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David Cecil's The River and the Mountain tells of young businessman dealing with homophobia in the African country A Ugandan court has dismissed the case against a British theatre producer who faced two years in jail for staging a play about homosexuality . David Cecil was charged with "disobeying lawful orders" from Uganda's media council after performances of the play went ahead despite intervention from the regulators. The River and the Mountain had provoked controversy, particularly through its suggestion that much homophobic anger and hatred in the country had been whipped...

Novelist Nicholas Sparks announces his romantic novel, already a hit film starring Ryan Gosling, is heading for Broadway The soggiest kiss since Andie MacDowell forgot her umbrella in Four Weddings and a Funeral could soon be seen on stage after Nicholas Sparks revealed that work had started on a Broadway musical of his novel The Notebook , the film adaptation of which starred Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams. Sparks, who has sold more than 90m books in 45 different languages, made the announcement during an appearance on CBS's The Early Show last week. The film, directed by Nick Cassavetes...

Tory complaints over 'intrusive and unfair' nature of Oscar-tipped Margaret Thatcher biopic lead to calls for Commons debate Conservative MPs have called for a House of Commons debate over The Iron Lady, the Oscar-tipped film about Margaret Thatcher which stars Meryl Streep as Britain's formidable first female PM. Ahead of the movie's release in UK cinemas next month, Tory MP for Reading East Rob Wilson said Phyllida Lloyd's biopic presented an "intrusive and unfair" picture of Thatcher, having chosen to depict her as "old, lonely, fragile and suffering from dementia"...