Journalism
Yes Fat Chicks
El Cerrito is a rather dull little town in Contra Costa Country, about 40 miles from San Francisco. There are small schools, a Safeway store, low-rise apartment buildings, neat front gardens, …
read moreBlood and Sawdust
You can hear the dogs from afar, yapping, shrieking, scratching at the walls, not their usual noise at all. Twelve big poodles in torment: a terrifying squeal, high and frantic, hanging in the dry …
read moreMeeting Derek
Waiting for the lift by his fourth-floor flat, Derek Jarman says he feels like an 80-year-old man, not only old, but lonely, missing all his friends. Walking along Charing Cross Road towards …
read moreThe Funny Man
Woody Allen once said that if he could live his whole life again, he’d do it just the same, except he wouldn’t read Beowulf. Nowadays, in a London hotel suite, post personal scandal, he takes …
read moreIt’s Back
Towards the end of last month, 115 people with no arms or legs gathered in a small village in southern Sweden to talk about their common interests. All in their mid-30s, most of them …
read moreLosers!
To be a Frank Bruno fan these days, you must really take a beating. On a grey Monday morning in the Granary restaurant in Luton airport, five days before the big fight, a large man eating …
read moreThe Barmy One
Last month in Milan, Dora Swire, a small, fit 83-year-old, talked of how her daughter really hadn’t changed much over the years. ‘When she was a girl she was like she is now, only small,’ she …
read moreBirthday Of An Old(ish) Master
In a corner of David Hockney’s Los Angeles studio, opposite a new portrait of his wrinkled mother, stands a picture that, when finished, will swiftly make its way to several thousand homes …
read moreStatus Quo Keep It Real
Rick Parfitt, the big-haired, blond singer-guitarist with Status Quo for the past 30 years, is reliving his quadruple heart-bypass operation of a few weeks ago. It was a rock star thing, he says, …
read moreThe Bestest Hotel in the World
Let me ask you a question’, says Steve Wynn, the 56-year-old man who seems to run Las Vegas. ‘If we could build a hotel that, regardless of the century, was clearly, unequivocally, overwhelmingly …
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