Rosanna Arquette – the older sister of actors Patricia and David – found fame as the bored housewife to Madonna’s bohemian drifter in 1985’s Desperately Seeking Susan. Elsewhere in your cinematic memory, she helped save Uma Thurman from accidentally overdosing in Pulp Fiction, and had her fishnet stockings ripped off by James Spader in David Cronenberg’s Crash.
But Arquette has been in all sorts of films, opposite all sorts of actors: she co-starred with Joe Pesci and Danny Glover in trip gone wrong comedy Gone Fishin’, Tim Roth and Renée Zellweger in mystery film Liar, and Christina Ricci, Vincent Gallo and Mickey Rourke in Buffalo 66. In the 2000s, she starred in the thriller Diary of a Sex Addict, as the wife of an otherwise happily married chef who has a penchant for – well, the clue is in the title.
A move into directing saw her direct and produce Searching for Debra Winger, a documentary about the American actor who left the industry at the height of her career, which was selected for the Cannes film festival. And in 2011, Arquette teamed up with Jane Fonda for comedy drama Peace, Love, and Misunderstanding. On TV, she has popped up everywhere from Will & Grace to Malcolm in the Middle and Ray Donovan.
Now Arquette has a role in “mind-bending new romantic sci-fi” Futra Days, in which she plays a doctor with a time machine for rent, which sounds oddly familiar … Please get your questions in by 6pm BST Wednesday 2 July, and we’ll print her answers in Film&Music later that month.
The UK’s Chief Rabbi has strongly criticised “the airing of vile Jew-hate at Glastonbury” after a live broadcast of Bob Vylan’s performance at the festival went out on the BBC, during which the band’s singer led the crowd in chants of “death, death to the IDF [Israel Defense Forces]”.
Writing on X, Sir Ephraim Mirvis wrote: “This is a time of national shame. The airing of vile Jew-hatred at Glastonbury and the BBC’s belated and mishandled response, brings confidence in our national broadcaster’s ability to treat antisemitism seriously to a new low.
“It should trouble all decent people that now, one need only couch their outright incitement to violence and hatred as edgy political commentary, for ordinary people to not only fail to see it for what it is, but also to cheer it, chant it and celebrate it. Toxic Jew-hatred is a threat to our entire society.
In a statement issued on Monday, the BBC said: “The team were dealing with a live situation but with hindsight we should have pulled the stream during the performance. We regret this did not happen.”
A criminal investigation has now been launched over performances by both Bob Vylan and Irish band Kneecap at Glastonbury on Saturday, Avon and Somerset Police has said.
The force said it had appointed a senior detective to investigate whether comments made by either act amounted to a criminal offence after reviewing footage.
A statement added: “This has been recorded as a public order incident at this time while our enquiries are at an early stage.”
Speaking in Parliament on Monday after the announcement, Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy called the scenes broadcast “appalling and unacceptable”.
Prince Edward receives special title after completing King Charles key mission
Prince Edward received a special title as he performed key tasks assigned by King Charles during his seven-day trip to Canada.
The Prince of Edinburgh visited Prince Edward Island where he was requested by a lady for a hug.
As per CBC, Edward met local resident Barbara Bernard who recalled a sweet interaction with the Prince and shared he was a “good hugger,” a new title for the King’s youngest brother.
She said, “He came over and he was talking and the gesture of his hands went like this.”
Barbara shared that Edward’s gesture represented that he was about to give a hug. “And of course, I said: ‘Is that for me?’”
The woman asked Edward, “Do you want a hug?” She added, “And then he goes ‘ok!’… so, I got to hug him.”
While reacting to the lady’s comments, one fan wrote on X formerly known as Twitter, “How really cute! Nice she got to hug him, he really seems like a warm, charming guy after all so why not.”
Notably, Prince Edward is set to travel to Canada’s capital, Ottawa, on Tuesday to participate in Canada Day celebrations.
Prince Edward is on his first major solo overseas tour since being named Duke of Edinburgh in 2023.
“The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives” scandal, rivalry and viral TikTok dance moves will spill over to the upcoming season of “Dancing With the Stars.”
