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Martin Scorsese exposes Leo DiCaprio’s irritating on-set habit

<p dir="ltr">Martin Scorsese has exposed Leo DiCaprio’s irritating on-set habit that came to light while the pair were filming the new movie <em>Killers of the Flower Moon</em>. </p> <p dir="ltr">The award-winning director called out the A-list actor in a conversation with the <em><a href="https://www.wsj.com/style/martin-scorsese-killers-flower-moon-b4989f0c" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Wall Street Journal</a></em>, saying that the <em>Titanic</em> star tends to flesh details out and improv while filming, describing his technique as “endless, endless, endless!”</p> <p dir="ltr">Although Scorsese and DiCaprio have worked together on six other films, there was one more actor on the set of the new film that could not stand the ad libbing: Robert de Niro.</p> <p dir="ltr">“Then Bob didn’t want to talk,” Scorsese explained. “Every now and then, Bob and I would look at each other and roll our eyes a little bit. And we’d tell him, ‘You don’t need that dialogue.’”</p> <p dir="ltr">While de Niro wasn’t able to deal with DiCaprio’s improv, director Quentin Tarantino said the actor’s famous freakout scene as Rick Dalton in <em>Once Upon a Time in Hollywood </em>“wasn’t in the script,” but was brought to the table by DiCaprio himself, and took the film to another level. </p> <p dir="ltr">Despite the “endless” technique of DiCaprio’s acting, Scorsese said the actor was instrumental in the film’s success, after he helped determine that the film needed a rewrite in order to avoid being a “movie about all the white guys.”</p> <p dir="ltr">“It just didn’t get to the heart of the Osage,” DiCaprio told <em><a href="https://deadline.com/2023/05/martin-scorsese-interview-killers-of-the-flower-moon-leonardo-dicaprio-robert-de-niro-1235359006/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Deadline</a></em> in May, with reference to the original script. </p> <p dir="ltr">“It felt too much like an investigation into detective work, rather than understanding from a forensic perspective the culture and the dynamics of this very tumultuous, dangerous time in Oklahoma.”</p> <p dir="ltr"><em>Killers of the Flower Moon</em> is in cinemas now. </p> <p dir="ltr"><em>Image credits: Getty Images</em></p>

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Steve Martin discusses his love for Indigenous Australian art

<p dir="ltr">Comedian and actor Steve Martin has long been an avid art lover and collector. </p> <p dir="ltr">After making onto ARTnews Top 200 Collectors list several times in the 1990s, he has recently turned his attention to Indigenous Australian art and its deep cultural history. </p> <p dir="ltr">With his wife Anne Stringfield, he’s bought works by Indigenous artists such as Bill Whiskey Tjapaltjarri, Timo Hogan, Carlene West, Warlimpirrnga Tjapaltjarri, and Doreen Reid Nakamarra, among many others.</p> <p dir="ltr">His love for these works began almost 10 years ago, as he shared with <a href="https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/actor-steve-martin-on-the-joys-and-the-difficulties-of-collecting-contemporary-indigenous-australian-art-1234644806/">ARTnews</a>.</p> <p dir="ltr">He said, “It all started with one picture by this artist, Warlimpirrnga Tjapaltjarri. I just really liked it, bought it, and hung it in our house for several years. I really didn’t know that there was a whole big funnel going back this way of its history.” </p> <p dir="ltr">“I hadn’t really seen anything like this before. And they were available, which is an aspect of the art world now that is the opposite—most things are unavailable. And I loved them. I thought they were great.”</p> <p dir="ltr">He said his collection, which includes over a hundred works, is “hard to improve” when dealing with art pieces that are increasingly rare. </p> <p dir="ltr">Some of the works he owns have been displayed in non-selling shows at Gagosian locations in New York and Beverly Hills, California, with Steve saying he “loves just getting these pictures seen” by like-minded art fans. </p> <p dir="ltr"><em>Image credits: Getty Images</em></p>

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Ricky Martin hits back at “maladjusted” nephew with massive lawsuit

<p dir="ltr">Ricky Martin has filed a multi-million-dollar lawsuit against his 21-year-old nephew who previously accused the singer of sexual abuse.</p> <p dir="ltr">The suit comes a month after Martin’s nephew, Dennis Yadiel Sanchez, <a href="https://www.oversixty.com.au/finance/legal/truth-prevails-ricky-martin-addresses-nephew-after-harassment-case-heard" target="_blank" rel="noopener">withdrew a restraining order</a> laid against the 50-year-old celebrity.</p> <p dir="ltr">Martin filed the $US 20 million suit on Wednesday, as reported by TMZ, which contains claims from Martin that his nephew is a “maladjusted individual” who would message him up to ten times a day over a four-month period, threatening to “assassinate his reputation and integrity” if he didn’t give him cash.</p> <p dir="ltr">The <em>Livin’ La Vida Loca</em> singer also alleged that Sanchez shared his mobile phone number online and made an Instagram account for one of Martin’s children.</p> <p dir="ltr">He believes he has missed out on lucrative business opportunities, according to the suit, and is seeking the hefty sum for damages.</p> <p dir="ltr">Martin, who parents his four children with husband Jwan Yosef, said he and his family felt “unsafe” in Puerto Rico due to Sanchez’s alleged behaviour.</p> <p dir="ltr">In July, Martin shared a clip explaining why he hadn’t addressed Sanchez’s claims the pair were in an incestuous relationship when they first emerged.</p> <p dir="ltr">“For two weeks, I was not allowed to defend myself because I was following procedure, where the law … obligated me not to talk until I was in front of the judge,” Martin said in the clip while dressed in a suit and tie.</p> <p><span id="docs-internal-guid-f5ea56f4-7fff-6297-835b-a33656e0d008"></span></p> <p dir="ltr">Sanchez, who is the son of Martin’s half-sister Vanessa Martin, alleged he and Martin were in a relationship for seven months and that his uncle stalked him at his house following their breakup.</p> <blockquote class="instagram-media" style="background: #FFF; 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font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 8px; overflow: hidden; padding: 8px 0 7px; text-align: center; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;"><a style="color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px; text-decoration: none;" href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CgRx1HwL36j/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading" target="_blank" rel="noopener">A post shared by Ricky Martin (@ricky_martin)</a></p> </div> </blockquote> <p dir="ltr">In the video, Martin shared his relief over the dismissal of the case but noted the negative impact it had on his loved ones.</p> <p dir="ltr">“Thank God these claims were proven to be false, but I’m going to tell you the truth, it has been so painful and devastating for me, for my family for my friends,” he said. </p> <p dir="ltr">“I don’t wish this upon anybody.”</p> <p dir="ltr"><span id="docs-internal-guid-81b23761-7fff-62df-22c9-bb98fa88ba6c"></span></p> <p dir="ltr"><em>Image: @ricky_martin (Instagram)</em></p>

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Steve Martin's big career news

