Bang on the money? Insiders reveal what TV gets right and wrong about the super-rich
Champagne, private jets, holiday fortresses … how do TV’s mega-wealthy stack up to reality? Our panel of experts size up shows from Billions to The Night Manager
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Omar Sharif – a career in clips
Omar Sharif, who has died aged 83, was defined by three great Anglo-American films: Lawrence of Arabia, Doctor Zhivago and Funny Girl. Here we look back at his career high points
Wings of desire: how butterflies have captivated artists
From Bruegel to Nabokov and The Silence of the Lambs, butterflies have flitted through our imaginations and into our culture. Patrick Barkham pins up the choice specimens – and finds out why new film The Duke of Burgundy is awash with them
Betty Halbreich: the most famous personal shopper in the world
The 86-year-old director of personal shopping for Manhattan’s Bergdorf Goodman department store tells us she hates trends and talks about her friendship with Joan Rivers and why she loves Lena Dunham but hasn’t seen Girls
Arkaeology: the real meaning of the Noah story
The film Noah is outraging evangelicals. But with its hot rain, incest and castration, the biblical story is far wilder, finds Jenny Diski
The Great Beauty: playboy of the Italian world
Toni Servillo has become known as Paolo Sorrentino’s muse. He talks about his latest role as an indolent playboy in a grand, swooning epic