Sian Cain

Melbourne

Deputy Culture Editor at The Guardian Australia

Deputy culture editor @guardianaus. Keeping this account to like your silly tweets and to stop freaks pretending to be me. Fuck Musk

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Wicked: For Good - trailer released for sequel to Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo hit

1 week ago | theguardian.com | Sian Cain

The first trailer for Wicked: For Good, the sequel to the smash hit musical starring Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo, has been released. The sequel arrives a year after Wicked stormed the global box office, with both films telling the origin stories of Elphaba, the Wicked Witch of the West, played by Erivo, and Glinda the Good, played by Grande, from The Wizard of Oz.Wicked: For Good is an adaptation of the second act of the 2003 stage musical Wicked.
Edmund White, novelist and great chronicler of gay life, dies aged 85

1 week ago | theguardian.com | Sian Cain

Edmund White, the American writer, playwright and essayist who attracted acclaim for his semi-autobiographical novels such as A Boy’s Own Story – and who literally wrote the book on gay sex, with the pioneering The Joy of Gay Sex – has died aged 85. His death was confirmed to the Guardian by his agent Bill Clegg on Wednesday.
WTF with Marc Maron is ending. Here are five of the podcast’s best interviews

2 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Sian Cain

It’s the end of an era: Marc Maron has announced that he’s ending his popular and influential podcast WTF with Marc Maron after nearly 16 years and more than 1,600 episodes. The final episode will be released later this year. “Sixteen years we’ve been doing this, and we’ve decided that we had a great run,” Maron says on Monday’s episode. “Basically, it’s time, folks. It’s time. WTF is coming to an end. It’s our decision.
the best Australian books out in June

2 weeks ago | msn.com | Steph Harmon |Michael Sun |Alyx Gorman |Sian Cain |Beejay Silcox |Fiona Wright | +3 more

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‘Deliciously addictive’, ‘dripping with suspense’: the best Australian books out in June

2 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Steph Harmon |Michael Sun |Alyx Gorman |Sian Cain |Beejay Silcox |Fiona Wright | +3 more

Salvage by Jennifer MillsScience fiction, Pan Macmillan, $34.99What does it mean to build a new world from the wreckage of a broken one? This question lies at the heart of Jennifer Mills’ mesmerising new novel, Salvage, which tracks the fortunes of two estranged sisters: gruff, defensive Jude and spectral Celeste. This is a work of speculative fiction, set in a near-future ravaged by war and climate crisis. To survive the chaos, Jude is convinced she needs to shed her past and avoid attachments.
Demi Adejuyigbe: ‘Everything I do is because of my love for Ocean’s Eleven’

2 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Sian Cain

On 21 September each year between 2016 and 2021, you made a series of increasingly elaborate tributes to the Earth, Wind and Fire song September that were viewed millions of times. Do you hate that song now? I do feel stressed whenever I hear September, but I try to ignore it. A few years ago, before the last video came out, I had a panic attack at a Home Depot simply by imagining that it came on. That’s when I was like, I gotta stop doing this – I don’t think I enjoy it any more.
Magda Szubanski reveals ‘very aggressive’ blood cancer diagnosis

2 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Sian Cain

Magda Szubanski has revealed she has been diagnosed with a “very rare, very aggressive” blood cancer. The 64-year-old actor and comedian announced her diagnosis with stage four Mantle cell lymphoma, a uncommon and aggressive form of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, on Wednesday. In a video shared on Instagram, she revealed she had shaved her head “in anticipation of it all falling out in a couple of weeks” and said she was undergoing treatment in Melbourne. Allow Instagram content?
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, giant of African literature, dies aged 87

2 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Richard Lea |Sian Cain

The Kenyan writer Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, who was censored, imprisoned and forced into exile by the dictator Daniel arap Moi, a perennial contender for the Nobel prize for literature and one of few writers working in an indigenous African language, has died aged 87. “It is with a heavy heart that we announce the passing of our dad, Ngugi wa Thiong’o, this Wednesday morning,” wrote his daughter Wanjiku wa Ngũgĩ on Facebook.
Kevin Costner and Horizon producers sued by stunt performer over ‘violent unscripted’ rape scene

2 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Sian Cain

A stunt performer is suing Kevin Costner and the producers of his film Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter 2, alleging that she was made to perform in a “violent” unscripted rape scene without the required notice, consent or a mandatory intimacy coordinator present. Devyn LaBella was the lead stunt double for Ella Hunt, who plays Juliette in the Horizon films, a four-part western anthology written, directed by and starring Costner.
Marcel Ophuls, Oscar-winning film-maker of The Sorrow and the Pity, dies aged 97

3 weeks ago | msn.com | Sian Cain

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