Mankiewicz was a drunk, a wit and a gambler: ‘the Voltaire of Central Park West’
By Tanya Gold
I pity people who don’t know the ecstasy of cinema in picture houses
By Tanya Gold
The past four years have felt like an awakening
By Tanya Gold
Why does the forthcoming biopic ignore the story of the Essex-born civil servant Judy turned to at the end of her life?
By Tanya Gold
The fashion is to attack politicians you dislike with sugar, profanity, snacks and toys
By Tanya Gold
The poet talks Brexit, money and Fred and Rose West
By Tanya Gold
She has no knowledge of Hitler, Germany or nationalism. But don’t let that stop her pontificating
By Tanya Gold
If Spacey is not tried, and therefore not convicted, he should return to acting
By Tanya Gold
Revisiting my notes from my April profile, it seems clear that his feuds are mere projection of his hatred for himself.
By Tanya Gold
Exhausting adventures with a fading right-wing phenomenon
By Tanya Gold
Sofie Hagen is a young Danish comic I admire. I didn’t see her most recent show, Dead Baby Frog, but I saw her win the best newcomer award at Edinburgh in 2015 and I was happy for her. I liked her sweet face and her fury. The audience treated her as a benign oddity. Because […]
By Tanya Gold
Stephen King, 69, has sold more than 350 million books, and tries not to apologise for being working-class, or imaginative, or rich. The snobbery has ebbed a little, though; in 2003 he won the National Book Foundation’s Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, and now the BFI is screening a series of adaptations of […]
By Tanya Gold