this is bbc news, the headlines... talks about a post—brexit trade deal between the uk and the eu are continuing through the night in brussels. a decision is due sometime on sunday about whether enough progress has been made to carry on negotiaions or abandon them — leaving the uk on course to leave the eu without a deal. americans are due to start receiving the pfizer—biontech coronavirus vaccine from monday after the us food and drug administration has approved its emergency use last week. it comes as the united states records at least 3,300 covid—19 deaths in a single day on saturday. anthonyjoshua has retained his world heavyweight titles after beating kubrat pulev at wembley arena in london. the 31—year—old knocked out the bulgarian in the ninth round meaning he holds onto his ibf, wba and wbo belts. the result givesjoshua his twenty—second such win of his career.

regardless of whether or not a brexit trade deal is agreed, from january 1st, british citizens visiting any eu country as well as switzerland, norway, iceland and liechtenstein, will face new restrictions, including on receiving medical treatment. with more, here's our consumer affairs correspondent, sarah corker. with the promise of mediterranean sunshine, spain and france have been the top destinations for millions of british holiday—makers for decades but, from january, the rules on travelling to the eu will change, and that's thrown up lots of questions. if you are a tourist, you won't need a visa to travel to most eu countries, but there are limits on how if you are a tourist, you won't need a visa to travel to most eu countries, but there are limits on how long you can go for. you will be able to stay

for up to 90 days in any rolling six—month period, but it does all add up, so a summer holiday in greece followed by an autumn half—term break in france will count towards your 90—day limit. you can still use this. your current passport is valid as long as it's less then ten years old and has six months left before it runs out. travellers are also asking if it will cost more to use mobiles. free roaming in the eu will officially end. the good news is that the noise being made from the top four providers is that they won't be imposing huge roaming charges, but i would always suggest you check with your provider before you go. and what about health insurance? free medical treatment in the eu won't be guaranteed. from the 1st of january, travellers can no longer rely on the european health insurance card, which will make it more important than ever that they have full travel

insurance when they venture to the eu and beyond. and how will people be able to take their pets on holiday? from 2021, eu pet passports will no longer be valid. the government has applied for great britain tojoin a shortlist of countries where cats, dogs and ferrets enter the eu in a similar way to now but, if the uk doesn't make that list, then the rules get more complicated and you may need to get a certificate from the vet. so, when beach holidays are back in 2021, british tourists will need to make sure they aren't tripped up by the new rules. sarah corker, bbc news. now on bbc news — on the 70th anniversary of one of her career—defining films, all about eve, talking movies looks back at the life and times of bette davis.

hello from new york. i'm tom brook, and welcome to this special edition of talking movies, in which we pay tribute to one of the greatest actresses of 20th—century american cinema, bette davis. many people know her because of her famous lines, "fasten your seat belts, it's going to be a bumpy night" from her picture, all about eve, or, "i would "kiss you but i've just washed my hair" from the cabin in the cotton. she was a real survivor, born in 1908, she made some 100 movies over a six decade career. this year marks the 70th anniversary of one of her more celebrated pictures, all about eve, set right here in new york's theatreland. so we're going to start this tribute to bette davis by looking at that movie in a bit more detail. we are all busy little bees, full of stings making

honey day and night. aren't we, honey? all about eve has become a true classic. bette davis plays margo channing, a successful stage actress, getting on in years who is befriended by an ardent young fan, eve harrington, who insinuates herself into channing's life. harrington desperately wants everything that channing has and uses her to advance her career. bette davis brings all her skills together perfectly to give a performance that really brought about the film's success. i think without bette davis you'd have a hollow centre. because if you really tried to deconstruct all about eve, it exists on its surface, that's the pleasure of it, it's about show people. to some extent, they are superficial, but obviously, with great actors like bette davis, you also have this incredible force of will beneath the surface. and that's what she gives it, even though you never actually see her character, margo channing, performing on stage. there is such a sense of power. to many, this satire on ambition in the showbiz world written and directed

byjoseph mankiewicz is noteworthy because it has one of the most famous lines in movie history... fasten your seat belts, it's going to be a bumpy night. all about eve is also memorable because it has marilyn monroe, later to become a huge star, in one of her earliest roles. but in nearly all appraisals of the film, which earned 1a 0scar nominations, is praise the bette davis‘ performance. and you pose as a playwright? a situation pregnant with possibilities and all you can think of is, "everybody go to sleep." what i really like about all about eve is that you see that she's so funny and in her autobiography, she talks a lot about how she didn't particularly think she was good at comedy. and i don't find that that's true at all, i actually think she was hilarious in her private life, she's hilarious in her interviews, and i think that in margo channing, you see that she has this real gift, kind of, for this drawing room, kind of, cafe society comedy.

