Sunday 1 February 2015

Ted Robbins 'stable' after collapsing on stage during Phoenix Nights Live show





TED Robbins is in hospital after collapsing on stage during the opening night of a revival of Peter Kay's Phoenix Nights Live show.


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Tedd Robbins 'stable' after collapsing on stage during Phoenix Nights Live show





TED Robbins is in hospital after collapsing on stage during the opening night of a revival of Peter Kay's Phoenix Nights Live show.


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African-American poet Langston Hughes' birthday marked with Google Doodle





GOOGLE has marked the 113th birthday of African-American poet and activist Langston Hughes with a Doodle on its homepage.


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Val Kilmer says he's awaiting tests but doesn't have tumor

LOS ANGELES (AP) " Val Kilmer confirmed that he is hospitalized and awaiting medical results, but said he has no tumor and hasn't had surgery.In a message on his Facebook page Saturday, the 55-year-old Kilmer said he was in UCLA...


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Twenty years since Manic Street Preachers rocker disappeared

The sister of missing Manic Street Preachers lyricist Richey Edwards has revealed her family's battle to come to terms with his disappearance.This Sunday marks 20 years since the guitarist checked out of a London hotel never to...


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Jesus' cinematic desert journey

Epic is not usually a term associated with films coming out of the Sundance Film Festival, which makes director Rodrigo Garcia's imagined story of Jesus's journey through the desert even more striking.Shot by Gravity and Birdman...


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Wahlberg and Bay reunite for pre-Super Bowl charity event

PARADISE VALLEY, Arizona (AP) " "Transformers" star Mark Wahlberg and director Michael Bay reunited Saturday for a charity event that organizers say raised more than $1 million.The pair served as celebrity hosts for the Big Game...


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'Me and Earl and the Dying Girl' sweeps Sundance Awards

PARK CITY, Utah (AP) " "Me and Earl and the Dying Girl," about a pair of student filmmakers who befriend a girl with cancer, won both the U.S. dramatic audience award and the grand jury prize at the 31st Sundance Film Festival awards,...


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Dueling narratives surround 'Suge' Knight

As Marion "Suge" Knight sat jailed on suspicion of murder, dueling narratives cast him as attacker and victim in the hip-hop music mogul's latest and most serious run-in with the law.Sheriff's deputies said he hit and killed a man...


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Justin Timberlake shares baby news on his 34th birthday

NEW YORK (AP) " It's Justin Timberlake's birthday, but it's another birth date that's on his mind " that of his future son or daughter.The superstar shared a picture of a bulging belly " presumably belonging to wife Jessica Biel...


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You won't believe what Hollywood heavyweight Russell Crowe looks like now





ACTOR Russell Crowe looks every inch the Hollywood heavyweight filming his latest blockbuster.


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Rita adds sparkle - and 10 million viewers - to The Voice





RITA ORA is giving The Voice a touch of magic, helping the BBC talent show to pull in nearly 10 million viewers.


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Louis Armstrong blows his own trumpet on a long-lost recording of Desert Island Discs





LONG-LOST episodes of favourite BBC radio show Desert Island Discs have been found, including one featuring Louis Armstrong.


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Bob Dylan, Hannah Sanders and Cornershop: Album reviews





DYLAN singing live and with no overdubs, wraps that famously wayward slur of a voice around a series of standards once performed by Frank Sinatra


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Actor Craig Parkinson on new drama, Indian Summers: 'It’s a big, ambitious piece'





YOU MAY not recognise his name, but you will his face from Whitechapel, Line Of Duty and Black Books. He now stars in the drama Indian Summers...


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TV round-up: Mr Selfridge, Midsomer Murders, Magna Carta and Fortitude reviews





WHO would be running ITV right now? It is ratings carnage all round. They have even got a show starting this week called Car Crash Britain. That will not go well.


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Mordecai creator David Koepp: 'Directing is not a healthy way to spend your time'





AS A writer, David Koepp’s blockbusters have grossed more than £3.3billion, including Jurassic Park Mission Improssible, Spiderman and War Of The Worlds. He also has a successful career as director. His latest, comedy caper Mortdecai, based on the cult novels by Kyril Bonfiglioli, stars Johnny Depp and Gwyneth Paltrow


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The Hard Problem and Dara at the National Theatre: Reviews





THE HARD PROBLEM is an intellectually clogged, emotionally thin piece, that is neither informative nor illuminating, while in Dara the characters are ciphers, the language stilted, and, notwithstanding Katrina Lindsay’s elegant set, the supposed epic is too small for the Lyttleton stage


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Shaun the Sheep creator Mark Burton: 'You need the emotion to make the comedy funny'





IS AARDMAN Animations about to have its biggest hit at the box office? The Bristol-based company behind Wallace and Gromit is quietly hopeful that after several successful but not quite blockbuster-level movies, including Flushed Away and Arthur Christmas, they might have a global franchise on their hands: all thanks to an unassuming sheep called Shaun.


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Colin Firth is an absurdly posh spy: Kingsman: The Secret Service Review and trailer





AN IRREVERENT, outlandish and violent comic book escapade which veers between inspired nonsense and irritating silliness


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