Tropicana, once host to celebrities, criminals and 007, will be replaced by the city’s new focus of attraction, a sports stadium Las Vegas’s famous Tropicana hotel is no more. Its guests were abruptly asked to leave earlier this month and its gold-domed casino closed – signaling the end of an icon of classic Sin City life where glamor, celebrity and crime seemed to go hand in hand. Now the old building will be elaborately demolished with explosives – a tradition of Nevada’s desert gambling mecca – to make way for a sports stadium, symbolizing for many modern Vegas’s image of sanitized mass tou ..read more

Idris Elba has been waiting in the wings for years but perhaps the time has come for Matt Smith, Henry Golding … or a certain TV chef Just as the runners and riders were parading around the paddock, Aaron Taylor-Johnson has sensationally dismounted and stalked back to the changing room, thoughtfully tapping his whip against his thigh. What happened? Did his agent overplay things by sneakily leaking negotiations to the press, hoping the subsequent acclaim would nail down a whopping fee? Did they get their bluff called? Who knows? Either way, producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael G Wilson, keep ..read more

The actor found fame as the cocky finance bro in The White Lotus. Now, as he stars in Guy Ritchie’s The Gentlemen, he talks to Tim Lewis about being ‘irritatingly competitive’, giving up music for acting – and whether James Bond really is on the horizon... When Theo James read the script for the second season of The White Lotus, the British actor wasn’t immediately sure what he could bring to the part of Cameron. The character was “another finance bro”: cocky, suave and superficial. “Interesting,” he recalls, “but we’ve seen it a hundred times.” At the audition, though, the 39-year-old James w ..read more

Actor who played Miss Moneypenny in the James Bond film Never Say Never Again and had roles in Doctor Who and Blake’s 7 The actor Pamela Salem, who has died aged 80, brought a touch of class to a number of well-known franchises during a screen career of more than 50 years. She achieved cinematic immortality by playing the loyal secretary Miss Moneypenny in the James Bond film Never Say Never Again (1983), an anomalous entry to the canon, made independently of the Eon-produced series, that marked the return of Sean Connery to the role of the famous secret agent after an absence of 12 years. Sal ..read more

The star known as Miss Moneypenny in Never Say Never Again and Prof Rachel Jensen in Doctor Who has died aged 80 Pamela Salem, known for her role as James Bond’s secretary Miss Moneypenny in Sean Connery’s Never Say Never Again, has died at the age of 80. The British actor, who also had a role in 1978 crime film The Great Train Robbery opposite Connery, died on Wednesday according to Big Finish Productions. Born in 1944 in India, she attended Heidelberg university in Germany and the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama in London, before starting in repertory theatre in Chesterfield and Yor ..read more

The American singer-songwriter answers your questions about working with Johnny Cash and the Rolling Stones, what makes her happy – and why she used to hate All I Wanna Do What inspired you to make a new album, Evolution, after calling 2019’s Threads your “final” album? Jade99 I’m raising two teenage boys who ask a lot of hard questions, and after we started talking about AI I found myself writing a lot in the mornings after they go to school. I wound up with seven songs that were halfway between a diary and venting. I called my producer friend Mike Elizondo and said, “I have these songs. I do ..read more

Released in 1962, Dr No starred Connery as the British secret agent in a groundbreaking action film that became a worldwide hit. It also established one of the longest-running and highest-grossing film franchises. Here we go behind the scenes, with Connery, Ursula Andress and author Ian Fleming • James Bond: Dr No is published by Taschen on 1 March ..read more

She shot to fame as the first female 007 and is now tackling reggae royalty as Marley’s wife, Rita. But the actor hasn’t always had it easy in an industry hostile to people without a safety net Lashana Lynch is cocooned in a full-length padded coat and beanie, looking inconspicuous as a friend checks her into the well-known London members’ club we have arranged to meet in, then leaves. Lynch sees me and grins, yet I can’t help but picture the 36-year-old actor axe-kicking me in the face. That was more her speed with a history-making turn as M16 agent Nomi, the spy who takes over the 007 code n ..read more

A new season celebrating John Barry’s film soundtracks come loaded with offence warnings that don’t seem that necessary • BFI season gives James Bond films trigger warnings Culture warriors have heard a safety-catch being clicked firmly into place at London’s BFI Southbank for a forthcoming season of 60s movies – variously naughty, groovy and gritty – scored by the great composer John Barry: Soundtracking Bond and Beyond. The “Beyond” part means classics such as The Ipcress File and Midnight Cowboy, but obviously 007’s exploits are the main event. And there’s a prominent warning: “Please note ..read more

The season celebrating the work of British composer John Barry flags films from the 60s and 70s that contain outdated language, images and stereotypes that will cause offence Audiences at a new season of films at the British Film Institute in London have been cautioned the titles – including two James Bond movies – “will cause offence today”. A blanket trigger warning has been placed over all movies being presented at a tribute to the work of British composer John Barry, the man behind the scores for many 007 films ..read more