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Steve Martin and Martin Short: ‘I have about 800 cousins coming to the Dublin show’
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Saoirse Ronan misses out; Brad Pitt and Renée Zellweger take home Academy Awards
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‘The only message I’ve peddled is that we’re headed for the apocalypse’
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Tom Hanks: The most famous man we know nothing about
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2016: The 50 best films on Netflix
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Musicians pay tribute to The Eagles guitarist Glenn Frey
Elton John says he is ‘in shock’ while Steve Martin remembers ‘friend from the old days’
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No one likes a braggart so get someone else to list your experience
BJ Novak: from The Office to the classroom
The actor is aware of scepticism around celebrity children’s authors but he has taken an innovative approach to the task
Dumb and Dumber To: the Farrellys return to their gross-out grassroots
Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels are back as cinema’s most lovable idiots. But why a sequel 20 years later? ‘It makes sense because these guys are always the same. They’re too stupid to have character arcs’
Robin Williams: Obama leads tributes to actor and comic
Star last seen alive at house he shared with wife at about 10pm on Sunday
Robin Williams: Long and varied career ends in brutal shock
Analysis: For more than 40 years, the comic and actor first seen in Mork and Mindy gave value to audiences
Stage struck: Can theatre make happy clappers of us all?
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