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Even by the HFPA’s eccentric standards, Todd Haynes’ May December is a wild card in the Best Musical or Comedy category. But it does feature elements of both, in a deceptively dark story that harks back to the days of Hollywood’s self-imposed censorship code, when ingenious directors found sensitive and intelligent ways to address taboo subjects in mainstream movies. Here, the inspiration is the real-life case of Mary Kay Letourneau, a 35-year-old married teacher who, in 1997, seduced a pupil and was sentenced to prison for it, twice. A year after her release in 2004, claiming their love was “eternal and endless”, Letourneau married the boy, then 21. That wedding, and their subsequent life together, was covered, flatteringly, by the media. May December is not their story, but it does address two key points. What was she thinking. And how did the media become so complicit?

Marc Malkin Senior Editor, Culture and Events Jeremy Allen White may co-star with Zac Efron in Sean Durkin’s new wrestling drama “The Iron Claw,” but the Emmy-winning “The Bear” actor has something to admit — he has never watched a “High School Musical” movie. “I haven’t seen them,” White says on this week’s “Just for Variety” podcast. “Sorry, Zac.

A man has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after a shooting in Manchester. Police were called to Stockport Road in Ardwick on Thursday afternoon (21 December) after a firearm was discharged, near to McDonald's and the Apollo theatre.

An old bank in Atherton has been transformed into a new cocktail bar following planning approval.

Three of Hallmark’s hottest stars – Andrew Walker, Tyler Hynes, and Paul Campbell – are opening up about what brought them to the network in the first place.

A residential road in Merseyside has been cordoned off after reports that shots were fired at a house. Alvina Lane in Kirkby is currently cordoned off by Merseyside Police with a number of police cars at the scene responding to a "serious" incident.

Kourtney Kardashian has shared the first pictures of her newborn son Rocky, and the adorable snaps sent her fans into meltdown as they gushed over the family moment. The 44 year old star gazed down at her tiny tot in her arms, and posed with husband Travis Barker for more images in the sweet photo shoot.

John Stamos is looking back at what led him to finally get sober.

Jazz Tangcay Artisans Editor In Paul King’s “Wonka,” there is a scene where Noodle (Calah Lane) and Willy Wonka (Timothee Chalamet) have to sneak into a zoo so he can produce his one-of-a-kind chocolate. There the duo meets Abigail the giraffe and milks her. It cues up the musical number “For a Moment” where they fly over way the town’s Galeria and back into the town square.

Josephine Bonaparte was a woman with strength, elegance, and an unknowable nature that proved an irresistible combination for the French emperor Napoleon. In researching the role for Ridley Scott’s historical epic Napoleon, Vanessa Kirby discovered that behind this allure lay an unrelenting drive to survive, and, using that as a basis, she found a foothold: a way to show how this “internally mysterious” woman weathered a tempestuous relationship and its constantly shifting power dynamic. Although Josephine would ultimately fall from favor, due to her inability to produce an heir, Kirby notes that her integrity prevailed, in spite of the unbearable pressures she faced.

Director Ruben Östlund announced in Cannes that he wanted one of the scenes in his upcoming airplane disaster movie The Entertainment System Is Down to prompt the biggest walkout in the history of cinema.

Joe Otterson TV Reporter Broadcast pilot season was already mostly dead when the Hollywood strikes came along. But to paraphrase Billy Crystal in “The Princess Bride,” “There’s a big difference between ‘mostly dead’ and ‘all dead.’ Mostly dead is slightly alive!” And that’s where pilot season now stands: Mostly dead — and yet still stubbornly, slightly alive. A relic of a bygone TV era, broadcast pilot season has been on the chopping block for years as networks aimed to get out of that springtime crunch by focusing on year-round development.

Councillors have been accused of conducting a ‘Salford chainsaw massacre’ by a resident after they approved a series of developments in the city which will result in the felling of numerous trees. Resident Seamus Martin made the comment to the city’s planning committee when he pleaded with them to exclude the site of the former Windsor High School from a plan to build 485 homes as part of the regeneration of Pendleton.

Hollywood star Idris Elba doesn’t want Ncuti Gatwa to be known as “the black Doctor”.

Police have launched an investigation into the alleged child abduction of Alex Batty.

A man who was arrested after an elderly woman was hit by a car in Wigan has been bailed, police have confirmed.

Alex Batty - who was missing for six years before being reunited with his grandmother in Oldham - has revealed he wanted to return home to have a better future.

An Uber driver was left in shock after being charged more than £3,000 to park at Manchester Airport for just three minutes.

A police cordon remains in place this morning after a group of men were shot at in Ardwick in a 'targeted attack'.

Andy Burnham says he wants to bring Metrolink to Stockport 'as soon as we possibly can' as senior politicians and leaders from the borough met to discuss its future. The event, held in Stockport Exchange and led by Councillor Mark Hunter, leader of Stockport Council, was centered around the ‘Next Stop Stockport’ plans to help shape the future of transport in the borough.

A 19-year-old has died after a one-car crash on the M62 - with the teenage driver arrested on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving.