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‘I’m a writer but then nobody’s perfect’: how Billy Wilder conquered Hollywood
From émigré roots to a titan of modern cinema, penning classics such as Double Indemnity, Some Like It Hot and The Apart...
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Dance Monkey v the NRL: did Tones and I really turn down $90,000 a minute because she hates her own song?
For the first time in recent history there’ll be no pre-game entertainment at the NRL grand final. But everyone has a di...
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A Different World review – it was only a matter of time before they remade this trailblazing black sitcom
Many of the original cast of this Cosby Show-spinoff are back (including Jada Pinkett-Smith, briefly). Its look at life...
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TV tonight: inside the UK’s response to alleged Israeli war crimes in Gaza
Dispatches gains access to unpublished Whitehall documents. Plus: hippos, googly eyes and yelling at art – it can only b...
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Andy Griffiths on Terry Denton’s genius: ‘He was a true clown. He could make something funny out of nothing’
The author behind the Treehouse books remembers his friend and collaborator of 35 years, who had a ‘seemingly inexhuasti...
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Michael Kiwanuka says he faces ‘long, tough journey’ to recovery from stroke
Mercury prize-winner reveals ‘quite severe’ bleed was why he’d missed support slots with Mumford & Sons this year
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‘And you will be the People’s Earl’ – Charles Spencer’s Swan Song: Diana, My Sister, digested by John Crace
The earl on his globally lauded eulogy for Diana, King Charles’s sausage fingers and toxic Raine, topped off with a lavi...
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Australia banned this anti-fascist play in 1936 at the request of the Nazis. Ninety years on, it’s being staged again
A new production of Clifford Odets’ agitprop work Till the Day I Die is being remounted on the back of a truck in a Melb...
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Why fans are digging their claws into Wolverine over its patronising gameplay
From highlighted ledges to characters telling you what to do, blockbuster games are increasingly taking the challenge ou...
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The living dead: we can watch ‘Janis Joplin’ perform or reunite the Beatles, but who are the real winners here?
Advances in digital technology mean that avatars are ever more realistic, and zombie concerts are coming our way. Exciti...
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Dolly Parton estate in feud with nephew over alleged ‘warfare’ threats
Star’s estate granted restraining order against Bryan Seaver, who publicly announced Parton’s death, over alleged intimi...
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Angry Anderson dies aged 79: Rose Tattoo frontman was a ferocious rock’n’roll singer and youth advocate
The singer, songwriter, actor and advocate, who has died after a cardiac arrest while touring in Europe, kept his band’s...