<p dir="ltr">With a career spanning more than five decades, Hollywood veteran Steve Martin has said he’s “not going to seek” any more acting work.</p> <p dir="ltr">The 76-year-old film and TV star said he might be considering retirement after he wraps filming on the upcoming third season of his Hulu series, <em>Only Murders In The Building</em>, co-starring Martin Short and Selena Gomez.</p> <p dir="ltr">Speaking to <em><a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-features/steve-martin-career-retirement-only-murders-in-the-building-1235195571/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Hollywood Reporter</a></em>, Martin said it was becoming difficult to stay in the game at this point in his career.</p> <p dir="ltr">“There’s a time in your career when people are dying to see you … Now is the time in my career when I’m the one who’s got to show up,” he said.</p> <p dir="ltr">“When this television show [<em>Only Murders In The Building</em>] is done, I’m not going to seek others. I’m not going to seek other movies. I don’t want to do cameos. This is, weirdly, it.”</p> <p dir="ltr">The star, who has been nominated for an Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actor (Comedy) at this year’s awards for his work on<em> Only Murders In The Building</em>, started out in stand-up comedy. Martin made his name in the 1960s for his writing work on <em>The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour</em>, before becoming a host on <em>Saturday Night Live.</em></p> <p dir="ltr">After retiring from comedy, Martin transitioned to the big screen in the 80s, starring in hit films such as <em>Three Amigos, Planes, Trains and Automobiles, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Father of the Bride, Pink Panther</em>, and <em>Cheaper By The Dozen</em>.</p> <p dir="ltr">Martin has earned himself five Grammys, an Emmy, and an Honorary Academy Award, meaning he only needs to score a Tony award to achieve the prestigious EGOT status.</p> <p dir="ltr">In his personal life, Martin became a father for the first time at the age of 67, welcoming a daughter with his wife of 15 years, Anne Stringfield.</p> <p dir="ltr">Though he says he won’t be looking for more acting work, Martin hasn’t retired just yet.</p> <p dir="ltr">“My wife keeps saying, “You always say you’re going to retire and then you always come up with something’ … I’m not really interested in retiring,” Martin added.</p> <p dir="ltr">“I’m not. But I would just work a little less. Maybe.”</p> <p><span id="docs-internal-guid-ee6894dc-7fff-1200-680e-60f02a9a7b9f"></span></p> <p dir="ltr"><em>Image: Getty Images</em></p>

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Controversial Diana interview to air in new documentary

<p dir="ltr">A new documentary about Princess Diana will air snippets of her 1995 Panorama interview with BBC journalist Martin Bashir once again, despite Prince William insisting it “should never be shown again”.</p> <p dir="ltr">The HBO documentary, titled <em>The Princess</em>, uses archival audio and video footage as part of its exploration of Diana’s complex relationship with the media, including how she often used the press to her advantage with dire consequences.</p> <p dir="ltr">Its release in select Australian and New Zealand cinemas in August comes a year after William made a forceful statement condemning the 1995 interview and describing it as a “major contribution to making my parent’s relationship worse”.</p> <p dir="ltr">Snippets from the interview show the late Princess of Wales speaking about her marriage to Prince Charles, her extramarital affair, and her belief that a campaign was being “waged against” her for her refusal to “go quietly”.</p> <p dir="ltr">“It is my firm view that this Panorama program holds no legitimacy and should never be aired again,” William said in May 2021.</p> <p dir="ltr">“It effectively established a false narrative which, for over a quarter of a century, has been commercialised by the BBC and others.”</p> <p dir="ltr">Prince Harry later echoed William’s statements, saying that “our mother lost her life because of this and nothing has changed”.</p> <p dir="ltr">The BBC has distanced itself from the documentary, saying licences allowing for “any or all” of the interview to be aired had not been granted, per <em><a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/royal-family/2022/07/28/dianas-disgraced-panorama-interview-aired-sky-against-prince/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Telegraph UK</a></em>.</p> <p dir="ltr">It has since emerged that Bahir lied to Diana to gain her trust prior to the interview, showing her forged bank statements and other documents as proof that her most-trusted advisors and staff were spying on her in order to get her to agree to the interview.</p> <p dir="ltr">Tim Davie, the BBC’s director-general, vowed last week to never show the interview in its entirety or in parts ever again, saying there would only be “few and far between” reasons to use extracts for journalistic purposes and urging other broadcasters to “exercise similar restraint”.</p> <p dir="ltr">He also apologised to Prince Charles, Prince William and Prince Harry for “the way in which Princess Diana was deceived and the subsequent impact on all their lives”.</p> <p dir="ltr"><em>The Princess</em> isn’t expected to provide context for the BBC interview, as segments from it will be shown alongside other news bulletins and footage of some members of the public - out of an estimated 23 million people who watched it at the time - watching it in a pub and reacting to it.</p> <p dir="ltr">In a statement, HBO described the film as “intensely emotional” and a “visceral submersion” into Diana’s life under the spotlight of the media.</p> <p dir="ltr">“The film unfolds as if it were in the present, allowing viewers to experience the overwhelming adoration, but also intense scrutiny of Diana's every move and the constant judgement of her character,” the statement reads.</p> <p dir="ltr">"Through archival material, the film is also a reflection of society at the time, revealing the public's own preoccupations, fears, aspirations and desires."</p> <p><span id="docs-internal-guid-ea73afec-7fff-008f-91a2-935b7a7cd4f1"></span></p> <p dir="ltr"><em>Image: Getty Images</em></p>

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"Truth prevails”: Ricky Martin addresses nephew after harassment case heard

<p>Ricky Martin’s 21-year-old nephew’s protection order against the popular singer has been dismissed following bombshell incest allegations.</p> <p>Attorneys for Martin, aged 50, have reported that the court in Puerto Rico did not extend Dennis Yadiel Sanchez’s temporary protection order just as they had anticipated.</p> <p>“The accuser confirmed to the court that his decision to dismiss the matter was his alone, without any outside influence or pressure, and the accuser confirmed he was satisfied with his legal representation in the matter,” lawyers Joaquín Monserrate Matienzo, Carmelo Dávila and Harry Massanet Pastrana said in a joint statement.</p> <p>“The request came from the accuser asking to dismiss the case. This was never anything more than a troubled individual making false allegations with absolutely nothing to substantiate them.”</p> <p>The attorneys concluded: “We are glad that our client saw justice done and can now move forward with his life and his career.”</p> <p>Martin also released a statement himself, via a two-minute video.</p> <p>In the video he explained his earlier silence and spoke directly to his nephew, saying he hopes he “doesn’t hurt anybody else.”</p> <p>“I’m in front of the cameras today because I really need to talk in order for me to start my healing process,” Martin said. “For two weeks, I was not allowed to defend myself because I was following a procedure where the law - the law - obligated me not to talk until I was in front of the judge and got this claims were proven to be false.”</p> <p>“But I’m going to tell you the truth. It has been so painful. It has been devastating for me, for my family, for my friends. I don’t wish this upon anybody. To the person that was claiming this nonsense, I wish him the best - and I wish he finds the help so he can start a new life filled with love and truth and joy - and he doesn’t hurt anybody else.”</p> <p>“Now, my priority is to heal and how do I heal? With music,” Martin continued. “I cannot wait to be back on stage. I cannot wait to be back in front of the cameras and entertain, which is what I do best.”</p> <p>“Thank you to all my friends. Thank you to all the fans who always believed in me. You have no idea the strength that you gave me with every comment you wrote on social media. I wish you love and light - and here we come with the same strength and passion.”</p> <p>Martin’s husband of five years also broke his silence, posting a photo of the couple together with the caption: “Truth prevails.”</p> <blockquote class="instagram-media" style="background: #FFF; border: 0; border-radius: 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 540px; min-width: 326px; padding: 0; width: calc(100% - 2px);" data-instgrm-captioned="" data-instgrm-permalink="https://www.instagram.com/p/CgSOwN7PGev/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_campaign=loading" data-instgrm-version="14"> <div style="padding: 16px;"> <div style="display: flex; flex-direction: row; align-items: center;"> <div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; flex-grow: 0; height: 40px; margin-right: 14px; width: 40px;"> </div> <div style="display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center;"> <div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px; width: 100px;"> </div> <div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; width: 60px;"> </div> </div> </div> <div style="padding: 19% 0;"> </div> <div style="display: block; height: 50px; margin: 0 auto 12px; width: 50px;"> </div> <div style="padding-top: 8px;"> <div style="color: #3897f0; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 550; line-height: 18px;">View this post on Instagram</div> </div> <div style="padding: 12.5% 0;"> </div> <div style="display: flex; flex-direction: row; margin-bottom: 14px; align-items: center;"> <div> <div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; height: 12.5px; width: 12.5px; transform: translateX(0px) translateY(7px);"> </div> <div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; height: 12.5px; transform: rotate(-45deg) translateX(3px) translateY(1px); width: 12.5px; flex-grow: 0; margin-right: 14px; margin-left: 2px;"> </div> <div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; height: 12.5px; width: 12.5px; transform: translateX(9px) translateY(-18px);"> </div> </div> <div style="margin-left: 8px;"> <div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; flex-grow: 0; height: 20px; width: 20px;"> </div> <div style="width: 0; height: 0; border-top: 2px solid transparent; border-left: 6px solid #f4f4f4; border-bottom: 2px solid transparent; transform: translateX(16px) translateY(-4px) rotate(30deg);"> </div> </div> <div style="margin-left: auto;"> <div style="width: 0px; border-top: 8px solid #F4F4F4; border-right: 8px solid transparent; transform: translateY(16px);"> </div> <div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; flex-grow: 0; height: 12px; width: 16px; transform: translateY(-4px);"> </div> <div style="width: 0; height: 0; border-top: 8px solid #F4F4F4; border-left: 8px solid transparent; transform: translateY(-4px) translateX(8px);"> </div> </div> </div> <div style="display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center; margin-bottom: 24px;"> <div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px; width: 224px;"> </div> <div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; width: 144px;"> </div> </div> <p style="color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 8px; overflow: hidden; padding: 8px 0 7px; text-align: center; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;"><a style="color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px; text-decoration: none;" href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CgSOwN7PGev/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_campaign=loading" target="_blank" rel="noopener">A post shared by Jwan Yosef (@jwanyosef)</a></p> </div> </blockquote> <p><em>Image: Getty</em></p>