and i wish that she had been able to do more of that, or let herself do more of that. you've heard of her great interest in the theatre? we have that in common. then you two must have a long talk. the margo channing—eve harrington relationship, one of mentor and protege, is very much at the heart of all about eve. it has spawned copycats. all about eve has been reproduced effectively, that sort of central relationship was being conjured in many shoes, all about my mother, conjured in many shows, all about my mother, even the favourite, the extraordinary recent movie about queen anne, is to some extent about an all about eve situation. it's become the prototype, and people will often use that as shorthand to describe the essence of the movie. funny business, a woman's career. the things you drop on your way up the ladder so you can move faster. nowadays, all about eve is interpreted very differently, depending on who you consult. it has been labelled homophobic, misogynistic and feminist. i think it is doing its best

to be feminist film. i think it is feminist for the time, it's about what it takes for a woman to succeed in any business, really. i think it is cracking entertainment, i think that women are sources of power in it throughout, and and the men are lame shirts with nice heads on top. i don't think of it as misogynistic or as homophobic, although, you know, people do all these readings into these things now and find all things working beneath the surface that were probably never intended to be there. but for me, it is a film that sucks you in from the get go. every time i truned it on, i think, i will watch five minutes and can't help but watch the entire thing. bette davis had a remarkable career, she was a grand hollywood star,

and was constantly breaking new ground. she was the first actor to get ten 0scar nominations, and she was the first woman to receive a lifetime achievement award from the american film institute. emma jones has been taking stock of bette davis's career. bette davis was a ferocious combination of green bette davis was a ferocious combination of queen and worker bee. that ethic drove her from her new england home to broadway and then to hollywood, where, by her mid—20s, she had already made two dozen films. her first significant role was that mildred rogers in 1934's of human bondage. do you know what you are?! you gimpy—legged monster! you are a cripple,a cripple, a cripple! martin, you spent a lifetime studying bette davis, this role of the london waitress, was this the first of the unsympathetic characters that she clearly really relished playing? bette played her to the hilt, she went for broke with this part. and it astonished audiences and critics.

they sat back and they said, "who is this woman? "she is one of the best actresses working on "the american screen." her image changed, they stopped trying to turn her into a sexy, sort of vamp character, and they started to promote her then as one of the best actresses working in hollywood. mildred didn't produce an oscar, but davis did get a first one the next year playing an alcoholic actress in dangerous. the year after that, she was taken to london's high court for refusing to play weaker parts in her studio contract. i knew that that was my future. i knew that only good directors and good scripts could give me a career. i couldn't do it with the junk, that's all. she lost the case but won a nickname, battling bette. davis was at her peak during world war ii, with five more 0scar nominations and her as the star

of masterpieces such as the schemeing regina in the little foxes, as a an ill socialite in dark victory and now supressed heriress charlotte heri ress charlotte in now voyager, who finds a illicit love on a cruise ship. we think of hollywood stars proving their stars status, you know, winning those 0scars, by showing us roles where they inhabit very different lives, where they are unafraid to look unglamorous, where they show character suffering quite often. and that is exactly what bette davis was doing. in many ways, you could say she sort of redefined what a star turn was. a start turn had to show an actress going full hilt and demonstrating everything that she had to offer. julia, itjust seems like women were her great fans and her box office during those years? was there just something very relatable about bette davis? she was not tall and willowy and, you know... her face wasn't perfectly symmetrical in the ways that classic aesthetic beauty is considered to be.

she had a quality with her eyes, the famous bette davis eyes, and she reached out to the audience, their there was a sympathy there that i don't think has been duplicated in the same way. well, thanks for nothing. but the actress herself and her female fans were having families in the baby boom years and her box office decline. while her appearance and the star, another oscar—nominated movie as a washed up actress clinging onto her award seemed as a prelude to her own fate. but davis kept working on tv as well as on stage and saw one of her greatest rivals, joan crawford, pointed in the direction of 1962's what ever happened to baby jane. the horrorfilm gave davis, in her 50s, a new career. it is an amazing performance and it won her a new audience. the kids caught onto this you know, and it put her into a new genre,

horror, thriller and exploitation movies, cult movies. it gave her a different kind of stardom. she became a cult star. by the 1980s, she had passed into legend with a hit song, bette davis eyes. the wheels of august with lillian gish after she suffered the whales of august with lillian gish after she suffered a bout of breast cancer and stroke is considered one of the greatest. she died in 1989 aged 81. she was gifted with a talent for playing the hardest characters film could offer but also tenacity. it gave her longevity and integrity few could rival. i had the privilege of meeting bette davis several decades ago when she was shooting on location on a small island off the coast of maine. the film in question was the whales of august, which emma jones just

