Bryan Adams photographs Cher, Grimes and Iggy Pop for Pirelli calendar | Music
Music This article is more than 2 years oldBryan Adams photographs Cher, Grimes and Iggy Pop for Pirelli calendarThis article is more than 2 years oldJennifer Hudson, St Vincent and other music stars also feature in touring-themed photoshoots conceived by rocker-photographer
Images of recording artists including Cher, Iggy Pop, Jennifer Hudson and Grimes will feature in one of the world’s best known photographic commissions.
For the 2022 Pirelli calendar, the rock star and photographer Bryan Adams has captured superstar singers as if they were touring – precisely what they have been unable to do for more than a year.
Greta Scacchi: I was always being invited to play a male fantasy | Greta Scacchi
Observer New Review Q&AGreta ScacchiInterviewGreta Scacchi: ‘I was always being invited to play a male fantasy’Jude RogersThe actor on 80s stardom, growing Tuscan veg in Sussex and why theatre remains her sacred space
Greta Scacchi, 63, is an Emmy award-winning actor. Born in Milan, Italy, she spent her childhood in England and two years of her teens in Australia, where she began working in theatre. Her films include White Mischief, The Player and Emma, and she can currently be seen in the TV series Bodies and recent film Run Rabbit Run (with Succession’s Sarah Snook), both on Netflix.
Guess How Much I Love You author Sam McBratney dies aged 77 | Picture books
Picture books This article is more than 3 years oldGuess How Much I Love You author Sam McBratney dies aged 77This article is more than 3 years oldThe Northern Irish author was best known for his story of Little Nutbrown Hare and Big Nutbrown Hare, which sold more than 50m copies
Sam McBratney, the author of the bestselling picture book Guess How Much I Love You, has died at the age of 77.
Handsome devils: the birth of the homme fatale
MoviesThe bunny boiler is dead. New films Un Homme Idéal and The Perfect Guy swap the gender roles to expose the anxieties and insecurities of modern men
Glass-chip cookies and cat in a dryer: match the plot to the potboiler – quizRead moreThe femme fatale is one of the family, cinematically speaking. Throw a stiletto heel and you will hit someone who could explain how to spot a Gilda or a Laura at 10 paces.
Jerome Ave: inside one of New York City's last working class areas - in pictures | US news
Jerome Ave: inside one of New York City's last working class areas - in pictures Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Photographs have gone on display from a project documenting and celebrating the workers and tradespeople of Jerome Avenue, in the Bronx, where many people still make a living in small shops and factories. The city is considering a plan to rezone two miles along the street, which has already led to the raising of rents
The 10-year-old US soccer sensation and social media star snapped up by Roma
SoccerAlessandro Cupini has more than 40,000 followers on Instagram and his own pitch in his basement in Kansas City which he will soon be leaving to join the Serie A club, getting around Fifa’s youth regulations thanks to dual-citizenshipIn the south of Kansas City on a corner of 43rd Avenue there is an Italian restaurant called Cupini’s. Eddie Cupini and his father, Franco, have dedicated nearly 15 years to serving the best pasta in town – “Just like my mom used to make,” says Franco – and earning a few awards along the way.
Closer review Patrick Marbers daring drama turns 25
TheatreReviewLyric Hammersmith, London
This intimate story of four-way romantic damage gains an extra edge in Clare Lizzimore’s slick revival
Patrick Marber’s hit play brimmed with daring when it premiered in 1997. A spiky romcom of sorts, it spoke with expletive urgency about the destructive capabilities of love, intimacy and carnal desire between two modern couples.
Clare Lizzimore’s slick, intelligent revival, 25 years on, manages to bring its own sense of risk to the staging, yet exposes the limits of the play in the process.
Grand illusion | Gerhard Richter
Gerhard RichterGrand illusionGerhard Richter, often called the best living painter, begins work on his portraits by projecting photographs on to canvas. His subjects soon become ghostsAccording to legend, it was the painter Hippolyte Délaroche who, on seeing the first daguerrotypes exhibited in Paris in 1839, let out the notorious cry of despair La peinture est morte! That painting was dead or dying soon became a critical cliche, one repeated throughout the 20th century.
Honduras This article is more than 7 months oldHonduras players boycott Louisiana friendly amid farcical pitch conditionsThis article is more than 7 months oldSquad complain about pitch, transport and accommodationMatch was scheduled in area with large Honduran populationHonduras’s men’s football team is at loggerheads with a Louisiana club after its players backed out of a friendly match hours before kickoff, citing poor field conditions.
Honduras had scheduled the match against Barbados as preparation for this summer’s Gold Cup, Concacaf’s regional championship, which will run from 24 June to 16 July in various US cities.
Ku Klux Klan man dies four years after jailing for 1964 murders | US news
US news This article is more than 12 years oldKu Klux Klan man dies four years after jailing for 1964 murdersThis article is more than 12 years oldJames Ford Seale was brought to justice 43 years after tying blocks to the feet of two teenagers and throwing them in riverJames Ford Seale, who in 1964 committed one of the most gruesome acts of the segregationist South when he tied blocks to the feet of two black teenagers and threw them still breathing into the Mississippi river, has died – for the second time.