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APPOINTMENTSTalent management company YMU has appointed NBCUniversal’s Linda Yaccarino to the role of Group Chair. “I knew instantly I had found that person when I met Linda”, says CEO Mary Bekhait.

Janelle Monáe has returned today (February 16) with a dreamy new single called ‘Float’ – check it out below.Featuring horns by Fela Kuti’s youngest son, Seun Kuti and his band, Egypt 80, the new song is produced by Nana Kwabena, Nate “Rocket” Wonder and Sensei Bueno.The song is the musician’s first new music proper since 2018 and has a diverse range of touchstones for its inspiration.According to a press statement, the song is inspired by: “Muhammed Ali talking shit in Zaire, 1974, Jane’s evolution, Mary Poppins’ umbrella, Aladdin’s magic carpet, Ja Morant’s flotation to the rim while dunking on his ops, Sara Elise’s ropes, excerpts from Paramahmsa Nithyananda’s talks on levitation, Raul’s toast on Dec 1, and Bruce Lee’s mighty philosophy on being ‘shapeless, formless,’ and becoming one with your surroundings, to be like water.”Take a listen to the song here:Monáe first teased the release of the new song last week on social media.“Y’all won,” Monáe wrote on Twitter, announcing the new release. “FLOAT.

Actor Ronan Vibert, best known for his roles in The Snowman and Saving Mr. Banks has died following a “short illness”.

Just call him jolly old Saint Dick.Dick Van Dyke was spotted Friday handing out money to homeless people looking for work at the Malibu Community Labor Exchange. The 96-year-old “Mary Poppins” star is allegedly a massive fan of the nonprofit and frequently returns to the spot to help those who are looking to find employment.

Inspired by the young adult novel of the same name by Soman Chainani, the latest from Paul Feig, “The School for Good and Evil,” is a major departure for the director most known for his riotous comedies like “Spy” and “Bridesmaids“.

The late Robbie Coltrane — who prolifically portrayed Professor Dumbledore’s jolly ally in the “Harry Potter” films — spoke out on the legacy he would be leaving behind not so long before his death at 72, which was announced Friday.During HBO Max’s “Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts,” which was released in January and features a cast reunion, Coltrane proudly boasted that his children, Spencer and Alice, would be able to appreciate and enjoy his magical creature-loving character long after he had passed away.“The legacy of the movies is . .

Holly Willoughby has shared her own moving tribute to Dame Angela Lansbury - and credits her for starting her very own 'love affair'. The This Morning host took to Instagram on Wednesday morning (October 12) after the news of Dame Angela's death on Tuesday evening.

(SPOILER ALERT: This reveals the team that was sent home on Monday, Oct. 10)Charli D’Amelio and Mark Ballas were tied at the top of the leaderboard again in Week 4 as they channeled Marge and Homer Simpson for Disney+ night.

Pearl.The A24 slasher is a prequel to West’s film X released earlier this year, and premiered at the Venice film festival last month.According to Slash Film, Scorsese has shared his admiration for West’s work and Pearl in particular, saying he “couldn’t stop watching”.“Ti West’s movies have a kind of energy that is so rare these days, powered by a pure, undiluted love for cinema. You feel it in every frame,” Scorsese’s statement reads.“A prequel to X made in a diametrically opposite cinematic register (think 50s Scope color melodramas), Pearl makes for a wild, mesmerizing, deeply — and I mean deeply — disturbing 102 minutes.”He added: “West and his muse and creative partner Mia Goth really know how to toy with their audience… before they plunge the knife into our chests and start twisting.

Wayne Lineker put on a bizarre tribute to the Queen featuring a parade of scantily-dressed woman in military-style outfits. On Thursday Buckingham Palace announced that Elizabeth II had died at the age of 96.

This Morning viewers have shared their horror as a change was made to the show's Spin to Win game. Holly Willoughby and Phillip Schofield were back at the helm of the ITV daytime show on Monday (September 5).

“Barbarian” (In theaters Sept. 9)Plenty of horror movies claim to be “messed up.” “Barbarian” actually is messed up. Tess (Georgina Campbell) is a young woman who travels to Detroit for a job interview.

Kate Aurthur editorAt the beginning of the third season of “Succession,” Kendall Roy, played by Emmy-winner Jeremy Strong, was on a high: and for once, the reason was virtuous, not chemical. His attempt to overthrow his father, Logan (Brian Cox), from Waystar Royco — the family business that happens to be a multinational conglomerate — appeared to be going well.

Blake Lively is getting an early start on her birthday celebrations, and she’s doing it at the happiest place on Earth.