The final revelation on June 30’s two-hour Season 2 “Mormon Wives” reunion (now streaming on Hulu) featured the shocker – two stars of the Mormon MomTok reality hit will battle it out on Season 34 of the reality ballroom dance show this fall.
Many of the assembled “Mormon Wives” stars had auditioned for “DWTS” − but most didn’t make the cut. Reunion host Nick Viall drew out the suspense, announcing the two new ballroom additions.
Read on to find out who’s hitting the “DWTS” dance floor.
‘Secret Lives of Mormon Wives’: Where to watch Season 2
‘Mormon Wives’ Jennifer Affleck and Whitney Leavitt join ‘DWTS’
Jennifer Affleck, 25, who met her husband Zac Affleck on a Mormon dating app in 2018, tied the knot in June 2019. The couple shares two children (Nora and Lucas) and is expecting their third child together. Affleck has made it clear on the show and in her TikTok dance videos that she has always dreamed of being on “DWTS.”
Whitney Leavitt, 32, arguably the villain of Season 1, Leavitt was the surprise second addition to “DWTS” following Affleck’s reality crowning. After making “DWTS,” the trained dancer and controversial TikTok sensation jumped into the arms of husband Conner Leavitt. The couple welcomed their third child, Billy Gene, in 2024, who joined older children, Sedona and Liam.
Who is already on ‘Dancing With the Stars’ Season 34?
The “Mormon Wives” duo will face off against each other and two already-named “star” contestants with significant social media followings.
Social media influencer Alix Earle, who rose to fame on TikTok with her popular “get ready with me” videos, joined the cast in May.
Robert Irwin, son of late conservationist Steve Irwin and brother of former “DWTS” fan favorite Bindi Irwin, joined the show in April.
“This has been a dream of mine since I was a little kid watching my sister’s incredible journey on the show back in 2016,” Irwin wrote on Instagram. “I cannot believe it is about to become a reality. So grateful.”
More cast members and pro partners will be revealed in the upcoming months. But Season 34 is looking to get crazy.
It says a lot about the complexity of Nic Clear and Hyun Jun Park’s submission that, just by looking at them, judges were sensitised to thinking that their images were – at some point in their evolution – stills from a video, so filmic do they appear in their nature.
But throughout the judging process, the vaguely haunting, digitally created images lingered on in the minds of the judges to see them ultimately materialise in first place.
Academics Clear (a professor at the School of Arts and Humanities, Huddersfield University) and Park (architecture course director, Leeds Beckett University) “capture, edit and manipulate point cloud data to document spaces, create speculative projects and spatial propositions that engage with, and respond to, specific site narratives”.
The Ghost image declares itself “a collage that blurs delineation between actual and virtual”. The 3D laser scan echoes “drawings of Beaux Arts academicism”, rendered as black-and-white overlays of images, feeling like “X-rays” but critically “alluding to issues of time and the patina of age”. Judges responded to the highly composed nature of this image, intimating AI but remaining firmly under the control of the authors.
But it was The WavEs – renders extracted from a point cloud scan video of Virginia Woolf’s garden and writing lodge at Monk’s House, her home in Rodmell, East Sussex – that really excited judges, “tracing dream-like vectors as if motivated by the desire-lines of Woolf’s restless characters”.
“The other work is to some extent just beautiful collage,” observed Samantha Hardingham, “but this one really feels like an evocation or a study of a place in time.”
Koldo Lus Arana agreed with the technical skill and ‘familiarity’ of the former, but said the latter had an “Eadweard Muybridge cinematographic feel – of flattened time passing”.
Mary Duggan felt “compelled to move through the image” while Jan-Carlos Kucharek felt “a strange sense of being drawn through both time and space on paper”.
“The scans are able to capture the garden in ways that appear both substantial and yet ethereal,” wrote Clear. But it was the artful complexity of the layering that somehow reified the drawing, with Lus Arana noting “a highly adept composition that becomes more alive the more you look into it.”
