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Author Paul Donnelley has travelled the length and breadth of the United Kingdom in search of the spots where some of the most unusual events in recent, and sometimes not so recent, history occurred. There’s murder, mayhem, ghosts, battles, bombs, pizza… and Elvis Presley. Daily Express :: Entertainment Feed

Sean Connery was so fed up with playing James Bond that he bowed out of the role shortly thereafter. Daily Express :: Entertainment Feed

If you have never been to an opera before, Donizetti’s L’elisir d’amore is the perfect way to start, as long as you like humour and musicals. Almost any comic opera is just a very good musical, with music all the way through instead of alternating speech and songs, though with better music and better singing. Daily Express :: Entertainment Feed

EXCLUSIVE: In an extract from his gripping new book, RAF Gulf War hero and ejectee John Nichol retells the dramatic tale of the US Stealth fighter that was meant to be invisible… and its pilot’s thrilling story of survival against the odds. Daily Express :: Entertainment Feed

John Wayne’s Rio Bravo co-star Angie Dickinson, who was a much younger love interest leading lady, has shared in the years since her touching memories of working with Duke, who she felt had a side to him that you normally don’t see on screen. Daily Express :: Entertainment Feed

Nicolas Cage said he was spendings thousands of dollars a month while trying to “keep his mother out of a mental institution”. Daily Express :: Entertainment Feed

Philip Ridley’s 2007 family drama is across between a brutal episode of EastEnders and Pinter’s The Homecoming. Daily Express :: Entertainment Feed

EXCLUSIVE: With rapid advances in aircraft development during the Second World War, countless test pilots were dying in crashes, including James Martin’s best friend. His solution was the ‘ejection seat’. The story of its birth, as revealed by RAF Gulf War ejectee John Nichol, is one of genius, bravery and baffling eccentricity. Daily Express :: Entertainment Feed

Who can forget the steamy scenes in Michael Douglas’s 1992 film Basic Instinct? Celebrating his latest award at the Cannes Film Festival, the actor, 78, discusses Sharon Stone, growing up in his father Kirk’s shadow, and the possibility of a joint screen role with his wife Catherine Zeta-Jones. Daily Express :: Entertainment Feed

EXCLUSIVE: Elvis Presley’s guitarist James Burton spoke exclusively with Express.co.uk about working with The King, ahead of his upcoming charity concert with Sir Brian May and more music legends. Daily Express :: Entertainment Feed