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The singer's performance of “Flowers”, fresh from winning her first gong, was one of the Sunday night ceremony’s [big talking points](~/AAAHagA~/RgRnqGFAP0TxaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuaW5kZXBlbmRlbnQuY28udWsvYXJ0cy1lbnRlcnRhaW5tZW50L211c2ljL25ld3MvbWlsZXktY3lydXMtZ3JhbW15LXBlcmZvcm1hbmNlLWZsb3dlcnMtYjI0OTI2MDMuaHRtbD9saWQ9YXc1N21hY3NlNm1tJnV0bV9tZWRpdW09ZW1haWwmdXRtX3NvdXJjZT1icmF6ZSZ1dG1fY2FtcGFpZ249SW5keUFydHMgTmV3c2xldHRlciAwOS0wMi0yNCZ1dG1fdGVybT1JTkRfQ3VsdHVyZV9OZXdzbGV0dGVyX0NEUFcFc3BjZXVCCmW7QNzFZbb_GSJSG3RyaXN0cmFtYmFsZHdpbjkwQGdtYWlsLmNvbVgEAAADIw~~). But I just really, really want to talk about her hair. It’s so big! I’m transfixed. Anyway, the other major talking point from the night was Taylor Swift’s record-breaking fourth Album of the Year award. She chose the moment – ever the fully optimised queen – to [announce another album](~/AAAHagA~/RgRnqGFAP0T_aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuaW5kZXBlbmRlbnQuY28udWsvYXJ0cy1lbnRlcnRhaW5tZW50L211c2ljL25ld3MvdGF5bG9yLXN3aWZ0LXRvcnR1cmVkLXBvZXRzLWRlcGFydG1lbnQtZ3JhbW15LXNwZWVjaC1iMjQ5MDUzNy5odG1sP2xpZD1ud3Y0ZTVyOGg4OTgmdXRtX21lZGl1bT1lbWFpbCZ1dG1fc291cmNlPWJyYXplJnV0bV9jYW1wYWlnbj1JbmR5QXJ0cyBOZXdzbGV0dGVyIDA5LTAyLTI0JnV0bV90ZXJtPUlORF9DdWx0dXJlX05ld3NsZXR0ZXJfQ0RQVwVzcGNldUIKZbtA3MVltv8ZIlIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luOTBAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAMj), The Tortured Poets Department. When was the last time a pop star was so completely inescapable? Katie Rosseinsky wrote brilliantly about whether utter cultural dominance [might, in fact, be a recipe for disaster](~/AAAHagA~/RgRnqGFAP0T_aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuaW5kZXBlbmRlbnQuY28udWsvYXJ0cy1lbnRlcnRhaW5tZW50L211c2ljL2ZlYXR1cmVzL3RheWxvci1zd2lmdC1ncmFtbXktd2lucy10cmF2aXMta2VsY2Utc3VwZXItYm93bC1iMjQ5MTQwNS5odG1sP2xpZD0yaDJ4cGV1dW5qeGsmdXRtX21lZGl1bT1lbWFpbCZ1dG1fc291cmNlPWJyYXplJnV0bV9jYW1wYWlnbj1JbmR5QXJ0cyBOZXdzbGV0dGVyIDA5LTAyLTI0JnV0bV90ZXJtPUlORF9DdWx0dXJlX05ld3NsZXR0ZXJfQ0RQVwVzcGNldUIKZbtA3MVltv8ZIlIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luOTBAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAMj). When was the last time a pop star was so inescapable… well, this week was also 60 years since The Beatles touched down in America, performed on The Ed Sullivan Show, and ignited a wave of cultural hysteria. [Mark Beaumont looked back on that landmark moment](~/AAAHagA~/RgRnqGFAP0TnaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuaW5kZXBlbmRlbnQuY28udWsvYXJ0cy1lbnRlcnRhaW5tZW50L211c2ljL2ZlYXR1cmVzL3RoZS1iZWF0bGVzLWFtZXJpY2EtZmFucy1iMjQ5MTM4Mi5odG1sP2xpZD02a2ExZTdnZWowMW4mdXRtX21lZGl1bT1lbWFpbCZ1dG1fc291cmNlPWJyYXplJnV0bV9jYW1wYWlnbj1JbmR5QXJ0cyBOZXdzbGV0dGVyIDA5LTAyLTI0JnV0bV90ZXJtPUlORF9DdWx0dXJlX05ld3NsZXR0ZXJfQ0RQVwVzcGNldUIKZbtA3MVltv8ZIlIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luOTBAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAMj), and