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Tracy Morrison fooled the mink-and-manure set with her phoney American accent and claims of links to Hollywood, but her alleged scams wounded many people

Caught at last, a brazen Jo’burg con artist must face the music

For years it seemed to all those people caught in Tracy Morrison’s intricate webs of deceit that she would never be called to account

“American Sniper” director Clint Eastwood and actor Bradley Cooper.

Bradley Cooper surprised by controversy surrounding ‘American Sniper’

The Oscar-nominated actor says he did not foresee "American Sniper" – a film critics say glorifies war – becoming a charged political conversation.

Clint Eastwood delivered an off-the-cuff monologue with an invisible Barack Obama at Mitt Romney’s presidential nomination ceremony.
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Clint Eastwood talks to a chair on Romney’s big day

Dirty Harry himself nearly hijacked Mitt Romney’s presidential nomination with a rambling diatribe against Barack Obama – addressed to an empty chair.

Bite the ballet
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Bite the ballet

<b>Shaun de Waal</b> thinks <i>Black Swan</i> is undeniably a powerfully and even painfully engrossing film.

Play mystic for me

Play mystic for me

The auteur theory developed by French critics in the late 1950s and early 1960s is often misunderstood.

SA rugby still looking for happy ending

It certainly has a Hollywood ending. South Africans celebrate, white policemen hold a black boy aloft, and Nelson Mandela blesses the Springboks.

Spike Lee: ‘We’re not on a plantation, Clint’

The acrimonious feud between two of Hollywood’s best-known film directors reached a new level of name-calling and accusation at the weekend as Spike Lee invoked America’s bitter…

Cannes critics cool as film competition nears end

A lack of memorable movies mean the 2008 Cannes film festival is unlikely to live long in the minds of many critics, who argue that after a solid start the main competition…

Hollywood boys who just don’t want to grow up

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…

Cannes kicks off with kung-fu pandas, vision of apocalypse

Kicking kung-fu pandas and a chilling Brazilian vision of the apocalypse: the Cannes film festival kicked off on Wednesday blending fun with philosophy, and Hollywood…

Eastwood may direct Mandela World Cup film

Clint Eastwood may direct an upcoming Hollywood film based on former South African president Nelson Mandela and his appearance at the 1995 Rugby World Cup final, United States…