With her sweet smile and twinkly eyes, White made her name playing seemingly dopey blondes. But how canny she was – and what a revolutionaryGolden Girls star Betty White dies aged 99Betty White: a life in picturesBetty White, who had one of the longest…
Huma Abedin on Anthony Weiner: ‘He ripped my heart out and stomped on it over and over again’
She was Hillary Clinton’s aide and the wife of a star politician when a sexting scandal sent him to prison, destroyed their marriage – and derailed her boss’s bid to become president. How did she cope?Read an extract from her memoir hereWalk of shame, …
‘There was always an excuse to take a drink’: Succession’s Alan Ruck on Ferris Bueller, booze and bouncing back
After a decades-long slump, the actor’s career came roaring back with the role of Connor Roy. He talks about his 80s success, his ‘attitude problems’ and his excitement about Succession’s new seriesAlan Ruck is talking to me by video about the present,…
‘His rage, his pain, his shame, they’re all mine’: Jeremy Strong on playing Succession’s Kendall Roy
Strong’s role as the self-destructive media heir takes commitment – and the actor goes all in• Plus: inside the Succession writers’ roomEarlier this year, Jeremy Strong left his apartment in Brooklyn, walked across the bridge to Manhattan and headed to…
Ray Liotta: ‘Why haven’t I worked with Scorsese since Goodfellas? You’d have to ask him. I’d love to’
After years of avoiding crime films, he’s back as a mafioso in the Sopranos prequel The Many Saints of Newark. He talks about being adopted and getting into acting – and saves a surprise for the end I am a little trepidatious ahead of my interview with…
This Much Is True by Miriam Margolyes review – a wickedly honest memoir
With her naughty stories and cutting remarks, the comic actor spares no blushes – but her account is poignant tooI’m quite sure you picked up this book hoping I’d make you laugh,” Miriam Margolyes writes in her memoir, This Much Is True. She more than …
On 9/11 I learned there are no guarantees in life | Hadley Freeman
I was in the city for fashion week, and while many memories have faded, odd details remain – along with the shock and sorrowOver the past two decades, 9/11 has taken on all kinds of different meanings for people, from the end of American dominance to t…
This is what I tell friends who are torn about having children | Hadley Freeman
That your life becomes entirely about your kids once you have them is not proof that’s how life should beI am of an age when most of my social group is in their late 30s and early 40s, and, as has always been the case, the majority of my friends are wo…
‘Rebranding’ Prince Andrew? Now there’s a real mission impossible | Hadley Freeman
The task of making the prince even vaguely palatable to the public has been called ‘the rebranding job from hell’. But I’ve got a few ideasHistory is unfolding all around us. Tragedies are occurring every day. So I was very taken with a recent article …
Fran Lebowitz: ‘If people disagree with me, so what?’
With a hit Netflix series and The Fran Lebowitz Reader now published in the UK, the American wit talks about failing to write, her dislike of Andy Warhol and her best friend Toni MorrisonFran Lebowitz is a famous writer who famously doesn’t write. “I’m…