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Ricky Martin responds to allegations of domestic violence

<p>Ricky Martin has responded to shocking accusations of domestic violence, which were publicised by the singer's own nephew. </p> <p>Ricky denies all allegations of domestic violence and incest, which could land him behind bars for 50 years. </p> <p>Dennis Yadiel Sanchez, 21, was identified as Ricky’s accuser in the case over in Puerto Rico, meaning the incident could possibly involve incest.</p> <p>Ricky’s brother, Eric, reportedly identified Sanchez as the alleged victim as Ricky is scheduled to appear in court on July 21st.</p> <p>While it is currently unknown exactly what charges Ricky could be facing, Puerto Rico has much stricter laws on crimes of a sexual nature when the victim and accused are related. </p> <p>The pop star is accused of "exercising physical and psychological attacks" on Sanchez during their seven-month relationship, which ended about two months ago.</p> <p>When reached by <a title="nypost.com" href="https://nypost.com/2022/07/15/ricky-martin-accused-of-incest-in-shocking-puerto-rico-reports/">The Post</a> on Friday, Martin’s attorney Marty Singer said, “Unfortunately, the person who made this claim is struggling with deep mental health challenges. Ricky Martin has, of course, never been — and would never be — involved in any kind of sexual or romantic relationship with his nephew.”</p> <p>“The idea is not only untrue, it is disgusting. We all hope that this man gets the help he so urgently needs. But, most of all, we look forward to this awful case being dismissed as soon as a judge gets to look at the facts,” Singer said. </p> <p>Spanish news website Marca reported that Ricky would face up to 50 years if he’s convicted.</p> <p>“The allegations against Ricky Martin that lead to a protection order are completely false and fabricated,” said Ricky’s reps in a statement to People.</p> <p>“We are very confident that when the true facts come out in this matter our client Ricky Martin will be fully vindicated.”</p> <p>Ricky also made a statement on Twitter writing, “The protection order entered against me is based on completely false allegations, so I will respond through the judicial process with the facts and the dignity that characterise me. </p> <p>“Because it is an ongoing legal matter, I cannot make detailed statements at this time. I am grateful for the countless messages of solidarity, and I receive them with all my heart.”</p> <p><em>Image credits: Getty Images</em></p>

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Sean Connery's personal James Bond Aston Martin on sale for first time ever

<p>A piece of Hollywood history has gone up for sale, with car enthusiasts everywhere dying to get their hands on it. </p> <p>Sean Connery's personal 1964 Aston Martin DB5 is being offered for sale through <a href="https://www.broadarrowauctions.com/vehicles/009/1964-aston-martin-db5" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Broad Arrow Auctions</a>, with the iconic vehicle expected to fetch between $US1.4 million and $1.8 million ($AU1.9-2.5m).</p> <p>The car boasts a Snow Shadow Grey colour, as per it's appearance in the Bond movie <em>Goldfinger</em>, over a show-stopping red leather interior.</p> <p>The vehicle was delivered brand new to its original owner in the UK in 1964, where it remained until Connery bought it in 2018 and relocated it to his property in Switzerland. </p> <p>It is worth noting that the car was originally black, and Connery had it painted to match his famous on-screen co-star. </p> <p>The Snow Shadow Grey colour was limited to the prototype DB5 used in the James Bond films, and was replaced by Silver Birch as the 'factory' DB5 colour.</p> <p>The car is on sale for the first time, with the lucky owner also receiving driving training from Formula One World Champion Jackie Stewart. </p> <p>Many of the proceeds from the sale benefitting the Sean Connery Philanthropy Fund, a charity supporting young people of Scotland.</p> <p>The auction for the car will take place on August 17th 2022. </p> <p><em>Image credits: drive.com</em></p>

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Jane Fonda talks about working with Lily Tomlin

<p>When Jane Fonda was last in Australia, we asked her what it’s been like working with Lily Tomlin on the much-acclaimed Netflix series, <em>Grace and Frankie. </em></p> <p>Fonda told us working with Tomlin was: “Paradise. I admire her and love her so much.”</p> <p>“It’s like working with a genius… She really is – there are so many people inside of her. Watching her work and watching how she is in life, is an inspiration.”</p> <p>“I feel so lucky to be part of Team Lily,” she concluded. You can watch her talking in the video below.</p> <p><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/bLpsP045rWE" title="YouTube video player" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" width="560" height="315" frameborder="0"></iframe></p> <p><strong>Four episodes of the seventh and final season of Grace and Frankie released </strong></p> <p>So far, there are four episodes of the seventh and final season of G<em>race and Frankie</em> streaming on Netflix because filming was delayed because of COVID. Netflix says it plans to load more episodes as they’re available.</p> <p>Many of us have enjoyed this Emmy-nominated series and this is majorly due to the great work from the actors Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin. Netflix announced last year that the seventh season will be the last of the series but it still makes the show the longest-running original Netflix series to date.</p> <p>The first season of <em>Grace and Frankie </em>premiered in May 2015 and all the previous six seasons of the hit show are now streaming on Netflix.</p> <p>With the addition of this seventh season, which will end up consisting of 16 episodes, the show will have run for 94 episodes – a large number and this is what makes the show is Netflix’s longest-running original series to date.</p> <p><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/useJWxOqbJI" title="YouTube video player" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" width="560" height="315" frameborder="0"></iframe></p> <p><strong>The star power <em>of Grace and Frankie</em></strong></p> <p><em>Grace and Frankie </em>has always had all the components needed to keep us glued to our screens whenever we watch it. As well as Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin, it also features Martin Sheen and Sam Waterson as their husbands.  </p> <p>B<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooklyn_Decker">rooklyn Decker</a> plays Mallory Hanson, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethan_Embry">Ethan Embry</a> plays Coyote Bergstein, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_Diane_Raphael">June Diane Raphael</a> is Brianna Hanson and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baron_Vaughn">Baron Vaughn</a> is Bud Bergstein.</p> <p>The show has won fans all along the way because it has such an interesting storyline – all revolving around Grace and Frankie, who’ve know each other for many years because of the long-standing friendship between their husbands.</p> <p>That is, until their two husbands come out and say they’re gay and they wish to live as a couple. This leaves the women to live their own life and although they’re very different, they find they bond through this experience.</p> <p>The series was created by Marta Kauffman and Howard J. Morris and airs on Netflix. As Kauffman and Morris have said: “It’s thrilling and somehow fitting, that our show about the challenges, as well as the beauty and dignity of aging, will be the oldest show on Netflix.”</p> <p><em>Images and Video: YouTube</em></p> <p><em> </em></p>

