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The three artistic directors of Off-Broadway's The Actors Company Theatre will work together on the spring 2010 production of T.S. Eliot's The Cocktail Party.

Defending 12th-century Jerusalem or restoring his beloved 15th-century fortress in Ireland, Jeremy Irons is a class act.

EMILIA Fox leads the star cast in five revealing films about the years that shook the Queen and the world forever.

"Hello, Cousin," exclaimed Daniel Craig, extending the right hand of fellowship to his "Americanized" cousin, the equally British-born actor, Simon Jones, when the latter bopped by after A Steady Rain Nov.

Is the film of JM Coetzee's Booker-winner Disgrace a success? Theo Tait on the transition from page to screen of Coetzee's novel Theo Tait Jessica Haines as Lucy and John Malkovich as her father David Lurie in Disgrace.

I posted recently about two exceptional women - Hannah Arendt and Amy Wallace - who slept with gurus - Martin Heidegger and Carlos Castaneda - who despised and mistreated them, and yet the women remained in love until the day their gurus died.

This delicately beautiful blonde French actress became an star, gaining prominence with starring roles in films directed by her second husband, Claude Chabrol.

Kate Green reviews a new crop of reads for autumn and discovers a fascinating look into Evelyn Waugh's life, and a couple of entertaining novels Monday, 12 October 2009 Kate Green Small Wars by Sadie Jones The author of the runaway success The Outcast has remained in the suffocating 1950s for her second novel, which is set during the civil unrest ...

I was not greatly impressed by Evelyn Waugh's 1945 novel, which is not surprising as it "deals with the unmerited and unilateral act of love by which God continually calls souls to himself", which only a Catholic convert would find a fruitful subject for a novel.

ALMOST twice as many Queenslanders believe Lawrence Springborg is a better leader than John-Paul Langbroek - even JPL's parents aren't convinced he'll last.

QUEENSLAND Opposition Leader John-Paul Langbroek appears to have made a boo-boo by revealing his former fondness for a teddy bear.

It's big on the grouse moor and hot on the catwalk, yet Scotland's favourite fabric is having a rough time.

Just what is it about ''Brideshead Revisited''? Nearly 30 years ago, a strange passion emerged for otherwise normal adults to carry around teddy bears in public.

There is a hint of mischief that twinkles about the eyes of Hamish Mykura. The Scots-born controller of Channel 4's fast-growing digital channel More 4, and head of documentaries across the C4 network, seems to run headlong towards controversy with a smile on his face and shouting "Bring it on!" In a back office at the organisation's Horseferry ...

Nobody can accuse Peter Bowker of lacking versatility as a scriptwriter. A few weeks after he pinned us to the sofa with the blistering Occupation, his new series proves surprisingly frothy especially given that one of its central themes is Victorian aesthetic theory.

Isna TMt it great when this show starts over from the beginning on Bravo? Dona TMt get us wrong, those later, Obama-forecasting episodes were fun, and who doesna TMt love Alan Alda? But therea TMs absolutely nothing like those first few magical seasons of The West Wing when the show was under Aaron Sorkin's rule.

While it is always a pleasure to see Emily Maitlis, Mandrake was a little mystified to see the cerebral Newsnight presenter reporting from Los Angeles on Michael Jackson's death.

Hayley Atwell publicly complained last year about her single status. "My only significant other is my dog," she lamented.

With his clear diction and melodious British tones, Jeremy Irons is perfect for period dramas.

ACTOR Diana Quick's career has spanned television, film, theatre and radio, with her best-known role as Julia in Brideshead Revisited.