Golden Globes 2024Oppenheimer triggers likely Oscars landslide as Golden Globes snub BarbiePeter BradshawAn unusually classy set of choices from the revamped Golden Globes may presage Academy Awards disappointment for last year’s big box office hit – and a sweep for its direct competitor
News: Oppenheimer takes five How the night unfolded Full list of winners So awards season and the Golden Globes got off to their new start. The cleaned-up and respectablised Globes put scandals about kickbacks and a lack of diversity in its voting body behind it, consigning the rackety “Hollywood Foreign Press Association” to the dustbin, replacing that with the “Golden Globes Foundation” and moreover drawing a line under the strike era. Read More...
The ObserverFictionInterviewStephen Vizinczey: 'My book is what you need instead of drink'William SkidelskyThe author of In Praise of Older Women explains why his tale of an erotic education remains relevant todayWhen I was 17, and newly separated from my first girlfriend, a family friend took me aside and handed me a battered paperback. "Read this," he said, smiling conspiratorially. "This should help you get over it." The book was by Stephen Vizinczey (a writer I'd never heard of) and it proved to be the fictionalised memoir of a young Hungarian philosophy professor – András Vajda – who narrates the story of his erotic education at the hands of a string of older women. Read More...
Toronto film festival 2023Sorry/Not Sorry, a new film premiering at the Toronto film festival, looks for lessons in the public disgrace and swift comeback of the comedian
In November 2017, the New York Times published an article confirming what had long been an open secret within the world of US comedy: that Louis CK, the heralded standup and star of the eponymous, critically beloved FX show Louie, had sexually harassed numerous female comedians. Read More...
