The actress on three-dimensional female characters, X-Files reboot and driving with Top Gear The truth may be out there but Gillian Anderson isn't interested. Best known for her role as skeptical (and smoldering) FBI Special Agent Dana Scully in The ...
25 May 2015 - Steven MacKenzie
A new film profiles puppeteer Caroll Spinney, the man behind some of ‘Sesame Street’s’ most-adored stars If you are able to read this sentence, chances are it’s partly due to “Sesame Street.” The show has taught literacy skills to generations of children ...
15 May 2015 - Steven MacKenzie
It is the last day of filming on “Castles in the Sky.” We are in Eddie Izzard’s trailer, in a car park in Edinburgh. It is sparse, no home comforts here, with just an iPhone, a pair of headphones and a script on the table to hint that it is in use. “You’r ...
25 Sep 2014 - Adrian Lobb
Ralph Steadman was born in Merseyside in 1936 and grew up in North Wales. He found his calling in a tiny advert for a Percy V Bradshaw illustration course: “You too can learn to draw and earn £££s”. In the 1960s his work appeared in Punch and Private Eye, ...
24 Jul 2014 - Adam Forrest