Ellen Page and Julianne Moore's new film Freeheld comes out in the US this week.

Moore plays a police officer who finds out she is dying - but is told she cannot leave her police pension to Page's character because they are a same-sex couple.

Page herself came out as gay last February, and has been speaking to talk show host Stephen Colbert about how attitudes have changed in the US and how her life has improved.

"I feel so grateful to feel how I feel now compared to how I felt when I was a closeted person," she said. "That is not a nice place to be." Watch the interview below.

Over on BBC Arts, the live coverage of World Ballet Day continues. 

Coming up next, at 16:00 BST, you can see the National Ballet of Canada running through The Winter's Tale, followed by a dress rehearsal of Marco Goecke’s Spectre de la Rose and Wayne McGregor’s Chroma.

Earlier, we were able to witness preparations for the Bolshoi's staging of Swan Lake - which you can revisit below.

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Yesterday marked the 60th anniversary of James Dean's death.

At the time, just one of his films had been released. But a series of photos, published posthumously in Life Magazine, helped to establish the iconography that cemented his image in the minds of the public.

Fiona Macdonald looks back at the photoshoot.

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Fetty Wap has cancelled an upcoming gig in Leeds as he recovers from a recent road accident. 

The rapper, whose single Trap Queen, external was one of the songs of the summer, broke his leg several times when his motorcycle when he collided head-on with another vehicle last Saturday.

He has had to withdraw from the 1Xtra Live event on October 17. Tinie Tempah, Miguel, Lethal Bizzle, Stormzy, and Krept & Konan will still appear.

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Ever since 1980s feedback enthusiasts The Jesus and Mary Chain reunited in 2007, fans have been clamouring for new material. But the band have always resisted... until now.

In an interview with Time Out New York, external, singer Jim Reid revealed that work had finally begun on a follow-up to 1998’s Munki.

“We actually just started recording. It’s early days, but I would say it’s a more mature sound for the Mary Chain. But let’s just wait and see.”

To get you in the mood, here's the video for Just Like Honey, from the band's 1985 debut album Psychocandy.

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Singer and former Strictly contestant Pixie Lott has revealed her first photographs in character as Holly Golightly, as she prepares to take on Audrey Hepburn's iconic Breakfast at Tiffany's role.

The production, which tours the UK next year before landing in the West End, is Lott's first stage appearance since she was a child - when she took part in a London Palladium production of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.  

She said the new role was "a dream come true".

"I absolutely love Holly's style, and free spirit - she has always been an icon to me and I can't wait to bring my own personality to the role," she said.

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How would Star Wars have changed if Dave Prowse - the actor inside the Darth Vader suit - had provided the arch-villain's voice?

Out-takes from the film show the actor delivering the portentous dialogue in a heavy Bristolian accent - but Prowse's performance was over-dubbed by James Earl Jones before the film came out.

Prowse doesn't hold any grudges, saying he's a "great admirer" of the finished product. "But I still think I could have done equally as well."

Now, a young film-maker called Jayce Lewis has given fans (and Prowse himself) the chance to find out whether that's true.

He invited the actor into a sound studio to record some dialogue, which was then processed to give it that familiar, metallic quality.

You can see the results in a short documentary, The Force's Mouth, below.

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Last year, sales of vinyl reached a 20-year high in the UK, with 1.29 million albums sold.

It prompted a slew of articles about the "vinyl revival" and triggered the launch of an official vinyl albums chart... although it's worth noting that Ed Sheeran's album X sold more copies (1.7m) on its own than all vinyl records combined.

Nonetheless, interest is high, and the Official Charts Company has just released a rundown of the best-selling vinyl albums of this year so far. 

The top 10 paints a vivid picture of the people investing in record players... with the albums almost exclusively by male guitar bands, and half of the titles are more than a decade old.

1. Chasing Yesterday - Noel Gallgher's High Flying Birds
2. The Stone Roses - Stone Roses
3. Royal Blood - Royal Blood
4. Physical Graffiti - Led Zeppelin
5. AM - Arctic Monkeys
6. The Dark Side Of The Moon - Pink Floyd
7. Back To Black - Amy Winehouse
8. The Magic Whip - Blur
9. In Colour - Jamie xx
10. X - Ed Sheeran

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"Pink flamingos always fascinated me," sings Lana Del Rey at the beginning of her new single, Music To Watch Boys To. 

Presumably she is ruminating on the birds' grey feathers, which only turn pink because of canthaxanthin, a naturally-occurring pink dye they absorb via their diet of brine shrimp and blue-green algae. But sadly, the song doesn't expand on the science, or Lana's burgeoning interest in ornithology.

