3 h. ago Critics slam 'glib', 'vulgar' and 'ludicrously lavish' Great Gatsby musical

Glitzy flapper dresses and roaring party anthems are all on the menu in the latest Great Gatsby musical adaptation on the West End. But it seems the glamour has not been enough to wow critics.

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7 h. ago Spencer sisters ooze glamour on the red carpet with their rarely

The nieces of Princess Diana and their ex-model mother stepped out at the London Coliseum for the press night of The Great Gatsby musical.

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7 h. ago The Great Gatsby at the Coliseum: 'a little empty beneath the razzmattazz'

The award-winning Broadway musical version of Fitzgerald’s novel hits London as a lavish spectacle but lacking heart

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9 h. ago The Great Gatsby at the Coliseum: 'a little empty beneath the razzmattaz'

The award-winning Broadway musical version of Fitzgerald’s novel hits London as a lavish spectacle but lacking heart

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16 h. ago VERONICA LEE reviews The Great Gatsby: Dazzling, but not the greatest Gatsby

Marc Bruni's dazzling production of The Great Gatsby opened on Broadway last year and now - with a mostly British cast - bursts into life in the West End.

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18 h. ago The Great Gatsby, London Coliseum review: Pretty but dumb musical adaptation of the great novella

The Great Gatsby, London Coliseum review: Pretty but dumb musical adaptation of the great novella  Time Out

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20 h. ago Katherine Ryan reveals she was 'mugged off' by Stephen Hawking as she recounts wild party at Jimmy Carr's house

The comedian, 41, shared the rather surprising story as she recounted how Jimmy used to have 'Gatsby-esque' style bashes which all the stars were invited too.

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55 h. ago The Spin | Reborn in the USA: has cricket finally cracked the American market?

A lack of pitches, kit and coaching has held the sport back for far too long but Major League Cricket may be the answerIf you look south from the Manhattan end of Brooklyn Bridge, you can just about imagine the cricket field that used to be beneath what is now the South Seaport – and, if you squint, pretend that the people making their way around the bars and clubs and restaurants are the descendants of the same New York crowd who attended a match here between a local team and a London XI in 1751. Modern-day Manhattan is built on cricket pitches, among other things. They are there under the streets, among the farms and tenements cleared to make way for skyscrapers. There’s another under Central Park, a third below the NYU Langone medical centre, where – in 1844 – Canada beat the USA by 23 runs in what is considered the first international fixture in all sport.People have been dreaming of reviving American cricket ever since it died during the civil war, more than 160 years ago. It w...

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59 h. ago What channel is Getafe vs Real Madrid? FREE live stream, TV, ref and team news for La Liga clash

Carlo Ancelotti's men head to the Coliseum as the pulsating title race with Barcelona hits high gear

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3 d. ago Puttin’ on the Fitz! The Great Gatsby: A New Musical – in pictures

F Scott Fitzgerald’s Long Island novel has become a grand stage production at the London Coliseum Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Britney Spears' holiday with creepily lifelike plastic doll branded 'oddest thing'

Rumours circulated Britney Spears had become a mum again when eagle-eyed fans spotted what seemed to be a "baby’s foot" sticking out from beneath swaddling blankets, held by her bodyguard

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5 d. ago The Edwardians: Age of Elegance; Cartier review – excess all areas

King’s Gallery, Buckingham Palace; V&A, London British royal history in the era of Fabergé, photography, empire, war and tiny waists is an expertly spangled soap opera. And a blockbuster Cartier show of jewels, maharajas and movie stars rises above the gossipThe future Edward VII looks out from a white marble bust at the start of The Edwardians: Age of Elegance. His eyes have a familiar exophthalmic bulge beneath heavy Saxe-Coburg lids. The sculptor has turned the prince’s head a fraction, to give him a flatteringly distant air of authority, but is otherwise faithful to the facts: Edward’s love of upturned wing collars, of informal jackets and the wide tie knot he popularised, known to this day as the Windsor.Edward (1841-1910) – Bertie, as he was familiarly known – was the eldest son of Prince Albert and Queen Victoria. She is said to have blamed the boy, or at least his chronic philandering, for her husband’s premature death. Prince of Wales until the age of almost 60, waiting...

