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• Barrymore: The Body in the Pool review – a grim search for answers

  06-02-2020 23:50
  
  The death of Stuart Lubbock was both a career-ending moment for Michael Barrymore, and a horrendous loss for a young man’s family. Nearly 20 years on, it remains a tragedy – and a mystery‘A fella’s drowned in the pool … Fucking hell … I think the geezer’s dead, mate.” So runs the 999 call by Justin Merritt, one of nine people at a party at 4 Beaumont Park Drive in Roydon, Essex on 31 March 2001. It was the home of the TV star Michael Barrymore, a
  
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• Bruno Mars Teams Up With Disney to Star in Music-Driven Movie

  06-02-2020 23:11 via feeds.eonline.com
  
  Disney's getting a little bit of 24K magic!
  Bruno Mars has set a deal with Disney that will give him the opportunity to develop a music-themed theatrical feature that he will not...
  
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• Carlos & Alexa PenaVega Reveal Secrets to Their Successful Marriage on Daily Pop

  06-02-2020 22:47 via feeds.eonline.com
  
  Alexa PenaVega and Carlos PenaVega are happily married screen partners and co-parents to two children. In this exclusive clip from Thursday's Daily Pop, the couple shares wisdom about staying...
  
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• As Long as There’s Been an Envelope, Oscar Parties Have Pushed It

  06-02-2020 22:29 via nytimes.com
  
  The night’s star-studded soirees are always more entertaining than the show itself.
  
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• Review: A ‘Paradise Lost’ More Dutiful Than Divine

  06-02-2020 22:17 via nytimes.com
  
  In Tom Dulack’s take on Milton, the devils get the best lines and costumes, while Adam and Eve are a snooze.
  
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• ‘Cane River’ Review: A Lost Treasure of Independent Cinema

  06-02-2020 21:17 via nytimes.com
  
  Horace B. Jenkins’s tale of forbidden romance in Louisiana, completed in 1982, opens at last.
  
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• Oscars 2020 Predictions: Who Will Win Best Picture, Actor and Actress

  06-02-2020 20:50 via nytimes.com
  
  Our expert has been closely tracking the awards races all season. Here are the movies and stars he expects to win.
  
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• Disney Chairman Apologizes to P.T.A. Asked to Pay Fee After ‘Lion King’ Screening

  06-02-2020 19:20 via nytimes.com
  
  Two months after a Berkeley, Calif., elementary school showed a privately owned DVD of the film at a movie night, a licensing representative for Disney told the school to pay a $250 fee.
  
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• Lil Nas X Channels Buffy, "Thriller" And More In New "Rodeo" Music Video

  06-02-2020 18:54 via feeds.eonline.com
  
  We're going to watch this 'till we can't no more.On Thursday, Lil Nas X debuted the music video for his new song "Rodeo" featuring Nas and it's filled with some...
  
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• ‘Birds of Prey’ Review: Nihilism for Fun and Profit

  06-02-2020 18:41 via nytimes.com
  
  Margot Robbie stars as the cosplay favorite Harley Quinn in a movie that plays at provocation but declines to provoke anything like a thought.
  
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• #OscarsSoWhite: An Oral History of the Movement That Upended Hollywood

  06-02-2020 16:24 via nytimes.com
  
  Five years ago, one Twitter hashtag changed the narrative in an industry with entrenched disparities. Here, Spike Lee, Ava DuVernay and other insiders tell the story as they lived it.
  
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• A Hallowed French Company Takes on ‘Angels in America’

  06-02-2020 14:16 via nytimes.com
  
  And elsewhere in Paris, smaller theaters take more radical cues from the L.G.B.T.Q. world.
  
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• Jameela Jamil comes out as queer following voguing show backlash

  06-02-2020 13:36
  
  The actor made a statement following criticism of her new role on HBO contest LegendaryThe actor and TV presenter Jameela Jamil has come out as queer after social media backlash to her new role as a judge on a TV voguing contest. Jamil, who started her career on Channel 4’s teen programming slot, T4, and starred in NBC comedy The Good Place, was announced on Tuesday as the host of a new contest, Legendary, based around the predominately black and Latinx subculture of drag balls in the LGBT
  
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• Jameela Jamil comes out as queer after voguing show backlash

  06-02-2020 13:36
  
  The actor made a statement following criticism of her new role on HBO contest LegendaryThe actor and TV presenter Jameela Jamil has come out as queer after a social media backlash to her new role as a judge on a TV voguing contest. Jamil, who started her career on Channel 4’s teen programming slot, T4, and starred in NBC comedy The Good Place, was announced on Tuesday as the host of a new contest, Legendary, based around the predominately black and Latinx subculture of drag balls in the LG
  
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• ‘Waiting for Anya’ Review: Saving Jews as a Rite of Passage

  06-02-2020 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  A boy in Occupied France, with eyes wide open, must choose what to say about what he sees.
  
