In Pictures: This week in culture
We lost the wonderful actress Émilie Dequenne this week. The Belgian star who starred in 'Rosetta,' for which she won the Cannes Film Festival's best actress award for her debut performance in 1999, died aged 43.
After nine months in space, Nasa astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams finally arrived back on Earth. Their mission that was supposed to last for just eight days; it was dramatically extended after the spacecraft Butch and Suni had used to travel to the International Space Station suffered technical problems. Their journey home took 17 hours.
International politics often feels like unruly kids tussling in a playground... French politician Raphaël Glucksmann made headlines for suggesting that the US should return the Statue of Liberty. His comments went viral and White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt retaliated by reminding France "that it's only because of the United States of America that the French are not speaking German right now.' You can read all about their sparring match here.
A thief who stole a golden toilet from Blenheim Palace - the country mansion where Winston Churchill was born - was convicted this week along with an accomplice who helped cash in on the spoils of the 18-carat work of art insured for nearly £5 million (€5.9m). Here's the full story.
A newly opened exhibition in Turin is highlighting the work of 13 artists with intellectual disabilities from the Eisenberg Collection. You can read all about it here.
Euronews Culture sat down with Thierry Frémaux for an exclusive interview to discuss the 130-year anniversary of the invention of cinema, his new film honouring the legacy of the Lumière brothers, and the threats cinema faces in its second centenary. You can read and watch the whole interview here.
French far-left political party La France Insoumise (LFI) and its leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon have again been accused of antisemitism. This time it was because of an image (see above, left) that was supposed to promote an anti-racism march happening today (Saturday 22 March). We explained this chronicle of a harmful backfire. On Friday, LFI was condemned for infringement of image rights, with the Nanterre judicial court ordering the party to pay €3,500 and prohibiting the reproduction of the poster.
Hundreds of wood and papier-maché sculptures that were painstakingly crafted were burned during Las Fallas, the most important yearly celebration in Valencia, Spain. This year's festival took on special meaning, as it was a moment of catharsis for the city and surrounding villages after over 220 people died in October's flooding. UNESCO, which added Las Fallas to its catalog of intangible cultural heritage in 2016, describes the incineration of the sculptures as 'a form of purification" and "social renewal.'
From peeping pigeons to prowling foxes, the winners of the British Wildlife Photography Awards 2025 were announced and capture the wild side of Britain in all its unexpected glory. Check out the winners here.
Five years on, Euronews Culture reflected this week on the things we miss the most from the March 2020 Covid lockdown and what practices we'd bring back. Read all about it here.
London's longest running art fair, the London Original Print Fair (LOPF), celebrates a major milestone with an exciting selection of exclusive editions and specially commissioned contemporary prints. Check out our article on the dynamic programme of classic and contemporary works at Somerset House, which takes place from 20-23 March 2025.
After the death of her husband, the great Dolly Parton came back to the stage this week. Such a force for good in this world.
Known as 'Chaharshanbe Souri' in Farsi, the fire festival comes in the hours just before Nowruz, which is the Persian New Year. Celebrated by more than 300 million people worldwide, Nowruz is a 3,000-year-old tradition cherished in Iran, Afghanistan, throughout Central Asia and beyond. Here's what makes it special.
It's the film everyone's talking about this week... We asked: "Magic Mirror on the wall, is the latest cynical Disney live-action remake the shittiest of them all?" We answered here.
The next James Bond film – now under the creative control of Amazon – is apparently being 'fast-tracked'. Here's everything you need to know.
