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/ 17 October 2008
ON CIRCUIT: Robert DeNiro and Al Pacino’s <i>Righteous Kill</i> and <i> The Strangers</i> starring Liv Tyler.
When to slow down and retire? For most people in their 60s the decision is a no-brainer — the sooner the better. But in the rare air of movie stardom, where careers are fuelled by a mix of talent, ego, vanity and, sometimes, cosmetic surgery, it seems to be a far harder decision.
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/ 11 January 2008
”Chanderpaul!” Makhaya Ntini’s urgent screech cut through the banal burble of Cape Town’s shambolic excuse for an airport like a new razor blade meeting a virgin cheek on a Highveld winter’s morning. Ntini was the first of South Africa’s players to pass through the security check, despite having to go through that tedious process with a wife, a lively young son and a gurgling baby.
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/ 18 October 2007
Film director Francis Ford Coppola has attacked three of the biggest stars in Hollywood, denouncing them for being lazy and uninterested in taking risks. Coppola told GQ magazine that Al Pacino and Robert De Niro — both in his Godfather trilogy — and Jack Nicholson had been spoilt by success and lost the fire that had made them raging bulls.