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Wendy Williams, the vivacious talk show host, takes centre stage in the emotional trailer for Lifetime's documentary, "Where Is Wendy Williams?" After more than a year away, the trailer unveils the challenges Wendy faces, from health concerns to financial worries. Wendy Williams confronts health and financial worries in new documentary trailer.(X) The larger-than-life Wendy: Then and nowOnce a dominating force in entertainment with her fearless attitude and humour, Wendy Williams now grapples with a different…

Mrs Doubtfire director Chris Columbus has revealed new details about the 1993 comedy film for its 30th anniversary.The filmmaker explained that two million feet of film was shot during the making of Mrs Doubtfire because the late Robin Williams improvised so much dialogue.“He went to me, ‘Hey boss, the way I like to work, if you’re up for it, is I’ll give you three or four scripted takes, and then let’s play. He wanted to improvise. And that’s exactly how we shot every scene”, Columbus shared.The director added that the…

Dead Ink Books has won the Republic of Consciousness prize for small presses for Missouri Williams’s “astonishing” debut novel The Doloriad. Yet while Dead Ink and Williams will get the prestige of winning, the entire shortlist will receive the same reward. Each of the five books wins £1,000, split 70:30 between publisher and author, on top of the £300 awarded to the 10 longlisted titles, which was paid to the presses only.Prague-based Williams’s novel is set in the imagined wake of a mysterious disaster that has wiped…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeRichard Williams has spoken out in defence of Will Smith over his infamous Oscar slap, saying that he didn’t see “anything wrong” with the actor’s actions.During last year’s Academy Awards, Smith walked on stage and slapped presenter Chris Rock across the face after the comedian made a joke aimed at Jada Pinkett Smith. In his first major TV interview since last year’s debacle, the…

Robin Williams’s children have shared poignant tributes to their “kind and joyful” father on the eight-year anniversary of his death.Williams died by suicide aged 63 in 11 August 2014 following a misdiagnosis of Parkinson’s disease.An autopsy subsequently revealed that the Dead Poets Society star had been unknowingly living with Lewy body dementia, a rare form of progressive dementia that affects thinking, reasoning and independent function.On Thursday (11 August), his son Zak marked eight years since his father died with…