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Prince William and Harry’s nanny compensated for abortion claims

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The former nanny to Prince William and Prince Harry will reportedly be paid damages over claims BBC reporter Martin Bashir alleged she had an affair with Prince Charles that resulted in her aborting his child.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Investigations into how Bashir secured the tell-all 1995 interview with Princess Diana found that Bashir had faked an abortion receipt for Tiggy Pettifer - née Legge-Bourke.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Bashir told Diana that Charles was in love with the nanny, claiming the pair went on a holiday together for two weeks.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">A source told </span><em><a rel="noopener" href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/royal-family/2021/09/17/former-royal-nanny-offered-significant-damages-bbc-martin-bashir/" target="_blank"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Telegraph</span></a></em><span style="font-weight: 400;"> that the BBC will pay Ms Pettifer £100,000 ($NZD 195, 835) in damages after acknowledging the suffering that resulted from the false claims.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Tiggy Legge-Bourke was right at the centre of Bashir’s manipulation and it is right that the damage caused to her is recognised by the BBC,” the source told the publication.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">At the time of Bashir’s interview, Diana’s friend Rosa Monckton confirmed in </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Daily Mail</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> that Bashir’s claims had had a significant impact on the princess.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Diana changed from being very concerned with day-to-day matters, just like any normal friend, to suddenly becoming obsessed with plots against her,” she wrote at the time.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Ms Monckton said Diana had also become “obsessed” with the idea that Prince Charles was having an affair with Ms Pettifer and believed claims the nanny was pregnant.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The abortion and affair claims were some of the alleged underhanded methods Bashir used to secure the interview.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Since the allegations have come to light, Bashir has stood down from the BBC.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Ms Pettifer was hired by Prince Chales as a nanny shortly after he and Diana separated in 1993.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Ms Pettifer would join the family on holidays and has maintained a close relationship with the royals, especially with the princes.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">She attended both of their weddings and was named as the godmother of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s first child, Archie.</span></p> <p><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">Image: Getty</span></em></p>

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Buckley’s Chance is a classic film about a boy and a dog

<p>In a classic tradition, <em>Buckley’s Chance</em> is a film which explores the close relationship between a boy and his dingo in outback Australia – and Bill Nighy comes along for the ride.</p> <p>Filmed in Broken Hill, <em>Buckley’s Chance</em> was in cinemas in June of this year but you can now stream it on Amazon Prime Video.</p> <p>Well-known British actor, Bill Nighy plays a leading role alongside Milan Burch who plays the role of the young boy, Ridley. And yes – there’s a new screen star – the dingo called Buckley.</p> <p>After the loss of his father, Ridley is forced to move to the Australian outback to live with his estranged Grandfather (Nighy). While exploring the outback, Ridley becomes lost and befriends a dingo excluded from its own pack. A strong bond is formed as the two try to make their way home.</p> <p><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/np7WgFqtNzE" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></p> <p><strong>Based on the Aussie slang – “You’ve got Buckley’s”</strong></p> <p>The phrase – “You’ve got Buckley’s” is a much-used piece of Aussie slang and it refers to a convict called <span>William Buckley who escaped in Victoria in 1803 and lived among the Aborigines there for the next 30 years.</span></p> <p><span>At the time, it was thought no-one could ever survive in the Australian bush on their own and this is how the term “Buckley’s” came about.</span></p> <p data-adtags-visited="true">As Ridley’s grandfather, Spencer (played by Nighy) is trying to run a sheep station and he doesn’t really need his son’s grieving widow and her son around, complicating his life.</p> <p data-adtags-visited="true">But guilt over his estranged son forces Spencer to make an effort, teach the kid a little outback survival and lore. He even pulls out his gun every time he sees a dingo and aims at them.</p> <p>Ridly is horrified and asks him why he’s shooting a dog.</p> <p>“They may look like a dog, Ridley, but they’re more wolf than dog,” says Spencer.</p> <p data-adtags-visited="true">The kid isn’t convinced. So, when the chance comes to rescue a fine specimen of the breed trapped in a fence, he makes a new friend. He names it after grandpa’s ranch, “Buckley’s Chance”.</p> <p><img style="width: 0px; height: 0px;" src="/nothing.jpg" alt="" data-udi="umb://media/57369d9a67a44e3d96c40dacbbcaee1b" /><img style="width: 500px; height: 281.53564899451555px;" src="https://oversixtydev.blob.core.windows.net/media/7844021/buckleys-chance-7-um.jpg" alt="" data-udi="umb://media/57369d9a67a44e3d96c40dacbbcaee1b" /></p> <p>As this all happens, we see some lovely and exotic outback scenery.</p> <p data-adtags-visited="true">On the negative side, Nighy’s Aussie accent isn’t too good, so it’s up to the other supporting actors to get that right.</p> <p data-adtags-visited="true">Still, this is a sentimental and kid-friendly movie. The film’s other well-known actors include Kelton Pell, Victoria Hill and Martin Sacks.</p> <p>Overall, <em>Buckley’s Chance</em> is a thrilling tale for all the family about fun, friendship and family.</p> <p><em>Buckley’s Chance</em> showed in Australian cinemas in June of this year and now you can rent it from <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Buckleys-Chance-Bill-Nighy/dp/B09CLPWMHG">Amazon Prime Video</a> for $6.99.</p> <p><em>Photos and Video: Transmission Films and YouTube</em></p> <p><em> </em></p> <p><em> </em></p> <p><em> </em></p>

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Uninhabited island looks for new occupant

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">A remote and uninhabited Scottish island is looking for a live-in caretaker.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">With no full-time residents, Isle Martin, near Ullapool, needs someone to keep the island in good condition for visitors in the summer months.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The island’s community trust is inviting individuals and couples to register their interest.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Isle Martin offers visitors several hours of things to do, with two beaches, a micro museum (in a hut) and a hill that serves as a top spot for birdwatching.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The island also hosts Scotland’s first seaweed festival from September 6-12, with volunteers sometimes running a pop-up café during the festivities.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;"><img style="width: 500px; height:434.9385245901639px;" src="https://oversixtydev.blob.core.windows.net/media/7841538/_118713418_isle1.jpg" alt="" data-udi="umb://media/d1a8bf6d77a342d4b643c4c4d5f10919" /></span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The chosen caretaker will be the first full-time resident living on the island in 30 years, as the trust looks to generate more interest in the island.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">When it comes to the actual duties the caretaker will need to do, it amounts to about three hours a day.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“It is a bit of housekeeping. They need to keep the three houses on the island prepared for guests, clean the public toilets, welcome visitors and make sure they are sticking to COVID safety measures,” Trust director Becky Thompson told the BBC.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In return, the volunteer caretaker will be provided accommodation, earn </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">£150 ($NZD 293) per week, and get to enjoy all the perks the island has to offer.</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"></span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Isle Martin is located at the mouth of Loch Broom and about 1.5km away from the mainland.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The island is just 400 acres in size and sits below the cliffs of Beinn Mhor Coigach and opposite the Viking fort of Dunn Canna.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Now recognised as a bird sanctuary, it has been home to a monastery, a herring curing station and a flour mill in the past.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;"><img style="width: 390.7125700560448px; height:500px;" src="https://oversixtydev.blob.core.windows.net/media/7841537/_118713426_isle5.jpg" alt="" data-udi="umb://media/60cd17b68c404df383a11db1a720a1c4" /></span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The position would suit someone who enjoys the outdoors and does not need creature comforts, with no running hot water and only a small electrical charger on the island.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The trust is also looking for a candidate bringing specific skills they want to share to benefit the community while living on the island.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Becky Thomson said: “If someone enjoyed the land, they could revive our vegetable garden if they wanted.”</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">She also explained why people are likely to fall in love with the place.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“The sense of escape and peace and quiet,” she said. “It is so near the mainland but as soon as you land on the island it’s lovely and peaceful. There are no cars, no roads. Just quiet. That’s what people like - the feeling of restfulness.”</span></p> <p><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">Image credit: Isle Martin Trust</span></em></p>

