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Not to mention Vanilla Ice speaking out about playing Mark Twain in Adam Sandler's new comedy film The Ridiculous Six.
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The row over the new Adam Sandler Netflix film is continuing to rumble on, with Vanilla Ice joining in the debate.
Last week eight Native American actors quit the production of the satirical Western The Ridiculous Six, over complaints about offensive names and religious scenes.
Now enter Vanilla Ice who plays Mark Twain (yes that isn't a typo) in the film. He told TMZ: "It's a comedy. I don't think anybody had any ill feeling or any intent; this movie isn't Dancing with Wolves, it's a comedy."
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Image source, Getty ImagesAnne Hathaway has earned good reviews for her performance off-Broadway in a one-woman play Grounded.
Hathaway plays a fighter pilot who sits behind a desk and drops missiles thousands of miles away using drones.
The Guardian gave the play, external four stars and Charles Isherwood in the New York Times said, external Hathaway "gives a fiercely good performance".
Marilyn Staserly in Variety said, external: "Hathaway masterfully navigates her terrifying dive from high-flying heroics to the appalling reality of guiding drones to their soft human targets".
The play which is directed by The Lion King's Julie Taymor is on at the Public Theater.
Image source, APUS reality TV star and former Olympic athlete Bruce Jenner is to star in an eight-part documentary series about his new life as a woman.
The former gold medalist and stepfather to Kim Kardashian recently came out as transgender in an interview with Diane Sawyer.
The series will be on E! and Jeff Olde, executive vice president at the channel, said: "Bruce is incredibly courageous and an inspiration, and we are proud to be entrusted with this deeply personal and important story.
"This series will present an unfiltered look as Bruce boldly steps into uncharted territory and is true to himself for the first time."
Image source, AP/UNIVERSAL PICTURESFurious 7 is continuing its dominance at the top of the box office in the US and Canada for a fourth week.
The latest Fast & Furious film took £18.3m (£12.2m), with Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2 in second with $15.5m (£10.3m).
Last weekend Furious 7 became the fastest film to make more than $1bn (£669.5 million) internationally.
The US has yet to see Avengers: Age of Ultron, which opens there on Thursday.
The Marvel film leads the box office chart internationally - it opened in 44 territories, taking $201.2m (£133.8m).
Great British Bake Off's Mel Giedroyc will join Scott Mills to host BBC Three's coverage of the two Eurovision Song Contest Semi Finals.
The shows will be broadcast live from Vienna, Austria on 19 and 21 May.
Mel, who is a big fan of Eurovision says "words cannot express" her "excitement" to be joining the BBC team.
"I have dreamed of this since the age of nine, when my siblings and I would mount our own Eurovision at home, taking the parts of different countries," she said.
"I would always be allotted Mexico and only at the very end of our competition, would be disqualified on the grounds that I was not part of the European Union.
"I can't say that I'm any more geographically savvy than I was then, but I hope to bring some truly trivial Eurovision knowledge with me to Vienna, and certainly a lot of deep love for the contest!"
Image source, APGood news for Downton Abbey fans who must dread the end of the popular series - its writer, Julian Fellowes, is adapting one of his favourite novels for ITV. Hurrah, another period drama!
Doctor Thorne by Anthony Trollope is the story of a local quack who lives with his beautiful but penniless niece, Mary. Scandal follows when a local aristocrat falls for her - his mother is outraged as the family's finances are in peril and she wants to secure an heiress for her son to save the family estate.
Filming of the three-part drama will begin later this year.
ITV's director of drama, Steve November, said: "It's a rich and multi-layered story of class and social standing and a timeless love story which Julian has brought to life brilliantly with his inimitable wit and warmth."
We can't wait!
Calling all young talent from the arts world - BBC Radio 3's Young Artists Day is set to take place on Monday 4 May.
The day of programming kicks off with teenage poets on Breakfast, 18-year-old dancer and choreographer Folu Odimayo on Essential Classics plus a chat at lunchtime with the teenage winner of BBC Young Musician of the Year 2014, Martin James Bartlett.
Other highlights include In Tune live from London's Roundhouse, whilst Radio 3 Live in Concert will broadcast live from Manchester's Royal Northern College of Music.
So check it out - you may catch some future big name performers.
Comedian and mental health advocate Ruby Wax will be awarded an OBE at the Honorary British Awards to Foreign Nationals.
US-born Ruby is being given the honour for her services to mental health.
Having experienced clinical depression herself, Ruby is a patron for the British Neuroscience Association and is an ambassador for the charities Mind and Sane.
Her live show Losing It is based on her own experiences of depression and she has become a leading speaker on mental health issues.
Celebrities including Annie Lennox, Joanna Lumley and Sir Ian McKellen paid tribute to her after hearing the news.
Richard Branson quipped: "How can anyone with the surname Wax be given an OBE?! And she's a bloody foreigner. Delighted! Well deserved."
Oh Richard, you old charmer!
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The stars of Episodes were beaming today as they turned up to the BBC to talk about the new series that starts in May.
Tamsin Greig, Stephen Mangan and Matt LeBlanc have become friends while making the BBC show and they certainly looked happy to be spending time in each other's company again.
