My week has been a case of Reverse Toe Throb Syndrome. Normal Toe Throb Syndrome (TTS) works on the inevitability that someone booking an appointment with the doctor because his toe is painfully throbbing will find the toe stops throbbing the morning ...
In The Loop is my comedy film set in the bowels of the British and American governments, due to be shown in next week's Tribeca Festival before going on general release in the US in July. The film was inspired by how over-excited Tony Blair got ...
Bambi does it for the baby boomers. Heidi has fiftysomethings reaching for their hankies. Rescreen ET for a 35-year-old and there will be tears before bedtime. But for anyone at the tail end of their 20s, chances are their first experience of sobbing ...
Armando Iannucci and James Gandolfini at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival. Photograph: Getty Images We didn't even have a piece of paper to start with. I'd been told that most films start with a small piece of paper. On it is written a one-line version ...
There I am, about to go off and have my film premiered at the Sundance film festival. I need something nice to wear for the big night, so I am in a changing room in Selfridges trying on a suit that is more expensive than anything I've ever spent money ...
This is my last column, which is a shame: it means I won't have time to tell you anything about: · The day I decided to take up swaggering. I've always wanted to swagger like young people and Liam Gallagher. The ability to waddle from left to right ...
Next week's will be my last column. I've decided to pack up, do a little travelling and then make a go of something completely different. I've been dreaming of it for some time but, until now, have been too cautious to attempt it. What I plan to do is ...
Armando Iannucci: All this sensitive information going missing is going missing on memory sticks and CDs - the very last things any of us look ...
It was the greatest in a series of great scandals to hit Gordon Brown's government. Ministers argued 'scandal' was the wrong word for it. It was a policy. There was nothing duplicitous. But somebody leaked it a bit early. The press got hold of it, ...
I go away on a holiday and come back to find that Gordon Brown hasn't resigned, but that Carol Vorderman has. Both these events defy all the laws of nature. However, for the Vorderman resignation to take up more print-time than Brown's ...
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