While some may consider a Pac-A-Mac to be the ultimate English wardrobe essential, this season we think a flat knee-high boot is just as important... more
His six wives and a reputation for roister-doistering - including sharing a cocaine addiction with his daughter Jamie Leigh Curtis - sometimes overshadowed Tony Curtis's very real achievements as an actor... more
Flight attendant who swore at a rude passenger over his plane’s speakers before fleeing down an emergency chute says he is overwhelmed by the public support he had received... more
Companies forced to make cuts are finding skills particular to women, such as good communication and empathy, are invaluable, says Philip Delves Broughton ... more
Pinewood Studios today submitted its planning application for a £200 million expansion to give film-makers access to one of the biggest selections of ready-made locations in the world ... more
It is every private-equity firm's nightmare. You buy a boring little company hoping to do the usual, squeeze it for cash and flip it a few years later. And then it turns on you. ... more
It is Satan, played by Douglas Henshall, as a Gucci-clad, all-knowing lounge lizard, who has the best lines in The Last Days of Judas Iscariot, says Patrick Worthington.... more
Onto this dark and gruesome world, shards of magic dust all too rarely descend to leaven the gloom and give us reason to do what Churchill knew as "keep buggering on". So it is that news emerges of preliminary discussions about the most gloriously demented bout in even boxing's history.... more
Arriving from New York garlanded with a Pulitzer Prize and dripping with acclaim, Fiona Mountford was disappointed by Nicolas Kent's lacklustre production of Doubt: A Parable.... more
A breathless eroticism pounds through Montemezzi's L'Amore dei tre Re as violently and noisily as a stampede of horses over cobbles, says Fiona Maddocks.... more
Robert De Niro's The Good Shepherd, his second feature as director, is arguably too long and sometimes repetitious, but it remains intriguing throughout, says Derek Malcolm.... more
This week's number one star Mika makes a sure-to-be-messy appearance at the Popstarz, The Fleadh Tour 2007 moves indoors and Biffy Clyro top the Kerrang! Tour bill.... more
Crowd-pleasing septet Ray Gelato's Giants are battling the office-party roar at Ronnie Scott's this year in the slot gamely filled by George Melly in Christmases past.... more
The tiny audience at the Spitz greeted the unassuming Emmanuel Jal like their very own rap prophet. But it wasn't the music they were there for, says Jane Cornwell.... more
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