Reuters Feb. 4: Mel Gibson is seen during a photocall for his film ‘Edge of Darkness.’ The Sheriff’s Department says it is investigating Mel Gibson over a possible domestic violence incident involving his ex-girlfriend earlier this year. The agency said in a news release Thursday that it... 

David Baddiel says cutting down his live performances coincided with an improvement in his mental health. Photograph: Graeme Robertson for the Guardian Say what you like about David Baddiel but you can’t say he’s lacking in ambition. Take the novel to which he’s currently... 

Totalitarian, ideologically motivated despot, or simply a fine American film-maker? Oliver Stone meets Hugo Chávez. Photograph: Everett Collection/Rex Features Despite my many differences with Oliver Stone as an artist, I congratulate him on having managed both to present an unhysterical... 

Elliot Levey (Robespierre) and Toby Stephens (Georges Danton) in Danton’s Death. Photograph: Tristram Kenton for the Guardian This is the third production in the National’s history of Büchner’s 1835 masterpiece written when he was only 21. But although Michael Grandage,... 

© /WENN Lindsay Lohan’s jail sentence keeps shrinking. After a Sheriff’s Department booking document mentioned that the 24-year-old actress could serve only 14 days of her 90-day jail sentence, a jail source now told The Sun that she could serve only...