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Historical Video: Mandrake’s Bermuda Adventure
A good magician never reveals his tricks — including the geographic sleight of hand which allowed the pilot episode of a proposed TV series based on comic strip conjurer/adventurer Mandrake to be filmed largely in Bermuda despite the fact the story takes place in the US. The 1954 “Mandrake The Magician” pilot starred professional stage... Read more of this article
Douglas Family Bermuda Thanksgiving
Former celebrity residents Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta-Jones are spending US Thanksgiving in Bermuda this week —  the first time the superstar couple will have been back on the island together since the actor/producer received the all-clear from throat cancer. Entertainment website Extra caught up with two-time Oscar winner Mr. Douglas... Read more of this article
Book Puts Bermuda Culture Into Sharp Focus
Offering an insider’s look into iconic Bermuda and its unique lifestyle, “Bermuda” is a new photography book which candidly showcases Bermudians, at work, at play, and in their own environments. Authors Georgia Crowe-Benevides and Kathryn M. Deane have amassed a collection of appealing portraits showcasing the island and the richly... Read more of this article
Bermuda Debunks Film’s Conspiracy Theory
The historical conspiracy theory offered up in a Hollywood blockbuster opening today [Oct.28] — namely, that William Shakespeare’s plays were actually written by the Earl of Oxford — can be disproved by one stubborn fact: the 1609 “Sea Venture” wreck in Bermuda. Director Roland Emmerich’s “Anonymous” is... Read more of this article
London Film Series Features Earl Cameron
Veteran Bermudian actor Earl Cameron is appearing at a series of film screenings in London next month to discuss how the decline and fall of the British Empire was portrayed in UK cinema during the 1950s and ’60s. The British Film Institute [BFI} and political magazine “New Statesman” are partnering to present the “End of Empire”... Read more of this article
TV Academy Spotlights Arthur Rankin
He optimistically called his new animation technique “Animagic”. It’s been almost 50 years since writer/director/producer Arthur Rankin Jr. launched his improbably successful career with little more than the rights to a Christmas novelty song, a felt-covered, lightbulb-nosed reindeer puppet and the sort of boundless faith which marks... Read more of this article
Cilento’s Star-Making Bermuda Role
She arrived in Bermuda in 1956 as a virtual unknown to play a castaway Edwardian servant girl in a film being shot here and found stardom — and, indirectly, love with Sean Connery — as a result of her time on the island. Diane Cilento, the Australian actress who was propelled to international celebrity after appearing in the Bermuda-made... Read more of this article
Tina Fey: Smoking Hot Bermuda Honeymoon
Comedienne Tina Fey will always remember her 2001 Bermuda honeymoon for all the wrong reasons — there was a fire on the cruise ship she and her husband were sailing home to New York aboard. The actress/writer who created and stars in NBC’s “30 Rock”  admits the voyage had been a lot of fun until she found herself standing... Read more of this article
Historical Video: ‘Neptune’s Daughter’ Resurfaces
Almost a century old, film footage of Bermuda shot for a silent-era mermaid fantasy has resurfaced in an Australian movie archive. Long considered a lost film, the 71-minute movie about a mermaid who falls in love with the surface-dwelling king.was shot on location in Bermuda in 1913 and made an overnight star out of Annette Kellerman, an Australian-born... Read more of this article
Michael Douglas: First Interview Since Treatment
In his first interview since the completion of treatment for Stage IVÂ throat cancer, former superstar resident Michael Douglas discusses his Bermudian mother Diana Douglas (“A lovely lady, super-bright — still pisses me off and does the ‘Sunday Times’ crossword in ink!”), he and wife Catherine Zeta Jones’ decision... Read more of this article
