped up 23 gems from the RKO vaults, from Fred and Ginger to salty romcoms and rousing westerns

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  Kirk Douglas: a career in clips

  Kirk Douglas: a career in clipsAfter a career as one of Hollywood’s most distinguished performers, the actor Kirk Douglas has died. Here we look back at some of his finest moments, from Paths of Glory to Ace in the Hole * Kirk Douglas, star of Spartacus, dies aged 103 * Hollywood’s impossibly handsome Colossus of Rhodes

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  Peter Doig review: Challenging imagery casts new light on Caribbean life

  Peter Doig’s latest paintings don’t follow the rules. There are extreme spatial distortions, colliding colours, disparate painterly languages, an uneven focus and level of finish. There’s none of the easy pleasure often associated with Doig’s work.Much of the imagery is inspired by Trinidad, where Doig lives. A male bather is based on a photograph of Robert Mitchum, who visited Trinidad, but also evokes an image of Doig on the island as a child. A lion in the zoo and images of the Rastafari Lion

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