Tinseltown

BAZ BAMIGBOYE: Tuppence goes to Tinseltown 

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Tuppence Middleton felt very much at home in old Hollywood, where she spent three months filming Mank, director David Fincher’s masterful homage to celebrated screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz (a magnificent Gary Oldman). Each morning she’d draw back the curtains in her room at the fabled Villa Carlotta, nestled beneath the Hollywood sign, and gaze out … Read more

David Niven’s introduction to Tinseltown was a blast… but tragedy was just around the corner 

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Suffering from the corona blues? Then there’s no better tonic than David Niven’s brilliantly uproarious memoirs.  In yesterday’s extract, he relived the riotous, love-fuelled parties that made him realise that he was much better suited to life outside the Army.  But, as he reveals here, forces beyond his control soon dragged him back… Newly arrived … Read more