Sunday, November 10
‘Happy Holidays’ By Palestinian Filmmaker Scandar Copti Takes Top Prize At Thessaloniki
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‘Happy Holidays’ By Palestinian Filmmaker Scandar Copti Takes Top Prize At Thessaloniki

Happy Holidays, the latest feature from Palestinian Filmmaker Scandar Copti, has taken the top prize at the Thessaloniki Film Festival in Greece.   Copti’s film won the Best Feature Film Award, which comes with a 10,000-euro cash prize. Awarding the prize, the jury, headed by Sara Driver, praised the film for “intricately weaving different narratives and […]
Olympic Breakdancer Raygun Relives Kangaroo Hop In Surprise Appearance After Announcing Retirement
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Olympic Breakdancer Raygun Relives Kangaroo Hop In Surprise Appearance After Announcing Retirement

Scene-stealing Australian Olympic breakdancer Raygun has made a cameo appearance on stage at a music concert, following her announcement earlier this week of her retirement from competition.  Ray-gun – real name Rachael Gunn – confused critics and won hearts with her singular breakdancing style at the Paris Olympics this summer. She said earlier this week […]
Jamie Oliver’s Children’s Book Withdrawn From Sale After Complaints Of “Damaging Stereotypes”
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Jamie Oliver’s Children’s Book Withdrawn From Sale After Complaints Of “Damaging Stereotypes”

Jamie Oliver has pulled his children’s book from sale, following criticism by First Nations community leaders that his children’s book is offensive and harmful.  The Guardian newspaper reports that it had been notified Sunday by Oliver’s publishers Penguin Random House UK that it had withdrawn Billy and the Epic Escape from sale in all countries […]
Kate Middleton Joins Royal Family To Mark Remembrance Sunday In London
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Kate Middleton Joins Royal Family To Mark Remembrance Sunday In London

The Princess of Wales has joined the rest of the Royal Family in attending the annual Remembrance Sunday event in central London.  Kate Middleton is gradually returning to public duties following her retreat from the limelight to undergo chemotherapy earlier in the year. She also attended a music service at the Royal Albert Hall Saturday […]
Joshua Oppenheimer Breaks Down His Ambitious Post-Apocalyptic Musical ‘The End’: “It’s A Miracle This Got Made” — Thessaloniki
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Joshua Oppenheimer Breaks Down His Ambitious Post-Apocalyptic Musical ‘The End’: “It’s A Miracle This Got Made” — Thessaloniki

Greece’s Thessaloniki Film Festival ends this evening with a screening of The End, the latest feature project from the enigmatic filmmaker Joshua Oppenheimer.  Best known for his intellectually rich and Oscar-nominated non-fiction works The Act of Killing (2012) and The Look of Silence (2014), Oppenheimer’s latest is his first fiction project, and for it he […]
‘Saturday Night Live’ Pays Tribute To Quincy Jones
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‘Saturday Night Live’ Pays Tribute To Quincy Jones

Quincy Jones, who died earlier this week, received a tribute from Saturday Night Live. The venerable NBC show paid tribute to the musical legend, who died at the age of 91, with a card at the end of the show. Jones had previously hosted SNL in February 1990. He was coming off the back of […]
‘SNL’ Puts Bluey’s Dad Bandit In A Sex Swing
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‘SNL’ Puts Bluey’s Dad Bandit In A Sex Swing

Disney’s not going to be too happy with Saturday Night Live. The long-running NBC show put the anthropomorphic blue heeler puppy’s father in a lewd position during a Bill Burr-led sketch. The sketch kicked off with Heidi Gardner as a mental health specialist Kate Sullivan visiting some firefighters with a Rorschach test. “With all due […]