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"It had no bearing on anything": Martin Bashir responds to Princess Di accusations

<p>Veteran journalist Martin Bashir has said he "never wanted to harm" Diana, Princess of Wales, with his now disgraced BBC Panorama interview, telling the Sunday Times newspaper, "I don't believe we did."</p> <p>In the 1995 world exclusive interview, Princess Diana confirmed Prince Charles' relationship with Camilla Parker Bowles and described in frank detail how she believed royal life had made her bulimic.</p> <p>An independent investigation published 25 years later by the BBC and led by retired judge Lord Dyson called the tactics Bashir used to secure the sit-down "deceitful".</p> <p>The report revealed the then-32-year-old journalist forged documents to suggest Palace staff were being paid to spy on the princess.</p> <p>Bashir then allegedly presented those documents to Diana's brother, Earl Charles Spencer, who then introduced him to Diana.</p> <p>The report also found an internal BBC inquiry in 1996 covered up Bashir's malpractice.</p> <p>Bashir left his role at the BBC earlier this month citing health reasons before the findings were released Thursday.</p> <p>Speaking to the Sunday Times, he said him and Diana "were friends" and continued to be close after the interview was broadcast, with the princess even paying a visit to his wife at the hospital shortly after the birth of their third child.</p> <p>“We loved her. That’s what we wanted to protect, and that’s why I have never taken money, never said anything, never written anything,” he said.</p> <p>“Everything we did in terms of the interview was as she wanted, from when she wanted to alert the palace, to when it was broadcast, to its contents ... My family and I loved her.”</p> <p>In the<span> </span><em>Sunday Times</em><span> </span>interview, Bashir expressed his sorrow over showing the fake bank statements to the princess’ brother, but insisted I didn’t harm the princess.</p> <p>“Obviously I regret it, it was wrong. But it had no bearing on anything. It had no bearing on (Diana), it had no bearing on the interview,” he said.</p>

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Princes Harry and William condemn BBC wrongdoings against Princess Diana

<p><span>The Duke of Cambridge and the Duke of Sussex have condemned the BBC after a report into how they secured an interview with Princess Diana was released.</span><br /><br /><span>Prince William welcomed the report, saying the 1995 Panorama interview was obtained using “deceitful” methods”.</span><br /><br /><span>The royal said it "contributed significantly" to Princess Diana's "fear, paranoia and isolation" in her final years.</span><br /><br /><span>He also went on to say the interview was a "major contribution to making my parents' relationship worse".</span><br /><br /><span>Prince Harry released his own statement, saying "our mother lost her life because of this and nothing has changed".</span></p> <p><img style="width: 0px; height: 0px;" src="https://oversixtydev.blob.core.windows.net/media/7841349/princess-diana-1.jpg" alt="" data-udi="umb://media/7108567cb2be45ac84fcc53f83b23ed5" /><br /><br /><span>Princess Diana referred to her ex-husband’s affair during the interview where she famously said: "there were three of us in this marriage…it was a bit crowded".</span><br /><br /><span>Lord Dyson’s report has concluded that Bashir used "deceitful behaviour" in a "serious breach" of BBC guidelines to obtain his interview with Princess Diana.</span><br /><br /><span>The 127-page report found that Bashir "deceived and induced" Princess Diana's brother Earl Spencer into introducing him to his sister.</span><br /><br /><span>The BBC has offered a "full and unconditional apology" and admitted to "clear failings".</span><br /><br /><span>Prince William issued a statement via Kensington Palace hours after the report's release.</span><br /><br /><span>"It is my view that the deceitful way the interview was obtained substantially influenced what my mother said," he said.</span><br /><br /><span>"The interview was a major contribution to making my parents' relationship worse and has since hurt countless others.</span><br /><br /><span>"It brings indescribable sadness to know that the BBC's failures contributed significantly to her fear, paranoia and isolation that I remember from those final years with her.</span><br /><br /><span>"But what saddens me most, is that if the BBC had properly investigated the complaints and concerns first raised in 1995, my mother would have known that she had been deceived."</span><br /><br /><span>Two years later, Diana was killed in a car crash in Paris.</span><br /><br /><span>"She was failed not just by a rogue reporter, but by leaders at the BBC who looked the other way rather than asking the tough questions," William's statement said.</span></p> <blockquote style="background: #FFF; border: 0; border-radius: 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 540px; min-width: 326px; padding: 0; width: calc(100% - 2px);" class="instagram-media" data-instgrm-permalink="https://www.instagram.com/p/CDRGEqaFLqT/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading" data-instgrm-version="13"> <div style="padding: 16px;"> <div style="display: flex; flex-direction: row; align-items: center;"> <div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; flex-grow: 0; height: 40px; margin-right: 14px; width: 40px;"></div> <div style="display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center;"> <div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px; width: 100px;"></div> <div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; width: 60px;"></div> </div> </div> <div style="padding: 19% 0;"></div> <div style="display: block; height: 50px; margin: 0 auto 12px; width: 50px;"></div> <div style="padding-top: 8px;"> <div style="color: #3897f0; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 550; line-height: 18px;">View this post on Instagram</div> </div> <p style="color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 8px; overflow: hidden; padding: 8px 0 7px; text-align: center; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;"><a style="color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px; text-decoration: none;" rel="noopener" href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CDRGEqaFLqT/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading" target="_blank">A post shared by 𝗖ody 𝗧rimboli 𝗦alon (@ct.salon)</a></p> </div> </blockquote> <p><br /><span>Prince Harry released his own statement, saying: "The ripple effect of a culture of exploitation and unethical practices ultimately took her life.</span><br /><br /><span>"To those who have taken some form of accountability, thank you for owning it.</span><br /><br /><span>"This is the first step towards justice and truth. Yet what deeply concerns me is that practices like these - and even worse - are still widespread today.</span><br /><br /><span>"Our mother lost her life because of this, and nothing has changed.</span><br /><br /><span>"By protecting her legacy, we protect everyone, and uphold the dignity with which she lived her life.</span><br /><br /><span>Lord Dyson, who is a former Master of the Rolls, was hired by the BBC's director-general Tim Davie, to look into an inquiry into the circumstances surrounding the interview.</span><br /><br /><span>It is alleged that Bashir had ordered falsified bank statements to win the trust of Earl Spencer.</span><br /><br /><span>Earl Spencer then introduced Bashir to Princess Diana at a friend's home in Knightsbridge, in central London, on September 19,1995.</span><br /><br /><span>The world exclusive interview would take place two months later.</span><br /><br /><span>Bashir was seen as a relatively unknown journalist at the time, but somehow managed to secure the scoop of the century.</span><br /><br /><span>He mocked-up bank statements that showed payments totalling nearly $20,000 going into an account owned by Earl Spencer's former head of security.</span><br /><br /><span>The cash sums were intended to show that Earl Spencer's security head was in the pay of a tabloid newspaper and also the British security services.</span><br /><br /><span>Earl Spencer had provided a dossier of evidence to Lord Dyson, including notes from that first meeting between Princess Diana and Bashir.</span></p> <p><img style="width: 0px; height: 0px;" src="https://oversixtydev.blob.core.windows.net/media/7841350/princess-diana.jpg" alt="" data-udi="umb://media/953e7a00d6ed4f58ade6c57b205cc495" /><br /><br /><span>Prince William went on to say, "It is my firm view that this Panorama programme holds no legitimacy and should never be aired again.</span><br /><br /><span>"It effectively established a false narrative which, for over a quarter of a century, has been commercialised by the BBC and others.</span><br /><br /><span>"In an era of fake news, public service broadcasting and a free press have never been more important. These failings, identified by investigative journalists, not only let my mother down, and my family down; they let the public down too."</span><br /><br /><span>In a statement Bashir has apologised "over the fact that I asked for bank statements to be mocked up".</span><br /><br /><span>However he maintains they had "no bearing whatsoever on the personal choice by Princess Diana to take part in the interview".</span><br /><br /><span>Bashir has resigned from the BBC as its religion editor, on the grounds of ill health following heart surgery back in 2020.</span></p> <p><em>Images: Getty</em></p>

