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Tristan und Isolde is a tragedy in black and white

2009-09-29T23:00:00Z

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

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

2009-09-29T07:55:06Z

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

Yeah, yeah, yeah Paul McCartney loves Nancy Shevell

2009-08-27T14:00:48Z

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

Jack Nicholson still playing the Joker at 72

2009-08-03T12:59:07Z

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

Sporting Miscellanies

2009-06-23T08:59:35Z

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

The grape escape: vineyard holidays

2009-06-12T09:11:24Z

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

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

2008-08-29T10:18:50Z

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.

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

2008-08-19T22:15:31Z

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.

This Joker's serious in The Dark Knight

2008-07-23T23:00:00Z

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.

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

2008-07-22T08:02:32Z

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

Ledger's tour de force gives Dark Knight its energy

2008-07-21T23:00:00Z

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

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

2008-07-03T10:59:27Z

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.

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

2008-06-13T11:22:22Z

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

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

2008-06-11T10:06:49Z

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

ICA hosts The Booker at the Movies screenings

2008-06-05T23:00:00Z

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.

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

2008-03-31T15:01:05Z

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

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

2008-03-31T11:31:44Z

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

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

2008-03-27T09:59:08Z

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

Cuckoos fly over the wrong nest

2008-02-28T00:00:00Z

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

Have a free weekend

2008-02-21T15:57:25Z

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.

Jack's back and feeling his age

2008-02-14T00:00:00Z

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

Old pros bring warmth to feelgood cancer movie

2008-01-24T00:00:00Z

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

No sex please, just violence

2007-11-19T00:00:00Z

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

A new king of New York

2007-11-15T00:00:00Z

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.

How the bad boy beat the Hollywood sharks

2007-10-15T13:54:32Z

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.

Zero Christmas chill

2007-08-02T23:00:00Z

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

Well, I'll be Damed

2007-02-06T10:38:14Z

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.

McGowan to make West End impression

2007-01-19T11:09:39Z

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

No surprise in this pulp fiction

2006-10-04T23:00:00Z

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

Scorsese's mob rule

2006-09-21T10:04:34Z

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.