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DVD: Burlesque (12)
Friday 29 April 2011
In Joseph Heller's Catch-22, one of the doomed pilots reads long, interminable books, reasoning it will prolong his life. Burlesque and The Green Hornet (see above) would have worked just as well.
Harriet Walker: The kids aren't all right – they don't respect their elders
Saturday 19 March 2011
The mouthy malefactors of Jamie Oliver's Dream School series are symptomatic of a generation that is far too big for its boots. Last week's episode saw (I'm afraid there's no other word for her) some gobshite tearing a strip off a calm, patient and well-meaning headmaster for not allowing her talk while he was speaking.
Golden Globe awards tarnished by allegations of corruption
Saturday 15 January 2011
Publicist accuses organisers of accepting cash and gifts from studios in exchange for votes
Burlesque - Another go at the no-clothes show
Friday 10 December 2010
Can two new movies about burlesque strip away the tacky legacy left by the excruciating 'Showgirls'? Kaleem Aftab finds out
Hollywood publicist murder was random act by a lone petty thief
Friday 10 December 2010
Police say gun used by suspect to shoot himself matches weapon that killed Ronni Chasen
Publicist buried amid rumours of contract killing
Tuesday 23 November 2010
As Hollywood said its farewells to Ronni Chasen, the popular publicist who was gunned down at the wheel of her Mercedes as she drove home a week ago from a glitzy premiere party, sombre speculation continued as to whether she was the victim of a random shooting or a contract killing by professional assassins.
Mystery surrounds killing of Hollywood publicist
Wednesday 17 November 2010
It was a scene befitting a Hollywood true crime drama: A prominent Beverly Hills publicist was gunned down in her Mercedes-Benz after attending a movie premiere, sending the luxury car careening into a light post near Sunset Boulevard.
John Walsh: 'Suddenly it happened. An actual British chap was proposing in public'
Tuesday 13 October 2009
Tales of the City
suddenlossofdignity.com, Bush Theatre, London
Thursday 06 August 2009
Stories that will make you blush
Terence Blacker: Time to inject a bit of pizzazz into the Cabinet
Friday 15 May 2009
The people out there are angry, say the politicians. In a floundering attempt to play the sincerity card which has served them so well in the past, they turn their sheepish, plastic bag-claiming, moat-clearing, manure-collecting, property-flipping eyes to the camera, and bleat about the system and how voters are terribly, terribly angry.
Observations: Life's a drag – so why not don the sequins and spandex?
Friday 20 March 2009
"More is more" is the philosophy behind the costumes in the musical of Priscilla Queen of the Desert. The show is currently previewing at the Palace Theatre in the West End of London, and the maestro behind the rhinestone-studded, camper than Christmas wardrobe is Tim Chappel, who won an Oscar for his costumes for the original movie.
Bright lights: Ruby Wax hits Vegas
Saturday 08 November 2008
The last time she visited Las Vegas, Ruby Wax got married (it was a work-permitty thing). Now she's back to cast an astonished eye over the most surreal city in the world
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