TV reviewTelevision & radioReviewThis documentary follows the feathered, bejewelled British women who staff the Parisian institution. Be warned: the reality is all a bit cheap and shoddy
There are certain shows that make you think of the joy that must have lit up the producer’s face when news reached them of its premise. With Moulin Rouge: Yes We Can-Can!, I imagine an eager young thing bursting into the shiny office around which their boss is prowling discontentedly while chomping on a cigar, and crying breathlessly: “The Moulin Rouge … the dance troupe … they’re all Brits!
Nicole KidmanShe’s been a blond vamp, an American princess and a thorn in Lars Von Trier’s side. But 2017 looks set to be Nicole Kidman’s greatest Cannes yet
The official social media hashtags for this year’s Cannes film festival are #Cannes2017 and #Cannes70. But maybe it should be #Nicolefest and #Nicolepalooza. Because Nicole Kidman is set to dominate, with no fewer than four entries in the official selection. In all her sculpted blond tallness, looming over most of the grinning menfolk on the red carpet, she is going to be a Cannes fixture.
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‘The book indulges a clique-membership mentality in which irony and quirk equals highest regard.’ Photograph: Amazon‘The book indulges a clique-membership mentality in which irony and quirk equals highest regard.’ Photograph: AmazonRebecca Carroll columnBooksReviewWhat could have been a thoughtful exploration of self-design is simply an exercise in narcissism, without any true individuality
“Women in Clothes is a book unlike any other,” so begins the inside flap summary of the new paperback book by Sheila Heti (How Should a Person Be), Heidi Julavits (founding editor of The Believer), Leanne Shapton (Swimming Studies) “and 639 others.