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‘Star Wars’ actor Billy Dee Williams insists he was never bothered by rumours he was gay. The 86-year-old shot to fame playing Lando Calrissian in the original ‘Star Wars’ trilogy and was at the centre of talk during the 1970s he was a “closet” homosexual. He told Page Six: “I’ve been called a ‘Closet Queen.’ But, I don’t pay much attention to any of that.” His comments come after he released his memoir ‘What Have We Here?’ which includes stories of how he found fame to meeting stars including Marlon Brando, Laurence Olivier and Angela Lansbury. He says in his book he was always comfortable ha...
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Matthew Perry, Dame Angela Lansbury and Barbara Walters were among the stars honoured during the In Memoriam segment at the Emmy Awards. The annual ceremony paid a heartfelt tribute to the entertainers and TV creators who had passed away over the last year during the emotional segment at Monday's (15.01.24) event. The segment was introduced by 'All in the Family' stars Rob Reiner and Sally Struthers, who stood in a replica of their TV living room as they paid tribute to pioneering producer Norman Lear, who created their show and others including 'All in the Family', 'Sanford and Son', 'One Day...
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'Murder, She Wrote' has been adapted for the big screen before the Hollywood strikes. 'Dumb Money' writers Lauren Schuker Blum and Rebecca Angelo have confirmed Universal commissioned them to write a reboot of the classic series - which starred Dame Angela Lansbury as amateur detective and author Jessica Fletcher - for a feature film. Schuker Blum told Collider: "We'll tell you one thing that hasn't been reported yet, which is we have written a theatrical feature film version of 'Murder, She Wrote' for Universal, and we're really excited." Angelo added: "It’s with Pascal Pictures in Pascal and...
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Rian Johnson says Angela Lansbury "couldn’t have been lovelier and more generous" when filming a cameo for 'Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery'. The late actress - who died in October 2022 aged 96 - makes her final film appearance in the Netflix movie and director Rian was thrilled she agreed to take part. He told the New York Times: "She couldn’t have been lovelier and more generous." Angela's cameo shows her playing the computer game 'Among Us' but Rian explained she was "not a gamer". He added: "And so she was very patient in letting me describe the rules of 'Among Us', up to a point. At whi...
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Rian Johnson admitted it was a "very special privilege" to direct Angela Lansbury and Stephen Sondheim in their final on-screen roles. The late stars - who died in October 2022 aged 96 and November 2021 aged 91 respectively - have a cameo in 'Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery' and though the director admitted the pair only feature in a small scene, it meant a lot to him to work with the Hollywood greats. He said: "I don't want to blow it up too much, it's just one little fun moment that they have. "But what it meant for me, besides just how special it is to have both of them in the movie, it m...
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Angela Lansbury was left distraught after her first husband walked out on her and she later found out he was gay. The 'Murder, She Wrote' star tied the knot with fellow actor Richard Cromwell when she was just 19 and he was 35, but the marriage last less than a year as he left her with no warning and just a brief note as an explanation which read "Sorry. I can't go on". She told Terry Gross' Fresh Air radio show: "I had known so many gay people in Hollywood. It just had never really sunk in ... I was in love with love. And I just - it was a shock, but it wasn't a shock because I was so in love...
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