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The actors latest project is about the joy of sex, as well as its capacity to exploit, control and kill. She discusses the pleasure of life after being written off by Hollywood and the beauty business

Jacques Lecoq, who has died aged 77, was one of the greatest mime artists and perhaps more importantly one of the finest teachers of acting in our time. Born in Paris, he began his career as an actor in France. Passionately interested in the commedia dell'arte, he went to Italy to do research on the

Jamie Arnold, 33, made racist remarks and gestures at former England defender, who was working as a TV pundit, court heard A football fan who racially abused the former England international Rio Ferdinand has been jailed for six months and banned from watching live matches for seven years.

It could feel lame to start any paean to a favourite record with a claim for its significance; it makes it sound dry, academic, removed from the emotions it engages. And yet the story of Pirate's Choice bears re-telling, and what I've taken from it over the years is bound up in its multiple histories.

The law used by the Third Reich to oppress gay men continued long after its downfall. Director Sebastian Meise on Great Freedom, his searing film about a man incarcerated almost all his life Paragraph 175 sounds innocuous enough. A minor piece of legislation, perhaps, or part of those terms and conditions that any one of