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Known for hit movies such as The 40 Year-Old Virgin and Knocked Up, Apatow, in October, published a memoir called Comedy Nerd: A Lifelong Obsession in Stories and Pictures. He was interviewed for Esquire on October 1 2025. I sometimes think I tried to get good at comedy so comedy people would talk to me. I’m not sure where the instinct to hoard came from. I started doing it when I was little. Every autograph I ever got, I would put in a photo album and treat it like it was the Shroud of Turin.

Jaeger-LeCoultre Back in 2018, Jaeger-LeCoultre released a limited number Reverso Tribute Enamel watches hand-decorated with work from the 19th century Japanese artist Hokusai. The special edition timepieces went down so well that JLC did the same thing in 2021, 2022, 2023 – intricately recreating scenes from his famous ukiyo-e woodblock series ‘A Tour of the Waterfalls of the Provinces’.

It all began with Warren Jeffs: polygamist, paedophile and abject morality vacuum who become "President and Prophet, Seer and Revelator" of the Fundamentalist Church of Latter-Day Saints (FLDS) until his life imprisonment, when he was found guilty of forcing two girls into "spiritual marriages" and fathering a child with one of them.

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Jacob & Co has unveiled The Godfather II, a $440,000 [£330,000] musical watch that manages to be both technically impressive and aesthetically challenging. Jacob & Co. The sequel to the brand’s earlier Opera Godfather watch is, on paper, a serious piece of watchmaking.

It’s that time of year again when I start to panic about the fact that I have no nice warm weather clothes. The reason I panic is not because I actually have no summer clothes, you understand – I have piles of summer clothes; a disgusting amount of summer clothes, tbh - but rather because I stuffed all the light blazers and roomy cotton trousers to the back of my wardrobe six or so months ago, and I can no longer easily find what I need.

For a while now, Split has put charity at the heart of what it creates. Last year, the independent British watch brand sold a model that helped to fund therapy sessions for young people via the Anna Freud centre, and now they're supporting the music community with a tribute to the late Ozzy Osbourne.

In the time since I was asked to write a piece offering a Jewish person’s perspective (that is, my own) on Wireless Festival announcing their headline act as Ye, the artist formerly known as Kanye West and more recently known for a very public and ongoing mental health episode, which has involved increasingly explicit antisemitic outbursts including but not limited to the publishing of a song called Heil Hitler (a song he then re-released with a title that is, astonishingly, even more...

The fifth – and final – season of The Boys is here. The satire – what happens when superheroes don’t use their powers for good? – has proven so successful among viewers that there is even a spin-off show Gen V. After that, there will be a prequel series by the name of Vought Rising. It has been very hard to resist the charms of Chace Crawford, Jack Quaid, Antony Starr and Erin Moriarty. All of this to say: there is a lot riding on this final season. Here is how to watch the closing chapter.

Wristwatches broadly fall into two categories: mechanical watches, powered by a mainspring, and quartz watches, powered by a battery. Mechanical watches are further divided into manual-winding and automatic-winding, depending on how their mainspring is wound. Their appeal lies in their intricate structure, often composed of over 200 tiny parts, with a classic beauty rooted in a long history. There's a real pleasure to observing their complex movements that doesn't get old.