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London24 - Text only page GossipMeryl hits a high noteMERYL Streep is best known for her serious roles, so it's quite hard to imagine her as a flamboyant Lycra-clad blonde... Far-from-dumb blondeSUMMER wouldn t be the same without the obligatory action blockbusters competing for box office ratings... The Big Interview: Meera SyalEVERY night after eating supper, a young Meera Syal would sit down with her dad to watch television... The Big Interview: Marco Pierre WhiteWith a Continental-sounding name and an illustrious career cooking the finest French cuisine... The Big Interview: James NesbittWHEN Cold Feet first appeared on our screens in the late 90s, it was heralded as the British Friends and made overnight stars of its six central cast members. James Nesbitt was - prior to playing the happy-go-lucky, womanising Adam - a familiar face on... Author Interview: Jodi PicoultShe s the biggest-selling female adult fiction author in Britain and her novels always reach the top of the bestseller list. Jodi Picoult never shies away from uncomfortable, controversial subjects. Over the years she has written about stem cell research... Author Interview: Anne NolanThe Nolans were the squeaky-clean singing sisters of the late 70s and early 80s, providing the wholesome, popular music for prime time shows including The Two Ronnies and Morecambe And Wise. The clean-living Irish sisters supported Frank Sinatra on a Eur... The Big Interview: Steve PembertonSTEVE Pemberton takes a sip on his mocktail, being careful to avoid the mini umbrella sticking out of it, and settles back into his chair next to a blow-up plastic palm tree. We re here to chat about the new series of his hit ITV sitcom Benidorm - hence... Author Interview: Alloma GilbertIT IS less than a year since evil foster mother Eunice Spry was jailed for 14 years for subjecting three children in her care to a horrifying catalogue of cruel and sadistic treatment . In 2007 Spry, 62, was found guilty of 26 charges, including child... The Big Interview: Halle BerryShe may be an Oscar-winner actress but Halle Berry admits her latest role gave her challenges even she wasn t expecting. As Audrey Burke in Things We Lost in the Fire, Berry plays a happily married mother whose life changes when her husband Brian (David... FootballDean set to sign - but Solano is on his wayENGLAND new boy Dean Ashton is set to put pen to paper on a new five-year deal at Upton Park, but the first casualty of West Ham s squad-trimming plans seems to be the departure of Nobby Solano, WRITES DAVE EVANS. Hammers fans will be delighted that las... New boy Bostock snubbed Chelsea and Barca to join SpursSPURS-bound John Bostock this week revealed he snubbed offers from Chelsea and Barcelona to join Juande Ramos s revolution at the Lane. Tottenham announced last Friday they had signed the much-sought after 16-year old midfielder from Crystal Palace but t... Spector joins long term listFOR JUST how long can the West Ham injury jinx continue? WRITES DAVE EVANS. The season has been over for a month aleady, but still the Hammers players are crashing down on to the West Ham treatment table with American international defender Jonathan Spec... New goalkeeping coach appointed at White Hart LaneTHE goalkeeping revolution has started at the Lane. Radek Cerny s loan deal from Slavia Prague has come to an end and the Czech shot-stopper has joined Championship side Queens Park Rangers. Cerny, who ended the season as Tottenham s No 1 having ousted... Swiss duo prepare to defend co-hosts' honourARSENAL fans wondering who to support at Euro 2008 should look no further - it has to be Switzerland! While in the past decade it has been France that have contained the most Gunners players, this time the co-hosts are the only country to have two Arsena... New boy Bostock snubbed Chelsea and Barca to join SpursSPURS-bound John Bostock this week revealed he snubbed offers from Chelsea and Barcelona to join Juande Ramos s revolution at the Lane. Tottenham announced last Friday they had signed the much-sought after 16-year old midfielder from Crystal Palace but t... Traore fancies a trip eastPARIS ST GERMAIN defender Sammy Traore has issued a come and get me plea to West Ham boss Alan Curbishley as he looks to resurrect his career. The Malian (right) has just finished a season-long loan at French outfit Auxerre after dropping down the peckin... Robin's ready for Dutch glory tiltROBIN VAN PERSIE is hoping to put his injury-plagued season with the Gunners behind him by firing Holland to Euro 2008 glory. The Gunners Dutch striker, 24, spent another season largely on the sidelines at the Emirates, and was a major doubt for the tou... Spurs fans slam ticket price hikeA LEADING fans group has condemned Tottenham Hotspur s decision to raise season ticket prices by an average 10 per cent. Spurs are expected to gain an extra £1.5m from the price hike, although that figure will be dwarfed by the club s expected share of T... Kightly linked with West Ham moveWOLVES winger Michael Kightly has been linked with a £4million move to Upton Park. It may be the silly season with regard to transfers at the moment, but the tip for this possible move came from Kightly s former boss at Grays Athletic. Grays owner-boss... UndergroundPlump up the volumeBREAKBEAT heavyweights Plump DJs have been announced as the headliners