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Nuremberg, the latest film about the Nazi war crime trials after World War 11, stars Russell Crowe as Hermann Göring, once Hitler’s chosen successor. He embodied the spirit of the Third Reich and became the most senior surviving Nazi official to stand trial. His intelligence, arrogance and courtroom performances made him the defining symbol of…
A glum-looking Prince Harry was wheeled out for a gaudy Kardashian Beverley Hills bash as the UK Royals were paying their respects to the dead of two world wars. Not a good look. The family freeze shows no signs of thawing out and there are hints certainly from the astrology of stresses and strains ahead…
Tim Davie, the BBC director General has resigned over criticism about biased reporting, most significantly splicing together footage about Trump which misrepresented what he actually said. Though Gaza and transgender biases were also an issue. BBC devotees are crying foul that he (and the Head of News) were forced out by rightwing members of…
Huey Long was a left-wing populist Democrat politician in Louisiana, prominent during the Great Depression until his assassination in 1935. A controversial figure, he is celebrated as a populist champion of the poor or denounced as a fascist demagogue, accused of being unconstitutional and authoritarian. His biographer Thomas O. Harris saw him as “neither saint…
Diane Arbus, the late renowned photographer, is presently featured in a London exhibition which reveals her ‘grotesquely bleak but brutally truthful vision of humanity’. The cultural critic Susan Sontag condemned Arbus for dwelling on misery and ugliness, calling her work anti-humanist. Her defenders say that Francis Bacon, Andy Warhol, Lucian Freud and Velázquez, all shared…
James Watson, Nobel Prize-winning biologist who discovered the structure of DNA with Francis Crick, has died. He chronicled the search for ‘the secret of life’ in his bestseller The Double Helix but damaged his career with his scathing judgments of colleagues and comments about race and genetics. Born 6 April 1928 1.23 am Chicago,…
Kim Kardashian’s new legal TV drama has been savaged with reviews which run from “so awful, it feels almost contemptuous” to “may be the worst TV drama ever”. “The glossy sheen of the show and its stacked cast might make you think it’s verging on ‘so bad it’s good’ territory, but it’s really just a…
Actress Pauline Collins best known for the escapist mid-life comedy Shirley Valentine which made her the toast of London’s West End and Broadway followed by the the smash-hit film version, has died. She won an Olivier and a Tony as well as an Oscar nomination for her portrayal of a bored middle aged wife who…
What a difference a week makes. Former King Juan Carlos of Spain born six days after Anthony Hopkins (and more visibly Capricorn) has put out a memoir in France Reconciliation in an effort to retrieve his reputation after sexual and financial scandals sent him into exile. His son King Felipe is apparently unamused by the…
Anthony Hopkins’ memoir title We Did OK Kid is a hint of his self-effacing view of himself, regarded by himself and others in childhood as “useless, hopeless”. Neither sporty nor academic and friendless, “I couldn’t do anything,” he says, until he tripped into acting, won a scholarship to drama college, followed by a RADA training….
