Hamish MacBain

2 weeks ago | standard.co.uk | Hamish MacBain |Rachael Davies

On the Tube early in the morning, a few feet underground, it is the tuts and the sighs that I can’t stand. In New York, people swear. In Paris, they stare. Really stare. But in London, at rush hour, we tut and sigh – at everything. Someone’s backpack brushing against your chest. The driver announcing that you and your fellow sardines will be ‘evening out the gaps in the service’ for a few minutes. The destination of your Circle line train changing moments before its arrival. Tut, sigh, tut, sigh.

Dec 10, 2024 | ca.news.yahoo.com | El Hunt |Abha Shah |Nick Clark |Vicky Jessop |Robbie Smith |Anna van Praagh | +5 more

It’s sad but true – all good things must eventually come to an end. After spending hours upon hours devoted to a particular show and drinking up every last frame of the action, it can be painful prising your fingers from the remote control for a final time and waving a sorrowful goodbye to the fictional characters that have become an intergral part of your life. But as the age-old idiom puts it, if you love someone, let them go.

May 21, 2024 | ca.movies.yahoo.com | Jessica Benjamin |Nancy Durrant |Jochan Embley |Katie Law |Hamish MacBain |Katie Rosseinsky | +3 more

Today will mark 25 years since the release of Notting Hill, Richard Curtis’s rom-com about cool American actress Anna Scott (Julia Roberts) falling in love with awkward English bookshop owner Will Thacker (Hugh Grant).

May 21, 2024 | aol.co.uk | Jessica Benjamin |Nancy Durrant |David Ellis |Jochan Embley |Katie Law |Hamish MacBain | +4 more

Hugh Grant in Notting Hill (Moviestore/Shutterstock)Today will mark 25 years since the release of Notting Hill, Richard Curtis’s rom-com about cool American actress Anna Scott (Julia Roberts) falling in love with awkward English bookshop owner Will Thacker (Hugh Grant).

Apr 10, 2024 | standard.co.uk | Hamish MacBain

The stories, really, are as numerous as they are individually notable. Salman Rushdie rented the flat above in the summer of 1967 and describes the shop below as ‘a scary place’ on account of how intimidatingly hip it was (‘India, man? Far out!’ he remembers the clientele saying to him when he told them he was Indian). Legendary groupie Pamela Des Barres had her first... encounter with Mick Jagger while he was trying on clothes.