14 h. ago BBC Breakfast paused as host shares devastating death update with Royal tributes

The Oscar-winning Shakespeare in Love playwright Tom Stoppard died aged 88 as the Royal Family were among the first to pay tribute

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14 h. ago BBC Breakfast host shares heartbreaking update minutes into show as Royals pay tribute to 'genius' friend

BBC Breakfast announced the death of acclaimed playwright Tom Stoppard at age 88, sharing tributes from King Charles and Queen Camilla

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29 h. ago Tom Stoppard death: Oscar and Tony winning playwright dies aged 88

Stoppard won an Oscar in 1999 for Best Adapted Screenplay for ‘Shakespeare in Love’

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29 h. ago Playwright Sir Tom Stoppard dies aged 88: Oscar winner for Shakespeare In Love screenplay dies peacefully at home

Playwright Sir Tom Stoppard, who won an Oscar for the screenplay for Shakespeare In Love, has 'died peacefully at home'.

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30 h. ago Tom Stoppard, playwright of dazzling wit and playful erudition, dies aged 88

A theatrical sensation since the 1960s, whose dramas included Arcadia, The Real Thing and Leopoldstadt, Stoppard also had huge success as a screenwriterThe playwright Tom Stoppard, whose playful erudition dazzled the theatregoing world for decades, has died aged 88.One of a select band of writers from any discipline to earn his own adjective – “Stoppardian” – in the Oxford English Dictionary, he delighted in the most improbable juxtapositions: philosophy and gymnastics in Jumpers (1972); early 19th-century landscape gardening and chaos theory in Arcadia (1993); rock music, dissident Czech academics and the love poetry of Sappho in Rock ’n’ Roll (2006). Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Miss Piggy movie on way from Jennifer Lawrence, Emma Stone and Cole Escola

The demanding Muppet is set to get her own movie at Disney with Oscar-winning actors producing and the Tony-winning multi-hyphenate writingMiss Piggy is getting the movie star treatment, courtesy of Jennifer Lawrence and Emma Stone.A feature film about the diva puppet is in the works at Disney, which owns the rights to the Muppets franchise, Variety reported on Wednesday. Lawrence and Stone will serve as producers, working with a script from Oh Mary! creator Cole Escola. Continue reading...

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