Tom Cruise’s secret autobiography

Tom Cruise is one of the world’s most visible people, and one of its least seen. Movie stars, like politicians or other public figures, learn early on how to feign candor while keeping themselves hidden, revealing enough to give their adoring public a feeling of personal connection while keeping their private selves private

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Watch: The Hunger Games trailer

Just as the Jennifer Lawrence hype started to die down, the trailer for the forthcoming Hunger Games iteration, Catching Fire, was unveiled at yesterday’s MTV Movie Awards, presented by none other than Gale Hawthorne (Liam Hemsworth) himself. Starring Everybody’s Favourite Actress as the dystopic story’s lead, the first teaser for the sophomore episode in the Suzanne Collins-penned series chronicles Panem’s burgeoning rebellion as Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark (Josh Hutcherson) tour an imagined, futuristic version of North America after winning the 74th Annual Hunger Games.

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Anne ‘would have been a Belieber’

Justin Bieber has visited the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam, and the museum says the Canadian pop star wrote in the guestbook that he hoped Frank “would have been a Belieber” if she had lived. A post on Saturday on the Facebook page of the museum said Bieber had visited the previous night and stayed over an hour, along with a group of friends and guards, as fans waited outside to “see a glimpse of him”.

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BBC blasted for use of Thatcher "Witch" song

Britain’s public broadcaster came under fire on Friday for compromising over the song Ding Dong! The Witch Is Dead that was sent flying up the UK charts by a campaign to celebrate former prime minister Margaret Thatcher’s death. The song from the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz is vying for the No 1 slot in the UK’s weekly list of the top 40 best-selling singles that are usually played in full on a BBC Radio 1 chart show on Sunday

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Vice: Journo-tourism for hipsters

Vice is a brash, Brooklyn-based magazine and international media company, but mostly it’s a brand of thinking and marketing that has extended itself over the past decade to a popular website and YouTube channel with bureaus around the world. Vice makes as much news as it reports; a recent foray involved the Vice crew bringing Dennis Rodman to North Korea to meet with Kim Jong Un

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