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Armistead Maupin on trans rights and growing up gay in a homophobic household
Author Armistead Maupin is a pioneer – writing about AIDS and HIV for a mass audience and daring to include gay, lesbian, trans and queer lives when few others were. His ‘Tales of the City’ series, which started as a newspaper column in 1974, became worldwide best-selling novels and a Netflix series. It chronicles the…
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33m
Arnold Schwarzenegger on self-help, the Israel-Gaza war and why he’d be a good US president
Arnold Schwarzenegger tells Krishnan Guru-Murthy how he can ‘be useful’, why world leaders are failing to resolve the Israel-Palestine conflict and why America needs a new candidate to enter the presidential race, in this episode of Ways to Change the World.
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“He has to prove that the audience wants to see Kevin Spacey again”, says PR expert
Hollywood actor Kevin Spacey has been cleared of sexually assaulting four men. He had described the allegations against him as “madness”. We spoke to celebrity PR and brand expert Mark Borkowski and started by asking him how easy will it be for Spacey to rebuild his reputation.
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Kevin Spacey ‘humbled’ by not guilty verdict at sexual assault trial
The Hollywood actor Kevin Spacey said he was “humbled” by the outcome of his trial, after he was cleared of sexually assaulting four men.
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Hollywood women launch Time’s Up campaign
Hundreds of Hollywood writers, directors and actresses have launched a fighting fund to help American women sexually harassed at work take legal action. The Time’s Up campaign, backed by British stars including Emma Watson and Thandie Newton – is designed to help women in low paid industries who can’t afford to pay for their own…
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6m
Jennifer Lawrence: ‘I’ve heard and seen things on TV that devastate me and make me sick’
“As disquieting as it is showy”. The new film starring Jennifer Lawrence divided the critics when it premiered at the Venice Film Festival this week, many unsettled by the psychological horror story of a woman trapped in a vortex of paranoid reality. But whatever the immediate reaction to ‘Mother!’, 27 year old Lawrence is enjoying…