🗣️“Don’t do your own stunts, that’s the moral of that. But the special effects became more important than the person. Life is a matter of managing your ass-whipping”
Oct 30, 2022 • 10 tweets • 4 min read
Read our exclusive extracts of the Nobel laureate’s new book The Philosophy of Modern Song and his verdict on Britain’s Buddy Holly, Bobby Darin and a motley crew of greats 👇 thetimes.co.uk/article/bob-dy…
Among the 66 songs Bob Dylan analyses in his riveting new book, The Philosophy of Modern Song, lie three surprises.
Writing for the most part about American music of the recent and distant past, he suddenly turns his gaze to Britain | ✍️ @dancairns123
Oct 29, 2022 • 12 tweets • 4 min read
As he prepares to release his autobiography, the @U2 frontman Bono invites his old friend @mariellaf1 to Dublin, where they first met as teenagers, to talk about love, grief and politics thetimes.co.uk/article/bono-u…
The 62-year-old superstar lives in Dalkey, south Dublin, with “the love of his life”, Ali Hewson, whom he met in the same week that his band got together. U2 was formed in 1976 while its members were students at Mount Temple Comprehensive
Oct 27, 2022 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
Images released of The Crown’s version of the final moments of Princess Diana’s life have provoked fresh criticism of the series thetimes.co.uk/article/netfli…
Stills from the latest series of the Netflix drama show how producers have vividly recreated the moments leading up to the car crash in Paris in 1997
Oct 2, 2022 • 12 tweets • 4 min read
Rylan Clark turned reality TV fame into a decade-long showbusiness career. But last year the rollercoaster crashed to a halt. @Rylan speaks to @LFPullman about breaking down and how he recovered thetimes.co.uk/article/how-i-…
After appearing on The X Factor in 2012, he entered Celebrity Big Brother, won it, and has barely been off our tellies since. Now 33, he also hosts a primetime BBC Radio 2 show and is on track to becoming such a household name that many know him simply as Rylan
Oct 2, 2022 • 10 tweets • 3 min read
David Tennant talks with the director of Good, Dominic Cooke, about cancel culture, the rise of populism — and being voted rear of the year | ✍️@BryanAppleyard thetimes.co.uk/article/david-…
“Do you know,” Tennant says. “I got voted rear of the year once. But you only get rear of the year if you pose in a particular manner for the photo — basically sticking your arse at the camera.” He declined
Oct 2, 2022 • 10 tweets • 4 min read
After nearly a decade away, the frenetic comedian @HarryHill is back with a smart, funny stand-up show that is not at all right-on. No wonder his daughters are on his back | ✍️@sarahditum
👉 bit.ly/3y72zqM
Harry Hill is in the middle of five small warm-up dates before embarking on his first national stand-up tour for nearly a decade.
🗣️“I’ve been really enjoying this, but I’m anxious about it too,” he says
On the evening of August 10, 2017, 30-year-old Swedish journalist Kim Wall disappeared while interviewing the Danish inventor Peter Madsen on board his homemade submarine thetimes.co.uk/article/kim-wa…
Madsen, a minor celebrity in his native Copenhagen for his manmade vessel, was now attempting to become the world’s first amateur astronaut by building his own rocket.
Wall was writing a piece about him. When she hadn't come home by 1.45am, her boyfriend called the police
Sep 25, 2022 • 12 tweets • 4 min read
A vast wave of South Korean culture has swept the world in the past decade, @joshglancy reports.
It’s a wave so pronounced it has a name: hallyu thetimes.co.uk/article/inside…
You’ll have noticed the Korean wave by now, even if you didn’t know its name. You might have seen Parasite, the thriller which won the best picture gong at the 2020 Oscars; or the pandemic phenomenon Squid Game, still the most watched show in Netflix history
Sep 25, 2022 • 12 tweets • 4 min read
The former What Not to Wear presenter @snhconstantine opens up to @audreymward about blacking out, getting sober and her raucous friendship with Princess Margaret thetimes.co.uk/article/susann…
It is 15 years since Constantine and co-host Trinny Woodall last appeared on our screens.
