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... 

Sold down the river? … Joaquin Phoenix arrives at the Venice film festival’s I’m Still Here premiere by water taxi. Photograph: Alessandro Bianchi/Reuters Is it an authentic, warts-and-all documentary about a tortured artist who has fallen out of love with his chosen profession?... 

Mark David Chapman, who killed John Lennon Photograph: NYSDOCS / HANDOUT/EPA The latest parole hearing for John Lennon’s killer has been postponed, delaying Mark David Chapman’s sixth bid for freedom. The 55-year-old was scheduled to appear before a parole hearing this week at the... 

AP2002 Singer Jimmy Buffett makes a surprise appearance at the annual Parrot Heads in Paradise convention in Key West, Fla., Friday Nov. 1, 2002. More than 3,000 of the singer’s fans have gathered in Key West through Sunday, Nov. 3. There are now almost 160 Parrot Head chapters in the U.S., Australia...