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Robert De Niro seriously injured on set of new movie

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Robert De Niro is recovering after suffering a serious injury while filming.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">De Niro, 77, hurt one of his quad muscles while on the set of Martin Scorsese’s </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Killers of the Flower Moon</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> in Oklahoma.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“I tore my quad somehow … [It was] just a simple stepping over something and I just went down,” De Niro said in an interview with </span><a href="https://www.indiewire.com/2021/05/robert-de-niro-leg-injury-martin-scorsese-flower-moon-1234637854/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">IndieWire</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. “The pain was excruciating and now I have to get it fixed. But it happens, especially when you get older; you have to be prepared for unexpected things.”</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Luckily, the actor clarified that his injury was “manageable”.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">De Niro went on to describe his role in the Scorcese film as a “sedentary” one.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“I don’t move around a lot, thank god. So we’ll manage,” he said.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">According to </span><a href="https://people.com/movies/robert-de-niro-leg-injury-update-pain-was-excruciating/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">People</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> magazine, De Niro returned to New York to receive medical treatment for the injury on Thursday.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">A representative for the actor reportedly told the magazine De Niro’s departure “will not affect production as he was not scheduled to film again for another three weeks.”</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">De Niro will play cattleman William Hale alongside Leonardo DiCaprio, who will play Ernest Burkhart, Hale’s nephew.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The movie, set in 1920s Oklahoma, is currently being produced by AppleTV+. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Based on the nonfiction book written by journalist David Grann, the film will dive into the serial murders of the Osage Nation that sparked a “major investigation involving J. Edgar Hoover”, according to </span><a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5537002/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">IMDb</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></p>

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Martin Scorsese speaks up on embracing death

<p><span>Martin Scorsese has shared that embracing his mortality motivates him to continue making films. </span></p> <p><span>“You just have to let go, especially at this vantage point of age,” the 77-year-old director said in a new interview with <em><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/02/movies/martin-scorsese-irishman.html">The New York Times</a></em>.</span></p> <p><span>Scorsese said his acceptance of death encourages him to keep working, even after more than half a century in the film industry.</span></p> <p><span>“Often, death is sudden … If you’re given the grace to continue working, then you’d better figure out something that needs telling,” he said.</span></p> <p><span>“As they say in my movie, ‘It’s what it is’ … You’ve got to embrace it.”</span></p> <p><span>The <em>Taxi Driver </em>director said there are other things he wants to carry out apart from producing movies. </span></p> <p><span>“I would love to just take a year and read,” he said. “Listen to music when it’s needed. Be with some friends. Because we’re all going. Friends are dying. Family’s going.</span></p> <p><span>“The problem is, time is limited and energy is so limited – the mind, also, of course ... Thankfully, the curiosity doesn’t end.”</span></p> <p><span>The director also shared that he has not seen the 2019 thriller <em>Joker</em>, which paid homages to his own work. “I saw clips of it,” Scorsese said of <em>Joker</em>. “I know it. So it’s like, why do I need to? I get it. It’s fine.”</span></p>

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How Martin Scorsese is going to change your home movie experience

<p><span>Hollywood’s biggest filmmakers have teamed up to launch a technology that will make the experience of watching movies at home more like what they intended.</span></p> <p><span>In partnership with the UHD Alliance, leading directors including Martin Scorsese, Christopher Nolan, Patty Jenkins, Ryan Coogler, Rian Johnson and Paul Thomas Anderson revealed the new “Filmmaker Mode” for upcoming TVs from LG, Panasonic and Vizio that removes technical features that have frustrated the industry.</span></p> <p><span>There has been a growing concern among the creators’ community over features such as motion smoothing, a setting used to adapt movies to smaller screens and reduce blur in fast-moving scenes. It is often referred to as the “soap opera effect” due to the way it makes the actors and backgrounds appear fake or set-like. </span></p> <p><span>“Modern televisions have extraordinary technical capabilities, and it is important that we harness these new technologies to ensure that the home viewer sees our work presented as closely as possible to our original creative intentions,” said Nolan.</span></p> <p><span>“Through collaboration with TV manufacturers, Filmmaker Mode consolidates input from filmmakers into simple principles for respecting frame rate, aspect ratio, color and contrast and encoding in the actual media so that televisions can read it and can display it appropriately.”</span></p> <p><span>Michael Zink, chairman of the UHD Alliance said the initiative highlighted the importance of home viewing. </span></p> <p><span>Johnson, director of <em>Star Wars: The Last Jedi</em>, said the Filmmaker Mode provides “a single button that lines up the settings so it works for the benefit of the movie and not against it”. He said, “If you love movies, Filmmaker Mode will make your movies not look like poo-poo.”</span></p> <p><span>Scorsese said more people view classic flicks in the comfort of their home rather than in theatres. “I started The Film Foundation in 1990 with the goal to preserve film and protect the filmmaker’s original vision so that the audience can experience these films as they were intended to be seen,” he said.</span></p> <p><span>“Most people today are watching these classic films at home rather than in movie theaters, making Filmmaker Mode of particular importance when presenting these films which have specifications unique to being shot on film.”</span></p>

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How Martin Scorsese entwines music and movies

