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32 of the Most Iconic Hollywood Friendships

Some have been going strong for decades.

Marie Claire

TV tonight: glitter at the ready – it’s Strictly 2023!

Who will be paired up in the launch show? Plus: the musicians who died at 27. Here’s what to watch this evening

The Guardian - UK

HG Wells, Hitler and Tasmania’s dark past: the stories behind arrival cards in Australia’s National Archives

Archive material captures arrival in Australia of celebrities including Princess Anne, Fred Astaire and four-year-old Russell Crowe, as well as The War of the Worlds author’s explosive 1938-39 visit

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Cassandro to Funny Face: the seven best films to watch on TV this week

Gael García Bernal is gloriously risk-taking in an ode to Mexico’s lucha libre scene, and Audrey Hepburn is sublime in the 50s couture classic

The Guardian - UK

David Harewood on Blackface review – a shocking, deeply moving piece of television

In a personal look at the shocking origins of minstrelsy, the actor speaks truth to power on the same channel that showed blackface in his living room when he was growing up

The Guardian - UK

Should we confront the toxic legacy of blackface … or just forget it?

Racist 19th-century minstrelsy survived into 1970s Britain. David Olusoga has developed a TV show on its long, shameful history but wonders if he should have

The Guardian - UK

Glimmer of hope for foot soldiers

There was encouraging news for Bangkok's pedestrians last week when the city governor announced that during the coming year there would be a major upgrade of pavements in the Big Mango. It was promised that some pavements might even become "walkable". Well, best of luck with that.

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‘If you get your phone out, I’m going to lose it’: Charlie Stemp, Britain’s musicals megastar

He’s a West End fixture who’s already been compared to Fred Astaire. As he prepares to hop from Mary Poppins to the Gershwin musical Crazy for You, Stemp talks rowdy audiences, ice baths, and taking the bus in ballet tights

The Guardian - UK

Top Hat review – stylishly madcap dance film with Astaire and Rogers cheek to cheek

This madcap musical from 1935 about an American dance star visiting London swirls effortlessly back into cinemas, with classic songs from Irving Berlin

The Guardian - UK

Lady Gaga's Harley Quinn sings in new Joker 2 set video

Harley sings a classic tune in this Joker 2 set video

Total Film

Goldie Hawn explains how winning an Oscar caused her biggest ever career ‘regret’

‘I had a good cry,’ actor said

The Independent UK

The 50 Best Movie Musicals of All Time

All the dance numbers! All the show tunes!

Marie Claire

How 'White Noise' pulled off the strangest, most surprising dance number of 2022

With certain films, you're not at all surprised to see the characters break into a joyous dance at the end: Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers movies. Bollywood musicals. Animated films like "Shrek" or "Despicable Me." Even the odd raucous comedy like "The 40-Year-Old Virgin."

Los Angeles Times

Strictly's Tom Chambers says show changed his life and ended years of rejection

Tom Chambers won Strictly Come Dancing in 2008 after struggling to initially carve out his career in TV. Now, starring as Walter in Elf the Musical on the West End, he thanks the dancing show for giving him opportunities he never could have imagined.

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The New Daily

Stephen ‘tWitch’ Boss, The Ellen Show’s dancing DJ, dies at age 40

Stephen "tWitch" Boss, the adored dancing DJ on The Ellen Show and former So You Think You Can Dance contestant, has died at age 40.

ABC News

Stephen 'tWitch' Boss, dancer and The Ellen Show DJ, dead at 40

Boss was best-known as the "dancing DJ" on The Ellen DeGeneres show, on which he also served at co-executive producer.

WEKU

Stephen 'tWitch' Boss, 'Ellen' show's dancing DJ, has died at 40

tWitch started his tenure at "The Ellen Show" in 2014 and later was promoted to co-executive producer in 2020. His wife, Allison Holker Boss, confirmed his passing in a statement on Wednesday.

Asharq Al-Awsat

Stephen 'tWitch' Boss, 'Ellen' Show’s Dancing DJ, Dies at 40

Stephen “tWitch” Boss, the longtime and beloved dancing DJ on “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” and a former contestant on “So You Think You Can Dance,” has died at the age of 40. His wife, Allison Holker Boss, confirmed his passing in a statement published Wednesday on People.com. “It is with…

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The Independent UK

Stephen 'tWitch' Boss, 'Ellen' show's dancing DJ, dies at 40

Longtime “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” DJ Stephen “tWitch” Boss has died at the age of 40

The Independent UK

What music did the Queen listen to? Monarch’s top 10 songs from Gary Barlow to Fred Astaire

Royal’s cousin described the monarch in 2016 as a ‘fantastic dancer’ with ‘great rhythm’

The Independent UK

Architect Vlado Milunić dies at 81; linked to Prague icon

Vlado Milunić, a Czech architect of Croatian ancestry who co-designed Prague’s iconic Dancing House building together with colleague Frank Gehry, has died at 81

The Independent UK

What music did the Queen listen to? Monarch’s top 10 songs from Gary Barlow to Fred Astaire

Royal’s cousin described the monarch in 2016 as a ‘fantastic dancer’ with ‘great rhythm’

The Independent UK

What music did the Queen listen to? Monarch’s top 10 songs from Gary Barlow to Fred Astaire

Royal’s cousin described the monarch in 2016 as a ‘fantastic dancer’ with ‘great rhythm’

Evening Standard

Queen Elizabeth II’s favourite music, from Fred Astaire to Dame Vera Lynn

The top 10 list was revealed as part of a radio documentary in 2016

ABC News

Helen O'Hara says Hollywood's early female directors reigned supreme. What went wrong?

The rise of the difficult and usually male 'genius' film director presented a huge hurdle for women in Hollywood, but things may finally be changing.

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