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6 d. ago Guinea pigs left to die under hedge as Scottish SPCA makes urgent appeal

Six guinea pigs including two adults and four tiny youngsters were discovered cowering beneath a bush in Edinburgh by a dog walker.

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7 d. ago ‘She had no interest in the comfort zone’: celebrating the centenary of Celia Cruz, Cuba’s Queen of Salsa

Exiled from Castro’s Cuba, she became a superstar – and a trailblazer in the macho world of salsa. Fans and collaborators including Angélique Kidjo hail an icon of Black empowermentOn 13 November 1973, at Roberto Clemente Coliseum in Puerto Rico, Celia Cruz took to the stage in a bejewelled, psychedelic blue dress and vast afro, saluting the 12,500-capacity arena with her trademark rallying cry: “Azucar!” – sugar.The Cuban singer had been a star for more than two decades by this point, but this concert marked a rebirth. Backed by the Fania All-Stars, the in-house orquesta of the label that brought salsa to the US, Cruz performed Bemba Colorá. Devotees have variously decoded its lyric and “big red lips” metaphor as a repudiation of a neighbourhood gossip, a commentary on anti-Black racism or an anthem for female empowerment. Stretched out to a righteous 12-minute call-and-response in Puerto Rico, she recast the song as a cry of anguish over her exile from her homeland, adding lines l...

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7 d. ago ‘The Great Gatsby’ Musical Brings 1920s Glamour to London’s West End

‘The Great Gatsby’ Musical Brings 1920s Glamour to London’s West End  MiNDFOOD

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8 d. ago Trump’s gilded Oval Office was the perfect setting for his and Bukele’s grotesque spectacle | Julia Carrie Wong

The president’s penchant for the gaudy has been mocked but the menace beneath was clear when he met El Salvador’s leaderThe Oval Office meeting of Donald Trump and Nayib Bukele on Monday was a grotesque spectacle. Both men, elected to lead nominally democratic countries, have described themselves as dictators, and they exuded that sense of smug impunity. While reporters sought answers on the fate of Kilmar Ábrego García, a 29-year-old father of three who was wrongly deported to El Salvador’s notorious Cecot mega-prison, Trump and Bukele disclaimed responsibility, joked about further deportations, and engaged in casual slander of Ábrego García, who is not, and has never been alleged to be, a terrorist.And then there was the gold. So much gold. Continue reading...

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8 d. ago Lauren Sanchez's ugly wardrobe malfunction that exposed the desperate truth of what lies beneath, revealed by JANE TIPPETT

Lauren Sanchez is nothing if not a fashion innovator. Blasting off into space this morning the former TV presenter, journalist, and fiancée of Jeff Bezos did so kitted-out in a custom-designed space suit.

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9 d. ago The 'most sickening book in the world' has been found in a museum office

The book tells the story of the murderer William Corder who was hanged at Bury St Edmunds in 1828 for killing his lover Maria Marten and burying her beneath the floor of a barn.

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1 week ago ‘I sent AI to art school!’ The postmodern master who taught a machine to beef up his old work

Warhol for colour, Hopper for volume American art world star David Salle is using AI on old paintings of his that had a mixed reception – with wild, sprawling results. Why isn’t he afraid of being replaced?By the time you read this article, there’s a good chance it will have already been scanned by an artificially intelligent machine. If asked about the artist David Salle, large language models such as ChatGPT or Gemini may repurpose some of the words below to come up with their answer. The bigger the data set, the more convincing the response – and Salle has been written about exhaustively since he first rose to art world stardom in the 1980s. The question is whether AI can ever say anything new about the artist and his work, or if it’s for ever condemned to generate more of the same.A similar question lingers beneath the surface of the paintings that Salle has been making since 2023, a new series of which he has just unveiled at Thaddaeus Ropac in London. His New Pastorals were ma...

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1 week ago 'Body of Jesus Christ' is in hidden chamber under the Great Pyramid of Egypt, says expert

Bombshell research claims the body of Jesus Christ can be found in a hidden double-cave, sealed off by a whopping stone block beneath the Great Pyramid in Giza, Egypt

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