Michael Douglas: A Hollywood Antihero’s Bumpy Ride
An entertainingly candid memoir from an actor who combined old-school movie-star charisma with cold-blooded menace in Armani threads.
By ALEXANDER LARMAN
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Alexander Larman is a historian and critic.
An entertainingly candid memoir from an actor who combined old-school movie-star charisma with cold-blooded menace in Armani threads.
By ALEXANDER LARMAN
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A hapless opening weekend PR campaign descended into the kind of chaos that the film’s protagonist, Digger Rockwell, might himself have enjoyed.
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Ten years ago the edgy British actress was the toast of television. But her lavish Amazon contract has so far generated a strikingly thin creative return.
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On the singer’s first album in seven years, he completes the transition from hip funkster to lovesick troubadour.
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One of Hollywood’s most personable stars today may be taking the anti-Israeli hostility in her stride, yet the backlash is becoming increasingly vociferous.
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Apple TV’s espionage drama has taken advantage of the absence of James Bond films to emerge as the smartest show on the small screen.
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Paul Greengrass’s film chronicling the Peasants’ Revolt of 1381 seeks to storm the box office.
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New York’s first major revival of a Stoppard play since his death recalls a writer who moved effortlessly between ‘Arcadia’ and ‘102 Dalmatians.’
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A bizarre legal dispute over their name set off a pattern of misfortune that Suede could never quite overcome.
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Is the British Museum’s new Bayeux Tapestry event the greatest show in its storied history — or further proof of George Osborne’s rampant ego?
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An autobiographical espionage thriller with Dickensian sweep, hailed by Philip Roth as ‘the best English novel since the war.’
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How did a mild-mannered, bestselling historian become so vehemently anti-Zionist that he likened Israel’s conduct in Gaza to the violence of Genghis Khan?
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