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Entertainment News brief 8 Oct 2026
Emerging in early-1970s New Zealand, the band turned pop into surreal theatre. Percussionist Noel Crombie was the band’s visual architect, shaping their looks via outlandish costumes...
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Entertainment From dashing romantic reality star to DV charges: how it all went wrong for Bachelor Sam Wood Wood’s cultural prominence, commercial success and now collapse of his empire was shaped by the confected TV narrative into which he stepped Along the main drag of Noosa Heads...
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Entertainment The Starving Bride by Catherine Chidgey review – a girl wastes away in a gothic near-future The New Zealand author’s ninth novel is gorgeously written, but feels tame and almost quaint against the real world of GLP-1 drugs and looksmaxxing Catherine Chidgey’s new...
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Entertainment Women and the Piano album review – Tomes brings her poetic instincts to a rewarding compilation Tomes(Hyperion)From Marianne Martines – taught by the family lodger, Haydn, to Teresa Carreño who played for Lincoln, there’s names new and old in this fascinating and...
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Entertainment Spotify renews multiyear deal with podcaster Joe Rogan Spotify said on Thursday it had signed a new multiyear licensing agreement with podcaster Joe Rogan for "The Joe Rogan Experience", extending a partnership that began in 2020.
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Entertainment Sofia Coppola: ‘I’m glad we weren’t kicked out of Tokyo making Lost in Translation’ The director talks about what she learnt from her mother, working with a rookie Tim Burton, and 20 years of her cult classic Marie Antoinette
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Entertainment ‘It’s not about sex but empowerment’: why I picked a ‘naked’ frock as dress of the year Sarah Burton’s sporty, daffodil mesh dress made me smile. But the reason I chose it for Fashion Museum Bath is because it tells a story of our times, when bodies are more...
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Entertainment Good night, and good lick: what can we expect from George Clooney’s restaurant? The newly-official French citizen is planning to open an Italian restaurant in Provence. Will it float like his tequila brand or sink as swiftly as the Steven Spielberg...
Entertainment Can Ali G: Who Iz I? save character comedy cinema? Sacha Baron Cohen’s new film risks being outdated in a more rancorous era. But could it restore the personality-driven genre to big screens or end it altogether?
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Entertainment ‘Spend time going down rabbit holes’: how the Avalanches created their wildest album yet The Aussie trio explain creating their new record sampling kids’ science shows and Tunisian music – and their surreal film with Haley Joel Osment
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Entertainment Why are we so obsessed with the ‘90s? It was time when IRL was the only life. Now a new exhibition at London’s Tate Britain explores the gritty, DIY creative spirit of the ’90s.
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Entertainment Big Girls Don’t Cry review – a New Zealand teenager finds herself in tender coming-of-age tale Writer-director Paloma Schneideman’s wonderful film follows a 14-year-old in 2006 who pretends to be someone else in a chat room, with real-world consequences
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Entertainment Sheryl Sandberg on finding love and a deeper joy after loss When Sheryl Sandberg husband, Dave Goldberg, died suddenly in 2015 at 47, she believed she would not find love or “pure joy” again, but she has. She talks with Anderson about...
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Entertainment Morning Mail: Pauper’s grave for ‘king of town hall’; Antarctic penguin numbers decline; and The Castle in real life Want to get this in your inbox every weekday? Morning everyone. Our exclusive top story reveals that a well-known Sydney rough sleeper was buried in an unmarked communal grave...
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Entertainment Choral evensong has been on our airwaves for 100 years today. Long may this vibrant, thriving art form continue | Jonathan Davies One hundred years since the BBC first broadcast choral evensong, MP and former chorister Jonathan Davies hymns a beautiful and empowering collective experience that we should...
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Entertainment ‘The Social Reckoning’ looks at how the ‘Facebook Files’ came to light Jeremy Allen White and Oscar winner Mikey Madison star in Aaron Sorkin's follow-up to 'The Social Network.' David Daniel has a preview.
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Entertainment Cruel torment, depraved violence, evil turns: where did TV’s real baddies go? From Carrie’s bullies to Cathy Ames, sympathetic backstories have made villains boring. It’s time to bring back truly awful villains – in all their deliciously sinful glory
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Entertainment The Uprising review – Paul Greengrass turns revolutionary rage into a Robin Hood origin myth Andrew Garfield’s fictional ploughman joins the historical heroes of the 1381 Peasants’ Revolt in a dirt-caked, docudrama-style film with disconcertingly silly moments