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Still, apart from marketing campaigns, I wonder why Tolstoy could wrap up War and Peace in one volume while many of these works seem to go on forever.

PUPILS got a celebrity lesson in tackling bullying when they had a visit from Sir Ian McKellen today.

SIR Ian McKellen recently helped youngsters at Severn Vale School in Quedgeley tackle homophobic bullying.

Is the European Union trading its kingdom for a barrel of patrol? Image of Ian McKellen as the title character of William Shakespeare's "Richard III". Editor's note: "My kingdom for a barrel of petrol!"A Or so might have William Shakespeare's Richard III might have said if he were a Western diplomat in Ashgabad.

Lenny Henry, left, went for the part of Othello after being inspired by taking an Open University degree in English literature; Rachel Weisz, was named best actress, taking the award which was renamed this year to honour Natasha Richardson; Sir Ian McKellen received an outstanding contribution award.

Daniel and Louise Tuck, who live near Barnetby, couldn't believe their luck when they won two tickets to this year's swish Variety Club Showbiz Awards in London - after entering a Channel Five competition.

One of the shrewdest Oscarologists on the planet is Tariq Khan of Fox News, who often generously shares his views of current and past derbies with Gold Derby readers.

ACTOR Sir Ian McKellen visited Hanley Castle High School, near Malvern, as part of this weeka s Anti-Bullying week.

London, Nov 17 : British actor Sir Ian McKellen has already decided the epitaph on his tombstone.

A A David Lloyd, TV sitcom writer, dies Nov. 13: David Lloyd, who wrote for "Cheers," "Taxi," "Frasier," and "Lou Grant" among others, died Tuesday.

"Collision" - The latest offering from "Masterpiece Contemporary" is a gripping, two-part thriller tied to a multi-vehicle pileup near London that entangles the lives of 10 strangers and presents a bewildering puzzle for Detective Inspector John Tolin .

Dazed and confused, a man wakes up in the desert. He finds a village where everyone calls him Six and no one can leave.

Reporting from New York - Ian McKellen is still adjusting to the fact that he turned 70 this year.

Nov 13 - Sir Ian McKellen ventures into television with "The Prisoner," a science fiction TV show based on the cult classic 1960s series of the same name.

Two stars from a new mini-series based on a classic, cult TV series called "The Prisoner" say the remake of the show is "a George Orwell book on steroids." Jim Caviezel and Jamie Campbell-Bower play two characters that are in a strange and surreal place called "The Village." It is controlled by one man, the sinister and charismatic Two, played by ...

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His years as a closeted gay man gave actor Ian McKellen an understanding, he says, of Jews who hid during the Holocaust.

A man named Michael from New York wakes up in the desert, much to his surprise. Fortunately, a pleasant-looking village is nearby.

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I wish that, just for a moment, Ian McKellen actually possessed some of those nature-bending powers that he wielded in the " Lord of the Rings " and " X-Men " films because it would have been a delight to see him turn the set of " The View " into a charred crater.