A strict upbringing at the hands of a Pentecostal bishop has led Grace Jones to adopt her own strange rituals. Harry Mount braves an encounter with a sixty-something siren... more
Ben Clarke, the squat, brace-wearing yuppie parody of The Apprentice, is, at 22, too young to remember the film Wall Street, which was released the year he was born. But the spirit of Gordon Gekko lives on in him, as it does in almost all of this season's vile bodies... more
Given the financial hurricane that devasted the City last month, that 2008 is shaping up to be a good year for British film and our leading directors and actors ... more
Using the arrest of John Gielgud as the pivot of his play, Nicholas de Jongh gives himself the opportunity for wit that ranges from polished Wildean repartee to vulgarities worthy of Kenneth Williams.... more
The warm hospitality doesn't make up for the fact that Ukrainian restaurant Divo does for partying what President Musharraf does for freedom of speech - makes a mockery of it.... more
Maggie Smith returns to the West End in an Edward Albee play that hasn't been revived since its disastrous Broadway premiere. After five decades of acting, the fear, she says, is just as bad.... more
The Mayor of Tower Hamlets defeated Labour to be elected. Livingstone not only backed him but some of Ken's key players are now at the heart of running the council. Stephen Robinson reports
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