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/ 24 December 2009
Bad times call for upbeat slogans, producers seem to think, no matter what the film is really about, writes Mark Lawson.
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/ 31 October 2009
Until this week, the stand-out detail about the director Kenny Ortega was his habit of fining cast and crew a dollar for yawning on his sets.
Knowing that writing is a profession with no retirement date, publishers and readers are reluctant to let go.
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/ 22 September 2008
Believers, when mentioning heaven, traditionally cast their eyes skywards, but the possibility of an afterlife may now be proved by looking down.
Since the death of Ian Fleming in 1964 his estate has authorised 32 novels about James Bond by other authors.
The most psychologically intriguing possibility regarding Hillary Clinton’s recollection of coming under sniper fire in Bosnia is that, for her, the memory is entirely accurate. Regardless of what the conditions on the ground objectively were, she was frightened about going there and felt apprehensive throughout a tour which she hoped/feared might have to be abandoned.
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/ 1 September 2006
In Hollywood movies, a single plot twist is no longer considered sufficient: the first surprise is the down payment on a more amazing revelation. Off-screen events now follow the same logic: Mel Gibson’s drunk, anti-Semitic rant simply began the widening of eyes that now gape fully with the news that Viacom-Paramount is abandoning its production […]
If you’re ever stuck for a tie-break question to decide a pub quiz, try this: How many Oscars has the British government won? This is not a joke about Tony Blair’s thespian tendencies; the answer is two. In 1944, the ministry of information’s Desert Victory won the first-ever Academy Award for documentary; and two years later the trophy was shared with the United States government for The True Glory.
Mark Lawson profiles Kaavya Viswanathan, a writer embroiled in a plagiarism scandal.
There have previously been children whose birth attracted a certain amount of attention — Jesus Christ, Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Mountbatten-Windsor, Brooklyn Beckham — but the recent arrival of Suri Cruise set a new record for interest in an infant.