“If I’ve had a show on, I spend every December watching that countdown wondering if I’ll be on it – I think A Very English Scandal got to No 2.” He’s right, it did. But he is particularly pleased to have won for It’s a Sin, the five-part drama about a group of young gay […]
I first saw porn at about 12 or 13 on social media; it came up on Instagram and boys at school would show it around and laugh,” says Jay, who preferred not to use her real name. She added: “It’s now I’m older and I’m having sex that I am aware that I have a […]
In Scotland, the government has said businesses must “return to the kind of protections in place at the start of the pandemic” to avoid crowding, such as physical distancing and table service in bars. It is now mandatory for nightclubs and large venues to check the Covid status of visitors over the age of 18. […]
It is an unprecedented treasure trove of the UK’s literary heritage, from a letter in which Jane Austen anticipates the end of a love affair, to a handwritten manuscript of Emily Brontë’s poems that was once believed lost. Half the amount was donated by Sir Leonard Blavatnik, with a further £4m from the National Heritage […]
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So far this year, Sotheby’s has sold 57 pieces for more than $15m each, with a Botticelli painting of a young man holding a roundel selling for $92.2m being the top selling item. The most money changed hands in modern and contemporary art, which totalled a record $4.3bn across auction and private sales. The company […]
The first is characterised by a kind of awestruck wonder over the beautiful symmetry of it all: Shatner starred in Star Trek, Star Trek inspired a generation of engineers, the engineers built a rocket, the rocket flew Shatner into space. Upon leaving the capsule on its return to Earth, Shatner tries to grasp at the […]
Anne Rice, who has died aged 80 after a stroke, was one of the foremost writers of supernatural fiction, and the author of more than 30 novels. She plumbed the depths of her own grief and terrors to write, saying in a Rolling Stone interview in 1995 that, “I think all my writing has been […]
For all its whizz-bang caper-gone-wrong energy, and for all its subsequent emotional troughs, this week’s Succession finale might have been the most important in its entire run. It’s an unexpected twist, like if King Lear contained a weird new beat where Lear hands the British crown to Jack Dorsey for a laugh, but it sets […]
An adrenaline-pumping knife chase through graffiti-sprayed lanes takes place in the comedy-thriller The Outlaws, while class tensions simmer at a lavish student ball in the legal drama Showtrial. The city council has been inundated with requests to film in the city’s dank alleys, high-rises and grand Georgian squares since the beginning of the year, according […]
The British creative director of Dior menswear, Kim Jones, is a collector of rare books and literary memorabilia. The book jacket of Jones’s early edition of Kerouac’s novel Visions of Cody, illustrated with two rugged James Dean lookalikes dressed for a road trip, came to life on the catwalk as models with gelled hair and […]
Robbie Shakespeare, who has died aged 68 following kidney surgery, was the best known and most highly regarded bass player in Jamaica for a span of more than three decades from the late 1970s onwards. After they branched out to provide the rhythm section for several Grace Jones albums, their influence began to stretch well […]
Nothing like what you’d expect, in other words – unless you had watched Landscapers, a new four-part TV drama in which Thewlis stars opposite Olivia Colman. Landscapers is true crime, in so far as the protagonists are Susan and Christopher Edwards, the so-called Mansfield Murderers convicted in 2014 of killing Susan’s parents and burying them […]
The calendar – its first, produced to celebrate the 100-year anniversary of the Chanel No 5 fragrance – features 27 numbered boxes with luxury items inside, including lipstick, nail lacquer, hand cream and – of course – perfume. In Harmon’s unboxing videos, she exclaims “this is a joke” when she opens one of the boxes […]
Anthony Broadwater, a 61-year-old resident of Syracuse, New York state, and former marine, was exonerated last week of the brutal rape, assault and robbery of best-selling author Alice Sebold. On my first reading of the book, the portion regarding Sebold’s attempted identification of her assailant at a police lineup disturbed me. Even with the lack […]
We live in a world of constant reruns, access to all programmes at all times, YouTube videos to scratch any minor itch and Instagram fan accounts devoted to the characters, the clothes, the men and all points in between. Perhaps you do not remember or were simply not a fan of the original series, created […]
Alex Farquharson, the director of Tate Britain and chair of the judges, said the Array artists “make their work in a difficult, divided sectarian context. The prestigious £25,000 prize was awarded at a ceremony at Coventry Cathedral on Wednesday evening. The group’s nominated work for the prize, The Druithaib’s Ball, is an installation centred on […]
He remembers being in a bedroom at his mother-in-law’s house, trying on shirts to find one big enough to hide the huge plaster covering his tracheotomy wound, just so he could go into a room with commissioning editors and pretend to be a gameshow host. Bacon is speaking over Zoom from his house in Los […]
During the appeal hearing, ANL argued Meghan had written the letter with the knowledge it could be leaked. The book had been discussed on a “routine basis” and “directly with the duchess multiple times in person and over email”, Knauf said in a witness statement. Texts released by the court in November showed Meghan expressing […]
