Culture
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Technicolour nightmare: the inside story of Phillip Schofield’s shocking downfall
The Phillip Schofield who sat down with the BBC a few days ago to discuss his exit from This Morning…
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In a Netflix series about a man with cantaloupe-sized biceps, Arnold Schwarzenegger seems afraid of heavy lifting
Arnold Schwarzenegger knows a thing or two about image. The bodybuilding champion turned actor turned two-term governor of California built…
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A glorious muddle: The bewildering brilliance of The Big Sleep
When Howard Hawks was an old man watching his own movie The Big Sleep on TV, the legendary Hollywood director…
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Tom Holland’s acting hiatus may seem bizarre to regular people – but it’s a good thing
Bon voyage, Spider-Man. Earlier this week, Tom Holland announced that he is taking a step back from acting for a…
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Art, gangsters and why he’s made a giant Alice in Wonderland cake: Lord Rothschild talks to Geordie Greig
How did a giant wedding cake end up on your lawn? I commissioned this wonderful folly, a 12m-high ceramic sculpture…
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Sexy, daring, courageous: Glenda Jackson was a magical force of stage and screen
I met Glenda Jackson once. She had returned to the British stage at the age of 80 to play King…
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Just because men are in the minority in fiction, it doesn’t mean we should scrap the Women’s Prize
What, it has become customary to ask, is the point of the Women’s Prize, which was won this week for…
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It made Scorsese’s heart leap and is still soaring in the list of all-time movie classics: The Red Shoes at 75
What makes a pugnacious Italian-American director best known for gangster movies like Mean Streets and Goodfellas fall in love with…
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The Cannes Film Festival’s geriatric 2023 line-up risks a slide into irrelevance
When did filmmakers start getting so old? Look through the main programme of this month’s Cannes Film Festival and you…
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August in England review: Lenny Henry’s Windrush play is punchy and poignant
Lenny Henry could have picked a less complex subject for his first play than the Windrush generation. To turn it…
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