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/ 13 December 2008
Movies are being released hard and fast this festive season, writes Dan Glaister.
An American television show has been billed as <i>Lord of the Flies</i> for the reality TV generation. Dan Glaister reports in Los Angeles
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/ 25 January 2008
The show will go on, even if there is a picket at the red carpet, writes Dan Glaister.
Plans were announced recently for a biopic of the life of <i>Playboy</i>’s founder, Hugh Hefner, writes Dan Glaister in Los Angeles.
"Make love not war" may be the enduring slogan of anti-war campaigners, but in 1994 the United States Air Force produced its own variation on the philosophy. What if it could release a chemical that would make an opposing army’s soldiers think more about the physical attributes of their comrades-in-arms than the threat posed by the enemy? Thus the "gay bomb" was born.
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/ 28 November 2006
Something very, very wrong is happening. I’m flying along the windy, cypress-lined roads of Pebble Beach in California being chased by a hairdryer. Or at least that’s what it sounds like. "Do you drive many high-performance cars?" asks Mike Harrigan, an executive from Tesla motors. He sits in the passenger seat as I take the wheel of his $100 000 vehicle, and he watches over my progress as if the future of the planet depends on this car, writes Dan Glaister.
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/ 12 November 2006
For all the talk of the first Democrat leader of the House since Newt Gingrich’s Republican revolution 12 years ago, perhaps an even bigger landmark is the ascension of a woman — Nancy Pelosi — to a role that is said to be two heartbeats away from the presidency. Only two higher national positions remain to be conquered by women: the offices of president and vice-president.
For his new thriller <i>Collateral</i>, 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.
Chuck Palahniuk is in town to give a reading of <i>Guts</i>, the latest instalment in his gore-fest celebration of all things unAmerican. The author of <i>Fight Club</i> hopes his new short story will make people pass out. Dan Glaister met him in Las Vegas.