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On This Gay Day: Ang Lee wins an Oscar for ‘Brokeback Mountain’

In 2006 Ang Lee won the Best Director Oscar for his work on ‘Brokeback Mountain’ On this day in 2006 Taiwanese director Ang Lee won the Best Director statue at the Academy Awards for his work on the film Brokeback Mountain The love story about two cowboys spending time together tending cattle and their subsequent […]

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‘Little Britain’ removed from Netflix, BBC due to blackface

‘Little Britain’ removed from Netflix, BBC due to blackface

British TV series’ Little Britain and Come Fly With Me have been taken down from Netflix, BBC iPlayer and BritBox due the stars use of racist tropes and blackface characters. The program, which debuted on BBC in 2003, stars comedians Matt Lucas and David Walliams features a collection of comedy sketches which sees the actors take on a […]

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Bibliophile | Matt Lucas tells his story from A to Z

Little Me – My life from A-Z by Matt Lucas Allen & Unwin   Matt Lucas’s unique face immediately brings to mind his comic masterpiece with David Walliams – Little Britain. However his autobiography is not in chronological order but in alphabetical order, so it is not until half way through the book that the smutty comedy gets a […]

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