Lost for ways to spend your holiday in the city? Sarah Marshall and Kate Whiting offer some direction, with a wide range of fabulous suggestions... more
During the filming of Apocalypse Now, Martin Sheen had a heart attack and Coppola contemplated suicide. By the end, nearly everyone was either sick or exhausted. That is how some masterpieces are made... more
From civil rights to apartheid, Harry Belafonte has seen a lot of politics for an entertainer - and, as a new film reveals, he also played a part in bringing Obama's father to America... more
Four adventurers set sail in an open boat from Tonga to re-enact the 4,400-mile survival voyage of Captain William Bligh after he was cast adrift by the Bounty mutineers in 1789... more
George Clooney takes to the skies as a callous travelling businessman in Up In The Air, a slick romance with a depressingly conservative message... more
Michael Jackson took centre stage for the last time at a funeral service at which friends and family were given the opportunity to grieve in private... more
Gloria Vanderbilt's life of scandalous affairs, intriguing business ventures and unbridled extravagance has provided the material for her latest creation - a steamy novel that has Manhattan in a spin... more
Pity the pregnant woman who has the audacity to contemplate a second drink. Caroline Williams, 26, five months pregnant, was thrown out of The Cricketer in Hove for taking a sip from a friend's glass... more
He has won millions at cards but, as the Serious Fraud Office probes his £1 billion development company, has Achilleas Kallakis finally been dealt a losing hand? ... more
It's a busy time for The Metros. They are playing most of the big summer festivals, including Glastonbury, but they've taken time out to talk to us.... more
Not enough jokes, and while the stunts are clever there's a sense that we've seen a lot of them before...Baz's verdict on the highly-anticipated Indiana Jones movie.... more
Joe Allen - a New York-style bar cum dining room tucked away in Covent Garden - doesn't take its clientele or its nosh too seriously. It's a place to feast on the ambience rather than the food. ... more
Steven Berkoff, one of British theatre's most vocal and unpredictable figures, talks about why he thinks he can now turn the iconic Fifties film On the Waterfront into a stage success.... more
Marlon Brando's Corset purports to be a study of how the modern obsession with fame prostitutes us all, but it's as shallow and pretentious as those it is parodying.... more