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[Link] Sean Penn calls for billionaire to step up and buy aircraft for Ukraine

Read: 3/4/2022 www.theguardian.com

The Hollywood actor Sean Penn has called for a billionaire to come forward and buy two squadrons of F-15 or F-16 aircraft for Ukraine in an unlikely attempt to tip the scales against the Russian invaders in the five-week-old war.

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[Link] Bruce Willis’s ‘worst performance’ award from Razzies show revoked after diagnosis

Read: 3/4/2022 www.theguardian.com

The organizers of the Razzies parody awards show have rescinded Bruce Willis’s 2021 award in light of the actor’s recently disclosed aphasia diagnosis.

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[Link] Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your phones: how tech and shock jocks hacked Julius Caesar

Read: 28/11/2021 www.theguardian.com

The new Sydney Theatre Company production of Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar is a “mad ride”, according to Guardian Australia reviewer Steve Dow – a production fizzing with viral imagery, TikTok rightwing conspiracy theorists, smartphone tech, Instagram wellness gurus and the unpredictable energ

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[Link] An Olive Branch to My Enemy Mayim Bialik

Read: 18/11/2021 www.gawker.com

Twice now, I have used my platform to decry all things Mayim Bialik. I don’t think she’s very charismatic, and I think her whole nerdy contrarian thing is extremely grating. However, I am not above admitting that there is one acting role that clearly should have gone to her.

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[Link] Jet Li Abandoned ‘The Matrix’ Sequels Despite Nearly a Year of Involvement Because He Saw His Life’s Work Be ‘Copyrighted by the Americans’

Read: 17/11/2021 www.cheatsheet.com

Jet Li is mostly known to his fans for his involvement in high-action movies such as Lethal Weapon, The Forbidden Kingdom, and The Expendables, to name a few.

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[Link] 'She was my friend': Alec Baldwin breaks silence on death of Halyna Hutchins for first time on camera

Read: 31/10/2021 www.abc.net.au

Actor Alec Baldwin has spoken publicly for the first time on camera about the accidental shooting on the set of a film that killed cinematographer Halyna Hutchins, in a video released by TMZ.

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[Link] More Live Bullets Found on ‘Rust’ Set After Alec Baldwin Shooting, Police Say

Read: 27/10/2021 www.vice.com

Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. Police have recovered three guns and hundreds of rounds of ammunition, both dummy and live, from the Rust movie set, according to a press conference Wednesday. Among the evidence collected was the Colt .

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[Link] Marvel Enthusiasts Angered by Non-Spoiler

Read: 20/10/2021 www.vice.com

Marvel fans are apoplectic that a journalist who attended a preview screening of the upcoming Eternals had spoiled the movie. It’s unclear what, exactly, was spoiled.

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[Link] The Big Bang Theory Star Explains Their Falling Out With Neil Patrick Harris

Read: 17/10/2021 comicbook.com

Retelling, and giving more detail to, a story she has told before, The Big Bang Theory star Mayim Bialik took to late night recently to revive an old conflict she had with How I Met Your Mother's Neil Patrick Harris.

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[Link] Daniel Craig says he goes to gay bars to avoid fights at straight venues

Read: 15/10/2021 www.theguardian.com

From his portrayal of a more vulnerable Bond to his cerise suit jacket on the red carpet, Daniel Craig has worked hard to defy expectations of masculinity – so it came as little surprise when the actor revealed he liked to frequent gay bars to avoid the “aggressive dick swinging” of hetero spa

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[Link] Actors ‘told they’re too disabled’ for disabled roles in UK television

Read: 24/8/2021 www.theguardian.com

Actors have been told they are “too disabled” to play disabled roles in popular television series, with parts instead going to able-bodied people, according to a leading screenwriter who has called for television companies to adopt quotas for people with disabilities.

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[Link] Jennifer Coolidge: ‘I’d been self-destructing at home for months, eating pizza all day’

Read: 9/8/2021 www.theguardian.com

Boston-born Jennifer Coolidge, 59, trained at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts and joined improv comedy troupe the Groundlings. She’s a regular in director Christopher Guest’s mockumentary films, including Best in Show, A Mighty Wind and For Your Consideration.

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[Link] Matt Damon reveals he only recently stopped using homophobic slur

Read: 3/8/2021 www.theguardian.com

Matt Damon has been heavily criticized after revealing that he has only recently stopped using a well-known homophobic slur, after being told by his daughter that it was unacceptable.

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