referred to in her report. interviewing bette davis was a truly terrifying experience. she could be quite intimidating. and on the day i visited the set, she seemed to be in a vile mood and i think she found me rather irritating. anyway, for reasons i cannot remember, i was woefully unprepared for the encounter. it was all very bewildering, and just before the interview began, she lit two cigarettes simultaniously in her mouth and she kept puffing on them the whole time during the conversation. anyway, we talked about her career in hollywood and the film that she was shooting on location. what colour is your hair now, sarah? the film she was making was a drama involving two elderly sisters. the co—stars included cinima great, lillian gish, a legendary name in silent film. ms davis, you haven't done a theatrical film for quite a long time, what was it that attracted you to this particular picture? the same thing that attracts me to any picture i like, it is a good script. that is the reason why

i accept something. what is it you like about the script? oh, you're asking me to tell the plot and all, i just liked the script. what about the character, do you like the character? yes, i think she's interesting. it is the first time i have ever played a blind woman, which was a challenge. when you play a blind woman day after day, you get the feeling you cannot see anything, it is sort of a hypnotic kind of thing, you really don't see anything. what about working with lillian gish, because she really is quite a legend, isn't she? yes, i have enjoyed meeting her very much. you are a quite legend in many ways, aren't you? i think we are different. she is a legend from silent pictures and i am not.

i'm a legend, they say i am a legend. i think you should only be called a legend after you have gone. it is a bit bold to have legend. i meet a lot of young people and they often remember lines from your pictures, very famous lines. yes, i have quite a few famous lines. i think that's fine. of course, one is, "fasten your seat belts", from eve. another one is, "i would love to you but i have just "washed my hair" from one of my first films, cabin in the cotton. of course, i cannot claim credit for those lines, they were written byjoseph mankiewicz and other people. do you find acting becomes easier as you get older? no, the more famous you become, the harder it is to live up to that fame. and you set a certain standard for yourself and with other people and you just mustn't let down that standard. we're so different from you and i.

we are strong stock. what do you hope the audience will get out of this film? well, i hope the producers and all of us get a lot of money, that is what we are making it for. we just have to wait and see, but that is our biggest hope. and there is no way of telling whether the film is going to make money is there? no, if we had people who could guess that, they would be very important to us, wouldn't they? no, no, it is all a gamble. you can only do something you believe in and hope the audience does. thank you very much, indeed. you are very welcome, you are very welcome and you are very brave to have braved this freezing day on this island. lovely to meet you. a persistent theme in the work of bette davis was one of mental illness. in several of herfilms, she portrayed characters who were explicitly or implicitly struggling with mental health problems, rarely seen in screen. you like making fun

of me, don't you? you think it's fun making fun of me, don't you?! “119112, bette davis stared in the celebrated film now voyager, in which he plays charlotte vale, a woman with mental health problems who is transformed by a psychologist and then embarks on a passionate love affair. it features one of davis's most restrained performances, for which she was nominated for an oscar, and it was also ground—breaking in its depiction from a woman suffering from mental illness. it stands as a very interesting emblem for female cinema ——it stands as a very interesting emblem for female madness in cinema partically because it shows a sense of hope and interiority for the character that i don't think you see in a lot of other lunch, ms hudson! why certainly ms hudon! she tilted closer to her in 1962 in whatever happened to baby jane.

she played a famous grown—up child actress suffering from an unidentified form of mental illness and tortures her sister. although it is a far more sinister performance, she finds moments of sincerity and the film works to understand how life in hollywood can ruin a woman's mine. davis had a reputation of being combative on the set and when combined with her wild eyed acting style, led some film critics and historians to diagnose her from afar as being bipolar, suffering from poor general mental health. to be clear, there is no evidence this the case, and some see this armchair psychology as a destructive dynamic that was too common for actresses at the time. i could give you chapter and verse on male directors behaving badly on set. people would say they were monsters, sadist — they wouldn't say, "oh, they are bipolar."

that's a label that gets slapped a lot more on a woman. bette davis played a lot of women who were just on the edge. you know, like in crisis, traumatised, you know, working fiercely to try and get or get back something that they needed. and the way she played those characters was all—out. other characters davis played in films like jezebel, the letter, or in this 0ur life, have characteristics that can be associated with mental illness, such as narcissism, paranoia, or even a kind of sociopathic — even though they never describe it that way specifically. and davis certainly puts a little madness into these characters. it makes for an interesting read of her career, in which the actress — who was often mislabelled as crazy — challenges viewers to ascertain the difference between mental illness and the woman who has simply been pushed to the brink

