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J.K. Rowling Attacks BBC's 'Absolutist' Embrace Of Gender Ideology Over Pronouns Of Neo-Nazi
J.K. Rowling has launched her latest attack on the BBC over its reporting on the pronouns of Marla-Svenja Liebich, a far-right extremist who identified as a woman last December. BBC News carried a report about Liebich in which it used she/her pronouns for the criminal, who has received permission to serve a prison sentence in a German women's jail after being convicted of extreme right incitement to hatred, defamation, and insult. More from Deadline 'Game Of Thrones' Star Kristian Nairn Withdraws From 'Strictly Come Dancing' On Medical Grounds 'The Celebrity Traitors' Gets Fall Release Date On BBC BBC's New Content Chief Defends Handling Of Gregg Wallace Complaint Years Before 'MasterChef' Host Was Fired In Misconduct Storm Liebich changed gender in December under Germany's Self-Determination Act, despite previously describing transgender people as 'parasites on society' and posting a picture of a burning rainbow flag. Rowling, a staunch critic of the transgender movement, posted a link on X/Twitter to the BBC News story about Liebich, commenting: 'The BBC calls a male neo-Nazi 'she', because their absolutist belief in gender identity ideology means any man – rapist, voyeur, terrorist, murderer or paedophile – must be described as a woman the moment he says he's one.' The BBC has been asked for a response. BBC News' style guide states: 'We generally use the term and pronoun preferred by the person in question, unless there are editorial reasons not to do so.' The BBC calls a male neo-Nazi 'she', because their absolutist belief in gender identity ideology means any man – rapist, voyeur, terrorist, murderer or paedophile – must be described as a woman the moment he says he's one. — J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) August 21, 2025 Rowling has a partnership with the BBC, through which Brontë Film and TV — the company established to adapt her books — produces the Strike series for the corporation. This has not stopped her from repeatedly attacking the BBC over its 'shameful' reporting on transgender matters. The BBC apologized to Rowling twice in 2023. The Harry Potter author was accused of transphobia by trans rights advocates, but the claim was not properly challenged by BBC presenters, including Radio 4's Evan Davis. Best of Deadline 2025-26 Awards Season Calendar: Dates For Emmys, Oscars, Grammys & More Everything We Know About 'Emily In Paris' Season 5 So Far 'The Morning Show' Season 4: Everything We Know So Far
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Foxy Knoxy no more: How Monica Lewinsky and Amanda Knox teamed up to reclaim Knox's narrative
Monica Lewinsky is keenly aware of what it feels like when your name is no longer your own and becomes attached to a character conjured by others. An affair that she had with President Clinton nearly 30 years ago as a White House intern made her an international headline. So, when Lewinsky read that Amanda Knox, another woman whose image precedes her, wanted to adapt her memoir for the screen, she felt she was in a unique position to help. Knox was on a study abroad program in Italy in 2007 when one of her housemates, Meredith Kercher, was killed. She and her then-boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito quickly became the prime suspects. The story was a tabloid sensation and Knox was branded Foxy Knoxy. After a lengthy trial, she and Sollecito were convicted of Kercher's murder and sentenced to more than 20 years in prison; they were later acquitted and exonerated. Knox has already told her story in two memoirs and it's been dramatized by others. There was a Lifetime movie about the case and she believes the 2021 movie 'Stillwater' starring Matt Damon was unfairly familiar. 'I have a story to tell because I have a mission, and my mission is to help people appreciate what really is going on when justice goes awry,' Knox said about why she entrusted Lewinsky to help tell her story through 'The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox.' 'This woman, who has gone through her own version of hell where the world had diminished her to a punchline inspired me to feel like maybe there was a path forward in my life,' Knox said. The limited series is now streaming on Hulu. Grace Van Patten ('Tell Me Lies') stars and both Knox and Lewinsky are among its executive producers. Shared but different trauma Lewinsky was not always in a place to help others reclaim their narrative because her own was too much to bear. She remembers vaguely hearing about Knox's case but didn't have the energy to give it attention. 'I was allergic to cases like this,' Lewinsky said. 'I had just come out of graduate school at the end of 2006. And 2007 was a very challenging year for me.' She believed graduate school would lead to a new beginning and desired to 'have a new identity and go get a job like a normal person.' She said the realization that wasn't going to happen 'was a pretty devastating moment.' In 2014, Lewinsky wrote a personal essay for Vanity Fair and became one of its contributors. She went on to produce a documentary and give a TedTalk called 'The Price of Shame,' addressing cyber-bullying and public-shaming. Educating others provided Lewinsky with a purpose she had been looking for. 