Are you sitting comfortably in that Arne Jacobsen chair? Good, because Christine Keeler The Musical will be with us soon. The writer Richard Alexander has been researching Keeler's life for nigh on 15 years and promises revelations galore, apparently based on leaks from public records files still barred from release. Inevitably, the project is racked with legal problems and the word is that Keeler (above), now 64, is none too keen on it. The show is scheduled to run at the Greenwich Theatre in London in January 2007.
The actor Tony Booth, dad to Cherie, is definitely coming back to the UK - because, he tells me, he has finally sold his house in Ireland. So he'll be returning for more acting work (he has been filming a few things in the UK), and will be just in time to really stir things up in that orderly transition from Blair to Brown.
Robin Schiff, one of the Sex and the City creator Darren Star's collaborators, is turning The Devil Wears Prada, the fab new movie starring Meryl Streep, into a TV series for Fox. Schiff says it centres around Miranda, Streep's bitchy fashionista character from the film - but sadly there will be no Streep and no room for the superb Brit actress Emily Blunt, who plays her assistant in the film.
Margaret Thatcher is getting the celluloid treatment all over the place. Lindsay Duncan will play her for a BBC biopic, and I hear the playwright Kevin Hood is developing another film project about her. This one centres on her relationship with Mikhail Gorbachev - as told by a translator.
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