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Iconic fashion brand Rita Britton is making a comeback. Its founder Rita, 80, is reviving it a decade after it closed – and following a retirement she says “drove her mad” and made her want to get back to work. She told the BBC: “I realised you don’t turn off creativity. “You might decide to retire, but I looked at the people I admire who are older than me like David Hockney and Alan Bennett. Karl Lagerfeld worked into his ’90s. “Creativity does not suddenly end, it’s there.” Rita Britton has its roots in the Yorkshire coalfields in the 1960s. Its founder opened her high-couture Pollyanna bout...
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Ralph Fiennes, Jim Broadbent and Simon Russell Beale are starring in 'The Choral'. The actors have signed up to feature in the latest collaboration between director Sir Nicholas Hytner and writer Alan Bennett following on from 'The History Boys' and 'The Lady in the Van'. Unlike the pair's previous films, 'The Choral' is an original script rather than an adaptation of one of Bennett's plays. The movie is set in Ramsden, Yorkshire in 1916 and follows the chorus master and the men in the ambitious local Choral Society, who have volunteered for the frontline during World War I. Under the guidance...
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Dame Judi Dench and Sir Derek Jacobi will star in a movie adaptation of Alan Bennett's last play. The veteran actor will appear together in hospital drama 'Allelujah!' in an adaptation of the 87-year-old writer's most recent stage production from 'Call the Midwife' creator Heidi Thomas. The story is set in the geriatric ward of a Yorkshire hospital, the Bethlehem, which is threatened with closure, with the 'Skyfall' actress portraying a former librarian, who is now a patient on the facility's Dusty Springfield ward, while Derek will play a former headmaster who has also been admitted to that a...
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