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Best of Enemies at the Noel Coward Theatre review: James Graham’s play is as searingly insightful as ever

This look at the corruption of modern political discourse is dynamic and intoxicating

Evening Standard

Playwright James Graham on his West End play Best of Enemies and the ‘crisis of goodness’ in our politics

The nicest man in British showbiz is livid at what he calls ‘an unforgivable collapse in standards’ in government

Evening Standard

Zachary Quinto: ‘I have lost a certain faith in America’s system’

The Star Trek actor is making his West End debut in a play about the 1968 US TV political debates between Gore Vidal and William F Buckley. But he fears the pair’s fiery exchanges may be partly to blame for today’s polarised politics

The Guardian - UK

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‘A more anarchic city’: Darryl Pinckney on New York literary life in the 1970s

The novelist’s memoir evokes the ambition and thrill of writing alongside Gore Vidal, Susan Sontag, James Baldwin and his mentor Elizabeth Hardwick

The Guardian - UK

‘I’m a bloated, overpraised Hollywood guy’: The White Lotus creator Mike White on sex, God and disliking success

He’s gone from largely writing under-appreciated cult classics to renowned creator of a smash-hit comedy – and he’s not sure it’s really him. Might he call time on his brilliant satire?

The Guardian - UK

Zachary Quinto to star in West End production of Best of Enemies

Star Trek actor will play Gore Vidal in play based on 1968 TV debates that transformed political broadcasting

The Guardian - UK

'The entire industry is based on hunches': is Australian publishing an art, a science or a gamble?

Jason Epstein was the publisher and editor of authors such as Norman Mailer, Vladimir Nabokov, Philip Roth and Gore Vidal. In his 2001 book, Book Business, he described how the once-relaxed Random House – where authors frequented the publishing office (and sometimes slept there), and where editors had stronger relationships…

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The Batgirl you’ll never see: why some films disappear for ever

She cost a cool $90m but the comic book heroine won’t even be streamed. Why do some productions deserve such an extreme fate?

The Guardian - UK

Sole survivor of Hollywood’s golden age? The hotel that has seen it all

Celebrating 110 years of notoriety, the Beverly Hills Hotel is swimming in stories about showbiz royalty, from Dietrich to Monroe, Elizabeth Taylor to John and Yoko. Leonie Cooper goes in search of gossip and finds out which actor used to sunbathe naked by the pool

The Independent UK

Who knew a six-hour documentary about a Hollywood marriage would be so electrifying?

The Last Movie Stars, about power couple Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward, also proves a devastating portrait of an era, says Guardian columnist Emma Brockes

The Guardian - UK

Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward and the complex legacy of 'The Last Movie Stars'

A new documentary series directed by Ethan Hawke is a close examination of the lives and careers of Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward, one of Hollywood's most revered long marriages.

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