by a patriarchal society. what's fascinating for me, as a woman who is diagnosed with bipolar disorder, adhd, and anxiety — i am hyper aware of these portrayals and the sort of complications for women and how easily women get diagnosed or looked at as mad. and that is true in biographies of actresses, that's true in how we talk about film characters, and that's true in how we talk about women even today — even though we've made so many gains in the mental health field since now voyager came out “119112. as both our understanding of mental health and the pressures women in hollywood endure continued to grow, the work of bette davis gets more important. at a time when even majorfemale stars had to fight for roles with some emotional depth, davis pushed to explore the intricacies of the human mind in ways that were years ahead of her time —

and perhaps even ahead of ours. bette davis has long enjoyed a strong fan following, and that includes some gay people who really embrace her. and the actress has long been parodied by drag artists. bette davis has gay icon status around the world — as we now report from berlin. suppose you drop dead. what about your inventory? strong. if it fits me, i'm going to wear it to the olympus ball. streaked. direct, honest... not like some i know who marry the first tart who winks them into the nearest bed. fear. wiped my mouth! there are many words to describe the inimitable bette davis. she has won over audiences all over the world with

a strong following in europe and north america — particularly with older gay people familiar with her work. what is it about bette davis that makes her a gay icon? bette davis really took on significance among the gay community when she was famous. and the reason that they probably had such an affinity for her at the time was because of her strong—mindedness, her strong wilfulness to really battle the patriarchy and to stand up for what she believed in. you dare?! betty davis is not only an icon to the gay community but also to the drag community. and it's because she's so fun — not to make fun of — but to perform and make larger than life than she already is and she is larger than life. this is a woman whose mannerisms are iconic, her line readings are like no one else, so drag queens obviously capitalised on that. i made your favourite!

0n rupaul‘s drag race, alaska won for her spoof of what happened to baby jane. clear people have typically been cast out of society queer people have typically been cast out of society so when somebody like bette davis comes along and she says, "well, i am not going to do that, i am "going to continue working and carry on." we as gay people see that and we find strength in that, we find inspiration from that. she didn't care about being ugly, dirty but as long as her role was perfect and complete. the big thing is really, i think bette davis never really was a real diva, but a really clever woman who really wanted to work good and hard and was really straight. i distinctly remember addison crossing you off my guest list, what are you doing here? with plenty of accolades to her name, she has remained

an enduring gay icon but is her appeal dripping down to newer generations and audiences? i feel she has over into greater culture. there are songs, "bette davis eyes". we know her as this idea of movie star. so, yeah, i think the children know who she is. i hope they do. if not, we should teach them. # she's got bette davis eyes. well, that brings our special tribute to bette davies addition of talking movie to a close. i hope you have enjoyed the programme. remeber, we are online and you can find us on facebook and twitter. so from me and the rest of the production team in new york, london

and berlin, it's goodbye. # she'll tease you # she's got bette davis eyes. # she'll expose you. # she knows you. # she's got bette davis eyes... hello there. it's quite chilly for a while overnight, temperatures could be close to freezing for a while before the weather then starts to change. we've got all this cloud coming in from the atlantic replacing the clearer skies, and the main driver is an area of low pressure and these weather fronts, and they will bring some rain into western areas, and then that rain will move northwards and eastward through the day and the winds pick up, too.

as we get the wetter weather arriving in northern ireland, wales and the southwest, temperatures here will be much higher by morning, but with some clearer skies ahead of that, away from the northeast of scotland, it will be quite a bit chillier. as we head through the morning, though, this cloud will quickly move northwards and eastwards, it will bring with it some outbreaks of rain, some heavier rain moving northwards through the midlands into northern england into scotland during the afternoon, some more rain coming into the southwest and wales. and then we see sunshine and showers arriving into northern ireland. stronger winds actually on sunday, particularly strong around coastal areas, drawing in milderair, double figure temperatures for most, could make 1a celsius in the southwest. but cooler again i think for scotland and the northeast of england, where we will have some rain during the evening, that could be quite heavy for a while, this band of rain then sweeps eastward through the midlands into eastern england and the showers follow on behind. should be pretty mild, actually, overnight as that weather system moves away, we've still got a low pressure to the northwest of the uk, and that will continue to feed in some blustery winds and some further showers as well. so a solid day of sunshine

and showers, i think, for many places on monday. could be some longer spells of rain coming northwards across scotland, most of the showers down the western side of england and wales, some moving through the english channel. somewhat drier weather, though, i think for the midlands and eastern areas of england. temperatures, though, still on the mild side, those blustery south to south—westerly winds, 10—13 celsius really sums it up on monday. moving quickly into tuesday, the winds won't be as strong on tuesday, there will be some showers around, southern and western areas in particular. they probably will become fewer during the afternoon, and many places will be turning dry. those temperatures still pretty good for the time of year around 9—11 celsius. it is a very unsettled week ahead, and wednesday could see a return of wet and windy weatherfor a while, and then things calm down a bit on thursday. we get some sunshine and just 1—2 showers. goodbye.

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