Leonardo DiCaprio This article is more than 8 years oldLeonardo DiCaprio finding room for 24 characters in The Crowded RoomThis article is more than 8 years oldActor will star in biopic of Billy Milligan, a schizophrenic who successfully defended robbery and rape charges by arguing that the crimes were the work of two of his 24 personalities Leonardo DiCaprio will star in the real-life tale of a man acquitted of rape and robbery after convincing a jury that he had 24 different personalities, according to the Hollywood Reporter.

TheatreObituaryMick Lally obituaryCo-founder of the Druid theatre in Galway, he achieved soap fame as Miley ByrneThe Irish actor Mick Lally, who has died aged 64, succeeded in straddling the worlds of stage, television and film. In particular, he was a vital presence in the renaissance of Irish drama in the 1970s and 80s, while making himself a household name in Radio Telefís Éireann's soap operas Bracken and Glenroe. The eldest of seven children on a 30-acre hill farm in Tourmakeady, County Mayo, in the Gaelic-speaking west of Ireland, Lally, through the generosity of a grandfather, attended St Mary's College in Galway and University College Galway, where he read Irish and history.

Boston This article is more than 2 years oldSean Ellis, wrongly convicted of murder in 1993, is finally fully exoneratedThis article is more than 2 years oldJudge and prosecutor toss out remaining convictions on gun charges in case that became the Netflix documentary Trial 4 Sean Ellis, a Black man who featured in a Netflix documentary after spending decades in prison wrongly convicted of murdering a white police officer, has finally been fully exonerated.

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ObituaryAmalia RodriguesPassionate voice of fado, Portugal's haunting musicAmalia Rodrigues, the world's greatest singer of traditional Portuguese "fado" music, has died aged 79. Three days of official mourning and the partial suspension of campaigning for this weekend's general election reflect Portugal's love of a woman who was arguably the country's leading public figure this century. Revered by aficionados of fado world-wide, who would sometimes kneel when she came on stage, her voice came to personify the painful tones of "