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Elke Sommer obituary
Glamorous star of 1960s films best known for her role opposite Peter Sellers in A Shot in the Dark
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‘A hero’s origins’: the true story of the first drag queen presidential candidate
In off-Broadway show Ms Blakk for President, Oscar-winning Moonlight writer Tarell Alvin McCraney explores a slice of under-appreciated queer history At the height of the Aids crisis, Chicago activist Terence Alan Smith put on his drag persona, Joan Jett Blakk, and announced she was running for president. Her slogan: “Lick Bush in ‘92!” Her platform: fire everyone in the White House and paint it pink, reroute the military budget towards education and healthcare, then give the land back to Indigenous people “and let them take it from there”. The campaign did not advance. But Blakk did make it o
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Feminism for a World on Fire by Natasha Walter audiobook review – an urgent call for collective action
The writer and activist finds galvanising energy in grassroots initiatives in the face of inequality and the climate crisis
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John Leeson obituary
Actor who provided the voice for the ‘tin dog’ K9 in the BBC’s Doctor Who and also worked on ITV’s Beadle’s About
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The downfall of Russell Brand: from Big Brother and Hollywood to convicted rapist
Former comedian long traded on his extreme persona, yet many will wonder how he was allowed to act in plain sight for so long
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The Russell Brand I saw in court was not the flamboyant character most people will know
Brand stood upright in the dock as the verdicts were read out in court - ending this sometimes surreal trial.
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Bassvictim: Peace + War review – like a thrillingly chaotic house party that goes on too long
On their fourth buzzy project in two years, the gobby and combustible US-Polish pair are best when they’re leaning into the roughness of their sound
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Is that an explosion, an implosion or an orgasm? Pixies bass-player Emma Richardson’s realm-leaping life in painting
Huge, ecstatic canvases are just one of the vocations of the musician who joined the art rockers in 2024. As her show Hotwire My Heart opens, she talks terror, awe and teabags Emma Richardson loves to eavesdrop when people look at her paintings and talk about what they see in them. “They turn into these Rorschach inkblot tests,” she grins. Looking at her works, you do stand back in awe wondering. Is that a nebula, a god or a fleshy, baroque orgy? An explosion, an implosion or an orgasm? Richardson implies all of these and more, her paintbrush chasing in vivid oils the hedonism, desire and brea
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Stravinsky: The Firebird album review – Rattle revels in colour, crackles and bites
Simon Rattle has recorded the Russian master’s fairytale ballet twice before, but this version has considerable gains, not least in Rattle’s engaging half hour talk about it
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'You've had a wonderful life Tommy, but it's over' - Sir Tom feared he was dying
The singer from Pontypridd told the audience just how serious his "bad case of the flu" was.
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‘George Lucas told me off for wearing lipstick’: Celia Imrie on Traitors, Star Wars and treating the lens like a lover
The actor answers your questions about trapeze lessons, Bond villain ambitions and Michael Caine’s top tips You looked as if you had such a good time on Celebrity Traitors last year – you had them hanging on your every word. What was it like? Who have you kept in touch with? breezehillpete They absolutely didn’t hang on my every word. I’m fascinated to watch it now, because at a distance, I can see how people follow each other. That herd mentality is very evident at the round table, but I always went in a different direction and people didn’t follow me. Then, of course, I accused Alan [Carr] a
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Raise the Red Lantern review – Gong Li gives a decade-defining performance in an addictively ruthless masterpiece
Gong simmers with rage, loneliness and humiliation as the ‘fourth mistress’ navigating the intimate political savagery of her husband’s compound in Zhang Yimou’s 1991 thriller
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