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Today — 6 April 2025Latest Entertainment News

The sad decline of Gore Vidal, America’s most acerbic writer and fearsome feuder

6 April 2025 at 22:00

As the world approaches the centenary of the celebrated novelist, television pundit and all-around man of letters, Martin Chilton recalls his greatest work, most withering putdowns, and chronicles a career that devolved into ‘crackpot’ conspiracy theories, illness and, perhaps most depressing of all, boredom

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Like it or not, Kevin & Perry Go Large was proud British cinema – now it’s all but gone

6 April 2025 at 22:00

Twenty-five years ago, Harry Enfield and Kathy Burke played libidinous teenage monsters in one of the most successful Britflicks in UK box office history. Since then, the British film industry has become crisis-stricken and largely Americanised, writes Adam White. Where did all the local stories go?

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Yesterday — 5 April 2025Latest Entertainment News

‘The police were scared there would be riots’: When Wham! took Western pop to China 

5 April 2025 at 22:00

The CIA wanted them to spy as well as perform. The Communist Party insisted that fans were not to dance to them or learn their ways. Forty years ago, George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley were the first Western band to tour China – Mark Beaumont revisits an event that influenced both Cantopop and the rebellion in Tiananmen Square

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How a grieving museum guard found healing in art – then a bestselling memoir and a play

5 April 2025 at 22:00

In 2008, Patrick Bringley took up a post as a security guard at the Metropolitan Museum of Art after the untimely death of his older brother. Now, 17 years later, he’s preparing to talk about his experience in an off-Broadway play inspired by his bestselling memoir. Tom Murray joins Bringley where it all began: the Met

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