Instead, she goes on to sing in her familiar, louche style about being single and ogling boys.

The video is typically impressionistic and dreamy, with the singer reclining on a lawn-chair and wearing flower bloom headphones as she - yes - watches some boys.

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When Kanye West announced at the MTV Awards that he planned to run for president in 2020, no-one was more surprised than his wife.

"That was news to me," she told Ellen DeGeneres on her chat show. "That wasn’t a discussion in our household."

However, she added: "I believe he is serious and I know that if he puts his mind to something he’ll do his best. It’s been fascinating just hearing of the conversations that have gone on since that announcement."

The TV star and model added that her husband was particularly excited about redecorating the White House. 

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As part of World Ballet Day, BBC Arts has been looking at the origins and development of the artform.

Watch the discussion, between Lauren Cuthbertson and Kevin O’Hare of The Royal Ballet, and Tamara Rojo of English National Ballet, below.

British director John Guillermin, whose films included three-time Oscar-winner The Towering Inferno, has died aged 89. 

His movies starred some of the biggest names in Hollywood, including Orson Welles (House Of Cards), and Charlton Heston (Skyjacked) to Peter Ustinov and Bette Davis (Death On The Nile).

He also launched the career of Jessica Lange in the 1976 version of King Kong.

Read more about his career.

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The Turner Prize exhibition has just opened to the public at the Tramway gallery in Glasgow - the first time the event has been held in Scotland.

The press were let in yesterday. Some critics have declared that the prize is back on form, while others have judged it another bad year. But then it did always divide opinion.

• Rachel Campbell-Johnston, The Times (£), external: "I’ve lost count of the times that I’ve wished they would call it a day. But now, I must take it all back... The Turner Prize show has never looked so good."
• Mark Hudson, The Daily Telegraph, external: "Having seen nearly every Turner Prize exhibition since the award began in 1984, I find it difficult to be sure that this is the worst - after a time, they blur into each other."
• Adrian Searle, The Guardian, external: "For my money it is Bonnie Camplin’s frightening exploration of conspiracy theories, fantasies and beliefs gone awry that thrills me most."
• Moira Jeffrey, The Scotsman, external: "If this year’s show requires both attention and activity to come truly to life, it offers a vision of an art world that is reaching beyond the confines of the gallery walls, into our homes and, at times, into our heads."
• Will Gompertz, BBC arts editor: "If last year's edition at Tate Britain was a low point, the 2015 version at Tramway in Glasgow is a high the prize hasn't reached for a long time... This is the least egotistical, knowing, in-jokey Turner Prize I've seen."

Find out more about this year's nominees.

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British diver Tom Daley has announced his engagement to film-maker Dustin Lance Black with a notice in the Times newspaper.

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Daley, 21, and Black, 41, have been together for around two years and, soon after their relationship began, the Olympian opened up about his sexuality in a YouTube video entitled "Something I want to say".   

Black is a successful Hollywood player, who produced Milk - the Oscar-winning biopic of Harvey Milk - and wrote the script for Leonardo DiCaprio's J Edgar, which focused on the life of FBI director J Edgar Hoover.

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Game of Thrones author George RR Martin has debunked rumours that a big screen spin-off is being made, although he admitted he would "love to see one".

The Daily Star quoted him as saying there "will be a movie" - but the author has written this response on his blog, external:

A Banksy mural that was painted in an old Detroit car factory was sold at auction for $137,000 (£90,000) last night.

However it fell short of its pre-sale estimated value of $200,000-$400,000 (£132,000-£264,000). And two more major Banksy pieces failed to sell.

Donkey Documents, external - painted in Bethlehem and depicting a donkey being asked for its identity documents by an Israeli soldier - was valued at $400,000-$600,000 (£264,000-£397,000).

And VIP Rat, external, a sign created for the VIP area at the 2005 Glastonbury Festival, had been offered for $80,000-$120,000 (£53,000-£79,000). 

Has the street artist's appeal among art collectors been overestimated?

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Oye Como Va? Very well, thank you for asking.

Fans will be relieved to hear that reports of Carlos Santana's death proved to be incorrect last night.

It all happened when Canadian radio presenter Chris Walker tweeted that Santana had been found dead in a car. But it turned out that the victim simply shared his name with the musician.

Santana's team were quick to respond, posting on Facebook, external: "Carlos is alive and well and enjoying his morning! Thank you all for your concern, but the reports of his passing are false."

The guitarist's daughter also denied the reports, after being alerted by a fan.

Walker later deleted his tweets and apologised.