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... 

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Sonisphere

Just the warm-up … Alice Cooper at Sonisphere. Photograph: Tina Korhonen/Retna Although only two years old, Sonisphere has elbowed Donington’s Download aside to become the UK’s premier metal festival. It says something about the scale of the operation that Alice Cooper can be... 

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Who’s the least expendable of The Expendables?

Something’s up: Jason Statham, Sylvester Stallone and Randy Couture in The Expendables. Photo: Lions Gate/Everett/Rex Sylvester Stallone had a dream, and that dream was to assemble the biggest cast of grunting, macho, unfeasibly ripped movie lunks in cinema history. A few twirls of his... 

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Courtney Love’s bizarre style blog

Courtney Love Photograph: Maury Phillips/WireImage Courtney Love’s new fashion blog, What Courtney Wore Today, isn’t fooling anyone. The setup is that it is posted via an apparently likeminded, anonymous amanuensis called “L” or sometimes “T” (and... 

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City’s banks put aside £5bn to pay staff bonuses

The City skyline – banks are believed to have set aside £5bn to pay staff bonuses, despite calls for pay restraints. Photograph: Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images British banks with big City operations have amassed pay and bonus pools of more than £5bn in the first six months of the year,... 

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