Image source, Opera for AllFor all the culture lovers in and around Coventry, here's something to look forward to.
Coventry now has its first professional opera company, HighTime, and will be showcasing its debut production, Hansel and Gretel, at the Belgrade Theatre in May.
The company is aiming to make opera accessible to everyone - they've got 60 local school children in the production and are fundraising to help 45 mental health patients to attend one of the performances.
But if you're looking forward to seeing the witch in her gingerbread cottage, think again - it's been re-imagined with a childcatcher-style circus ringmaster who tries to lure children away with the "intoxicating smell of frying hot dogs".
Mmmm, the mind boggles.
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Image source, PAAs Wiz Khalifa's track See You Again broke the record for the most number of streams in the UK in a week, the boss of the Official Charts Company has been explaining how streaming can help a track to the top of the chart.
Image source, dav stewartThe cover photo of Kate Tempest's debut solo album Everybody Down, taken by Dave Stewart, is to be displayed at the National Portrait Gallery.
It will be part of the Picture the Poet exhibition featuring leading poets working in Britain including Dame Carol Ann Duffy, Simon Armitage and Benjamin Zephaniah.
The major touring photography exhibition is aimed at encouraging young people to engage with poetry.
Will Mellor is joining the cast of the critically-acclaimed crime drama Line of Duty.
The actor, who has starred in Three Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps as well as Broadchurch, will play a member of a firearms unit which comes under investigation in the third series, alongside Daniel Mays who plays Sergeant Danny Waldron.
The show's creator, Jed Mercurio, said: "Sergeant Danny Waldron appears to run a team of crack firearms officers, but hidden tensions simmer beneath the surface. We're all hugely excited that Will Mellor, Arsher Ali and Leanne Best have agreed to play these pivotal roles."
It was announced last year that two more series of the award-winning BBC drama have been commissioned by BBC Two.
Image source, Sotheby'sTwo self-portraits by Francis Bacon are going on public display for the first time after being rediscovered in a private collection.
Self-Portrait 1975 and Three Studies for Self-Portrait (1980) will go on show at Sotheby's in London and New York, before being sold in July.
Although experts knew the works by the late painter existed, they had no idea who had bought them.
Descendants of the original owner have decided to sell the paintings, which are expected to fetch up to £15m each.
The self-portraits go on sale at Sotheby's London Contemporary Art Evening Sale on 1 July.
Poldark bowed out last night, with 5.9m viewers tuning in to the final episode of the series.
The BBC One drama won a 25.4% of the overall audience and comfortably beat Vera, over on ITV, which had an audience of 4.9m.
Poldark starred Aidan Turner as Ross Poldark, whose chest-baring scenes have sent Twitter crazy in recent weeks.
It's now been recommissioned for a second series, which will be based on the third and fourth books of Winston Graham's series set in 18th century Cornwall.
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Amy Winehouse's family has criticised a film about her life, saying it's "misleading".
Speaking to Newsbeat, Amy's dad Mitch said the producers left out key details.
He said the film is unbalanced, and isn't happy with the way he's portrayed.
The documentary, Amy, is due to be shown at this year's Cannes Film Festival.
Amy died aged 27 from alcohol poisoning in July 2011.
The filmmakers, including director Asif Kapadia who was also behind Senna, said: "When we were approached to make the film, we came on board with the full backing of the Winehouse family and we approached the project with total objectivity, as with Senna.
"During the production process, we conducted in the region of 100 interviews with people that knew Amy Winehouse; friends, family, former-partners and members of the music industry that worked with her.
"The story that the film tells is a reflection of our findings from these interviews."
We have a feeling this one is going to rumble on for some time.
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Image source, Stuart Wood/BBCSheridan Smith hopes powerful new drama The C Word, based on Lisa Lynch's acclaimed book and blog, will encourage people to talk more honestly about cancer.
When writer Lisa Lynch was diagnosed with breast cancer at just 28, it wasn't long before she decided a blog - to "tell it the way I see it" - was the only way to cope with whatever came next.
"The universe might be in control of what's going on in my body, but I'm in control of what's going on in my blog," she wrote.
Now her inspirational, funny and "unflinchingly honest" blog and book have been turned into a one-off drama starring Sheridan Smith, who Lynch handpicked to play her.
Image source, Getty ImagesBehind-the-scenes talent has been honoured at the Bafta Craft awards.
Penny Dreadful won three awards, while Sherlock won two for sound and editing and X Factor and Doctor Who won one each.
And Mackenzie Crook received his first ever Bafta for writing the Detectorists, in which he also starred.
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Image source, Getty ImagesOne Direction fans still mourning the loss of Zayn Malik have been given hope from an unlikely source - Professor Stephen Hawking.
While giving a talk to an audience in Sydney live streamed from Cambridge he was asked what the "cosmological effect" of Zayn's departure from the band was.
"Finally, a question about something important," he joked.
"My advice to any heartbroken young girl is to pay close attention to the study of theoretical physics.
"Because one day there may well be proof of multiple universes.
"It would not be beyond the realms of possibility that somewhere outside of our own universe lies another different universe. And in that universe, Zayn is still in One Direction."
Phew!
