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![Malcolm McClaren: '[In the 1970s], this was a failed, miserable country whose infrastructure was dying by the hour. Industry was collapsing - there was nothing'](/googleai/decoding-https-web.archive.org/web/20091209121224im_/http://www.independent.co.uk/multimedia/archive/00267/altpeoprogetty_267455c.jpg "Malcolm McClaren: '[In the 1970s], this was a failed, miserable country whose infrastructure was dying by the hour. Industry was collapsing - there was nothing'")
Malcolm McLaren: 'I'm most probably a missing link'
The Sex Pistols supremo who helped to revolutionise popular culture in the Seventies wants to be recognised as a serious artist
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Poliakoff: 'Original work takes arrogance'
Friday, 20 November 2009
The director's latest film is set at the beginning of the Second World War, a period inextricably linked with his own family history
Rupert Penry-Jones: 'It's nice not to be chasing a bad guy'
Friday, 13 November 2009
Rupert Penry-Jones is grateful to be TV's most famous spy, and with a play set to open, he isn't worried about being typecast
Akram Khan: 'You have to become a warrior'
Friday, 6 November 2009
He's the darling of the dance world, and beyond, with artists such as Anish Kapoor and Antony Gormley lining up to work with him
Clare Higgins: 'I was a bit of an odd child'
Friday, 30 October 2009
An epiphany at the Royal Shakespeare Company led the award-winning actress first to misbehaviour, and then stardom
Jonathan Miller: 'Some things I've done are deep as you get'
Friday, 23 October 2009
The term 'Renaissance man' could have been invented for him. So why, after a long and illustrious career, is Jonathan Miller so gloomy?
Dylan Moran: 'I am a bit of a bumbling man, as you can tell..."
Friday, 16 October 2009
Despite his trademark moroseness, it seems that Dylan Moran may not be quite the crank he's cracked himself up to be
Robert Harris: A writer close to the power elite
Friday, 9 October 2009
Robert Harris may have friends in high places – but that doesn't mean that the sharpness of his writing is blunted by compromise
Roberto Alagna: 'Opera was my secret love'
Friday, 2 October 2009
His life story is as colourful and tear-jerking as any of the roles he's sung. So will the heart-throb tenor ever find serenity?
John Simm: 'I don't mean to seem cocky'
Friday, 18 September 2009
He's known as the star of television dramas 'Life on Mars' and 'Dr Who'. Now the actor is returning to the West End stage
David McVicar: 'I'm good because I care so much'
Friday, 11 September 2009
He's opera's bad boy with a reputation for bloody stagings and tantrums, but the world-renowned director is a big softie at heart
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