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Days of Our Lives (Dool) spoilers for Friday, November 29, promise some interesting moments in Salem as fans head into the weekend.

Next On Days Of Our Lives

Someone grieves the loss of their soul mate, while two major characters return, and there’s more bad news for another Salem family.

Time to find out what kind of drama is set to unfold on Friday!

Days Of Our Lives Spoilers – Julie Williams Grieves

Days spoilers for Friday, November 29 reveal that off the cusp of finding out about Doug William’s (Billy Hayes) passing, Julie Williams (Susan Seaforth Hayes) will grieve the loss of her husband’s death.

Friday’s episode should prove to be a real tear-jerker, as added teasers imply that the rest of Salem will slowly, but surely, learn that Doug has passed away.

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Sky History’s Greatest Prison Escapes with Billy Hayes continues with an examination of the Texas Seven escape on Monday, 15 July 2024, at 10 p.m. Billy Hayes, whose escape from a Turkish prison inspired the film Midnight Express, hosts this new documentary series. In this episode, Billy Hayes focuses on the infamous Texas 7, a […]

Greatest Prison Escapes with Billy Hayes: The Texas Seven...

Days of Our Lives (Dool) spoilers for the week of July 8 hint that Doug Williams (Bill Hayes) and Julie Williams (Susan Seaforth Hayes) will spend some time celebrating their relationship; however, these scenes not only mark some feel-good moments for the super couple, but they will also be Billy Hayes final appearance on the daytime drama. More on this story, below.

Days Of Our Lives Spoilers – Bill Hayes Final Airdate For The Soap

Dool spoilers state that while Bill Hayes passed away in January 2024, the actor had still filmed scenes all the way up to December 2023.

Bill may be gone, but because the soap’s filming schedule is about six months ahead of airdates, his legacy continues on the daytime drama.

The show will commemorate his death and honor his time on Days with a major tribute in December.

Still, as Bill’s final filming took place on December 13, 2023, his...

John Hurt‘s passing has left behind another hole in the heart of Hollywood, but his roles will live on forever.

Hurt, who died at the age of 77, had a long-lasting career in films and the stage, starring in such classics as David Lynch’s The Elephant Man and Midnight Express.

Midnight Express (1978)

Hurt’s turn as Max in this classic film earned him his first Academy Award nomination for his portrayal as a heroin addict imprisoned in a Turkish jail.

Starring opposite Brad Davis, who played the main character Billy Hayes, an imprisoned American college student, Hurt delivered an...

Exclusive: Andrew Herwitz has picked up worldwide sales rights to Cannes Classics selection Midnight Return: The Story Of Billy Hayes And Turkey.

Sally Sussman’s film explores the backstory and aftermath of Alan Parker’s 1978 Cannes Film Festival premiere Midnight Express, which earned a best screenplay Oscar for then little-known Oliver Stone, drew the wrath of the Turkish government and became an overnight sensation.

Stone, Parker and producers David Puttnam and Peter Guber discuss their involvement, while the film’s real-life inspiration Billy Hayes attempts to return to Turkey in an effort to rebuild bridges.

“This film proves the maxim that fact is stranger than fiction and is a must see for any cinephile,” said Herwitz.

Sussman said: “Very few films stay in the zeitgeist for decades after their release but Midnight Express is one of them.

“Everyone remembers that movie but what they don’t know is the true story, which is much...

Section to include world premiere of Bertrand Tavernier doc; a cinema masterclass with William Friedkin and a tribute to documentary giants Raymond Depardon and Frederick Wiseman.

Bertrand Tavernier’s documentary about French cinema Voyage à Travers le Cinéma Français will receive a world premiere at the Cannes Classic section of the Cannes Film Festival (May 11-22).

The revered French filmmaker has described his latest work as an expression of “gratitude to all the filmmakers, writers, actors and musicians that have appeared suddenly in my life.”

