London (England)

Queen Elizabeth II is Britain's 'most familiar enigma'

2012-06-02 05:00:00

LONDON — Her face is everywhere: on stamps, coins, mugs and book covers. Her likeness has just been reproduced for the 23rd time at Madame Tussauds, London's famous wax museum. More visitors come to gawp at her house than probably any other...

Review: Albright's 'Prague Winter' mixes the personal, historical

2012-05-13 00:00:00

"Prague Winter: A Personal Story of Remembrance and War, 1937-1948" Madeleine Albright Harper: 480 pp., $29.99 Madeleine Albright is a formidable figure. She was a member of the National Security Council and the U.S. ambassador to the U.N. When she...

List of films and release dates in summer 2012

2012-04-29 00:00:00

May 4 The Avengers A team of superheroes including Iron Man, Captain America, the Hulk and Thor unite to save the world. With Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans, Mark Ruffalo and Chris Hemsworth. Written and directed by Joss Whedon. In Imax 3-D. Walt Disney...

Queen Elizabeth II's diamond jubilee, and all that

2012-02-05 00:00:00

The first Queen Elizabeth was standing under an English oak tree when she learned that she had become queen. The second Elizabeth was high up in a mgumu tree in Kenya when she became queen, at the moment her father, King George VI, died in his sleep more...

Robin Gibb dies at 62; rose to pop fame as one-third of the Bee Gees

2012-05-21 00:00:00

Robin Gibb, a singer and songwriter who joined two of his brothers in forming the Bee Gees pop group that helped define the sound of the disco era with the best-selling 1977 soundtrack to"Saturday Night Fever," has died. He was 62. Gibb died Sunday after...

Andrew Garfield is 'getting on the fridge' as Biff, Spider-Man

2012-06-01 08:13:00

NEW YORK — Seeing as he grew up in the county of Surrey in southeast England and was called one of Britain's rising stage actors at an early age, you might expect that Andrew Garfield has Sir Laurence Olivier as one of his role models. But his...

China protests Ai Weiwei documentary by exiting film festival

2012-06-14 06:47:00

China has reportedly withdrawn its delegation from a documentary film festival in Britain in reaction to the festival's screening of a new movie about Ai Weiwei, the artist and political activist who has repeatedly found himself in trouble with Chinese...

Danny Boyle inspired by 'The Tempest' for Olympics ceremony

2012-06-14 11:11:00

Oscar-winning director Danny Boyle said that William Shakespeare's play "The Tempest" served as an inspiration for his recently revealed designs for the opening ceremony of the 2012 London Olympics. The live extravaganza, which will be broadcast on...

Kenneth Branagh, Zaha Hadid receiving titles from Queen Elizabeth

2012-06-18 07:00:00

That's "Sir" Kenneth Branagh and "Dame" Zaha Hadid, to you. The birthday honors for Britain's Queen Elizabeth II were announced recently, and among those receiving titles will be actor-director Branagh, a Shakespearean veteran of stage and screen, and...

Patricia Medina dies at 92; Briton was '50s Hollywood leading lady

2012-05-02 00:00:00

Patricia Medina, a British-born actress whose Hollywood career as a leading lady in the 1950s spanned the talking mule comedy "Francis" and Orson Welles' crime-thriller "Mr. Arkadin," has died. She was 92. Medina, the widow of actor Joseph Cotten, died...

WikiLeaks founder Assange loses legal challenge to extradition

2012-06-14 16:42:06

Muslim cleric suspected of terrorism loses bail appeal in London

2012-05-28 16:38:42

Christine London, Howard

2013-03-14 00:00:00

London will teach you all the secrets behind his tricks in workshops that he conducts for individuals or groups, in which you'll learn the coin vanish trick, a few card tricks, sleight of hand, as well as card mechanics -- but he stresses that learning card tricks is the easy part.

2012-11-13 15:40:30

At 7 years old, David London "discovered" he was a magician. "I was invited to a family event," he says, "A black tie function. While I was at the tuxedo rental place I insisted on getting a black top hat and a white-tipped cane.

2012-11-13 15:38:52