of an extra tent at this year s Get Loaded In The Park at Clapham Common. Put on by the people behind now defunct nightclub Turnmills, Get Loaded on Sunday, August 24 is in its fifth... Stars Mix it up for magThe DJ world was out in force last week to celebrate the 25th birthday of dance bible MixMag at the East Village club in Shoreditch. Over the past 25 years, the publication has overseen modern day dance culture, and to still be going strong today is no... RIP Froggy - a true legendThe dance music world lost one of its true legends on Friday when infamous Goodmayes DJ, Froggy, tragically passed away. I had the honour of being his agent for the latter half of the 90s, presented a Club Mix radio show with him every Saturday for a y... Return of the PlayboyDimitri From Paris releases his third Playboy Mansion album and this time there s a bonus mix for all the lovers out there. The Turkish-born, French-raised DJ/producer explains: Many people have come up to me after my sets and said that they made out... Dizzee crashes inThe line-up for the first dance festival of the year, Gatecrasher s Summer Sound System at the end of May, has been revealed and it sees critically-acclaimed Bow MC Dizzee Rascal and his proteges Newham Generals team up in the Metropolis arena. Since sho... Breath-taking show of BounceOn paper, a street dance adaptation of the classic film One Flew Over The Cuckoo s Nest sounds like car crash theatre. On stage, it s simply phenomenal. Fuelled by a killer soundtrack of modern, across-the-board, dance music, Insane In The Brain at the P... Names Turn out for 'Mills finaleTurnmills have announced the all-important line-ups for their closing parties over the Easter weekend, and it fittingly includes a whole host of the venue s favourite DJs. The Clerkenwell Road club, Farringdon, will shut on Sunday, March 23 before the si... Brixton, here we comeHIP-HOP stars Pharrell Williams and Flava Flav will appear at Brixton Academy in the summer. Between them these two legends have been at the forefront of the scene for the past 25 years. Williams is one half of the Neptunes production team responsible fo... Learning from the MasterGRAMMY Award-winning duo Masters at Work make their first joint appearance at Ministry of Sound for five years on Saturday. Kenny Dope Gonzales and Little Louie Vega,(pictured) will play a six-hour set in the main room at a massive, one-off Soul Heaven p... Gilles bares his soulGilles Peterson, one of the most respected men in dance music, has teamed with leading UK label Defected to compile and mix the latest leg of their popular In The House compilation series. And while most In The House mixes focus only on house, Gilles in... What's OnStep Brothers (15)WILL ferrell and John C Reilly, who last teamed up in the box office smash Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby, are reunited by director Adam McKay in STEP BROTHERS (15). Brennan Huff, 39, lives with his mother. Dale Doback, 40, lives with his dad... Mummy's the word for terror-cotta warriorsThe blockbuster Mummy franchise shifts its action to Asia for the third chapter in the adventure series. Brendan Fraser returns as explorer Rick O Connell to combat the resurrected Han Emperor (Jet Li) in an epic that races from the catacombs of ancient... Generation X files backIF absence makes the heart grow fonder then we should be ready to fall in love again with FBI special agents... WHAT A WALL-EIMAGINE a future in which Earth has been overrun with waste and humans have been forced to flee the planet as a result of their own consumption. This believable scenario is the setting for the latest offering from Disney and Pixar...... HancockWITH great power comes great responsibility - not that bona fide superhero Hancock (Smith) cares. The eponymous protagonist of Peter Berg s all-action adventure is another victim of our celebrity-obsessed times, seeking absolution in a whisky bottle to... The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (pg)LEARNING from the mistakes of its predecessor, THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA: PRINCE CASPIAN (PG) is an altogether better film. Where The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe was stodgy and bland, Caspian is a darker,... ADULTHOOD (15)POWERFUL, disturbing and moving, 2006 s acclaimed Kidulthood took us deep into London s unseen underbelly, delivering a raw, hard-hitting reflection of what life is like for some 21st century teenagers, where sex is currency, drugs are easy to come by and... The wrath of KhanTHE name of Genghis Khan has been stereotyped through history as an evil brute. But few of us know much about him. Impressive epic MONGOL: THE RISE TO POWER OF GENGHIS KHAN (15), by award-winning Russian filmmaker Sergei Bodrov, seeks to put flesh on th... Sex appeals to silver screenFANS of the trend-setting HBO television series rejoice. The film version of Sex And The City unwraps almost two and a half hours of fabulous couture, sassy girl talk, toned naked men, breathtaking New York City locations and enough relationship woes to... THE AIR I BREATHE (15)THERE S a Chinese proverb which breaks life down into four key emotions - happiness, sorrow, pleasure and love. THE AIR I BREATHE (15) is a film of four stories, each focusing on a character that represents one of these emotions. The central story foll... Return to London24 home page |