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The director who hated working with Eddie Murphy: “A horrible, depressed, creepy guy”
Plenty of comedians have revealed themselves to be dark and troubled people away from the harsh glare of the spotlight, but ...
“You sing it, I don’t want to learn the lyrics”: The song Dave Grohl never wanted to sing
Dave Grohl may feel right at home fronting Foo Fighters now, but there were some songs that got the better of him after one ...
The song that showed Rod Stewart that The Faces never reached their “full potential”
While The Faces had reasonable success, Rod Stewart would achieve greater things as a solo artist, and one song from their ...
Why Jack Black epitomises everything wrong with modern Hollywood
Whenever I tell someone I’m not a fan of Jack Black, as an actor at least, I’m always met with shock. “But what about School ...
Why are big movies called blockbusters?
The origins of the term aren’t entirely known, with several different theories posited by experts, but it was first used in ...
The director Christopher Nolan would perform inception on: “If I could steal someone’s dream”
Christopher Nolan is known for his trippy worlds and visual spectacles, with the director describing the other filmmakers he would use the 'Inception' logic on.
The iconic Kevin Costner role originally written for Steve McQueen: “We’ll make it great”
Steve McQueen and Kevin Costner are two actors who’ve embodied the idea of Americana in different periods and in completely different ways, making it hard to imagine a role written for one of them ...
The actor Robin Williams called the greatest ever: “There’s the rest of us, and then there’s him”
Nicholson would probably agree, seeing as he called himself the most successful actor the business has ever seen, and that’s not even arrogance because there’s a decent probability – at the very least ...
The role Burt Reynolds only played because Gene Hackman said no: “We were not enthusiastic”
By the 1990s, Reynolds was reduced to being a casting director’s last resort. When Striptease producer Mike Lobell was searching for a distinguished veteran to play Lane Dilbeck, the powerful and ...
“Complete bollocks”: The musician Roger Waters felt tried to ruin his reputation
Roger Waters may have been content to move on without caring about what people thought of him, but he wasn't going to roll over when someone rewrote history.
“Horrified when he heard it”: The one song Paul Simon will always regret
Paul Simon is bound to have some songs that don't age as well as others, but he knew that something went drastically wrong when tunes got to the studio.
“I could not rescue those”: The John Lennon songs that were forever lost to history
John Lennon may have given as much as he could while on this Earth, but sometimes pieces are best left as a moment in time.