4 d. ago Kevin Rutkiewicz reflects on Arthurlie 'privilege' as he leaves after title success

The former Striling Albion boss joined the club in March and helped lead the Barrhead outfit to the First Division title in the West of Scotland League.

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8 d. ago Sean Penn declares Jennifer Lawrence ‘the last movie star’ in Hollywood

Penn says ‘movie star manufacturer ran out’ around the time Hunger Games actor started in Hollywood

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1 week ago What's happened to Sean Penn? Fans horrified by Hollywood star's appearance as he makes bombshell claims

Sean Penn's fans were shocked by the actor's 'rough' appearance on the Louis Theroux Podcast on Monday.

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1 week ago Sean Penn says he’d work with Woody Allen again ‘in a heartbeat’ despite sexual abuse allegations against director

Penn appeared in Allen’s 1999 film ‘Sweet and Lowdown’

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1 week ago Sean Penn says he’d work with Woody Allen again ‘in a heartbeat’

The actor, who was speaking on The Louis Theroux Podcast, also cast new light on his meeting with former Syrian president Bashar al-Assad, and had harsh comments on both Donald Trump and Elon MuskSean Penn has reiterated his defence of Woody Allen, saying he would “work with him in a heartbeat”.Penn was speaking on The Louis Theroux Podcast, and told Theroux that while he felt he didn’t know Allen well enough to know for certain that “100% this didn’t happen”, he said: “The stories are mostly told by people that I wouldn’t trust with a dime. It just seems so heavily weighted in that way.” Continue reading...

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1 week ago Designer Prabal Gurung reflects on tough childhood, resilience and runway success in a new memoir

Designer Prabal Gurung has always been a storyteller

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1 week ago Louis Theroux shares sobering reflection after success of BBC Settlers documentary

Documentarian said the film is a warning about ‘where society may be going in countries across the west’

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2 w. ago If you were shocked by my film on Israeli settlers in the West Bank, you haven’t been paying attention | Louis Theroux

The response to The Settlers has been humbling. But the ongoing displacement and intimidation of Palestinians is more severe than we could captureIt wasn’t something I saw coming. A film about the situation in the West Bank – an evergreen story if ever there was one – going viral. Appreciation, dismay, gratitude, outrage at what the film showed Through the week it kept going. More retweets, more feedback, a little bit of pushback. Shock was the theme of many messages – the idea that this was going on. And a feeling of: “At last.” “At last, mainstream British TV is saying something about what is happening.”The film was a follow-up of sorts. In 2010, I’d made a documentary called Ultra Zionists. It was a look at the Israeli religious nationalist community that exists in the West Bank – the area across the eastern edge of Israel that has been under military occupation since the six-day war of 1967. Now, a decade and a half on, with the world’s attention on Gaza, it was being reported t...

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2 w. ago 'BBC's The Settlers is Louis Theroux at his best showing humanity at its worst'

Documentary-maker Louis Theroux takes the divisive Israeli settlements in Palestine as his subject. Amnesty International describe the crisis as a 'genocide', while an interviewee in The Settlers says it is 'normal'

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2 w. ago Last of Us star Bella Ramsey reveals details of agonising condition that left them housebound 'for months'

Speaking on The Louis Theroux Podcast, the actor described the condition as 'all-encompassing' that resulted in them being unable to leave their home.

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2 w. ago Palestinian activist says home raided ‘in revenge’ for appearing in Louis Theroux documentary

Issa Amro shares videos of confrontations with balaclava-clad military who he claims ‘want revenge’ after the BBC film The SettlersA Palestinian activist who appeared in a Louis Theroux documentary about settlers in the West Bank has reportedly had his home raided by Israeli soldiers.Issa Amro, co-founder of the non-violent activist group Youth Against Settlements, shared videos on social media of confrontations with Israeli military at his home, and another of a group of Israeli settlers forcing entry to the property. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Louis Theroux praised for TV return in ‘masterpiece’ documentary

Interviewer revisited Palestinian West Bank 14 years after his documentary ‘Ultra Zionists’

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3 w. ago CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews Louis Theroux: The Settlers on BBC2: Theroux's bumbling gaucheness is wearing uncomfortably thin...

Mae West made her final movie, Sextette, when she was 84. She stars as a movie queen so irresistible that an entire squad of athletes are desperate to seduce her.

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3 w. ago Louis Theroux: The Settlers paints a grim picture of life in the West Bank

Fourteen years after his first trip to the illegal Israeli settlements in Palestine, Theroux returns to find entrenched hostility, tacit government endorsement and a worsening security situation

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