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Eddie Murphy
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Murphy reminds us what caused so many heads to laugh themselves off shoulders during his pomp
Kevin Bacon: ‘A lot of actors say they’re really shy. That’s bullsh*t. You want people to look at you’
It’s 40 years since the actor starred in Footloose. In Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F, he joins Eddie Murphy in a franchise that also dates back to 1984
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Gone With the Wind hasn’t been banned. Quite reasonably, it’s been temporarily removed
Caricatures of black people fuel a culture of abuse from boardrooms to classrooms
Operation Covid Nation: ‘What the actual f**k?’
RTÉ is right to make a show about coping with coronavirus. But scrap the trivialising name
George MacKay: ‘My influences? Conor McGregor and wallabies’
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Netflix falling short in ferocious Oscar drive
A $70m campaign and 24 nominations may not bring it a big night
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Golden Globes: Once Upon a Time in... Hollywood wins big
Saoirse Ronan, nominated for Little Women performance, loses out to Renée Zellweger
Whitney Houston’s lover: ‘We never talked labels, like lesbian and gay’
Robyn Crawford, the star’s former assistant, opens up about their 20-year relationship
Clondalkin residents protest construction of nursing home on nuns’ land
Locals say development would occupy playing field and ‘eradicate’ habitat of birds
Eddie Murphy: ‘I was kind of an a-hole’
The star explains why he is returning to stand-up and the big screen in Dolemite Is My Name
Netflix: The 10 best new shows and films to watch in October
El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie, Living With Yourself, The Laundromat and Big Mouth season 3
Yara Shahidi: Oprah Winfrey's tip for US president
The fluency of this politically engaged actor, just 19, is staggering. Maybe Oprah is right?
Two charged over €800,000 cannabis herb haul in Cork city
The two men face 10 charges in connection with a major drugs find over the weekend
Mel B: My traumatic marriage, lost ‘gazillions’ and comeback
‘Scary Spice’ Melanie Brown felt unable to tell the truth about her unhappy marriage
Everyone’s talking about ‘Saturday Night Live’, but who’s laughing?
Saoirse Ronan’s Aer Lingus sketch shows SNL’s humour is trapped in a liberal-elite bubble
Bread is ‘symbol of safety’ to Irish consumers, study finds
More than 40 per cent of those surveyed said bread made them feel happy
Idris Elba’s sitcom is a breezy take on black British experience
‘In the Long Run’ review: Show based on creator’s childhood is largely 1980s nostalgia
Irish motor trade hits back at criticism of PCP finance
Motor dealer says ‘surely if there was a flaw in the system it would have presented itself by now’
Live crib animal ‘looks just like Donald Trump’
Mansion House crib delights children as Luas-dodging farmer brings animals in daily
The sad, secret life of Whitney Houston
Archive: From a secret lesbian relationship to a decades-long struggle with drugs, five years after singer’s death, a new film ‘Whitney: Can I Be Me’ examines what caused her tragic downfall
Fallen sporting heroes of 2016 never to be forgotten
Philip Reid recounts an array of achievements from legends lost this year
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