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Tristan und Isolde is a tragedy in black and white

30.09.09
Tristan und Isolde is austerely monochromatic, Johannes Leiacker's sets (starkly lit by Olaf Winter) evoking the realms of night and day.... more

It’s much too late to call Roman Polanski to account

29.09.09
There's nothing artistic about drugging, raping or sodomising a young girl. The details vary depending which version of Roman Polanski's 1977 seduction of a 13-year-old actress you read... more

Yeah, yeah, yeah Paul McCartney loves Nancy Shevell

27.08.09
Paul McCartney gives a public display of affection as he closes in on American girlfriend Nancy Shevell. ... more

Jack Nicholson still playing the Joker at 72

03.08.09
Despite such unkind nicknames as "Whaleman", Jack Nicholson has been having a damn fine time while holidaying hard around Saint-Jean Cap-Ferrat, France... more

Sporting Miscellanies

23.06.09
Football: Fabio Capello wants to avoid the Wag-related nonsense which surrounded England's 2006 World Cup bid... more

The grape escape: vineyard holidays

12.06.09
Whether you are partial to a Chilean Malbec or a Californian Chardonnay, there's a domain to suit every taste. Deborah Feldman goes sideways... more

Piers Morgan: Why I had to tell my kids I did drugs

29.08.08
As he celebrates a lucrative deal to be the new Parky, Piers Morgan talks about divorce, his gorgeous lover, the joys of being famous - and his shame over his drugs past.... more

The True Britt - one half of the Posh and Becks of the Seventies puts on her one-woman show

19.08.08
Sellers knocked her out with a joint. Rod Stewart wore her knickers. And Jack Nicholson watched her give birth. Britt Ekland's one-woman show is not for the squemish.... more

This Joker's serious in The Dark Knight

24.07.08
Christopher Nolan and Christian Bale set a new standard for summer blockbusters in new Batman film The Dark Knight - but Heath Ledger steals the show.... more

Review: Magnificent Ledger's tour de force gives this complex film its energy

22.07.08
With this taut, intelligent blockbuster Christopher Nolan surpasses the success of his earlier Batman Begins... more

Ledger's tour de force gives Dark Knight its energy

22.07.08
The late Heath Ledger gives a grandstanding performance as the Joker in complex, intelligent blockbuster, The Dark Knight.... more

America's Got No Shame: TV talent show's new low as woman crushes beer cans with her breasts

03.07.08
Sharon Osbourne, Piers Morgan and David Hasselhoff were left agog during the latest round of America's Got Talent auditions after a hopeful smashed beer cans with her 40lb breasts.... more

Bringing sexy courtside: Becks hooks up with Justin Timberlake at Lakers basketball game

13.06.08
It was a meeting of two of the showbiz world's biggest male stars - and a sight to make the heart of most red-blooded females beat unseasonably fast... more

Star gazing: David Beckham leads a galaxy of A-listers at LA Lakers game

11.06.08
Hollywood turned out in force last night to see cheer on its favourite basketball team, the LA Lakers. ... more

ICA hosts The Booker at the Movies screenings

06.06.08
The Booker at the Movies will screen four of the 39 films so far adapted from novels that won or were shortlisted for the Booker Prize.... more

Puffy cheeks, drooping jowls and huge trout pout... just what has happened to Lara Flynn Boyle's face?

31.03.08
Lara Flynn Boyle is widely believed to have turned to plastic surgery in her quest to remain youthful in recent years, but as the star arrived at Mr. Chow restaurant in Beverly Hills yesterday, she looked anything but fresh faced. The 38-year-old's bloated face, drooping jowls and bursting trout pout rendered her almost unrecognisable from the actress who first shot to fame in director David Lynch's cult television series Twin Peaks... more

Jack's back! Hollywood heavyweight Mr Nicholson hits the high seas again

31.03.08
Keen Jack Nicholson watchers were treated to yet another sighting of the Hollywood heavyweight yesterday as he enjoyed his second week holidaying on the Caribbean island of St Bart's. The actor, who is approaching his 71st birthday, spent the after flailing around in the waves during an afternoon at the beach. The Joker then heaved his hefty paunch and man-cleavage out of the surf to retire on the sand, where he covered up from the sun - and perhaps gasping onlookers - in a beige t-shirt... more

Blubbery Jack Nicholson has a whale of a time in St Barts... but still draws the females

27.03.08
The only thing slick about him is the hair plastered wetly to his head. But that doesn't stop the Jack Nicholson charm working its magic on the voluptuous supporting cast he attracts as soon as he hits the beach. With his own cleavage rapidly expanding, perhaps they should have been discussing the merits of bikini tops for men. Extra-large of course... more

Cuckoos fly over the wrong nest

28.02.08
Bounce's Insane In The Brain is no more than a series of so-so dance routines that could be about anything.... more

Have a free weekend

22.02.08
London is a great city but pricey. With that in mind here's a few ideas for the weekend that won't hit your pockets too hard.... more

Jack's back and feeling his age

14.02.08
The Bucket List hurls an odd couple together, then asks us to watch as they transform each others' lives.... more

Old pros bring warmth to feelgood cancer movie

24.01.08
The Bucket List, starring veterans Morgan Freeman and Jack Nicholson, is a film elevated by its subject matter.... more

No sex please, just violence

19.11.07
Perhaps the strangest thing about Robert Zemeckis's Beowulf is the disjunct in its attitudes to sex and violence, says Nick Curtis.... more

A new king of New York

15.11.07
Crime pays for director Ridley Scott as he ditches his old flashy approach to tell the true story of a drugs baron in American Gangster.... more

How the bad boy beat the Hollywood sharks

15.10.07
Cult actor Christian Slater returns to the London stage this week in a play about the 'viper' world which drove him to drink and drugs. Here he reveals how he survived and found love.... more

Zero Christmas chill

03.08.07
Clunky and unconvincing, Christmas-set horror Wind Chill is a thoroughly poor shocker that fails both as thriller and ghost story.... more

Well, I'll be Damed

06.02.07
Oscar rivals Dame Judi Dench and Dame Helen Mirren feature in the latest issue of Vanity Fair along with a host of other Hollywood stars.... more

McGowan to make West End impression

19.01.07
Impressionist Alistair McGowan is to make his West End stage debut as a sadistic dentist in rock musical Little Shop Of Horrors. ... more

No surprise in this pulp fiction

05.10.06
Martin Scorsese used to offer us heroes in fascinating shades of grey. Yet although The Departed is full of twists, it offers no surprises.... more

Scorsese's mob rule

21.09.06
The great director's latest gangsters are Jack Nicholson and Leonardo DiCaprio. Here he tells why returning to this dark world echoes the story of his own childhood.... more

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