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  Isle of Wight County Press

  Self-styled 'eighth wonder of the world' bringing tour to Medina Theatre

  Billed as the UK’s funniest redhead, La Voix is hot footing it across the UK with her live band in a brand new show for 2022 - The Eighth Wonder.

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  The Telegraph

  Ava, review: Elizabeth McGovern is a splendid screen siren, but the play's a drag

  In the late 1980s, with money tight and her health wrecked by much smoking, drinking and a stroke that had left her partially paralysed, former Hollywood goddess Ava Gardner decided to do what she had forsworn: tell her life story.

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  Evening Standard

  Ava: The Secret Conversations review: a lazy portrait from Elizabeth McGovern

  2/5 This self-created star vehicle from the Downton actor needs a better script

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  The Telegraph

  Elizabeth McGovern: my daughters helped me understand sexism in Hollywood

  Elizabeth McGovern makes a zip gesture across her mouth and giggles. I am quizzing her about her new film, Downton Abbey: A New Era, in which she reprises the role of Lady Cora. Fan forums are currently ablaze with the question of whether Maggie Smith’s Dowager Countess will die. Smith is in the trailer for the new film (in the set-up), but I note she is absent from a big wedding scene clip shown later. I ask McGovern whether the peppery octogenarian Crawley has finally given up the ghost? She i

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  HuffPost UK

  Les Dennis Pokes Fun At Past Amanda Holden Relationship With Bob The Builder Gag

  The former Family Fortunes host and Britain's Got Talent judge were previously married for eight years.

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  The Independent

  What 10 former child stars have said about surviving the spotlight

  Including Daniel Radcliffe, Miley Cyrus and Selena Gomez

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  The Guardian

  I Blame Society review – film-maker turns serial killer in uneven black comedy

  I Blame Society review – film-maker turns serial killer in uneven black comedy. Sometimes funny, often annoying, director Gillian Wallace Horvat’s film tells us what happens when your script is rejected one time too many

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  The Telegraph

  Behind Ava Gardner's tough talking: ‘I’m scared, baby, scared’

  ‘I’m so f------ tired of being Ava Gardner,” said Ava Gardner, shortly before her death in 1990. It’s not hard to appreciate her fatigue. For decades the tabloids had been following and encouraging her rambunctiousness: Ava Gardner Drunk on Arrival at Hotel. Ava Gardner Smashes Up Hotel Suite. Ava Gardner Hurls Champagne Glass at Hotel Manager. It was all in a day’s work for the star to scuffle with photographers, their cameras crashing to the pavement. Nor were co-stars and suitors immune from

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  The Independent

  Gone with the Wind and beyond: 9 films that were trailed by racist controversy

  A reckoning over racist entertainment has emerged in recent days. Little Britain has been axed from BBC iPlayer. Gone with the Wind has been temporarily pulled from the fledgling US streaming platform HBO Max. The international Black Lives Matter protests haven’t just targeted police brutality and systemic racism, but the long shadow of racism hanging over popular culture and the media – the jokes designed to hurt, the films that glorified racism of the past, and the stars previously permitted t

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  The Telegraph

  Blues in the Night, Kiln theatre, review: this show will transfix you

  Early on in the 1941 film Blues in the Night, there’s a moment of unforced wonder in which the titular blues song gets warbled in a St Louis jail by a wistful black prisoner. He’s in a crowded cell but he’s all alone, singing his broken heart out – and the (white) heroes, in a neighbouring cell, rise up, in awe: “That’s the real misery, ain’t it boys?” exclaims jazz pianist Jigger. “That’s the real lowdown New Orleans blues.” It wasn’t the ‘real’ blues, actually; the song was written by those ‘T

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