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Olivia Newton-John tragically passed away in August 2022 after her battle with breast cancer – and on Sunday, thousands paid tribute to the star at a state memorial service in Melbourne.The poignant event was planned by Olivia's family – she is survived by her husband, John Easterling, and her daughter, Chloe Rose Lattanzi – and featured a number of moving tributes from family and friends.WATCH: Olivia Newton John's best momentsOne particularly moving segment featured throwback photos of Olivia with her daughter Chloe. In the snapshots, the Summer Nights songstress looked every inch the doting mum as she sweetly cradled her daughter who was born in January 1986.In a separate video clip, Olivia could be seen sweetly embracing her tot on the beach, whilst another photo showed the devoted mother gently kissing Chloe in a loving display of affection.A post shared by Chloe Lattanzi (@chloelattanziofficial)The above picture was included in the serviceSpeaking at the star-studded event, Olivia's daughter, Chloe, 37, said: "We loved watching our trashy TV shows together and immediately changed the channel when John walked in the room.

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Architects have suggested that bands should “go on strike” to protest against venues taking a cut of their merch sales.The idea was put forward by the band’s drummer Dan Searle on Twitter, reigniting discourse about artists’ ongoing battle to take home 100 per cent of their merch profits and how it can be achieved.“Hey @bands when are we gonna go on strike and get rid of these insane venue merch cuts? Or maybe we don’t play until we get a cut of the bar? Can we just get this done asap please?” Searle wrote.Architects’ frontman Sam Carter shared Searle’s tweet and added: “Venue in Melbourne took 15% and it took four hours for them to get our merch girl a light.”Venue in Melbourne took 15% and it took four hours for them to get our merch girl a light

J. Kim Murphy George Trumbull Miller, an Australian film and television director whose most notable credits include “The NeverEnding Story II: The Next Chapter” and “The Man From Snowy River,” died of a heart attack in a hospital in Melbourne. He was 79 years old. Miller’s death was confirmed by the Sydney Morning Herald. No details regarding a date of death are available at this time. Miller reached national prominence for his 1982 Western “The Man From Snowy River,” starring Kirk Douglas. The film grossed $17.2 million in Australia and reached more than $20 million worldwide, inspiring a sequel as well as an arena attraction. More than 40 years on, “Man From Snowy River” remains one of the top 20 highest grossing local productions in the history of the Australian box office.

Kylie Minogue is single once again after reportedly ending her five-year relationship with Paul Solomons, a former creative director of GQ magazine. The singer, 54, had been in a long-distance relationship with Paul since moving to Melbourne in 2021 but, according to a source, they “just couldn’t make things work”. Kylie confirmed in October 2021 that she was moving back to her native Australia after spending 30 years living in London.

Brooklyn’s Barclays Center two nights in a row.JJ Lin is one of those artists.On Feb. 17 and Feb.

Looks like Bill Gates is officially off the market!

EXCLUSIVE: William H. Macy, Anja Savcic, Andrew Santino, and Lex Scott Davis have joined the cast of Prime Video’s Ricky Stanicky, alongside previously announced cast members Zac Efron, John Cena, and Jermaine Fowler. Details regarding the roles they will play remain under wraps.

EXCLUSIVE: Deadline has learned that Prime Video has taken global rights to Ricky Stanicky from Oscar-winning Green Book director Peter Farrelly.

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Married, again? Kanye West has moved on with Bianca Censori after finalizing his divorce from Kim Kardashian — and they are very committed to one another.

EXCLUSIVE: Australian Emmy winner Craig Anderson is to showrun the first season of Charles Jazz Terrier’s Melbourne fitness comedy WTFitness.

: SpongeBob SquarePants. The cartoon character’s goofy face appeared on nipple pasties and sparkling embellishments throughout the collection, while his starfish sidekick Patrick Star made a cameo, too.

EXCLUSIVE: Australia’s Princess Productions is acquiring Irish firm Boulder Media from toy giant Hasbro, we’ve learned.

Billy Eichner and Luke Macfarlane are down under!

One of Australia’s oldest and longest running gay saunas, the Bay City Sauna located on Glen Huntly Road in the inner Melbourne suburb of Elsternwick, will close down at the end of December 2022.“We have been informed by our landlord that the construction of the slab may be compromised due to the age of the building,” Shane Gardiner, General Manager, WP van der Linden Pty Ltd, told Star Observer. Last week, the sauna had posted on social media that it was closing for maintenance from October 10, 2022.“Sadly it has come to the end of its life and the landlord has been concerned about the weight from all the equipment.

