Hadley Freeman

10 things learned on Oscar night

Likability matters in a host Seth MacFarlane’s predictably obnoxious hosting effort was yet another reminder (after Ricky Gervais’ increasingly unbearable Golden Globes gig) that it's preferable when the audience actually likes the host Published 26 Feb, 2013 10:03pm

Oprah is a safe choice

AMERICA may not, to its occasional twinging regret, have a royal family, but for the past four decades it has had its own regal mother confessor. Published 10 Jan, 2013 08:01pm

Bush`s memoirs

THERE have probably been more English literature PhD papers written on “the unreliable narrator” than the sexuality... Published 21 Mar, 2009 12:00am