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Amy Winehouse inspired me to quit a soul-crushing job

I was driving to work feeling miserable when Rehab came on – and I realised there’s more to life than a steady wage in a job you despise At 6am on a bleak October morning in 2006, I was driving down the North Circular in London to a job I hated. I usually kept the radio low, a background murmur to keep me focused on the road. But that morning I turned up the volume allowing the buoyant bassline from Amy Winehouse’s Rehab to reverberate through my Ford Ka. As Amy’s rich voice conveyed the depths of her despair, I stared blearily at the empty road ahead and wondered how I’d taken such a wrong tu

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‘Life is like a heartbeat. It’s up and down, up and down’: Michelle Yeoh on casting cliches, marriage at 60 and playing a robot in Blade Runner 2099

Ballet dancer, action hero, Bond girl ... The actor won an Oscar for Everything Everywhere All At Once but she’s been through some challenges on the way Before agreeing to appear in Blade Runner 2099, Michelle Yeoh received a letter – “an amazing letter, a love letter” – from Silka Luisa, the project’s creator, imploring her to be involved. Yeoh, who is 64, has played grandes dames, action heroes and a low-income Chinese-American battling the tax authorities in an infinite multiverse, but Blade Runner was different. The sci-fi series, a follow-up of sorts to Ridley Scott’s 1982 movie classic a

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New Zealand down spirited Tonga to reach Rugby League World Cup final

New Zealand 34-10 Tonga Kiwis come from behind and will face Australia or Samoa What had been billed as one of the most intriguing Rugby League World Cup semi-finals in history was, in the end, a brutal exposé of the standards other nations must rise to in order to match Australia and New Zealand. Few countries have as close a connection to the rise of international rugby league quite like the Kiwis and Tonga. It was Jason Taumalolo’s decision to switch his allegiance from New Zealand to the Mate Ma’a in 2017 which lit the touchpaper for the ascencion of nations such as Samoa and Tonga, leadin

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