29 h. ago The Twits voice actor says UK family were ‘shocked’ she had not heard of book

Canadian actress Maitreyi Ramakrishnan voices Beesha, one of the protagonists of the new film.

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50 h. ago Elliott Gould remembers Diane Keaton – ‘We snuck into a bush and she said: ‘This is called making out’’

Gould and Keaton made three movies together. He recalls a co-star who was professional, original, and remarkably down to earthDiane Keaton obituaryPeter Bradshaw on Diane KeatonI was shocked when I heard about Diane’s passing. I loved her. There was nobody like her. Bright, talented, generous, and very smart and witty. She had more than just a sense of humour; she was hysterical. Whatever it was, she just had it.The first time I saw her was in a deodorant commercial where she bit somebody’s ear. Everything about her was original. I’d be interested in anything she was involved in because she was so keen and so smart and so witty. And anybody who got to work with her was in for a treat – as I later found. Continue reading...

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53 h. ago Diane Keaton’s family thank fans for their ‘love and support’ and reveal actor’s cause of death: report

Relatives urged well-wishers to donate to a charity helping animals or the homeless — two causes the beloved actress was passionate about

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2 d. ago Succession star Brian Cox say he 'failed' in first marriage after tying the knot at 21

The Scottish actor, who is well known for playing the Roy family patriarch in Succession, has admitted he sometimes feels like a failure over his first marriage not working out

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3 d. ago EastEnders actor Tony Caunter dies aged 88, family announces

He starred in the popular BBC One soap for nine years.

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3 d. ago The Twits review – Americanised Roald Dahl is gruesome in all the wrong ways

Netflix’s animation mangles and sentimentalises Dahl’s black comedy about a gross and detestable married couple – relocating the action to Texas and introducing a plucky orphan heroineThis animated Netflix adaptation of Roald Dahl’s The Twits is only fractionally less gruelling than eating wormy spaghetti or finding a toad stuffed in the bottom of your bed. Dahl’s story about one of the most dysfunctional marriages in fiction is not exactly burdened with plot: the 95-page original is essentially a series of mean pranks, all monstrously mangled here and tortuously added to.There has been some outrage that Netflix have Americanised the story, but that is the least of this film’s problems. In the fictional city of Triperot, Mrs Twit (voiced by Margo Martindale) is a Texan in blue denim cowboy boots, unhappily married to Mr Twit (Johnny Vegas, keeping his Lancashire accent). The couple have built a rickety amusement park called Twitlandia, with rides made out of toilets and old mattress...

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1 week ago Taylor Swift calls out as she spots Cillian Murphy's son in The Graham Norton Show audience after the singer met the actor's family at Oscars party

The Irish actor, 49, and his brood met the pop star at an Oscars party and on Friday's episode of the chat show, Taylor sought out Cillian's son Aran, 17, in the crowd.

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3 w. ago BBC Doctor Who star Noel Clarke is arrested as police carry out five

Officers raided the 49-year-old BBC actor's family home in Kensington, West London, just before 9am, with a specialist dog unit used in the search.

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3 w. ago Nick Offerman says ‘some of the best people’ in his life are staunch Trump voters

Actor said his friends and family claimed he’d been ‘brainwashed by paedophiles’ due to liberal views

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3 w. ago Young actor suffering from depression murdered mum as she played piano at family home

A court heard how Ryan Grantham, who played Jeffery Augustine in teen drama Riverdale, also plotted to kill Canadian PM Justin Trudeau.

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