Famous or Interesting People

Why I Love London

You have such beautiful skies,’ Woody Allen said last week at the completion of another scene in another film, ‘when they’re overcast.’ Allen and his crew had been looking up at the skies …

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The Crowd Teaser

At the end of September 2004, Jeremy Deller walked for 10 minutes from his small workroom in Highbury, north London, to an editing suite in Islington, there to meet with the woman who …

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Richard Griffiths

‘I hate being the subject of photographs,’ Richard Griffiths says not long after being photographed. I had heard that he especially didn’t like being pictured from the neck down for fear it might …

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Madonna

In fact, there is recording equipment everywhere. Madonna is sitting on a stool in her producer’s tiny home studio in West Kilburn, London, her feet resting by cables, her hands within reach of …

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Roseanne Cash

Precisely four-and-a-half hours after a film about her father, mother and stepmother was nominated for five Oscars, Rosanne Cash walks into the Nicole Farhi store near her home in …

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His Feminine Side

I really like it here,’ Philip Seymour Hoffman says as he takes his seat on a sofa in a suite at the Dorchester. ‘The place has some character. It’s not just hotelness all over the place.’ It is shortly …

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