'With most everything I do, it feels really important to me that it moves a conversation forward somehow,' said Lewinsky. She now hosts a podcast called 'Reclaiming with Monica Lewinsky.' By the time they officially began working on 'Twisted Tale,' Lewinsky was in protective mode. The 52-year-old Lewinsky, 14 years older than Knox, wanted to shield her from painful moments. She recalled being particularly worried that Knox would be traumatized by reading the first script. 'It's someone else's interpretation. There's dramatic license,' explained Lewinsky, who said she can still 'have sensitivities' to reading something written about her. Instead, Knox was OK and Lewinsky learned they're 'triggered by different things.' She laughs about it now: 'Amanda's a lot more agreeable than me.' The interrogation was key Knox said a part of her story that she wanted to make sure the TV series got right was the interrogation scene. She still describes it as 'the worst experience of my life and a really defining moment in how this whole case went off the rails. 'I was interrogated for 53 hours over five days. We don't see that on screen,' she said. Now an advocate for criminal justice reform, Knox hopes viewers are moved by the condensed version and recognize 'the emotional truth and the psychological truth of that scenario.' Knox said she was coerced into signing a confession that she did not understand because of the language barrier. She was not fluent in Italian and did not have a lawyer with her at the time. In that document, Knox wrongly accused a local bar owner of the murder, and she still has a slander conviction because of it. Knox's lawyers recently filed paperwork to appeal that decision. She believes interrogations should have more transparency 'because what happens behind closed doors results in coerced confessions from innocent people to this day. I really wanted to shed a light on that.' No villains in Knox's version Knox has returned to Italy three times since her release from prison. One of those times was to meet with the prosecutor of her case after years of correspondence. Showrunner-creator KJ Stenberg said she had to condense more than 400 pages of their writing back-and-forth for their reunion scene. That meeting ultimately became the framework for the series. 'The scope of this story isn't, 'Here's the bad thing that happened to Amanda, the end.' The scope of the story is Amanda's going back to Italy and to appreciate why she made that choice, we need to go back and revisit everything that leads up to it,' said Knox. Viewers will also see others' perspectives, including Sollecito's, a prison chaplain and confidante, and Knox's mother. It also shows how the investigators and prosecutor reached the conclusion at the time that Knox and Sollecito were guilty. 'We did not want mustache-twirling villains,' said Knox. 'We wanted the audience to come away from the story thinking, 'I can relate to every single person in this perfect storm.' That, to me, was so, so important because I did not want to do the harm that had been done to me in the past.' 'It's showing all of these people who are going through the same situation and all truly believing they were doing the right thing,' added Van Patten. Knox isn't presented as perfect either in the series. 'I wasn't interested in doing a hagiography of Amanda Knox, nor was Amanda,' said Steinberg. Knox's harsh return to life after prison Knox had a hard time adjusting to so-called 'real life' after she was acquitted and returned home to the United States. This is shown in 'Twisted Tale.' 'I couldn't interact like a normal person with other people,' said Knox. 'I went back to school and there were students who were taking pictures of me in class and posting them to social media with really unkind commentary.' She said the stigma has become 'a huge, like, life-defining problem for me to solve.' 'People don't think about the adjustments she had to go through to reinsert herself into normal life, which is still not normal,' said Van Patten. Knox said she's learned that there are positives and negatives to her unique situation. 'There are exoneree friends of mine who have been able to move on with a life and be around people who don't know about the worst experience of their life. That's kind of a blessing and a curse. You don't have to explain yourself all the time but it's a curse because then this thing that was so defining of who you are as a person is something that you maybe feel like you don't know if you should share.' 'In my case, I never had that choice.' Knox is now a married mother of two and grateful that her life did not turn out the way that she feared it would while in prison, particularly that she would never have children. 'I was 22 years old when I was given a 26-year prison sentence. I could do the math,' she said. 'So every single day when I am with my children, I am reminded that this might not have happened. I don't care if I'm exhausted and I'm overwhelmed, this is what life is all about.'
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The Beatles announce 'Anthology 4' with a new version of 'Free as a Bird.' Here's everything else we know about the expanded reissue.