everything that led up to it. And next week, a major retrospective of Yoko Ono’s artworks opens at Tate Modern – but is she really “the woman who broke up the Beatles”, or [an underappreciated great feminist artist](~/AAAHagA~/RgRnqGFAP0T3aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuaW5kZXBlbmRlbnQuY28udWsvYXJ0cy1lbnRlcnRhaW5tZW50L2FydC9mZWF0dXJlcy95b2tvLW9uby1hcnQtbXVzaWMtam9obi1sZW5ub24tdGhlLWJlYXRsZXMtYjI0ODg4NTkuaHRtbD9saWQ9dmZhOWdrNzY2NjZrJnV0bV9tZWRpdW09ZW1haWwmdXRtX3NvdXJjZT1icmF6ZSZ1dG1fY2FtcGFpZ249SW5keUFydHMgTmV3c2xldHRlciAwOS0wMi0yNCZ1dG1fdGVybT1JTkRfQ3VsdHVyZV9OZXdzbGV0dGVyX0NEUFcFc3BjZXVCCmW7QNzFZbb_GSJSG3RyaXN0cmFtYmFsZHdpbjkwQGdtYWlsLmNvbVgEAAADIw~~)? ~/AAAHagA~/RgRnqGFAP0SwaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuaW5kZXBlbmRlbnQuY28udWsvdG9waWMvbWlsZXktY3lydXM_bGlkPTdidzVxM2p5NWZneiZ1dG1fbWVkaXVtPWVtYWlsJnV0bV9zb3VyY2U9YnJhemUmdXRtX2NhbXBhaWduPUluZHlBcnRzIE5ld3NsZXR0ZXIgMDktMDItMjQmdXRtX3Rlcm09SU5EX0N1bHR1cmVfTmV3c2xldHRlcl9DRFBXBXNwY2V1Qgplu0DcxWW2_xkiUht0cmlzdHJhbWJhbGR3aW45MEBnbWFpbC5jb21YBAAAAyM~ Miley Cyrus performs at the Grammys (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello) We’ve had some brilliant interviews this week, with Fiona Sturges talking to the wonderfully coiffured [John Cooper Clarke](~/AAAHagA~/RgRnqGFAP0TraHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuaW5kZXBlbmRlbnQuY28udWsvYXJ0cy1lbnRlcnRhaW5tZW50L2Jvb2tzL2ZlYXR1cmVzL2pvaG4tY29vcGVyLWNsYXJrZS10b3VyLTIwMjQtYjI0OTEzODYuaHRtbD9saWQ9aWNlaDA1bThybTE0JnV0bV9tZWRpdW09ZW1haWwmdXRtX3NvdXJjZT1icmF6ZSZ1dG1fY2FtcGFpZ249SW5keUFydHMgTmV3c2xldHRlciAwOS0wMi0yNCZ1dG1fdGVybT1JTkRfQ3VsdHVyZV9OZXdzbGV0dGVyX0NEUFcFc3BjZXVCCmW7QNzFZbb_GSJSG3RyaXN0cmFtYmFsZHdpbjkwQGdtYWlsLmNvbVgEAAADIw~~) about his new poetry collection and why he stays off the internet, and Adam White speaking to Maura Tierney about her new role in wrestling film [The Iron Claw](~/AAAHagA~/RgRnqGFAP0TvaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuaW5kZXBlbmRlbnQuY28udWsvYXJ0cy1lbnRlcnRhaW5tZW50L2ZpbG1zL2ZlYXR1cmVzL3RoZS1pcm9uLWNsYXctc3R1bnRtZW4td3Jlc3RsaW5nLWIyNDkwNzgyLmh0bWw_bGlkPTNweHd0ZzRvOHF1ZyZ1dG1fbWVkaXVtPWVtYWlsJnV0bV9zb3VyY2U9YnJhemUmdXRtX2NhbXBhaWduPUluZHlBcnRzIE5ld3NsZXR0ZXIgMDktMDItMjQmdXRtX3Rlcm09SU5EX0N1bHR1cmVfTmV3c2xldHRlcl9DRFBXBXNwY2V1Qgplu0DcxWW2_xkiUht0cmlzdHJhbWJhbGR3aW45MEBnbWFpbC5jb21YBAAAAyM~) (coincidentally, the kind of role she says she doesn’t want to keep playing). Elsewhere, Martin Chilton looked back on Blazing Saddles at 50 and how Mel Brooks created [the wackiest western ever