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<p>Paddy Chayefsky presents the Oscars for Writing (Original Story and Screenplay) to Woody Allen and Marshall Brickman for Annie Hall and for Writing (Screenplay Adapted from Other Material) to Alvin Sargent for Julia, at the 50th Academy Awards. Hosted by Bob Hope.</p>

Jeremy Corbyn is on collision course with Labour MPs and trade unions for defiantly speaking at an anti-Trident rally and snubbing his party's pro-EU campaign. The Labour leader will address a CND rally in London alongside the SNP's Nicola Sturgeon, Leanne Wood of Plaid Cymru, the Green Party MP Caroline Lucas and veteran left-wing actress Vanessa Redgrave. His decision has infuriated many Labour MPs, who claim he is campaigning against the party's policy on Trident and ignoring its policy to campaign to remain in the EU. Although Mr Corbyn will also attend Labour's Yorkshire and the Humber regional conference, where...

As Tony Richardson settled into his seat in the stalls, he wasn’t expecting much. He’d seen As You Like It before, and there was no clue to suggest this production would be any better. In fact, he was about to fall violently in love. The moment Vanessa Redgrave appeared on stage — ‘like a sinuous golden flame’, he said later — he knew with complete certainty that they belonged together.

here is no better précis of how the Left thinks about the world, and acts on it, than the British journalist Nick Cohen’s article appearing in the new issue of Standpoint. Cohen writes a candid appraisal of what left-wing politics did to the mind and life of the late actor Corin Redgrave, brother of the more famous Vanessa, who like her brother, is a lifetime member of a small fanatic Trotskyist sect, the Workers Revolutionary Party, led by a man named Gerry Healy. The group was so fanatic that it accused Trotsky’s American followers of having been responsible for his...

CRITICALLY INJURED IN SKIING ACCIDENT ### Actress Natasha Richardson is brain dead - after falling in a ski accident in Canada - and is now on sad journey home to New York, friends told The Post today. Richardson, who was being treated at a Montreal hospital, is being transported to New York this afternoon so her mom Vanessa Redgrave, two children and other loved ones can say goodbye before she's taken off life-support, friends said.

Vanessa Redgrave helps Guantanamo suspects By Philip Johnston, Home Affairs Editor  Last Updated: 7:55pm GMT 20/12/2007     Two suspected al-Qa’eda operatives released from Guantanamo Bay have walked free from court although they are still wanted in Spain on terrorism-related offences. Profile: Vanessa Redgrave, human rights campaigner Profiles: The Guantanamo four Philip Johnston: Why should Guantanamo detainees return? One of the men, who is accused of distributing extremist propaganda produced by Osama bin Laden, had half of his £50,000 bail surety met by the actress Vanessa Redgrave.   Redgrave met half of Jamil el-Banna's bail Jamil el-Banna, 45, who was...

There are many Israel-haters on the Left – but none more persistent, or rabid, than far-Left British actress Vanessa Redgrave. The mummified Marxist is a longtime enemy of the Jewish state. In 1977, Redgrave did a "documentary" titled "The Palestinians" that showed her in a PLO training camp, dancing as she waved a rifle over her head. (Doing the fedayeen two-step?) In accepting an Oscar for Julia (1978), Redgrave railed at the "Zionist hoodlums" (an expression Soviets propagandists applied to those protesting the treatment of Russian Jews). In 1980, Redgrave proclaimed, "The State of Israel must be overthrown, there is...

Zakaïev required the political asylum in London, according to one of its partisans Friday December 06, 2002 - 6h59 GMT MOSCOW, 6 déc (AFP) - Akhmed Zakaïev, the emissary of the independence president tchetchene Aslan Maskhadov, arrived to Great Britain where it asked the political asylum Friday morning, one of its partisans indicated to the radio operator Echo of Moscow. Zakaïev was briefly held on its arrival in an airport of London but given in freedom after payment of a guarantee by the actress Vanessa Redgrave, specified with radio operator Alexander Goldfarb, head of the Funds for civil freedoms...