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Review

Nearly 20 years on, Millionaire quiz scandal remains unresolved

One of TV's most unusual controversies, in which a British army major was accused of cheating to win big, is revisited in a new top-shelf drama.

  • by Alex Marshall
William Faulkner in 1955.
Spectrum

Was this the greatest literary advice ever offered?

  • by Anson Cameron
Actor Danny Masterson has been accused of raping three women in three separate incidents.
Crime

That '70s Show star Danny Masterson charged with rape

  • by Emily Yahr
Euan Macleod lunches in his inner west garden on food from Lucio's in Paddington.
Lunch with

When glacier climbing can be a metaphor for social distancing

  • by Lissa Christopher
NIDA acting graduate Wendy Mocke.
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Racism

Alumni accuse NIDA of 'systemic and institutionalised racism'

  • by Hannah Ryan

Movies

Kirsten Dunst as Marie Antoinette.
Review

Top five films: the best of what's new in streaming

Five films worth seeking out, from filmmakers with the courage to do their own thing.

  • by Jake Wilson
Miranda Tapsell and Gwilym Lee in a scene from Top End Wedding.
Weddings

Planning a wedding? Films to put you off and back on again

While real-life large weddings are still off the calendar, movie options abound - from the optimistic to the subversive and the slapstick.

  • by Sandra Hall
The demon takes the form of an ancient Mesopotamian statue in The Exorcist.
Cinema

Monumentally horrific: Statues chilled us long before we took offence

  • by John Bailey
Keira Knightley plays Sally Alexander, a mature-aged student who throws in her lot with a radical women’s collective in 'Misbehaviour'.
Spectrum

Why feminism's place is (finally) on the screen

  • by Stephanie Bunbury
Prize-winning documentary: Kiki Bosch in Descent.
Sydney Film Festival

Freediver doco and Eliza Scanlen drama win at Sydney Film Festival

  • by Garry Maddox
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TV & radio

Lorde opens up about her secret Instagram - or finsta - dedicated to reviewing onion rings.
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TV & radio

Lorde opens up about her secret Instagram dedicated to reviewing onion rings

Lorde opens up about her secret Instagram - or finsta - dedicated to reviewing onion rings.

Sam Newman
Flashback

From the Archives, 1999: Melbourne would be boring without him

Sam Newman - In Melbourne, a city starved of stars, you only have to say his christian name and a reaction follows.

  • by Corrie Perkin
Sam Newman
Media & marketing

Sam Newman, Nine part ways after 35 years

  • by Staff reporter
Warwick Thornton in The Beach.
Review

Going with the flow: Warwick Thornton's The Beach reviewed

  • by Karl Quinn
Sammy J outside the ABC for his remote lunch.
Lunch with

Dunny roll skits, Beyonce moves and radio: lunch with Sammy J

  • by Kerrie O'Brien
Rupaul's Drag Race Allstars

The queens are officially back on Stan for the brand new season of RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars.

Yellowstone

Binge seasons 1 and 2 of Kevin Costner's Yellowstone now, only on Stan.

Music

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Celebrity

Dame Vera Lynn at a ceremony to mark the 70th anniversary of the Battle of Britain in London in 2010.
Performing arts

For Dame Vera 'every note would always be in its rightful place'

  • by Neil McCormick
Peter Foster has spent time behind bars in Australia, Britain, the United States and Vanuatu.
Private Sydney

'My reputation is putrid', says conman Peter Foster, as secret recordings set to air

  • by Andrew Hornery
Actor Ian Holm has died aged 88.
Vale

Ian Holm, star of Rings, Hobbit and Chariots, dies

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