At about eight o’clock one recent morning, sitting at the end of a long conference table in his offices on the 20th Century Fox lot in Los Angeles, James Cameron laughs when I ask why it’s taken him so long to get back in the saddle. We are meeting ...
For a man whose life and writing have been riven by a singular personal tragedy, David Vann is a surprisingly cheerful fellow, I'm relieved to discover. As we eat lunch in a wood-panelled diner in a small town just outside San Francisco, almost ...
Ed Ruscha strikes most people who meet him as the quintessence of what they imagine the contemporary Los Angeles artist should be like. He’s a man — as is evident in a 1964 photograph by Dennis Hopper of the young artist standing in front of a neon ...
You get strange ideas when you’re around Dennis Hopper. For instance, why does his dog, Otto, a nasty alsatian, exhibit traits that bedevilled his owner for so many years, such as aggression and paranoia? However many doggie treats I feed Otto, he ...
Frank Darabont, the director of The Shawshank Redemption, has words for the millions of people who believe his 1994 prison drama is the greatest film of all time. “I think that’s a little crackers, to be honest, especially when you think of the ...
Michael Fassbender must be the only actor ever to have been disappointed when he was cast in a Quentin Tarantino movie. Fassbender became an overnight sensation last year when he played Bobby Sands, the excrement-smearing IRA hunger striker in ...
So enduring is the mythology surrounding John Dillinger that even today, 75 years after the bank robber was gunned down by federal agents, there is talk about his extraordinary sexual prowess and, moreover, mystery about the eventual whereabouts of ...
Cameron Diaz is happy to admit she’s an accidental actress. Fifteen years ago, as a 21-year-old model with no acting experience, she auditioned for her first movie, The Mask, pretty much on a lark. Cut to Hollywood, 2009. Cameron Diaz is the ...
You have to assume Britney Spears knows exactly what she is doing when she steps into a golden cage to sing Piece of Me, the second number of her new stage show. “I’m Miss American Dream, since I was 17,” she sings (or lip-synchs). “Don’t matter if ...
For those brought up on a diet of Friends, Cheers and ER, it may come as something of a shock: the viewing habits of America are not only changing but the top-rated programmes in the nation are now being broadcast in Spanish. America's most popular ...
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