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On Friday, August 30, Good Morning America presents a musical performance by Megan Moroney and a back-to-school segment with GMA contributor Jess Sims. Megan Moroney is an American singer-songwriter from New Jersey. She gained recognition through her TikTok videos, which led to her signing with Republic Records. Her debut single, “I Love You, I Don’t,” […]

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With Jane Birkin’s passing, France loses both an icon and one of its greatest enigmas. To focus on France is not to diminish the fact that Birkin’s death will be mourned around the world. Alongside Brigitte Bardot, Françoise Hardy and Catherine Deneuve, Birkin was one of the last surviving 1960s femmes who sparked global interest in French culture.

Except that Birkin wasn’t French. She was born in London and clung to her English accent all her life. Birkin was perfectly fluent, but cultivated a faux-naïf way of speaking her adopted language that reinforced her persona as the eternal child. For the French, it was all part of her singular charm, established decades earlier… and which she sometimes struggled to escape.

As partner and muse to Svengali-like songwriting genius Serge Gainsbourg, Birkin posed for the cover of his “Histoire de Melody Nelson” album, wearing only a red wig and open-waisted blue jeans,...

Jane Birkin, the British-French actress, singer, and style icon who inspired the eponymous Hermès Birkin handbag, has died at the age of 76.

According to Le Parisien, the iconic singer-actress was found dead at her home in Paris on Sunday. No further details have been shared at this time. Birkin had canceled a series of performances in Paris scheduled earlier this year for health reasons. She was previously diagnosed with leukemia in 2002 and suffered from a minor stroke in 2021.

Jane Mallory Birkin was born in Marylebone, London on December 14th, 1946. Raised in Chelsea with her brother, screenwriter and director Andrew Birkin, she audition for small acting parts before marrying composer John Barry in 1965 and giving birth to her first child, the late photographer Kate Barry, in 1967. In the meantime, she landed breakthrough roles in 1966’s Blow-Up and Kaleidoscope as well as 1968’s Wonderwall.

Birkin and Barry divorced in 1968, and the actress moved to Paris,...

Jane Birkin, the British-French actress, singer, and style icon who inspired the eponymous Hermès Birkin handbag, has died at the age of 76.

According to Le Parisien, the iconic singer-actress was found dead at her home in Paris on Sunday. No further details have been shared at this time. Birkin had canceled a series of performances in Paris scheduled earlier this year for health reasons. She was previously diagnosed with leukemia in 2002 and suffered from a minor stroke in 2021.

Jane Mallory Birkin was born in Marylebone, London on December 14th, 1946. Raised in Chelsea with her brother, screenwriter and director Andrew Birkin, she audition for small acting parts before marrying composer John Barry in 1965 and giving birth to her first child, the late photographer Kate Barry, in 1967. In the meantime, she landed breakthrough roles in 1966’s Blow-Up and Kaleidoscope as well as 1968’s Wonderwall.

Birkin and Barry divorced in 1968, and the actress moved to Paris,...

Jane Birkin, the Anglo-French actress, singer and fashion icon known in part for her decade-long romantic and artistic partnership with musician Serge Gainsbourg, died Sunday, French President Emmanuel Macron announced. She was 76.

It was first reported in Le Parisien and Bfm television that Birkin had been found dead at her home in Paris. The actress suffered a mild stroke in 2021, but her cause of death has not yet been revealed.

“Because she embodied freedom, because she sang the most beautiful words of our language, Jane Birkin was a French icon. A complete artist, her voice was as sweet as her engagements were fiery. She bequeaths us tunes and images that will never leave us,” Macron wrote in a statement posted on Twitter.

Born in 1946 in London, Birkin began her career while still a teenager as part of the “Swinging London” scene of the 1960s. She appeared mainly in small roles in art and counterculture films,...

Jane Birkin, the iconic British-born actress, singer and model who became a chart-topping artist in France with her collaborations with then-partner Serge Gainsbourg, has died at the age of 76.

Birkin’s death was announced Sunday by the French culture ministry, which said Birkin was found dead at her Paris home. No cause of death was provided. Birkin recently canceled concerts due to unspecified health reasons; in recent years, she also suffered a stroke and battled leukemia.

French president Emmanuel Macron tweeted Sunday, “Because she embodied freedom, because she sang the...

Actress and singer Jane Birkin, who charmed France with her English grace, style and accented French and made the country her home, has died at age 76, according to France’s Culture Ministry and French media.

The London-born star was widely admired for her fashion style and known for her musical and romantic relationship with French singer Serge Gainsbourg. Their songs notably included the steamy “Je t’aime moi non plus,” with Birkin’s ethereal, British-accented singing voice interlacing with his gruff baritone.

She was also celebrated in France for her political activism. In 2022, she joined other screen and music stars in France in chopping off locks of their hair in support of protesters in Iran. Charlotte Gainsbourg, Birkin’s daughter with Gainsbourg, cut off a lock of her mother’s hair for that filmed campaign.

