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Love Story: Review by John F. Kennedy Jr. and Carolyn Bissette – TV Will Bored You | television

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✨ Check out this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Television,Culture,Ryan Murphy,John F Kennedy Jr ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: A The new product from the Ryan Murphy brand is less reliable than ever. Will it be a triumph on the level of Nip/Tuck or Glee? A return to the form of an American Horror Story opener, much like his last outing The Beauty was? Or will it be something towards the other end of the scale, where everything so bad lurks, Kim Kardashian as a divorce lawyer?Hmm. The latest is A Love Story: John F. Kennedy…

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‘We thought Midnight Cowboy might end everyone’s career’: John Schlesinger’s diverse, devastating, Oscar-winning cinema | film

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✨ Read this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Film,John Schlesinger,Culture,Luca Guadagnino,LGBTQ+ rights,John Major,Politics 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: MMichael Childers was a 22-year-old student in Los Angeles when a friend set him up on an appointment with John Schlesinger, a visiting British director about two decades his senior. The respected director was licking his wounds: his latest film, Far from Disturbance, which imbued its 19th-century rural characters with an outdated and subtly King's Road style, had flopped in the States.Childers approached the appointment with mixed emotions. He loved Schlesinger's previous film, The Jazzy Darling, starring Julie…

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‘Absolutely funny’: Simon McBurney on how the great clown Philippe Gaulier changed his life | stage

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✨ Check out this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Theatre,Philippe Gaulier,Complicite,Simon McBurney,Stage,Culture,Clowns,Comedy,Comedy ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: MEveryone talks about a teacher in their childhood who changed them, someone who revealed to them knowledge about the world that they carry with them for the rest of their lives. I didn't have one of those. It wasn't until I was 24 and living in Paris that I stumbled upon Philippe's class almost by chance. Provocative, demanding, deliberately inappropriate and very funny, Philip taught me not to carry anything. No baggage, no ideas. Knowing nothing is all you…

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TV Tonight: Confessions and Cliffhangers in Beneath the Salt Marsh | television

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✨ Discover this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Television,Television & radio,Culture 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Under the salt marsh9pm, Sky AtlanticAfter Nyssa's body is found in a landfill, local farmer Solomon (Jonathan Pryce) leaves us with an embarrassing confession - but what role did he really play in the little girl's death? While Detective Paul (Rafe Spall) questions him, Jackie (Kelly Reilly) grieves for her niece and tries to reconnect with her sister after years of guilt. The village needs to evacuate in anticipation of the coming deadly storm - but it will take more…

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“Choosing happiness is a hell of a process”: Thundercat on funk, losing friends and getting fired by Snoop Dogg (maybe) | music

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🔥 Read this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Music,Soul,Jazz,Rap,Culture,Thundercat ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: It's an overcast Thursday afternoon at the end of January, and Thundercat is telling me about the time he tried to interest Snoop Dogg in Frank Zappa's work in the mid-1970s. He explains that he was never the Thunder at that time. He was still Steven Bruner, the hired bass player, who grew up in what he calls a "Rick James-level dumb band" backing the revered rapper, filled with L.A. jazz luminaries who would later contribute to Kendrick Lamar's "To Pimp a…

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Macbeth Review – Just an Ordinary Couple Crazy with Toxic Power | stage

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✨ Discover this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Theatre,Macbeth,Hull Truck theatre,Stage,Culture 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: For a play that ends bloodily, Macbeth begins like an improvisation. It is a tragedy of opportunism, a moment of hubris spiraling out of control. For a while, things could go either way.This comes in this theatrical production, directed by Mark Babic in a triple co-production with Bolton Octagon and Derby Theatre. A modern soldier with camouflage colors and an automatic weapon, Macbeth steps forward from the battlefield. Played by Oliver Alvin Wilson, he is as strong as his country…

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‘People should know’: Blue Boy trial updates transgender history in Japan | film

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💥 Explore this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Film,Period and historical films,Transgender,Japan,Asia Pacific,Culture,Society,World news 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: TThe so-called "Blue Boy Trial" in 1965 was a landmark moment in transgender visibility in Japan. It is now a landmark film, directed by Kashu Iizuka, a transgender man and one of the very few openly gay filmmakers working in the Japanese commercial film industry.“I felt that the current Japanese people should know that these people exist.” Kashu Iizuka.The original legal case involved a doctor who was prosecuted for performing sex reassignment surgery on transgender women, amid…

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Hemlock Springs: Apple Tree Under the Sea review – DayGlo DIY triumph in the age of risk-averse pop | music

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💥 Check out this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Music,Culture,Pop and rock ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: WWe often hear about the devastating impact social media has had on pop music, from toxic fan culture to the way online rumors reduce song lyrics to treasure hunts for details about artists' private lives. But its positive effects are also worth noting: how TikTok users can make unlikely pieces of pop history go viral; How social media can transform the fortunes of an artist who might not have made it past a record company reception in today's risk-averse…

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Sweet Mambo Review – Pina Bausch’s Hilarious Valentine’s Day Is the Stuff of Dreams | platform

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💥 Read this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Stage,Pina Bausch,Theatre,Sadler's Wells,Culture 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: pIna Bausch had a pair of secret weapons in Matthias Burkert and Andreas Eisenschneider, who together searched for music to match her exotic dance theater and make it indelible. In Sweet Mambo, the German choreographer's 2008 production for Tanztheater Wuppertal, their eclectic set complements the seductive elegance of set designer Peter Pabst's huge, billowing white curtains and Marion Cito's sumptuous gowns.Track after track, a striking line is found in Sami's vocals, torch song, folk, electronic and ambient music. The mix…

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From Brontë to Ballard, Orwell to Okrey: the best songs inspired by literature – ranked! | music

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✨ Read this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Music,Pop and rock,Books,Culture,Fiction ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: 20. Katy Perry – Fireworks (2010)Katy Perry's works sometimes have some wildly unexpected inspirations: California Gurls was spelled homage to Big Star's September Gurls, while Firework was based on, wait for it, Jack Kerouac's novel On the Road, specifically the line about how his favorite people "burn like gorgeous yellow Roman candles."19. Japanese Breakfast – Magic Mountain (2025)She is the author of best-selling books, and Michelle Zauner's latest Japanese Breakfast-themed album references Virginia Woolf, John Cheever, and, in its beautiful…

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