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Can the master spy writer still captivate readers?

'Can a Wodehouse, an R K Narayan, a Scott Fitzgerald and yes, a Le Carre, with the sensibilities of a bygone era still captivate a modern reader's attention?''Le Carre is making a brave and......

The frenemy of the people

Politicians have continued taking people for granted and managed to stay above the law, says T N Ninan “Let me tell you about the rich,” wrote F Scott Fitzgerald. “They are......

What we need to learn from people

F Scott Fitzgerald is renowned for being the chronicler of America's 'Gilded Age'. That was the period between the First World War and the Depression, when American plutocracy came into its own,......

Can Hollywood build a better business?

"You can take Hollywood for granted like I did, or you can dismiss it with the contempt we reserve for what we don't understand. It can be understood, too, but only dimly and in flashes. Not half a......

Here's what makes Gatsby GREAT, and Fundamentalist RELUCTANT

The Great Gatsby and The Reluctant Fundamentalist are two attempts to make moralising novels into spectacular movies. Here's why the first succeeds and the other fails. The first book that Mohsin......

PIX: Amitabh Bachchan, DiCaprio at Great Gatsby world premiere

The star-studded world premiere of Baz Luhrman's 3D extravaganza The Great Gatsby, held at the Lincoln Centre in New York on May 1, was marked by thousands of Amitabh Bachchan's......

FIRST LOOK: Big B, Leo in The Great Gatsby

Australian director Baz Luhrmann is back this Christmas with his adaptation of F Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, and we finally have a look at the ambitious film, apparently shot in 3D. The......

Elvis Hasn't Left The Building... He's In Cannes

Baz Luhrmann's Elvis got a 10-minute standing ovation at Cannes, making it a record of sorts at the famed French film festival where standing ovations are a genre by itself. We in India know Baz......

Bollywood's Ticket To Hollywood

It's a small world. Desi sightings in Western fare are no longer a rarity. Be it Farhan Akhtar in Ms. Marvel, Shabana Azmi in Halo or Nimrit Kaur in Homeland, it's great to see our stars in......

'He's like Benjamin Button!'

IMAGE: Mahendra Singh Dhoni has been training hard in the nets, showing no signs of discomfort with regard his knee that gave his trouble last season. Photograph: CSK/X Ahead of the Indian Premier......

All hail soccer's Benjamin Button!

IMAGE: Zlatan Ibrahimovic scored his fastest goal in an AC Milan shirt in Serie A on Wednesday, July 29, in just three minutes, 22 seconds. There is no one like Zlatan Ibrahimovic in football. A......

Philippoussis left out of Australia team

Mark Philippoussis has been left out of Australia's side for next month's Davis Cup tie with Austria.Non-playing captain John Fitzgerald said Lleyton Hewitt, Wayne Arthurs, Todd Woodbridge and......