<p>Music and movies are umbilically entwined in the films of Martin Scorsese. It’s almost impossible to think of his cinema without the propulsive accompaniment of a track by The Rolling Stones, Muddy Waters, Eric Clapton, a Neapolitan street singer or any number of other smaller and even obscure doo-wop, Latino, Brill Building and r'n'b wonders of the 1950s, 60s and early 70s.</p> <p>Although Scorsese has memorably employed the services of great film composers like Bernard Herrmann and Elmer Bernstein on iconic movies such as <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075314/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1">Taxi Driver</a> (1976) and <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106226/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1">The Age of Innocence</a> (1993), it is the music of his adolescence and early adulthood that dominates the dense, highly subjective, hyper-masculine and combative worlds of many of his best and most fondly remembered films.</p> <p>Most of the music documentaries he has made – such as <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077838/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1">The Last Waltz</a> (1978), <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0367555/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1">No Direction Home: Bob Dylan</a> (2005) and <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0893382/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1">Shine a Light</a> (2008) – equally expose these formative tastes.</p> <p>This is personal and reflects Scorsese’s upbringing in the crowded neighbourhood of Little Italy with its melting pot of sounds leeching across spaces and situations. Some of the numbers in his protean first feature, <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063803/?ref_=fn_al_tt_3">Who’s That Knocking at My Door</a> (1969), were even supplied from the filmmaker’s own collection. The signature music of Scorsese’s films comes to us with his “fingerprints” all over it.</p> <p>This fascination with the everyday history, materiality and atmosphere of popular music – the way it seeps into and scores the world around us – gives Scorsese’s films a musicological dimension that rhymes with his obsession with film history.</p> <p>Although his use of popular music appears more organic or sociological than Quentin Tarantino’s, it still has the sense of the archivist-collector about it.</p> <p>When the Melbourne Cinémathèque sought Scorsese’s permission to screen his documentary <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071680/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1">Italianamerican</a> (1974) in the early 1990s, all he asked for in return was that we send him a complete CD edition of Bob Dylan’s [Masterpieces](then only available in Australia) to add to his collection.</p> <p>Although Scorsese is deeply attuned to specific, mostly urban forms of popular music from the mid-20th century, he has also found his inspiration in the groundbreaking found soundtracks of Kenneth Anger’s homo-erotic <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058555/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1">Scorpio Rising</a> (1964) and Stanley Kubrick’s classical-modernist <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062622/?ref_=nv_sr_1">2001: A Space Odyssey</a> (1968), as well as his experience as a cameraman and editor on <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066580/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1">Woodstock</a> (1970). The latter, he has said, was a life-changing event that made him shift from slacks to jeans.</p> <p>The music in Scorsese’s earlier features sits alongside the pioneering compilation scores of <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061722/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1">The Graduate</a> (1967) and <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064276/?ref_=nv_sr_1">Easy Rider</a> (1969), but his work represents a less nostalgic (in comparison to, say, Woody Allen) and temporally shallow notion of the musical “past”.</p> <p>This is a lesson well learned by Scorsese acolytes such as Tarantino, Wes Anderson and Paul Thomas Anderson. The golden rule in Scorsese’s films is that the music must have been released by the time a particular scene is set – but it should also reflect the depth of music history.</p> <p><strong>How Scorsese uses music in film</strong></p> <p>Scorsese often conceives a sequence or moment with a particular song in mind.</p> <p>For example, a key motivation for <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0163988/?ref_=nv_sr_1">Bringing Out the Dead</a>(1999) was the opportunity to use Van Morrison’s fetid, churning T. B. Sheets as a leitmotif. This song weaves around intense and strung-out tracks by REM, Johnny Thunders and The Clash, a reminder perhaps that an earlier vision of <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0217505/?ref_=nv_sr_1">Gangs of New York</a> (2002) prominently featured the British group (a Scorsese favourite).</p> <p>Scorsese also plays music on his movie sets to get at the rhythm and feeling of a specific moment.</p> <p>The coda of Derek &amp; the Dominos’ Layla was played on the <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099685/?ref_=nv_sr_1">GoodFellas</a> (1990) set from the first day of shooting and lyrically scores the sequence of the bodies being uncovered. It also intimates the excess and decadence that will be the gangsters’ ultimate downfall.</p> <p>The necessary inspiration of popular music is also playfully referenced in the frantic, epic expressionist strokes of Nick Nolte’s painter working to the blisteringly loud strains of Procol Harum and Bob Dylan and The Band in <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097965/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1">Life Lessons</a> (1989).</p> <p>Although this use of popular music reflects the director’s own tastes, upbringing and fondness for counterpoint, it is also deeply enmeshed in the worlds and subjectivities of his characters.</p> <p>The downbeat at the opening of The Ronettes’ Be My Baby ushers in the immersive world of Scorsese’s breakthrough feature, <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070379/">Mean Streets</a>, entreating us to experience and even share the excitement, danger and periodic abandon of a group of small-time, would-be gangsters who then light up the screen.</p> <p>As critic Ian Penman has argued, the music does not seem to operate as a soundtrack in the traditional sense, but appears</p> <p>to be released into the air by breaking glasses or moving bodies.</p> <p>It is sound as much as it is music.</p> <p>When we see Robert De Niro’s Johnny Boy sashay into a bar in slow motion to the intricately timed and edited adrenaline rush of Jumpin’ Jack Flash, we cannot really determine where the music is coming from: is it the heightened sound of the jukebox (a fixation of the director’s cinema) or from somewhere inside of Johnny Boy himself?</p> <p>Mean Streets, like such later masterworks as GoodFellas and <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112641/?ref_=nv_sr_2">Casino</a> (1995), has something of the jerky propulsiveness and programmed randomness of the jukebox. The music also drops in and out, rises and falls, in a way that reflects and galvanises the cramped bar interiors that are Scorsese’s abiding milieu. Its use of music feels programmed and even curated but also organic and intuitive.</p> <p><strong>Chelsea Morning</strong></p> <p>There is a wonderful sequence in one of Scorsese’s most underrated films, <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088680/?ref_=fn_al_tt_2">After Hours</a>(1985), which features the lead character retreating to the apartment of a beehive-haired and go go booted cocktail waitress played by Teri Garr. Unworldly Paul (Griffin Dunne) has become lost down the rabbit-hole of late night Soho and is trying to find a way to get home to the safety of his mid-town apartment.</p> <p>As he unburdens himself of the nightmare of his evening, Garr’s ’60s-revivalist sympathetically changes records from the initially peppy pop confection of The Monkees’ Last Train to Clarksville (he has just missed his train) to the introspective wistfulness of Joni Mitchell’s more geographically apt Chelsea Morning.</p> <p>This moment is remarkable in Scorsese’s work, as it is one of few where characters consciously recognise and respond to the music.</p> <p>It also provides a critique of Scorsese’s own practice and how he locates songs that illustrate an emotion, a situation or work in counterpoint to the onscreen action.</p> <p>This scene shows us – in a very unselfconscious fashion – the mechanics of Scorsese’s use of popular music and the way it can shift the tone and atmosphere, create a narrative arc and embed itself into the lives of its characters.</p> <p>The use of Chelsea Morning is also one of the few times that Scorsese draws upon the early ’70s singer-songwriter tradition. Another occurs in the pivotal moment in Taxi Driver where De Niro’s profoundly solipsistic Travis Bickle watches forlornly, lost as he takes in couples slow dancing around a pair of empty shoes on American Bandstand scored by Jackson Browne’s mournful Late for the Sky (or is this only in Travis’s head?)</p> <p>In some ways, this moment seems all the more powerful due to its isolation and incongruity – Travis has earlier misread the lyrics of Kris Kristofferson’s <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlGZ93XcmhI">The Pilgrim, Chapter 33</a> – illustrating he has no understanding of or affinity for popular music.</p> <p>Scorsese’s characters often seem to take music with them, but Paul and Travis are so out of place they cannot imbibe the music around them other than, in the latter case, through the isolating darkness of Herrmann’s ominous score.</p> <p>After Hours features a bracingly eclectic soundtrack that reflects the gear-shifting nightmare and occasional respite of Paul’s downtown odyssey. For example, after leaving a nightclub, he returns only a short time later to find it has miraculously transformed from hosting a hedonistic, crowded and threatening “Mohawk” theme night, scored by <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thnb3UlH2zE">Bad Brains’ Pay to Cum</a>, to an abandoned space with a singular middle-aged customer and a jukebox sympathetically playing Peggy Lee’s Is That all There is?</p> <p>(Once again an unusual choice consciously selected by the uncharacteristically self-aware protagonist).</p> <p>By using a soundtrack less beholden to his own tastes, Scorsese is able to stretch out.</p> <p><strong>The Italian-American gangster trilogy</strong></p> <p>Nevertheless, it is the three films that make up Scorsese’s Italian-American gangster trilogy – Mean Streets, GoodFellas and Casino – that best illustrate the full potential of his use of “found” popular music to score and populate his films.</p> <p>These movies can also be described as essentially musicals. It is important to note that music is not a constant presence in these movies, even though that may be the lasting impression we are left with.</p> <p>Music is pointedly dropped out or even abandoned at particular moments – such as during the final section of GoodFellas where the gangster’s world comes tumbling down. All that is left is the memory of Joe Pesci firing into the camera and the final ragged, debased strains of Sid Vicious singing My Way.</p> <p>Both GoodFellas and Casino use music to chart the rise and fall of their characters and the rarefied enclaves they occupy.</p> <p>In Casino this is signified by the shift from the gaming table friendly Italian-American-derived songs of Louis Prima and Dean Martin to the pointed use of Devo’s truly frustrated version of <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jadvt7CbH1o">(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction</a>, B. B. King’s The Thrill is Gone and The Animals’ The House of the Rising Sun to plot the changing demographics and economies of Las Vegas.</p> <p>In many ways, Casino represents something of an endpoint for Scorsese. The energy of Mean Streets and GoodFellas is depleted by the manically expansive “found” song soundtrack, the blunt violence and the forensic detail dedicated to mapping Las Vegas and the failed relationships between Ace, Ginger and Nicky.</p> <p>The operatic, tragic dimensions of this demise are signposted by bookending Bach’s St. Matthew Passion and Georges Delerue’s melancholy cues from Jean-Luc Godard’s <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057345/?ref_=nv_sr_1">Contempt</a> (1963). Where do you go after that?</p> <p>Over the last 20 years, Scorsese’s work has only ever intermittently matched the multiple highpoints of his earlier career. Films such as Gangs of New York, <a href="http://www.imdb.com/find?ref_=nv_sr_fn&amp;q=The+Departed&amp;s=all">The Departed</a> (2006) and his return to form, <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0993846/?ref_=nv_sr_1">The Wolf of Wall Street</a> (2013), do feature further intriguing examples of the use of popular music – and expand the director’s reach in terms of ethnicity – but don’t really develop this aspect or create truly memorable combinations of image and sound.</p> <p><strong>The documentaries and Vinyl</strong></p> <p>During this time, Scorsese’s major contributions to the nexus between popular music and cinema and television have been his somewhat conventional compilation documentaries and concert films and the recent HBO drama series, <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3186130/?ref_=nv_sr_1">Vinyl</a>, co-created by Scorsese, Mick Jagger and Terence Winter.</p> <p>Although Scorsese’s documentary on <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1113829/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1">George Harrison: Living in the Material World</a> is commendable, and The Rolling Stones’ concert film Shine a Light provides a shared portrait of resilience, easily the best of these documentaries is No Direction Home: Bob Dylan.</p> <p>An archivist’s project the filmmaker took on as compiler and editor, it features some stunning audio-visual combinations as it explores Dylan’s explosive and mercurial early career.</p> <p>But it is with Vinyl that Scorsese’s concerns and abiding preoccupations come full circle.</p> <p>The first episode, the only one directed by Scorsese so far, takes him back to the early 1970s and the drug-fuelled, propulsive and heightened impressionism of his earlier work.</p> <p>The soundtrack features an eclectic array of period specific tracks including Mott the Hoople’s All the Way to Memphis – used 40 years earlier in Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore (1974).</p> <p>It is only during the staging of the collapse of the downtown Mercer Arts Center – anachronistically, while the New York Dolls are playing Personality Crisis – that the episode comes to imaginative life. You can almost imagine De Niro’s Johnny Boy waiting for the building to fall.</p> <p><em>Written by Adrian Danks. Republished with permission of </em><a href="https://theconversation.com/friday-essay-it-felt-like-a-kiss-movies-popular-music-and-martin-scorsese-59231"><em>The Conversation</em></a><em>.</em></p>