Previously unreleased tracks and previously unseen footage are coming in November. Thirty years after it was first released, The Beatles' multimedia Anthology project — a career-spanning documentary; a glossy coffee-table book; three behind-the-scenes rarities albums — will be getting the deluxe reissue treatment this fall, Apple Corps Ltd. announced Thursday. Apple also dropped a new track to whet fans' appetite: a 'demixed' version of the 1995 reunion single 'Free as a Bird' with crystal-clear vocals from John Lennon. What else are the Beatles adding to their expanded Anthology? Here's everything we know so far. 'Free as a Bird (2025 Mix)' Available now on major streaming services, the '2025 mix' of 'Free as a Bird' uses the same advanced demixing technology that allowed the surviving Beatles — in collaboration with Giles Martin, the son of their 1960s producer, George Martin — to finish off a long-lost third reunion track, 'Now and Then,' and release it in late 2023. This version of 'Free as a Bird' has been a long time coming. In 1975, Lennon retreated from the music scene to raise his newborn son, Sean. But he never stopped writing and demoing songs at his home in New York City's Dakota Building. While many of Lennon's final compositions eventually appeared — in polished studio form — on his 1980 comeback album with wife Yoko Ono, Double Fantasy, and their posthumous 1984 collection Milk and Honey, a handful remained in Ono's vault. 'Free as a Bird' was one of them. On January 19, 1994 — some time after George Harrison and longtime Beatles' sidekick Neil Aspinall reportedly pitched Ono on the idea of fleshing out Lennon's unreleased demos with full-band instrumentation and vocals — Ono gave McCartney two cassette tapes. One featured "Free as a Bird" and "Real Love," two late Lennon demos that the surviving Beatles (aka The Threetles) ultimately "finished off" during 1994 and 1995 reunion sessions at Paul McCartney's home studio in Sussex, England and released as part of the sprawling 1995-1996 Beatles Anthology project. "It's the end of the line, really," Ringo Starr said at the time. "There's nothing more we can do as the Beatles." That, of course, turned out to be not quite true. Back in 1994 and 1995, producer Jeff Lynne and his team used existing technology to iron out problems with pitch, timing and noise on Lennon's tapes, but his vocals on the original Anthology versions of 'Free as a Bird' and 'Real Love' still sounded ghostly and distant — like they were recorded on a primitive cassette player. But for 'Now and Then' — a third Lennon demo that McCartney, Starr and Harrison worked on for two days in March 1995, then abandoned — Martin took advantage of a machine-assisted learning program developed by director Peter Jackson's team and recently used on other Beatles projects to isolate, clarify and remix individual voices and instruments. The result? A much sharper Lennon vocal than on "Free as a Bird" or "Real Love.' The 2025 version of 'Free as a Bird' benefits from the same technology (as well as a new, punchier mix by Lynne). Artificial intelligence is involved, but this isn't a fake robot Lennon that had been generated from existing audio data and programmed to "sing." Instead, as McCartney told BBC's Radio 4 Today program in June 2023, "[Jackson] was able to extricate John's voice from a ropey little bit of cassette. We had John's voice and a piano and he could separate them with AI. They tell the machine: 'That's the voice. This is a guitar. Lose the guitar.' [So] we were able to take John's voice and get it pure through this AI so that then we can mix the record, as you would normally do." The original 'Free as a Bird' music video has been restored as well. 'Real Love (2025 Mix)' It's not out yet — and we don't know exactly when it will be — but the Beatles have also prepped a demixed version of 'Real Love,' the other Threetles reunion single. The expanded Anthology albums are slated for release on Nov. 21; 'Real Love' could come out earlier, as another preview track, or it could be withheld for release day. 'Anthology 4' album The original Anthology set consisted of 155 rare demos, studio outtakes and live cuts spread across three double albums. The idea was to provide 'insight into the early development of songs that became the [Beatles'] recorded masterpieces,' as Apple put it Thursday. Now they're adding a fourth installment. 'Curated' by Martin, Anthology 4 features an additional 36 Beatles rarities. Twenty-three of them have already seen the light of day on earlier 'super deluxe' reissues of the band's studio albums. But 13 Anthology 4 tracks have never been officially released, until now. They include new outtakes of 'If I Fell,' 'In My Life,' 'Nowhere Man,' 'Hey Bulldog' and 'All You Need Is Love.' Here's the complete list of previously unreleased material: Tell Me Why (Takes 4 and 5) If I Fell (Take 11) Matchbox (Take 1) Every Little Thing (Takes 6 and 7) I Need You (Take 1) I've Just Seen A Face (Take 3) In My Life (Take 1) Nowhere Man (First version – Take 2) Baby, You're A Rich Man (Takes 11 and 12) All You Need Is Love (Rehearsal for BBC broadcast) The Fool On The Hill (Take 5 – Instrumental) I Am The Walrus (Take 19 – strings, brass, clarinet overdub) Hey Bulldog (Take 4 – instrumental) Free As A Bird (2025 mix) Real Love (2025 mix) 'Now and Then' will also appear on Anthology 4. 'Remastered' versions of 'Anthology 1, 2 and 3' According to Apple, all existing Anthology material has been 'remastered' by Martin as well. That sounds like standard practice, but it's likely to amount to something much more substantial. Why? Because Jackson's machine-assisted learning program has the power to clean up and clarify all of the embryonic Beatles recordings on Anthology 1 in particular — including their very early, very noisy demos, taped while they were still teenage amateurs in Liverpool. A new episode of the 'Anthology' TV documentary The original Anthology documentary was an eight-part series that eschewed the usual talking- heads approach in favor of letting John, Paul, George and Ringo tell their own story, in their own words. Now there's a ninth episode. According to Apple, the new installment includes 'unseen behind-the-scenes footage of Paul, George and Ringo coming together between 1994 and 1995 to work on 'The Anthology' and reflec[t] on their shared life as The Beatles.' The entire documentary has been restored and remastered as well, with the help of Jackson's Wingnut Films & Park Road Post teams. Never before available in digital form, it starts streaming on Disney+ on Nov. 26. The Anthology book — 368 pages illustrated with more than 1,300 photos, documents and other memorabilia from the band's archives — will be republished on Oct. 14. Solve the daily Crossword
