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19 days ago

‘Two more broomsticks please!’ Was Robin Blades the greatest percussionist ever? ⊕⊕

He played china mugs, bells, rattles and car horns for everyone from Alfred Hitchcock to Benjamin Britten – and once got Laurence Olivier to bang a broomstick. We go behind the scenes of a Radio 3 ce…

3 months ago

‘I held on to what’s important’: Kim Novak on Hitchcock, Trump and her Venice lifetime achievement award

One of the stars of Hollywood’s golden era, 92-year-old says prize as much about her refusal to be controlled as her on-screen performances

She was the No 1 box office star in the late 50s, but for de…

Megadoc review – absorbing account of an impressive and indomitable Francis Ford Coppola at work

Venice film festival
Mike Figgis’s valuable documentary shows how Coppola worked with actors on his $120m passion project Megalopolis

When Francis Ford Coppola finally started work on his retrofuturist…

7 months ago

Chanel takes a cruise around Lake Como with glamour fit for a grand hotel

Show dips into lucrative holiday market with butter-yellow, lilac and gold lamé outfits reflecting beauty of the backdrop

Chanel has a fresh-faced, avant garde new designer but it still stands for cla…

9 months ago

It's like The Birds! Village is invaded by tens of thousands of starlings as locals are forced to carry umbrellas to protect themselves from droppings

Villagers in Rearsby, Leicestershire, are facing a 'nightmare' after being bombarded by of thousands of starlings - in scenes reminiscent of Alfred Hitchcock's 1963 thriller The Birds.

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