Cage Fighter
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It’s a cod philosophical question that’s become the frame for hip-hop braggadocio: could you walk a mile in these shoes? Could you view the world through my eyes? It’s claiming…
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Gold Rush
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Mark Britten is a quietly spoken man with a soft smile and friendly handshake. We meet in a fashionable vegetarian restaurant where he drinks chai tea and discusses the property…
Passionate Patriarch
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Many Hollywood actors like to sound off about politics. But few have been on the sharp end of it quite like Donald Sutherland. ‘I was in Yugoslavia when I…
Knightly Virtues
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Some actors inhabit a role so perfectly that it can go on to haunt their careers – Christopher Reeve’s Superman, Harrison Ford’s Indiana Jones and Sean Connery’s Bond, to take…
Al Gore Gets Current
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These are desperate times for those who look for heroes and prophets. If there is such a thing as a hero today it is – to paraphrase Camus – the…
In Real Time
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When Kiefer Sutherland walks into the room, I’m sitting on one end of a long wooden table covered in papers and bottles. He sits down warily and I slap…
Inner Sparkle
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Very briefly, Alek Wek is almost a refugee again. In early December, the supermodel spends a troubled Monday night in a London hotel, her passport too full to take a…
