UK newsChild star Jack Wild, the Artful Dodger, dies of cancer aged 53Teenage star of Oliver! went on to suffer two decades of alcoholismJack Wild, the actor who found fame as the Artful Dodger in the film Oliver! at 16, was a millionaire at 18 and an alcoholic by 21, has died after a long battle with oral cancer, aged 53.
The former child star was nominated for an Oscar for his performance as the amoral street urchin in the musical film of Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist in 1968. Read More...
The G2 interviewFilmInterview‘I had to leave Hollywood to save myself’: Kim Novak on art, bipolar, Hitchcock and happinessSimon HattenstoneKim Novak starred in Vertigo – voted the best film ever made – but knew she was too fragile for fame. She talks about her tough childhood, the sensitive side of Sinatra and starting again in her forties
Kim Novak apologises for the mess. And, to be fair, the studio at her Oregon home is fabulously messy. Read More...
The ObserverBooksReviewAn exhaustive study of footage from an exhausting bike race, an affecting novel within a novel, and a hymn to the beauty of the Cornish coastline 1923: The Mystery of Lot 212 and a Tour de France ObsessionNed Boulting
Bloomsbury, £18.99, pp288
As lockdown projects go, this was a good one. Boulting bought a two-minute clip of an old bike race for £120 at auction. Holding the film up to the light, he realised this was distant and long-forgotten Tour de France footage – a race he commentates on every summer. Read More...