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There are three things I love about Cary Elwes. The first is that he met his wife at a chilli cook-off in Malibu. The second is that he got into a heated battle with Ted Cruz, who is a huge Princess Bride fan, and went Dread Pirate Roberts on his ass

It might be a slightly celluloid-tinted view of the world, but my imagination for travel was fired by Indiana Jones. In fact, my youthful exploits should probably be summarised as ‘dangerous outside the classroom’. I last watched these films as a tri

On November 23, 1975, Pier Paolo Pasolini’s last movie premiered at the Paris Film Festival, and immediately garnered a reputation as the most gruelling, and least watchable, motion picture entertainment of all time. Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom, t

It didn’t take long for Joe Cole’s stock to rise. The London-born actor began his professional career in 2010, yet within three years he was starring in the BBC’s Peaky Blinders. The show, created by Steven Knight, became one of the U.K.’s biggest te

‘Le rockeur national’, ‘the biggest rock star you never heard of ’, and ‘France’s Elvis’: none of these shorthands comes close to capturing the reach of Johnny Hallyday. During 50 years in the spotlight, this averagely talented singer of the rock’n’r

Travel and exploration is the timeline on which the human race is built. We have migrated, trekked and pushed boundaries to discover what is over the next hill or across the tempestuous sea. We’ve searched the lands and the oceans, the caves and the

There is some competition for the oldest royal bloodline. King Charles III can trace his family through generations of Scottish nobility, ending with Sir John Lyon, Thane of Glamis, who wed the daughter of Robert II, King of Scots in the 14th century

When Ariana DeBose and Troy Kotsur announced the 2023 Academy Award for best supporting actress, Jamie Lee Curtis stood up. She stood up for longevity in an industry that discards women of a certain age like last week’s milk. She stood up for perseve

“You know it’s a good one when it warms you down to your toes,” my driver says as we snake back to Inverness airport after an invigorating stay at Links House in the Scottish Highlands. “Indeed, you do,” I reply, still tingling from wisps of a 1984 T

Before he founded Vilebrequin with his partner, Yvette, Fred Prysquel travelled around Europe as a Formula One journalist, reporting on the legends of the day, including Graham Hill, Sir Jackie Stewart and John Surtees. One would imagine it was a gla

The love story of actors Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward is unique in the Hollywood firmament. Married for 50 years until Newman’s death in September 2008, they were also indefatigable collaborators, making 16 films together (many of which Newman dir

Cuba is a country designed to enchant, where every route is the scenic one. The financial precariousness of the country — shortages and maintenance troubles, the dubious infrastructure — is not easily hidden from view. Regardless, there really is no

In order to proceed in a proper manner, I must explain how this interview came about. It doesn’t involve going back, say, a few months — no, no, we need to go further back than that. Perhaps it required three years’ preparation, as with my Chris Pine

It’s a stretch of coastline that lives in legend and lore, one that has inspired countless artists, from Renoir and Cézanne to Picasso and Matisse. The latter summed up its appeal by asking, “Do you remember the light through the shutters? It came fr

I can’t be sure I was 100 per cent prepared for Raffles on the Palm. That might have been because I was not 100 per cent prepared for Dubai. The journey was straightforward and the airport was mightily slick; it was on the car journey across the emir

Recently a Hollywood film star, a matinee idol of the first order, came to London as part of a promotional tour. In a flight of fancy he broke from the pack and booked himself into an old-fashioned hotel, presumably to get a taste of the London exper

In a city that’s all about boastful, over-the-top superlatives (the biggest, the highest, the glitziest), it can be virtually impossible to set yourself apart if you’re a newcomer, particularly if you’re in the hospitality sector. But with their late

It is easy to get lost in Los Angeles. Unlike most of the great American cities, it is not laid out in a neatly navigable grid, nor is it friendly to travellers with no internal compass. L.A. is a sprawl of micro-neighbourhoods and winding roads divi

A bout a year ago, when the restrictive measures designed by the Chinese government to curb the spread of the coronavirus had reached their most fevered stage, lives were mostly confined to the home. The world was not only minimised, it seemed to hav

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It wasn’t long ago that questions were being asked about the value of big trade shows. Well, the latest edition of Watches and Wonders surely answered all the critics. With the Asian markets now able to attend, it was busier than ever, and I think th

It’s hard for anyone who wishes to set up a new luxury brand today. The consensus among enthusiasts, and therefore communication whizzes, is that a brand’s history is the yoke on which its existence is carried. You see it in campaigns, press releases

I’ve had quite a long relationship photographing both the King and Queen. I started photographing Camilla Parker Bowles about five years before she got married [to Charles, in 2005]. She then asked me to photograph their wedding. That led to him quit

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