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By Matthew Barakat | Associated Press FALLS CHURCH, Va. — Amber Heard’s sister testified Wednesday that she found herself in the middle of fights — literally and figuratively — between her sister and Johnny Depp during their troubled relationship. Whitney Heard Henriquez is the first witness to testify at the five-week civil trial to say she personally witnessed Depp hitting Heard. Depp has testified he never struck Heard. Henriquez testified the fight occurred in March 2015 — a month after Depp and Heard’s wedding — when…

Sarah Paulson has revealed that her friend Clementine Ford’s missing dog Winnie has been found, after a public appeal.On Monday (16 May), Paulson, 47, had helped Ford spread the word that Winnie was missing.Ford, who adopted Winnie in December 2021, had dropped off the pup with a woman from the pet-sitting platform Rover Sitter on Saturday 14 May.In a post about Winnie’s disappearance, Ford wrote: “Please help us. This woman was meant to be boarding our dog. Instead, she threw her collar in the trash and disappeared.…

Director Zack Snyder’s Rebel Moon is set to wrap filming early in November, and just as the film shifted from a Star Wars setting, so too has some of its cast changed with Ed Skrein replacing Rupert Friend. News of the character portrayer shift is reported today in an article from Deadline Hollywood. The Netflix project will follow a peaceful colony on the edge of the galaxy which finds itself threatened by a tyrant and, then in desperation, sends a young woman with a mysterious past to seek out warriors from neighboring…

Johnny Depp’s longtime friend, Gina Deuters, spoke about the Amber Heard vs.Johnny Depp trial in a new interview. She alleges her actor-friend is the real victim amid the couple's ongoing legal battle, and that Amber is a ‘sociopathic show pony,’ who is fighting the case for all the wrong reasons. Read more: Johnny Depp and Amber Heard's court battle features in Amul topicalJohnny Depp is currently suing Amber for $50 million in a defamation lawsuit over a 2018 op-ed piece she wrote for The Washington Post. Amber, too,…

“This book came out of years spent learning to be a writer, a process that will never be complete,” Maggie Shipstead writes in the acknowledgments of her first story collection, You Have a Friend in 10A. It may sound over-earnest – indeed, the whole section does – but with Shipstead there’s always a sharp layer of self-awareness just beneath the surface. In this case, it works as a knowing wink to the reader, since the second story in the book, Acknowledgements, is narrated by a solipsistic young male writer as he…

She writes poetic prose, employs redolent metaphors and evokes utmost admiration for her novelistic virtues. Arundhati Roy is anything but a boring author. The 1997 Booker Prize-winner, who is equally at ease writing scathing essays, says she is a "disciplined writer" whose heart lies in fiction as it is a "connective tissue" between many things which are sometimes looked at or studied in isolation. "Much of my non-fiction writing is an argument, but fiction is where you create a universe through which you…