Stephen Armstrong – Sublime

Cage Fighter

Stephen Armstrong — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 00:00:00 +0000

It’s a cod philosophical question that’s become the frame for hip-hop braggadocio: could you walk a mile in these shoes? Could you view the world through my eyes? It’s claiming the true perspective on pain, something you couldn’t possibly comprehend unless you saw life through the prism of someone else’s soul. In the real world,...

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Gold Rush

Stephen Armstrong — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 13:00:00 +0000

Mark Britten is a quietly spoken man with a soft smile and friendly handshake. We meet in a fashionable vegetarian restaurant where he drinks chai tea and discusses the property portfolio he’s currently building up. The working capital to start this little nest egg came from a couple of years in the Middle East working...

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Passionate Patriarch

Stephen Armstrong — Thu, 01 May 2008 13:00:00 +0000

Many Hollywood actors like to sound off about politics. But few have been on the sharp end of it quite like Donald Sutherland. ‘I was in Yugoslavia when I found out,’ he says, with a fond smile. He is telling me about the day in 1969 when he discovered that his then wife, Shirley...

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Knightly Virtues

Stephen Armstrong — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 13:00:00 +0000

Some actors inhabit a role so perfectly that it can go on to haunt their careers – Christopher Reeve’s Superman, Harrison Ford’s Indiana Jones and Sean Connery’s Bond, to take three examples. With Viggo Mortensen, it will be hard to shake his barnstorming performance as Aragorn in The Lord of the Rings. He took a...

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Al Gore Gets Current

Stephen Armstrong — Tue, 01 May 2007 13:00:00 +0000

These are desperate times for those who look for heroes and prophets. If there is such a thing as a hero today it is – to paraphrase Camus – the person who says no. There are precious few of these. Perhaps there’s Ron Ridenhour – the only man who refused to administer fake electric shocks...

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In Real Time

Stephen Armstrong — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 13:00:00 +0000

When Kiefer Sutherland walks into the room, I’m sitting on one end of a long wooden table covered in papers and bottles. He sits down warily and I slap a tape recorder right in front of him. He throws up his hands in mock horror. ‘It’s a deposition!’ he exclaims. ‘I’d like to start...

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Inner Sparkle

Stephen Armstrong — Mon, 01 Jan 2007 13:00:00 +0000

Very briefly, Alek Wek is almost a refugee again. In early December, the supermodel spends a troubled Monday night in a London hotel, her passport too full to take a visa and her local British consulate in New York unwilling or unable to issue a new one. She has to return to London for an...

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