David Leland, 'Wish You Were Here' Director, Dies at 82

When Sir David Jason heard that Jay Blades was going to perform to the Only Fools And Horses theme tune on Strictly Come Dancing, he decided to offer “a bit of encouragement”.Two years later the pair are now friends and have just finished making the series David & Jay’s Touring Toolshed.The routine, filmed for the Strictly Come Dancing Christmas Special in 2021, saw 53-year-old Jay, sporting a Del Boy-style flat cap and a gold medallion, jiving around a yellow Reliant Regal. “Jay was doing Strictly Come Dancing and I heard that he was going to try, desperately, to dance to the opening theme tune of Only Fools And Horses,” says David, 83.

Curb Your Enthusiasm is inching towards the finishing line and it seems Larry David may have truly revealed himself.

Selena Gomez is set to play Linda Ronstadt in an upcoming biopic based on the singer’s 2013 memoir titled Simple Dreams and a director is now attached to the project.

Michaela Zee David O. Russell is set to direct the upcoming Linda Ronstadt biopic, starring Selena Gomez, Variety has confirmed. The music biopic is currently in pre-production, with producers including James Keach, who produced the 2019 documentary “Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice,” and Ronstadt’s manager, John Boylan.

American Idol. While he didn’t win the reality series, it turned him into a household name and gave him a career. Soon, in an upcoming book, the singer will tell his full story for the first time in an upcoming book.According to The Hollywood Reporter, Archuleta has signed a deal to write his memoir.

Kym Marsh's dad David Marsh has sadly died at the age of 78, as a statement has been shared revealing that the "much-loved" father and grandfather passed away at his home yesterday, 11 January. David, who was battling prostate cancer in his final years, had an incredibly close bond with Coronation Street actress Kym, 47. "It is with immense sadness that we confirm the passing of David Marsh," a spokesperson told the PA News Agency.

It was only a matter of time before Larry David hung up his comedic spikes. And sadly, that time is now: the upcoming season of “Curb Your Enthusiasm” will also be the final one of the HBO hit.

Ethan Shanfeld “Curb Your Enthusiasm” is going out with a bang, as Larry David couldn’t leave his long-running comedy without making a few more enemies. In the final season trailer, released by HBO on Thursday, Larry bickers with his usual combatants — Cheryl Hines, Richard Lewis, Ted Danson and of course Susie Essman — as well as a slew of guest stars including Dan Levy, Sean Hayes, Vince Vaughn and Tracey Ullman, who reprises her role as City Councilwoman Irma Kostroski. Series mainstays Jeff Garlin and J.B.

Dune sequel has been found, teasing what could have been had the director’s plans for a trilogy come to fruition.Max Evry, the author of ‘A Masterpiece in Disarray: David Lynch’s Dune. An Oral History,’ unearthed the script in July of last year while working on his book, finding it in Frank Herbert’s (the author of Dune and its five sequels) archives at California State University, Fullerton.In an article for WIRED, Evry spoke highly of the Lynch’s script, saying: “He also cracked a way to tell the complex story of Herbert’s 1969 novel Dune Messiah, easily the least cinematic book in the series.”“It may ring of sacrilege to some, but Lynch’s Dune II would have bested Herbert’s book — and been one hell of a movie,” he added.Evry noted various intriguing details about the script, including how it opened with a new set of scenes that don’t feature in Herbert’s novel, picking up in the aftermath of the Harkonnen’s attack on Arrakeen that saw Duncan Idaho (Richard Jordan) killed in action.Lynch’s Messiah would have also revealed that Leonardo Cimino’s mysterious doctor from the first film was actually a major figure from Herbert’s novels: Scytale, a “face-dancer” of the sinister genetically enhanced beings known as the Bene Tleilax.Following the assault on Arrakeen, Scytale takes Idaho’s body and attempts to resurrect him as the clone “Ghola” Hayt.

Katharine McPhee is responding to haters who have been asking why she would marry David Foster.

Jordan Moreau David Soul, who starred as Detective Kenneth “Hutch” Hutchinson in the TV series “Starsky & Hutch,” died Thursday, his wife told BBC. He was 80. In addition to “Starsky & Hutch,” Soul starred in the Western series “Here Comes the Brides” and movies like “Magnum Force,” “Salem’s Lot” and more.

Well, not hard to wonder why someone wouldn’t want this made public!

A police worker admitted disclosing sensitive information including pictures from crime scenes and injuries suffered by a suspect.

EXCLUSIVE: New York-based cultural institution Villa Albertine and Unifrance have announced the selection of French features due to be showcased in the 9th edition of their joint Young French Cinema program.

George Harrison, Paul McCartney and the Travelling Wilburys over his five-decade career, has died at the age of 82.Per a press release from his representatives, Leland passed away on Christmas Eve surrounded by his family. No cause of death has been mentioned.Leland initially trained as an actor at the Central School of Speech and Drama and later moved into stage management and direction at the Crucible Theatre.

Actor Jamie Dornan has revealed the scary moment a stalker turned up to his house.The Northern Irish star, who skyrocketed to fame during the Fifty Shades of Grey trilogy, has spoken out about the "f***ing scary" situation he was put in. In an interview with the Independent, the 41-year-old opened up about the dark side of working on a film with a huge fandom. He said the frenzy that surrounded the Fifty Shades movies lead to some terrifying situations, one of which lead to a stalker turning up at this family home.

Naman Ramachandran David Leland, the British writer, director and actor whose credits include “Wish You Were Here,” “The Borgias” and more, died on Dec. 24, according to his agents Casarotto Ramsay & Associates. He was 82.

David Leland, who helmed an Emmy-winning episode of HBO’s “Band of Brothers,” and worked with A-listers including Pierce Brosnan, Tim Roth and George Harrison, has died at the age of 82.Leland passed away Christmas Eve surrounded by his family.British-born Leland also worked with “Monty Python” stars Michael Palin and Terry Gilliam and co-wrote the Oscar-nominated 1986 movie “Mona Lisa” with Neil Jordan.He was also an actor and trained at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama before co-founding the Drama Centre London and stage-managed at the Crucible Theatre.Leland gave Pierce Brosnan his start in the Tennessee Williams play “The Red Devil Battery Sign.”“David Leland holds a might place in my heart,” Brosnan told The Sun. “I was just out of Drama Centre where David was also an alumni.

British director and actor David Leland has died aged 82, according to his long-time agency, Cassaroto Ramsay & Associates

Over the past week, Victoria and David Beckham have kept fans updated with their travels to the Bahamas and Miami, Florida, as they spent Christmas with the Peltz family. Now, judging by the Spice Girl's latest Instagram post, they are back in the UK and David cooked up a feast for the family to enjoy. Victoria shared two snaps of her footballer husband laughing as he held a glass of wine and prepared to carve up the meat.