Voyage à Travers le Cinéma Français is a Little Bear-Gaumont-Pathé co-production and was made in participation with Canal+, Cine+ and the Sacem, with the support of Région Ile-de-France and Cnc. Gaumont will handle international sales and Pathé have distribution in France. The film will be released in theaters in October 2016.

As in previous years, Cannes Classic will also feature nine documentaries about cinema and restored prints of 20 international classics including rare gems...

Section to include a cinema masterclass with William Friedkin, the 70th anniversary of the Fipresci prize, a tribute to documentary giants Raymond Depardon and Frederick Wiseman and the double Palme d’Or of 1966.

Bertrand Tavernier’s documentary about French cinema Voyage à Travers le Cinéma Français will receive a world premiere at the Cannes Classic section of the Cannes Film Festival (May 11-22).

The legendary French filmmaker has described his latest work as an expression of “gratitude to all the filmmakers, writers, actors and musicians that have appeared suddenly in my life.”

Voyage à Travers le Cinéma Français is a Little Bear-Gaumont-Pathé co-production and was made in participation with Canal+, Cine+ and the Sacem, with the support of Région Ile-de-France and Cnc. Gaumont will handle international sales and Pathé have distribution in France. The film will be released in theaters in October 2016.

As in previous years, Cannes Classic will also feature nine documentaries about cinema and restored...

Now that most of the Cannes Film Festival 2016 line-up has been settled when it comes to new premieres, their Cannes Classics sidebar of restored films is not only a treat for those attending, but a hint at what we can expect to arrive at repertory theaters and labels like Criterion in the coming years.

Today they’ve unveiled their line-up, which is toplined by Bertrand Tavernier‘s new 3-hour and 15-minute documentary about French cinema, Voyage à travers le cinéma français. They will also be screening William Friedkin‘s Sorcerer following his masterclass. Along with various documentaries, both classics in the genre and ones about films, they will also premiere new restorations of Andrei Tarkovsky‘s Solaris, Jean-Luc Godard‘s Masculin féminin, two episodes of Krzysztof Kieślowski‘s The Decalogue, as well as films from Kenji Mizoguchi, Marlon Brando, Jacques Becker, Mario Bava, and more.

Check out the line-up below.

Hemdale became one of the largest indie studios of the 80s with films like The Terminator and Platoon. Ryan charts its turbulent history...

When Platoon won four Oscars in 1987, it marked not only a new chapter in Oliver Stone's career as a filmmaker, but also the end of a decade-long battle. Since the 1970s, Stone had been struggling to make his harrowing account of the horrors he'd seen firsthand as a soldier in the Vietnam conflict, but was famously turned down by every major studio in Hollywood.

Platoon, and Stone, finally found sanctuary at a small independent studio with a grand-sounding name: the Hemdale Film Corporation. It was Hemdale, and its co-founder John Daly, that had taken a chance on Stone, and when Platoon came out in 1986, the gamble proved to be a shrewd one: its $6m investment was covered by the first month's ticket sales, and the film...

Hayes in his one man stage show Riding the Midnight Express with Billy Hayes, which is now on tour.

By Mark Cerulli

“Ne Oldu, Ne Oldu, Veelyam Hayes…” That line from Midnight Express, delivered with swaggering menace by a depraved prison warden (played by the great Paul L. Smith) burned itself into this scribe’s cortex back in 1978. Alan Parker’s iconic film about the real-life ordeal of American student Billy Hayes caught smuggling drugs in Turkey and sentenced to a hellish prison became a cultural phenomenon – not to mention an international box office success. It earned glowing reviews and Oscars for screenwriter Oliver Stone and composer Gorgio Moroder. Hayes even met his wife Wendy at the splashy Cannes premiere. No joy for Turkey, though - there was an international outcry about their seemingly draconian justice system and the country’s once-booming tourism hit the skids hard. The gritty association...

Who doesn't love a good prison break? I was thinking about it recently and realized some of my favorite movies involve prison breaks. This year alone there were two movies that I saw that featured brilliant prison break scenes. If I ever get thrown into jail, the first thing I'm going to do is start plotting my escape! I'll want a good story to tell people.

