Rhythm guitarist helped guide the legendary jam band through decades of change and success

Bob Weir, the veteran rock musician who helped guide the legendary band the Grateful Dead through decades of change and success, has died at age 78, according to a statement posted to his verified Instagram account on Friday.

The Instagram statement, posted by his daughter Chloe Weir, said he was surrounded by loved ones when he died. Bob Weir had been diagnosed with cancer in July and “succumbed to underlying lung issues”, the statement said.

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The 78-year-old ‘succumbed to underlying lung issues,’ his family said

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Despite his ongoing poor health, his passing came as a shock to the presenter

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Award-winning screenwriter tells Desert Island Discs that success has not silenced self-doubt

The award-winning screenwriter Jesse Armstrong has said a writers’ room can feel like “walking on the moon” when it is working well, but has admitted to experiencing impostor syndrome during his career.

Armstrong was behind the hit HBO drama Succession, starring Brian Cox as the global media tycoon and family patriarch Logan Roy, who sets off a power struggle among his four children.

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The sports day-themed episode saw cricket legend Freddie Flintoff join the regular panel of judges

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This steamy queer romance between ice hockey rivals is packed with constant shots of muscular bottoms in fancy hotel rooms. But a bit more character development or emotional investment wouldn’t go amiss

I suspect that Chala Hunter is still on a recuperative retreat somewhere. Until about May, I would think. For she was the intimacy coordinator on Heated Rivalry and she has earned a break.

For those not aware: intimacy coordinators gained prominence in the aftermath of the #MeToo movement, when assorted testimonies from actors (largely female) made public and unignorable the shocking fact that actors (largely male) and directors (largely male) will often (largely always) try to get away with more than has been contracted for once they are naked with A N Other person. An intimacy coordinator is there to help arrange scenes and advocate for actors. Think of them as somewhere between a bureaucrat and a contraceptive.

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Why is the film of Ireland’s 2002 World Cup falling-out not a documentary but a drama that takes liberties with events?

All history is to some extent narrative. You cannot tell a story without in some way editing it, reducing it, compressing it. Which means that anybody telling a story about a historical event, particularly one from the relatively recent past, risks outraging those who have studied it or who remember it. Often those complaints are pedantic, trivial, but sometimes they are not. It’s one thing to elide two minor characters or to tweak the timeline to simplify a story, quite another to imply misleading motivations.

Saipan, Glenn Leyburn’s and Lisa Barros D’Sa’s film about the cataclysmic row between Roy Keane and Mick McCarthy shortly before the 2002 World Cup, came out in Ireland on Boxing Day and will be released in the UK on 23 January. It is obsessed by detail: the tracksuits, the sweatshirts, the kits are all right. It’s startling when the film cuts between reproductions of interviews and press conferences and actual footage to realise just how accurately these scenes have been recreated. Which raises two questions. What is the point? And how can such care have been taken over the look of the film when there are such grotesque inventions and inaccuracies in the plotting and motivation?

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The comedian and actor on her favourite Bond film, revisiting the Death Star canteen and escaping the red carpet with Brad Pitt

When you started performing your one-woman Hamlet, how much did you labour over your delivery of the play’s most iconic lines, such as “To be or not to be”?

The first thing I found when I was rehearsing Hamlet was that I felt very at home. I thought, “That’s unusual – I should be quaking in my boots!” I just felt very at ease and happy to be there. But the first time I performed “to be or not to be” on stage, there was a sense of – aren’t bells supposed to ring here? Isn’t there supposed to be a klaxon?

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Ce samedi 10 janvier, les Jeunes Agriculteurs des Landes continuent de narguer la préfecture des Landes sur les réseaux sociaux deux jours après avoir dérobé le portail de la Direction départementale des territoires...

Au lendemain des annonces du gouvernement, les agriculteurs en colère ont mené plusieurs actions en Bretagne et en France ce samedi, notamment pour protester contre l’accord avec le Mercosur.

Dans un courrier aux syndicats agricole, le Premier ministre Sébastien Lecornu rappelle que les 300 millions d’euros de nouvelles aides aux agriculteurs, « un effort financier important », sont suspendus à l’adoption du budget 2026.

Au lendemain des annonces du gouvernement, les agriculteurs en colère ont mené plusieurs actions en Bretagne et en France ce samedi, notamment pour protester contre l’accord avec le Mercosur.

Ce samedi 10 janvier, les Jeunes Agriculteurs des Landes continuent de narguer la préfecture des Landes sur les réseaux sociaux deux jours après avoir dérobé le portail de la Direction départementale des territoires...

Dans un courrier aux syndicats agricole, le Premier ministre Sébastien Lecornu rappelle que les 300 millions d’euros de nouvelles aides aux agriculteurs, « un effort financier important », sont suspendus à l’adoption du budget 2026.

Pour son dernier voyage dans le Monde à l’Envers, Stranger Things a mis les petits plats dans les grands, du côté des références à la pop culture. La série des frères Duffer rend ainsi hommage une dernière fois aux années 80, leur décennie chérie, mais pas seulement. Découvrez 13 détails cachés dans la saison 5 de Stranger Things.