It looks increasingly likely that Kathryn Bigelow’s Hurt Locker will outdo James Cameron’s Avatar at the Oscars. What’s gone wrong for the world’s most-seen movie?... more
Georgina Chapman has it all: a mogul husband, a successful fashion label and now her very own jewellery line. What more could a girl from Richmond desire?... more
The sudden death of his star devastated director Terry Gilliam. He could have given up on the film they were making but, says daughter Amy, they had to finish it in tribute to their lost friend.... more
Halston, the seriously glamorous 1970s fashion label, has found its ideal creative director in Marios Schwab, an Athenian Austrian with a forensic eye for the female form... more
The pressure is on to emulate the surprise global success of Danny Boyle's film. Here are this year's top 10 homegrown movies that could hit the jackpot.... more
Everything has changed and we face a new future. The whole culture of gratuitous consumerism no longer seems fulfilling and we can’t afford it anyway. So what do we do? Become helplessly nostalgic for the past... more
Media analysis: As the recession begins to deepen, we can expect the courts to issue an increasing number of injunctions against independent financial advisers... more
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
Even during a prosperous year, I have often felt that Paris Fashion Week, with its champagne parties, dark-windowed limos and fashion editors wasting thousands on handbags, teetered on the absurd. But this year it was like watching Louis XIV's court gorge themselves while the rest of the country starved... more
In New York, the pre-movie hype about Woody Allen's latest movie, Vicky Cristina Barcelona, had all been about the kiss between Penélope Cruz, onscreen and real-life girlfriend of male lead Javier Bardem, and America's modern version of Marilyn Monroe, Scarlett Johansson... more
Tottering in a pair of four-inch Louboutin heels, Renee Zellweger was certainly in the mood for a night on the tiles. Instead, she had to settle for dinner with film producer Harvey Weinstein at London's Cipriani restaurant... more
This week, Samantha claimed it took her 18 months to recover from a near-fatal stroke. So why was the actress at a string of showbiz parties just weeks after she 'collapsed'?... more
Leading WAG Coleen McLoughlin may have found her wedding hairstyle for her upcoming nuptials, after she was spotted leaving her favourite hair salon with a particularly dramatic 'do
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Sienna Miller may have dazzled at the Baftas but less than 24 hours later, the actress has failed to make the same impression. Headed for LA, Sienna turned up at Heathrow airport on Monday looking dishevelled, but it was her broken suitcase that stole the show
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Doomed youth is one of director Gus Van Sant's favourite subjects. But, he says, there's hope for the skater boys and girls in his latest film Paranoid Park.... more
Her latest role as a treacherous school teacher is something of a departure. But Judi Dench understands the character, she tells Mike Goodridge. ... more
Sofia Coppola's boyfriend is lead singer and they won the Grammy for Best Alternative Music Album this year. Now, Phoenix tell Nosheen Iqbal, they are set to conquer London
Move over, Mahiki. Nightclub entrepreneurs Charlie Gilkes and Duncan Stirling are soon to launch a new Eighties-inspired club in Chelsea, in honour of Lady Thatcher
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