When they weren’t criticising women’s clothes, they were “grabbing women’s tits – so we could feel what cup size they were. It’s not something that would translate today”
Sep 25, 2022 • 8 tweets • 4 min read
All James Bond 25 films ranked by expert insiders — from worst to best
The verdict is delivered by Daniel Craig’s stuntman, Bond girl Jane Seymour, superfan @davidwalliams and more — did they get it right? thetimes.co.uk/article/all-ja…
Our panel 👇
The singer talks to Ed Potton about the influence of Radiohead and his famous Egyptian grandfather thetimes.co.uk/article/no-its…@taminoamir makes haunting, continent-spanning folk music, trained as a singer at the Amsterdam Royal Conservatory, speaks four languages and plays several instruments
Sep 3, 2022 • 11 tweets • 3 min read
Four years ago Stewart Lee was mugged by a gang of teenage boys.
He was walking home from the shops, they surrounded him, threw fireworks at him and just when he thought he had scared them away, one of them came from behind and punched him in the head thetimes.co.uk/article/stewar…
“And almost, when I was being punched in the back of the head, I was thinking, ‘There might be a show in this,’” says Lee. That’s insanity, I say.
🗣 “That’s the luck of being a stand-up. If a bad thing happens to you, it’s a short journey to it becoming a routine”
Sep 3, 2022 • 11 tweets • 3 min read
Netflix has found its Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, plucking a pair of acting rookies from obscurity and casting them as two of the most famous faces on the planet thetimes.co.uk/article/the-cr…
Their romance blossomed away from the world’s gaze at university, but now the story of Prince William and Kate Middleton’s courtship will be played out to an audience of millions in The Crown
Sep 2, 2022 • 12 tweets • 6 min read
The pop-punk sensation on how TikTok killed rock’n’roll, loneliness and why he wants to be the next Mick Jagger
thetimes.co.uk/article/yungbl…
Yungblud (@yungblud) aka the 25-year-old Doncaster native Dominic Harrison, burst through in 2018. His song Falling Skies featured on the soundtrack to the hugely popular Netflix teen drama 13 Reasons Why, turning Yungblud into a phenomenon
Aug 28, 2022 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
Juliette Binoche turned to personal experience for her role in Both Sides of the Blade | ✍️@Peter_Conradi thetimes.co.uk/article/juliet…
🗣️“I have been through the situation of loving two men at the same time and remember it being difficult,” she says with a laugh.
“So, I thought to go through that in a film must be something and I felt it was an interesting situation to play”
Aug 28, 2022 • 13 tweets • 5 min read
✍️ @LennyHenry writes candidly in his memoir Rising to the Surface about workaholism, popping diet-pills and the loneliness of being the only black comic in the room thetimes.co.uk/article/lenny-…
On his now ex-wife Dawn French:
“Even at the worst of times we used humour as sword and shield. My mind was at last tuned in, focused and functioning as an equal in a relationship. In other words, I was in love”
Aug 26, 2022 • 9 tweets • 4 min read
The first two episodes of The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power arrive next Friday.
@edpotton lets us in on its secrets, from Middle-earth’s new diversity drive to a gutsy Galadriel 👇 thetimes.co.uk/article/lord-o…
1⃣ It cost a bomb and you can tell
Powered by Amazon’s dragon hoard of a fortune, #TheRingsOfPower is believed to have cost more than a $1bn, which would make it the most expensive TV show yet
Aug 25, 2022 • 12 tweets • 3 min read
Dame Judi Dench could not contain tears of joy when a pocket watch she gave her late husband half a century ago was repaired thetimes.co.uk/article/repair…
Dench, 87, was overcome when she was presented with the watch at the Edinburgh TV Festival, saying it was “sublime” to hear it ticking again after many years of silence
Aug 14, 2022 • 13 tweets • 4 min read
Munya Chawawa's (@munyachawawa) on-the-nose comedy sketches and parodies of current events set to hit R&B tracks have attracted a following of 1.3 million on TikTok and more than a million on Instagram thetimes.co.uk/article/meet-m…
In recent months alone he has skewered Boris Johnson’s resignation (to the sound of Outkast’s Hey Ya!), Will Smith’s Oscars slap (Men in Black), the overturning of Roe v Wade (Doja Cat’s Woman) and the UK’s heatwave (Nelly’s Hot in Herre) tiktok.com/@munyachawawa/…
Aug 14, 2022 • 9 tweets • 4 min read
The Princess of Wales’s revenge is complete — 25 years after her death, it’s heretical to portray this manipulative woman on screen as anything but a beautiful, bullied innocent | ✍️ @camillalong thetimes.co.uk/article/the-pr…
🗣️ Every time a film or a television show or a play is made about her, it shows Diana as Diana: The Musical does: beautiful and bullied, an innocent.