A 1920s house in the inner eastern Melbourne suburb of Kew, that was featured in the award-winning Australian gay movie Holding The Man, has just been listed on the market. The house located at 26 Wimba Avenue, Kew, has an indicative selling price of between $3.6 million to $3.9 million, and is listed for auction later this month. The romantic drama, set in the 1970s, is about Tim’s relationship with his partner John Caleo. The couple met while they were students in Xavier’s college in Melbourne in 1976.

Sydney WorldPride 2023 has announced the headliners for Rainbow Republic, including G Flip, Keiynan Lonsdale, Muna, as well as Peach PRC, Alter Boy, BVT and Vetta Borne.Image: SuppliedAustralian musician G Flip, who will be co-hosting with actor, dancer, and singer-songwriter Keiynan Lonsdale, is incredibly excited to be a part of the celebration, saying, “I’m from Melbourne and identify as non-binary so just the fact that WorldPride is in Australia is exciting. “I’m so honoured to be a part of celebrating Pride – it’s going to be epic!”Lonsdale (Love, Simon), exclaimed, “I can guarantee some magic is on its way for us in Sydney 2023. I cannot wait to be part of it.”Influencer and singer-songwriter Peach PRC says she is incredibly “honoured” to be part of WorldPride.“After being so welcomed into the queer community in the last year or so,” she said, “I’m so incredibly proud to be performing alongside some of my favourite people!”This is American indie alternative pop band MUNA’s Australian debut and they have said they are “super stoked,” to be playing WorldPride 2023.According to Sydney WorldPride CEO Kate Wickett said, “Rainbow Republic is for the young and young at heart, and is the biggest live music event at Sydney WorldPride.

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Waleed Aly's wedding day suit.  'I mean, first of all, I think the bride looks beautiful,' the 35-year-old said diplomatically.  'What I say to my friend who is always talking about these, like, chicken jerky sticks I like because she thinks they stink.

City Football Group has made an offer of 1 billion reais (£174.9m) to buy Brazilian second division side Bahia.

Brad Pitt has unveiled his debut sculptures at a Finnish art gallery, alongside Australian musician Nick Cave.On Saturday (September 17), the actor presented his first-ever public art display at the Sara Hildén Art Museum in Tampere, the third-largest city in Finland. The presentation was part of a larger exhibition by British artist Thomas Houseago.Pitt’s nine works in the show included a moulded plaster panel “depicting a gunfight” and a series of house-shaped sculptures that have been fired upon with different types of ammunition.Meanwhile, Cave presented a series of ceramic figurines depicting “the life of the Devil in 17 stations”, reflecting his life-long interests in religion and mythology.“For Nick and I this is a new world and our first entry.

After eight episodes and a whole lot of ‘Charisma, Uniqueness, Nerve and Talent’, Spankie Jackzon (37) was crowned the winner of Season 2 of Rupaul’s Drag Race Down Under.This Kiwi drag performer started her drag career over 15 years ago, with 12 of them spent establishing her credentials in the Melbourne drag scene. In Melbourne she was known for hosting ‘Nurse Betty presents’ parties.Spankie was previously the winner of season 2 of the Kiwi show House of Drag and is the official host and roving reporter of The Wellington International Pride Parade.On being named Australia’s Next Drag Superstar, Spankie, with tears in her eyes, called Kween and Hannah onto the stage with her, saying, “Honestly, I don’t give a fuck about the crown— these two girls here are the fuckin wind because I wouldn’t have made it here to the end if it wasn’t for their love and support and kindness and our friendship.

Jazz Tangcay Artisans Editor There has never been a better time to be a VFX vendor. With so much content coming from streaming, high-quality television, feature films and commercials, the demand for visual effects and VFXartists continues to grow. Santa Monica-based visual effects studio Luma Pictures, which celebrates its 20-year anniversary this month, has seen an increase in everything from creature effects to animation to set extensions to full sequences. To keep up with all the additional work, Luma expanded to Vancouver in January, after establishing an office in Melbourne in 2012 to take advantage of the emerging market there. A staff of more than 200 works for the company across all three locations, providing effects for a client list that includes Marvel Studios, Lucasfilm, Disney and Warner Bros., and films such as “Elvis,” “Dr. Strange 2” and “OnceUpon a Time in Hollywood.”

Chelsea's owner Todd Boehly has confirmed that he wishes to copy the City Football Group model at the London club.

A massive exhibition featuring original works from graffiti artist painter Banksy will open in Manchester this October. The Art of Banksy exhibition will showcase a large number of prints, canvases and sculptures created by the artist, all of which are on loan from 40 collectors from around the world.