Minions: The Rise of Gru. But which streaming platforms will serve you best this summer? And how few of them can you get away with subscribing to? Allow me to break down the best they have to offer. The top option seems like a no-brainer: over the past century, Disney has evolved from a film studio into the key corporate influencer of childhood (and beyond, it seems, as adults’ thirst for Disney-branded superhero entertainment shows no sign of abating).

TV legend Dick Van Dyke posted a video on Instagram Friday night of himself knocking on the door and peeking through the glass of an apparently closed Spirit Halloween store.  The 96-year-old put his hands around his face so he could get a better look inside the seasonal shop while someone taking the video laughed and said "There’s somebody in there all right, but…" "This is Halloween" from "The Nightmare Before Christmas" played over the "Mary Poppins" actor’s video, which also had blinking jack-o’-lantern and creepy yellow eye emojis. Online commenters agreed that the store needed to open up so the "Dick Van Dyke Show" star could get his spooky fix.  Dick Van Dyke accepts the Britannia Award for Excellence in Television presented by Swarovski onstage at the 2017 AMD British Academy Britannia Awards at The Beverly Hilton Hotel on October 27, 2017 in Beverly Hills, California.  (Photo by Frazer Harrison/BAFTA LA/Getty Images for BAFTA LA) "Come on now, @SpiritHalloweenSomebody please let American Treasure [Van Dyke] into the go---mn Halloween store!!!" one person joked.  Another wrote, "Open JUST FOR HIM IMMEDIATELY," along with a gif of a young Van Dyke clapping uproariously.  "Imagine not knowing a legend is at the door…" a third lamented.  "The man is a national treasure...LET HIM IN!!!" a fourth said, adding a laughing emoji.  Dick Van Dyke as Bert, Julie Andrews as Mary Poppins, Karen Dotrice as Jane Banks and Matthew Garber (1956 - 1977) as Michael Banks in the Disney musical "Mary Poppins," directed by Robert Stevenson, 1964.

X prequel Pearl starring Mia Goth has just been released – scroll down to watch.Goth played a young woman named Maxine destined to be a star in A24 horror film X, as well as elderly woman Pearl who is one half of the couple who clashed with Maxine and the other young people staying in their home.Ti West’s forthcoming prequel tells the “X-traordinary origin story” of Pearl, with Goth reprising her role to play Pearl in her youth, attending auditions and later committing crimes.Take a look at the trailer here:West told IndieWire about the idea for Pearl earlier this year, saying he used Douglas Sirk melodramas and Mary Poppins as influences for his horror.“If X is about the way this auteurist era of independent filmmaking is affecting people, Pearl is sort of about the old Hollywood way that affected people,” West said.“The way in which they enrich each other is all a part of the craft of the filmmaking. I wanted to do something where all of the crafts of the movie were their very apparent charms.”The director also said he’s considering a third film set in the ’80s: “That one will be about how home video has affected people.

Mary Poppins would be proud. Jenna Johnson is prepared for anything that might come her way on her quest for the prized Dancing With the Stars mirrorball trophy, thanks to her trusty dance bag, which was a gift from a former partner.

How To Build a Sex Room can answer.We are big fans of interior design shows, from Reese Witherspoon's to reality show Dream Home Makeover. We love a transition, whether it's a person (we're looking at you, Queer Eye) or a home—if it involves a reveal, we're into it. But the x interior design show is slightly different from the norm, because rather than building houses or turning around bedrooms on a shoestring budget, this latest drop from the streaming site is a whole lot raunchier. How To Build a Sex Room follows interior designer Melanie, who specializes in pleasure rooms, as she helps a whole range of people create the “red room” of their dreams.

Netflix reality series “How To Build a Sex Room” out Friday, July 8. Each episode follows the deceptively prim and proper British interior designer as she meets with various couples who describe their fantasies and ask her to transform a space in their home into a private carnal paradise. “Darling, I’m the Mary Poppins of sex rooms,” Rose, 57, told The Post, referring to her randy bag of tricks.One of her clients, she said, gave her that nickname, which suits her. “I’m very English, upper class, as it were.

Julie Andrews is known for many of her roles, but there’s none more iconic than Mary Poppins.

Vanity Fair, in which Andrews talked through her career leading up to her latest release, “Minions: The Rise of Gru,” the beloved actress revealed that when Walt Disney originally asked her to star in “Mary Poppins,” it was the zaniness of the music that really drew her in, rather than the character itself.“It was a brand new thing in my life that I’d never done before. It was for Walt Disney, of course, and the songs in ‘Mary Poppins’ had a kind of Vaudeville quality to them,” Andrews explained.

high-end homes, and when she was once asked to design a sex room, one thing led to another. The camera shows rooms full of luxury bedding, bathtubs, lush carpets, mood lighting, lingerie, stripper poles, bondage equipment and various sex toys that look like they were borrowed from the set of “50 Shades of Grey.” In the series, Rose will help various couples design interior spaces to cater to their bedroom antics. “They say you never know what goes on behind closed doors, but I do.

