Last week, on a hot evening under heavy skies, I took my place in a Broadway queue for an Obama fundraiser. There were three such events in Manhattan that evening alone, and my theatrical benefit night was by far the cheapest... more
Stars like Billy Connolly and Catherine Tate are hoping to make more children love poetry in with readings set to scenes from classic Disney films... more
It was easier to make the movies he wanted to in Soviet Russia than in micro-managed Hollywood, director Andrei Konchalovsky tells Alastair McKay... more
For Coloured Girls follows the lives of nine black American women, all having grave trouble with their emotional lives and their men in particular... more
Annie Leibovitz, whose subjects have included the Queen, Michelle Obama and John Lennon, has been bailed out for the second time in a £15million deal that will force her to sort out her chaotic finances... more
Annie Leibovitz, the highest-paid photographer in the world, is in a six-week race to raise $24million or risk losing her homes and the rights to her entire body of work... more
Whoopi Goldberg has been so bowled over by reaction to the stage version of Sister Act, another of her hit movies, that she is to go back to her performing roots... more
Jim Carrey, Owen Wilson and Eddie Murphy have all been linked with a Walter Mitty remake - but now Mike Myers seems set to get the fantasist's role.... more
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