18 h. ago Blair Kinghorn makes Toulouse return but is denied clash against Scotland teammate

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38 h. ago England confirm major changes to coaching staff as Lee Blackett joins from Bath

The arrival of highly-rated attack coach Blackett sees Richard Wigglesworth take on a new role in charge of defence

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63 h. ago Dragons v Scarlets team news as Jake Ball makes Welsh rugby return in derby

The Dragons host the Scarlets at Rodney Parade this weekend for their final pre-season friendly

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64 h. ago Self Esteem to star as raging rock star in revival of David Hare’s Teeth ’n’ Smiles

Rebecca Lucy Taylor will play Maggie, a role originated by Helen Mirren, in a ‘landmark’ 50th anniversary production in London in MarchFifty years after Helen Mirren originated the role, Rebecca Lucy Taylor AKA Self Esteem is to play a raging rock star in a West End revival of Teeth ’n’ Smiles by David Hare.It will take Taylor back to the Duke of York’s theatre, where she performed a four-night “theatrical presentation” of her third album, A Complicated Woman, in April. In Hare’s 1975 play she takes the lead role of a singer, Maggie, in an imploding band who put on a concert for a Cambridge University May ball at the end of the 1960s. The mood is summed up by the band’s closing number, Last Orders on the Titanic. Taylor will contribute additional music and lyrics to original song by the brothers Nick and Tony Bicât respectively. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Actor's transformation into Marlon Brando is so convincing the Hollywood legend's daughter can't tell them apart, but can you?

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3 d. ago Cillian Murphy dispels Harry Potter casting rumors and wishes ‘good luck’ to whoever takes over role

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3 d. ago First advocate to support victims after major incidents appointed

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4 d. ago Conor McGregor announces deal with Donald Trump's son amid presidency bid

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5 d. ago Darcy Graham return date as update given on Edinburgh Lions contingent

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5 d. ago Rugby legend Richie McCaw makes shock return after dramatic weight loss and heroic act

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5 d. ago East Kilbride Rugby Club announce return of popular coach following Franklin Clark exit

Allan Steel is back at Torrance House for another spell at the helm

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6 d. ago The One Show guest Susan Sarandon admits she’s ‘terrified’ taking on new role with British star

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6 d. ago Iconic TV pathologists dissected as Peter Andre takes on unlikely new role in murder mystery series

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6 d. ago Today's rugby news as Jac Morgan returns after turning down coach's offer

The latest rugby news stories from Wales and around the world

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7 d. ago Douglas Alexander ‘looking forward to being Scotland’s voice’

The new Scottish Secretary formally takes up the role on Monday.

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1 week ago Wales rugby player who was dead for 17 minutes takes next step back to rugby

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1 week ago I had transfer offers but want to be a Man City leader this season

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Former pro wrestler Johnson takes on the role of man-mountain Kerr who goes into meltdown when the unthinkable happens – he losesBenny Safdie has written and directed a solid bro drama for the UFC fanbase and maybe a little way beyond. It is about the central crisis in the life of man-mountain Mark Kerr, America’s pioneering MMA and ultimate fighting champ, who in 1997 found himself in the ring, or maybe the cage, with his demons after the unthinkable humiliation of losing for the first time.This feature is in fact developed from a 2002 documentary about Kerr with the same title. He confronted his substance abuse, relationship anxieties and the question of what the heck life is for if you can’t simply win all the time. Kerr is played by Dwayne Johnson, a colossus of muscle topped off with a head the size of Indiana Jones’s boulder, a body on which the only visible fat is rippling at the nape of his neck. Johnson’s appearance is modified by close-cut frizzy hair and facial prosthetic...

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1 week ago The Smashing Machine review – Dwayne Johnson only possible casting as crisis

Former pro wrestler Johnson takes on the role of man-mountain Kerr who goes into meltdown when the unthinkable happens – he losesBenny Safdie has written and directed a solid bro drama for the UFC fanbase and maybe a little way beyond. It is about the central crisis in the life of man-mountain Mark Kerr, America’s pioneering MMA and ultimate fighting champ, who in 1997 found himself in the ring, or maybe the cage, with his demons after the unthinkable humiliation of losing for the first time.This feature is in fact developed from a 2002 documentary about Kerr with the same title. He confronted his substance abuse, relationship anxieties and the question of what the heck life is for if you can’t simply win all the time. Kerr is played by Dwayne Johnson, a colossus of muscle topped off with a head the size of Indiana Jones’s boulder, a body on which the only visible fat is rippling at the nape of his neck. Johnson’s appearance is modified by close-cut frizzy hair and facial prosthetic...

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