Wagner Moura interview: ‘I don’t just want to play the sexy Latino’
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Ken Bruce: ‘Greatest Hits doesn’t feel the need to chase younger listeners’
One thing he does not miss is the attention heaped on BBC presenters. “I enjoy being on this…
Irvine Welsh and cast on making a ‘proper old-school musical’ out of Trainspotting
The show – featuring the key characters and sharing the novel’s themes of escapism and nihilism, exuberance and…
Christopher Nolan: ‘If I owned a smartphone I’d be horribly addicted’
He also beams when I bring up the scene in which the witch Circe, played by Samantha Morton,…
Kevin Whately: ‘I loved acting with Laurence Fox. It’s a great shame his life took over’
Thanks to that early introduction, Kitty is now an acclaimed mezzo opera singer and Whately has taken a…
This joyful Marilyn Monroe exhibition will melt your heart
You would have to have a heart (and loins) of granite not to melt at the radiance of…
How ‘one note’ Daniel Radcliffe beat the child actor curse
Even while still wrapped up in Potter, Radcliffe understood it was important to put distance between himself and…
Anne Hathaway channels Taylor Swift in a triumph of style over substance
Some of these moments – not least those in which Mary performs songs from her ice-cool, post-Enya repertoire,…
The 20 most comforting TV shows for trying times
This sun-drenched comedy-drama, loosely taken from Gerald Durrell’s Corfu books (the most famous of which, My Family and…
The making of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Though Kesey’s novel was rooted in post-war paranoia, when it was published in 1962 it read as a…
In an AI age, writers should have some self-respect
You may think this sounds moralistic. Well, good. Publishing, like fast food or arms manufacturing, is an industry,…
How a traumatic childhood turned Freddie Mercury into a world-conquering songwriter
Mercury brought the grand tale to a suitably mournful and haunting conclusion on the follow-up to Queen II,…