I came up with a list of ten movies that included kick-ass prison break scenes. No matter what kind of prision a person is in, I imagine it's hell. Sure, some are worse than others, but I imagine anyone that ever been thrown in one can't wait to get out. There is a point for many of these characters where they ain't got nothin' to loose, so escaping become their only option. If I ever do have to break out of a prison these...

Waterworks some nights at 11. This one is from the vaults from the first season. But it's worth a revisit as the film is currently available on Netflix Instant Watch.

I've always been a little bit a lot perplexed by the famous shower scene in Alan Parker's Midnight Express (1978). I'm not exactly sure why it's in the movie. Midnight Express strongest asset is arguably its expressive physicality and gritty tactile quality; you feel like you're right there in the grotty hellish Turkish prison, sweating and suffering along with Billy Hayes (Brad Davis). But the sexual vibes coming off of the movie are at times unfathomable. Is it gay? Is it bi? Is it straight? Is it just horny? Or is its ambiguous eroticism simply a by-product of casting a star as carnally charismatic as Brad Davis in the lead role?

As warm up to the famous shower scene we get...

Riding The Midnight Express With Billy Hayes, written and performed by Bill Hayes, directed by John Gould Rubin, opened last night at St. Luke's Theatre. First he wrote the best-selling book. Then came the Oscar-winning movie. Now Billy Hayes comes to the New York stage with his powerful one-man show, Riding The Midnight Express with Billy Hayes,directed by John Gould Rubin. Check out photos from opening night below...

Almost as soon as it was announced that J. Edgar Hoover would be getting a new biopic, speculation has been rife over how his relationship with Clyde Tolson would be portrayed.

Although there's no definitive proof either way, it's widely assumed that Hoover, long-term director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and Tolson, his assistant director, were lovers. Director Clint Eastwood sparked concern that Hoover's story would be “straightwashed” when he told The Wall Street Journal that the script “didn't quite go down [the] road” of addressing rumors of Hoover's being closeted and a cross-dresser. (Eastwood later confirmed with The Hollywood Reporter that he included a scene showing Hoover wearing his mother's dress.)

Meanwhile, out J. Edgar screenwriter Dustin Lance Black assured AfterElton that Hoover and Tolson would not be “de-gayed,” saying “To think that somehow you’re going to make a movie about somebody like J. Edgar and...

From Turkish versions of Tarzan and Dracula to wintry weepies, via (whisper it) Midnight Express, Fiachra Gibbons picks out the best films shot in Istanbul

• As featured in our Istanbul city guide

From Russia with Love, Terence Young, 1963

"They dance for him, they yearn for him, they die for him …" From Russia with Love is not only arguably the best of the Bond films, it set the template for all that followed, right down to the corny one-liners. This is Tatiana, the Russian double-agent love interest succumbing to Sean Connery's charms: "The mechanism is… Oh James… Will you make love to me all the time in England?" "Day and night, darling… Go on about the mechanism…" The film was shot when the city's population was less than two million (it has mushroomed to more than 13 million today), and it's a magic carpet ride back to a time when Istanbul teemed with hamals,...

Eric Braeden (Victor, The Young And The Restless) - 70

Billy Hayes (ex-Len, Capitol) - 64

Gregg Marx (ex-Tom, As The World Turns; ex-David, Days Of Our Lives) - 56

Alec Baldwin (ex-Billy, The Doctors; ex-Joshua, Knots Landing) - 53

Mark Dobies (ex-Daniel, One Life To Live; ex-Noah, Guiding Light) - 52

Laura Bryan Birn (ex-Lynne, The Young And The Restless) - 46

Michael Malone (ex-Val, All My Children) - 43

Jennie Garth (Kelly, 90210/Beverly Hills, 90210) - 39

Chrissie Fit (Mercedes, General Hospital) - 27...

