Mrs. Brown News

The 78-year-old star of Mrs Brown, Iris, Shakespeare in Love and the most recent James Bond films has confirmed her attendance at a graduation ceremony on 26 June.

Ben Elton's new BBC sitcom The Wright Way has received a critical mauling. At 53, is he too old now to cut it as a comedian? The second I saw the gyrations of health and safety executive Gerald Wright , airing his damp crotch under the hand dryer in the men's toilets, I knew the critics would take Ben Elton to pieces.

As his sold-out, five-night run at Dublin's Gaiety Theatre comes to a close, Billy Connolly has been immortalised with his handprints outside the legendary venue.

Friends of the Thomaston Public Library presents its Friday Night Film Series with screenings Fridays at 6:30 p.m. in the community room of Thomaston Public Library in the Thomaston Academy Building, 60 Main St./Route 1. April's films celebrate Two Great Dames - British actors Maggie Smith and Judi Dench.

Is that a theatrical dame you see before you? Very likely this season in London, where the twin titans that are Helen Mirren and Judi Dench have opened in new West End plays within three weeks of each other.