Mum, 26, with webbed feet to get amputation after sick bullies accuse family of incest

Jenny Slate is stepping back into her cutest role ever. 

Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentTwo-time Oscar-winning director Asghar Farhadi and his French producer Alexandre Mallet-Guy are denying reports that the Iranian auteur has been sentenced and found guilty on a charge of plagiarism pertaining to his latest film, “A Hero.”Farhadi’s former student Azadeh Masihzadeh has accused the filmmaker of stealing the idea for “A Hero” from a documentary she made during a filmmaking workshop held by Farhadi in 2014 in Tehran.“A Hero” is about an earnest-looking man named Rahim who, while on furlough after being imprisoned for debt, returns a lost handbag full of gold coins — an act that appears to make him a good samaritan. However, the story ends up being more complicated.

Selome Hailu FX has renewed “Snowfall,” the crime drama created by John Singleton, Eric Amadio and Dave Andron, for its sixth and final season.The series is set in Los Angeles during the crack cocaine epidemic of the 1980s. Season 5, which is currently airing on FX, takes place in summer 1986, and follows Franklin Saint (Damson Idris) and his family as they’ve become rich and are on the verge of having everything they’ve ever wanted, until basketball star Len Bias’ crack-related death sends lawmakers and the Los Angeles Police Department after them.

William Earl Variety announced today the programming for its in-person, invite-only Power of Law Breakfast, presented by City National Bank, on April 20. Variety Power of Law is tied to the annual Legal Impact Report, which profiles the top business lawyers working in entertainment and media.This year’s Power of Law honoree will be Mathew Rosengart, Partner, Greenberg Traurig, LLP, one of the nation’s foremost litigators, who is being recognized for his distinguished career and philanthropic endeavors.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterWest Duchovny has signed on to star in the upcoming Hulu drama series “Saint X,” Variety has learned.Duchovny joins previously announced cast members Victoria Pedretti and Josh Bonzie in the show, which is based on the Alexis Schaitkin novel of the same name. It is described as a psychological drama, which is told via multiple timelines and perspectives.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorIn a move that sounds like a “Who’s on first?” routine, Shira Knishkowy is joining Another Management Company, leaving Spotify after three years to join the company that oversees the careers of such artists as Kurt Vile, Waxahatchee, Stephen Malkmus, Mary Timony, Snail Mail, Mdou Moctar and Horsegirl, as well as High on Fire, Protomartyr, Sheer Mag and others. Knishkowy’s artist-centric role at Spotify and previous multi-year roles at Matador Records, Partisan Records and Big Hassle Media make her a solid fit for her new role as artist manager and director of digital and creative strategy.Another co-founder Rennie Jaffe says, “I have ultimate confidence that Shira will take the relationships, skill-sets and most importantly the instincts she’s developed over the past 10+ years as a leading music publicist to quickly emerge as a world class artist manager.

Ellise Shafer Standing onstage at the El Rey Theatre in March, Gracie Abrams seemed genuinely shocked at the turnout for the first of two hometown shows in Los Angeles on her “This Is What It Feels Like” tour. She blushed and stumbled over her words, rattling off a list of thank-yous and interacting with fans in side conversations, as if she weren’t one of the fastest-rising singer-songwriters in her generation playing a sold-out show.Abrams started that performance full of nerves, she tells Variety in a Zoom call from Long Pond Studios in upstate New York, where she is currently working on new music with Aaron Dessner, guitarist of the National (and, over the last couple of years, a primary Taylor Swift collaborator).

Wilson Chapman editorThe Houston of “Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood,” premiering April 1 on Netflix, is both a loving depiction of the city as it once was and a vision of a place that never quite existed.  Translating live-action elements into its animated scenes, the film, written and directed by Richard Linklater, explores the 1969 moon landing from the perspective of an ordinary kid, Stanley, played by Milo Coy, racing through vignette after vignette of life in the city with painstaking specificity. But the overall look is one of palpable nostalgia — that the viewer is watching Linklater’s wistful recollections of his own childhood.“Memories can be deceiving,” says animation production designer Vincent Bisschop.

Prolific Japanese director Sion Sono, known for such films as Love Exposure and Antiporno, as well as the recent Nicolas Cage-starrer Prisoners Of The Ghostland, has reportedly been accused of sexual harassment by several actresses in Japan.

Barack Obama returned to the White House on Tuesday for the first time in five years and, as he started speaking, referred to Joe Biden as “vice president.”

The Grand National will take place in front of a crowd of thousands this weekend for the first time in three years. The popular horse race was cancelled back in 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic - with a virtual Grand National replacing it.

Coi Leray has revealed the tracklist details for her debut album Trendsetter, which is out this Friday (April 8). The rapper and singer also made an appearance on The Tonight Show to perform a medley of songs from the album, including recent Nicki Minaj collaboration "Blick Blick." Trendsetter will feature Coi Leray's breakout singles "Twinnem," "Big Purr," and "No More Parties" as well as new collaborations with Fivio Foreign, NAV, H.E.R, Polo G, Lil Tecca, and Young M.A. among others.

42 Dugg and EST Gee have confirmed release plans for their upcoming collaborative mixtape. The project, titled Last Ones Left, is out this Friday and will include the recent singles "Free The Shiners" and "Everybody Shooters Too" plus "Thump Shit," which the duo rolled out alongside the news of the release date.

When SZA hit the red carpet at Sunday's Grammys she was sporting an unlikely accessory with her gown: a pair of crutches. She told reporters she had fallen out of bed the day before the ceremony and was struggling to walk.

Sam Shepherd (Floating Points) released "Vocoder," his first single of the year, last month. It was also his first solo song since Promises, a collaborative LP with Pharoah Sanders and the London Symphony Orchestra that made The FADER's 50 best albums of 2021 list.

deep-fried food is off the menu except for occasional treats. High-calorie, high-fat, potentially laced with carcinogens – we try to ignore the siren call of the chip shop.There’s a gadget in town that says we can have our chip butty and eat it – and it’s growing in popularity very quickly. The air fryer, the latest kitchen trend, is to the 2020s what the microwave was to the 1970s, or the bullet blender to the 2010s. These wonders promise to ‘fry’ your food – without the fat.

A rugby league player was rushed to hospital after being impaled by a corner flag as he celebrated scoring a try.

A trapped driver was cut free from his car following a crash in Bury. Emergency services were called to the two-car smash in Walmersley Road at about 4.30pm on Tuesday.

eat better, but are we making the right choices? Anyone with an interest in health knows they shouldn’t consume junk food all day long, but even if you think you’re making good choices, it’s not always easy.The ever-more-dominant villain in nutrition is ultra-processed food. You’ll be familiar with such products: brightly packaged, temptingly easy to eat and seemingly good value. It’s food that you couldn’t make from raw ingredients at home, with additives that aren’t found in shops – and it is highly addictive.But avoiding the most obvious examples of UPF isn’t all you need to do.

On April 8, Father John Misty will share his fifth solo studio album Chloë and the Next 20th Century. The folk-rock singer-songwriter is leaving nothing on the table leading up to Friday's drop, having already shared the singles "Funny Girl," "Q4," and "Goodbye Mr.

A mum's family was wrongly accused of incest after she was born with twelve toes and webbed fingers.