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New this week: Brooke Shields, 'Grease' prequel and NF album
Read full article: New this week: Brooke Shields, 'Grease' prequel and NF albumThis weekโs new entertainment releases include an album from Michigan rapper NF, a two-part documentary about Brooke Shields on Hulu, and Kathryn Hahn portraying a character inspired by writer Cheryl Strayed in the series โTiny Beautiful Things.โ.
Michael Apted, director of โUpโ documentary series, dies
Read full article: Michael Apted, director of โUpโ documentary series, diesA representative for the Directors Guild of America said his family informed the organization that he passed Thursday, Jan. 7, 2021. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP, File)Michael Apted, the acclaimed British director of the โUpโ documentary series and films as diverse as the Loretta Lynn biopic โCoal Minerโs Daughterโ and the James Bond film โThe World Is Not Enough,โ has died. A representative for the Directors Guild of America said his family informed the organization that he passed Thursday night. Apted served as a researcher on the first film and took over as director seven years later, continuing to check in with the subjects every seven years. โThe series was an attempt to do a long view of English society,โ Apted told Slant Magazine in 2019.