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The second act of Sam Neill: ‘The truth was, I didn’t know how long I had to live’

He is one of the world’s best actors – but can still go to Starbucks without anyone recognising him. He discusses cancer, remission, happiness, fame and video nastiesSam Neill, 76, is speaking to me via Zoom from Vancouver, where he is filming Untamed, a new Netflix series. We’re

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Artwork removed from National Portrait Gallery after row over Churchill’s role in Bengal f

Turner prize winner Helen Cammock withdraws piece after 50 peers criticise claim former PM ‘starved people’An artwork by a Turner prize-winning artist has been removed from the National Portrait Gallery (NPG) after a row about the role Winston Churchill played in the 1943 Bengal

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‘Like a phoenix rising from its ashes’: queer Muslim life in France – in pictures

Camille Farrah Lenain’s tender photo book Made of Smokeless Fire was inspired by grief for her gay uncle Farid. ‘He left without answering the questions I had for him,’ she says Continue reading...

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Grand Theft Auto VI pre-orders open, but don’t expect a physical copy

The blockbuster launch is expected to dwarf the box office takings of the year’s biggest movies with one industry analyst predicting it could make $1bn within an hourIt is, quite simply, the most anticipated piece of entertainment since the Star Wars prequels and now, at last, yo

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‘Have more joy! Believe in yourself!’ Legally Blonde is back – as a life-affirming TV preq

Reese Witherspoon’s 00s movie is a beloved cult classic – and now she’s using a spinoff to battle these dark times. The creators of Elle talk miniskirts, car phones and why people need to take teenage girls more seriouslyIf there’s a young adult romance on TV, we millennial women

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To mischief born: Penelope Keith was a class comic act both on and off stage

The actor’s sophisticated sense of humour and natural ability to make everyone laugh were there long before her famous sitcom rolesA life in picturesPenelope Keith: the most spectacular sitcom snob ever to grace our screensPenelope Keith, who has died aged 86, became justly famou

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Show me the funny: essential comedy at Edinburgh fringe 2026

Elf Lyons mixes humour and heartbreak, Frank Skinner works the crowd, Kristen Schaal returns with a secret – and one man sings the same song over and over againNo fringe festival has been complete in recent years without some oddball clown confection – usually animal-based – from

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Lily Allen defends length of West End Girl shows: ‘I don’t want anyone to feel ripped off’

Singer has likened live show to theatre rather than a conventional concert but fans have criticised the performances and lack of crowd interactionLily Allen has defended the live tour of her latest album West End Girl, after fans complained about feeling short-changed by the 55-m

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Elle review – this Legally Blonde prequel recreates the genius of Reese Witherspoon’s perf

The original star is behind this TV spin-off, and the casting of charismatic Lexi Minetree. Sadly, the tropey script and lack of campness mean it fails to really sparkleIt’s 25 years since you became a bona fide film star. In the intervening quarter of a century you have stayed a

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Seasonal Quartet: Ali Smith and New European Ensemble review – words and music connect

Spitalfields festival, LondonNew pieces written in response to the novelist’s works by Kate Moore, Alice Yeung, Seung-Won Oh and Sara Zamboni made for ravishing harmonies and interplay in an unusual concertWhy write words about music, Hans Keller once asked, when you could just w

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Underground Monk Show: inside Edinburgh fringe’s cult comedy of the highest order

This late-night escapade became a word-of-mouth festival favourite. The show’s creators discuss the method behind its madness – and why you’ll laugh without knowing whyDeep within the cavernous Banshee Labyrinth in Edinburgh’s Cowgate, robed monks stand ominously on stage after m

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Shahrnush Parsipur, Iranian author of Women Without Men, dies at 80

The revered writer and political exile’s publisher says her ‘legacy in literary history can’t be compared to anyone else’s’Shahrnush Parsipur, the celebrated Iranian writer whose subversive works of feminist fiction saw her repeatedly imprisoned, has died aged 80.A pioneer of wom

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