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Actor says Hollywood mogul Robert Evans told her to have sex with William Baldwin while filming Sliver Sharon Stone has disclosed the identity of the film producer who she claims demanded she sleep with her co-star in the 1993 film Sliver to improve...
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This super fun, star-studded thrill ride tells the story of Charles II as he lusts for bloody revenge. Prepare to be educated, creeped out and incredibly entertainedDo you think the royal family has Sky? If so, do you think a new docudrama about the...
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Film-maker is accused of rape, sexual battery and intentional affliction of severe emotional distress for alleged incident Film-maker Roman Polanski will face a civil trial in Los Angeles in 2025 for allegedly raping a teenager in 1973.Attorney Glori...
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Original star of hit slasher franchise will return after dispute over salary and with actor Melissa Barrera fired for pro-Palestine commentsNeve Campbell is set to return to the Scream franchise.The actor, who plays the role of Sidney Prescott, annou...
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Director of The Zone of Interest, winner of best international film, has received both criticism and support for his Academy Awards acceptance speech• Oscars 2024: full list of winners• Full report: Oppenheimer wins best pictureThe Holocaust Survivor...
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As the author prepares to publish a prequel to her bestselling novel Chocolat, she explains why she engages with real-life political battles tooWhen Joanne Harris wrote Chocolat, her novel of morality and magic set in a cloistered French village, she...
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They were the box-office titans behind sumptuous period masterpieces. Yet underneath, reveals a new warts-and-all film, they were skint, stressed, prone to blood-curdling bust-ups – and ping-ponging between loversIf you were asked to guess which pres...
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Programme that follows the lives of 14 children at seven-year intervals tops Broadcasting Press Guild’s 50th anniversary chartThe groundbreaking Up documentary series has been voted the programme that changed television the most over the past 50 year...
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She is the ‘singer from everywhere’ who belts out numbers ‘with her heart ripped out’. As the flamenco fusion phenomenon blazes into Britain, she reveals all about her new superpowers – and the exoplanet she hid on during CovidBuika has forgotten ab...
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She found fame online opening her GCSE results and ripping off Friends. Now the 23-year-old is shaking up sitcom with Things You Should Have Done, a pitch-black BBC show making fun of ‘horrible people, stupid people’Lucia Keskin, AKA “Chi” Keskin – t...
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Sorry/Not Sorry tells the story of the comedian’s sexual misconduct through the eyes of the women who spoke out – and endured a vicious backlash from fans, podcasters and fellow standupsCaroline Suh was once a huge fan of Louis CK, the comedian known...
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Ex-president’s second chief of staff tried to convince him fascist dictator was ‘great guy in comparison’, John Kelly tells Jim SciuttoDonald Trump’s second White House chief of staff tried to stop him praising Adolf Hitler in part by trying to convi...
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The World Party frontman, who has died aged 66, was not the 60s revivalist some critics dismissed him as – his work was extraordinary in its breadth and political biteSongs were Karl Wallinger’s compass, melody his north star. When I interviewed him...
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Ceremony was seen by 19.5 million Americans, making it the most watched since 2020 but it was down in key 18-49 demographicOscars ratings were up 4% for this year’s ceremony with 19.5 million Americans tuning in.It makes it the most-watched since 202...
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More’s hopelessly vain out-of-work actor is joined by a blue chip cast in a zippy tale that does unfortunately rather show its ageBefore Richard E Grant’s Withnail, there was Kenneth More’s Chick Byrd. In Alvin Rakoff’s 1964 British drama, Byrd is an...