Why Doon Mackichan, star of Smack the Pony and The Day Today, has fallen for Joe Orton [4 hrs][Westminster] It has been a while since Doon Mackichan was last hung, drawn and quartered for laughing at the suffering of children. There was a week in August 2001 when you couldn't pass a newsstand without seeing her handsome, sparrowhawk face, forehead partially obscured by the word "evil" or "depraved". [More ...]
Henry Barnes: How Hollywood grew up about teen sex [14 hrs][Beverly Hills, CA] Parents! Do you know what your teenage son has got himself into? The answer, according to the people behind such films as new teen comedy Sex Drive, is socks, apple pies, soft fruit and his friends' mums. If it's inanimate or inappropriate, he's been there. [More ...]
How a Rogue Geologist Discovered a Diamond Trove in the Canadian Arctic [1 day] Behind an unmarked door in a faded business park outside Kelowna, British Columbia, in a maze of rooms crowded with desks, computers, and floor-to-ceiling shelves, Chuck Fipke sifts through 20-pound bags of dirt. [More ...]