55 h. ago George Clooney reflects on fame, failure and a life in movies with 'Jay Kelly'

George Clooney plays a movie star with regrets in “Jay Kelly.”

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4 d. ago ‘Was it a woman who bit off his ear?’: the wild life and serene photography of Tom Sandberg

Norway’s most celebrated photographer made his name with calm, reflective images that sit at odds with his reckless life. Friends and family remember a paradoxical manNorway has never looked as wet as in the photographs of the late Tom Sandberg. There are shots of drizzle and puddles, of asphalt slick with mizzle. A ripple of water appears to have a hole in it, a figure looms behind a rain-dappled window, a gutter glows after a downpour.Shot in either bold chiaroscuro or gentle orchestrations of greys, these are pictures with the power to make the everyday seem dreamlike. But they are also uplifting, in a confusing kind of way, like being told to dress for sun even when the clouds are black. Continue reading...

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8 d. ago The best literary fiction out now: The Silver Book by Olivia Laing, One Aladdin, Two Lamps by Jeanette Winterson, Archipelago of the Sun by Yoko Tawada

Claire Allfree reviews the best literary fiction out now

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9 d. ago Cruz Beckham gets emotional and says 'life is too short to not talk things through' as he reflects on brotherly love amid feud with brother Brooklyn

Cruz Beckham has shared a crypic message about 'talking it out' and 'brotherly love' amid his family's ongoing feud with his brother Brooklyn. 

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1 week ago Corinne Bailey Rae, 46, makes rare comments about late husband Jason as she reflects on her adult life being divided by the 'before and after' of his death

Corinne Bailey Rae has made rare comments about her late husband Jason Rae's death, 17 years after his overdose aged just 31.

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3 w. ago Kate Lawler reflects on Big Brother’s 25th anniversary ahead of the 2025 grand final

EXCLUSIVE: The former Big Brother champion reflects on the Sliding Doors moment that changed her life and how things have evolved since, from family life with daughter Noa to new work on screen and beyond

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3 w. ago Noel Edmonds flooded with support as he reflects on 'bold' life change

Noel Edmonds has been living in New Zealand since 2019 after making the decision to leave the UK behind - and he's now reflected on the huge change

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3 w. ago ‘We got hate mail after the Proms!’ The towering visions of UK jazz legend Mike Westbrook

Having worked alongside everyone from Laurence Olivier to a French circus, the 89-year-old is still composing, learning church bells, and using AI to resurrect a lost epicMike Westbrook is reflecting on his 89-year life from his cottage by the sea in Devon. Sitting with him in his cosy, book-lined sitting room under a signed picture of Duke Ellington, and next to his Broadwood grand piano, the experience is calm and peaceful.His version of jazz is anything but. For more than six decades, Westbrook has been composing vast, cinematic works. He was the first jazz artist to play at the BBC Proms, created theatre alongside Laurence Olivier, and in the 1970s merged his entire ensemble with the avant-rock band Henry Cow to form the groundbreaking Orckestra. The result is music full of brass fanfares, unusual time signatures, poetry, free improvisation, and genre-bending jazz that invites the listener into a continental circus full of elephants, acrobats, and clowns. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago One Aladdin Two Lamps by Jeanette Winterson review – freewheeling reflections on life, art and AI

One Thousand and One Nights is the framing device for the author’s pithy and thought provoking takes on everything from eugenics to trouser suitsIn the framing device that opens the Middle Eastern folk tales collected in One Thousand and One Nights, King Shahryar avenges his wife’s infidelity by ordering her execution and marrying a new virgin every night, having each of them beheaded by sunrise so they won’t have time to cheat. When he runs out of victims, the young Persian queen Shahrazad volunteers but stalls her own murder by telling the king one captivating tale after another – and those become the stories we’re reading.As Jeanette Winterson puts it in her new book – a dizzying whirligig of memoir, history, philosophy, politics and self-help, loosely tied to commentary on the Nights – Shahrazad’s feat of creativity “refuses the present emergency – the contrived drama of a powerful man”. The echo of life in the Trump era is deliberate...

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3 w. ago Warren Buffett prepares to step down as ‘Father Time’ catches up

The Berkshire Hathaway CEO reflected on his life and health, announcing $1.3 billion in new charitable gifts

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