ObituaryLeigh JacksonAward-winning writer of Warriors, The Project and other fine television dramasThe film and television career of the writer Leigh Jackson, who has died of cancer aged 52, began in the 1980s, and - with a period, from 1986, as script editor on Phil Redmond's BBC series Grange Hill - went on to last autumn's showing of The Project, the BBC's ambitious, if flawed, attempt to describe New Labour's journey from euphoria to decay. Read More...
FictionReviewGuns, drugs, terrorism, time travel and more guns … this story of future London and small-town America is explosiveIf you were to plot your reading of a William Gibson book on a graph – reading speed on one axis, progress through the book on another – it would produce a strange, choppy waveform. The first 30 or 40 pages take a good couple of minutes each, as you struggle to place yourself in the novel’s world, acclimatise to its language and make out what is going on. Read More...
Film blogKate WinsletWhy has Oprah endorsed Kate Winslet's breasts?Never mind the awards, it's the actor's chest that has transfixed Oprah Winfrey. Halle Berry, too. Why the fascination?Much of the real world may have it in for Kate Winslet after her embarrassing Golden Globes acceptance speeches, but the celebrity aristocracy have naturally rallied round. Except they're fixated on another set of globes in Winslet's possession (copyright: every tabloid). On Tuesday, in the course of an interview with the actor on her chat show, Oprah Winfrey launched into a panegyric about Winslet's breasts. Read More...
