Famous or Interesting People

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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, …

Eddie Izzard’s fashion sense has always been an exciting area for discussion, but on his official website not everyone is impressed with the way things are going. ‘Lately, Eddie’s wardrobe …