43 h. ago Sunset Boulevard review – Hollywood never looked more glorious or more tragic

Gloria Swanson is extraordinary as faded film-star Norma Desmond in Billy Wilder’s cameo-packed self-referential masterpiece about tinseltown ghosts and delusionsBilly Wilder’s film starring Gloria Swanson as a reclusive former silent movie star, and William Holden as a young wannabe writer who becomes her kept man, more than ever looks not merely like tinseltown satire or LA noir, but a ghost story. It’s the ultimate film about how the screenwriter is always the loser and the chump. You can tell that Norma Desmond (Swanson) is washed up because she has actually written a screenplay – which is, however, more than Joe (Holden) ever achieves in the course of this film.Sunset Boulevard’s own script, co-written by Wilder with Charles Brackett and DM Marshman Jr, is of course superb. And after 75 years, we can appreciate the movie’s sober judgment about the dangers of cinephilia and Hollywood ancestor worship. The street name itself, with its dying fall, is an occult omen of the eerie an...

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3 d. ago 50 Cent responds to criticism of his new Diddy documentary in light of long

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2 w. ago Inside El Salvador’s hellish supermax prison: Migrant detainees deported by Trump tell of harrowing abuse and torture

The Trump administration deported dozens of alleged members of a Venezuelan gang to El Salvador earlier this year as part of the US’s migration crackdown

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3 w. ago Diddy has prison release date pushed BACK amid allegations of 'drinking moonshine'

Sean ' Diddy ' Combs will remain behind bars longer than previously expected, as his release date was pushed back amid claims he drank moonshine and made an unauthorized three-way call.

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3 w. ago Actor Allison Mack reveals role in Nxivm sex cult in new podcast: ‘I was abusive’

Smallville actor, released from prison two years ago, tells how she helped coerce women for cult leader Keith RaniereThe Smallville actor Allison Mack says she was once riveted by the influence she wielded through her role in the Nxivm sex cult – though it eventually sent her to federal prison, and she now realizes it was “abusive”.“I was excited by the power that I felt having these young, beautiful women look to me and listen to me,” Mack, 43, maintains in a new podcast series titled Allison After Nxivm, which contains her first public remarks since her release from prison about two years ago. “And – yes – the sexuality of it was exciting.” Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Diddy responds to claim he was 'caught drinking moonshine' in prison despite telling judge he is sober as he serves four

Combs, 56, 'has not violated any prison rules,' his spokesperson said, adding that the musical artist is looking to keep clean while serving his sentence.

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3 w. ago Diddy 'caught drinking moonshine in prison' after telling judge he is sober

Diddy was caught drinking homemade prison moonshine in his cell despite insisting to a judge that he is sober.

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