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Dec 18, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Nicola Heath |Mawunyo Gbogbo |Jared Richards |Katherine Smyrk |Anna Kelsey-Sugg
Few Australian books have been devoured and re-read by young people quite like those of John Marsden, who died this week, aged 74. For many of us, his work was a revelation: reading can be this good?!Marsden wrote more than 40 books in his lifetime, so narrowing the list to cherry-pick our favourites wasn't easy, but here are his books that most moved ABC Arts reviewers.
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Dec 18, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Mawunyo Gbogbo
"Does anyone read your letters or can I write anything I want?"That question, from 15-year-old Tracey to her pen pal Mandy in John Marsden's 1991 novel Letters from the Inside, so captured my imagination when I was kid, I posed the same question to my own pen pal. Her response was similar to Mandy's.
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Dec 15, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Mawunyo Gbogbo |Anna Kelsey-Sugg
Welcome to ICYMI, where we recap the pop culture and entertainment news you might have missed over the past few days. Let us get you caught up. Singer Paula Abdul has settled her year-long legal battle with former co-worker and British television producer Nigel Lythgoe in a California court. "This has been a long and hard-fought personal battle," Abdul said in a concluding statement.
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Dec 12, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Mawunyo Gbogbo
"Oh, look. It's Squid Game."Those were the words uttered by people who just happened to be at Sydney Harbour on Thursday as 300 Squid Game guards dressed in pink marched along the shore. The guards were escorting Young-hee — the Red Light, Green Light doll from the Netflix series and global sensation Squid Game — to Luna Park Sydney. While for some it was a chance encounter, others were there to sample Squid Game: The Experience before it opens to crowds Saturday.
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Dec 9, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Mawunyo Gbogbo
Superstar rapper and entrepreneur Jay-Z, whose real name is Shawn Carter, has been accused of raping a 13-year-old girl in 2000 allegedly with Sean "Diddy" Combs. American outlets led by NBC are reporting the civil lawsuit, first filed in October in the Southern District of New York, initially listed Jay-Z as an unidentified "Celebrity A".
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Dec 7, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Mawunyo Gbogbo
Jay Laga'aia didn't encourage his children to become performers. However, five out of the eight have chosen to follow in his footsteps on stage and screen. "It's the last thing I wanted them to do," Laga'aia said in a sit-down with ABC News, joined by two of his sons. "I've been doing this 42 years and it's something that I love doing. It is my calling. "But you never wish that upon your own children because you know how difficult it is.
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Dec 6, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Mawunyo Gbogbo
In the animated biopic Piece by Piece, Pharrell Williams and Chad Hugo bond over how they both saw music in colour. And as audacious as it might sound to tell your story entirely in Lego animation with a documentary-style set-up, that's what Williams and director Morgan Neville have done in Piece by Piece, with the vivid colours and sounds an insight into Williams's imagination. Thirteen-time Grammy award-winning Williams recounts his journey from Virginia Beach to global pop icon.
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Nov 23, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Mawunyo Gbogbo
When Chloe Bennet changed her surname from Wang to her father's Christian name, she says her fortunes in Hollywood changed immediately. "I mean, the first audition I went on, I booked," Bennet told the ABC. "So, I [had] auditioned for about two years, and [after then I changed my name I] didn't have the same issue back and forth. And then the first thing, I booked."Despite that, Bennet, who played the lead role in Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. series, has regrets about her decision.
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Nov 20, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Mawunyo Gbogbo
Kane Brown appeared live on stage in the official music video for Bury Me in Georgia, a fitting song to begin his concert at the Sydney SuperDome on Tuesday night. Brown stepped on stage dressed all in black, fronting a six-piece band as part of his global In the Air tour. The lively crowd joined in with One Thing Right, one of two collaborations with Marshmello he would play, and a song that has amassed more than 1.3 billion streams. He followed it with the eight-times-platinum What Ifs.
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Nov 15, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Mawunyo Gbogbo
Grammy award-winning and Oscar-nominated Nigerian singer/songwriter Tems was blown away by just how big her fanbase is on the other side of the world when she addressed the sold-out crowd at her Sydney show. "It's been an incredible journey," she told the at-capacity audience at the Hordern Pavilion on Friday night. "I'm going to cry. "I'm really surprised honestly. I didn't know this many people connected to me.
