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Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards lived fast when the band was at its peak. He cultivated a bad-boy image within the group, but his wild behavior revealed itself years earlier when he got kicked out of the boy scouts. The guitarist lived fast, but he drove slow. Richards picked up a $162.50 traffic ticket in 1975 because of his slow driving. As Rolling Stones bandmate Ronnie Wood tells it, Richards was lucky to escape having another drug arrest.

Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards | Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images Keith Richards and Ronnie Wood rented a car to drive to a 1975 U.S. concert

The Rolling Stones’ 1975 tour of the United States kicked off with drummer Charlie Watts stealing a promotional trick to hype the trek. The band played from a moving flatbed truck in Manhattan a few weeks before the tour began.

As Wood writes in his autobiography Ronnie, a rough plane...

Margaret Thatcher is a force to be reckoned with on season four of The Crown. Played by Gillian Anderson, the Thatcher we see in the show is notorious for her bouffant and stoicism. But like many historical series, some of the events are dramatized or fictionalized altogether. After watching The Crown, you're probably wondering how accurate its portrayal of Margaret Thatcher is. The woman who was James Callaghan's successor and served as Britain's prime minister from 1979 to 1990 seemed to have lived a life of excitement and controversy. Some questions from fans include whether or not Thatcher was a feminist, what her relationship to Queen Elizabeth was like, and what she was like as a mother.

The First Female Prime Minister

Margaret Hilda Thatcher was born on Oct. 13, 1925, in Lincolnshire, England. She attended Oxford University, a prestigious school where she first became involved in politics in the Conservative Club. Nicknamed "The Iron Lady,...

Gillian Anderson won an Emmy Award in 1997 for playing FBI Agent Dana Scully on Fox’s sci-fi drama “The X-Files.” Now she could be back on Emmy’s radar with her latest performance as Margaret Thatcher in “The Crown.” Netflix has released photos of the upcoming fourth season, with one depicting Anderson as the fully transformed UK Prime Minister. See shots above and below (from the Season 4 trailer) of the actress in Thatcher’s iconic brown wig.

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“The Crown” is a 10-time Emmy winner for Netflix, including trophies for Best Drama Actress (Claire Foy), Best Drama Supporting Actor (John Lithgow) and Best Drama Directing (Stephen Daldry). How many trophies will the regal series rack up for its latest season? “The Crown” Season 4 premieres November 15 on Netflix.

In addition to her Emmy,...

Almost a year after Gillian Anderson was cast as Margaret Thatcher in “The Crown,” we finally have our first look of the actress as the UK Prime Minister. In the just-released Season 4 trailer, there are three blink-and-you’ll-miss-them shots of an unrecognizable Anderson in Thatcher’s iconic brown wig. “Something as important as the Monarchy simply cannot be allowed to fail,” narrates Olivia Colman‘s Queen Elizabeth II. Watch the trailer above and see photos of Anderson as Thatcher below. “The Crown” Season 4 premieres November 15 on Netflix.

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The 10 new episodes will take place between 1979 to 1990, the exact date range Thatcher served as the country’s first female Pm following James Callaghan (not yet depicted on “The Crown”) and Harold Wilson (played by Jason Watkins in Season 3). Written and produced once again by Peter Morgan, the fourth season...

Doctor Who began airing on November 23, 1963. This year it will celebrate its 50th anniversary. That’s a hell of a long time by many measures, and it’s almost an eternity in TV years. It was several years before I was born, and I’m willing to bet it was several decades before most of our readers were born. The amount of time that has passed can therefore be somewhat hard to get a handle on, so let’s see if we can break it down into digestible segments for us so that we can better appreciate this accomplishment and get a real sense of the distance between 1963 and 2013.

To start with something very Us-centric, consider that Doctor Who began airing the day after President John F Kennedy was killed. New episodes of the old series aired during the administrations of Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan and George Hw Bush.

Sir David Frost died yesterday (August 31) after suffering a suspected heart attack on board the Queen Elizabeth cruise ship.

Frost was born in Kent in 1939, the son of a minister. A keen footballer, he was offered a contract with Nottingham Forest Fc while at school, but chose to study English at Cambridge University instead.

It was here that he started out in journalism, editing the student newspaper Varsity and literary magazine Granta. He also became secretary of the Footlights club, where he met future comedy stars such as Peter Cook, Graham Chapman and John Bird.

