GETTY ‘I think Adele is quite wonderful and I think she might have mentioned me once in conversation’ Legendary crooner Johnny Mathis is admiring the view from the penthouse apartment in Beverly Hills where he has lived since his home of 56 years burnt down in November 2015. “It’s sunny, […]
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The 60-year-old actress sadly died last December, having completed Star Wars The Last Jedi. Since she won’t be in Episode IX, fans have been wondering if Fisher’s Leia will share a scene with Supreme Leader Snoke. Now Serkis, who plays the villain, has confirmed that the two characters don’t meet. […]
Lawrence Of Arabia (Cert PG; 191mins) The latest re-issue only confirms the majesty of Peter O’Toole’s riveting central performance as the mercurial TE Lawrence, soldier, adventurer, dreamer and a man who saw himself as the only person to unite fractious Arab tribes. Robert Bolt’s intelligent screenplay captures a portrait of […]
He is an ambassador for Bombardier Ale’s “A Pint With A Unique Character” campaign. THE JAM: In The City (Polydor) It’s 40 years since The Jam’s first album and I still like it. It brings back great memories of those days. We drew material from our live set, which we’d […]
Adventures Of A Young Naturalist combines three books written in the 1950s to accompany the BBC TV series Zoo Quest, now reissued after almost 60 years. These were Attenborough’s first programmes filmed on location and represented the start of a glorious era in animal documentaries which has gone from strength […]
A stage at the far end is complemented by a circular acting area shaped like a giant Polo mint and the luckiest audience members sit at tables in the “hole”. This revival, directed by its creator Clarke Peters (Detective Lester Freamon in TV’s The Wire), barrels along in great style, […]
Their handshake sealed an agreement that had been negotiated in secret over the previous nine months in Oslo through the intervention of idealistic Norwegian Terje Rød-Larsen and his more pragmatic wife Mona Juul. JT Rogers’ intriguing play delivers a forensic account of the protracted negotiations that led to the Oslo […]
Two months after her diagnosis, she underwent a mastectomy. She filmed a video diary from her hospital bed, showing her bandaged chest just hours after the operation. The film was uploaded to YouTube and garnered more than 50,000 views. Over the next few months, viewers from around the world followed […]