32 h. ago ‘I dealt with everyone at a distance’: what do Joan Didion’s therapy diaries reveal about guilt, motherhood and writing?

The writer’s previously unpublished notes from her sessions with a psychiatrist offer an incredibly intimate insight into her relationship with her daughter, depression and creativityLast month, the New York Public Library opened the doors on one of its most thrilling acquisitions of recent times: the archive of Joan Didion and her husband and collaborator John Gregory Dunne. After two years of preparation, both scholars and anyone with a library card can arrange a visit to pore over the material contained in a total of 336 boxes of correspondence, photographs and screenplays from the couple’s joint projects, which included the 1976 version of A Star Is Born and the film that in 1971 provided Al Pacino with his first leading role, The Panic in Needle Park.Alongside material evidence of two long writing careers, there is much that is deeply personal: paperwork recording the naming of orchids in honour of Didion, Dunne and their adopted daughter Quintana, the couple’s only child;...

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47 h. ago Judge approves Harvey Weinstein’s request to sleep at hospital during retrial

Ex-media boss moved from Rikers Island jail to Manhattan hospital as he awaits rape and sexual assault retrialHarvey Weinstein has been moved to a New York City hospital after a judge approved the ailing ex-studio boss’s request to stay there rather than in jail when he is not in court for his retrial on rape and sexual assault charges.The judge, Paul Goetz, late on Thursday ordered that Weinstein, 73, be immediately relocated from the city’s notorious Rikers Island jail complex to the prison ward at Bellevue hospital in Manhattan so he can receive necessary medical treatment. Continue reading...

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49 h. ago Man sentenced in connection with serious sexual assaults in Lanarkshire over 14

James McCall, from Pudsey in Leeds, was found guilty of nine charges including four of rape and two of assault against two women and was given a 17-year extended sentence with 12 years in custody on Wednesday, April 16, at the High Court in Glasgow.

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54 h. ago 'Star Wars' fans wave lightsabers as an upcoming film gets announced in Japan

The Force was with many Japanese, as well as visitors from abroad, at a “Star Wars” event where Lucasfilm announced that the next installation in the franchise will hit theaters in May 2027 starring Ryan Gosling

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56 h. ago Ryan Gosling to lead new Star Wars film set for 2027 release

The standalone film is described as ‘a new adventure’

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57 h. ago Rylan Gosling to lead new Star Wars film with title revealed

Titled Star Wars: Starfighter, the movie comes from Deadpool & Wolverine director Shawn Levy.

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58 h. ago 'Best war film viewers have ever seen' with unexpected cameo from huge star

The historical war film was a box office smash hit and saw the acting debut of one of the world's biggest stars alongside Oscar-winning actors and a huge twist

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3 d. ago Critically acclaimed action film starring unlikely Breaking Bad star airing on TV tonight

The drama series is regarded as one of the best show's of all time

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3 d. ago Wilmer Hutchins High School shooter is seen sneaking through 'unsecured' door before unleashing hail of bullets

Tracy Haynes Jr., 17, has been charged with aggravated assault mass shooting after he injured five students amid the rampage at Wilmer Hutchins High School in Dallas.

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4 d. ago Teen girls kicked one victim in the head and demanded another kiss their feet

The 13 and 14 year-old girls pleaded guilty to charges of assault and blackmail at Cardiff Youth Court

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4 d. ago Netflix fans can't stop watching Daredevil Born Again star's forgotten film

The story is a new take on historical figures

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4 d. ago Johnny Depp unrecognisable with long grey hair and new eyes for Hollywood return

Actor Johnny Depp looks very different after he recently landed a role in an upcoming film that marks the star's comeback to the silver screen after years of very public personal and legal issues

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4 d. ago Natalie Portman, 43, talks her 'Lolita phase' and being sexualized as a young star after making film debut at 12

Portman, 43, recalled being 'excited' to start a family with someone she 'was in love with' as she talked raising kids as a former child star herself.

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5 d. ago Harvey Weinstein’s New York retrial is about to begin. Here’s where his cases stand

The Hollywood powerhouse, who’s been behind bars on rape and assault charges, faces his third trial this week after a court tossed his New York conviction

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5 d. ago Man charged with attempted murder after three teens 'stabbed' in Edinburgh

Amar Mudawi was charged with danger to life and attempted murder, assault to severe injury, permanent disfigurement and robbery.

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5 d. ago Two kids arrested on assault charge after teen left in hospital

Police confirmed that they charged a 12 and a 13-year-old in connection with an assault which left a 13-year-old girl in hospital on Friday, April 11.

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5 d. ago Nearly half of fox hunts in Scotland fold since 2023 crackdown on blood sport

SUNDAY MAIL EXCLUSIVE: Dumfriesshire and Stewartry Foxhounds is latest to shut down - weeks after one of its hunstmen was charged with assault.

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5 d. ago Gavin and Stacey film: Star says he floated idea to BBC boss

Gavin and Stacey star Larry Lamb has said he suggested the idea of a film adaptation of beloved sitcom to BBC director general Tim Davie.

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5 d. ago Gavin And Stacey film adaptation raised by star of sitcom with BBC director general

Larry Lamb plays Gavin Shipman's father in the much-loved BBC sitcom

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5 d. ago Taggart star and 'mother of Scottish film' Paddy Higson dies aged 83

Her children Michael, Chris and Frances announced the news in a Facebook post on Monday, revealing she was 'surrounded by love' in her final hours.

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