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JONATHAN MCEVOY IN MONTREAL: It should have been Lando Norris standing on the top step of the podium, his slim world championship hopes having caught fire in a pulsating Canadian Grand Prix of thrills and perils in the rain. But it wasn't to be, the intervention of a safety car, and his McLaren team's sluggish response to it, condemning the Briton to a never-say-die second place behind the unignorable Max Verstappen, who else? Yet the most stirring memories - the ones that should have secured the win - were of Norris dancing through the early squalls as nimbly as Gene Kelly, weaving his superlative McLaren into the lead as if twirling his umbrella as he went, past Verstappen and Mercedes' pole-man George Russell.

While a few people have been praised for their contributions, there are others whose efforts fell short of winning the covered statuette. Some, you might argue, were robbed - but which are the biggest Oscars snubs in the ceremony's rich and varied history?

As they attempted to secure a spot in next week's final, the actor, 29, and his professional dance partner Nikita Kuzmin, 25, scored a perfect 40 for the second week in a row. Last week, Layton nabbed a flawless 40 for a mesmerizing Paso Doble and then continued to put on a flawless game for Charleston to Fit, courtesy of Gene Kelly and Donald O'Connor.

ALISON BOSHOFF: Hundreds of nefarious remarks have been posted on Chalamet's Instagram page - where he is viewed by 18.4 million viewers since the SNL sketch was shown. Hundreds of people say, 'Boycott Wonka.' Others accuse the actor of'supporting genocide' and displaying 'white privilege.' Many people have said that they will never watch a film starring Chalamet and that they are no longer devoted followers. 'Free Palestine' is a Palestinian flag or the word used to describe it.'

MICHAEL PARKINSON: Fred Astaire was the one I was most awe of among the many celebrities to appear on Parkinson's; he was the one I was most awed of. I love dance, adore dancers, and have never seen anyone close to Astaire. "I dance like a truck driver," Gene Kelly told me. He dances like an aristocrat.' We asked Fred Astaire if he would dance on the show. He said his dancing days were over, but he'll perform a few of the songs that had been written for him. He was apprehension over the interview, but not sure he was interesting enough to warrant an hour long appearance.

I was just about as ill as anyone else when the plane landed in Los Angeles last summer. My marriage to tailor-to-the-stars Doug Hayward was going nowhere, and I'd decided to get away from it all by visiting Sandy, the wife of American singer Tony Bennett, who died last month at the age of 96. Sandy and I were pregnant together when Tony first arrived in London in 1969. Doug made Tony's suit and wanted to take him home for dinner, so the Bennetts spent a lot of time at our Mayfair apartment. Tony was a man of few words, but he kept coming back for my toad in the hole. Sandy was - and remains - one of the funniest people I've ever met. If ever we want to banish a bout of depression, my daughter and I still call her in Las Vegas, where she now lives. We were so excited to get our figures back that we spent a lot of time in London's Bond Street shopping clothes that the boys - Joanna, named after one of Tony's songs, and my lovely Polly - were born just two weeks apart.

At 90, EPHRAIM HARDCASTLE Dame Joan Collins (left) is never short of spicy anecdotes to pique a fawning interviewer's ire. Debbie Reynolds tells her the latest one that when filming an episode of the 1986 TV series Sins, she 'thrustled her tongue deeply into her mouth.' Sadly, the old hoofer (1912-1996) isn't around to announce nor deny it. The Collins family's 40th birthday is commemorated by Jackie's sister Jackie's best-selling book Hollywood Wives is commemorated by Jackie's daughter, Rory Lerman. She claims she was once sued by [pornographer] Larry Flynt because they published a nude picture of a woman and claimed it was her.

According to new reports, Americans in every state are looking for Rihanna, a halftime performer. The results reveal a diverse range of songs from coast to coast, from 'Only Girl in the World,' to Maine people searching for 'Umbrella.' The Barbadian singer's debut on Sunday was the first after a nearly seven-year music absence, and it comes 18 years since she first performed her first single. At 3.30 p.m. pacific standard time, Super Bowl LVII takes place in Glendale, Arizona. Rihanna's appearance, although not planned precisely, is projected to begin at 7.45 p.m.

JOAN COLLINS: From handing over the tickets and finding your seat to the anticipation and excitement of seeing the advertisements for forthcoming attractions, I've loved the whole experience of cinemagoing. However, I've noticed recently that films tend to be divided into a few rather predictable groups. First, the plot is free, as in the trailers on a recent outing to the theater. They were mainly science fiction: futuristic, computer-generated potboilers. The dismal films that make you completely dissatisfied, as many of those nominated for this year's Oscar competitions are included in the second camp.

Dame Angela Lansbury will appear on the screen for one last time in the forthcoming film 'Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery,'. She died on October 12 at the age of 96, only five days before her 97th birthday.

Aaron Taylor-Johnson, 32, co-star Brad Taylor-Johnson, admitted that they both had lists of actors with whom they'd never work again. When Meryl Streep (1979) shot Dustin Hoffman, 85, they said she thought it was a "obnoxious pig" and that they had even slapped her once during a scene without warning. Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson, a 50-year-old actor, called Vin Diesel, 55, a 'candy a**,' while Vin Diesel, 55, has confessed to taking a 'tough love' approach with Dwayne on set. According to reports, Sarah Jessica Parker, 57, and Kim Cattrall, 65, feud over salaries on Sex and the City, and their feud became public when Kim called Sarah 'cruel,' and Sarah didn't appear in That.

Using Olivia's words, John Easterling wrote: "Our love for each other transcends our comprehension." Every day we expressed our gratitude for this love, which could be so deep, so real, and so natural. We never had to 'work' on it. We were in awe of this amazing mystery and shared our love as past, present, and forever.' After suffering from cancer for years, the beloved actress died on Monday.

CHRISTOPHER STEVENS: Patrick McDermott, 48, of San Pedro, California, joined 22 others for an overnight sea fishing trip one night. He never recovered. His wallet and backpack were discovered onboard, and his car was abandoned at the marina. McDermott had enough trouble to explain his disappearance. Chance is the bankrupt and he had no assets other than a clapped-out Toyota. Men like McDermott are hardly unusual - in fact, the US government has a word for them: deadbeat dads. But there was one extraordinary thing about this man. He had been dating Hollywood actress Olivia Newton-John for nearly nine years, Penniless as he was. Friends characterized her as 'cut up' and 'devastated' as she vanished.

It's difficult to look back on American cinema without remembering Olivia Newton-John, the iconic singer and actress who died at the age of 73 after a decades-long battle with breast cancer on August 8th. Of course, the majority recall her appearance in 1978's "Grease" as an innocent teenager. Sandra Dee played "plain Sandra Dee," which included performing a number of now-iconic songs such as "You're the One That I Want" alongside actress John Travolta (one of many actors to publicly honor Newton-John after her death). She appeared in 1980's "Xanadu," the musical-fantasy film starring Gene Kelly, which resulted in her number one hit with the track "Magic." However, those were only a few of her performances.