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Pixie Lott parties with Sir Ian McKellen at Variety Club Awards

16.11.09
Video: Sir Ian McKellen and Pixie Lott celebrated at the Variety Club’s ceremony at Grosvenor House.... more

Walliams named most stylish man of the year at GQ awards

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Comedian David Walliams was named the most stylish man of the year by GQ magazine - and collected his award wearing denim hotpants... more

Andy Murray hits the Wimbledon roof ... then has to take cover

24.06.09
The new Wimbledon rain roof was brought into action again today — to give protection from the sun to minor VIPs enjoying a day out in the Royal Box... more

Porn in the home - it's the nation's dirty secret

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One thing that seems to have been lost in the media blizzard surrounding the Home Secretary's dodgy expenses claims is the nature of the "entertainment" that was charged by Richard Timney - Jacqui Smith's husband - to the taxpayers' account... more

Watch our star interviews at the Empire Awards

30.03.09
Watch our exclusive red carpet interviews at the Empire Awards with the likes of Michael Sheen, Jason Isaacs, Jim Sturgess and Gemma Arterton.... more

Michael Sheen polishes up Tony Blair role

26.03.09
Michael Sheen will play Tony Blair in a film examining his close relationship with Bill Clinton, according to reports... more

There's only one Brian Clough

26.03.09
Michael Sheen portrays the maverick football manager Brian Clough to perfection but Peter Morgan's adaptation falls short of glory in The Damned United.... more

The Damned fine life of Brian

18.03.09
The Damned United is a tragedy and a love story about Brian Clough, who happened to be a football manager but this isn't a football movie.... more

Graceful air is added bonus at John Lewis

12.03.09
Bonuses may be, er, a bone of contention these days, but at the employee-owned John Lewis Partnership they're handled with all the style and grace you'd expect from the never-knowingly-undersold retailer. ... more

Who won what at Standard Film Awards

03.02.09
Irish martyrdom, Indian poverty, American politics - the judges of the Evening Standard British Film Awards faced difficult choices.... more

Tilda's the leading lady at Standard film awards

02.02.09
Tilda Swinton, the striking, idiosyncratic face of British cinema, led the cavalcade of winners at the Evening Standard British Film Awards... more

Now Golden Globe winners battle for Standard's British film prizes

13.01.09
Kate Winslet, Sally Hawkins and Slumdog Millionaire's Danny Boyle are among the stars battling for honours at this year's Evening Standard British Film Awards... more

50 ways to have fun in 2009

02.01.09
Priscilla on stage, Blur reunited, Michael Sheen as Brian Clough — we bring you the highlights of London’s arts calendar for the coming months. ... more

Designer of eco-friendly holdall is given MBE

31.12.08
Handbag designer Anya Hindmarch and restaurateur Nigel Platts-Martin told of their jubilation at being recognised in the New Year honours list... more

On the red carpet with Oliver Platt at the Frost/Nixon premiere

16.10.08
We were on the red carpet for the The BFI 52nd London Film Festival's opening gala. Listen to what Oliver Platt had to say to This is London.... more

Frost/Nixon the movie is festival's power opener

16.10.08
The 52nd London Film Festival opened with the world premiere of a movie that started just round the corner from its showing in Leicester Square... more

Gripping account of clash in Frost/Nixon

16.10.08
Ron Howard's Frost/Nixon is an intelligently written and superlatively acted piece which addresses fame and ambition.... more

Gripping account of a titanic clash

16.10.08
RON HOWARD'S film is surprisingly gripping. It turns on the incremental power shifts in the set-up and execution of the 1977 TV interview in which David Frost got the disgraced President Richard Nixon to admit he had let the American people down with his criminal conduct in the Watergate affair.... more

Film festival begins with a premiere of Frost

15.10.08
The London Film Festival kicks off with the premiere of Frost/Nixon just yards from where it was originally staged as a play at the Donmar Warehouse... more

Film

08.10.08
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

The Life of Brian: £5million movie on 'Old Big Ead' Clough

21.06.08
A £5million movie based on the life of the late, great football manager Brian Clough has begun shooting in time for its cinema release next year. Actor Michael Sheen takes the role of the man nicknamed 'Old Big Ead'.... more

Kate Beckinsale gives flip flops the flick as she hits Malibu beach in towering wedges

27.05.08
When it comes to sensible beachwear, there is clearly a space in Kate Beckinsale wardrobe.... more

Scot are they saying?

24.08.07
Fiona Mountford suspects Jamie the Saxt is a fine play, if only she could have understood the swathes of Scots-language being used on stage.... more

Frost heats up Broadway

23.04.07
It was one of last year's top West End draws. Now Frost/Nixon is basking in a triumphant opening on Broadway.... more

Dame Helen crowned Queen of the Baftas

12.02.07
Dame Helen Mirren was crowned queen of the Baftas, but it was mission unaccomplished for James Bond.... more

Winners to be named at London theatre awards

27.11.06
The wait is almost over. Today we will discover who has triumphed in the 52nd Evening Standard Theatre Awards at the Savoy Hotel.... more

It's the Jerry and Bill show

24.11.06
Bill Wyman and Jerry Hall will team up to present the best play prize at the Evening Standard Theatre Awards at the Savoy Hotel.... more

Blair impersonators wanted for West End

24.11.06
Open auditions are being held to fill the role of Tony Blair in comedy actor Rik Mayall's new West End show.... more

Critic's choice: Top 5 plays

21.11.06
The riveting Frost/Nixon continues to enthrall, as do a new adaptation of one of Virginia Woolf's most "difficult" works and a classic by Euripedes.... more

Stars vying to win our 52nd stage awards

09.11.06
There is plenty of intrigue thrown up by the shortlist for the 52nd Evening Standard Theatre Awards. Who will take the honours?... more

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