George Lazenby is “sorry” after being removed from a live show after complaints about his on-stage stories. The ‘On Her Majesty’s Secret Service’ star outlined it was not his “intention” to upset people with his anecdotes from the height of his fame while appearing at 'The Music of James Bond' in Perth, Australia on Saturday night (10. 09.

EXCLUSIVE: Tunisia has submitted Erige Sehiri’s bucolic coming-of-age tale Under The Fig Trees, about a group of teenagers working as fig pickers over the summer, as its entry for the best international film Oscar.

This week in Queer Melbourne we have a platter of delicious options. Enjoy your fix of culture with intergenerational queer bonding, speed dating, theatre, burlesque and more.One Friday every month, the Motley Bauhaus is taken over by the campy, glitter streaked performers of the Melbourne burlesque scene. This month you’ll have the pleasure of watching Evana de Lune, SHAM, Celia Bow, Whiskey Falls and Zaphyer Enfield.

Katherine Tulich Writer and director Goran Stolevski has had a whirlwind two years. He recently returned to Australia after shooting his third film, “Housekeeping for Beginners” in Skopje, North Macedonia to attend the world premier of his second film “Of An Age.” That took him to the Melbourne International Film Festival and before traveling on to Western Australia for CinefestOz where the film won the festival’s only recurring award, and one of the industry’s richest, worth A$100,000 (or $65,000). The Macedonian-born, Melbourne-raised film maker broke onto the international stage earlier this year with his feature debut “You Won’t Be Alone”, a supernatural folk-horror tale about a girl who becomes a shape-shifter in a 19th century Macedonian village. The film won critical acclaim at Sundance and received a limited theatrical release in the U.S. through Focus Features, which also holds worldwide distribution rights.

While video games have come a long way from the usual heterosexual, cis-gendered characters or storylines, very few have taken a step further into the LGBTQI territory. However, a new video game from a Melbourne-based company, Up Multimedia, along with support from the Victorian state government and Film Victoria Australia, does just that.The Beat: A Glam Noir Game is an investigative thriller game where you take on the role of a gay cop still in the closet who has to investigate a murder that’s happened in an unnamed city’s gay scene.Game developer, Luke Miller went into detail behind some of the game’s iconic locations, like the laundrette and Black Rock Beach.“In the 1980s there was a ground-breaking gay film from the UK called ‘My Beautiful Laundrette’.

Four months after Victoria Police conducted a raid at Chasers Night Club in South Yarra and forced the closure of the ‘Thick ‘N Juicy’ event, they have reached a confidential financial settlement with Martha Tsamis, owner of the club, reported The Age newspaper. Thick ‘N Juicy holds dance parties in Melbourne and Sydney for the “big family of beautiful men” and their LGBTQI friends. According to the publication, the raid occurred around 4 am on April 16. The raid by officers, including detectives from the Port Phillip crime investigation unit, was reportedly over an alleged sexual assault of a transgender patron in a toilet cubicle on the first floor of the club. Martha Tsamis outside Chaser’s Night Club in South Yarra.

After a sparkling Sydney debut at Cargo Bar in June last year, popular Melbourne based event, Sundaylicious will return for an encore this September with a great line up of DJs and entertainment, delicious cocktails and an unbeatable view. Cargo Bar will once again host the afternoon-into-evening LGBTQIA+ soiree/chillout/party. The spacious, waterside venue in Darling Harbour offers lots of room to breath, move, and dance and is very easy to get to – and kick on from (Monday, be damned!).   Sundaylicious was created in Melbourne by Julie Mackenzie thirteen years ago.

From comedy to kink and quiet contemplation, Melbourne has got it all! Welcome to our pick of queer events that you can check out this week in Melbourne. Image: Pride Of Footscray BarIf there’s one thing us queers know how to do, it’s laugh. With Geraldine Hickey to MC, check out the best of Melbourne’s up and coming queer comedic talent at this classic LGBTQIA+ friendly venue, ‘Pride of Our Footscray’.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief Film studios in Asia-Pacific are expanding the scale of their operations and want location incentives to keep pace. “Incentives are fundamental, they are an expectation [of production managers] and having one is no longer a USP,” said Rashid Karim, CEO of Iskandar Malaysia Studios. He was speaking at the Content Asia summit conference in Bangkok on Thursday. The IMS facility opened ten years ago around the same time as Malaysia introduced a location production incentive scheme. These days, the scheme offers a generous 35% uncapped rebate. But since the scheme launched, rival locations in the Asian region including Thailand, India and Mongolia have launched or are in the process of launching rebate schemes.