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Hollywood’s Xmas hopes on Christmas filmgoers

Movies are being released hard and fast this festive season, writes Dan Glaister.

Children drink bleach on reality TV

An American television show has been billed as <i>Lord of the Flies</i> for the reality TV generation. Dan Glaister reports in Los Angeles

The Oscar hit list

The show will go on, even if there is a picket at the red carpet, writes Dan Glaister.

Girl magnet, bunny magnate

Plans were announced recently for a biopic of the life of <i>Playboy</i>’s founder, Hugh Hefner, writes Dan Glaister in Los Angeles.

US army looks into gay spray

"Make love not war" may be the enduring slogan of anti-war campaigners, but in 1994 the United States Air Force produced its own variation on the philosophy. What if it could…

The car of the future

Something very, very wrong is happening. I’m flying along the windy, cypress-lined roads of Pebble Beach in California being chased by a hairdryer. Or at least that’s what it…

Two heartbeats away from the White House

For all the talk of the first Democrat leader of the House since Newt Gingrich’s Republican revolution 12 years ago, perhaps an even bigger landmark is the ascension of a woman…

Thrills and spills

For his new thriller <i>Collateral</i>, starring Tom Cruise, the director Michael Mann has ditched the first two acts — and jumped straight in at the denouement. He tells Dan…

Fright club

Chuck Palahniuk is in town to give a reading of <i>Guts</i>, the latest instalment in his gore-fest celebration of all things unAmerican. The author of <i>Fight Club</i> hopes…