Entertainment 09-06-2005 who: Anne Bancroft what: Dies of uterine cancer, aged 73 where: Mount Sinai Medical Centre, NEW YORK when: Monday night snippet: "Ms Bancroft, with her signature raven hair enlivened in later years with broad streaks of grey, will always be remembered best for those scenes in The Gruduate where, as a middle-aged woman with a dusky voice and insistent eyes, she steered a nervous and much younger Dustin Hoffman into her hotel bed," recalls David Usborne in The Independent. But she regretted the way the role had overshadowed her career, including the Best Actress Oscar she won four years earlier for the film The Miracle Worker. In other news from the acting world, 65 year-old Corin Redgrave was critically ill in hospital on wednesday night after collapsing at a meeting of Basildon council, where he was campaigning on behalf of a group of the 500 travellers who have colonised a greenfield site in nearby Crays Hill despite enormous local opposition. [... more]

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