Judi Dench: Reading scripts ‘has become impossible’ with vision loss

It’s coming up to a year since the infamous Slap heard around the world—when host Chris Rock was belted by Will Smith on stage after making a joke about his wife’s baldness. In the final 10 minutes of his first comedy special since, the comedian addressed the incident and fans are curious to see how Jada Pinkett responded to Chris Rock’s Selective Outrage on Netflix. It sounds like she wants to put it all behind her, but him? We’re not so sure.

being slapped by Will Smith at the 2022 Oscars, with “Selective Outrage,” his live Netflix comedy special. In it, Rock speculated that Smith smacked him not just over his joke about Pinkett Smith’s baldness (comparing the actress, who has alopecia, to “G.I. Jane”), but because Smith was unleashing built-up anger over her affair with Alsina.“Everybody in the world called him a bitch,” Rock said of Smith.

Travel blog by Travels of Adam (Hipster Blog) – Travels of Adam (Hipster Blog) - Travel & Lifestyle Hipster Blog Saudi’s gateway to commerce, art and pilgrimages is the most acclaimed city of Jeddah. This seaport hub is the brainchild of the Kingdom’s efforts to reinvest and proclaim art as its national language. Over the past few years, the cultural reformations made by the Ministry of Culture to promote the art of many forms have been a successful welcome among the residents and tourists.

Once described as one of Britain's most "outrageous" roads, Hardknott Pass between Eskdale and the Duddon Valley in the Lake District is only the width of a bridleway and is filled with twisting bends.

Jude Law has reportedly become a father again after he and his wife, Phillipa Coan, were spotted out and about in London. In pictures obtained by The Sun, the Fantastic Beasts actor could be seen walking through Heathrow looking rather flustered as he attempted to navigate the airport with Phillipa, a baby in a pram, and their two year old who was born in September 2020. The 50 year old actor was seen sporting a double denim outfit, a soft brown blazer, a trilby hat and a small cross-body bag as he walked alongside his wife.

Oscar-winning actress was diagnosed with advanced macular degeneration in 2012 and has been dealing with the loss of her vision.While appearing on The Graham Norton Show, Dench admitted that she has found it harder and harder to read scripts and learn her lines.“It has become impossible and because I have a photographic memory I need to find a machine that not only teaches me my lines but also tells me where they appear on the page,” she said.“I used to find it very easy to learn lines and remember them,” she continued. “I could do the whole of ‘Twelfth Night’ right now.”In 2021 interview with The Guardian, Dench revealed that she asks her friends to help her with lines by reading them out loud to her.“You find a way of just getting about and getting over the things that you find very difficult,” she said at the time.

Hollywood actor Jude Law has reportedly become a father again after he and his wife, Phillipa Coan, were spotted out and about in London. In pictures obtained by The Sun, the Fantastic Beasts actor could be seen walking through Heathrow looking rather flustered as he attempted to navigate the airport with Phillipa, a baby in a pram, and their two year old who was born in September 2020.The 50 year old actor was seen sporting a double denim outfit, a soft brown blazer, a trilby hat and a small cross-body bag as he walked alongside his wife. Phillipa, 32, who works as a business psychologist, was dressed down in a simple outfit comprised of graphic jogging bottoms and a simple black t-shirt as she bundled her hair on top of her head.

Millions of women in the Muslim world live under the dominion of men, subject to their rules, confined by their power. The documentary Under the Sky of Damascus, making its world premiere tonight at the Berlin Film Festival, examines the alarming gender politics in one ancient locality — the capital of Syria.

Jen Shah is going to be living an extremely regimented life in prison.

She’s a prolific actress of both stage and screen, with a career rivalled by very few – we could only be talking about a legend like Dame Judi Dench. From James Bond to William Shakespeare, the British icon has appeared in some of the biggest franchises in history, earning an Academy Award, a Tony Award, two Golden Globe Awards, four British Academy Television Awards, six British Academy Film Awards and seven Olivier Awards along the way. But we might be seeing less of her in the near future, as she revealed acting has become “impossible” due to health complications.

Christopher Vourlias Though the world watched — often in silence — as a decade-long civil war tore Syria apart, exiled filmmakers Talal Derki (“Of Fathers and Sons”) and Heba Khaled say an equally brutal but less visible war is still raging. In “Under the Sky of Damascus,” which premieres Feb. 20 in the Panorama strand of the Berlin Film Festival, the duo shifts the lens to the silenced majority of Syrian women who routinely face sexual harassment, violence and abuse in their patriarchal society. The film follows a tight-knit group of young Syrian women who embark upon on a radical project to produce a play that lays bare the culture of misogyny and sexual abuse that has blighted the lives of females in their country for generations.

Home to lush rainforests, vast stretches of white sands and fabulous Creole cuisine, Saint Lucia deserves its reputation as one of the most dazzling jewels in the Caribbean crown. In the north, the island’s capital, Castries, is cradled by emerald hillsides sprinkled with pops of ice-cream coloured houses.

Simu Liu is addressing an awkward moment that occurred during the 2023 NBA Celebrity All-Star Game.

Simu Liu is calling out an awkward moment that took place during Friday night’s NBA Celebrity All-Star Game.

Nestled in the shadow of the northern fells in the Lake District is a tiny village which feels a world away from the tourist hotspots in the southern lakes. Caldbeck features rows of pastel-coloured cottages painted in sugary pinks, blues and greens, overlooking lawns of velvety grass.

Dame Judi Dench claims that her eyesight is getting so bad that she is struggling to continue acting.

Dame Judi Dench is opening up about a medical condition that has greatly impacted the way she works. For over ten years, Dench, 88, has been suffering from age-related macular degeneration, a condition that causes one's eyesight to worsen over time.

Dame Judi Dench has opened up about macular degeneration and how she now finds it “impossible” to read scripts because of her deteriorating eyesight. Dame Judi has previously revealed she has macular degeneration, which causes the gradual loss of vision.

Jen Shah has officially reported to prison on Friday, February 17, to begin her 78 months behind bars, Us Weekly can confirm.

Jen Shah has reported to prison to begin her six and a half year sentence.