Illinois Congressman Sean Casten is opening up about his daughter Gwen’s final moments after it was announced she passed away at just 17 years old on Monday.

Sasha Urban editorThe Dolby Theatre was alive with the sound of music on Thursday, as the American Film Institute presented the two-year-delayed Life Achievement Award Gala in honor of Julie Andrews‘ career, from “Mary Poppins” to “The Princess Diaries”Speaking to Variety on the red carpet, Andrews called the honor “a culmination, in a way, of wonderful events and great fortune.”“My early years were in in Music Hall in London and vaudeville, and I was just a bit of a child brat, I suppose, that had a big voice,” Andrews said. “But the wonder was that I then was asked to go to Broadway and then to Hollywood.”Andrews made her Hollywood debut playing the flying nanny Mary Poppins in 1964, and has spoken in the past of the learning curve she faced when she first made the transition from stage to screen, clearly to fruitful results.

The legendary actress, 86, was honoured with the American Film Institute's Life Achievement Award at a ceremony in Los Angeles. And co-stars from the 1965 classic movie join her at the gala.

The hills are (still) alive! Nearly 57 years after The Sound of Music premiered, the cast has reunited in Julie Andrews’ honor.

Mary Poppins was released back in 1964, with the hit Disney classic instantly becoming a firm favourite among fans. The film saw actress Julie Andrews star as Mary, a nanny who visits a dysfunctional family in London and attempts to improve the family's lifestyle, while Dick Van Dyke starred as Bert and David Tomlinson took on the role of George Banks. Julie, 86, shot to fame thanks to the role, and Mary Poppins has gone on to be watched by numerous generations of youngsters over nearly six decades.

Supercalifragilistic! Dick Van Dyke is proving that a spoon full of sugar really does help the medicine go down — no matter how old you are!

going viral with a romantic Valentine’s Day video — but still looked like loved-up newlyweds as they shared a laugh while strolling along in the sun.In addition to the sweatshirt referencing his most famous film role, Van Dyke kept things casual for the lunch date, donning a pair of Adidas sweatpants he presumably wore for his workout. The “Chitty Chitty Bang Bang” star is famous for keeping fit and healthy in spite of his advancing age, telling Closer Weekly that he still hits the gym three times a week. “I’ve always been an exerciser and still am .

Actor Dick Van Dyke has been spotted for the first time in close to year during an outing recently with wife Arlene Silver. Van Dyke, 96, wore a "Spoonful of Sugar" sweatshirt for the outing, seemingly as a nod to his role in "Mary Poppins." The actor gained fame as an entertainer on television and radio. He is most known for his roles in "The Dick Van Dyke Show," "Bye Bye Byrdie" and more.

Legendary actor Dick Van Dyke was all smiles during a lunch date with his wife Arlene Silver.The couple were seen in Malibu on Wednesday after Dick enjoyed a session at the gym, with him sporting a grey jumper with the words "spoonful of sugar" across it, paying homage to his time on the 1964 Disney film Mary Poppins. At 96, the actor is 46 years older than his former makeup artist wife, 50, and the pair celebrated 10 happy years of marriage back in February. Dick has previously admitted he was concerned about marrying Arlene because of their age gap.

Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorFaith Hill will never forget one of her earliest auditions.She read for director Anthony Minghella for 2003’s “Cold Mountain” for the role that went to Natalie Portman. “I read, I believe, the rape scene and another one. It was intense,” Hills tells me on the new episode of the “Just for Variety” podcast.

Angus Finney Just as George Banks, Mary Poppins’ bowler-hatted boss sang nearly 60 years ago, bankers demand “precision” when they go to work. Without “order” there’s a danger of “chaos and moral disintegration … and a ghastly mess.” Well sung, given that the world today faces existential “disorder” as media and entertainment bank-ers wind their way to the 75th Cannes Film Festival.The past 15 years have already thrown outsized curve balls of their own at bankers and second-tier financiers, including the financial crisis of 2008-09, when the Masters of the Universe suffered from a Marvel-scale crisis — leading to a plethora of bank media and entertainment loan books being closed — and giving rise to a host of second tier financing operations.

A Britain's Got Talent act and ITV have spoken out following the latest round of auditions this weekend. The hit talent show was back on Saturday night with more acts from across the country taking to the stage.

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge are extremely hands on parents when looking after their children - Prince George, Princess Charlotte, Prince Louis - but need extra help as working royals.