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      Mickey Rourke ejected from Big Brother house over ‘unacceptable behaviour’

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 13 April

    Actor, 72, understood to have used behaviour and language considered threatening against housemate Chris Hughes

    The Hollywood actor Mickey Rourke has been kicked out of the Celebrity Big Brother house over “instances of unacceptable behaviour” and “inappropriate language”.

    The 72-year-old Bafta winner is understood to have used behaviour and language that was considered to be threatening and aggressive during a task, directed towards housemate Chris Hughes, a former Love Island contestant. No physical altercation took place, according to the PA news agency.

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      Gina: Love and money – episode 3 - podcast

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 13 April

    Gina Rinehart has been Australia’s richest person for the last six years in a row. But where did her money come from?

    In episode three, we unpack the bitter rivalries, court battles and family conflicts behind the Hancock fortune – and consider a fundamental question: is Gina Rinehart a mining heiress or is she a self-made mining magnate? We then look at Rinehart’s crowning achievement to date in her time at the helm of Hancock Prospecting – owning and operating her own iron mine at Roy Hill, something her father was never able to do.

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      The kindness of strangers: I was ready to leave the theatre in disgrace when a gentle usher made me an offer

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 13 April • 1 minute

    A fight with a friend during the opera’s intermission had left me really hurt, so being cared for in that moment is something I’ll never forget

    I knew straight away that something was wrong. I had arranged to go to an opera with a friend. She’s normally a very chatty person, but when I got to our seats, she wasn’t saying anything. I asked her a few questions but she was quite monosyllabic in response.

    During the intermission, we went out to the balcony. Again, I was trying to talk to her but she just wasn’t looking at me. I asked if she was OK – had I offended her in any way? That’s when she let go on a tirade. She didn’t like a comment I had made at a dinner party a few weeks earlier and told me she’d never invite me to her home again – or come to mine. I was so shocked because she was very angry and said some things that I thought were quite cruel. I had never been spoken to like that by anyone, let alone a friend. To make matters worse people were turning around to look at us, wondering what these two ladies were arguing about.

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      How rich is Gina Rinehart, and how much will she earn in the time it takes to read this article?

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 13 April

    Australia’s wealthiest person rakes in billions from her iron ore mines. We look at how she makes her money – and how she spends it

    Gina Rinehart has been the richest person in Australia for years, making billions from her iron ore mines.

    But just how rich is she?

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      Nova Scotia House by Charlie Porter review – a headlong rush through the turbulent Aids era

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 13 April

    Porter’s urgent prose propels the reader into the gay scene of the 1980s and early 90s as his protagonist’s life is torn apart by the HIV crisis

    The humble comma, normally so easily overlooked within a page of text, is clearly Charlie Porter’s weapon of choice for his debut novel. Here, he wields it to propel his narrative forward in the kind of urgent, endless staccato rush that sometimes requires the reader to look briefly up and away, if only to gulp at some fresh air.

    Nova Scotia House , the 51-year-old journalist’s first work of fiction after two books on fashion, tells the story of living through the Aids crisis of the 1980s and early 90s, and how those who survived it will be forever accompanied by the ghostly presence of those who didn’t.

    Nova Scotia House by Charlie Porter is published by Particular Books (£18.99). To support the Guardian and Observer order your copy at guardianbookshop.com . Delivery charges may apply

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      ‘I’d love Keanu to read it’: Ione Skye on bisexuality, infidelity and her wild tell-all memoir

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 13 April • 1 minute

    The actor’s aptly named memoir, Say Everything, has been praised as raw, revealing, disarming and horny

    In person, as in her new tell-all memoir, 90s Hollywood “It” girl Ione Skye doesn’t hold back. Whether she’s discussing menopausal hormone treatment (she’s on it), her libido (“It’s not what it was but [ musician husband Ben Lee ] and I have a really nice sex life”) or her ex Anthony Kiedis’s fondness for dating teenagers (“Why can’t you be with a grown-up?” she sighs), for 54-year-old Skye, there’s no such thing as too much information too early in the morning.

    Skye’s aptly named memoir, Say Everything, has been praised as raw, revealing, disarming and horny. “I definitely didn’t want to hurt people,” the actor says when we meet over breakfast at a cafe near her Sydney home. It’s just that between recounting her sexcapades with both male and female celebrities – “Writing a sex scene is so funny because I didn’t want it to be cringy, sleazy or too crass,” she laughs – Skye had a lot of past to surrender and guilt to process. It is, she says, also a cautionary tale for her two daughters.

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      Cambridge sweep Oxford aside to maintain Boat Race dominance with double

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 13 April

    • Eighth straight win for Cambridge after women’s restart
    • Men’s crew take third successive win over Oxford

    Cambridge’s dominance continues. After a uniquely controversial buildup, the 170th men’s and 79th women’s events produced the expected result, with Oxford convincingly beaten in both. The Cambridge women’s crew claimed an eighth consecutive victory in dramatic circumstances while the men, after been pushed hard by Oxford early on, pulled away to seal a third successive win in crushing fashion.

    In the unedifying pre-event row over eligibility that led to three Oxford athletes being barred from racing, Oxford were accused of “slimy tactics” by their light-blue rivals, but ultimately none of it appeared to have an impact on the final outcome – unless it made Cambridge all the more motivated.

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      Newcastle v Manchester United: Premier League – live

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 13 April

    Scores on the doors. Liverpool just conceded against West Ham, only to go straight up the other end and score. So it’s 2-1 and the tussle for the league title is, once again, about as interesting as the Boat Race. Wolves lead Spurs 4-2: both are just behind Man United, and Wolves are now looking the likelier of the two to catch up. Chelsea, who went 2-0 down at home to Ipswich, have dragged it back to 2-2, with their second goal coming from Jadon Sancho, of all people. And in the Women’s FA Cup semi-final, Man United are 2-0 up against Man City at half-time. Wonder if Jim Ratcliffe will turn up for the final.

    Two good players are back from injury and on the bench: Anthony Gordon for Newcastle, Ayden Heaven for Man U.

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      BBC Symphony Orchestra/Oramo review – Carwithen comes in from the cold

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 13 April • 1 minute

    Barbican Hall, London
    The neglected British composer’s concerto, ignored for more than half a century, only hints at greatness – but triumphant recitals of Arnold and Williams make up for it

    Doreen Carwithen’s concerto for piano and strings is emerging blinking into the light from half a century of oblivion, and one suspects that the return to life has further to go. Premiered at the 1952 Proms , when it was the only music by any female composer that season, the concerto languished until after Carwithen’s death in 2003. Now the 30-minute piece has been recorded twice, received its German premiere last month, and, in the latest step in its reawakening, was the centrepiece of the latest Barbican Hall concert by Sakari Oramo and the BBC Symphony Orchestra.

    Carwithen’s champions, who include the soloist in both this and the German performances, Alexandra Dariescu, make large claims for concerto and composer alike. Despite Dariescu’s unstinting performance, however, Carwithen’s piece does not entirely justify them. The concerto is accomplished for sure, with neatly crafted moods veering between late romantic and neo-classical, but more is hinted at than is achieved, even in the intimacy between the piano and a solo violin in the slow movement. The closest the concerto comes to a crux or a moment of revelation is in the thundering solo cadenza in the final movement.

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