Reese Witherspoon is very lucky
One of the highest paid actresses in Hollywood, commanding 15-20 million dollars per movie, Reese Witherspoon’s entry into the film business was a fortuitous coincidence. At the age of 14, the southern
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Interviews
Is Russell Brand wise or mad? – Interview
No one outside the UK knew who Russell Brand was until he thundered on the big screen in the 2008 hit comedy Finding Sarah Marshall, playing a British rock star, Aldous
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Robert Pattinson prefers an elephant to women
Idolised by millions of teenaged girls around the world and voted several times the sexiest man alive, Robert Pattinson told me at an interview at a Santa Monica luxury hotel that although he has accepted his fame, he is still not at peace with
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Johnny Depp: The Accidental Actor
The highest paid actor in Hollywood and the star of The Pirates of the Caribbean franchise didn’t have acting ambitions when he arrived in Los Angeles in 1983. Johnny Depp, who had played the guitar from the age of 12, wanted to be a rock star.
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Elton John gets a new gnome
Husam Asi learns how Sir Elton John is inspired by young artists as well as old
One of pop music’s living legends, Sir Elton John, has sold more than a quarter of a billion records and enjoyed more than fifty Top 40 hits over his five-decade career, reaching a kind of
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Hilary Swank: an actress with conviction
“I became an actor because I felt like an outsider,” Hilary Swank reflects.
As a child, the double Oscar-winning actress was the pariah neighbours didn’t let their kids play with because she lived in a trailer park. At the time, she couldn’t understand why people would look down on her, and
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Danny Boyle creates an immobile action hero
He reveals how he made an action movie in which the action hero couldn’t move.
After the phenomenal success of his multi-Oscar winning, rags-to-riches hit, Slumdog Millionaire, in 2009, Danny Boyle was deluged with directing offers from Hollywood, but, having been stung by a Hollywood adventure in the past with
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Colin Firth learns how not to stammer
The man who epitomised Englishness on the screen, doesn’t even feel that he belongs to the English society.
Last year, Colin Firth awed Toronto International film festival audience playing a gay British professor who grapples with solitude after the death of his partner in “Single man”, for which he earned an
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Cher: The Queen of Burlesque
As I was heading into the Chinese Theatre in Hollywood, to attend the premiere of the musical ‘Burlesque’, I heard an eruption of cheers, emanating from the crowds, lined up behind police fencing along the sides of Hollywood Boulevard. Turning around, I caught a sight of a woman, with long
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Nicole Kidman: from Acting to Producing
Playing a grieving woman in her new film, ‘Rabbit Hole’, drove Nicole Kidman into agonizing sob during the night.
She is one of the highest-paid actresses in the film industry, yet Nicole Kidman projects humility and self-deprecation. She rose to fame in the early 90s thanks to her collaboration with and
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