Seven days on stage – in pictures
The Stage's Alistair Smith rounds up the week in theatre – from protests in Hungary to a revamped theatre for Wales, Danny DeVito booking for the West End and Wayne Rooney's critical debutAlistair Smith
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Football focus: Queens Park Rangers’ Four Year Plan on film
Mat Hodgson's new film about the takeover of QPR is dynamite – a rare chance to witness the sparks that fly when business, football and machismo meetIt feels wholly appropriate to be talking to Mat Hodgson the day after Queens Park Rangers sacked the...
Inside the Divide: One City, Two Teams… The Old Firm by Richard Wilson – review
Kevin McKenna enjoys an insightful and wonderfully written account of the fierce rivalry between Glasgow's two football clubsI was 15 years old when, on 21 May 1979, I witnessed my first Celtic v Rangers match. My father, in common with other responsib...
The arts in 2012: television
Richard Vine picks his highlights of the year aheadNew GirlIf the words "pixie", "kooky" and "Zooey Deschanel" are a turn-off, then this is not for you. If you're a fan, however, this is a breezy riff on the apartment-sharing sitcom that should sit we...
Meerkat cult inspires hunt for quirky Christmas bestseller
Publishers wait to see which offbeat title heads the yuletide bestsellers listsWhen Meerkats Turn Bad; 101 Uses for a Dead Meerkat; Where's the Meerkat? – drawn by the success of last year's surprise Christmas hit, the fictional meerkat memoir The Si...
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When Tom Cruise met David Beckham: what movie should they make together?
The Mission: Impossible 4 actor says he wants to make a film with his footballer friend. But what should it be? Go on, pitch your ideas hereHe may have spent a few years in the wilderness, but the imminent release of Mission: Impossible 4 marks Tom Cru...
Christmas books: A Life Too Short by Ronald Reng
A poignant analysis chronicling the effects of depression on Robert Enke, the German goalkeeper who took his own lifeGreat sportswriting, wrote the American journalist and broadcaster Dick Schaap, "tells us as much about life as about sport" and his ve...
Brian Clough: The Biography: Nobody Ever Says Thank You by Jonathan Wilson – review
In separating the man from the myth, Jonathan Wilson's biography of Brian Clough is the first to do him justiceThirty years and an entire cycle of footballing modernity on from his grandest deeds, perhaps the most interesting thing about Brian Clough i...
Matt Smith interview: lord of misrule
He spends all his time in Wales, has no social life and he's just broken up with Daisy Lowe. But as Doctor Who returns, Matt Smith tells Euan Ferguson why he's the luckiest man on TVI don't think Matt Smith has an unenthusiastic bone in his body. True,...
Do women get overlooked for sports awards?