Poisoned Futures? features the works of three internationally acclaimed female photographers and examines how past industrial practices, colonial legacies and extractive mindsets continue to shape our world. In this 2018 image by Gulshan Khan, birds scavenge from the waste at Robinson Deep, Johannesburg’s largest landfill. The exhibition, Poisoned Futures? is at Hundred Heroines in Nailsworth, Gloucestershire, until 28 September
10.05pm, ITV2 Jordan Gray is a cracking new comic talent and her first sitcom is full of zingers. Based on her YouTube videos, it follows a transgender woman, Olivia (Gray), who has been hired by the supermarket boss Simon (Nick Frost) to help save his reputation after an LGBTQ+ marketing faux pas. Lazy Olivia is well aware that this means she can get away with anything without getting fired – and this week she actually tries to get too-nice-to-be-true Millie (Francesca Mills) fired instead. Hollie Richardson
The Traitors NZ
8.05pm, BBC Three Even if you haven’t been following New Zealand’s second series of the hit reality competition franchise, it’s easy for fans of the show to get into the last week of episodes – with the final on Wednesday. Paul Henry is the charismatic host and there are plenty of big characters to up the drama. HR
To Catch a Stalker
9pm, BBC Three “Inflicting pure fear … how is that love?” Both episodes of Zara McDermott’s documentary air on Tuesday, telling the true stories of women who have been stalked by ex-partners and total strangers. It’s accessible but still petrifying – not least when McDermott meets Isobel, whose emergency escape plan involves jumping from the roof of her home. Hannah J Davies
The Yorkshire Vet: At Home With the Greens
9pm, Channel 5 As farmer Steve’s 96th birthday looms, thoughts turn towards his faithful colleague of 70 years, Oddjob – a tractor that looks primed for the scrap heap. While specialist mechanics help with a surprise makeover, a trip to Thirsk market and a stray kitten at a local steel yard make it another gently busy week in North Yorkshire. Jack Seale
10pm, Channel 4
On the case … Emilia Fox and David Wilson. Photograph: Channel 4
Emilia Fox once again joins the criminologist David Wilson and the detective Dr Graham Hill as this true crime series continues. This time, the brutal, unsolved 1991 murder of Vera Anderson is explored. Vera was found strangled in her car – but who dialled her number and caused her to leave her home so suddenly? Phil Harrison
Storyville: The Srebrenica Tape
10pm, BBC Four This deeply emotive personal story set against the mass horrors of the Bosnian war is told by Alisa, who possesses a VHS tape that her father filmed for her during the enclave years of Srebrenica. It sets her on a journey in search of her family’s history. HR
Film choices
The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes (Francis Lawrence, 2023), Netflix
Always singing … Rachel Zegler in The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes Photograph: BFA/Alamy
This needs to be said upfront: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes is a musical. Even though the film’s publicity really did not want you to know about it, this is a film in which Rachel Zegler will not stop singing. But forewarned is forearmed, and once the shock of the genre has worn off, what’s left might be the best Hunger Games movie yet. A prequel, this is an origin story for Coriolanus Snow (the authoritarian ruler played in previous movies by Donald Sutherland), so it gets to exist in the moral murk more happily than the rest of the series. Stuart Heritage
The Damned United (Tom Hooper, 2009), 12am, BBC Two Long before The King’s Speech made him an A-lister (and even longer before Cats blew his career to smithereens), Tom Hooper made probably his best film. A wilfully inaccurate biopic of Brian Clough’s ill-fated stint as manager of Leeds United in 1974, the film is like a tug-of-war between a headstrong individual and an immovable corporation. It is truly fantastic, with Michael Sheen operating at the highest possible level as the cocky, obstinate Clough. A wonderful celebration of a complex man. SH
Live sport
Cricket: women’s international T20, England v India 6pm, Sky Sports Main Event. The second T20 in the five-match series from Bristol.
A third stage to showcase more local musicians will return to a Coventry music festival, enabling it to also celebrate its twin city of Kingston, Jamaica.
The Cov ConneX Kingston Stage will be back at the Godiva Festival after organisers secured funding worth almost £30,000 from National Lottery through Arts Council England.
