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How Mick Jagger and Martin Scorsese brought 1970s New York to TV

Martin Scorsese tells Jane Mulkerrins how, with Mick Jagger’s help, he’s recreating the Manhattan music scene of 1973 for new HBO series Vinyl

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The National Gallery is too big and should have some pictures forcibly removed

Its new director wants to plunder masterpieces from the Tate - but artistically the reverse makes far more sense

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Noel Gallagher's 16 best insults: in pictures

We bring you the forthright worldview of the former Oasis firebrand

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Dan Stevens: Why I left Downton Abbey

As a nation reels from the death of Matthew Crawley, Dan Stevens talks exclusively to Sarah Crompton about his departure from the ITV drama.

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Harry Potter stars Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson and Rupert Grint over the years

In pictures: See how the Harry Potter stars have changed over the past 14 years

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Paul McCartney pays moving tribute to Beatles producer and 'second father'...

Paul McCartney pays tribute to the creative genius of Sir George Martin, crediting the producer with introducing the Beatles to new instruments, sounds and recording techniques

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Family of new Countryfile Diaries presenter are 'thrilled' with her new role

Keeley Donovan's mother said her grandparents love seeing her on television

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Sacha Baron Cohen: 30 best lines

We count down the creator of Ali G and Bruno's 30 best quotations

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The Odd Couple, film review: 'hilarious'

What Neil Simon's The Odd Couple so charming is the comic interplay between Walter Matthau and Jack Lemmon

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The 20 best Chuck Norris facts

Chuck Norris was born on March 10, 1940. Here are 20 bizarre facts about the tough guy actor

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Laurence Fox apologises after launching foul-mouthed attack at theatre heckler

The actor changed his final speech, in a live performance, to rebuke a man sitting in the front row who had apparently snubbed him

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Why I have guilty admiration for Laurence Fox's expletive-ridden rant

He'd like to deny it, but Fox is a bit of a posh boy. Everyone knows toffs use the most shocking language - at least it was only during a play

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Bobby McFerrin's doo-wop – Don't Worry, Be Happy

The son of pioneering African-American opera singers, McFerrin temporarily deviated from his serious musical background to record this reggae-inflected overdubbed ode to cognitive therapeutic thinking.

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Ken Adam: the man who drew the Cold War

Ken Adam flew an RAF fighter over Germany during the Second World War. But nothing terrified him more than his 'psychoanalysis' sessions with Stanley Kubrick, or building Blofeld's immense HQ for 'You...

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Coen Brothers films in pictures

As Hail, Caesar! opens, we look at the film career of Joel and Ethan Coen, including Fargo, True Grit and No Country for Old Men

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The best British political insults and putdowns

Here is a history of political insults and putdowns, from Churchill to Cameron and Corbyn

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Grantchester criticised for using same extras

Fans spot same extras in many of the Cambridge street scenes in Grantchester

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Five Children and It to be made into new film

The film is to star a CGI sand fairy and Bill Nighy as a newly-created baddie and have youngsters who crave YouTube followers

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Rocker Keith Emerson dies in suspected suicide

Emerson was widely considered one of the top keyboard players of the progressive rock era

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Whisky Galore!, review

This beloved British film is a first-rate nostalgia trip

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20 great Scottish films

From Braveheart to Trainspotting, 20 great films set in Scotland

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Thirties crime fiction has spared more women a grisly end

Trend for brutal misogynistic killings in decline as retro book covers see classic 1930s crime becoming fashionable again

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You couldn't make up a politician like Donald Trump, says man behind House of...

Lord Dobbs, creator of House of Cards, says what goes on in politics in real life is unbelievable at times

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Writers competing with the next Scandi noir, says Ian Rankin

Rebus author Ian Rankin says British writers are kept firmly on their toes by the increased competition

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George Martin 'always kept the love of innovation' which made the Beatles...

Sir George Martin, who died last week at the age of 90, never lost his sense of enthusiasm and wonder about new things – according to an artist who painted the last known portraits of the legendary...

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Radio 3 announces controversial shake-up of jazz programming

Its new controller aims to branch out from its old classical music remit

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Stevie Wonder: 20 essential songs

Here are 20 essential songs from the Motown prodigy

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Bob Hope: his 20 best one-liners

Martin Chilton picks some of Bob Hope's finest one-liners

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Woman causes £7,000 damage to friend's painting after row over handbag

Gillian Kings had been storing the artwork at her home for Caroline de Havillande – the estranged wife of a former property tycoon

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Battle of the big budget dramas as Channel 4's Indian Summers goes up against...

The new series of Channel 4's Indian Summers opens on Sunday evening, going up against the BBC's acclaimed The Night Manager and ITV's Doctor Thorne

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Raiders of the Lost Ark, review: 'cracking'

Steven Spielberg's 1981 movie Raiders of the Lost Ark, which starred Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones, remains a thrilling action adventure film

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The 2016 Sony World Photography Awards: National Awards winners revealed

Local photographic talent has been given a global platform by the world’s biggest photography competition, the 2016 Sony World Photography Awards. The awards, produced by the World Photography...

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The Who in pictures: 1964-2016

The British rock band, who formed in 1964, are headlining the 2016 Isle of Wight Festival

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25 great closing lines in films

Martin Chilton looks at some great final lines to movies

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New Rolling Stones song unearthed after spending 50 years in a man's loft

A previously unknown song by the Rolling Stones has been discovered after languishing in a loft for nearly half a century

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Abandoned pharmaceutical factory used as 'canvas' by street artists

Abandoned pharmaceutical factory used as 'canvas' by street artists

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Bruce Willis: his life and career in pictures

As Bruce Willis celebrates his 61st birthday, here are some of his most memorable moments

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Video games and superheroes turn boys onto ballet

The Royal Academy of Dance appears to have cracked the age-old problem of persuading boys to take up ballet lessons - using video game characters and superheroes as role models

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Game of Thrones' Kit Harington says he plays Jon Snow's dead body in new season

Actor has been photographed on set for season six of the fantasy drama but insists he was playing a corpse

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Artists take to the walls to regenerate parts of London

The first ever Paint Your London sees a group of artists cover walls across the area with 20 creative and colourful murals

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15 best poetry books of all time

World Poetry Day: From Shakespeare to Seamus Heaney, there's something for everyone in this list of the best poetry collections of all time

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Money men in films: picture special

Look at 10 great films about money men and Wall Street, including Rogue Trader

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TV hunks through history

Well, hello Mr Darcy: a look at TV hunks through history

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The Kray twins: unseen pictures of Ronnie and Reggie

Described as the most dangerous men in Britain, the Ronnie and Reggie Kray were never shy about posing for the cameras. And as these unseen images show, they revelled in their reputations right from...

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10 on-screen couples who couldn't stand each other in real life

Just because your on-screen characters love each other, doesn't mean you can stand the person who plays them

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Alas, poor William

Telegraph View: Perhaps the tale is true that Horace Walpole, the dilettante antiquary, had Shakespeare's skull stolen to order

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Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl backs teen band banned from practising in...

Dave Grohl writes to Cornwall Council in bid to overturn youngsters band practice ban

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The 20 best TV chefs

As James Martin leaves Saturday Kitchen, Michael Hogan counts down the all-time best small-screen cooks

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Watership Down and other films that scared us witless

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Jilly Cooper hits out at 'fatal' impact of local government cuts to libraries

Cooper, who has an OBE for services to literature, has attacked David Cameron for allowing more than 350 libraries to close across Britain

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