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Symphony for the devil: Mick Jagger’s 80 greatest moments, on his 80th birthday

The singer who invented the very idea of the frontman has reached his ninth decade. We pick out the Jagger-iest moments of all, from killer lyrics to self-mocking sketches

Tom Holland: ‘I felt enslaved to alcohol’

The Spider-Man actor used a podcast appearance to speak about his struggles with alcoholism, and how giving up drinking has made him ‘the happiest I’ve ever been’

Michael Caine’s novel will most likely be rubbish, but I’m glad he’s found his happy ending

Most actors make terrible novelists – but writing the ‘cracking thriller’ Deadly Game was life-affirming for the veteran star, so never mind the finished product

Bruce Willis’s daughter says family ascribed his dementia to ‘Hollywood hearing loss’

As an adolescent, Tallulah Willis thought her father’s unresponsiveness was due to a lack of interest in her life – and Die Hard

The Little Mermaid’s Halle Bailey: ‘As a child, seeing a black Ariel would have changed my life’

From tween YouTube sensation, to pop star, to Beyoncé’s tour mate … now the actor and musician is about to star in the live-action remake of the Disney classic. She talks about overcoming self-doubt, her soulmate sister Chlöe, and a racist backlash

Anna Nicole Smith: You Don’t Know Me review – sympathetic retelling of a tragic life

Ursula Macfarlane’s documentary recounts the sad story of the smalltown girl turned Playboy model who ended up a victim of the celeb industry and addiction

Matthew Perry apologised to Keanu Reeves – but something still seems left unsaid

The artist formerly known as Chandler Bing threw serious shade at ‘the internet’s boyfriend’ in his memoir. Now he’s removing the mentions from future editions

I didn’t know how to tell my mum that Mike Nichols hated my script

I had my icons and I worshipped them. And one of them dumping on me from a great height was painful – though perhaps useful, too

‘We knew she was #gwynnocent’: how the Paltrow trial captivated the world

An astonishing degree of media attention was lavished on a seemingly humdrum ski collision. What made it so compelling?

Billionaire chic: the meaning of Gwyneth Paltrow’s court wardrobe

The actor’s outfits have gone viral over the last week. Free from garish logos and colours, they are a careful display of stealth wealth and soft power

All ears: here’s why Bill Nighy’s Oscars date was a small stained bunny

Was the star of Living making a covert protest on behalf of pygmy rabbits with his Sylvanian squeeze? Or referencing the Taiwanese gay community’s new icon? And what was that spattered over its forehead?

Everyone loves to hate the Oscars. But here’s why I’ll be watching

Events like the Oscars are rare examples of monoculture in a pop-culture world increasingly fractured into tiny splinters

Why accusing Harry Styles and Cardi B of queerbaiting is regressive

The term once addressed real fears – but it has become a means of policing identity as it ‘reduces sexuality to a tick box’

Madonna bootcamp was gruelling, intense and, it turns out, completely pointless

Julia Garner, Florence Pugh and Odessa Young were put through the musical equivalent of the first half hour of Full Metal Jacket for a now cancelled auto-biopic of the singer

‘Evil’, ‘peasants’ and ‘vomit’ – Eva Green’s WhatsApp messages exude star quality

The actor is suing for her £830,000 fee for a film that was never made. And her honest, haughty imperiousness deserves a standing ovation

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