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Geordie GrayEntertainment reporter

Geordie Gray is an entertainment reporter based in Sydney. She writes about film, television, music and pop culture. Previously, she was News Editor at The Brag Media and wrote features for Rolling Stone. She did not go to university.

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NETHERLANDS - JANUARY 16: ROTTERDAM Photo of Joy Division, Bernard Sumner performing live onstage at the Lantaren (Photo by Rob Verhorst/Redferns)

Bernard Sumner: ‘If you’re a working class white male, you’re a bit forgotten about’

The Joy Division guitarist and New Order frontman on the necessity of creative escape and the promise of punk.

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THEATREStage

6/3/25: Media preview of the Tony Award-winning musical MJ, ahead of SydneyÃ¢â¬â¢s Australian Premiere on 8 March at the Sydney Lyric Theatre. John Feder/The Australian.

Becoming MJ: ‘It’s the most difficult thing I’ve had to do in my life’

As journalism student Liam Damons prepares to make his professional theatre debut in MJ: The Musical, it’s apparent the production created ‘with the estate of Michael Jackson’ focuses on the glitz and glam component of the artist’s story.

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academy awardsFilm

HOLLYWOOD, CALIFORNIA - MARCH 02: Sean Baker, winner of Best Picture, Best Directing, Best Film Editing, and Best Original Screenplay for Ã¢â¬ÅAnora,Ã¢â¬Â attends the 97th Annual Oscars Governors Ball at Ovation Hollywood on March 02, 2025 in Hollywood, California. (Photo by Monica Schipper/Getty Images)

Oscars record falls – it’s four in one go

Anora director Sean Baker has become the first person to win four Oscars in the same year for the same film. Mikey Madison pulled off the biggest upset, taking best actress for her work on Anora.

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Academy Awards 2025Arts

HOLLYWOOD, CALIFORNIA - MARCH 02: Mikey Madison accepts the Best Actress In A Leading Role award for

‘Long live independent film’: Anora wins Best Picture

Sean Baker’s stripper tragicomedy, the scrappy Palme d’Or winner at the Cannes Film Festival, has waltzed off with Best Picture, winning a total of five awards tonight — Best Director, Best Editing, and Best Original Screenplay for Baker, and Best Actress for Mikey Madison.

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TVReview

Selin Hizli and Daisy May Cooper in Am I Being Unreasonable?

Put these four shows on your watchlist

Daisy May Cooper’s mum-on-the-verge-of-a-breakdown returns for a second season of Am I Being Unreasonable? Plus a slick new German medical drama, and other goodies.

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Arts

Mar 13: Actress/model Michelle Trachtenberg

Michelle Trachtenberg, star of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Gossip Girl, dies at 39

The actor was found unresponsive in a New York apartment, with the cause of death still unknown.

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See the winnersFilm

US-French actor Timothee Chalamet poses in the press room with the award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role in a Motion Picture for

SAG Awards 2025: Chalamet and Conclave score shock wins

At the 2025 Screen Actors Guild Awards, Timothée Chalamet and Edward Berger’s Vatican thriller delivered surprise victories, upending the predictions for Best Actor and Best Ensemble.

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‘Grow up’Arts

‘You are not a victim’: Spacey hits back at Pearce’s claims he was ‘targeted’

In a fiery video posted to his X account, the Oscar-winning actor rebuked Pearce’s claims that he had made untoward advances on him in 1997 while filming L.A. Confidential.

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‘save lives’Music

Chet Faker will perform at Yours & Owls music festival at the University of Wollongong on October 14th and 15th. Photo: Supplied

NSW to trial pill-testing at Wollongong’s biggest music festival

For the first time, a government-run pill testing service will operate at a music festival. The trial, announced in December by the Minns government and led by NSW Health, aims to reduce drug-related harm by allowing attendees to check substances for purity and potency.

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The OscarsArts

In recent months, as precursor awards came and went, favourites firmed up. But, in the Hollywood tradition, where everything is grubbier than it seems, leaks and controversies flipped categories and presumed favourites on their heads.

How to bet on the Oscars

If you fancy a flutter on this year’s Academy Awards, here’s where you can find the best value to increase your odds of walking away from Hollywood’s night of nights a bit richer.

Joseph Carbone and Geordie Gray

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