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Covent Garden enlists Cossacks for a rare Tchaikovsky opera

05.10.09
Royal Opera House recruits six Cossack dancers for its premiere of a rare Tchaikovsky comic opera... more

Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 is train wreck for Travolta

31.07.09
Tony Scott's fast and furious direction in The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 overwhelms the star cast of his slick remake of the Seventies thriller.... more

With Facebook, even spooks are just like us

06.07.09
What's the Persian for schadenfreude? I don't know, but I imagine that in between cursing infidels, oppressing his people and grooming his silly beard, Iran's supreme lunatic Ayatollah Ali Khamenei had a jolly good laugh at our expense this weekend... more

Check out the biggest movies this summer

05.06.09
Sacha Baron Cohen's new comic creation, the latest instalment from Harry Potter at Hogwarts and adventures in the land of lizard men - here is our guide to the biggest movies of the season... more

Tony Manero is the dancefloor psycho

09.04.09
We are in the drab outskirts of Santiago during Pinochet’s regime. Tanks patrol the streets. Inflation rages. Raul, a sallow 52-year-old loner, develops an obsession with John Travolta’s character in Saturday Night Fever ... more

Bolt is a perky dog's tale

05.02.09
There's no doubt that Bolt cuts the mustard as a technically brilliant piece of animation. It gives us something to savour.... more

Senator accused of $25m Travolta plot

29.01.09
A former Bahamas senator is escorted from a courtroom by police after being granted bail on charges of conspiring to help extort $25 million from John Travolta... more

Travolta flies home with Jett's ashes

06.01.09
John Travolta and his wife Kelly Preston were flying home to Florida with the ashes of their son after his death at the couple's Bahamas holiday home... more

Travoltas' final journey with tragic son's ashes

06.01.09
John Travolta and wife Kelly Preston flew home last night to bury their son's ashes after he died at their Caribbean holiday home.... more

Questions remain over Jett Travolta death

05.01.09
A post-mortem examination on John Travolta's son may help explain the 16-year-old's sudden death in the Bahamas... more

Hopelessly devoted to a toupee, John?

21.10.08
Travolta looked as though he was fighting the ageing process on a recent outing, wearing what looked like a toupee.... more

Diaz’s film Ferrari in £20 million car auction

02.10.08
One of the most valuable collections of cars ever seen in Britain is going under the hammer in London... more

Grease lightening strikes again

18.09.08
Randal Kleiser’s 1978 musical, set in the Fifties, has some horrible acting but the kind of exuberance that has made it a cult classic... more

Wow! Kylie Minogue to be paid £2million for 60-minute set at Dubai hotel opening party

11.09.08
Kylie Minogue will put on one of the most expensive performances in entertainment history at the opening of the Palm Jumeirah manmade island in Dubai. Miss Minogue will be paid £2m to perform a 60-minute set.... more

You're the one that I want now: Olivia Newton-John weds for the second time

09.07.08
The 59-year old singer has found love once again and married Australian entrepreneur John Easterling in a surprise ceremony in Malibu.... more

Is John Travolta finally facing up to the bald truth?

24.06.08
There comes a point in every man's life when he is forced to be honest about his retreating hairline. For John Travolta, that moment has been a long time coming. But at last, the actor has given up covering up his balding head with what has always been assumed to be an elaborate weave.... more

CPS drops case against Scientology protest boy

23.05.08
Prosecution lawyers have taken just a day to throw out a case against a 15-year-old who was facing possible legal action for holding up a placard which branded the Church of Scientology a "cult"... more

The science of pop: Guess the song from these pie-charts, graphs and scientific tables

12.04.08
It's the latest internet craze - spoof scientific charts and diagrams based on the titles of pop songs and the artists who performed them. So can you name the song and singer for each of these? ... more

Jamie Lee Curtis: 'I'm posing topless at 50 'to show older women they can still be beautiful'

21.03.08
Jamie Lee Curtis has agreed to pose topless to mark her 50th birthday. The actress said she would bare all to convince older women that they can still be beautiful if they take care of their bodies. Her topless pose will appear on May's cover of the magazine of the American Association of Retired Persons, the U.S. equivalent of Saga... more

OSCARS FASHION: Dame Helen Mirren and Heidi Klum lead the way as ladies in red dazzle

25.02.08
Hollywood's brightest stars - including Dame Helen Mirren, Heidi Klum and Katherine Heigl - painted the night red at this year's Oscars... more

Day-Lewis hailed for brilliant oil man

08.01.08
Daniel Day-Lewis moved a step closer to winning his second Oscar when he picked up the award for best actor at the Critic's Choice Awards.... more

DVDs of the week

20.11.07
John Travolta squeezes into a fat suit in Hairspray and Mark Thomas relights your political ire in the DVDs of the week.... more

'It was shockingly, gloriously awful'

22.08.07
As Michael Ball prepares for his first Prom, he reveals the full story of his role in English National Opera's biggest critical flop in years.... more

Killers in despair

26.07.07
Todd Robinson's true-crime drama, Lonely Hearts, is inspired and deserves closer inspection up against this week's blockbusters.... more

Travolta's back - and having a bad hair day

19.07.07
The remake of the John Waters curio Hairspray lacks the edge of the original - but who cares? It's great fun... more

New leads for return of popular musical

25.06.07
ITV talent show winners Susan McFadden and Danny Bayne take on the lead roles in the return of the musical Grease to the capital next month... more

Oops,was that a £300,000 mural we painted over?

20.04.07
An iconic picture of John Travolta and Samuel L Jackson wielding bananas, painted by infamous graffiti artist Banksy, has been whitewashed over by Transport for London cleaners.... more

A Radiohead riddle

13.04.07
Radiohead drop hints, Tarantino has killer taste, Natasha Bedingfield is back, and podcasts are soon to contain music. It's all happening, says David Smyth.... more

Biking hogwash

12.04.07
Wild Hogs is a truly awful film about four suburban weekend warriors taking off their boring city suits and taking on a gang of bikers.... more

Stars roar into London for Wild Hogs premiere

29.03.07
John Travolta, Ray Liotta and Tim Allen wore leather biking jackets as they roared into London on Harley-Davidsons for the Wild Hogs premiere.... more

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