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My obit of Marvin Miller, the head of the Major League Baseball Players Association for 16 crucial years, in online now at guardian.co.uk. Y...

My interview with Mariella Frostrup about Dashiell Hammett was on Open Book yesterday; the show will be repeated Thursday and is available o...

I remember going to the 80 th birthday concert for Elliott Carter, at the Albert Hall, and thinking how lucky I was because there might no...

My obituary of Russell Means is up now on the Guardian's website ( link to it here ); it should be in the paper paper tomorrow. It was...

The second series of Homeland begins with Carrie on her meds and teaching EFL, while Saul is cruisiaround Beirut dressed as Meyer Lansky...

In an appealling bit of synchronicity, the Guardian on Friday ran an interview with Martin Landau, who,asit happens, dated Marilyn Monroe...

The Atlantic recently posted a remarkable video on their website, from the Fifties panel show I've Got A Secret . The clip, from 1956, ...

Although not part of the London Film Festival's strand called 'Thrillers' (instead, it's in 'First Features'), it w...

Thomas Vinterberg is best known for Festen , his second feature film released in 1998 as the first production from Dogme, which he fou...

My obituary of Alex Karras is up on the Guardian's website; you can link to it here , There was a lot I had to leave out, for the usual ...

There is an interesting obituary of Turhan Bey, who died at 89, by Ronald Bergen in today's Guardian; you can link to it here . Bey'...

My obituary of the great Canadian figure skater Barbara Ann Scott is in today's Independent, you can link to it here . I may have underp...