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Daniel Craig is doing 12-hour workouts. Ian Fleming’s James Bond drank half a bottle a day
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The Johnny Depp you once loved wasn’t the real Johnny Depp
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Ilie Nastase – the kind of ‘character’ sport doesn’t need
The oafish behaviour of Higgins and Nastase was once celebrated. Those days are gone
Bitter Harvest review: an epic monstrosity that’s so bad it’s almost unmissable
Noble intentions may be behind the production of this privately financed Ukrainian history lesson, but that’s really no excuse
John Hurt: A brilliant actor who ‘never lost his sense of adolescent mischief’
Honorary Irishman was among the cleverest actors of his (or any other) generation
John Hurt obituary: Open-hearted and hysterically funny
In later years his face developed creases like the famous ‘lived-in’ face of Samuel Beckett
50 Irish graves to visit before you die
If you like to commune with the ghosts of the famous in haunting surroundings, Ireland has enough burial places to last you a lifetime
Oliver Reed: separating the man from the wild man myth
When Rob Crouch and Mike Davis began developing a play about Oliver Reed, they had no idea who would end up pitching in to help the show: Reed’s son Mark
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