Gérard Depardieu This article is more than 1 month oldGérard Depardieu: actor Hélène Darras files complaint of sexual assault This article is more than 1 month oldAllegations French star actor groped Darras on set is second official complaint after Charlotte Arnould accused the actor of rape in 2018
A second actor has filed an official complaint against Gérard Depardieu, claiming the French star sexually assaulted her on the set of the 2007 film Disco.
Private livesRelationshipsI don't complain when I'm ill, but my husband never stopsI have been raised to tough it out: when you are ill, you do not whine - you just put on a brave face and keep going. I have a high pain threshold and never take any days off sick. My husband is the exact opposite. Whenever he has a cold, headache or toothache, he acts as if he is dying.
Abortion This article is more than 3 months oldOhio supreme court battle over six-week abortion ban beginsThis article is more than 3 months oldRuling in key case could throw November vote on whether to enshrine abortion rights in Ohio constitution into chaos
Abortion rights supporters and foes will square off in the Ohio supreme court on Wednesday over whether the state should be allowed to ban abortion as early as six weeks into pregnancy, before many people even know they are pregnant.
Book of the dayMusic booksReviewHow did a leafy bolthole north of New York become so central to rock lore?
In 1964, Bob Dylan wrote many of the songs on Bringing It All Back Home in a spartan “white room” he’d been loaned above the Café Espresso in Woodstock. About 100 miles north of New York, the small country town is lodged at the foot of wooded hills, between the Catskill mountains and the Hudson river.
Las Vegas This article is more than 4 months oldLas Vegas residents dry out after heavy rainfall and floodsThis article is more than 4 months oldAt least one death after severe weather that flooded streets, prompted various water rescues and shut down portion of I-15
Las Vegas residents on Sunday were drying out after two days of heavy rainfall that flooded streets, prompted various water rescues, shut down a portion of Interstate 15 south of the city and possibly resulted in at least one death.
MoviesReviewMichelle Savill’s poignant film follows a would-be architect pretending to take up a prestigious New York internship without leaving her home town of Wellington
‘Sorry, I’m such a disappointment to you, Mum.” “We can’t all be appointments.” That’s the fumbling, poignant way of this debut comedy-drama from New Zealand director Michelle Savill, clearly a highly personal piece of work in its detailed character study of would-be architect and social-media blagger Millie, played in charmingly evasive style by Ana Scotney.
Documentary linkThe WinterkeeperSteven Fuller has lived and worked at Yellowstone national park for the past 50 years, but now faces an uncertain future as the climate crisis intensifies
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Russell Brand in Los Angeles in 2020. Photograph: Rob Latour/Rex/ShutterstockRussell Brand in Los Angeles in 2020. Photograph: Rob Latour/Rex/ShutterstockRussell BrandThe comedian, actor, writer and podcaster has previously found himself out of a job after questionable actions
Russell Brand accused of rape, sexual assault and emotional abuse Russell Brand – the comedian, actor and podcaster – is no stranger to controversy.
The day after the September 11 terrorist attacks in the US in 2001, Brand turned up for work as a video journalist at MTV dressed as Osama bin Laden and was later sacked.
The ObserverPyotr Tchaikovsky This article is more than 5 years oldThis article is more than 5 years oldNew volume includes once-hidden passages about the composer’s homosexualityThe words are tender and passionate, describing in raw detail the powerful emotions felt by one of the world’s best-loved composers. But until now some of the letters of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, in which he tells of his sexual desires, have been hidden from the world because the objects of those desires were other men.
Nicholas Lezard's choiceFictionReviewThis dystopic masterpiece is both fascinating and beautiful – and it completely does your head inFifteen years ago, I strongly recommended this author's first book, The Age of Wire and String, not despite but because it was composed of sentences such as this: "Intercourse with resuscitated wife for particular number of days, superstitious act designed to insure safe operation of household machinery. Electricity mourns the absence of the energy form (wife) within the household's walls by stalling its flow to the outlets.