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Spotlight on Steve Martin

<p>Hollywood funny man Steve Martin is turning 74 this year. We uncovered some of his lesser-known – though impressive – achievements.</p> <ul> <li>Since appearing in his first movie, The Absent-Minded Waiter (1977), Steve Martin has gone on to appear in over 50 movies, including The Jerk (1979), Planes, Train and Automobiles (1987), Father of the Bride (1991), and The Pink Panther (2006).</li> <li>He is an accomplished banjo player and this year was inducted into the American Banjo Museum Hall of Fame.</li> <li>He has won four Grammy Awards for his comedy acts and music.</li> <li>In 2014, his song “Love Has Come for You” won Best American Roots Song.</li> <li>He may have played the father of 12 kids in Cheaper By the Dozen (2003) but only became a first-time dad at the age of 67 in December 2012.</li> <li>Famous for his thick white hair, he began going grey in his twenties.</li> <li>While at California State University in the ’60s, he studied philosophy and considered becoming a professor.</li> </ul> <p><em>This article first appeared in </em><a href="http://www.readersdigest.com.au/true-stories-lifestyle/entertainment/Spotlight-on-Steve-Martin"><em>Reader’s Digest</em></a><em>. For more of what you love from the world’s best-loved magazine, </em><a href="http://readersdigest.innovations.co.nz/c/readersdigestemailsubscribe?utm_source=over60&amp;utm_medium=articles&amp;utm_campaign=RDSUB&amp;keycode=WRN93V"><em>here’s our best subscription offer</em></a></p> <p><img style="width: 100px !important; height: 100px !important;" src="https://oversixtydev.blob.core.windows.net/media/7820640/1.png" alt="" data-udi="umb://media/f30947086c8e47b89cb076eb5bb9b3e2" /></p>

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Steve Martin and Martin Short reveal the secret to their 35-year-long friendship

<p>They’re two of the funniest men in showbusiness and now, they’re making their way Down under to commence their highly-anticipated comedy tour.</p> <p>Sitting down with<em> 60 Minutes</em> reporter Liz Hayes, Steve Martin and Martin Short gave a sneak peak on what the audience can expect when attending their hilarious show.</p> <p>The comedy legends candidly spoke about their success and how they’ve kept their 35-year-long friendship as strong as ever.</p> <p>The show is not only a nod to their outrageous comedy movies, but it will also feature famous stand-up and sketch routines.</p> <p>After crossing paths on the set of <em>Three Amigos</em> in 1986, the pair become inseparable as they went on to make countless films together such as, <em>The Father of the Bride</em> and its sequel.</p> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet tw-align-center" data-lang="en-gb"> <p dir="ltr">Would <a href="https://twitter.com/SteveMartinToGo?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@SteveMartinToGo</a> and Martin Short ever make another Father of the Bride sequel? <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/60Mins?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#60Mins</a> <a href="https://t.co/4Gacc8W0zU">pic.twitter.com/4Gacc8W0zU</a></p> — 60 Minutes Australia (@60Mins) <a href="https://twitter.com/60Mins/status/1122468782478217216?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">28 April 2019</a></blockquote> <p>For them, the secret to their friendship is simple: Laughter.</p> <p>“If you’re people like us, if the other person makes you laugh, I think that’s important,” said Martin Short.</p> <p>The duo considers their working relationship to resemble a marriage and choose to apply the philosophy to their friendship.</p> <p>“I think decency is very important. That's very important in a marriage,” Short says.</p> <p>“But I wouldn't want, for example, my wife to be like we do, banter back and forth all day. I think it would get kind of tiring.</p> <p>“But for some reason, with Marty it gets tiring, but I don't fall asleep.”</p> <p>And despite being in the game for so long, the two aren’t planning on slowing down anytime soon.</p> <p>With a world tour in the works and a new Netflix deal, the funny friends are only going one way – and that’s up.</p> <p>“That’s why we’re doing it because we love doing it. Because we have other options,” Martin tells Hayes.</p> <p>“I'm actually quite happy with where I am now. 73. A happy life. Still working, it's still fun.”</p>

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