CANNES, France, May 21 (UPI) -- Academy award winners Anthony Hopkins and Meryl Streep are set to star in "The Last Station," a Hollywood biopic about the life of Russian author Leo Tolstoy.

CARDIFF, Wales, Dec. 20 (UPI) -- Brown's Hotel, the famous Welsh drinking haunt of poet and writer Dylan Thomas, is up for sale again, two years after being sold to a British TV actor.

LONDON, Nov. 1 (UPI) -- Lindsay Lohan is set to join Keira Knightly in "The Best Time of Our Lives," a British project directed by John Maybury.

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ELMONT, N.Y., Oct. 7 (UPI) -- Three-year-old Bernardini took on older thoroughbreds for the first time Saturday and defeated three rivals in the $750,000 Jockey Club Gold Cup at Belmont.

Time is getting short for horses with aspirations for the Nov. 4 Breeders' Cup World Thoroughbred Championships at Churchill Downs. For most, there is time for

OXFORD, England, Sept. 1 (UPI) -- A Yorkshire, England, Ph.D. student alleges in an English thesis that Dylan Thomas' famed works were the result of the Welsh poet being dyslexic.

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