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Supersized sleeves: stars opt for big puffs at the Golden Globes

Beyoncé, Jodie Comer and Olivia Colman set the tone for exuberant armwear at this year’s awards – a far cry from 2018’s Time’s Up solidarity black outfits

Russell Crowe and Cate Blanchett use Golden Globes speeches to link Australian fires to climate crisis

Other celebrities, including Patricia Arquette and Ellen DeGeneres, draw attention to bushfires and urge viewers to donate

Beyoncé has mastered this celebrity age as creator of worlds, sayer of nothing

In this era in which stars keep tight control of their publicity, Beyoncé’s offer to answer fans questions was refreshing – if the answers were ... not always clear-cut

Leslie Ash: ‘You go through a grieving process when you’ve lost your career’

After making a recovery from a near-fatal superbug infection, the actor has struggled to find work. Now she has started making films herself

Josh Brolin gets burned where the sun don’t shine

It’s a bummer when a little sun worship ends up leaving you in agony, as the Avengers star claimed to have discovered when trying ‘perineum sunning’

‘A very nice guy’: how Godfrey Gao made it to the top

The late film star was a trailblazer for diversity in fashion and film. His loss deprives the growing Chinese entertainment industry of a fine talent

David Lynch smoking: Chris Saunders’ best photograph

‘He came out on to the balcony, picked a half-smoked cigarette out of a plant pot, lit it, and then it was click, click, click’

All hail the new Lorraine Kelly, a gritty heroine for our times

She’s been the embodiment of daytime TV cosiness for three decades, but no more. Now she’s as mad as hell and she’s not going to take this any more

Mandy Moore: ‘There’s much more scrutiny now. You’re seen from all angles’

The actor on sequins, red-carpet disco fun, denim dresses and fast-forwarding her age in This Is Us

Shakira: ‘I needed surgery – or divine intervention’

When Shakira lost her voice she was so desperate she went to Lourdes. Now it’s back – and after re-evaluating her life she’s got her sights set on a J Lo-assisted Super Bowl show

Sorry, James Dean, you’re better off dead than digitally alive

A pair of Hollywood directors think the long-dead actor is perfect to co-star in their new film. What I wouldn’t give to have been at the ideas meeting

Hallelujah, let’s hear it for Donald Trump Jr, the only music critic with integrity

Nobody seems very impressed with Kanye West’s new album – except the president’s son, that is, who believes it’s ‘cracking the culture code’

Rain Phoenix on her new album River: ‘My brother has been my guiding light’

Two decades after losing her brother, Rain Phoenix is finally able to share his music. She talks about ‘the wild animal’ of grief – and learning to sing with River on street corners

Robert Evans: passionate midwife to the Hollywood new wave

The capricious, imperious film figure, who has died aged 89, was a mentor and enabler to directors such as Francis Ford Coppola

Robert Evans, celebrated Hollywood producer of Chinatown, dies aged 89

Renowned 1970s studio executive who gained a cult following with his autobiography The Kid Stays in the Picture

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