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- San Francisco Chronicle
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New York Post
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Inside Terence Stamp's high-profile trysts, links to Princess Diana and Michael Caine — and why he never became a true Hollywood star
He put his stamp on it. 'Superman' actor Terence Stamp, who died at age 87 on Sunday, had a life that was even more colorful behind the scenes than it was onscreen. Born in London in 1938, the late actor grew up with a working-class background. He rose to the spotlight in the 1960s, and had several claims to fame, including a friendship with Princess Diana, being roommates with Michael Caine, and rumored trysts with many of the era's iconic beauties, including Brigitte Bardot, Julie Christie and Jean Shrimpton. 14 Terence Stamp on December 6, 2012 in Marrakech, Morocco. WireImage About rooming with Caine when the two young actors were looking for their big break, Stamp told The Guardian in 2015, 'Caine gave me all my early values, like making sure you were doing good stuff, waiting for the right things.' He didn't mince words when he noted, 'as soon as he got away he did exactly the opposite. Went from one movie to another.' 14 Terence Stamp in 1965. Getty Images Perhaps unsurprisingly, Stamp and Caine's friendship wasn't lifelong. Stamp explained, 'We just went different ways. I can understand it: in many ways he was much more mature than me.' The Oscar-nominated actor had been rumored to be romantically linked to Princess Diana. However, in a 2012 interview with Daily Mail, he said he regretted that piece of gossip. 'We were just really good chums, yet I still get asked questions alluding to something more. She was a lot of fun – we used to have lunch at San Lorenzo and her company was heaven.' 14 Michael Caine on the set of 'Going In Style' in Williamsburg, Brooklyn , in 2015. Paul Martinka 14 Princess Diana on vacation in Majorca, Spain on August 10, 1987. Getty Images In his 2017 memoir, 'Ocean Fell Into The Drop,' Stamp said they met through a mutual friend, art dealer Oliver Hoare. 'We got on amazingly well… I saw the sadness in her because she'd gone into a marriage believing – she was a believer in marriage. And it didn't turn out the way she expected it to.' He insisted there were no sparks. 'It wasn't like that. I thought that was the last thing she needed really. She just wanted somebody to talk to that was a guy, who would give her objective opinions. And because of that we just kind of opened up to each other. It wasn't a formal thing, we'd just meet up for a cup of tea, or sometimes we'd have a long chat for an hour.' 14 Princess Diana at a dinner at the British Embassy in Washington DC in 1985. Getty Images 14 Terence Stamp in 1980's 'Superman II.' ©Warner Bros/Courtesy Everett Collection During his 2015 interview with The Guardian, Stamp recalled that his relationship with Julie Christie, 85, happened before they both rose to fame. The pair starred in the 1967 film 'Far From The Madding Crowd' together. 'We met, and we had a romance. That was it. When I got my first movie, I knew it was my destiny to be a film actor, so that became my motivation in life.' He insisted that while filming the movie, the fact that she was his girlfriend 'never came up.' 'I saw her as Bathsheba, the character she was playing, who all the men in the film fell in love with. It wasn't hard, with somebody like Julie.' 14 Terence Stamp and Julie Christie in 1967's 'Far from The Maddening Crowd.' Courtesy Everett Collection 14 Terence Stamp in 2008's 'Get Smart.' He told Daily Mail in 2012 that supermodel Jean Shrimpton, 82, was 'the love' of his life. 'It was in Hollywood in 1964. Just to lay eyes on her was a joy. We were together for three years,' Stamp recalled. In his memoir, he said, 'She left me because she saw I was a lunatic. I wasn't ready for a twin-soul relationship.' 14 Jean Shrimpton, and actor Terence Stamp, arrive at Essendon Airport in Melbourne, October 30 1965. Fairfax Media via Getty Images 14 Jean Shrimpton with Terence Stamp in 1965. 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What had happened inside of me enabled me to take the role, and not feel embarrassed or depressed about playing the villain,' he said, referring to 'Superman.' 14 Terence Stamp in the 1968 film 'Teorema.' Sunset Boulevard He explained, 'I just decided I was a character actor now and I can do anything.' Stamp also had some eccentric habits. He didn't own a home because he was living the 'stroller player life' as he called it. 'Where I came from, to own a house was something unreal – so when I had money, I gave houses to everyone: my parents, my aunt. But I never felt I needed to own one,' he said. 14 Julie Christie and Terence Stamp in 1967's 'Far from the Maddening Crowd.' Courtesy Everett Collection Despite his high-profile relationships, he married just once, to Australian pharmacist Elizabeth O'Rourke, from 2002 to their 2008 divorce, and had no children. At the time of their marriage, she was 29 and he was 64. 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Eater
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Los Angeles's Best Cheesesteak Heads to Calabasas and Pasadena in 2025
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