Hollywood
Birdbrained
Alejandro González Iñárritu’s Birdman, which stars Michael Keaton as a one-time superhero movie star (just like Keaton himself), is audacious…
Saints and sinners
Is Bill Murray fit for sainthood? Certainly his fans have him figure as some sort of lesser divinity, maybe one…
High life
An intelligent letter from a reader, Stanislas Yassukovich CBE, warms my heart. It’s nice to know there are others as…
High life
For some of you younger readers the name Schmuel Gelbfisz will not ring a bell. Yet back in the Thirties…
The left-liberal hold over the arts may be ending
If you happen to be reading this column at breakfast, I’d recommend you skip to something more agreeable like Dear…
A way with the stars
Many people write, or at least used to write, fan letters to their film favourites. Usually all they received in…
That’s not entertainment
You can learn a lot from this book. Latin America has a smaller economy than Europe. Big companies can spend…
Long life
Shirley Temple, who died last week at the age of 85, was the most successful child film star in history.…
If Philip Seymour Hoffman wasn’t happy, what hope is there for the rest of us?
Celebrity deaths have no decorum. From Elvis on his toilet to Whitney face down in her bathtub, their last moments…
Girls on film
Is Hollywood finally waking up to the talents of women directors? Peter Hoskin doubts it
Shame and blame
At the recent Austin Film Festival, at every ruminative panel or round-table discussion I attended, I slapped my copy of…
Darling Flufftail … beloved Pinkpaws
The correspondence between Christopher Isherwood and Don Bachardy is good for celebrity-spotting but too cloyingly self-absorbed to be of wider interest, says D. J. Taylor
