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Sam Smith, First Openly Gay Singer to Perform Newest 'James Bond' Theme, Is In After Adele Backs Out of Role

Sam Smith, an openly gay singer that has broke into the mainstream with a recent hit "Stay With Me," will be the first proud homosexual to sing the title track in the new James Bond movie.
By Ian Holubiak

  • The Column: London's Tricycle Theatre Butts Heads with Jewish Film Festival...and Why It's in the Wrong

    Of all the international protests in the West over the Gaza war, many of them controversial--in my opinion many of them ill-informed--one which has caused more heartache and uproar than almost any other has been the Tricycle Cinema (also a famous fringe theatre in London) dropping the Jewish Film Festival. "Dropping?" The venue, and its artistic director Indhu Rubasingham, says no. They only required the JFF to give up its nominal funding from the Israeli embassy, and her theatre even offered to make up the difference.
    By James Inverne

  • Robin Williams Remembered through Television and Film

    It’s been a full day since we heard the bad news, and I’m still having trouble processing it. Robin Williams, dead of apparent suicide at 63. It just seems so wrong. He was my favorite actor; he was many people's favorite actor.
    By Louise Burton