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Tony Curtis

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Actor Tony Curtis had died at the age of 85.

Greta Garbo was born on August 18, 1905.

Ninotchka, Greta Garbo, 1939

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Today Robert Redford is 74.

Way We Were, Robert Redford, 1973

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Today Christian Slater is 41.

Christian Slater

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Dolph Lundgren plays the role of Gunnar Jenson, an ex-combat veteran with a hair trigger temper and formidable martial arts prowess, in the upcoming film The Expendables. He spoke to Bodybuilding.com about his role in the movie.

New to DVD, for release in U.S. on August 10, 2010: Date Night

Mark Wahlberg in DATE NIGHT, a 20th Century Fox release.

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The Half-Blood Prince – Harry Potter

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“British actor Daniel Radcliffe has signed on to star in ‘The Woman in Black,’ Hammer Films and Alliance Films said.

“The movie is a big-screen adaptation of Susan Hill’s best-selling novel.”–realityworld.com

Product description of the book, at amazon.com:

“What real reader does not yearn, somewhere in the recesses of his or her heart, for a really literate, first-class thriller — one that chills the body with foreboding of dark deeds to come, but warms the soul with perceptions and language at once astute and vivid? In other words, a ghost story by Jane Austen.

“Austen we cannot, alas, give you, but Susan Hill’s remarkable Woman In Black comes as close as the late twentieth century is likely to provide. Set on the obligatory English moor, on an isolated causeway, the story has as its hero one Arthur Kipps, an up-and-coming young solicitor who has come north to attend the funeral and settle the estate of Mrs. Alice Drablow of Eel Marsh House. The routine formalities he anticipates give way to a tumble of events and secrets more sinister and terrifying than any nightmare: the rocking chair in the nursery of the deserted Eel Marsh House, the eerie sound of pony and trap, a child’s scream in the fog, and, most dreadfully, and for Kipps most tragically, the woman in black.

“The Woman In Black is both a brilliant exercise in atmosphere and controlled horror and a delicious spine-tingler — proof positive that that neglected genre, the ghost story, isn’t dead after all.”

Margaret Thatcher’s family are said to be “appalled” at Meryl Streep film. telegraph.co.uk