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
View ArticleThe 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
View ArticleNoel Gallagher's 16 best insults: in pictures
We bring you the forthright worldview of the former Oasis firebrand
View ArticleDan 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.
View ArticleHarry 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
View ArticlePaul 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
View ArticleFamily of new Countryfile Diaries presenter are 'thrilled' with her new role
Keeley Donovan's mother said her grandparents love seeing her on television
View ArticleSacha Baron Cohen: 30 best lines
We count down the creator of Ali G and Bruno's 30 best quotations
View ArticleThe Odd Couple, film review: 'hilarious'
What Neil Simon's The Odd Couple so charming is the comic interplay between Walter Matthau and Jack Lemmon
View ArticleThe 20 best Chuck Norris facts
Chuck Norris was born on March 10, 1940. Here are 20 bizarre facts about the tough guy actor
View ArticleLaurence 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
View ArticleWhy 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
View ArticleBobby 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.
View ArticleKen 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...
View ArticleCoen 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
View ArticleThe best British political insults and putdowns
Here is a history of political insults and putdowns, from Churchill to Cameron and Corbyn
View ArticleGrantchester criticised for using same extras
Fans spot same extras in many of the Cambridge street scenes in Grantchester
View ArticleFive 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
View ArticleRocker Keith Emerson dies in suspected suicide
Emerson was widely considered one of the top keyboard players of the progressive rock era
View Article20 great Scottish films
From Braveheart to Trainspotting, 20 great films set in Scotland
View ArticleThirties 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
View ArticleYou 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
View ArticleWriters 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
View ArticleGeorge 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...
View ArticleRadio 3 announces controversial shake-up of jazz programming
Its new controller aims to branch out from its old classical music remit
View ArticleBob Hope: his 20 best one-liners
Martin Chilton picks some of Bob Hope's finest one-liners
View ArticleWoman 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
View ArticleBattle 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
View ArticleRaiders 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
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleThe Who in pictures: 1964-2016
The British rock band, who formed in 1964, are headlining the 2016 Isle of Wight Festival
View Article25 great closing lines in films
Martin Chilton looks at some great final lines to movies
View ArticleNew 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
View ArticleAbandoned pharmaceutical factory used as 'canvas' by street artists
Abandoned pharmaceutical factory used as 'canvas' by street artists
View ArticleBruce Willis: his life and career in pictures
As Bruce Willis celebrates his 61st birthday, here are some of his most memorable moments
View ArticleVideo 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
View ArticleGame 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
View ArticleArtists 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
View Article15 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
View ArticleMoney men in films: picture special
Look at 10 great films about money men and Wall Street, including Rogue Trader
View ArticleThe 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...
View Article10 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
View ArticleAlas, poor William
Telegraph View: Perhaps the tale is true that Horace Walpole, the dilettante antiquary, had Shakespeare's skull stolen to order
View ArticleFoo 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
View ArticleThe 20 best TV chefs
As James Martin leaves Saturday Kitchen, Michael Hogan counts down the all-time best small-screen cooks
View ArticleJilly 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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