Category Archives: Celebrity Profiles

Mary-Louise Parker rarely gives interviews. And she’s never given one to a British newspaper. You might say ‘well who is she anyway, so who cares’? Well she’s one to watch that’s who she is. Although you shouldn’t conclude from that … Continue reading →

It’s pretty stupid and rather unfair but, when I walked through the door of the dressing room at the Drury Lane Theatre, I expected to see the redhead, the ditsy Hattie Carnegie hat model from New York who became the … Continue reading →

It is a hot, rather drizzly evening in London. And not much more than four years after we first agreed to do this interview, Kenneth Branagh and I finally sit down and talk together. It never seemed like it was … Continue reading →

The huskiness in Judi Dench’s voice makes her sound 16 going on Tallulah Bankhead. And her sentences lurch forward rather in the way of a car with kangaroo petrol. She talks with enthusiasm about everything, frequently getting words wrong or … Continue reading →

You can see why in 1990 Aaron Spelling cast a 21 year old Jason Priestley as a teen idol in the TV soap (sorry, youth-oriented drama series) Beverley Hills 90210. He’s stocky in an athletic kind of way, looks usefully … Continue reading →

The Goodies were pretty stupid. So was Monty Python, which preceded them onto the screen by almost exactly a year. It was, as Graham Chapman used to remind us when cutting short Python sketches, “all getting far too silly!” “An … Continue reading →

Glenn Close has the most beautiful eyes. They’re simple blue-green. But what powers her look is the bright and clear blue line around each, which softens and hardens with the inflections in her speech, underlining what she says. She is … Continue reading →

Charlie Higson and Paul Whitehouse are married. Not to each other – they both have wives – but they are a couple, comedy boyfriends. And have been for twenty years since University, mucking about writing voices and catchphrases originally roped … Continue reading →

Emma Thompson opens her door, extends her arms and with her infinitely complicated smile greets me soothingly. “Fanshawe…..” Only in England can a surname be a sign of real warmth. And Thompson is a very English woman. Her formality offers … Continue reading →

Elaine Stritch left Detroit for New York when she was seventeen determined to be a star. So wrapped up was she in achieving it, she says, she was a virgin till she was 30. Finally last year, when she was … Continue reading →