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7 movies new on Paramount Plus in November with over 90% on Rotten Tomatoes

Seven movies with over 90% on Rotten Tomatoes are the stand-outs on Paramount Plus this month – here's what I recommend streaming in November 2024.

TechRadar

My Fair Lady turns 60: a linguist on how the film has held up

On October 21 1964, the iconic and much-celebrated film My Fair Lady premiered in Hollywood. Sixty years later, the film remains an enjoyable rollick full of catchy songs, but is not a wholly accurate depiction of what linguists do – certainly not nowadays at least.

The Conversation

My Fair Lady review – comedy and chemistry light up Opera North’s musical-theatre triumph

Katie Bird is an irresistible Eliza Doolittle in this inspired show, which takes its interrogation of social mobility seriously but with a sparkling lightness of touch

The Guardian - UK

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OPINION - Characterful British accents are dying out — what a tragedy

George Bernard Shaw famously observed that “it is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth without making some other Englishman despise him.” That was in the preface to Pygmalion, whose hero, Professor Higgins, was a phoneticist who could identify which bit of London any individual Cockney came from —…

Evening Standard

The week in theatre: Pygmalion; King Stakh’s Wild Hunt; It’s Headed Straight Towards Us – review

Patsy Ferran and Bertie Carvel are word-perfect in Richard Jones’s first-rate Shaw revival; Belarus Free Theatre fuse fairytale and reality; and two has-been actors hole up in a trailer in Adrian Edmondson and Nigel Planer’s new comedy

The Guardian - UK

Pygmalion review – Patsy Ferran and Bertie Carvel don’t find play’s heart

This Shaw revival has wonderful moments but there is little spark between Eliza Doolittle and Henry Higgins

The Guardian - UK

Pygmalion at the Old Vic review: extraordinary central performances from Patsy Ferran and Bertie Carvel

The two stars dominate amid a fine supporting cast, even if this is a weird choice of revival

Evening Standard

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Patsy Ferran on stage stardom, performing with Paul Mescal, and Pygmalion: ‘I only ever watched the first 75 per cent of My Fair Lady’

She stepped in to play Blanche to Paul Mescal’s Stanley at the 11th hour. Now she’s taking on her childhood dream role of Eliza Doolittle. Andrzej Lukowski talks to Patsy Ferran, the most exciting stage actor of her generation

The Independent UK

Starry Shakespeare, super standups and a Black Sabbath ballet: the best theatre, dance and comedy of autumn 2023

Patsy Ferran takes on Eliza in Pygmalion, Andrew Scott plays multiple characters from Uncle Vanya and Mlima’s Tale tells a powerful tale of the ivory trade. Here’s what’s in store on stage

The Guardian - UK

The rise of actor Patsy Ferran: ‘I’m a bit of a duck: calm on the surface…’

She cancelled her honeymoon to star in A Streetcar Named Desire with four days’ notice – then won the 2023 Critics’ Circle best actress award. She talks to the Observer’s theatre critic, an early champion, about her next move

The Guardian - UK

‘A certain danger lurks there’: how the inventor of the first chatbot turned against AI

Computer scientist Joseph Weizenbaum was there at the dawn of artificial intelligence – but he was also adamant that we must never confuse computers with humans

The Guardian - UK

Elaine Paige hails West Side Story and My Fair Lady in top 10 movie musicals

The singer, who has starred in Cats, Chess and Evita, details her pick of the best - with a surprising mix of old and new - and explains what they mean to her

Daily Mirror

Review: My Fair Lady at the Palace Theatre

"Rags to riches stories are as old as time but rarely fail to entertain and with costumes as lavish as this one"

Manchester Evening News

ChatGPT isn’t a great leap forward, it’s an expensive deal with the devil

The new chatbot is generating a lot of hype, but we would do well to consider its human and environmental cost

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Daily Mirror

EastEnders star Martine McCutcheon up for posh roles like Eliza in My Fair Lady

After roles as EastEnders barmaid Tiffany, Hugh Grant's No10 tea lady in Love Actually and an Agatha Christie hotel maid, My Fair Lady stage star Martine McCutcheon hopes for upper-class screen parts

The Guardian - UK

V&A puts musical theatre centre-stage in new exhibition

Eliza Doolittle’s sparkling dress is one of 100 items that celebrate ‘transformative power’ of musicals

Manchester Evening News

My Fair Lady musical coming back to Manchester - with EastEnders icon in leading role

The lavish production will see EastEnders legend Adam Woodyatt in a leading role for the show's big Manchester return

Daily Mirror

Ex EastEnders star Adam Woodyatt 'to earn double soap salary as he lands new acting job'

Former EastEnders star Adam Woodyatt, who walked away from his role as Ian Beale last year, is reportedly set to star in a stage production of My Fair Lady

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Chicago Sun-Times

‘My Fair Lady’ revival gives us a fabulously empowered Eliza and more

Director Bartlett Sher’s staging turns away from the rom-com aesthetic that defined both the 1956 Broadway debut and the 1964 movie.

Manchester Evening News

Alison Hammond reduced to tears live on ITV This Morning over performer

The presenter was really emotional during her latest appearance on the ITV show

Chicago Sun-Times

The Mix: Cool things to do in Chicago June 23-29

The Pride Parade, the Logan Square Art Festival and Trombone Shorty’s Voodoo Threauxdown are among the things to do in Chicago in the week ahead.

Reason

Does Google's LaMDA Artificial Intelligence Program Have a Soul?

The future of techno-animism in a world filled with machine intelligence.

The Guardian - UK

The week in theatre: The House of Shades; My Fair Lady; The Breach

Anne-Marie Duff’s aspiring singer transfixes in a didactic family saga; My Fair Lady feels strangely vacant. Plus, a stifling tale of dysfunctional siblings

The Independent UK

My Fair Lady review: Amara Okereke shines as Eliza Doolittle in Bartlett Sher’s glossy musical

Director wrings every last drop of comic potential out of classic musical

Evening Standard

My Fair Lady at the London Coliseum: fresh and sparky, with a bona fide star in Amara Okereke

Bartlett Sher’s production repackages this witty, well-crafted piece of work for a new generation

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