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Toby Jones: dial H for Hitchcock | Drama

DramaInterviewToby Jones: dial H for HitchcockSteve RoseHe's played Truman Capote and Karl Rove – now Toby Jones is donning a fat suit and prosthetic chin to play the Master in new TV drama The Girl. Steve Rose talks to him about Hitchcock's dark side, failure and funky clothesLittle seems to have changed at Simpson's in the Strand since the days when Alfred Hitchcock dined here: the wood panelling, the chandeliers, the white-robed chefs carving hunks of meat on silver trolleys.

Win Tickets For All The Family To The Suffolk Show

The Suffolk Show is back on Wednesday 31st May & Thursday 1st June so get ready for loads of family fun - especially as we've got a family ticket and spending money to be won! The Suffolk Show is back at Trinity Park, Ipswich on Wednesday 31st May and Thursday 1st June with non-stop thrills and family fun from dawn 'til dusk.  Experience the Great British countryside at its very best with the county's biggest event of the year, celebrating food, farming and everything we love about Suffolk.

10 Books to Read If You Like Generation-Spanning Sci-Fi Epics Like Foundation

Apple TV+’s Foundation did what many thought was impossible: take Isaac Asimov’s groundbreaking, centuries-spanning books and make them into a cohesive television show. The second season of the series is underway, and while we wait each week to see how the psychohistory plays out, we’ll have to turn elsewhere to get our fix for epic, temporally expansive sci-fi stories. Foundation is the story of the crumbling of a galactic empire, something that slowly but inevitably takes place over generations.

Banksy's painted elephant is illegal, say officials | Banksy

BanksyBanksy's painted elephant is illegal, say officialsThe British artist Banksy has been criticised by officials in California for the "frivolous abuse" of an elephant which he had painted to look like pink wallpaper. The elephant, Tai, was the main attraction at Banksy's first US exhibition, which opened last week in Los Angeles, drawing celebrities including Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie. Tai was painted to blend in with a set-up of a living room, and was supposed to symbolise how the problem of world poverty is ignored.

Coco Austin Claps Back at Criticism Over Pushing Her 6-Year-Old Daughter in a Stroller

Coco Austin says there are bigger issues in the world to talk about rather than the criticism over pushing her 6-year-old daughter, Chanel, in a stroller.  Ice-T's wife took to Twitter, sharing an article that highlighted a photo where Chanel was sitting in a stroller while her parents shopped. "Oh lord!! Really people? The world loves to criticize literary everything i do!" she wrote.  Online commentators claimed that six years old is too old to be using a stroller, and the number of people chiming in actually made the topic trend.