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As Whoopi Goldberg prepares to complete the holy trinity of her Sister Act franchise, one late sister will be there in spirit.

Emiliana Betancourt During an interview on “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon,” Whoopi Goldberg discussed her upcoming film “Sister Act 3” and how the team needed to adjust their plans following the death of her co-star Maggie Smith. “We’re having to make some readjustments because we just lost Maggie Smith, as you know,” Goldberg said. “And so, we will get it done.

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Dame Maggie Smith has been honoured at a private funeral service in Richmond on Monday.The actress, renowned for her roles as Professor McGonagall in Harry Potter, the Dowager Countess in Downton Abbey, and the lead in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, was tenderly remembered at a private funeral on Monday. Dame Maggie passed away on September 27, aged 89, leaving behind a legacy of remarkable performances. Her death was confirmed by her sons, Chris Larkin and Toby Stephens.They said in a statement at the time: "She passed away peacefully in hospital early this morning, Friday 27th September.

The Broadway League will no longer be involved in announcing the dimming of marquee lights to memorialize the deaths of performers, writers and other members of the Broadway community.

Broadway will dim its marquee lights for the late Dame Maggie Smith.

Sarah Hadland has told how if her latest Strictly Come Dancing performance had gone wrong it 'wouldn't have been acceptable' as she felt the pressure to pay tribute to acting legend Dame Maggie Smith.

Ex-Wife—she didn’t put her name on the cover. The story is a thinly-veiled retelling of Parrot’s own , and at the time of its publication—the dusk of the Jazz Age, a blissful few months before the stock market crash—readers went wild trying to discover who wrote the scandalous book and just how much of her real-life experience she poured into its pages.Nearly a century later, with a jazzy new cover and the author’s actual name in bold letters, tales of divorce dominate the best-seller list.

Judi Dench reportedly got emotional while speaking about her late friend Maggie Smith.The Harry Potter star passed away last month at the age of 89, with her death confirmed by sons Chris Larkin and Toby Stephens.While appearing at the Cheltenham Literature Festival on Saturday (October 5), Dench was asked by interviewer Brendan O’Hea about the topic of grief in the wake of Smith and fellow actor Barbara Leigh-Hunt’s deaths.“I know I probably shouldn’t bring this up, I know the last week has been tricky for you because you lost your great friends Maggie Smith and Barbara Leigh-Hunt,” he said (via The Times), also touching upon the death of her husband Michael Williams in 2001.Asked about her previous comparison of grief with petrol, Dench replied: “I suppose because the energy that’s created by grief…,” before getting lost for words in tears.The actress spoke no further of Smith, though did explain that she plants trees in her garden in memory of friends who have passed, and that they’ve begun resembling them.Following Smith’s death, a clip went viral from TV series Nothing Like A Dame (called Tea With The Dames outside the UK) in which the late actress appears to “turn” on her friend Dench.“We’re going to work forever if we’re asked,” Dench says, Smith adding in a deadpan manner: “But you’re always asked first if I may say so.”One of my favorite videos of Maggie Smith with Judi Dench and Joan Plowright.

Dame Judi Dench was left tearful after being asked about her friendship with fellow actor Maggie Smith, who died last week at the age of 89.

BBC Radio 2 DJ Johnnie Walker has made the "very sad announcement" that he is retiring from radio after a 58-year career as a broadcaster.

A week after Maggie Smith‘s death, best friend Dame Judi Dench is at a loss for words.

Actor John Amos has passed away.

Whoopi Goldberg has paid tribute to her “one of a kind” Sister Act co-star Maggie Smith in a new post on social media.The passing of the iconic actor, aged 89, was confirmed last Friday (September 27) by her sons, Chris Larkin and Toby Stephens. In a statement they said that Smith “passed away peacefully” in the early hours of that morning.“An intensely private person, she was with friends and family at the end,” they shared in a statement last week.

UPDATED with the latest: Several Harry Potter cast members have paid tribute today to their costar Maggie Smith, who died this morning at 89.

Charlie Stayt from BBC Breakfast had to apologise for technical glitches during a segment paying homage to the late Maggie Smith. On-air with co-host Nina Warhurst, they were chatting with Lady Fiona Carnarvon about Dame Maggie Smith's death on 27 September, when pesky tech troubles interrupted the tribute. Dame Maggie, iconic for her roles in Harry Potter and Downton Abbey, passed away in hospital aged 89, leaving a sea of admirers in mourning.

Barbara Leigh-Hunt, who appeared in Alfred Hitchcock‘s Frenzy, dozens of other films and TV and on West End and Broadway stages, has died. She was 88.

Smith died on Friday, Sept. 27, which happens to be exactly one year since Gambon passed away. Smith was 89; Gambon was 82.

Peter Debruge Chief Film Critic “She always looks so extreme,” a fellow teacher observes of Maggie Smith’s trademark rigidity in “The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie” (1969), putting her finger on the straight-backed, nose-high hauteur audiences enjoyed for more than half a century. A shrill and tragically short-sighted instructor at a school full of impressionable-aged girls, Jean Brodie proved to be the defining credit of the English stage legend’s screen career, to the extent that her strict-but-caring Harry Potter character, deputy headmistress Minerva McGonagall, could be the selfsame martinet, curdled by several more decades of disappointment.

Emma Watson is speaking out with a touching statement following the death of her Harry Potter co-star Maggie Smith.