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BIZARRE: Joan crawford - What They Never Told You

Sex and drugs and poisoned champagne: 90 years on, we can finally see Joan Crawford’s wildest film

A legal dispute led to Letty Lynton, the golden age superstar’s controversial drama, being sealed away. Only now can audiences see what all the fuss was about

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‘Trippy’: the Pina Bausch classic being revived by its original cast – dancing with their younger selves

Kontakthof is a 1978 show full of tenderness, violence and horror. Now, in a spectacular production, its first performers are bringing it back. But would Bausch have approved?

The Guardian - UK

Mia Farrow says Joan Crawford was ‘scary in person’ and she gave off a ‘strange vibe’

Farrow said she pretended to be ill when she was invited to the star’s apartment

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Mia Farrow reveals 'strange vibe' she got from Joan Crawford: 'She was scary...'

Mia Farrow was "scared" of Joan Crawford when she met her and has recalled getting "strange vibes" from the Hollywood legend when she was a young actress on a soap opera.

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Sudden Fear: the 1952 noir that cemented Joan Crawford’s star – again

With this tale of love turned sour, Crawford forged an unprecedented Hollywood archetype: the now-prevalent actor-turned-executive producer

The Guardian - AU

TV tonight: the horrific murders of Bibaa Henry and Nicole Smallman explored

A documentary exploring how police misconduct compounded a horrific double murder in 2020. Plus, a harrowing but ultimately uplifting commemoration of the Bradford City fire and the 2025 TV Baftas. Here’s what to watch this evening

The Guardian - UK

Gladiator II to Garbo: Where Did You Go? The seven best films to watch on TV this week

Paul Mescal takes the lead in Ridley Scott’s epic return to the Colosseum, plus a beguiling documentary about the screen star who came from a Stockholm slum then became the most famous female star in Hollywood

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Elton John and Madonna have made up, but why do famous people publicly go to war?

Sorry seems to be the hardest word – and there is a public appetite for watching high-profile feuds

The Guardian - UK

“We always had so much more in common with bands like Yesand Genesis… we wanted to see how far we could take an idea”: What Blue Öyster Cult thought of being called prog – and what they really thought of the More Cowbell sketch

They may have been called “the thinking man’s metal band” but comparing themselves to ELP, Jethro Tull and King Crimson, they assert there was a lot more progressive thinking going on than many realised

Louder

Queen Elizabeth "Felt Sorry" for Marilyn Monroe During 1956 Meeting Because the Star Was So "Nervous"

The Queen noticed an interesting detail about the movie star's appearance when they met.

Marie Claire

Faye review – where are all the hair-raising stories of Dunaway’s nightmare behaviour?

This misty-eyed homage to Bonnie and Clyde star Faye Dunaway (with her involvement) papers over her reputation for being difficult – but is still a troubling portrait

The Guardian - UK

Gena Rowlands obituary

American actor who enjoyed success with the films A Woman Under the Influence, Gloria and The Notebook

The Guardian - UK

32 co-stars who famously didn't get along or had a falling out

Everyone can share the feeling of not getting on with a colleague - but these celebrity feuds took it to new extremes

Woman & Home

Difficult, fearsome, aggressive: the Faye Dunaway documentary is unusually frank

Unlike many other fawning documentaries about big stars, HBO’s Faye is fascinatingly candid and unvarnished

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Tracy-Ann Oberman — things you didn't know about the TV star

Tracy-Ann Oberman is set to make an explosive return to EastEnders, but what else is there to know about her?

The Independent UK

‘Overnight I lost everything’: 17 acting careers ruined by a single role

THE COUNTDOWN: From Faye Dunaway’s notorious performance as Joan Crawford to the silent movie idol whose stardom was destroyed once audiences heard his ‘squeaky voice’, here Adam White salutes 17 stars who made movies that permanently damaged their careers

The Guardian - UK

Digested week: May Sharon Osbourne and Amanda Holden’s spat keep on giving

They might not be Bette Davis and Joan Crawford, but the X Factor judges’ ding-dong over Simon Cowell is a joy

Salon

This "Feud" misses Ryan Murphy's touch

Truman Capote's ugly BFF breakup is exactly the type of material Murphy would smash. Too bad he didn't write it

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Shock of the old: nine of the most risky, reckless and ravishing celebrity pets

While the rest of us make do with a much-loved dog or cat, famous people often cast their net a little wider. Raccoon, anyone?

The Guardian - UK

TV tonight: Davina McCall’s ‘middle-aged Love Island’ is here

But there’s much more to it than you’d expect. Plus: the truth about ballet schools, and Starstruck concludes. Here’s what to watch this evening

The Guardian - UK

El Conde to Captain Phillips: the seven best films to watch on TV this week

Feted Chilean director Pablo Larraín re-imagines Pinochet as a vampire in a witty new comedy, and Tom Hanks stars in a wonderfully tense pirate thriller

The Guardian - UK

‘It seems so corny!’ How Jennifer Hosten became the first Black Miss World – and an international diplomat

An audience of 100 million watched as Hosten was crowned in 1970. It was just the start of a remarkable career that took in tea with Joan Crawford, a tour with Bob Hope and a violent coup in her home country of Grenada

Daily Mirror

Inside chilling abandoned mental asylum at centre of baby snatching black market

The Western State asylum in Staunton Virginia, US, is cloaked in scandal after introducing new and dangerous treatments including fever therapy, prefrontal lobotomies and Metrazol injections

The Guardian - UK

Streaming: the best films about motherhood

This Mother’s Day weekend, let’s celebrate self-sacrificing, feuding, exhausted, loving screen mums, from Stella Dallas to Lady Bird, Mommie Dearest to 20th Century Women

Daily Mirror

Lee Majors will appear in The Fall Guy movie with Ryan Gosling after surprise phone call

Hollywood icon Lee Majors is famous for appearing on TV in the 1970s and 80s as The Bionic Man in The Six Million Dollar Man and as Colt Seavers in The Fally Guy, but is still going strong today

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