If you thought Jurassic Park in the cinema was scary, then imagine a life-sized, one-and-a-half-ton, 36ft-tall T-rex with razor-sharp teeth charging towards your seat in a darkened arena bellowing like a banshee. Or there's the leading lady, who is 23ft tall and almost twice as long, with 6in teeth and a palpable lust for blood. These are mama and papa T-rex, the stars of the £15 million Walking With Dinosaurs show, which is touring the UK from next month ...read
LIFE COLUMNISTS
- TOM PARKER BOWLES: No pub's as sweet as the Nut, where ancien regime meets unmodishly modern
- CHRIS EVANS: Now that's an Alpine peak! The 1960s legend is reborn as a modern marvel
- OLLY SMITH: The secret of a perfect bubbly ...if you're after exquisite sparkle, it has to be bottle-fermented fizz
- ROB WAUGH: A turntable to get you back in the groove
PIERS MORGAN: MY LIFE & OTHER CELEBRITIES
'Age is irrelevant - unless you're a bottle of wine,' said Dame Joan
I'm in St Tropez for half-term, and dined tonight at The Strand restaurant with Dame Joan Collins and her husband Percy. The great lady celebrated her 85th birthday a week ago and judging by her social-media posts from a variety of nightspots, she's been celebrating it ever since. 'I've hit the wall,' she groaned on arrival. 'Can I have an emergency Grey Goose vodka with ice to take the edge off my hangover?' ...read
LAST WEEK'S EVENT
'I signed her for $15k from my hospital bed': The legendary record exec Seymour Stein recalls how he signed the bolshie unknown Madonna but how she would never allow herself to be controlled by any man
With her seductively catchy smash hits and signature style, Madonna had the competition licked from the start. As she turns 60, Event looks back on the dazzling rise and sheer gall of the Material Girl, through the eyes of those who know her best - starting with the untold story of the man who unleashed pop's biggest and brashest plucky star! ...read
Strike a pose (there's nothing to it): From bubblegum blonde to Blond Ambition, from Material Girl to cowgirl - Madonna always tries to stay one step ahead of what's in Vogue...
Right from the start of her career, Madonna knew exactly how to get the kind of arresting shots that would help make her famous. When Deborah Feingold photographed her in Feingold's studio flat in New York in 1982, it was clear that even aged 24 and yet to release her first album, the young singer was incredibly focused ...read