Elizabeth Debicki: ‘Am I going to tell you what I had for breakfast, or who I’m dating?’ Photograph: Hollie Fernando/The Guardian. Bralette and skirt: Emilia Wickstead. Shoes: Christian LouboutinElizabeth Debicki: ‘Am I going to tell you what I had for breakfast, or who I’m dating?’ Photograph: Hollie Fernando/The Guardian. Bralette and skirt: Emilia Wickstead. Shoes: Christian LouboutinElizabeth DebickiInterviewElizabeth Debicki on playing Diana: ‘I never watched The Crown and thought, this is a documentary’Rebecca NicholsonShe found stardom in The Night Manager and Tenet but how will she cope with the attention that comes with playing the most scrutinised woman of all time? Read More...
Pop music is in a golden age for those seeking a highly specific cocktail of moods: a strain of world-weariness that's inescapably tinged with sadness, longing, boredom, resentment and lust. That exact fuel mixture — the lustful woe; the bored, resentful longing — courses through every word of Chappell Roan's irresistible "Casual."
Throughout the song, Roan peppers her pleas with explicit details — some more explicit than others — about a relationship between lovers with incompatible desires. Read More...
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I remember being taught in biology class in our 1950s grammar school in Manchester that peristalsis works both ways (Dairylea cheese ad showing child eating while upside down banned over choking risk, 19 January). Under teacher supervision, two of us held a boy upside down by his ankles while he drank half a bottle of milk through a straw. Read More...