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Lucy Liu and Drew Barrymore's reunion on The Drew Barrymore Show had a surprising twist when Drew mentioned that Liu still has some 'beautiful' and ‘playful’ nude portraits of her. The photos were taken during the filming of the blockbuster Charlie's Angels, in which they both starred. She reminisced about the time Liu, nude portraits of her in her dressing room on the set of the movie. After the episode aired, Drew posted the clip on her Instagram account. A lot of fans flocked to the comments section and left…

Lucy Liu Still Has Drew Barrymore’s N*de Photos Taken On The Sets Of Charlie’s Angels(Photo Credit –Instagram) It may be over 20 years that McG’s Charlie’s Angels starring Cameron Diaz, Drew Barrymore, and Lucy Liu as three women working in a private detective agency released, but the ladies remain friends to date. In fact, during a recent chat, Drew and Lucy even brought up some decades-old memories from shooting one of the films. Lucy – who will soon be seen in Shazam! Fury of the Gods recently visited Drew’s talk…

Standalone sequencers are something of a luxury in the modern music-making landscape. These days, even the cheapest synths and samplers have at least rudimentary sequencing capabilities. And while many MIDI controllers have on-board sequencers, they’re usually meant to back up live performance rather than replace it. Of course, there are a few exceptions to this rule (Arturia’s BeatStep Pro remains incredibly popular even eight years after it was introduced), but you have to start looking into the complex and often…

For all of Pink’s rebellious spirit, her recent albums have followed a familiar pattern. A mixture of rustic ballads, pogoing guitar stomps and pepped-up pop anthems, usually co-written by a Swede, they’ve tended to blur into one. On Trustfall, her ninth album, she takes a few pleasing tangents – the pulsating, Robyn-like title track; the country sway of the lovely Last Call – but for the most part it’s business as usual.The key element, as ever, is Pink’s voice. As supple as a gymnast, she anchors saccharine opener When…

‘Brexit, Brexit, Brexit. 24/7,” bemoans one young Northern Irish man to his mates. “If it comes on , I just go on my phone.” Annabel Verbeke’s piece of amiable, breeze-shooting psychogeography whiles away a few afternoons on and around the Carlingford Lough ferry, which crosses the invisible Ireland-Northern Ireland border. Anxieties about the possibility of a hard border raise the spectre of old enmities, but the general excitement over spotting one frontier-oblivious local – Finn the dolphin – shows there is no…

There is a woman at this party. Slight and dainty, she's the niece of a posh lord. She hides her jawline beneath a fan, smiles with glittering power as she is invited to the card table. Her hands are always bad and her grasp of the rules seems tenuous. Forgetting her knife-sharp grin, you settle into a wine-fuelled haze. Only when the night is over do you count your coins, realize how much you've lost, and think again of that shining smile.In its broad survey of French aristocracy, Card Shark allows…

There is often a sense, reading John Banville, that there’s little he doesn’t know about the competing ironies of truth-telling and fiction. He has long enjoyed a brilliant gift for constructing word-made worlds replete with all home comforts and then allowing you to see the joins. The Singularities, his 20th novel under his own name, is something of a definitive articulation of his mastery of those dark arts, as well as another enjoyable quest into the ways in which we make sense of the world through make-believe.It…

Is there a more elegantly wanton director than South Korea’s Park Chan-wook? His latest film, the enthralling, serpentine crime drama Decision to Leave, may be less overtly erotic than his last picture, The Handmaiden, but in its slinkily seductive way there’s a kinship between the two. Both films share an illicit fascination with the darkest impulses of the human soul – the violence, the treachery, the urge to betray. There tends to be a knife-edge of torment in the romantic encounters viewed through Park’s lens, and the…

With her soft, almost-whispered falsetto floating over low-frequency beats, London-based Blane Muise, AKA Shygirl, has become a sensuous and pervasive force in UK club music over the past five years. Regularly collaborating with experimental producers such as Arca and the late Sophie, Muise has established herself as the perfect vocalist to slip between the melodic cracks of their fractal sound design. On 2020’s Slime, for instance, she sing-raps with a skittering percussiveness over Sophie’s sparse basslines, while…

Orhan Pamuk likes to play new games. Every one of his books has differed markedly from the others, yet each shares a capacity for disconcerting the reader. This one is long and intellectually capacious. It tackles big subjects: nationalism and the way nations are imagined into being; ethnic and religious conflict; the decline of an empire; the political repercussions of a pandemic. It includes many deaths.Yet, for all the weight of its subject matter, its tone is lightly ironic, arch, even flippant. It has many flaws. It…