Elmore Leonard: the Dickens of Detroit who captured the downside of the American dream
To celebrate the centenary of the great American crime writer, here are 10 of the best of his 40-plus tautly written, finely crafted novels
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George Clooney: ‘We live on a farm in France. I was worried about raising our kids in LA’
The actor wants his twins to grow up self-sufficient, free from paparazzi, and without being compared to anybody else’s famous kids
At Venice film festival, it can be worth getting soaked to the underwear for a not very good movie
Jay Kelly, starring George Clooney, and After the Hunt, featuring Julia Roberts, were, respectively, pedestrian and dizzyingly incoherent
First Look: Watch out for Eve Hewson in George Clooney’s cameo-stuffed new satire on stardom
Venice International Film Festival 2025: With Jay Kelly, a satire on stardom, Noah Baumbach just about gets back on track
The ultimate in movie-star glamour: Emma Stone, Julia Roberts and George Clooney get their speedboats ready
Venice International Film Festival 2025 is getting under way – and for Hollywood stars nothing tops arriving on a glossy motor launch
A Wicklow woman in Venice: ‘It really feeds the soul to have all that beauty around you’
Wild Geese: Orla McLaughlin, Venice
Tony Awards 2025: Musical Maybe Happy Ending has six wins
Audience told ‘Broadway is officially back’ after record-breaking season saw box office receipts hit $1.89 billion
Changing surnames after marriage: ‘If it’s good enough for Amal Clooney, it’s good enough for me’
Following a recent column describing women changing names as the ‘normalisation of symbolic control’, readers share their views on the matter
Clooney’s timely warning from history about Trump’s authoritarian America
Clear parallels between play about 1950s McCarthyism and how US president is waging war on US news media today
Tony Awards 2025: Irish actor Laura Donnelly among the nominations
Hollywood stars George Clooney, Sarah Snook, Mia Farrow and Sadie Sink also received nods from the committee
Trump took over the Kennedy Center. In Ireland we have a much subtler way of diminishing the arts
JD Vance’s arrival at the Washington venue sparked a viral drama. In Dublin, the National Concert Hall has suffered from decades of political indifference
George Clooney is giving up romance at 63. Don’t people of his age deserve love?
The star says he’s too old to play any more romantic leads. But something odd has happened: that kind of big film has almost vanished
George Clooney’s Good Night, and Good Luck: The Broadway audience gasps at Musk’s ‘Nazi salute’
New York Letter: The actor was called a traitor 20 years ago for condemning George W Bush. Today, the problem is worse
The Russo brothers: ‘We made a movie for nothing and got discovered by a giant film-maker’
Joe and Anthony Russo on The Electric State, their new Netflix film; and their return to the Marvel Cinematic Universe
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Stardust
Inquests into the nightclub fire that led to the deaths of 48 people
Common Ground
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
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