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Sparks fly for ambitious career woman Lucy (Lucy Hale, “Katy Keene”) when she engages in a ruthless game of one-upmanship with Joshua (Austin Stowell, “Catch-22”), her cold and efficient nemesis at work, and becomes attracted to him in this 2021 romantic comedy from director Peter Hutchings (“Then Came You,” “The Outcasts”). Corbin Bernsen, Yasha Jackson and Brock Yurich also star.
“The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills”
Shocking revelations, fallout from a messy divorce and a fun getaway to Lake Tahoe are in the future for the ladies of the 90210 in the 11th season of this unscripted series. Crystal Kung Minkoff and Sutton Stracke join the cast for this round alongside returnees Kyle Richards, Lisa Rinna, Erika Girardi, Dorit Kemsley and Garcelle Beauvais.
Based on a true story that also inspired a memorable episode of “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit,” this 2012 crime drama stars Dreama Walker (“Brockmire”) as a fast-food worker subjected to a series of humiliating events by her boss and co-workers under orders from a phone caller claiming to be a cop. Ann Dowd and Pat Healy also star.
Set during the first outbreak of the bubonic plague in England, this 2010 actioner from co-writer/director Christopher Smith (“Triangle,” “Severance”) follows Ulric (Sean Bean, “Snowpiercer”), a young monk who leads a group of soldiers to a mysterious village where rumors are spreading that a necromancer is raising plague victims from the dead. Eddie Redmayne, Carice van Houten and Kimberley Nixon also star. “Movie: Black Death”
Checking in with JANE SEYMOUR
Probably no one can say they owned a house where artists such as Radiohead, The Cure and Johnny Cash recorded albums. Except Jane Seymour.
Indeed, the 71-year-old British actress and star of the currently streaming Acorn TV mystery series “Harry Wild” was once the owner of St. Catherine’s Court, a 500-year-old manor house near Bath in southwest England that was popular among musicians for its acoustics and its lush grounds. In fact, she says the late movie score composer John Barry once told her that the muse hit him when he was there.
“He said don’t ever put any furniture in this one room,” Seymour explains. “He said it has four second reverberation. He said it’s the best sound in the whole of England. And that was the house. I had it for a while. I sold it to a Russian oligarch a number of years ago in 2008, so I wonder who has it now. My kids keep saying, ‘Can we get it back, Mom?’ Yeah, I don’t know. ”
In the 24 years she owned the property, Seymour carried out renovations and rented it out as a recording studio and party venue, much to the consternation of neighbors, and artists such as Robbie Williams and Geri Halliwell also stayed there.
However, Seymour also got to bear witness to one unfortunate bit of music history.
“A very famous band broke up at my house. ... Duran Duran,” says the actress, who currently calls Malibu, Calif., her home. “I had the dubious experience of Simon (Le Bon) and Andy (Taylor) being there while they broke up the band at my house. I was right there watching it happen, going, ‘No! Please! Don’t!’ ”
Birth name: Joyce Penelope Wilhelmina Frankenberg
Birth date: Feb. 15, 1951
Birthplace: Hayes, Middlesex, England
Alma mater: Tring Park School for the Performing Arts
Family ties: Divorced; has three sons and a daughter
TV credits include: “McCloud,” “Battlestar Galactica,” “East of Eden,” “The Sun Also Rises,” “Crossings,” “War and Remembrance,” “The Nanny,” “Murphy Brown,” “Diagnosis Murder,” “Dharma & Greg,” “Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman”
Movie credits include: “Wedding Crashers” (2005), “After Sex” (2007), “The Velveteen Rabbit” (2009), “Austenland” (2013), “Fifty Shades of Black” (2016), “Mistrust” (2018), “The War With Grandpa” (2020), “Ruby’s Choice” (2022)
