http://www.independent.co.uk/extras/sunday-review/features/?service=Rss http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/film-and-tv/features/the-geeks-revenge-how-did-seth-rogen-become-the-hottest-talent-in-hollywood-910479.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/film-and-tv/features/the-geeks-revenge-how-did-seth-rogen-become-the-hottest-talent-in-hollywood-910479.html <p>Seth Rogen isn't going to Germany. The promotional freight train for Pineapple Express, the new stoner action-comedy in which he stars and which he co-wrote, will no longer be pulling in to Berlin. "We were going, but they didn't care for the movie &ndash; so we cancelled," he says with the big, gurgling laugh that accompanies roughly every other thing he says. "They showed it to press to get their gauge as to whether people like you would be interested in talking to people like me. And the interest was not there. Hurr! Hurr! Hurr!"</p> Features Sun, 31 Aug 2008 00:00:01 +0100 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/theatre/features/exit-the-king-is-alan-ayckbourn-set-for-one-glorious-final-act-904847.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/theatre/features/exit-the-king-is-alan-ayckbourn-set-for-one-glorious-final-act-904847.html <p>As he tells it, beneath the imposing dome of his balding pate, Sir Alan Ayckbourn's head is a strange, dimly lit creative cavern. "When you dream up a play," he says, "it starts to come slowly, like water dripping in a cave. The thing grows like that, drip by drip, on its own. After a while, you go in there and bring one out. Occasionally it'll disappear on you, but you notice another one. There's usually two or three in there at a time." </p> Features Sun, 24 Aug 2008 00:00:01 +0100 http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/my-husband-the-internet-paedophile-a-tale-of-secrets-lies-and-family-breakdown-904865.html http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/my-husband-the-internet-paedophile-a-tale-of-secrets-lies-and-family-breakdown-904865.html <p> Earlier this year, two British men were arrested for their involvement with an online paedophile network that spanned the globe and traded in more than 400,000 images of children being abused. After a two-year investigation by the FBI in the US and the Queensland police in Australia, the images were passed to their countries of origin, and eight children from the UK &ndash; between the ages of 6 and 14 &ndash; were identified after a painstaking search. Six men are now serving jail terms for sexually abusing them. Yet this is only one investigation, one seizure of one collection of images, one drop in a very deep ocean. Six men provided the images, but how many looked at them? And once an image is released to the web, it can never really be erased; even when the child in that photograph is an adult, the image remains frozen in time. </p> Crime Sun, 24 Aug 2008 00:00:01 +0100 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/film-and-tv/features/lights-camera-attitude-the-barefaced-cheek-of-thomas-turgoose-british-cinemas-hottest-teen-star-894076.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/film-and-tv/features/lights-camera-attitude-the-barefaced-cheek-of-thomas-turgoose-british-cinemas-hottest-teen-star-894076.html <p> On a sunny day in the old Viking port of Grimsby, I'm being led around a shopping centre by the town's most famous son (celebrities are thin on the ground in this neck of Lincolnshire). People double-take when Thomas "Tomo" Turgoose saunters past, even though &ndash; with his fair skin and casual clothes &ndash; he looks almost exactly like them. Not that Turgoose takes any notice. "My girlfriend works at Greggs," he says. "Let's go say hi to her." So we walk over to the local branch of Britain's favourite high-street bakery, where he points out an embarrassed-looking brunette, standing behind a counter. "That's her!" We wave through the window; she cringes. "It's great that she works there, because I get a discount."</p> Features Sun, 17 Aug 2008 00:00:01 +0100 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art-and-architecture/features/holy-picasso-the-brit-at-the-centre-of-a-1636bn-art-row-894080.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art-and-architecture/features/holy-picasso-the-brit-at-the-centre-of-a-1636bn-art-row-894080.html <p> Rocking in a swing chair on his porch, Walter Herman sips iced tea. Retired, he exudes the implacable calm of the cardiologist he once was; his wife, Nancy, is more clearly exasperated. "We're not giving up," she says, with a sharp smile. "We've done everything we can in the courts, so it's time for a little guerrilla warfare. Dr Barnes used to leave notices in phone boxes, and we're going to do the same thing &ndash; leaflet the ordinary people of Philadelphia, the people Barnes meant his collection to be for." Her husband nods, then looks over his shoulder, across North Latch's Lane. "When I was young, I used to work as a lifeguard," he says. "I always used to marvel at how peacefully people could drown. They would be in real trouble, but there'd be no noise. Unless you were right next to them, you'd have no idea of their anguish. That's what it's been like at the Barnes." The Barnes. Across from the Hermans' is another, larger building, set back from the road. Properties are big in Merion, the oldest and richest of Philadelphia's western suburbs. The one opposite the Hermans' is at the end of a curved drive, on 12 acres of wooded land. </p> Features Sun, 17 Aug 2008 00:00:01 +0100 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/theatre/features/in-the-spotlight-how-camille-osullivan-sashayed-from-the-drawing-board-to-the-cabaret-stage-886946.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/theatre/features/in-the-spotlight-how-camille-osullivan-sashayed-from-the-drawing-board-to-the-cabaret-stage-886946.html <p> Almost exactly a year ago, at the beginning of the Edinburgh Fringe festival, the award-winning architect turned cab-aret chanteuse Camille O'Sullivan emerged from the wings of a packed, steamy Spiegeltent and sashayed through the crowd in a blood-red cocktail dress, kissing and caressing male and female audience members like a purring cat.</p> Features Sun, 10 Aug 2008 00:00:01 +0100 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/film-and-tv/features/the-coppolas-behind-the-scenes-with-americas-great-filmmaking-clan-886950.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/film-and-tv/features/the-coppolas-behind-the-scenes-with-americas-great-filmmaking-clan-886950.html Features Sun, 10 Aug 2008 00:00:01 +0100 http://www.independent.co.uk/extras/sunday-review/features/out-of-africa-a-kenyan-missionary-sets-his-sights-on-manchester-887914.html http://www.independent.co.uk/extras/sunday-review/features/out-of-africa-a-kenyan-missionary-sets-his-sights-on-manchester-887914.html <p> Just behind the Asda superstore in Harpurhey is a side-turning that leads into the dead-end block made up of back-to-back red-brick terraced houses for five streets. It would be all too easy to miss this patch of inner-city urban decay; a fact that may just suit the current generation of urban planners in Manchester, intent on regenerating the city and its image. </p> Features Sun, 10 Aug 2008 00:00:01 +0100