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CONTENTS 16/10/05

FEATURES

16 WEISZ UP  Beautiful, brainy and British, she’s Hollywood’s brightest star. Rachel Weisz talks to  Sean O’Hagan  about spies, working with your lover and being John Le Carre’s leading lady

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22 CULTURAL REVOLUTION  China’s vast building boom is currently consuming half the world’s total production of concrete...   Deyan Sudjic  travels to Beijing as the country lays the foundation of its future 36 STITCH IN TIME  He was Britain’s greatest artist, she was a finalyear student...  Anthony Haden Guest  unpicks Clare Shenstone’s uniaue “sewn” portrait of Francis Bacon - and the unusual friendship they had 44 PETAL PUSHER  Like creatures from the deep, Fleur Olby’s stunning photographs force you to look at plants as you never have.   Monty Don  takes his pick from her new book and explains why they’re so fresh

REGULARS

5  Barbara Allen  7  Show & Tell  10  This Much I Know: historian Simon Schama in his own words  12  Small Ads; Roasted  79  The astrological week ahead, by Neil Spencer  81  Phil Holgan; You’re Great, You Are

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LIFE

OTV 16-22 OCTOBER

Your seven-day television and radio listenings begin on page 83

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50 FASHION  Stand out in a figure-sculpting Hitcock dress. Plus, slip into satin slippers, and why autumn’s the time to change your make-up 58 INTERIORS  From stick-on curtains to sticks you can sit on, Fiona Rattray samples the best and brightest of this year’s 100% Design. Plus, how to create an instant library, and Biba’s black and white visions 63 RELATIONSHIPS  Her best friend is spiralling out of control. Should she say something? Mariella Frostrup on why silence can be a sentence. 64 FOOD & DRINK  Nigel Slater heads north of the border and savours the flower of Scottish cheeses in Glasgow; Jay Rayner enters the magic kingdom of Manchester’s spiciest Chinese restaurant; and Tim Atkin reveals why the much-ignored vineyards of Roussillon are now attracting the attention of wine lovers everywhere 71 ETHICAL LIVING  Too many animals endure pain in order for us to enjoy a gastronomic pleasure. Lucy Siegle lobbies for cruelty-free cooking 73 HEALTH  Our obsession with looking young means we don’t always concentrate on thinking young - so Dr John Briffa shows how to mind your age; and Oliver James explores the idea that learning to be an adult often means forgetting how to be a child 77 WHEELS  Having spawned a generation of copycat carriers, Renault’s 21-year-old Espace is still the daddy of them all, says Martin Love

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UP FRONT SHOW & TELL

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The Burning Question   What’s really bothering us this week

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Introducing...  Jaime Winstone  actress

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14 PERCENTAGE OF THE WORLD’S MOBILE PHONES USERS WHO HAVE INTERRUPTED SEX TO ANSWER A CALL Source: Harpers

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dddddddddd  FASHION TENSE  cccccccccc PAST   Puffballs We’ve tried   Bitches 50 Cent’s ‘Outta Control’ looks silly   Harry Potter New film has scary PG-13 rating. Teenagers. Dragons. Bbbrrr   Seafood Full of pollution. And we’d just developed a taste for anchovies

PRESENT   Pom-poms Lovely on bags, scarves and hats   Dogs See Goldfrapp’s excellent ‘Twist’ promo   Beatrix Potter Renee Zellweger stars in biopic of Mrs Tiffywinkle creator. Cute   Seaweed Now added to junk food to up the fibre levels in burgers. A good thing?

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Wallace’s   canine sidekick was going to speak until a ‘happy accident’ when creator Nick Park made their first film, A Grand Day Out. In the first shot, Wallace uses Gromit as a trestle as he saws through a plank. ‘I couldn’t reach his mouth’, Park says. ‘All I could move was his brown, and his eyerolling, and suddenly he became very intelligent and put-upon, and an introvert dog, all at once unable to express verbally but only to look at the camera and relate’

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Why doesn’t  Gromit talk?

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What’s the word

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acronym. Database of Individual Patient Experiences   The internet has made it possible, 24 hours a day, for people with illnesses to search for ‘medi-data’, ‘clinfo’ or ‘quackfacts’ about their conditions. Among it all,  DIPEx  is something pioneering and sophisticated yet humanistic nad userfriendly – a database of video footage of sufferers talking about their experiences of different illnesses and of a variety of treatments for each. For instance, 52 men talk about their prostate cancer and 46 people about their long-term chronic pain; people whose pained but positive thoughts and advices if previously recorded at all would have been locked away in research papers. With www.dipex.org, patients can make informed choices after exploring ‘modules of experiences’, or solicit extra information from others in forums – ‘My mother has been advised Cozaar for her BP. She is 52 years old. Are there any side effects?’  Dipexers  are ‘the advance guard in a new sharing and caring approach to health care’. John Hind

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DIPEx

Celebrity etiquette    Start a new side-project – one fabulous career is never enough

The Rules Sulking

  We know it’s ridiculous, but we want it anyway Hardy Amies eau de parfum, £125     The first perfume created for Sir Hardy’s couture house since 1960. Well worth the wait. Very grown-up, very sophisticated

Rule  #1  Ensure everyone knows you’re cross. It’s infuriating when a sulk is misread as happy solitude.  Rule  #2  You can’t cry and sulk. A true stop is devoid of emotion.  Rule  #3  Sigh, slam, bang and throw  Rule  #4  If you’ve forgotten why you’re sulking, it’s really time to call it a day

UP FRONT SHOW & TELL

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Life INTERIORS

CREATIVE REVIEW

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‘NOT FOR THE FIRST TIME, I FOUND MYSELF MENTALLY ACQUIRING A NEW HOUSE TO DISPLAY ALL THE INSPIRING OBJECTS I WANTED TO TAKE HOME WITH ME’

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Life RELATIONSHIPS

Dear Mariella

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SHE WON’T BE GRATEFUL FOR YOUR HELP. IN FACT, SHE MAY RESPOND WITH THE AGE-OLD REFUGE OF THE INSECURE – DOWNRIGHT FURY

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MARIELLA FROSTRUP. ILLUSTRATION KLAUS HAAPANIEMI

Her friend has been the life and soul of every get-together for the past 15 years. How should she tell her the party’s now over?

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