A triumphant Rhinestone Cowboy, backed up by the whole audience, gave Glen Campbell the send-off he deserved: it was an absolute privilege to see him
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Comment: David Cameron's choice of footwear on his recent trip to Italy has been widely discussed. Nick Curtis gives his verdict on the Prime Minister's 'pasty mankles'... more
The star power that made the original so good - Dudley Moore in the title role and John Gielgud as his butler - can't be matched by Brand's cheeky Essexboy act and Helen Mirren's unfunny lines... more
In Kelly Reichardt's realistic latter-day western, three impoverished families with their wagons are led through the dangerously isolated Cascade Mountains by an itinerant tracker called Meek... more
Following rave reviews for his London Fashion Week show and with a new Pop-Up Shop in town, Amira Hashish gets Paul Costelloe's take on fashion, family and Jeff Bridges... more
The Coen brothers bypassed John Wayne's Oscar-winning version to go back to the original source material, cast a brilliant unknown and deliver us their latest must-see movie... more
Just as the war and British stoicism informed the Bafta- and Oscar-nominated film, so they also shaped the character of its director's family, as Tom Hooper explains to Johanna Thomas-Corr... more
David Cameron said he would prefer the Government to be compared to the John Wayne film True Grit as he laughed off its 'Brokeback coalition' tag... more
Three Islamist extremists convicted of plotting to murder thousands of passengers in suicide attacks on flights from Heathrow to America and Canada... 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
Just as you think you are so bloated with turkey you can shunt it aside for another year, the most succulent and lush of all turkeys has landed before us... more
Richard Widmark, who made a sensational film debut as the giggling killer in Kiss of Death, has died after a long illness. He was 93. A quiet, inordinately shy man, Widmark often portrayed killers, cops and Western gunslingers, but famously said he hated violence
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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
Clint Eastwood, Hollywood's most famous Republican, used to make gung-ho movies, but his latest is anti-war. As he tells Mike Goodridge, he didn't mean it to be unpatriotic.... more
Sound check: German industrial metal band Rammstein literally play with fire in their live performances - and now they are about to unleash their singeing spectacle on London. Watch out for your eyebrows
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