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‘I know what I should be paid. Now let’s see how close to that we can get’
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Dolly Parton created the Covid vaccine and Jolene, for God’s sake. What can’t she do?
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Dolly Parton partly funded Moderna Covid vaccine research
Country musician’s $1m donation supported breakthrough by Moderna
Netflix: 10 of the best new shows and films to watch in November
Including The Crown Season 4, Sophia Loren in The Life Ahead, Hillbilly Elegy and Dolly Parton
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Boy George tracks down his Irish roots in Who Do You Think You Are? while How to Get Rich Quick has money-making tips from businessman Dave Fishwick – creator of Bank of Dave
Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again: implausible and maddeningly odd – but great fun
Review: No musical staffed by actors who sing like suffering badgers had any right to be so much fun
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Marvel’s Luke Cage second series kicks off on Netflix, Cher and Christine Baranski talk Mamma Mia!
My heroines: Cagney, Lacey, Xena and She-Ra
The Powerpuff Girls turned out to be a template for a new generation of feminists
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Incredibles 2, Ocean’s 8, Jurassic World and Mamma Mia!: Here We Go Again
Gate report: ‘I left Ireland to escape this culture of silence’
Opinion: The Gate won’t publish its Michael Colgan report. Action is needed
If I angle my screen, no one can see I'm watching Mamma Mia!
Why have you all kept this glorious megahit - featuring Meryl Streep, Greek slaves and all three kinds of man - from me
Meryl Streep impersonates Donald Trump at New York gala
Oscar winner gets in character with spray tan, fake belly and oversized red tie
Waking the Feminists takes to the US stage
The theatre protest movement held two events in NYC, with organiser Lisa Tierney-Keogh saying its time to ‘kick the f**king door down’
The end is nigh for The Good Wife – it’s still the best thing on TV
In 2014 I wrote that the legal drama was the best show around – the news of its demise, and a few dodgy seasons since, haven’t changed my mind
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Waking the Feminists meeting hears call for equal advancement of women artists
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