Upon graduating, Frost became a trainee at ITV and was soon asked to host satirical show That Was The Week That Was in 1962. He went on to front a Us version of the programme for NBC, before presenting The Frost Report from 1966 to 1967, helping to launch the careers of John Cleese, Ronnie Barker and Ronnie Corbett.

Leading educational sociologist and academic who became the principal of Newnham College, Cambridge

Jean Floud, who has died aged 97, was one of Britain's leading educational sociologists. Her career was a triumph of brains, charm and presence over class and gender prejudice.

She was born Jean McDonald in Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex. Her father was a shoemender and salesman; her mother suffered from frequent ill-health. Jean went to local primary and secondary schools. When the family moved to Stoke Newington, north London, in 1927, she attended North Hackney Central school for girls.

At the London School of Economics, she studied sociology under David Glass, Th Marshall, Morris Ginsberg and Karl Mannheim, graduating in 1936. Two years later she married an upper-class communist, Peter Floud, then starting a curatorship at the Victoria and Albert Museum, with whom she had three children, Andrew, Frances and Esther. It was in his leftwing upper-class milieu that she shed the traces of her working-class origins.

Joining Helen Mirren who plays The Queen in the world premiere of Peter Morgan's The Audience are Michael Elwyn as Anthony Eden, Haydn Gwynne as Margaret Thatcher, Richard McCabe as Harold Wilson, Nathaniel Parker as Gordon Brown, Paul Ritter as John Major, Rufus Wright as David Cameron and Edward Fox as Winston Churchill. The Equerry is Geoffrey Beevers and the role of Young Elizabeth is played by Bebe Cave, Maya Gerber and Nell Williams. David Peart plays James Callaghan who is joined by ensemble members Jonathan Coote, Ian Houghton and Charlotte Moore. BroadwayWorld has a first look at the production below.

Every week, in a meeting shrouded in secrecy, the Pm briefs the Queen about British politics. What influence does she exert? Who has she liked – and who made her nod off? Peter Morgan on how this strange tradition inspired his new play

When I started writing the screenplay for The Queen, about the aftermath of the death of Princess Diana, both Stephen Frears, the director, and Andy Harries, the producer, begged me not to put Tony Blair in it. They felt the presence of a politician, particularly one as divisive as Blair had become by 2004, would diminish it – make it feel more temporal, more journalistic, more TV. And so less filmic.

I consoled myself that there would still be plenty to work with: the death of a princess, a young Queen's deputy private secretary out of his depth, a royal family tucked away on the Balmoral estate, and people out...

The When Harry Met Sally screenwriter, who has died aged 71, invented the sentimental, screwball romcom – and turned heartbreak into laughter

"Ohh … Ohhhh … Ohhhh … Yes!"

"I'll have what she's having!"

The great scene in When Harry Met Sally when Meg Ryan demonstrates to a gobsmacked Billy Crystal that women can fake orgasm any time is the classic, almost quintessential Nora Ephron moment [see footnote]. It features smart, wiseacre conversation over lunch – and the lunch scene is a signature Ephron trope. It's about sex, and yet sex is ironised, miraculously made light of, made to seem funny; yet at the same time it's weirdly intimate. There's a sly nod to a gal-pal world of female secrets withheld from the hopeless guys who think they're in charge of everything. And there's the killer payoff line, the work of a blackbelt comedy writer.

Perhaps above all, the scene has a hint of fantasy and wish-fulfilment. Imagine that!

Billy Crystal and Meryl Streep among luminaries praising work of film-maker best known for When Harry Met Sally

Hollywood stars have been paying tribute to the wisdom and wit of their friend and colleague the film-maker Nora Ephron, the screenwriter behind When Harry Met Sally and Sleepless in Seattle, who has died at the age of 71.

Billy Crystal, who starred with Meg Ryan in When Harry Met Sally, told the Huffington Post: "She was a brilliant writer and humorist. Being her Harry to Meg's Sally will always have a special place in my heart. I was very lucky to get to say her words." Ephron died on Tuesday after suffering complications from the blood disorder myelodysplasia, with which she was diagnosed six years ago.

Having begun a journalistic career as a reporter at the New York Post in the 1960s, she moved into scriptwriting after working on a screenplay for All the President's Men,...