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Tom Holland and Francesca Amewudah-Rivers are Romeo and Juliet in the West End production of Shakespeare's classic play. Holland, who was announced to be a part of the production in February, will play Romeo Montague, and Amewudah-Rivers will play Juliet Capulet in the Jamie Lloyd-directed version of the beloved play about the forbidden romance between two young adults from feuding families. A description for Lloyd's play calls his take a "pulsating new vision of Shakespeare's immortal tale of wordsmiths, rhymers, lovers and fighters." Amewudah-Rivers took to Instagram on Thursday to share the news about being in the play. "Crazy things...

Olivia Hussey and Leonard Whiting, who starred in 1968's Romeo and Juliet, filed a lawsuit against Paramount for child abuse over a nude scene in the film. Per Deadline, Hussey and Whiting filed the lawsuit in Santa Monica Superior Court on Jan. 3, accusing Paramount of sexual exploitation and the distribution of nude images of underage children. Now in their 70s, both actors were teenagers at the time they starred in the film; Hussey, who played Juliet, was 15 and Whiting, who played Romeo, was 16. The actors are seeking damages of over $100 million. "believed to be in excess...

Inspired by the love story Romeo and Juliet, people actually write to 'Juliet', asking for advice on their love lives. The letters have now inspired a Hollywood film. Duncan Kennedy went to Verona to see how the Italian city responds to these pleas for help.

ROME (Reuters) - An Italian pensioner committed suicide after his wife fell into a coma, but just hours after he killed himself the woman woke up, Italian media reported on Saturday. Recalling the end of "Romeo and Juliet," the 70-year-old man, Ettore, who had sat by his wife's bedside for four months after she slipped into a coma following a heart attack, finally gave up hope and gassed himself in the garage of his family home. Less than a day later, his wife, Rossana, woke up in her hospital bed in Padua and immediately asked for him. The northern town...

We should all e-mail Foxnews about the disgusting comments Julian Phillips made about Rush Limbaugh this morning! Julian said and is still saying... "You know I hate to kick somebody when they are down, but it looks as if Rush Limbaugh has been outed as a hypocrite. He is always railing against drug abuse and now he's turned into an abuser himself. I would imagine he will lose many listeners over this." then Mike Jerrick "Oh you can bet he's going to lose listeners. He had a full week to come clean with this and it appears..." Julian jumps in...

Another human experiment is coming this month, planned by the US Navy. A public notice was filed in today's San Diego Union Tribune which stated the Environmental Assessment "EA has determined that the proposed action will have no significant adverse impacts on the human environment." What is the experiment? Local residents would like to know. It's called "Juliet" and "will be conducted from July 24 to August 15, 2002 in the southwest region of the U.S. and offshore waters of southern California" "including San Clemente and San Nicolas Islands, offshore of Camp Pendleton, and at the Naval Air Warfare Center...