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David Hare has another pop at Blair
It’s to be Hare v Blair again – in spades. Sir David Hare, the left-wing playwright who came to despise Tony Blair, is to dramatise his final disenchantment with the former Prime Minister's government on stage at the National Theatre. His new play, Gethsemane, will strike at... [continued]
Sheikh’s dilemma over death sentence
In the in-tray of the Emir of Kuwait, Sheikh Al-Ahmed Al-Jaber Al-Sabah (pictured), is a thorny problem: whether to allow one of his relatives to be put to death or whether to risk the country’s lawyers by granting him a pardon. Sheikh Talal Nasser al-Sabah, a... [continued]
Disability groups lash out at Ben Stiller’s Tropic Thunder
The film-maker Ben Stiller has walked into trouble. This week's Los Angeles premiere of Tropical Thunder, which Stiller (pictured with his partner Christine Taylor)
wrote, directed and stars in, attracted large crowds of placard-waving demonstrators objecting to its so-called humorous treatment of the disabled. A film within... [continued]
Storm brews as Robert Downey Jr 'blacks up' for Tropic Thunder 
GM row: MPs skewer ‘Luddite’ Charles
Fourteen years after the Prince of Wales was roundly criticised by the government of the day for venturing his opinions on modern architecture in Britain ("monstrous carbuncles on the face of a
much-loved and elegant friend") it looks as though he's done it again. Labour and Liberal Democrat MPs lashed... [continued]
Robert Johnston: The great organic con
Miramax sues Pearson over missing novel
The title of Allison Pearson's successful first novel, about a girl's infatuation with David Cassidy, was I Don't Know How She Does It. Now it's a case of 'We Don't Know What She's Done With It' as Miramax Films demands that Pearson returns the $700,000 they paid her for rights... [continued]
Mystery surrounds William M V Kingsland art collection
A vintage mystery is unravelling in New York. Who was William M V Kingsland and why, on his death two years ago, was his apartment found to be stacked to the ceilings with some 300
valuable works of art, including pieces by Pablo Picasso (such as 'Tete de... [continued]
Artworks recovered by the FBI from Kingsland apartment
In brief: Scarlett hits out at sexism
Scarlett Johansson is only 23 but she is worried about the future. The star of The Girl With A Pearl Earring and Lost in Translation has joined the string of
actresses to complain about Hollywood’s treatment of older women. "Women kind of wilt as men sort of achieve... [continued]
Obama did not have textual intercourse with that woman, Scarlett Johansson
‘Elitist’ Westwood gets architecture lesson
Dame Vivienne Westwood may be the doyenne of London fashion but she is in hot water over her taste in architecture. The 67-year-old designer is spearheading a campaign to stop plans to build eight new flats on the roof of an apartment block in London where, with... [continued]
