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Connell, played by Paul Mescal, in bed with Marianne

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Gallery 'Older people were outraged at the sex in Normal People because they never got to live that life' - Sean Doyle

Spike Lee’s Da 5 Bloods was going to be the
first Netflix premiere at Cannes since 2017

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Off-screen action: missing Cannes' stunts and spats

In a normal world, the 73rd Cannes Film Festival would have ended a few days ago, and we'd still be mulling over the spats and bust-ups, jury disagreements, beach-side publicity stunts and hammy audience walkouts.

Remarkable performer: Ella Fitzgerald

Weekend Magazine

Top TV and film picks of the week: Ella Fitzgerald: Just One of Those Things, Julieta, and Normal People

She was, perhaps, the greatest jazz singer of them all, a remarkable performer whose versions of the Great American Songbook, and in particular the works of Cole Porter, have never been bettered.

Anna Nolan became known as the “lesbian nun” on Big Brother back in 2000. Photo: Gerry Mooney

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'Big Brother was abuse - of course it was. But we signed up for it. We were vain and desperate for attention'

Kathleen MacMahon

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Judging a book by its cover: how a design can make or break a writer's success

WHIPPING IT UP: Simon Delaney. Photo: Joanne Murphy

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Hard times see actor Simon cook up a new way through lockdown

‘Sinead O’Connor’s Nothing Compares 2U had 200m online hits — but she recently spoke about how she felt she had to go on tour to pay the bills...’

Music

Why Covid could mean the end for Irish artists

Steve Carell in Space Force

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Netflix series Space Force and five other new shows to stream this week

Author Colm Toibin

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Colm Tóibín at 65: From pioneering editor of Magill to one of our finest writers

Commanding: Cantona as Alain Delambre in Inhuman Resources

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John Boland's week in TV: Eric Cantona proves he's still on the ball in Netflix drama

Mel Gibson directs FCA extras on the set of Braveheart

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Braveheart 25 years on: 'Seven weeks in, we thought this is going to be a turkey'

Music lessons: Bell X1 frontman Paul Noonan had been working at a Dublin pre-school when the lockdown came into effect

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'These virtual concerts are a portal to connection' - Bell X1 frontman Paul Noonan

Tracee Ellis Ross, flanked by Dakota Johnson and Ice Cube, plays a pop star living off past glories

Movie Reviews

Film of the week: The High Note musical comedy is flop of the pops

Tori Amos

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'I was following a religious energy and my father's family are Scottish-Irish' - Tori Amos talks religion, fighting the patriarchy and moving to Kinsale

She was born Myra Ellen Amos on August 22, 1963, in North Carolina. In 2004, by then long since re-imagined as the queen of kook rock Tori Amos, she was asked by Q magazine what was wrong with being called Myra Ellen. (She changed it when she was 20.) Her reply was typically Tori.

Bob Dylan in 1986

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Byron reborn - Bob Dylan's relationships, yes it's complicated...

Quill power: Shakespeare's supposed example fuelled the idea that lockdown is the perfect time to write

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There's a wave of lockdown literature on the way - will the pandemic allow new voices to be heard?

Jump-out-your-seat moments: Chief Brody in his battle with Jaws

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Paul Whitington Opinion Cinema is on the brink of collapse - here's why we should care

Barry Ward with Nuno Lopes in White Lines

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'It has the ingredients to be a massive hit... and people have no choice but to watch it' - Barry Ward talks Netflix series White Lines

Make the most of lockdown

Tracee Ellis Ross, flanked by Dakota Johnson and Ice Cube, plays a pop star living off past glories

Movie Reviews

Film of the week: Musical comedy is flop of the pops

Little Fires Everywhere, Amazon Prime

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Streaming pick of the week: Amazon Prime's Little Fires Everywhere

All that jazz: Amandla Stenberg and André Holland in The Eddy

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John Boland's week in TV: Pub prospects may be a downer, but The Eddy jazz club is a great hang-out

Tilda Swinton narrates Women Make Film

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Fourteen-hour 'Women Make Film' documentary is an epic take on female directors

Vampire love: Edward and Bella in the movie version of Twilight

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Prequels, sequels, reboots and 'parallequels': the YA fiction revival

The Wrong Missy

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From 'The Wrong Missy' to '1917' - 10 new movies to stream this week

Books

Quill power: Shakespeare's supposed example fuelled the idea that lockdown is the perfect time to write

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There's a wave of lockdown literature on the way - will the pandemic allow new voices to be heard?

By week two I was heartily sick of reading that Shakespeare wrote King Lear while in quarantine. His quill must have been worn down to its last scrappy feather, as he supposedly also used the time to come up with both Macbeth and Antony and Cleopatra.

Exploration of chaos: Giovanna and Tom Fletcher. Photo by David Spearing

Book Reviews

Distressed damsel turns rebel as Eve trilogy takes a darker turn

Hilary Mantel's The Mirror and the Light was set to be the big British release of the summer - until it was knocked off the top spot of the Sunday Times bestseller list last month by The Eve Illusion, the second instalment in a young adult fantasy series from Tom Fletcher, of the pop band McFly, and his wife, Giovanna, author and host of the Happy Mum, Happy Baby podcast.

Anger games: Suzanne Collins' decision to focus the prequel on Snow met with criticism from some fans

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The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes: Suzanne Collins pulls off a clever trick with Hunger Games prequel

In the Academy, the top school for the Capitol's elite, 24 bright young things compete for a scholarship to the University. The ambitious Coriolanus Snow can't afford to lose this one. His family, one of the oldest in the Capitol, has fallen on hard times since the death of his parents, and with property taxes rising, this is his only chance for an expensive university education.

Clarion call: Dr Alyson J McGregor’s book is designed to be useful in real-life situations. Photo by Angela C Brown

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Sex Matters: The dangers to women in a man's world of medicine

In the cesspits of the internet, men's rights activists and white supremacists have been ranting for years about their "red pill moment". Initially a reference from The Matrix, this has been warped to mean the instance when misogynists realise the world is apparently biased in favour of women.

The Temple House Vanishing: Love and longing in sublime coming-of-age mystery

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Gallery What's Left of Me is Yours: Infidelity thriller feels divorced from the truth

Hints of vintage Ford in understated quests for life's meaning