Film
Legendary costume designer Bob Mackie dies aged 87
The designer known as the Sultan of Sequins dressed Cher, Tina Turner and Elton John across six decades of stage and screen. He won three Emmys and was nominated for an Oscar for Funny Lady.
Culture
The Folio · No. 11Tuesday 15 September 2026Jess Entwistle
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24 looks proving Bob Mackie’s signature sequins were always a cool girl favourite
Vogue’s gallery runs from Cher’s showgirl costumes to the sequin-drenched pieces Zendaya has worn more recently. Worth scrolling before the tributes take over the week.
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A Talent for Murder review: Helen Mirren is a deliciously bitter Patricia Highsmith
Variety calls it a sleek literary noir that does not quite draw blood, but says Mirren bares her teeth for the first time in years as the Ripley novelist.
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The Life and Deaths of Wilson Shedd review: Amanda Seyfried and Scoot McNairy are powerful in Tim Blake Nelson’s prison saga
Tim Blake Nelson directs a dark crime drama that Variety found gripping and wrenching. Seyfried is the reason to go.
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Benedict Cumberbatch on his Earth-saving eco film: ‘We are in the last grab of the extraction era’
Cumberbatch has gathered experts from Alaska to the Amazon, including Obama’s former chef, for a documentary about repairing the planet. He talks to the Guardian about the naysayers.
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‘Widow’s Bay’ sweeps the Emmys 2026
Apple TV’s freshman horror comedy about a possibly cursed Massachusetts island took 14 Emmys, the most ever won by a comedy season. Katie Dippold created it.
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The best-dressed stars at the 2026 Emmy Awards
Nicole Kidman in Chanel, Zendaya in Prada and Riz Ahmed in Loewe lead Vanity Fair’s pick of the Peacock Theater carpet.
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Welsh actor Matthew Rhys makes Emmy Awards history with double win
Rhys became the first person to win two lead acting prizes in a single night. He and Keri Russell arrived with five nominations between them across three projects.
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Emmys 2026 winners: the full list
Every category, if you want to check what you missed. Widow’s Bay took comedy, The Pitt took drama for the second year running and DTF St. Louis took limited series.
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The Pitt celebrates its Emmy wins with a season 3 update
The HBO Max medical drama won outstanding drama series for the second year and five more awards besides. Noah Wyle talked backstage about finding this kind of success decades after ER.
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Nigella Lawson admits her hesitations about joining The Great British Bake Off
Lawson is the new judge in the Channel 4 tent and says she thought hard before saying yes.
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Netflix to stream Cunk on Cinema with Michael Bay and Benedict Cumberbatch
Charlie Brooker’s Philomena Cunk takes on the history of the movies, with a line-up of real film-makers to interview. Follows the viral run of Cunk on Earth.
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Oasis announce 2027 tour, including return to Knebworth 30 years after historic concerts
The Gallaghers will play the UK, Ireland and the US next summer, and go back to the Hertfordshire field where they played to 250,000 people in 1996. Dates, prices and on-sale details are out.
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Reba McEntire sings Appalachian Memories after Sally Field’s Dolly Parton tribute at the Emmys
Field spoke about her friendship with Parton before McEntire sang. Parton’s first Emmy nomination came 48 years ago, as a guest on a Cher special.
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‘I’ve never been more terrified’: Carly Rae Jepsen on motherhood, stardom and her new double album
Fourteen years after Call Me Maybe, Jepsen is about to release the double album Day and Night and finally has an answer to who her music is for.
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The Beatles share unheard Norwegian Wood take with George Harrison on sitar
The latest track released ahead of the special edition of Rubber Soul, with Harrison’s sitar part in an earlier form.
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Charli xcx’s Music, Fashion, Film tour in New York: five best moments
The new trek opened at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center on Monday, the first of two nights there. Billboard picks out what worked.
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Sunday in the Park With George cancelled after Ariana Grande and Jonathan Bailey both drop out
Grande left first, then her Wicked co-star Bailey followed, and the Sondheim revival has now been shelved. Producers keep the rights, so it could return with another cast.
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Megan Hilty and Rachel Tucker to star in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes at the London Palladium
A new concert production of the Jule Styne musical, with Hilty and Tucker heading the cast at the Palladium.
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StarKid’s Nerdy Prudes Must Die returns to London with its original cast
A strictly limited run at the Apollo Theatre from 6 February to 7 March 2027, with the cast that made it.
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My Neighbour Totoro will close in London’s West End earlier than expected
The Studio Ghibli stage adaptation wraps a week ahead of its planned finish. Worth booking now if it is still on the list.
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Full cast joins Keira Knightley, Stephen Dillane and Luke Thompson in Robert Icke’s The Lives of Others
Icke’s stage version of the Oscar-winning German film opens next month at the Adelphi Theatre.
Books
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Books
Farewell to Eden by Sebastian Faulks review: conflict and compromise, from a veteran of the genre
A panoramic postwar epic about a British soldier haunted by his time in Palestine. The Guardian finds Faulks on familiar ground and doing it well.
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Are library e-books really hurting book sales?
A study published this month suggests public library e-lending may be denting the book market. Lit Hub picks apart what the numbers actually show.