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While it’s easy enough to edit an expletive out of a song, there are many other reasons a track might fall foul of broadcasting standards or public opinion.

Some songs have been banned for referencing drugs, others for attacking the monarchy. Some were banned because it was believed they implied something sexual, despite not stating it outright.

One recent example of a song being banned is “Delilah” by Welsh crooner Tom Jones. In February, it was announced that choirs had been banned from singing the hit during their performances on rugby international matchdays at the Principality Stadium in Cardiff.

The song’s lyrics include reference to a woman being murdered by her jealous partner.

The Welsh Rugby Union – the governing body which has recently been hit by sexism and discrimination allegations – took the song off its half-time entertainment and music playlist during Test matches in 2015. Guest choirs have also...

While it’s easy enough to edit an expletive out of a song, there are many other reasons a track might fall foul of broadcasting standards. Some songs have been banned for referencing drugs, others for attacking the monarchy. Some were banned because it was believed they implied something sexual, despite not stating it outright.

From stutters to sexual groans, and from coercive crooning to outer-space catastrophe, here are eight songs that were, at least temporarily, banned from airplay.

Frankie Goes to Hollywood, “Relax” (1984)

An otherwise relaxing Wednesday morning was dramatically disrupted as BBC Radio 1 breakfast show host Mike Read made a horrible realisation.

Frankie Goes to Hollywood’s debut single “Relax” was playing. The story goes that, upon heading the line “when you want to come”, Read lifted the needle on the record, halting it halfway through.

The irate presenter then announced he would refuse to play the...

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Film at Lincoln Center

As the 4K restoration of Keane opens (read our interview with Lodge Kerrigan here) and Three Colors: Blue continues alongside Three Colors: White, the series “Animating Funny Pages” shows the inspiration of Owen Kline’s new feature—work by Robert Downey Sr, Frank Tashlin, and more.

Film Forum

To mark the great Alain Resnias’ centennial, a massive retrospective continues with Marienbad, Hiroshima, Je t’aime, je t’aime, and some of his lesser-seen (but no less great) features—Mélo, Stavisky, Love Unto Death, and Life is a Bed of Roses.

Bam

“Intimate Epics” continues with Happy Hour, Barry Lyndon, Andrei Rublev, and Sátántangó.

Museum of the Moving Image

Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Licorice Pizza, and Sleeping Beauty all play on 70mm this weekend, while one of cinema’s most unsung heroes—women in Australian cinema—get...

Mubi is closing the year out on a high note with their December lineup, featuring some of 2021’s most acclaimed U.S. releases.

Highlights include Tsai Ming-liang’s Days (along with his previous feature Afternoon), Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Wife of a Spy, Andreas Fontana’s Azor, Anders Edströ & C.W. Winter’s eight-hour epic The Works and Days (of Tayoko Shiojiri in the Shiotani Basin), Frank Beauvais’ Just Don’t Think I’ll Scream, and Michael M. Bilandic’s soon-to-premiere Project Space 13.

Also among the lineup is Arnaud Desplechin’s Esther Kahn, a quartet of Godard classics, Cristóbal León and Joaquín Cociña’s short The Bones, produced by Ari Aster, and much more.

Check out the lineup below and get 30 days free here.

December 1 | Pierrot le fou | Jean-Luc Godard | The Cinema of Marx and Coca-Cola: Jean-Luc Godard’s 1960s

December 2 | Le bel indifferent | Jacques Demy | Scenes from a Small Town:...

Each year it is a pleasure to introduce the ten actors who make up the European Film Promotion‘s Shooting Stars, and this year is no different. The initiative, to celebrate and promote the best in European acting talent, is dear to the heart of HeyUGuys, and we’ll be continuing our partnership this year with in-depth interviews with each of the 2021 cohort.

This year will, as expected, be slightly different from previous years. The ten emerging actors will be presented as part of a three-day online programme, a week before the 71st Berlinale commences. The digital event, held on the 23rd to the 25th of February, will be an online experience where we’ll be able to sit down and learn a little more about what makes these ten people the ones to watch.

Each of the actors were chosen by a carefully selected jury from a list of...

Donna Smith’s 2W Network in the US will co-produce the adaptation with Korea’s Yulmae Entertainment.

Korean director Im Sang-soo (The Housemaid) is set to make his Hollywood feature debut with a film adaptation of art world crime novel Soho Sins by Richard Vine.

Donna Smith’s 2W Network in the US is producing the US-Korea co-production with newcomer Yulmae Entertainment in Korea.

Im’s latest feature, Heaven: To The Land Of Happiness, was selected for the Cannes 2020 ‘The Faithful’ category and is waiting for an appropriate time for release in the pandemic. He made previous outings to Cannes...

An obscure oddity from the late 70s, to be sure, is French pop artist Serge Gainsbourg’s 1976 directorial debut, Je t’aime moi non plus, thus named after the singer’s 1969 hit song with Birkin, who also headlines. Although it received two Cesar nominations (for Best Music and Sound), the title had long been unavailable until a restoration release in October of 2019. Kino Lorber resurrects this woebegone road trip romance, which features Andy Warhol muse Joe Dallesandro in a customarily steamy characterization.

