Anyone who thinks covering film awards is glamorous clearly doesn’t realise that standing outside for hours, penned in by barriers like cattle, waiting to steal a quick word from ‘the talent’ as they fly past can actually be rather humiliating. Then, herded into a remote press room, we watch the
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There was plenty of Glee in Hollywood where the TV show about a song-filled high school walked away with all the TV comedy awards at the Golden Globes – the first major awards ceremony of the year.
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“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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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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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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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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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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Jason Korsner reports
2 November 2010
The organisers of the London Film Festival say this year’s event had an outstanding British presence – including the opening and closing night galas.
The festival got off to a glittering start with Mark Romanek’s Never Let Me Go – adapted from Kazuo Ishiguro’s novel – with
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Woody Allen is still searching for the meaning of Life.
Woody Allen is one of the most prolific filmmakers in the world, turning in one or two movies, year in and year out, since 1969. He has been nominated for 15 Academy awards for his acting, writing and directing, winning for
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