In the final days leading up to Mark Salling’s death by apparent suicide, the former Glee actor was “focused on accepting responsibility” for his child pornography case, according to his lawyer. Salling, who starred as Noah “Puck” Puckerman on Ryan Murphy’s hit Fox musical series from 2009-15, was found dead Tuesday at the age of 35 of an apparent suicide — weeks before he was scheduled to be sentenced to prison for possession of child porn.

By Daily Mail Reporter Updated: 14:33, 1 September 2011 51 View comments Actress Kate Bosworth has revealed that she was left shaken after filming a rape scene for new movie Straw Dogs. Bosworth stars in the thriller alongside Alexander Skarsgard, the actor who later became her boyfriend in real life before their recent split. She says she told her co-star to not hold back as he pretended to perform the violent sex assault for the cameras.

Role Call is a series in which Vulture talks to actors about performances they’ve probably forgotten by now, but we definitely haven’t. Role Call is a series in which Vulture talks to actors about performances they’ve probably forgotten by now, but we definitely haven’t. Want to hear Andie MacDowell sing the pie song from Michael? You’re in luck! On Christmas Day in 1996, one of the most profoundly ’90s films ever made hit theaters: Nora Ephron’s Michael, starring John Travolta as a fallen angel who embarks upon a genial Midwestern road trip alongside some tabloid journalists (Andie MacDowell, William Hurt, and Robert Pastorelli) tasked with exposing him.

Barbara Skelton modelling a ‘little black dress’ in 1948. Photograph: Baron/Getty ImagesBarbara Skelton modelling a ‘little black dress’ in 1948. Photograph: Baron/Getty ImagesRereadingBooksEvelyn Waugh gossiped about her, Anthony Powell put her in his novels and Lord Weidenfeld, briefly, married her. She was a writer, a bohemian, a femme fatale – but, on her centenary, DJ Taylor asks who was the real Barbara Skelton? Barbara Skelton’s trail runs through a certain type of 20th century literary life like a vein of quartz.

Doug Layton, Jr. proudly takes a visitor on an after-hours tour at the glass shop where he works just outside Birmingham, Ala. Layton has been here less than a year but has been given the responsibility for locking things up at the end of the day. "I haven't felt that since I was like 15 or 16 — where somebody just really trusts me," he says. Layton is 56, and spent nearly 20 years in prison for reckless murder in a hit and run killing.