made](~/AAAHagA~/RgRnqGFAP0TsaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuaW5kZXBlbmRlbnQuY28udWsvYXJ0cy1lbnRlcnRhaW5tZW50L2ZpbG1zL2ZlYXR1cmVzL2JsYXppbmctc2FkZGxlcy01MC1tZWwtYnJvb2tzLWIyNDg4MDMyLmh0bWw_bGlkPTIwNnNnZ2cycTExdyZ1dG1fbWVkaXVtPWVtYWlsJnV0bV9zb3VyY2U9YnJhemUmdXRtX2NhbXBhaWduPUluZHlBcnRzIE5ld3NsZXR0ZXIgMDktMDItMjQmdXRtX3Rlcm09SU5EX0N1bHR1cmVfTmV3c2xldHRlcl9DRFBXBXNwY2V1Qgplu0DcxWW2_xkiUht0cmlzdHJhbWJhbGR3aW45MEBnbWFpbC5jb21YBAAAAyM~), and Ellie Harrison told the bonkers story of what happened [when 55 Oscar statuettes went missing in 2000](~/AAAHagA~/RgRnqGFAP0T0aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuaW5kZXBlbmRlbnQuY28udWsvYXJ0cy1lbnRlcnRhaW5tZW50L2ZpbG1zL2ZlYXR1cmVzL29zY2Fycy1oZWlzdC1zdGF0dWV0dGVzLTIwMjQtbm9taW5lZXMtYjI0OTIxNDAuaHRtbD9saWQ9bXloN3ZhcWE5Nm9uJnV0bV9tZWRpdW09ZW1haWwmdXRtX3NvdXJjZT1icmF6ZSZ1dG1fY2FtcGFpZ249SW5keUFydHMgTmV3c2xldHRlciAwOS0wMi0yNCZ1dG1fdGVybT1JTkRfQ3VsdHVyZV9OZXdzbGV0dGVyX0NEUFcFc3BjZXVCCmW7QNzFZbb_GSJSG3RyaXN0cmFtYmFsZHdpbjkwQGdtYWlsLmNvbVgEAAADIw~~) (and one of them is still AWOL to this day). Look out this weekend for Ellie talking to Irish star Domnhall Gleeson for our Saturday Interview. Just the thought of him playing table tennis with Bill Nighy in About Time makes me want to sob. And I spoke to Laura Donnelly, star of Jez Butterworth’s new West End smash The Hills of California, about what it's like to be both the partner and muse of the nation’s most venerated playwright. Also: on Sunday, an interview with actual Gloria Gaynor! Have a good weekend, Jessie [@jessiecath](~/AAAHagA~/RgRnqGFAP0SiaHR0cDovL3d3dy50d2l0dGVyLmNvbS9qZXNzaWVjYXRoP2xpZD1xdW53NmpjOHFmZXQmdXRtX21lZGl1bT1lbWFpbCZ1dG1fc291cmNlPWJyYXplJnV0bV9jYW1wYWlnbj1JbmR5QXJ0cyBOZXdzbGV0dGVyIDA5LTAyLTI0JnV0bV90ZXJtPUlORF9DdWx0dXJlX05ld3NsZXR0ZXJfQ0RQVwVzcGNldUIKZbtA3MVltv8ZIlIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luOTBAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAMj) What to do this weekend Theatre | [The Hills of California](~/AAAHagA~/RgRnqGFAP0S_aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuaW5kZXBlbmRlbnQuY28udWsvYXJ0cy1lbnRlcnRhaW5tZW50L3RoZWF0cmUtZGFuY2U_bGlkPXc5Zzd5eWtsaG53MSZ1dG1fbWVkaXVtPWVtYWlsJnV0bV9zb3VyY2U9YnJhemUmdXRtX2NhbXBhaWduPUluZHlBcnRzIE5ld3NsZXR0ZXIgMDktMDItMjQmdXRtX3Rlcm09SU5EX0N1bHR1cmVfTmV3c2xldHRlcl9DRFBXBXNwY2V1Qgplu0DcxWW2_xkiUht0cmlzdHJhbWJhbGR3aW45MEBnbWFpbC5jb21YBAAAAyM~) After his brilliant, era-defining 2009 play Jerusalem, a new Jez Butterworth play is a big deal: you can be sure of a sizeable budget, hefty running time, sprawling cast, and most of all, massive emotions sploshing messily across the stage. And if Butterworth’s latest doesn’t rival 2017’s Olivier Award-winning Irish epic The Ferryman in pace or power, it’s [still a satisfyingly substantial