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It rather takes away from the aura, doesn’t it

A year ago, Shawn Mendes filmed himself singing a tentative acoustic cover of the Justin Bieber song As Long as You Love Me and put the results on Vine. He wasn’t expecting much response.

A new generation of country music enthusiasts will be ramblin’ their way to Hamilton tomorrow night for the ninth National Country Music Awards. Twenty-two-year-old Kaylee Bell and 25-year-old Jody Direen are among the seven individuals and three groups up for gongs at the event.

Topp Twins fans disappointed by the sudden cancellation of the duo’s Hamilton show last year can use their tickets to see them at the same venue just over a year later.

Lindsay Lohan’s upcoming book will be like “Harry Potter” because there will be so many instalments. Not that the actress actually know how many instalment there are.

Okareka Dance Company is a taonga.

In the corner of an opium den in New York, Dr John W Thackery (Clive Owen) slumbers in dishevelled post- narcotic disarray. As ordered, he is woken by one of the den’s inhabitants and catches a horse- drawn carriage to the fictional Knickerbocker Hospital in Lower Manhattan

At the movies this weekend, Sly Stallone’s Expendables return, Roman Polanski directs his wife, Helen Mirren cooks up a storm and Postman Pat’s big screen debut really delivers. THE EXPENDABLES 3 (M, 126mins 1/2)