Liam Neeson reveals he was being considered for James Bond

Christine Quinn’s book serves career and life advice — with a side of tea. The Selling Sunset star throws subtle shade while also spilling secrets about the Netflix show in her new title, How to Be a Boss B*tch: Stop Apologizing For Who You Are and Get the Life You Want.

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Keeping the faith. Britney Spears’ fiancé, Sam Asghari, is speaking out days after the couple announced they lost a pregnancy.

The TV world has paid tribute to Kay Mellor, after the sad news of the screenwriter's death died at age 71. Kay was best known for her Bafta-nominated TV programme, Fat Friends, which stole the hearts of the nation in the early noughties.The drama was set in Kay's hometown, Leeds, and focused on the members of a slimming group. And as well as being a fantastic show in its own right, Fat Friends helped bring another British classic to our screens – Gavin and Stacey.

The world is full of fascinating places, cultures and scenery and we can finally get back out there to explore.

Cynthia Littleton Business EditorParamount Global’s stock price shot up more than 10% in early trading Tuesday following the news that Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway has scooped up more than $2 billion worth of shares in the company in recent months.Paramount stock opened Tuesday at $28.47 after closing Monday at $28.02, before Berkshire Hathaway’s stock purchases were disclosed in a Securities and Exchange Commission filing.Berkshire Hathaway has been in an investor in one of Paramount’s predecessor companies, Viacom, in the not-too-distant past. Buffett’s purchases of late suggest that he sees the company as under-valued, or that he expects the company to be involved in M&A .Paramount Global, which changed its corporate moniker from ViacomCBS earlier this year, has struggled with the conventional wisdom that the company is too small to compete in what is fast becoming a global content marketplace.

Vivienne Chow The Taiwan Pavilion returns to the Marché du Film this year with a beefed-up version after two years of interruption due to the COVID-19 pandemic, presenting 91 titles including the latest box office hits at home, elaborate international co-productions, as well as technology-driven XR projects. Genre films with a solid plot and production, rather than a stellar cast, can easily win the hearts of audiences at home, according to filmmakers behind some of the featured projects. International co-productions will continue to play a vital role in boosting local opportunities as well as taking Taiwan talents abroad, but the ongoing pandemic restrictions on the self-governed island will certainly have an impact on making international connections.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorNew York City, the Notorious B.I.G.’s hometown, will pay tribute to the late rapper on May 21, which would have been his 50th birthday.On that day, the legendary Empire State Building will change its lights’ color to red and white, with a crown spinning on its mast in honor of the late rapper, whose real name was Christopher Wallace and who died in 1997 at the age of just 24. The day before, on May 20, the Empire State Building, in partnership with Bad Boy / Atlantic / Rhino Records, will host a ceremony that will include Biggie’s mother, Voletta Wallace, his children (CJ and Tyanna Wallace), his close friend James Lloyd (Lil’ Cease), and Kimberly Denise Jones (Lil Kim). Other close friends, collaborators, and hip-hop luminaries, that were instrumental in Biggie’s meteoric success and legacy will also be in attendance.

Well, how about that! A superhero movie rumor that’s actually true! What, was there a blood moon this weekend or something?

In the latest episode of “Atlanta” Liam Neeson deals with his past—sort of.

Atlanta, which deals with his past racism controversy.In a 2019 interview with The Independent while promoting the revenge film Cold Pursuit, the actor recounted a story where he admitted he once went looking for a “Black bastard” to kill after learning a close friend had been raped by a Black man.Recalling the incident, Neeson said: “I went up and down areas with a cosh, hoping I’d be approached by somebody – I’m ashamed to say that – and I did it for maybe a week, hoping some ‘Black bastard’ would come out of a pub and have a go at me about something, you know? So that I could kill him.”His comments were put back under the spotlight in the Atlanta episode ‘New Jazz’, where Alfred Miles, aka Paper Boi (Brian Tyree Henry), has a sequence of hallucinatory encounters after consuming “Nepalese space cakes” in Amsterdam.They got Liam Neeson talking about his racist comment at a place called “Cancel Club” on the newest episode of #AtlantaFX

The actress had suffered a skiing trip two days before her death.She had been taking a beginner's skiing lesson in Quebec, Canada, when the accident took place.Liam and Natasha married 1994 and shared two sons - Micheál and Daniel.He opened up on Natasha’s last moments on life support during a 2014 interview with CBS's Anderson Cooper.Liam said: “She was on life support...

James Bond.Swedish blonde Britt played Bond’s assistant Mary Goodnight in the 1973 film The Man With The Golden Gun, but had also previously appeared in 1967’s Casino Royale with ex-husband Peter Sellers.When Roger died in 2017, Britt paid tribute to the actor and recalled one event in which he potentially saved her life.She said that there were "many reasons to adore Roger" because he was "so much fun, very tall, very handsome, kind," and "a class act who made filming a joy".However, her admiration extended further than this after he saved her from a fire.Britt reflected on the moment he "literally saved her life", explaining: "We were shooting the scene where we were escaping from Scaramanga’s island with a series of controlled explosions and pyrotechnics. It was a burning hell.