Hunky and brooding garbage truck driver Krassky (Dallesandro) rides around with his co-worker boyfriend Paduvan (Hugues Quester).…...

Actress, singer and style icon Jane Birkin, who rocketed to global stardom in the 1960s, will receive a career honor at this year's Lumiere Awards in France.

The British actress made her first foray into acting playing a naked model in Michelangelo Antonioni's Oscar-nominated Blow Up in 1966, but it was her move to France and her collaboration with Serge Gainsbourg that vaulted her onto the global stage. The duo's song "Je t'aime moi non plus" was banned in several countries for it boldly sexual lyrics, but still hit the top of the charts around ...

Actress, singer and style icon Jane Birkin, who rocketed to global stardom in the 1960s, will receive a career honor at this year's Lumiere Awards in France.

The British actress made her first foray into acting playing a naked model in Michelangelo Antonioni's Oscar-nominated Blow Up in 1966, but it was her move to France and her collaboration with Serge Gainsbourg that vaulted her onto the global stage. The duo's song "Je t'aime moi non plus" was banned in several countries for it boldly sexual lyrics, but still hit the top of the charts around ...

Joe Dallesandro, Jane Birkin in Serge Gainsbourg's Je t'aime moi non plus / I Love You, No I Don't According to the "censor watchgroup" site melonfarmers.com, Tom Six's The Human Centipede II (Full Sequence) joins a number of other motion pictures banned in the last few years by the concerned folks at the British Board of Film Classification. Among those are several porn/sexually explicit titles (gay rape porn Lost in the Hood, Rob Rotten's The Texas Vibrator Massacre), Nick Palumbo's Murder Set Pieces, and Koji Shiraishi's Grotesque. Here are a few other titles that in decades past the BBFC board decided would harm the [...]...

Natalie Portman has showed off her sexy side for a fragrance commercial. Headlining a TV ad for Miss Dior Cherie, the "Black Swan" beauty gives away a peek at her bare back by letting her black gown unzipped, before playing around and making out with "Tetro" actor Alden Ehrenreich.

This TV commercial is directed by Oscar-nominated director Sofia Coppola and features a song by Serge Gainsbourg and Jane Birkin titled "Je T'aime Moi Non Plus". In it, 29-year-old Natalie is pictured as the perfect example of tenderness and feminine style. The "Your Highness" actress is also seen taking a bath with sunglasses on and playing with a square bottle of the fragrance.

The actress who is pregnant with her first child gets even more seductive in the print ad. The picture taken by photographer Tim Walker captures her posing topless while glancing over her shoulder with a naughty look on her face.

[1] While it's not that unusual for big-name directors to do commercial work on the side, there seems to be something about fragrance ads in particular that really draws them in. ("Bucketloads of money" is definitely part of it.) A new ad for the Miss Dior Cherie fragrance has premiered online, directed by Sofia Coppola and starring "brand ambassador" Natalie Portman. It looks like typical perfume ad stuff, with Portman lounging around attractively and making out with Tetro star Alden Ehrenreich and generally acting in a manner that only a person in a fragrance commercial would act -- but it is pretty. Watch it after the jump. [via ThePlaylist [2]] Love or hate her, there's no denying Coppola has an eye for beauty. With Portman as her subject and Serge Gainsbourg and Jane Birkin's "Je T'aime Moi Non Plus" as her soundtrack, there was no way this ad was going to be anything but gorgeous.

Following her very successful work for Miss Dior Chérie a couple of years ago, that spawned an ad that became a YouTube sensation, it was reported late last year that Sofia Coppola was hired back for a new campaign for the fragrance, this time starring Natalie Portman. Well, the ad has now landed at Tatler (via NataliePortman; view it below). The spot uses the iconic song "Je T'aime Moi Non Plus" by Serge Gainsbourg and Jane Birkin and features a lot of hazily-lit Portman looking fabulous in a Parisian apartment and, among other things, taking a bath while wearing sunglasses.…...

What would Naomi and Ivy's "Girl Fight" have been without some great music to roll around in the sand in have been?  Yeah, pretty boring.  Okay, I guess it still could have worked.  Nothing can ruin a good old fashioned cat fight.

Either way, if you're anything like us, you love getting exposed to the diverse music 90210 offers each week, so we'll do our best to help you guys out.

We've gone ahead and put together the most complete list of songs played during the hour, including lyrics and links to the iTunes store.  Just click on your favorite songs below to complete your music collection:

The Go-Gos - "Head Over Heels" Sarah Solovay - "Hearts Collide" Serge Gainsbourg & Jane Birkin - "Je t'aime moi non plus" Lykke Li - "Let It Fall" The Men - "Love Lost" Kurt Vile - "My Sympathy" Woolfy - "Odyssey" Mark Lanegan - "Strange...