ALFRED HITCHCOCK was uncharacteristically silent. Famously loquacious even as a 21-year-old, the lugubrious young film studio 'gofer' was mesmerised by the supernatural tale unfolding on a London West End stage. It was, he would admit many years later, the beginning of an obsession. There would be many others in the career of the 'master of suspense' - a voyeuristic desire for ice-cool, unattainable blonde actresses, struggling with his repressed sexuality and creating a series of chilling screen classics that exploited the innermost fears of his audiences.
UNDER normal circumstances, it would be strange to interview a world class author while he's working out in the gym. But then this is John Irving, a man who, despite being best known for publishing The World According To Garp and The Cider House Rules - having sold more than 12 million books in 35 languages - is also a former wrestler and inductee into the US National Wrestling Hall of Fame. So when Irving lies on a mat to do stomach crunches, while I bounce next to him on a gym ball to a soundtrack of J.Lo in the background, I can see he's as comfortable talking here, in the fitness suite of Edinburgh's Balmoral Hotel, as he would be at his desk back home in Vermont. I, on the other hand, am facing a challenge in dexterity, though Irving is keen to make sure I'm comfortable.
TO A mother, just the thought of losing custody of a child is the stuff of nightmares. To lose custody of them because the law thinks you are an unfit mother is almost impossible to comprehend. But that was what a judge called Sandi Hughes as he removed her three daughters from her life.
STUDENTS thinking about 'coming out' at university are being encouraged to access local support services if they are . As well as an active gay scene at North East universities, Newcastle also boasts a number of support groups for people who are gay, lesbian and bisexual.
Five times married Cary Grant may have been one of the world's favourite heartthrobs, but in a new book his daughter claims the Bristolborn actor liked to be thought of as bisexual. The new memoir by Grant's daughter Jennifer Grant, has re-stoked old rumours about the star's sexuality, with claims her father liked the mystique surrounding his sexuality because it "made women want to prove the assertion wrong".
In the new drama The Paperboy, what made you want to portray such a tough sexually voracious woman? When I read the script I went, "Wow, that's so far removed from me". I thought I'd like to give it a try and go to a place a lot rawer than I've been before. I wanted to stretch myself. Obviously the sexuality was frightening, but at the same time it's my job as an actor to commit to the role and not let my inhibitions get in the way. Your character Charlotte is obsessed with a Death Row inmate, played by John Cusack. Can you understand her attraction to him? I met with five women who have relationships with men in prison and they were incredibly graphic and honest with me. That's how I got into the character. You're 45 and you look maybe 15 years younger. How do you feel? I'm a bit more ...
REVIEW Bill Stone TOMBOY BLUES MARS TARRAB, Barbican Theatre No further performances THIS production marks the end of the Barbican Theatre's six-week Flourish season. It draws on the situation of Caster Semenya, the South African runner whose sexuality and achievements were challenged through debasing and intrusive gender tests, and a survey in which two thirds of women interviewed said they had been tomboys before puberty.
[broken bar] ESTERDAY Jessie J's sexuality was back in the headlines as an unauthorised biography claimed that the British singer was told not to come out as gay because it may "alienate fans". The author, Chloe Govan, alleges Jessie was advised to say she is bisexual, because it would come across as more "trendy" and would further "increase her allure". While Jessie rubbished the book's claims on Twitter, she has always been open about her sexual ambiguity and announced during a performance last year, at Soho's G-A-Y of all places: "I'm not bisexual. I'm not gay. I'm not straight. If I love a girl, I love a girl. If I love a guy, I love a guy. I'm not going to label myself. I'm not going to put myself in a little box for people that don't know who they are.
Consultant anaesthetist Margaret Owen kept her sexuality hidden from her colleagues for around eight years. But when she had a civil partnership with her partner Vicky Gunn in December last year she made the decision to tell the staff she worked with. Owen, 49, who works at Glasgow's Southern General and Victoria hospitals, said: "I came out to my family and friends when I was about 40, but did not come out to my work colleagues at the same time. I just had mixed feelings about it and was perhaps a bit fearful, although I didn't ever experience any overt homophobia.
GILLIAN Anderson is on the warpath. The former X-Files star has launched a broadside at Sunday Times associate editor Eleanor Mills, who interviewed Anderson at the end of July. The actress had willingly told Out magazine earlier this year about a brief affair with a woman a long time ago, so naturally Mills's interest was piqued. As Anderson recounted her new circle of professional female friends, Mills wondered: "Is there a deeper message here? Was this a way of coming out as part of a Sapphic sisterhood?" The article was headlined "Sexuality? It's fluid". Mills returned to the subject in a comment piece this weekend, noting how Anderson, who has just split from Mark Griffiths, her partner and father of their two children, had said she preferred to go on holiday with female friends.
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