19 JULY 1997, page 12

Stardom: No Job For A Man

WE NEED female heroes because the men are not up to it any more. Films are now the dominant element in our popular culture. The male heroics of stars such as Tom Cruise and......

Mind Your Language

HUGH Kenner, writing in last week's Time's Literary Supplement, offers as his own contribution to a translators' par- lour game a version of a poem by Clement Marot (1496-1544).......