VIDEO: Ball Boy Takes Astounding Catch
Being a tennis ball boy (or girl) might look like a right doss, but you’ve got to have gazelle-like reactions. You snooze, you lose.
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Alessandra Ambrosio
How’s 2012 been for you so far? Bit cold isn’t it? And wet. Can’t abide the rain. Silly invention. January’s beginning to drag too. A holiday would be nice, if we…
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Surreal Moments On Film
ShortList has taken a surreal turn this week. Not only is our latest issue dedicated to this most mind-bending and discursive of aesthetical, philosophical and political theories – including…
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The history of Google
Google it. If you’d uttered those two immortal words as recently as, say, 12 years ago, chances are you’d have been met with a response that would have gone something like,…
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Nicolas Winding Refn
“I’m just so sick of talking about Drive,” says an exasperated Nicolas Winding Refn. As opening interview exchanges go, it’s far from ideal. But, given its ubiquity, you can…
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Reboot your skin
Ordinarily, we’d forgive the state of your skin at this time of year, as the cold mornings can cause havoc.
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Stunning Icon Images
We live in an age of confusion and complication. So when something of simplicity and clarity comes a knocking at our door, we urge it in and offer it a big glass of fizzy pop.
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VIDEO: Chinese Soldiers Pass The Grenade
What initiation ceremonies did you have to enjoy (endure?) at your work? Something suitably wacky and inane no doubt. Well, thank your lucky stars you’re not a recruit in the People’s…
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Win a replica Drive jacket
You might have noticed that we had quite the man-crush on Drive. Our best film of 2011 is hurtling onto DVD this month and we're giving you the chance to emulate the overwhelming coolness of Ryan…
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World's Dumbest Criminals
Every species has its runt of the litter. For every Lionel Messi there is a Darron Gibson; for every Jonathan Franzen there is a Jeffrey Archer. So for every criminal mastermind basking in the glory…
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Classic Film Car Posters
Where would the humble Hollywood blockbuster be without a good old car chase? Nowhere, that’s where.
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Postage stamp paintings
Sometimes it pays to just hold your hands up and say, ‘that, my friend, is a great idea’. Such an utterance might appear naïve and anachronistic in our cynical world, but to hell…
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2012 Catwalk Report: Day 6
Style director Adrian Clark reports back on the final day of the Paris catwalk collections.
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Star Wars Mad Men Mash-Up
What if Darth Vader wasn’t a complex evil cyborg with personality issues? What if he was a complex evil advertising guru with personality issues?
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Arty Sandwiches
Ever since our six-year-old crush on art teacher Miss Hayes, we’ve always liked paintings and drawings and stuff. And ever since we tried a beef paste butty we’ve had nothing but mad love…
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The 50 Coolest Albums ever
Popular music has always been inextricably linked to the notion of cool. Whether that be looking cool, sounding cool or by not giving a flying fig about anything else and doing exactly as you please…
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Guinness World Records - Gamer's Edition
If something exists, there is a world record. And where there is a world record there is the Guinness World Records. The fifth edition of Gamer’s Edition is out now, so once we’d picked…
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Channel 4 Mispronouncing The Simpsons
No matter how glamorous your job, every supermodel, Premier League footballer and Channel 4 continuity announcer has to instil some fun into their daily routine to stop it from becoming, well,…
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Ultimate Style Icons
As we like to repeat to ourselves every morning as we stare at our reflection in the mirror, fashion is temporary, style is timeless. But style is often in the eye of the beholder. What works for one…
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6 Art World Spats
It's not all laughter and light in the art world. These creative types can sometimes get a little, well, het up.
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World's Most Expensive Book On Sale
Got a spare £6.5 million ($10 million) knocking about? Like drawings of North American birds (the flying kind, you perv)? Then may we suggest you turn your attention to an auction at…
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Best of British
This year is lining up to be extraordinary for emerging British talent. So, naturally, we got them all in a room before they stride on to greatness. Click on the links below to read our…
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Eddie Redmayne
Having starred opposite Michelle Williams in My Week With Marilyn, wowed the West End in Richard II and rolled around with British model Cara Delevingne for a Burberry campaign in recent months,…
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New Year, New You
Whether you want to dress better, eat healthier or sculpt that ever-elusive six pack, ShortList’s Tom Ellen discovers the new trends to tick all the self-improvement boxes.
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The new Lexus
We may still be mere weeks into the new year, but already the world’s car manufacturers have had a chance to unveil their latest models. And it seems fitting that the first major auto show of…
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Warwick Davis and his iPhone 4
Life's too wrong when Warwick Davis leaves his trusty phone at home.
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VIDEO: Dogs Bark Imperial March Tune
Not only is the Superbowl a big deal in the sporting world, it is one of the biggest days in the advertising industry. All those people watching on TV, all those potential..., yes, yes, we know you…
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2012 Catwalk Report: Day 4
ShortList's style director Adrian Clark has arrived in Paris for the catwalk collections. Here, he gives us his thoughts on the first day.
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VIDEO: Sonic The Hedgehog Sells Insurance
Do you find yourself waking up in the middle of the night, drenched in sweat, heart going like the clappers, wondering what happened to Sonic the Hedgehog? No, ahem, us neither. What do you think we…
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New Max Payne 3 trailer
It's been a long nine years without Max Payne around. But we're now mere months away from the much-anticipated release of Max Payne 3. You might remember us getting a bit excited about some exclusive…
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England vs Holland
Maybe I’m romanticising the past, but footballers of the mid-Nineties were far more interesting than they are today. Take the current Premier League and its reliance on athleticism, power, and…
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10 least plausible movie stunts
Complaining about implausibility in Hollywood can be something of a forlorn exercise. What did you expect, reality? Boring. However, some stunts are so far beyond the pale that we feel duty bound to…
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The Football Periodic Table
The ways in which football and science are similar are, well, erm, miniscule. One is an exacting discipline made up of calculations, meticulously researched theories and fiercely held thoughts, and…
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