The 97th Academy Awards will air on ABC and be streamed live on Hulu at the same time

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While this 1960 play has been overtaken by faster-moving tales of Tudor chicanery, Martin Shaw is compelling as Thomas More

Among the abounding villains and backstabbers of the Tudor age stands Thomas More, a good man who dared to take a silent stand against King Henry VIII. But Robert Bolt’s play shows that being good could be just as dangerous for one’s head.

This 1960 drama, which takes us through More’s last years, was immensely successful in its time, transferring to Broadway and adapted for film with Paul Scofield. Jonathan Church’s new touring production is smart and handsome but feels like an old-fashioned history play, creaky in parts though still an ultimately moving portrait of quiet heroism.

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Letter from Academy leadership also says show will ‘move away’ from live performances to celebrate songwriters

The Oscars will go on as planned in March, though with special accommodations to acknowledge to devastating wildfires in Los Angeles, according to a new update from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

A letter from the CEO, Bill Kramer, and president Janet Yang, sent to all members on Wednesday, confirmed that the ceremony will “celebrate the work that unites us as a global film community and acknowledge those who fought so bravely against the wildfires”.

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Joe Exotic begged his followers to help him get Trump’s attention

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The country singer’s performance had been described as an ‘epic disaster’ on social media

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‘Conclave,’ ‘The Brutalist,’ ‘Anora’ and ‘Emilia Pérez’ are among this year’s favorites

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You may know the actor and comedian from ‘Bottoms’ or ‘Saturday Night Live,’ respectively

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The ‘Shape of You’ singer called on social media users to ‘please research before you post things’

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The musician and comedian met for the first time, months after Corgan claimed they may be related

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Lively has received a huge amount of support after filing the lawsuit against Baldoni

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‘Saturday Night Live’ star previously revealed that Musk made her cry when he hosted the show in 2021

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Frontman Billie Joe Armstrong once again distanced his band from the ‘Elon agenda’

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From filming in the Sahara Desert, to riding snowmobiles on the frozen Arctic Ocean, actor Dane DeHaan has embraced a life of adventure, both on and off screen.

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Parmi les futurs films Star Wars, il y a celui confié au cinéaste Shawn Levy. La presse américaine rapporte que la production chercherait à avoir Ryan Gosling, l'acteur canadien connu pour Barbie, Drive ou bien Blade Runner 2049, au casting. Pour un rôle qui reste à voir.

La chronologie des médias devrait bientôt évoluer. Alors qu'il existe un cadre spécifique depuis 2022, le texte qui encadre ce dispositif arrive à son terme. Vraisemblablement, de nouvelles dispositions pour organiser les fenêtres de diffusion et les délais d’exploitation des films après leur sortie au cinéma seront bientôt décidées.

Jewelry designer underwent emergency brain surgery in December after near-fatal ski accident

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Bitter feud is alleged to have begun while filming the box office hit ‘It Ends With Us’

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He has notched up tours, albums, books and a sitcom. Why is he tortured by feelings of under-achievement? As Fellows hits the road, he pops an aniseed ball and discusses his new song – about an audience member falling off a cliff

When Graham Fellows first performed in character as amateur singer-songwriter John Shuttleworth, Margaret Thatcher was PM and A-ha were storming the charts. Fellows was 25; his beige vocalist and organist alter ego was in his late 40s. “I started doing it when I was very young,” recalls Fellows, not a little wistfully, when we meet at his agent’s office in London. “And I had to put makeup on: crow’s feet, white stuff in my hair.”

He goes on: “I remember doing a Lily Savage special in Blackpool for TV. And in the dressing room I was sat next to the lead singer of Showaddywaddy.” It never takes long for a Fellows/Shuttleworth anecdote to tend towards bathos. “He looked at me a bit askance and said, ‘This is odd. You’re there being made to look older, and I’m here being made to look younger.’” But the years roll around, and on the eve of his 40th anniversary tour as Shuttleworth, Fellows says: “I might have to start doing that now too.”

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Bon Iver asked him to cover his new material and he’s teaching Mescal and Josh O’Connor to sing. But the interpreter is more interested in songs than stardom

Sam Amidon grew up in the 1980s, but his Vermont childhood was “almost like a refuge” from the gaudiest decade. His hippy parents were folk-singer educators who frequently travelled south to work with Sacred Harp shape-note singers. “We were still eating granola and tofu stir fry, growing veggies and having potlucks,” he says. “Nobody had a television. I remember seeing a picture of Michael Jackson on somebody’s notebook, but I had no idea what he sounded like.” The family had one Talking Heads cassette, one Cyndi Lauper cassette and one Bob Dylan cassette, albeit of traditional songs. “The idea of the singer-songwriter model just wasn’t in my life.”

Amidon followed his parents into music, becoming a fiddle prodigy and noted folk singer, releasing acclaimed albums for Nonesuch, and collaborating with jazz guitarist Bill Frisell, multi-instrumentalist Shahzad Ismaily, and folk-pop songwriter Beth Orton, whom he married in 2011. The couple live near the London cafe (incidentally, where Fleabag was filmed) where I meet Amidon in December to discuss his beautiful new album, Salt River, his first for Rough Trade imprint River Lea.

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NEW YORK — Garth Hudson, The Band's virtuoso keyboardist and all-around musician who drew from a unique palette of sounds and styles to add a conversational touch to such rock standards as Up on Cripple Creek, The Weight and Rag Mama Rag, has died at age 87. Read More

The newly announced console enters a crowded market making some wonder that without a radical rehaul will loyal customers feel the need to get the new one?

Well, it happened: Nintendo announced the Switch 2 the day after last week’s newsletter went out. And a strange announcement it was.

The short trailer (which you can watch here) tells you everything we know at this point: everything about the machine except for its appearance remains a mystery. Nintendo has scheduled a reveal event for April that will presumably be more fulsome. This was likely Nintendo’s plan all along, and the trailer was released early following a flood of leaked information about the console. They provided no release date, no details – and no games.

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Video posted by top gamer shows what he says is X conversation in which billionaire admits ‘account boosting’

Elon Musk admitted he cheated at video games to get high scores, a transcript of a private online conversation he had shows, seemingly concluding a fiery scandal over the billionaire’s outlandish claims to be a globally-ranked player.

Musk has regularly bragged about his gaming rankings. He told the podcaster Joe Rogan last year that he was in the top 20 players in the world for the fiendishly difficult action role-playing game Diablo IV.

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Parmi les futurs films Star Wars, il y a celui confié au cinéaste Shawn Levy. La presse américaine rapporte que la production chercherait à avoir Ryan Gosling, l'acteur canadien connu pour Barbie, Drive ou bien Blade Runner 2049, au casting. Pour un rôle qui reste à voir.