MoviesObituaryJill Haworth obituaryActor best known for her roles in Exodus and the Broadway musical CabaretThe producer-director Otto Preminger had an eye for blue-eyed blondes, casting two complete unknowns, the 19-year-old Jean Seberg in Saint Joan (1957) and the 15-year-old Jill Haworth in Exodus (1960), with mixed results. In Preminger's rambling, all-things-to-all-people saga about the birth of Israel, Haworth, who has died aged 65, played Karen Hansen, a young Danish-Jewish girl searching for her father, from whom she was separated during the second world war. Read More...
Six Nations 2023France and Ireland are the teams to beat, but a Gatland-inspired Wales could spring a surprise
Robert KitsonWho will win? France have one eye on this year’s World Cup and have some injuries. Which gives Ireland the chance to underline their world No 1 ranking with a first title since 2018. If that implies a smooth, stress-free procession, it won’t be.
Finishing order: 1) Ireland 2) France 3) Scotland 4) England 5) Wales 6) Italy. Read More...
The ObserverLouise ErdrichReviewThis diary to an unborn child shows a world where the treachery of our genes has distorted society
There was an exchange on Twitter that went viral recently: a man, deliberately trolling, wrote: “Look out the window and name one thing women have made.” Without missing a beat, a woman tweeted back: “EVERY. SINGLE. HUMAN. BEING.” The power of female fertility is simultaneously so mundane as to be overlooked and so significant that it remains the principle battleground in culture and gender wars, a tool or a weapon to be appropriated by those who seek to control the masses. Read More...