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Eleanor Coppola, Emmy award winning director, dies aged 87

Coppola known for Hearts of Darkness, film chronicling tortured production of husband Francis Ford Coppola’s Apocalypse Now

An Irish Angel review – incident-packed teenage pregnancy comedy lurches into tragedy

This Northern Ireland-set feature veers unconvincingly from a schoolgirl’s abortion dilemma to a welter of subplots before a clumsy tonal shift

Susan Sarandon, Olivia Colman and Paul Mescal join star donors of Cinema for Gaza auction

Former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn gives jam as swathe of film and TV celebrities add support, including Zone of Interest’s Jonathan Glazer and Thor’s Tessa Thompson

‘We said no to Elvis Presley sweat and James Dean condoms’: the agent making a killing from dead celebrities

Mark Roesler is a publicist with a difference – most of the clients he represents are no longer alive. And thanks to AI, holograms and social media, being dead famous is more lucrative than ever

Oscars 2024: your catchup with all the action from Hollywood’s biggest night

From Billie to Barbie and Pacino to the pins, here’s where to get up to speed with the winners, the losers, the talking points and the dud moments

Fashion, addiction, antisemitism: the spectacular rise and fall of designer John Galliano

He was the epoch-shifting auteur of 90s fashion. Then came drugs, grief and an infamous outburst. As Kevin Macdonald’s new documentary shows, self-destruction was all that could stop him

‘Just a person who liked chips’: Bristol takeaway celebrates Cary Grant ties

Rendezvous restaurant loved by young Archibald Leach marks film star’s 120th birthday

‘My mouth was going towards his mouth’: why famous men are kissing at awards ceremonies

From Mark Ruffalo to Robert Downey Jr, men are expressing platonic affection in ways their forebears wouldn’t have dreamed of

From Barbie to Cameron: the most memorable comebacks of 2023

Observer writers choose the outstanding returns of the year in the worlds of politics, fashion, sport and film

From Beyoncé to Beckham: the worrying rise of one-sided celeb documentaries

Be it the pop star’s failure to mention the controversy over her LGBTQ credentials, or Beckham ignoring rumours of an affair, stars increasingly make shows that dodge the truth – to their detriment

Édith Piaf’s voice re-created using AI so she can narrate own biopic

In-development film comes after controversy around the re-creation of late stars’ voices, such as Anthony Bourdain

Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson wax statue to be redone after star criticises its white skin

Musée Grévin says it is ‘improving’ wax figure of Fast and Furious star after it attracted widespread ridicule on social media

Jamie Oliver’s son, Adam Sandler’s daughters: ‘nepo babies’ are taking over showbiz. What about the rest of us?

Oliver’s 12-year-old is getting a TV show; Sandler’s teenagers star in his new movie. That doesn’t leave much for the ‘normies’, writes Arwa Mahdawi

Single minded: people with public lives on the pleasures of solitude

Joe Lycett likes to get into nature, chef Ravinder Bhogal strolls around her local area, Kirsty Wark heads for a Scottish loch… Nine famous faces reveal how they like to spend time when they’re on their own

Is this a star on the rise, ‘just Ken’, or just Matt Hancock? Ask the families who lost loved ones during Covid

Watch the TikTok Barbie video and see him crafting a celebrity brand. That focus during the pandemic would have been nice, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde

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