The first song I fell in love with
Growing up, every weekend we’d visit a different Sri Lankan family’s house in London. One kid had Thriller by Michael Jackson, and I fell in love with Billie Jean. I then ripped my brother’s Michael Jackson…
Category: 5. Entertainment
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Romesh Ranganathan: ‘I Want Your Soul by Armand Van Helden is so relentlessly catchy I’m sick of it’ | Culture
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Elle Fanning, Lorde, Tessa Thompson: LACMA Art+Film Photos
This year’s LACMA Art+Film gala on Saturday night proved once again that it is one of Los Angeles’ starriest events of the year.
Elle Fanning, Kaia Gerber and mom Cindy Crawford, Lorde, Angela Bassett, Cynthia Erivo, Samara Weaving, Benito…
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Peep Show marathon starts at Croydon’s Apollo House
“Jez, I’ve accidentally run to Windsor.”
The sitcom Peep Show, following the awkward but relatable lives of flatmates Mark and Jez, has become a cult classic since it ended a decade ago, gaining a following of devotees of all ages.
The idea came…
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London 1980s housing crisis film remastered for film festival
Remake Collective/BFIHotel London follows Banlgadeshi couple (played by Aftab Sachak and Alpana Sengupta) navigate their way to a safe home “When you do films on current issues you expect them to lose relevance.
“But it’s sad that this production…
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Robin Hood review – Sean Bean gifts us the most gloriously bad TV offering of the year | Television
Autumn is entering the home straight. Winter is coming. We are more than due, therefore, a piece of fantasy/folkloric tomfoolery set in the days of yore – which is further back than yesteryear and therefore more forgiving all round – stuffed…
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Rosalía’s Berghain is a thundrous goth-pop hit – but is it opera? | Music
The Top 10 of today’s Spotify Global Top 50 looks like business as usual: two Taylor Swift songs; Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars’ Die With a Smile hanging around for an eighth month; the eminently normal male pop stars Sombr and Alex Warren doing…
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Stories you may have missed
BBCThe sculpture was created by artist Luke Jerram A 7m (21ft) wide sculpture of Mars on display at Truro Cathedral has been providing lots of school half-term fun.
The artwork called Mars: War and Peace was created by Luke Jerram and follows his…
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‘SNL’ recap: Miles Teller plays Property Brothers in White House skit
As we mentioned last time when Sabrina Carpenter hosted “Saturday Night Live,” there’s no substitute for a host who fully throws themselves into “SNL.”
He may not have done double duty as host and musical guest the way Carpenter did,…
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TV tonight: Tom Daley’s kooky knitting competition is somehow incredible | Television & radio
Game of Wool: Britain’s Best Knitter
8pm, Channel 4
Tom Daley and his Technicolor dream poncho welcome you to the yarn barn, where 10 knitting nerds are competing to be named the very best. But how entertaining can people knitting garments be?…
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‘The world said I was dead – in so many ways I was’: Paul McCartney on the lost years after the Beatles | Paul McCartney
The strangest rumour started floating around just as the Beatles were breaking up – that I was dead. We had heard it long before, but suddenly, in that autumn of 1969, stirred up by a DJ in America, it took on a force all its own, so that…
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