The new wave of child stars

Twelve-year-old Chloe Moretz in the horror remake Let Me In In the last few weeks you can’t have failed to be aware of Will Smith’s pint-sized 12-year-old son Jaden; he’s been unleashed at film premieres from Beijing to Berlin. Sometimes he’s even worn a little Michael Jackson outfit. Smith Jr is promoting the remake of [...]

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Hot Tap theatre: throwing a spanner in the works | Bella Todd

Temperature’s rising … Hot tap theatre Last week I saw a play called God Don’t Live On a Council Estate, in which actor Dudley Sutton plays a gangster grandfather, terrorising his family from his council-estate home. In a surreal metaphor for the life-sapping strength of such a character and existence, the seated tyrant is flanked [...]

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Act your age: the new wave of high-powered child stars

Twelve-year-old Chloe Moretz in the horror remake Let Me In In the last few weeks you can’t have failed to be aware of Will Smith’s pint-sized 12-year-old son Jaden; he’s been unleashed at film premieres from Beijing to Berlin. Sometimes he’s even worn a little Michael Jackson outfit. Smith Jr is promoting the remake of [...]

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