4 h. ago Michael Douglas, 80, steps back from acting with 'no real intentions' of return

Oscar-winning Hollywood legend Michael Douglas hasn't worked since 2022 and has now said he has "no real intentions" of appearing on the screen again in a sad update

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6 h. ago Michael Douglas, 80, shares retirement plans amid fears he'll 'drop dead on set' after cancer battle

The Basic Instinct star outlined his plans for the film industry after six decades of acting

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8 h. ago Michael Douglas says he ‘has no intention’ of acting again after six decades

‘I have not worked since 2022 purposely because I realised I had to stop,’ the ‘Wall Street’ star said

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10 h. ago Michael Douglas says he has ‘no real intentions’ of acting again: ‘I had to stop’

The 80-year-old, two-time Oscar winner said he had been ‘working pretty hard for almost 60 years’ – and is ‘quite happy’ watching his wife Catherine Zeta-Jones workTwo-time Oscar winner Michael Douglas has revealed he may be finished with acting, saying he has “no real intentions” to return to the industry.Speaking at the Karlovy Vary international film festival in the Czech Republic for the 50th anniversary of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest – which Douglas co-produced – the 80-year-old actor and producer told a press conference that unless “something special came up” for him, he would not act again. Continue reading...

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14 h. ago Michael Douglas, 80, explains why he has 'no real intentions' of acting ever again

The silver screen legend, 80, said that he has officially retired from acting during a press conference at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival in the Czech Republic.

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4 d. ago It’s Always Sunny star says big ‘worry’ about sitcom almost made him quit

Actor said he felt ‘anxious’ after the series entered its second decade on air

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4 d. ago It’s Always Sunny star says big ‘worry’ about the series almost made him quit

Actor said he felt ‘anxious’ after the sitcom entered its second decade on air

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8 d. ago Palestine Action is part of Britain's proud history of protest. Proscribing it is an assault on democracy | Suresh Grover

Through decades of anti-racist campaigning, I have seen that peaceful, direct action can be the only way to get results Suresh Grover is founder of the Southall Monitoring Group and has led campaigns to help the families of Stephen Lawrence, Zahid Mubarek and Victoria ClimbiéThe facts are not disputed. On 20 June, two activists spray-painted two RAF Voyager aircraft at Brize Norton, where flights regularly leave for RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus. No person inside the compound was harmed.At worst, these actions may amount to offences around criminal damage and trespass. The former justice secretary Lord Falconer has stated that the action at Brize Norton would not justify outlawing the group.Suresh Grover is founder of the Southall Monitoring Group and has led campaigns to help the families of Stephen Lawrence, Zahid Mubarek and Victoria Climbié Continue reading...

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9 d. ago EastEnders legend Haluk Bilginer looks unrecognisable after making dramatic TV return

Early fans of BBC soap EastEnders may not have recognised an actor who returned decades later to star in a BBC2 series, with his social media also showing him in a different light

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1 week ago Putin warns Keir Starmer 'I majored in law' as he claims UK has 'robbed' Russia

Russia President Vladimir Putin is seemingly playing a game of 'I'm a bigger lawyer than you' with UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer, despite not actually doing anything law-related for decades

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1 week ago I spent 12 years performing the ultimate Gary Barlow lookalike tribute act on cruises – people mistake me for him all the time

A Gary Barlow lookalike who has spent more than a decade performing as a cruise tribute act to the star says he is frequently mistaken for the singer in public.

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1 week ago Brits urged to take action as cases of serious infection reach highest levels in a decade

Infections that cause diarrhoea and vomiting have hit their highest levels in the UK for a decade

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1 week ago Antarctic ice has grown again – but this does not buck overall melt trend

Study shows ice sheet gained mass from 2021 to 2023, due to extreme snowfall that was also an effect of climate crisisA new study shows that after decades of rapid decline, the Antarctic ice sheet actually gained mass from 2021 to 2023. This is a reminder that climate change does not follow a smooth path but a jagged one, with many small ups and downs within a larger trend.The research, published in the journal Science China Earth Sciences, showed that while the ice sheet lost an average of 142bn tonnes each year in the 2010s, in the 2021 to 2023 period it gained about 108bn tonnes of ice each year. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Adeel Akhtar: ‘It seemed late in the day to start noticing Asian actors we’ve been here a really long time’