look](~/AAAHagA~/RgRnqGFAP0T8aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuaW5kZXBlbmRlbnQuY28udWsvYXJ0cy1lbnRlcnRhaW5tZW50L3RoZWF0cmUtZGFuY2UvcmV2aWV3cy90aGUtaGlsbHMtb2YtY2FsaWZvcm5pYS1yZXZpZXctdGhlYXRyZS1iMjQ5MjIxOC5odG1sP2xpZD02MzY3dXdzd2JxcGgmdXRtX21lZGl1bT1lbWFpbCZ1dG1fc291cmNlPWJyYXplJnV0bV9jYW1wYWlnbj1JbmR5QXJ0cyBOZXdzbGV0dGVyIDA5LTAyLTI0JnV0bV90ZXJtPUlORF9DdWx0dXJlX05ld3NsZXR0ZXJfQ0RQVwVzcGNldUIKZbtA3MVltv8ZIlIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luOTBAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAMj) at four sisters making sense of their childhood as their mother lies dying upstairs. Alice Saville | Theatre critic   Art | [Frank Auerbach: The Charcoal Heads](~/AAAHagA~/RgRnqGFAP0S1aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuaW5kZXBlbmRlbnQuY28udWsvYXJ0cy1lbnRlcnRhaW5tZW50L2FydD9saWQ9ZXk4N2JmZnhpbjB4JnV0bV9tZWRpdW09ZW1haWwmdXRtX3NvdXJjZT1icmF6ZSZ1dG1fY2FtcGFpZ249SW5keUFydHMgTmV3c2xldHRlciAwOS0wMi0yNCZ1dG1fdGVybT1JTkRfQ3VsdHVyZV9OZXdzbGV0dGVyX0NEUFcFc3BjZXVCCmW7QNzFZbb_GSJSG3RyaXN0cmFtYmFsZHdpbjkwQGdtYWlsLmNvbVgEAAADIw~~) A snapshot exhibition of what Frank Auerbach is producing now would be fascinating to see. What the Courtauld Gallery is giving us instead feels even more of a privilege, [a group of his classic large charcoal drawings](~/AAAHagA~/RgRnqGFAP0T0aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuaW5kZXBlbmRlbnQuY28udWsvYXJ0cy1lbnRlcnRhaW5tZW50L2FydC9yZXZpZXdzL2ZyYW5rLWF1ZXJiYWNoLXRoZS1jaGFyY29hbC1oZWFkcy1yZXZpZXctYjI0OTIxOTYuaHRtbD9saWQ9d2o1bzVobGU2YWhoJnV0bV9tZWRpdW09ZW1haWwmdXRtX3NvdXJjZT1icmF6ZSZ1dG1fY2FtcGFpZ249SW5keUFydHMgTmV3c2xldHRlciAwOS0wMi0yNCZ1dG1fdGVybT1JTkRfQ3VsdHVyZV9OZXdzbGV0dGVyX0NEUFcFc3BjZXVCCmW7QNzFZbb_GSJSG3RyaXN0cmFtYmFsZHdpbjkwQGdtYWlsLmNvbVgEAAADIw~~) from the Fifties brought together for the first time since he did them. They are breakthrough works that set up the preoccupations that have absorbed him over the intervening seven decades. Mark Hudson | Art critic   Books | [In Memoriam by Alice Winn](~/AAAHagA~/RgRnqGFAP0S3aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuaW5kZXBlbmRlbnQuY28udWsvYXJ0cy1lbnRlcnRhaW5tZW50L2Jvb2tzP2xpZD02ZDQ0aWdldHkxcG4mdXRtX21lZGl1bT1lbWFpbCZ1dG1fc291cmNlPWJyYXplJnV0bV9jYW1wYWlnbj1JbmR5QXJ0cyBOZXdzbGV0dGVyIDA5LTAyLTI0JnV0bV90ZXJtPUlORF9DdWx0dXJlX05ld3NsZXR0ZXJfQ0RQVwVzcGNldUIKZbtA3MVltv8ZIlIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luOTBAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAMj) Alice Winn's debut novel is a love story between two young men, [set in the trenches of World War One](~/AAAHagA~/RgRnqGFAP0TqaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuaW5kZXBlbmRlbnQuY28udWsvYXJ0cy1lbnRlcnRhaW5tZW50L2Jvb2tzL2ZlYXR1cmVzL2dheS13b3JsZC13YXItMS1pbi1tZW1vcmlhbS1iMjMwNDUyNC5odG1sP2xpZD1mbHNwY3AzM2F0ODkmdXRtX21lZGl1bT1lbWFpbCZ1dG1fc291cmNlPWJyYXplJnV0bV9jYW1wYWlnbj1JbmR5QXJ0cyBOZXdzbGV0dGVyIDA5LTAyLTI0JnV0bV90ZXJtPUlORF9DdWx0dXJlX05ld3NsZXR0ZXJfQ0RQVwVzcGNldUIKZbtA3MVltv8ZIlIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luOTBAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAMj). It's