The L-Shaped Room The L-Shaped Room The L-Shaped Room is a 1962 British drama film, directed by Bryan Forbes, which tells the story of a young French woman, unmarried and pregnant, who moves into a London boarding house, befriending a young man in the building. It stars Leslie Caron and Tom Bell. The work is considered part of the kitchen sink realism school of British drama. The film was adapted by Bryan Forbes from the novel by Lynne Reid Banks. Leslie Caron's performance won her the Golden Globe Award and BAFTA Award for best actress, and also earned her a nomination for the
Tyra Banks book entitled "Tyra's Beauty, Inside and Out". She announced in May 2010 that she would be writing a novel, titled "Modelland", loosely based on her own modelling experience. It was published in September 2011, intended to be the first of a planned three-part series; "Modelland" topped "The New York Times" Best Seller list in October 2011. In 2018, Banks and her mother, Carolyn London, co-authored a book entitled "Perfect is Boring". In August 2016, Banks accepted a position as a personal branding guest lecturer at Stanford University. Banks dated Norwegian photographer Erik Asla during the 2010s, and in January 2016