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Check out the new crash pads

16.11.09
At the end of a hot date or a great night out, nothing beats checking into one of the new chic-but-cheap boutique hotels that have sprung up around London, as Liz Hoggard finds out... more

Colleagues pay tribute to 'brother' actor

15.09.09
News of Patrick Swayze's death broke as the acting community was gathered at the Toronto International Film Festival, prompting a slew of red carpet tributes... more

The Thames delivers up a ghoulish cargo

22.05.09
I walk beside the Thames almost every day - through Battersea Park - keeping an eye open for any corpses floating past... more

Three Billies in line for a Tony as musical gets 15 nominations

05.05.09
Billy Elliot, the Broadway musical based on the hit British film, has been nominated for 15 Tony Awards — more than any other show... more

Three Billies in line for a Tony as musical gets 15 nominations

05.05.09
Billy Elliot, the Broadway musical based on the hit British film, has been nominated for 15 Tony Awards — more than any other show... more

Kristin has ticket to ride as Lennon aunt homas stars as Lennon's aunt

11.03.09
The teenage years of John Lennon are being recreated in a film in which Kristin Scott Thomas plays the woman who raised him... more

Boy from Harrow takes on Hollywood in Baftas battle

15.01.09
A teenager from Harrow is to take on Brad Pitt in the Baftas... more

Is this the year Brits sweep the Oscars?

06.01.09
All hopes are on Kate Winslet, Danny Boyle and Sally Hawkins doing at the Academy Awards what Team GB did at the Olympics, says Mike Goodridge.... more

Brits storm the Golden Globes

11.12.08
The British have stormed the shortlists for the prestigious Golden Globe film awards... more

Unbelievable Coward in Easy Virtue

06.11.08
Easy Virtue purports to be about the fading aristo lifestyle after the First World War and the injection into it of American flash.... more

Jessica slips into Easy Virtue

29.10.08
How clever of director Stephan Elliott to cast Jessica Biel in Noel Coward’s critique of English snobbery, says Nick Curtis.... more

Bare-faced chic - the hot new look

22.10.08
By giving make-up a miss, A-list celebs display their more vulnerable side ... more

Funnier, sadder, braver... NY loves Kristin's Seagull

03.10.08
Kristin Scott Thomas made her Broadway debut in Chekhov's The Seagull with an opening night performance that left American critics taking off on a flight of flattery... more

A guilty past in I've Loved You So Long

25.09.08
I've Loved You So Long has such a good performance from Kristin Scott Thomas that you don't mind a plot that turns on the kind of small details other movies ignore. ... more

True blue: Natalie Portman and Kristin Scott Thomas are left with red faces at Cannes

19.05.08
The red carpet at Cannes was awash with blue last night as leading ladies Natalie Portman and Kristin Scott Thomas both turned up in silk ruffled indigo gowns.... more

Joanna Lumley gives an Absolutely Fabulous lesson in ageing gracefully

22.04.08
Her Ab Fab alter ego Patsy Stone may have been a plastic surgery aficionado, but thankfully Joanna Lumley hasn't followed suit. The 61-year-old proved to be a stunning example of how to ageing gracefully at the BAFTAs on Sunday night, wearing her laughter lines with pride as she took to the red carpet in an elegant orange gown and lashings of red lipstick. Many of her A-list contemporaries have succumb to the temptation of too much botox, nipping and tucking - sometimes with disastrous results - making the actress something of a rarity... more

From ice-cream kid to Oscar glory: English Patient director Anthony Minghella dies of brain haemorrhage at 54

18.03.08
Oscar-winning director Anthony Minghella died suddenly yesterday from a 'fatal haemorrhage' after surgery for throat cancer. The 54-year-old, who was best known for his films The English Patient, Truly, Madly, Deeply and Cold Mountain, had told only his family and closest friends about his condition... more

Hairspray sweeps the board at Laurence Olivier Awards

10.03.08
West End musical Hairspray has swept the board at the Laurence Olivier Awards, scooping four of the prestigious accolades. Its star, Leanne Jones, was named best actress in a musical for her role as teenager Tracy Turnblad... more

Stage-struck Kristin's triumph

10.03.08
Kristin Scott Thomas took the top award of Best Actress at the Olivier Awards and declared there was nothing like working in British theatre.... more

Twisted sisters

06.03.08
Two sisters vie for King Henry VIII's favour in The Other Boleyn Girl, an adaptation that's long on pageantry but short on psychology.... more

WestEnders with attitude

13.12.07
Chromophobia is always watchable, but as its plot turns unfold, it looks increasingly like a melodrama with a few too many pretensions.... more

Too much talent on London stage for a shortlist

31.10.07
A dazzling year of performances on the London stage will be honoured at the 2007 Evening Standard Theatre Awards.... more

Evening Standard Theatre Awards 2007: the longlist

31.10.07
A dazzling year of performances on the London stage will be honoured at the Evening Standard Theatre Awards 2007. Here, for the first time, is the longlist. ... more

American gigolo in the frame

09.08.07
Paul Schrader's thriller, The Walker, harks back to the 1980 classic American Gigolo, but Woody Harrelson is an unconvincing escort.... more

Back from the dead

14.06.07
Based on the bestselling book by cult US crime writer Harlan Coben, Tell No One is the story of a paediatric doctor whose wife disappears while the pair are bathing in the countryside. ... more

Billie's West End debut back on

07.03.07
Doctors have given Billie Piper the go-ahead to perform in Treats, her West End debut. The play is due to open on Thursday, a week later than originally planned.... more

How Mackenzie stole the show

30.01.07
No one expected Gareth from The Office to act everyone off the stage in Chekhov. But that's just what he did at the Royal Court where The Seagull opened last week.... more

Beautiful, soaring Seagull is a five-star swansong

26.01.07
This enthralling version of The Seagull offers a series of shocks for traditional Chekhov lovers and Mackenzie Crook's transition from TV comedian to serious actor is amazing.... more

Winners to be named at London theatre awards

27.11.06
The wait is almost over. Today we will discover who has triumphed in the 52nd Evening Standard Theatre Awards at the Savoy Hotel.... more

Kristin will hand out coveted theatre award

22.11.06
Kristin Scott Thomas will present the statuette for best actor at the 52nd Evening Standard Theatre Awards at the Savoy Hotel on Monday.... more

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