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Wooden coffin carried by protesters chanting ‘homes not hotels’ and ‘culture not vultures’
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Steve Martin: ‘You always have this fear that your success is not going to last’
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Steve Martin at 75: ‘The name Dr Michael Hfuhruhurr still makes me laugh’
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Carl Reiner, master of comedy, has died at 98
Reiner was a gifted comic actor but mainly wrote, directed and let others get the laughs
Steve Martin and Martin Short: ‘I have about 800 cousins coming to the Dublin show’
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Oscars 2020: Parasite triggers great upset as cult Korean film wins best picture
Saoirse Ronan misses out; Brad Pitt and Renée Zellweger take home Academy Awards
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The Hustle: It’s got Anne Hathaway and Rebel Wilson, but it’s unfunny and inappropriate
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Babies of older fathers at risk of health issues
Research shows the age of the mother is not the only factor determining health of baby
Robin Williams: ‘He was always looking for another connection’
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Male infertility: ‘My whole 30s were taken up with trying to have a baby’
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‘The only message I’ve peddled is that we’re headed for the apocalypse’
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‘13 Reasons Why’ returns; ‘Arrested Development’ gets a remix, and one Amazon show to catch
Tom Hanks: The most famous man we know nothing about
The actor has written a book of short stories. Do they contain any clues to the real man?
Steve Martin and The Steep Canyon Rangers - The Long Awaited Album review: some laughs with your bluegrass
STEVE MARTIN AND THE STEEP CANYON RANGERSThe Long Awaited Album ***Rounder Records/Decca Records
Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk review: a heroic 120fps failure
Ang Lee’s extremely odd film is certainly audacious, but it falls flat, both as a technical experiment and as a critique of US militarism
2016: The 50 best films on Netflix
While some movies have vanished from the streaming service, many have arrived and there are plenty to fill the summer evenings, from comedy classics like ‘Airplane’ to thrillers such as ‘Winter’s Bone’
Musicians pay tribute to The Eagles guitarist Glenn Frey
Elton John says he is ‘in shock’ while Steve Martin remembers ‘friend from the old days’
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No one likes a braggart so get someone else to list your experience
BJ Novak: from The Office to the classroom
The actor is aware of scepticism around celebrity children’s authors but he has taken an innovative approach to the task
Dumb and Dumber To: the Farrellys return to their gross-out grassroots
Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels are back as cinema’s most lovable idiots. But why a sequel 20 years later? ‘It makes sense because these guys are always the same. They’re too stupid to have character arcs’
Robin Williams: Obama leads tributes to actor and comic
Star last seen alive at house he shared with wife at about 10pm on Sunday
Robin Williams: Long and varied career ends in brutal shock
Analysis: For more than 40 years, the comic and actor first seen in Mork and Mindy gave value to audiences
Stage struck: Can theatre make happy clappers of us all?
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