Around 40 city-based artists will take to the stage over the weekend with styles ranging from rap, grime, afrobeat and reggae to DJs and MCs, all about celebrating local inspiration alongside the sounds of Jamaica.
Councillor Abdul Salam Khan said the stage’s return will add “something extra special and I know it will be a big attraction for all music lovers”.
The headliners this year have been confirmed as Marc Almond, Clean Bandit and Ocean Colour Scene.
Staged in Coventry’s War Memorial Park the council-organised festival runs from Friday until Sunday.
A second stage, called the Cov Stage, will also host local talent.
Councillor Naeem Akhtar described Coventry as a “great musical city.”
“Godiva is loved by so many, and with the music stages supported by a host of other attractions for families and visitors of all ages, it’s going to be another memorable weekend for the city,” he said.
The city of Bath does not fight shy of promoting its Jane Austen connections, tempting in visitors from around the world by organising tours, balls, afternoon teas and writing and embroidery workshops inspired by the author. If you have the inclination, you can buy souvenirs ranging from Jane Austen Top Trumps to a Mr Darcy rubber duck.
But in this, the 250th anniversary year of her birth, an exhibition is being launched daring to point out that in truth Austen wasn’t terribly happy during the five years she lived in the city.
Called The Most Tiresome Place in the World: Jane Austen & Bath, the exhibition at the museum and venue No 1 Royal Crescent highlights the rather miserable time she had in the Georgian city.
Although she disliked Bath, Jane Austen used the city extensively as backdrops in two of her novels, Persuasion and Northanger Abbey. Photograph: Ben Birchall/PA
Izzy Wall, the curator for the exhibition, said: “Bath is known for Jane Austen and I think just about every organisation in Bath, including us, use it. We benefit from the association. But she didn’t like living in the city. She’s got lots of not particularly pleasant things to say about it.”
When Austen was told the family were moving from Hampshire to Bath, she is said to have fainted. “How much that is exaggerated, we’ll never know, but it’s a good story,” Wall said. “She was pulled up from her lovely idyllic country life into a big smoky city.
“We look at Bath today as a beautiful, historic town but in Austen’s time it was still a building site in places. Every house had a smoking chimney and it was lacking in proper sewage. Parts of it, at least, wouldn’t have been the nicest place to be.”
A manuscript of Jane Austen’s unfinished novel The Watsons, which is going on display in Bath in an exhibition looking at her time in the city. Photograph: The Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford,
Austen lived in Bath between 1801 and 1806. In a letter she wrote that features in the exhibition, she described her first view of Bath as “all vapour, shadow, smoke & confusion”.
There was grief in 1805 when Austen’s father caught a fever in Bath and died. “He was frail,” said Wall, “but it was out of the blue, a heartbreaking thing for Jane Austen. Her father was loving and kind and really supportive of her writing. It also meant financial insecurity for the family.”
Wall said Austen barely wrote when she was in Bath. “The only thing she wrote was the start of a novel called The Watsons. She had a go at writing but didn’t get very far.”
Visitors will see a segment of The Watsons manuscript, borrowed from the the Bodleian Libraries in Oxford. It is thought to be the first time it has returned to Bath since Austen wrote it.
Wall said that after the family left Bath for Chawton in Hampshire, Austen became productive again. A letter Austen wrote in 1808 that also appears in the show describes her “happy feelings of Escape!” after leaving Bath.
Though she didn’t like Bath, that doesn’t mean she wasn’t inspired by it. She had visited before the family moved and used the city extensively as backdrops in two of her novels, Persuasion and Northanger Abbey.
Wall said Bath was a key place for Austen. “She was absorbing everything, watching and weaving it into her narratives.” She said fans loved walking in the streets Austen knew. “But we want to lift the lid, scratch the surface and look into the complex relationship she had with the city.”
The title for the exhibition is taken from a conversation in Northanger Abbey between Catherine Morland and Henry Tilney when he says: “For six weeks, I allow Bath is pleasant enough; but beyond that, it is the most tiresome place in the world.”
As well as the exhibition, the house will be running tours, talks and events in a programme funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund.
