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Anne Hathaway

We're too cruel about Anne Hathaway's accent

This week the American actor Anne Hathaway has been coming under heavy fire. The reason? Her wobbly accent in the recently released film of David Nicholls's novel One Day

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Hot in the city that never sleeps

Henry Hitchings checks into one of New York's most eagerly awaited new hotels, a welcome addition to the hip SoHo district

The good book is a good read

It will take 20 actors 69 hours in shifts over eight days to recite the entire King James Bible at the Globe - more than spiritual guide, it's a fascinating literary work that was meant to be read aloud

The good book makes for a good read at the Globe

It will take 20 actors 69 hours in shifts over eight days to recite the entire King James Bible at the Globe - more than spiritual guide, it's a fascinating literary work that was meant to be read aloud

The revival of Terence Rattigan; the great dramatist of moral life

When Sienna Miller steps out on stage in a new West End production of Flare Path, she signals a year of celebrations and the rehabilitation of one of the 20th century's greatest playwrights

Language can't stay still - just listen to London

Yesterday, while getting a haircut, I fell into conversation with the customer in the chair next to mine

The minefield of controlling ‘weapon dogs’

When I walk the streets I pass innumerable dangerous dogs, many of them detached from owners who view their snarling darlings rather as a child might observe the manoeuvrings of someone else’s radio-controlled car

Falstaff is England's biggest icon

As Roger Allam becomes the latest actor to take on the role of Sir John Falstaff, Henry Hitchings explores the enduring appeal of Shakespeare’s ‘villainous abominable misleader of youth’.

Happy 300th birthday to a tireless Londoner

Samuel Johnson is one of the great adoptive Londoners. Certainly few people have insisted so resoundingly on the city's magnificence

Magical Mysteries tour

The worldwide success of a musical version of The Mysteries, which returns to London this month, shows how these remarkable medieval plays still speak to a 21st-century audience.

Roof raises the drama with snaps, crackles and plenty pops

Now we know what the Wimbledon roof is really for. While it may be handy for blocking out summer rain, its greater benefit is that it amplifies the drama on Centre Court

Tennis - it's a fortnight, not a game

SPORTING events turn us all into instant experts. Cometh the World Cup, cometh our intimate knowledge of "catenaccio" and Cameroonian goalkeepers. Then, when the jamboree folds up, so does our dossier of facile judgments.


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