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They’re packing the tents up now. The mud has developed a crust, and the tailbacks of cars leaving the site are preposterous. This year’s Glastonbury Festival is over, leaving behind nothing but a huge cleanup operation and several thousand blown minds. Here, in no particular order, are five performances which shook the festival site so hard, the mud was left vibrating like jello on a tumble-drier. Primal Scream Touring 1990’s act of musical wonderment, the album “Screamadelica”, has clearly done nothing but good things to this loose affiliation of dance-rock renegades. Rather than slavishly recreate every bleep and beat of the original, they’ve been playful, re-introducing heavily remixed space-jams like “Come Together” to the songs from which they sprang. And who can fail to be moved by a gospel choir? Britpop Secret Shows Thom Yorke of Radiohead Every Glastonbury throws up rumours of special performances: the Beatles will get back together, Led Zeppelin ar...

  Alan Sidney Patrick Rickman was born on  21 February 1946. He is an English actor of stage and screen. He is a renowned stage actor in modern and classical productions and a former member of the Royal Shakespeare Company. Rickman is known for his film performances as Hans Gruber in Die Hard , Sheriff Of Nottingham in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves for which he won the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role in 1991, Severus Snape in the Harry Potter film series, Éamon de Valera in Michael Collins , and Metatron in Dogma .  

  Warner Bros. is joining forces with Mel Gibson to develop a movie about the Jewish hero Judah Maccabee, and Basic Instinct screenwriter Joe Eszterhas has come aboard to write the screenplay. Gibson will produce through his Icon Productions and will decide whether he’ll act in or direct the film once the script is completed. Although Gibson was accused of anti-Semitism by a number of Jewish leaders when he released The Passion of the Christ in 2004, he’s wanted to tackle a movie about Maccabee for more than a decade. Maccabbee, considered one of the great warriors in Jewish history, led a popular revolt against he Seleucid king Antiochus IV, seizing Jerusalem and reconsecrating the Temple, an event remembered by the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah. Eszterhas, who hit it big in the ‘80s with movies like Flashdance, Jagged Edge and Basic Instinct, before retreating from Hollywood in recent years, has been talking with Gibson for about a year and did a lot of his own research on the...