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Fans can't get enough of High School Musical heart-throb Zac Efron in his new role

2009-11-19T08:56:36Z

Video: Zac-mania hit London as teenage heart-throb Zac Efron attended the premiere of his new film, Me And Orson Welles.

Innovations aplenty in Citizen Kane

2009-10-30T00:00:00Z

Made by Orson Welles at the tender age of 25 in 1941, Citizen Kane is certainly the most stunning debut film

Lenny Henry finds moor in Othello

2009-09-20T23:00:00Z

Casting Lenny Henry in the role of Othello ensures a breathless audience � greedy to see how the neophyte compares with predecessors.

Sporting Miscellanies

2009-06-08T15:24:39Z

Sport: After his French Open triumph, there is no doubt that Roger Federer is tennis' GOAT

Eminem - the bad angel who produces great art

2009-06-01T10:23:20Z

There's a pleasing irony in Eminem emerging from his Detroit stockade with a No 1 album, Relapse, the same week that the US's biggest motor manufacturer collapses. What's bad for GM is good for rap

To Sur with love

2009-05-07T12:22:11Z

The stretch of California coast which inspired Kerouac and the hippy generation is as stunning as ever, says Janice Blackburn

Score for Psycho to fetch �40,000

2009-03-04T11:51:41Z

The original score for the soundtrack of Psycho is to go under the hammer

Seducer of the Valleys dies after riotous life of wine and women

2009-01-14T09:42:00Z

Someone once asked Dai Llewellyn if he did the lottery. "No, old boy," he drawled. "I have already won the lottery of life."

Rachel Weisz blooms at gala screening

2008-10-28T08:26:14Z

Rachel Weisz wowed fans on the red carpet at the gala screening of her new movie The Brothers Bloom

Brothers at play in Burn After Reading

2008-10-15T23:00:00Z

Joel and Ethan Coen's follow-up to No Country for Old Men, Burn After Reading, is a camp, farcical comedy with a stellar cast.

Terrorist's daughter who grew up to be the face of a lingerie brand

2008-07-30T11:38:55Z

The picture of her wielding a machine gun was one of the most infamous of the seventies, but now it is Patty Hearst's model daughter Lydia who is striking a memorable pose.

High School Musical sweethearts Zac Efron and Vanessa Hudgens escape for steamy beach break

2008-07-18T23:25:02Z

High School Musical stars Zac Efron and Vanessa Hudgens may have chemistry on screen, but off screen, it electric.

Wall-E is not so rubbish

2008-07-16T23:00:00Z

The cautionary tale of a robot cleaning Earth after humans have fled, Wall-E breaks new ground for computer animation.

Italian political thriller

2008-03-06T00:00:00Z

It can't be easy to play Orson Welles, but Danny Huston has a good shot at it in Oliver Parker's Fade to Black.

This is the best modern theatre I know

2008-01-08T12:32:56Z

After a lengthy campaign, Sir Peter Hall is finally reopening the stunning new Rose in Kingston next week with his production of Uncle Vanya.

Citizen Kane Oscar set to fetch �600,000

2007-12-11T11:48:57Z

Orson Welles's Oscar for Citizen Kane is expected to fetch nearly £600,000 when it goes under the hammer at Sotheby's in New York.

Slick, sleek and chic

2007-08-09T23:00:00Z

Dining for the rich and famous: exclusive and celebrity studded Cipriani pulses with power and makes no secret of its 'boogie factor'.

So bad it's good ... almost

2007-05-02T23:00:00Z

If there's such a thing as a good bad movie, this 1986 animated effort from Nelson Shin might easily qualify.

I'm very scared of being back on stage

2007-03-02T16:26:05Z

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.

Boys are back with a class act

2007-01-04T00:00:00Z

Alan Bennett's The History Boys returns to London making a far stronger emotional impact than in 2004, leaving Nicholas de Jongh moved, disturbed and exhilarated.

Lost in space at Mirabelle

2006-11-06T00:00:00Z

On the night that Toby Young visited Mirabelle, the flagship of Marco's White Star Line group, he discovered that he had the entire restaurant to himself.