Helen Mirren says being naked on the screen gets easier with age, and next year she’s about to start work in a brothel. The Times finds the perennial pin-up bent on mischief

A devoted mother of six, with a dark and driven side. But Angelina Jolie is also willing to put her life on the line.

Zeynep Fadillioglu is one member of a team of interior designers and architects overseeing the construction of the Sakirin Mosque. It is Fadillioglu's first mosque. "I think I don't know of any other person — a woman — who has designed a mosque before," she says.

Cyndi Lauper talks about her new album, Bring Ya to the Brink.

Emma Thompson talks to Radio 4's Woman's Hour about her new film Brideshead Revisited.

I heard this interview on NPR last weekend and it was fascinating. Doris Lessing's new book, Alfred and Emily, takes a look at the lives of her parents and mixes memories and historical fiction. It sounds intriguing and the NPR interview is truly worth a listen.

Cherie Blair's memoir, Speaking for Myself, is published in the US in October. Vanity Fair takes a look at the controversial Prime Minister's wife.

In his enormous new movie Baz Luhrmann is not only bringing the actress back home, he’s redefining an entire country

Glenn Close, Eileen Atkins and Laura Linney are all savouring Emmys for their performances in TV dramas. But, asks Vicky Frost from The Guardian, is television just a consolation prize for women considered too old for the big screen?

New online magazine seeks pieces on the great outdoors: fiction, non-fiction, poetry, photographs. Great opportunity for new and experienced authors.