both a meticulously researched slice of historical fiction and a yearning love story, its characters so masterfully drawn that they feel like real people. (Winn was, in fact, partly inspired by the stories of war poets Siegfried Sassoon and Robert Graves when she conceived of the idea.) The paperback is coming out next month, and you should grab one without blinking: this is the most absorbing, tender novel I've read for a long time. Jessie Thompson | Arts editor   Film | [The Iron Claw](~/AAAHagA~/RgRnqGFAP0S3aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuaW5kZXBlbmRlbnQuY28udWsvYXJ0cy1lbnRlcnRhaW5tZW50L2ZpbG1zP2xpZD11ZWswcW1iaWpqbjEmdXRtX21lZGl1bT1lbWFpbCZ1dG1fc291cmNlPWJyYXplJnV0bV9jYW1wYWlnbj1JbmR5QXJ0cyBOZXdzbGV0dGVyIDA5LTAyLTI0JnV0bV90ZXJtPUlORF9DdWx0dXJlX05ld3NsZXR0ZXJfQ0RQVwVzcGNldUIKZbtA3MVltv8ZIlIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luOTBAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAMj) In [The Iron Claw](~/AAAHagA~/RgRnqGFAP0TtaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuaW5kZXBlbmRlbnQuY28udWsvYXJ0cy1lbnRlcnRhaW5tZW50L2ZpbG1zL3Jldmlld3MvdGhlLWlyb24tY2xhdy1yZXZpZXctdWstcmVsZWFzZS1iMjQ5MjE2OC5odG1sP2xpZD16bDU3cDFqbHJhY2gmdXRtX21lZGl1bT1lbWFpbCZ1dG1fc291cmNlPWJyYXplJnV0bV9jYW1wYWlnbj1JbmR5QXJ0cyBOZXdzbGV0dGVyIDA5LTAyLTI0JnV0bV90ZXJtPUlORF9DdWx0dXJlX05ld3NsZXR0ZXJfQ0RQVwVzcGNldUIKZbtA3MVltv8ZIlIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luOTBAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAMj), the tragedy is in the detail, and in an audience’s queasy feelings of intuition when it comes to how sad stories tend to play out. Zac Efron, Jeremy Allen White, Harris Dickinson and Stanley Simons render grief in all its shades. But it’s Efron, his outrageously muscled body made beatific with a Joan of Arc bowl cut, who softens the film’s harder knocks with a performance of disarming tenderness. Clarisse Loughrey | Film critic   PARTNER CONTENT: NETFLIX Maestro ~/AAAHagA~/RgRnqGFAP0SnaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubmV0ZmxpeC5jb20vdGl0bGUvODExNzE4Njg_bGlkPWcxdGE3cjB3c2kyNCZ1dG1fbWVkaXVtPWVtYWlsJnV0bV9zb3VyY2U9YnJhemUmdXRtX2NhbXBhaWduPUluZHlBcnRzIE5ld3NsZXR0ZXIgMDktMDItMjQmdXRtX3Rlcm09SU5EX0N1bHR1cmVfTmV3c2xldHRlcl9DRFBXBXNwY2V1Qgplu0DcxWW2_xkiUht0cmlzdHJhbWJhbGR3aW45MEBnbWFpbC5jb21YBAAAAyM~ [Nominated for 7 Oscars including Best Picture and 7 BAFTAs including Best Actress for Carey Mulligan and Best Actor for Bradley Cooper, Maestro is “an astonishingly beautiful film’ with career best performances from Mulligan and Cooper. 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