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• ‘Timmy Failure: Mistakes Were Made’ Review: Kid Sleuth on the Case

  06-02-2020 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Tom McCarthy’s new film goes inside a boy’s imagination, but not interestingly or with charm.
  
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• ‘The Lodge’ Review: Mommy Not-So-Dearest

  06-02-2020 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  In a remote vacation home, two traumatized children and their soon-to-be stepmother are trapped in an unnerving meet-and-greet.
  
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• ‘Horse Girl’ Review: Facing an Emotionally Taxing World

  06-02-2020 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The film, which stars Alison Brie as a psychologically disturbed woman, delves into a troubled mind only to get lost in its oddity.
  
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• ‘Come to Daddy’ Review: Father and Son Reunion

  06-02-2020 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Elijah Wood gives his all as an abandoned son seeking closure in Ant Timpson’s endearingly nutty comic thriller.
  
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• ‘And Then We Danced’ Review: Caught Between Desire and Tradition

  06-02-2020 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  “There is no sexuality in Georgian dance,” an instructor says. Then things get complicated.
  
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• Fine for Showing a Disney Movie at a School Fund-raiser? A Third of the Take

  06-02-2020 12:53 via nytimes.com
  
  Two months after a Berkeley, Calif., elementary school showed a privately owned DVD of the film at a movie night, a licensing representative for Disney told the school to pay a $250 fee.
  
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• Where to Stream ‘Spartacus’ and Other Great Kirk Douglas Movies

  06-02-2020 11:07 via nytimes.com
  
  The classic Hollywood star didn’t always play the hero. But whether good guy or heel, he brought a towering presence to the screen.
  
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• #OscarsSoWhite Held Up a Mirror. Hollywood Still Can’t Look Away.

  06-02-2020 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Five years ago, one Twitter hashtag changed the narrative in an industry with entrenched disparities. Here, Spike Lee, Ava DuVernay and other insiders tell the story as they lived it.
  
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• Movies Starring Women and People of Color Continue to Surge

  06-02-2020 10:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Three new studies examined the state of films led by performers who aren’t white and male.
  
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• Publicis maintains targets despite fourth-quarter slowdown

  06-02-2020 07:45 via ft.com
  Chief insists ad group is on ‘right track’ but warns Accenture is now ‘major competitor’
  
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• Publicis hit by client losses and US restructuring

  06-02-2020 07:45 via ft.com
  Advertising group’s chief warns that Accenture is becoming ‘major competitor’
  
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• TV tonight: what really happened in Michael Barrymore’s pool?

  06-02-2020 07:20
  
  A new documentary examines the tragic death of Stuart Lubbock in forensic detail. Plus: Ed Balls in Italy. Here’s what to watch this eveningThe discovery of Stuart Lubbock’s body in Michael Barrymore’s swimming pool in March 2001 sparked a tabloid frenzy and destroyed the career of one of Britain’s most popular entertainers. This feature-length documentary goes into painstaking detail to retell the events of the evening of Lubbock’s death, broadcasting the original
  
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• Kirk Douglas: a career in clips

  06-02-2020 07:00
  
  After a career as one of Hollywood’s most distinguished performers, the actor Kirk Douglas has died. Here we look back at some of his finest moments, from Paths of Glory to Ace in the HoleKirk Douglas, star of Spartacus, dies aged 103Hollywood’s impossibly handsome Colossus of RhodesBorn Izzy Danielovitch into a poverty-stricken Jewish family in 1916, Douglas legally changed his name to Kirk Douglas on joining the navy during the second world war. He went on to become one of Hollywoo
  
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• Kirk Douglas, a Star of Hollywood’s Golden Age, Dies at 103

  06-02-2020 01:16 via nytimes.com
  
  Mr. Douglas’s rugged good looks and muscular intensity made him a commanding presence in films like “Lust for Life,” “Spartacus” and “Paths of Glory.”
  
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• Where to Stream ‘Spartacus’ and Other Great Kirk Douglas Performances

  06-02-2020 01:01 via nytimes.com
  
  The classic Hollywood star didn’t always play the hero. But whether good guy or heel, he brought a towering presence to the screen.
  
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• Kirk Douglas, Hollywood legend and star of Spartacus, dies aged 103

  06-02-2020 00:33
  
  Square-jawed star of Paths of Glory and Lust For Life – also famous as the father of Michael Douglas – has passed awayKirk Douglas, the self-styled “ragman’s son” who became the last great star of Hollywood’s golden age, has died at the age of 103. His son Michael announced the news in a statement posted on Instagram on Wednesday evening. Related: Kirk Douglas: ‘I never thought I’d live to 100. That’s shocked me’Related: Michael Douglas
  
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• Kirk Douglas Dead at 103

  06-02-2020 00:31 via feeds.eonline.com
  
  Hollywood wouldn't be what it is today if people like Kirk Douglas hadn't passed through town and made it their own.The actor, author and philanthropist, and one of the few...
  
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