arts
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How YouTube might save Will Smith's careerThe star has faced a string of stumbles on the big screen but in a new, surprisingly intimate series of videos he’s finding a smart way to connect with fans -
Steven Seagal accused of raping teenage actor in 1993Regina Simons, who worked as an extra on the film On Deadly Ground, becomes latest woman to allege sexual misconduct against Hollywood star
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Late-night hosts: 'Sir, they're not shitholes. For one, Trump isn't their president'Comics including Stephen Colbert, Trevor Noah and Jimmy Kimmel, addressed Trump’s derogatory remarks about Haiti, El Salvador and west African countries -
David Letterman meets Barack Obama – has the talk show legend lost his edge?In a new Netflix series, My Next Guest Needs No Introduction with David Letterman, the former late-night stalwart gently grills the former president, but perhaps it’s all a bit too pedestrian and polite
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Proud Mary – Taraji P Henson's assassin thriller fires blanksThe Oscar nominee finally gets a much-deserved chance at a career boost, but the film fails to meet her talents with sloppy direction and underwhelming action
people
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Controversial Russian director Andrey Zvyagintsev: 'Dissident? I'm more of a clown'Leviathan director Zvyagintsev holds up a mirror to corruption and hard times in Russia. He talks about his new film, Loveless, and how he fell out with the political establishment
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Janis Joplin: the singer who screamed a very American painWith her raw, anguished voice, Joplin – who would have been 75 this month – was a hippy icon. But on Piece of My Heart she became something darker still
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The big picture
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From Fife to Fitzrovia: portraits by Niall McDiarmidNiall McDiarmid has spent seven years travelling the length and breadth of the UK photographing people he crosses paths with. Town to Town, his new book, features more than 60 portraits of inhabitants of some of the 200 towns he’s visited
reviews
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John Lithgow: Stories by Heart – star presence can't save humdrum one-man showAn updated version of the star’s stage performance of both personal tales and published short stories is a disappointingly ordinary experience
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Camila Cabello: Camila review – Havana hitmaker makes breakups look easyWhat girl band? The singer who left Fifth Harmony has, against the odds, really come up with the goods – and there’s more to this than supernova hit Havana
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pictures & video
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A girl in a quarry with roadkill in each hand‘Sylvie was a 10-year-old vegetarian. She held the dead pheasants without flinching’
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Renny Tait's abstracted urban imagesRenny Tait renders familiar London landmarks as simplified architectural forms. His cityscapes are devoid of human life, guided by principles of abstraction rather than naturalism
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Portraits by Niall McDiarmidNiall McDiarmid has spent seven years travelling the length and breadth of the UK photographing people he crosses paths with. Town to Town, his new book, features more than 60 portraits of inhabitants of some of the 200 towns he’s visited
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The beauty and fascination of London's theatresPhotographer Peter Dazeley and writer Michael Coveney have explored every London theatre from gallery to pit in a new study of the capital’s cultural temples
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Albert Einstein in his lounge‘It was a little after the Hiroshima bombing. Einstein sat in his lounge wearing baggy tracksuit trousers – and spoke out against atomic weapons’
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Iranian women cast off their hijabsPhotographer Marinka Masséus travelled to Iran, where the hijab is mandatory, to capture women defiantly throwing their veils in the air
Leonardo DiCaprio to star in Quentin Tarantino's Charles Manson movie