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...If the Golden Globes’ repeated hiring of Ricky Gervais suggested a past appetite for caustic, edgy humour — the comic became famed for his merciless roasting of the A-listers in attendance — this year’s...
...Baldwin’s popularity in recent years has been spurred on partly by social media, the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement and the Oscar-nominated 2016 documentary by Raoul Peck, I Am Not Your Negro....
...In March, Will Smith slapped Chris Rock on stage at the Oscars for insulting his wife Jada about her alopecia. The internet spent a relentless cycle on whether that was or was not messed up....
...Hud brought Wong Howe one of his two Oscars; the other was for The Rose Tattoo (1955), which featured Anna Magnani and Burt Lancaster (who then pursued him for Sweet Smell of Success)....
...This new mood underpinned the looks on show at last night’s Oscars....
...He has shifted towards drama, notably with the 2013 Oscar-nominated Philomena , and has co-written a film about the discovery of Richard III’s bones to be directed by Stephen Frears....
...The latest landmark in the mounting homage and salutation to Baldwin’s writing is Oscar-winning Barry Jenkins’s adaptation of his penultimate novel If Beale Street Could Talk....
...Haitian director Raoul Peck won an Oscar nomination for this forcefully eloquent movie....
...“The Baldwin documentary made people feel much too uncomfortable to give it an Oscar.”...
...John Chancer plays an older Thompson and alternates the account with Ed Hughes onstage (named “Raoul Duke” after the good doctor’s standard pseudonym)....
...A picture of Oscar Wilde hangs next to Marlene Dietrich. A poster for Fritz Lang’s 1927 film Metropolis is placed beside a woodcut by the Expressionist art group Die Brücke....
...This fable of the downtrodden, set in Bolivia in 2000, was Spain’s entry for Best Foreign-Language Film Oscar. Even the Academy, though, proved it can resist sucker-appeal agit-pop....
...He is something much more banal: a frustrated co-worker type, a little like a handsome Ricky Gervais. Like Gervais, this Death is both highly amusing and highly annoying....
...Ricky Gervais woofs lame jokes as the voice of a robotic dog. Cowboys and Aliens is worse. There is no greater emptiness than the one dwelling at the heart of surfeit....
...But in the graceless guise of extra-turned-sitcom-star Andy Millman, Ricky Gervais somehow made the UK the global epicentre of showbiz self-examination....
...In contrast to Oscar hosts such as the super-suave Hugh Jackman or the trim and tailored Billy Crystal, Gervais has made something of a name for himself by playing a schlub – not just on-screen in The Office...
...Raoul Ruiz’s likeably dotty thriller A Closed Book () is adapted from a novel by Gilbert Adair....
...Extras, the British comedy written by Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant, won best comedy TV programme, beating US shows like Entourage and 30 Rock....
...And that puts the SATC brands, such as Mercedes-Benz, Prada, Oscar de la Renta, Fendi, YSL, Marni, Dior, Ferragamo – the list goes on and on – in an unexpected and possibly dangerous position....
...An embodiment of show business history, he stood before us, with 350 films and two Oscars to his credit – a genuine all-round vaudevillian of the highest order, who made his stage debut aged 18 months in...
...Also known as the “Oscars of the east coast” due to the red carpet scrum, this year’s gala will be dedicated to the work of the early 20th-century couturier Paul Poiret....
...Then, in the early 1980s, he had the first of a couple of key career peaks when he was Oscar-nominated two years running for supporting roles in Terms of Endearment and The World According to Garp....
...And what of the monstrous boss, David Brent, played by Ricky Gervais?...
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