Liam Neeson got the rumour mill churning with his admission he was “taken” with a mystery woman, but the actor now says that was merely a joke.

Fans might be anxious to find out just which star will be the next James Bond following Daniel Craig‘s end as the MI-6 agent.

Hitler was massive, involving soldiers, sailors, airmen, factory workers and many other people in a wide range of occupations.But perhaps the strangest operation of World War 2 was dreamed up by a novelist.Ian Fleming, long before he became famous as the creator of super-spy James Bond, worked as assistant to the director of Naval Intelligence, Admiral Sir John Godfrey (who was the inspiration for Bond’s boss M).In 1943, with the massive Allied invasion of Sicily poised to strike at what Churchill called the “soft underbelly” of Hitler’s Europe, the German defenders needed to be lured elsewhere to prevent a bloodbath on the beaches.And back in 1939, Fleming had dreamed up a secret plan as wild as the plot of any of his novels that would distract the Nazis from the obvious target.In fact, the original idea was pinched from a 1937 detective novel by Basil Thomson, The Milliner’s Hat Mystery.In a list of ideas for baffling the German High Command, Fleming wrote: “A suggestion (not a very nice one).“A corpse, dressed as an airman, with despatches in his pockets, could be dropped on the coast.”The fake despatches would contain misinformation to convince Hitler’s henchmen that the strike would come not in the obvious place of Sicily, but in Greece and Sardinia.From Fleming’s “not very nice” idea Ewen Montagu of Naval Intelligence, a barrister in civilian life, and the RAF’s Charles Cholmondeley, created Operation Mincemeat, an operation so bold, and so strange, it’s inspired two major feature films.Many of the details of the plan were only declassified in 1996.

Sasha Urban editorAs soon as Daniel Craig announced in 2019 that “No Time to Die” would be his fifth and final film as international spy James Bond, rumors began — and haven’t stopped — swirling about who might take his place.Tom Hardy, Henry Cavill, Idris Elba and even “Euphoria” star Jacob Elordi have been whispered about in relation to the coveted role, and Lashana Lynch became the first woman to hold the 007 title when her role of Nomi took over Bond’s position in the last film.But Bond franchise producer Barbara Broccoli says “it’s going to take some time” before Craig’s replacement is named.“It’s a big decision,” Broccoli told Variety at the Longacre Theatre on Thursday at the opening night of “Macbeth” on Broadway, which she is producing and in which Craig is also starring. “It’s not just casting a role.

Sam Heughan is back playing Jamie Fraser in the highly-anticipated Outlander Season 6. The Scottish actor has returned to our screens in the hugely popular Outlander series. Outlander Season 6 is available from March 6 – and Heughan himself was on the red carpet for the world premiere last month.

Steven Gaydos Executive VP of ContentActress-director Anjelica Huston may have been born into film royalty and may have fulfilled that royal destiny by becoming the third generation, after actor grandfather Walter and director-actor-writer father John Huston, to score Oscar gold, but her early innings were not the stuff cinema dreams are made of.“Casino Royale” is the film where she first appeared, as an uncredited young teen 55 years ago this month. It is largely regarded as an overcooked comedy fiasco, or as Variety deemed it back then, “an attempt to spoof the pants off the James Bond.” The film had no less than five directors, including her father, John.Variety was kinder to John Huston’s 1969 film “A Walk with Love and Death,” Anjelica’s first starring role, but most other outlets were tougher on the film and Huston’s performance, and it came and went with little notice. In a vain attempt to overcome that fate, 20th Century Fox publicity took Anjelica and her costar, Assi Dayan (son of Israeli war hero Moshe Dayan) on a multi-city promo tour and ran this quirky early branded content item in Variety:“Assaf Dayan romances his costar Anjelica Huston, under the watchful eye of her director-father, John Huston.

“Memory” opens with a grisly murder. Disguised in scrubs and a facemask, contract killer Alex Lewis (Liam Neeson, looking thinner and greyer than usual) walks into a hospital and garrottes a guy who’s visiting his ailing mamita.

Peter Debruge Chief Film CriticThe less you remember about 2003 Belgian thriller “Memory of a Killer,” the better, when it comes to its remake, directed by “Casino Royale” veteran Martin Campbell. Relocated to El Paso, Texas, this new version — which channels the brutal cynicism or recent Taylor Sheridan movies, or the even more ruthless tone of Ridley Scott’s “The Counselor” — takes the bones of a tough European crime drama and uses them as the grim gallows on which to hang yet another nihilistic Liam Neeson action vehicle.These days, such Liam Neeson movies unofficially constitute a genre unto themselves.