Former Beatle Ringo Starr is publishing a children's book based on the band's song "Octopus's Garden".
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Sunday 03 February 2013
The dead parrot! Mrs Sartre!! How did we manage before 'Monty Python'? Very well indeed...
Matt Smith: I'll stay the Doctor for another year
Tuesday 11 December 2012
Doctor Who star Matt Smith has revealed the unlikely influences behind his incarnation of the Time Lord - Blackadder, Inspector Clouseau and TV series Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em.
Pink Panther star Herbert Lom dies
Thursday 27 September 2012
Herbert Lom, the Czech-born actor best known as Inspector Clouseau's long-suffering boss in the "Pink Panther" movies, died Thursday, his son said. He was 95.
Tributes pour in for 'comedy great' Eric Sykes, who has died aged 89
Wednesday 04 July 2012
“Comedy great” Eric Sykes, whose entertainment career spanned half a century from The Goon Show to Harry Potter, has died at the age of 89.
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Sweeney Todd, Adelphi, London
Filumena, Almedia, London
Sunday 25 March 2012
Simon McBurney brings dazzling technology to his Bulgakov adaptation but little clarity. A Sondheim evergreen, meanwhile, is as fresh as ever
Dominic Cooper: 'My problem was having compassion for a monster'
Friday 05 August 2011
Playing Uday Hussein and his double gave the British actor Dominic Cooper his toughest challenge, he tells Kaleem Aftab
Bradford dispatch Fax to set up challenging tie against Wigan
Monday 09 May 2011
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Leading article: Rumour has it wrong
Friday 11 March 2011
It's a hard life being a celebrity. And the papers don't make it any easier by constantly getting facts wrong and refusing to print corrections. Or so the celebs claim. So now some of them are signing up to a website called icorrect.com to put out direct contradictions.
Time to give a little credit to the credits
Friday 25 February 2011
From Vertigo to Blue Valentine, the finest film title sequences are works of art. There ought to be an Oscar, argues Tim Walker
BFI Flipside celebrates forgotten British film
Friday 25 February 2011
Fancy watching a film about groovy London beatniks eating a tin of cat food? Or one that has Peter Cook playing a policeman who travels around an absurd post-apocalyptic landscape by hot air balloon?
Album: Wanda Jackson, The Party Ain't Over (Nonesuch / Third Man)
Sunday 23 January 2011
For years, maybe even decades, Wanda Jackson was written out of the accepted histories of women in rock.
Dominic West's new role: Fred West
Tuesday 18 January 2011
Dominic West, who starred in The Wire, is set to play serial killer Fred West in a new ITV drama.
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Is the Muslim call to prayer really such a menace?
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Channel 4 to 'provoke' viewers who associate Islam with terrorism with live call to prayer during Ramadan
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US army doctor returns arm to Vietnamese soldier fifty years after he took it as a souvenir
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Demand for food banks has nothing to do with benefits squeeze, says Work minister Lord Freud
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