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‘Do I really care?’ Woody Allen comes out fighting
The film-maker, accused of sexually assaulting his child in 1992, is done treading carefully
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Mary Poppins Returns: Emily Blunt is good, but the film is average-alidocious
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Woody Allen: Woman says she had sexual relationship with director when she was 16
Christina Engelhardt alleges she had eight-year relationship with Allen who was 41 at time
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Woody Allen: ‘I should be the poster boy for #MeToo movement’
Writer-director says allegations he sexually abused daughter Dylan Farrow are ‘crazy’
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Cate Blanchett: I don’t think I’ve stayed silent on Woody Allen
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The Mercy: Half-starved Colin Firth in a half-finished movie
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Colin Firth says he will not work with Woody Allen again
Firth, who starred in Allen’s Magic in the Moonlight in 2013, is latest actor to shun director
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Oscars board expels Harvey Weinstein from committee
Eva Green’s mother says her daughter was among those harassed by film producer
Colin Firth gets dual Italian citizenship over Brexit ‘uncertainty’
The actor known for playing quintessential English men strives for a bit of ‘la dolce vita’
Forget the romance: Vermeer was a modern artist
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Tony O’Reilly’s Cork holiday home sells for €1.5m
Young London-based Irish couple buy west Cork holiday home of former billionaire
Backstage at the Oscars
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Woody Allen: ‘I am realistic in my appraisal of the human condition, but not realistic in my everyday life’
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