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J.K. Simmons ‘stumbled into acting’ – and after the stumble came a decades-long slog to the top. But at 71, an Oscar-winner for Whiplash, he’s now every casting director’s go-to authority figure. Ed Cumming talks to the friendliest tough...
As a teenager in a refugee camp, Maiwand Banayee joined the Taliban, brainwashed by talk of martyrdom and sex in Paradise. But then he broke free and built a new life, working for the NHS in Britain. By Colin Freeman If Maiwand Banayee’s life...
He won an Oscar as Whiplash’s maniacal drum teacher, and in his new show he’s a mob boss. In fact, J.K. Simmons has played an astonishing array of hard men on his “slow rise”. He happily tells Ed Cumming why
Shared interests, affection, private jokes… Elizabeth II and Sir Winston Churchill enjoyed an incomparable bond. Nigel Fletcher draws on their letters to each other to tell the inside story They first met when Princess Elizabeth was two years...
What – other than having an excess of cash – possesses somebody to buy a private island? And how on earth does one go about selling it to them? Guy Kelly asks an entrepreneur with hundreds ready to view In search of luxury, seclusion and...
Dear Richard Our first baby is due in the autumn, and having learnt that it’s a boy we’re talking about names. My husband comes from a fairly upperclass family and there is a long tradition of firstborn boy children, who are called “heirs”...