.In 1978 Hollywood made a film about my life, it was called Midnight Express and it told the story of my imprisonment and escape from a prison in Istanbul. The story itself was based upon the book I had written. In the book I could only say certain things for legal reasons. The movie itself changed even the book to a point where not all of it is valid and true to my story. Now I have a chance to tell my story.. . Billy Hayes One of National Geographic Channel's most riveting series is back this summer on Wednesday June 30 at 10 Pm. "Locked Up Abroad" is reality tutorial for anyone with grandiose ideas about smuggling...

National Geographic channel has a hot June ahead for viewers. Of note, the three night-miniseries event "How the Earth Changed History," with host Ian Stewart and on June 30 the "Locked Up Abroad" series premiere with "The Real Midnight Express" where the true story of Billy Hayes is retold; not everything was revealed in Oliver Stone's Academy Award-winning film. "All people talk about in jail is various ways to [escape]...there was the train line that went through Greece. It took you over the border and you could jump off and that was the Midnight Express...the escape train...that's really all I thought about for years," said Hayes about his ordeal in Turkey. Please find below some highlights from this...

Caspar Walsh, ex-convict, journalist and author of the memoir Criminal, chooses his favourites, from Steve McQueen's PoW classic to Jacques Audiard's stark modern masterpiece

The Great Escape 1963

A soft-focus dramatisation of the largely unsuccessful mass escape from the Stalag Luft III prison camp during the second world war. On first viewing, I was mesmerised by the downtrodden military heroics of 1960s icons of cool Steve McQueen, Charles Bronson and James Coburn. The director, John Sturges, unashamedly Americanised the tragic, death-heavy, real-life prison break, and brought the resulting massacre, cited at the Nuremberg trials, to the wider world's attention. Truth or fiction, it embodied the hope and ingenuity that ended the war to end all wars.

The Hill 1965

Starring Sean Connery and Ian Bannen, Sidney Lumet's stifling black-and-white prison flick won the Bafta for best cinematography and the Writers' Guild award for best screenplay. British soldiers are held...

Bands break up all the time. Sometimes it's amicable and they agree to quietly go their separate ways to pursue "other musical ventures." And sometimes they tell the truth, after the years of resentment and ego boil over into backstage brawls or verbal beatdowns that make working together unbearable.

And then there's Jay Reatard. The scarily prolific 29-year-old punk from Memphis whose released dozens of singles and albums over the past decade under various names recently split with the members of his live band.

Oh boy did he.

In the midst of a U.S. tour, the sometimes antagonistic singer/guitarist known for mixing it up with overly zealous fans dropped the hammer, real hard, on former drummer Billy Hayes and bassist Stephen Pope via Twitter on Tuesday.

"Band quit! F--- them!" he tweeted. "They are boring rich kids who can't play for s--- anyways. Say hello to your ugly and boring wives,...

Sony Pictures Home Entertainment will release the 1978 highly-charged thriller Midnight Express as a deluxe Blu-ray High-Def book package including a 32-page photo and essay booklet on July 21, 2009. Based on a true story and winner of two Academy Awards®* and six Golden Globes® **, this gritty film follows the unsure fate of Billy Hayes (Brad Davis – A Small Circle of Friends, Heart), a young American caught at the Turkish border trying to smuggle hashish. With his future in the hands of a foreign government, Hayes faces uncertainty and fear – papers from ...

April Showers

I've always been a little bit a lot perplexed by the famous shower scene in Alan Parker's Midnight Express (1978). I'm not exactly sure why it's in the movie. Midnight Express has, at its best, an expressive physicality and a gritty tactile quality. You often feel like you're right there in the grotty hellish Turkish prison, sweating and suffering along with Billy Hayes (Brad Davis). But the sexual vibes coming off of Midnight Express are at times unfathomable. Is it gay? Is it bi? Is it straight? Is it just horny? Or is its ambiguous eroticism simply a by-product of casting Brad Davis in the lead role?

As warm up to the famous shower scene we get a montage detailing the friendship of Billy and Erich (Norbert Weisser) a fellow prisoner. They've been in this hellhole for years. They do yoga together. They bathe each other. They even...