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This West End run coincided, in Alexander’s breezy telling, with the busiest period in his romantic career. “Lot of sex.” He had known that he fancied boys from the age of about 10, though the concept of being gay was something only introduced to him via playground insult; he can remember drawing stick figures in a geography textbook, bewildered, trying to figure out how two men could ever even manage it. These days, Alexander says, “my sexuality is part of my music, part of my identity”, but this was a clunky journey in its early phases and it wasn’t until he arrived in London and got into a first relationship, with the brother of a friend, that he felt he could properly come out to those closest to him. … [Read more...] about Olly Alexander: ‘Success is overwhelming. People talk to you differently’

'My mom is now fighting her battle with it again,' Swift wrote in her '30 Things I Learned Before Turning 30' essay. 'It's taught me that there are real problems and then there's everything else. My mom's cancer is a real problem. I used to be so anxious about daily ups and downs. I give all of my worry, stress, and prayers to real problems now.' … [Read more...] about Taylor Swift reveals her mother has developed a brain tumor while battling breast cancer and that it’s a ‘really hard time for us as a family’

Jack Clayton's The Innocents (1961), now on national rerelease, is an elegant, sinister and scalp-prickling ghost story – as scary in its way as Rosemary's Baby or The Exorcist. It has to be the most sure-footed screen adaptation of Henry James, taken from his 1898 novella The Turn of the Screw, clarifying some of the original's ambiguities and obscurities, but without damaging the story's subtlety. Deborah Kerr plays Miss Giddens, a governess hired to look after two children in a country estate: Flora (Pamela Franklin) and Miles (Martin Stephens). Miss Giddens finds something she describes as "secret, whispery, and indecent": the house is haunted by the souls of Peter Quint, a drunken, disreputable valet, and Miss Jessel, the former governess whom he seduced. Without admitting it, the children can see the ghosts as well; the spectres have become their secret, parasitical friends. Flora's pertly knowing innocence and Miles's insolent adult hauteur show how the children … [Read more...] about The Innocents – review

Despite narrow streets, pretty, cloistered plazas and a slow pace to life, this is not an area much visited by tourists and walking into the Bar La Bassa on the square I got a few stranger-in-town stares from the elderly gents playing cards inside. Yet Horta is now part of a Picasso Route taking in the main places he stayed in and visited – in the village itself, as well as the nearby mountains. The starting point is the Centre Picasso museum, where I saw copies of the drawings and paintings Picasso created in the area, including wonderful sketches of village women washing their laundry in the streams and his cubist views of the Santa Bárbara mountain, memorably merged with the face of Olivier. … [Read more...] about Picasso’s lost paradise: how a corner of Catalonia brought inspiration

Marcus Gover, chief executive of WRAP, said: “We are in a new decade and have just 10 years if we are to honour our international commitment to halve food waste. This really matters because it is untenable that we carry on wasting food on such a monumental scale when we are seeing the visible effects of climate change every day, and when nearly a billion people go hungry every day. … [Read more...] about UK households waste 4.5m tonnes of food each year