For his new thriller Collateral, starring Tom Cruise, the director Michael Mann has ditched the first two acts — and jumped straight in at the denouement. He tells Dan Glaister why.

Forty-three years after her death, a transcript surfaced recently purporting to be Marilyn Monroe's words to her psychiatrist in the months before her death, Dan Glaister reports.

Arnold Schwarzenegger, it seems, has friends in high places. Some leading Hollywood liberals -- the mythic entity said to prowl the hills of Los Angeles dispensing money and influence -- are siding with the Republican governor.

Clad in a black Monterey pop festival jacket with the word "Peace" emblazoned on the back, Robin Tarne doesn't look like a typical Bush Republican. "I was for Bush and I believed in the war but as time went on I became saddened," she says. Around her, in a chain hotel bar in Calabasas, San Fernando Valley, her words provoke a hush.

For his new thriller Collateral, starring Tom Cruise, the director Michael Mann has ditched the first two acts — and jumped straight in at the denouement. He tells Dan Glaister why.

Forty-three years after her death, a transcript surfaced recently purporting to be Marilyn Monroe's words to her psychiatrist in the months before her death, Dan Glaister reports.

Arnold Schwarzenegger, it seems, has friends in high places. Some leading Hollywood liberals -- the mythic entity said to prowl the hills of Los Angeles dispensing money and influence -- are siding with the Republican governor.

Clad in a black Monterey pop festival jacket with the word "Peace" emblazoned on the back, Robin Tarne doesn't look like a typical Bush Republican. "I was for Bush and I believed in the war but as time went on I became saddened," she says. Around her, in a chain hotel bar in Calabasas, San Fernando Valley, her words provoke a hush.