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Canberra's family-run McGlades Jewellers celebrates 85 glittering years

They have diamonds worth tens of thousands to budget-priced trinket boxes.

The Canberra Times

Ben Affleck was initially set to make a cameo in Greta Gerwig's Barbie movie

Ben Affleck was set to cameo in Greta Gerwig's Barbie movie, but Michael Cera's character Allan takes on the construction Kens in a fight scene instead. Ce...

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‘Bureaucracy going mad’: the 250 ‘magnificent’ 10 metre-high trees being felled for a Melbourne bike path

Residents of Queens Avenue in Caulfield East are ramping up the fight against the 1km path and vow to ‘fight until the bulldozers come’

The Guardian - AU

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Oak Park takes emergency steps to help with migrant crisis

The village has approved emergency spending and recently provided emergency shelter for more than 100 migrants staying at a Chicago police station.

Chicago Sun-Times

Victorian government wants Labor’s wage theft bill to cover ‘reckless’ underpayments

Allan government says federal laws are ‘likely to render’ Victoria’s laws redundant, as Minerals Council announces multimillion-dollar campaign against bill

The Guardian - AU

The best pop culture costume ideas for Halloween 2023

From Noughties Posh and Becks to bedbugs (bleugh!) — here are the best pop culture Halloween costumes to whip out this year

Evening Standard

Man charged with supplying drugs to one of two men who died at Sydney music festival

The 23-year-old Victorian man was arrested at Sydney airport and later charged with supplying a prohibited drug causing death

The Guardian - AU

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Love & Death proves that great acting can’t save mediocre TV – ‘star power’ is a dying concept

The American true-crime drama released by ITVX features consummate performances from Elizabeth Olsen and Jesse Plemons, writes Louis Chilton. They’re part of a TV eco-system that is attracting more and more top talent to the small screen – only to waste it entirely

The Independent UK

The week in TV: Top Boy; The Lovers; Love & Death; Ukraine: Holocaust Ground Zero – review

Dushane and Sully face off in the brilliantly brutal final series of Top Boy; an unlikely couple fall in love in a dark Belfast anti-romcom; and Elizabeth Olsen shines as a real-life Texas housewife turned axe murderer

The Guardian - UK

Michael Cera reveals how his agent almost cost him Barbie movie role as Allan

The Canadian actor’s awkward and off-beat portrayal of the character made him an instant fan-favourite on screen

Evening Standard

Michael Cera says his manager nearly cost him ‘last-minute’ Allan role in Barbie movie

Actor’s role as discontinued doll was a hit with audiences

The Independent UK

Michael Cera says his manager nearly cost him ‘last-minute’ Allan role in Barbie movie

Actor’s role as discontinued doll was a hit with audiences

The Independent UK

Barbie Has Sparked A Surge In Vintage Doll Collecting, But Experts Have Issued A Warning

Allan may not have been popular in 1964 but he sure is now.

Pedestrian.tv

Barbie: 5 ways to be more like Allan than Ken

Barbie is this summer’s hit movie, breaking all kinds of records at the box office. Many, including myself and family — as well as Canada’s prime minister and son — dressed in pink to watch a team of live-action Barbies confront the patriarchy.

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Salon

Selling Weird Barbie doll makes no sense

Hello, Mattel, we wanted Allan!

Cinemablend

SNL Darling Bowen Yang And A Slew Of Other Names Were All Asked To Bring Ken-Ergy To Barbie (And Allan Almost Wasn’t Played By Michael Cera!)

Barbie's cast is arguably perfect as is, but it turns out SNL's Bowen Yang and more were nearly part of the fun, while Michael Cera nearly wasn't.

Marie Claire

Cillian Murphy, Star of ‘Oppenheimer,’ Says He’s Down to Play a Ken if ‘Barbie 2’ Happens

“Let’s read the script and let’s have a conversation.”

Pedestrian.tv

Barbie’s Casting Director Revealed The Actors Who Turned Down The Chance To Be A Ken

Some of these people are CHOICES.

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My Imperfect Life

We're sobbing over these Barbie reactions—what viewers are saying about the critique on the female experience, Ken's evolution and THAT ending

These 'Barbie' reactions are *Kenough* to tell you if this movie is everything we all hoped it would be...

The Guardian - UK

Paunch-free zone: why the Barbie movie’s body diversity message shortchanges Ken

Greta Gerwig’s empowerment movie is unarguably righteous. But when Barbie being lifted up seems to depend on Ken being pushed down, it rings a little hollow

Total Film

Barbie Easter eggs: 20 references you might have missed

From movie references to discontinued dolls

Chicago Tribune

‘Barbie’ review: A doll’s life is richly, unexpectedly imagined by Greta Gerwig and Margot Robbie

“Barbie” is a lovely, eccentrically imaginative example of brand extension and raw, untrammeled commercialism. Well, maybe a little trammeled. Any $145 million studio movie based on a doll, accessories sold separately, no doubt comes with a few restrictions. And yet this one actually feels spontaneous, and fun.

The Guardian - UK

‘Fame makes you paranoid’: Michael Cera on Barbie, drunk fans – and not owning a smartphone

In 2007, the success of Superbad and Juno made Cera a celebrity, and it was such a shock that he almost gave up acting altogether. But he found a way back. He discusses fatherhood, loneliness and the joy of Greta Gerwig

The Independent UK

Michael Cera twinned with Ryan Gosling at Barbie premiere for sweet reason

Both actors wore pink suits for film premiere in Los Angeles

The Independent UK

Michael Cera explains brilliant reason he wasn’t in the Barbie group chat

The Mattel doll herself would be proud

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