He’s had supporting roles in almost every big TV show of the past few years, but now the man nicknamed Ideal Actor is taking the lead on stage, playing a top politician. He talks about challenging perceptions, being detained by the FBI and ‘redefining the idea of the everyman’A decade ago, it would have been rare to have an Asian actor playing the British prime minister or leader of the opposition. But in the space of a couple of years, Adeel Akhtar has done both. He was the PM in the Netflix drama Black Doves, which took the world by storm last year, and now he’s stepping into the shoes of a man vying to be leader of the opposition at London’s National Theatre.For Akhtar, who has been working as an actor for more than two decades, there has been an undeniable shift in the kind of roles he’s been offered in recent years. The British Asian experience is no longer a niche subject. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Iran is the enemy Netanyahu has always wanted to destroy. Even from their bomb shelters, most Israelis support his war | Aluf Benn

Within Israel, Iran is seen as the ultimate threat. The prime minister knows this is his chance to rewrite his bloodied legacy “It’s 1938 and Iran is Germany The Jewish people will not allow a second Holocaust.” Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, recited slogans like these incessantly for decades, urging action against the gravest threat to the Jewish state – a nuclear-armed Iran. He conveyed the message to successive US presidents. He presented a bomb cartoon at the UN. At countless Holocaust memorial events he described Iran’s nuclear ambitions as the present-day “final solution”.Netanyahu talked and talked about the pressing Iranian threat, but his listeners were not convinced. They dismissed him as an alarmist whose deadline Iran crossed year after year without deploying a nuclear weapon (it still hasn’t). Netanyahu’s critics at home taunted him as a chicken who would never dare to attack Iran’s nuclear installations – unlike his more decisive predecessors, who had ord...

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2 w. ago CDC vaccine panel to review ingredient RFK Jr has targeted for removal

ACIP panel to discuss influenza vaccines that contain thimerosal, which Kennedy called ‘dangerous’ in 2014 bookA key vaccine advisory panel reconstituted by health secretary and vaccine skeptic Robert F Kennedy Jr is slated to discuss thimerosal-containing influenza vaccines in its first meeting – an ingredient which has been a fixation of anti-vaccine activists for decades.The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) will hold two separate votes later this month: one on “influenza vaccines” and one on influenza vaccines that contain thimerosal. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago ‘We’re all connected – but it’s not the connection I imagined’: Hideo Kojima on Death Stranding 2

The legendary video game designer discusses directing actors in Mexico from Japan, how Mad Max inspired his career and the unique reason why he wants to go to spaceHideo Kojima – the acclaimed video game director who helmed the stealth-action Metal Gear series for decades before founding his own company to make Death Stranding, a supernatural post-apocalyptic delivery game this publication described as “2019’s most interesting blockbuster” – is still starstruck, or perhaps awestruck. “George [Miller] is my sensei, my God,” he proclaims gleefully.Kojima is visiting Australia for a sold-out chat with Miller, the creator of the Mad Max film franchise, at the Sydney film festival. The two struck up an unlikely but fierce friendship nearly a decade ago, and Kojima says that, as a teenager, the first two Mad Max films inspired him to become a movie director and thus, eventually, a video game maker. At the panel later, Miller is equally effusive, calling Kojima “almost my brother”; the Aus...

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2 w. ago Tom Cruise, 62, is FINALLY getting an Oscar: Star will receive honorary award after missing out three times

The actor, 62, was selected for his decades of work in Risky Business, two Top Gun movies and several other films like the Mission: Impossible franchise.

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2 w. ago EastEnders' Zoe Slater's drastic transformation as Michelle Ryan reprises iconic role

Michelle Ryan was just 16 years old when she joined the EastEnders cast as Zoe Slater in 2000 - and now the actress has returned to reprise the role two decades later

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2 w. ago Michelle Ryan makes bombshell EastEnders return as Zoe Slater after 20 years away

Zoe Slater is back in Albert Square, with actress Michelle Ryan reprising the role after two decades away – and there is plenty of drama coming up for her

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