Eurovision 2021 hopeful James Newman: ‘I’ve written the summer banger the UK deserves’
A year ago, James Newman was preparing to sing for an audience of 200 million in Rotterdam. Now he s back, with the data on his side
20 May 2021 • 7:26am I just hope everyone’s at home watching it on telly and not in the pub : UK Eurovision entrant James Newman
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The last time I saw James Newman, he was singing on top of the world. Or, at least, the upper floor of a central London private members’ club, before an audience of music industry and BBC grandees. The musician was launching his new single, My Last Breath, a song whose very existence had been a matter of utmost national secrecy for many months.
Everything we learnt from the Friends Reunion trailer
Could we BE more excited? The trailer gave us a glimpse of the core cast back on their iconic sets, plus a Q&A and special guests
20 May 2021 • 12:07pm
The One Where They Get Back Together: Friends cast Matthew Perry, Matt LeBlanc, David Schwimmer, Courteney Cox, Jennifer Aniston and Lisa Kudrow
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It’s finally happening! After years of speculation, the Friends cast will be there for us in the mega-bucks reunion special later this month - with each of the six lead actors, Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, Matt LeBlanc, Matthew Perry and David Schwimmer, reportedly receiving between $2.25 and $2.5 million.
Liza Minnelli and Halston in 1984
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It is a truism – and a joke from the Sex and the City 2 – that whenever there is a peak of gay energy in any room, Liza Minnelli automatically appears. I didn’t care for Sex and the City and its grasping archetype hags – it was consumerist Feminism, empty Feminism - but it is right in this sense, if only by coincidence or mistake.
Minnelli is in Halston from Netflix, a new five-part series about the most original designer America ever produced, with the ever-watchable Ewan McGregor as her best friend Roy (Halston) Frowick. The show isn’t as creative as the man it is named for: how could it be? Netflix is gaudy and well-funded, but it is not imaginative, as its subjects were.