Freddie Starr
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Steve Martin at 75: ‘The name Dr Michael Hfuhruhurr still makes me laugh’
- Film
- August 13, 2020, 06:00
He’s a master of slapstick, a surrealist clown, the don of comic film roles from Roxanne to The Jerk. As he turns 75, comics including Sarah Silverman(...)

Jojo Rabbit: between daring and bad taste in Nazi Germany
- Film
- January 3, 2020
Philosophers still argue over what Theodor Adorno meant by “to write poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric”. We can, however, safely wager that those who(...)

Freddie Starr, who died yesterday, at the age of 76, at his home in Spain, was an eccentric and unpredictable talent best enjoyed in a typically chaot(...)

Ronnie Wood’s Sandymount Duke ruled out of Grand National
- Racing
- April 2, 2019, 17:56
Ronnie Wood has learned you can’t always get what you want, as his colours will not be carried in the Grand National. The Rolling Stones guitarist own(...)

‘Conor McGregor ate my €5m Leprechaun! And 10 reasons why he hates Man Utd’
- Sport
- July 24, 2017, 07:00
Ah, made you look; job done. It’s rubbish, obviously. Even in a post-truth world everyone knows ‘Themcgregornator’ is a United fan. But as clickbait i(...)

Dave Hannigan: Writing about Ali is like entering a rabbit hole
- Sport
- June 8, 2016, 16:55
A couple of years back, I asked a roomful of college freshmen and women to name the world’s most famous living Muslim. “Barack Obama! ” stage-whispere(...)

Singer Demis Roussos dies aged 68
- World
- January 26, 2015, 14:04
Greek singing star Demis Roussos, who had a string of hits in the 1970s and whose flamboyant style inspired satirists, has died aged 68.Roussos, with (...)

Max Clifford sex trial jury considers verdict
- UK
- April 16, 2014, 13:06
Jurors have resumed their deliberations in the trial of publicist Max Clifford who is accused of a string of indecent assaults. The 71-ye(...)

The dark reality behind television images from our childhood
- News
- May 6, 2013, 02:00
Everybody under 60 has a television childhood, a sort of snowy screen in the memory that fizzes into life at peculiar times, most often these d(...)

Rolf Harris named as sex abuse suspect
- UK
- April 19, 2013, 10:54
Rolf Harris was today named as the veteran entertainer who was arrested by police investigating allegations of sexual abuse following the Jimm(...)