No one really knew it then – not even the director Mervyn LeRoy, who would take Turner from Warners to MGM on a “personal contract” – but They Won’t Forget launched a new star. Lana hadn’t seen the rushes, so her appearance came as a shock: “A girl came on screen A Thing came on [...]

Carefully lift on to the pie and, with your fingers, lightly press the two pastry edges together. Then, with a sharp knife, cut through the joined edges almost flush to the rim. Roll out the remaining one-third of pastry slightly thinner than the base. Roll out two-thirds of the pastry into a circle, not too [...]

Or, for something homespun, Edinburgh Tapestries maketapestries to commission as well as selling them “off the peg”.Anderson O’Day’s print selection is a perfect example of why one should buy art by post. Handwoven from grass into exuberant geometric patterns, they are well worth collecting and older samples have found their way into private collections of [...]

If the Rolling Stones can still be that bar band in excelsis with that ineffable glamour that hangs about them and Mick Jagger is a wild and beautiful animal at 52, then what does age matter? Not that I’m comparing myself to them, but I would always be happy turning up with my guitar in [...]

So when you went to other countries and spoke about Belgian clothes they would say ‘they’re good quality but they’re very boring’.” Van Noten was a finalist three times (in 1982, 1983 and 1985).This all changed in 1986 when six Belgian designers got together to show their menswear collection in London. “In Belgium we did [...]

The holiday was, as all such grand tours must be for five adventurous 18-year-olds, an education. We learnt, for instance, that a Wall’s Calippo (ingredients: water, flavouring, colouring, more water) makes a tasty and nourishing meal. We learnt that after you’ve been living on Calippos for a few days, a Cornetto seems like a Viking [...]

There’s the way girls in the street look completely through you You don’t snag on them any more. “It’s human nature to worry about those watershed ages, regardless of how you look, and to feel you’ve got less time left. It seems to go faster.”In a recent interview with Ikon magazine, Martin Amis expressed a [...]

In fact, Jewels in drag bears more resemblance to Sinbad than Beth. It’s becoming a clubbing thing as much as it is an academic theory or a fashionable dalliance. Jewels says that it’s also a reaction by certain dykes to the whole “lesbian chic” media fest that ran all last year. It is a place [...]

This is supposed to be a liver detoxifier that binds up poisons and toxins and flushes them out through the kidneys.In Los Angeles kombucha has achieved what crystals failed to accomplish – bridge the generation gap. The magazine is the popular source of kombucha rumour – such as Ronald Reagan drinking a distillation of its [...]

“I’ve since realised that there was quite a big chance that I’d die. They got all the class I was in at school to write letters – they didn’t exactly say ’sorry you won’t be around for much longer’, but they wouldn’t have gone to so much trouble if they didn’t think I was on [...]