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Joanna Lumley's Gurkas triumph is no surprise

01.05.09
It was Lumley wot won it. Years of government intransigence over the rights of Gurkhas was finally overturned this week by an actress most famous for playing the reeling, chain-smoking, toyboy-shagging drunk Patsy in Absolutely Fabulous... more

The lion king of London

25.03.09
It’s a YouTube phenomenon with 50 million hits worldwide – the story of the three-month-old cub bought from Harrods who became a King’s Road star of the Swinging Sixties ... more

How well do you know Bond?

31.10.08
Find out if you’re double-0 material or just a good-enough operator, says Nick Curtis... more

MICHAEL WINNER: Sorry, but I don't want old dears reading the news

08.09.08
There's nothing sadder than a bunch of unemployable has-beens rising up like the witches in Macbeth and moaning 'TV is unfair to us because we're old'.... more

As Bond star George Lazenby and tennis ace Pam Shriver head for the divorce courts, the truth about... the spy who shoved me

23.08.08
This week, as the George Lazenby-Pam Shriver marriage imploded, the pair began slinging mud - and much more - at each other as the battle for custody of their three young children picked up pace. ... more

What Joanna Murray-Smith has to say

18.07.08
The woman who has been accused of mocking feminism's leading lady, Germaine Greer, in The Female of the Species defends herself.... more

Double oh! Daniel Craig's steamy kiss with new Bond girl Gemma Arterton

30.06.08
New Bond girl Gemma Arterton, 22, wears nothing more than a linen sheet as bare-chested 007 actor Daniel Craig kisses her bare back in the forthcoming adventure Quantum of Solace. ... more

Even Chekhov threw it out

27.05.08
Philip Franks's mildewed production of The Cherry Orchard neither grows nor flowers but droops through four arid acts, says Nicholas de Jongh.... more

Back into dragon's den for Felicity

10.12.07
Former Good Life star Felicity Kendal is to play a glamorous socialite and man-eating mother in Noel Coward's play The Vortex.... more

Critic's Choice: Top 5 plays

27.09.07
Cabaret, All About my Mother, The Emperor Jones and the last chance to see John Simms's terrific performance in Elling are among the theatrical highlights.... more

Old Vic's mother superior

05.09.07
No more extraordinary, sexually charged or surreal encounter than All About My Mother can ever have been played upon the Old Vic stage.... more

It's Dame Diana, the leading ash-tress

31.08.07
Dame Diana Rigg has become the latest actress to gain permission to light up on the London stage.... more

Twisted straight talking

21.08.07
Playwright Samuel Adamson has taken on the characters of Barcelona's seedy underbelly to adapt Pedro Almodovar's All About My Mother for the stage.... more

The actress taking on the mother of all roles

17.08.07
Lesley Manville is taking on the lead role in a stage adaptation of Pedro Almodovar's All About My Mother - alongside transsexual prostitutes, lesbian divas and a pregnant nun.... more

Starring role for Diana Rigg

22.06.07
Dame Diana Rigg is to star in the stage version of the Pedro Almodovar film All About My Mother. The play has its premiere at the Old Vic later this year.... more

Love in a time of cholera

26.04.07
If it is conventionally made and a little too long, The Painted Veil has much to commend it. And in Edward Norton it has one of the best and most versatile actors America can muster at present.... more

Harry is wizard of West End

28.02.07
Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe today admitted his West End debut - in which he appeared nude in front of a packed first night audience - was a terrifying experience.... more

Licence to thrill

03.11.06
As Daniel Craig dons the famous tuxedo for the 21st film in the "official" 007 canon, Casino Royale, our experts pick their favourites Bond film so far.... more

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