Helen actress passed away on April 16 following a secret cancer battle
Damian announced that she had passed at home peacefully surrounded by family after showing no fear, no bitterness, no self-pity in her battle
Helen, who was awarded the OBE for services to drama in 2017, was best known for playing Polly in Peaky Blinders and Narcissa Malfoy in the Harry Potter films
In an article last month, he wrote of his heartbreak that she had left their kids too early but they have been prepared for life as she taught them courage
Helen and Damian married in 2007 after falling in love when they were both cast in the play Five Gold Rings at the off-West End Almeida Theatre back in 2003
Mountain Scene
May 11, 2021
By MARK PRICE and TRACEY ROXBURGH
One of Britain’s most prolific comedy writers is fizzing to get back to the land of the long white cloud.
Speaking to
Mountain Scene from Australia before his New Zealand tour, which started in in Blenheim on Saturday, the 61-year-old says his last NZ visit a few years ago was “a chance to do what I do in one of the most beautiful places on the planet … and I can’t wait to do it again’’.
The comedian, author, playwright and director has built his international funny-man reputation over three decades.
Every ’90s Blockbuster Movie Ranked
Thirty years on, the 1990s has solidified its stature as one of the magical decades in filmmaking, much like how we view the ’30s and the ’70s. Precisely, this Gen X-decade pulled together the Hollywood studio power of the ’30s and the groundbreaking creativity of the ’70s, crocheting commercialism and art into the movie behemoths we speak of in legend as the ’90s blockbuster which we’ve now ranked all by Tomatometer!
First off, in putting together this list, we didn’t want no scrubs: We defined the ’90s blockbuster as any film that made over $100 million at the box office movies that had people literally lining up around the block to spend their easy-earned cash. (The economy was booming after all.) This, of course, ushers in all those films synonymous with ’90s blockbusterism, including
It was a long recruitment process, culminating in a final interview with former Danish prime minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt, who is the boardâs co-chair. The board convened just as the COVID-19 pandemic gripped the world, dashing membersâ plans to meet each other in person.
Only five board members are US-based; there are representatives from India, Colombia, Israel, Brazil, Kenya, Yemen and other countries. Suzor is the lone Australian.
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âFundamentally, this is an experiment,â he says. âWe donât know what the best way to do it is. We donât necessarily know how to make sure Facebook listens to us and that we can actually hold them to account. No oneâs really tried this before at this sort of scale.â
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Fierce females vie for the freshly minted title of women’s champion on a special edition of
“American Ninja Warrior.” 7 p.m. NBC
Journalist George Stephanopoulos and statistician Nate Silver lend their voices to a new episode of
“The Simpsons.” 8 p.m.
“Biography.” 8 p.m. A&E
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A woman meets a hunky firefighter who’s a little too warm for her form in the thriller
“Burning Little Lies.” 8 p.m. Lifetime
When it comes to hot-button issues like race relations, celebrity guests will get little leeway from
“Ziwe” in this new chat show hosted by writer-comic Ziwe Fumudoh. 11 p.m. Showtime