Christian Bale as Bruce Wayne/ Batman in The Dark Knight Rises. Ron Phillips / Warner Bros Entertainment
Christian Bale as Bruce Wayne/ Batman in The Dark Knight Rises. Ron Phillips / Warner Bros Entertainment
Christian Bale as Bruce Wayne/ Batman in The Dark Knight Rises. Ron Phillips / Warner Bros Entertainment
Christian Bale as Bruce Wayne/ Batman in The Dark Knight Rises. Ron Phillips / Warner Bros Entertainment

Short Cuts: Christian Bale rules out Batman reprise and the rest of week in film, music and everything else


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Christian Bale says he's not interested in a Justice League movie. 'We were incredibly fortunate to get to make three [Batman films]. That's enough. Let's not get greedy,' he told Entertainment Weekly, adding that the Batman role is 'a torch that should be handed from one actor to another'

Asked by Vanity Fair if he’d ever open his Twitter account again, Alec Baldwin replied: ‘Never. No. I went to Jimmy Gandolfini’s funeral, and when I was there I realised Jimmy Gandolfini didn’t have Twitter. Jimmy Gandolfini was so beloved as a person, and he was so admired as an actor, and he didn’t care about social media’

The sacked founder of the discount website Groupon has begun a new career as a soft rock musician. Andrew Mason, fired when his company’s value plummeted, has released the seven-track album Hardly Workin’ on iTunes, which he describes as ‘motivational business music’

Woody Allen, at 77, is unstoppable. He’s currently shooting his next film in the south of France. The movie stars Emma Stone, Colin Firth, Jacki Weaver and Marcia Gay Harden

Lou Reed has written a long, enthusiastic review of Kanye West’s new album Yeezus for TheTalkHouse.com. ‘It works because it’s beautiful,’ he wrote. ‘You either like it or you don’t’

The Bridesmaids director Paul Feig is looking to direct a spy flick he wrote titled Susan Cooper, ‘a realistic comedy about a female James Bond, rather than a parody along the lines of Johnny English’, according to TheWrap.com

Ryan Seacrest is negotiating to host and executive produce a new show on NBC which pits contestants against each other 24/7 across TV and online. It’s called Million Second Quiz – the game will run for 12 days in September, totalling roughly 1 million seconds

Philip Seymour Hoffman has signed on to star in Child 44, about a 1950s Soviet military police agent (Tom Hardy) investigating a series of child murders. The film, which also features Joel Kinnaman and Gary Oldman, will be shot in Prague

ESSENTIALS

The flights 

Etihad (etihad.com) flies from Abu Dhabi to Mykonos, with a flight change to its partner airline Olympic Air in Athens. Return flights cost from Dh4,105 per person, including taxes. 

Where to stay 

The modern-art-filled Ambassador hotel (myconianambassador.gr) is 15 minutes outside Mykonos Town on a hillside 500 metres from the Platis Gialos Beach, with a bus into town every 30 minutes (a taxi costs €15 [Dh66]). The Nammos and Scorpios beach clubs are a 10- to 20-minute walk (or water-taxi ride) away. All 70 rooms have a large balcony, many with a Jacuzzi, and of the 15 suites, five have a plunge pool. There’s also a private eight-bedroom villa. Double rooms cost from €240 (Dh1,063) including breakfast, out of season, and from €595 (Dh2,636) in July/August.

UAE tour of Zimbabwe

All matches in Bulawayo
Friday, Sept 26 – UAE won by 36 runs
Sunday, Sept 28 – Second ODI
Tuesday, Sept 30 – Third ODI
Thursday, Oct 2 – Fourth ODI
Sunday, Oct 5 – First T20I
Monday, Oct 6 – Second T20I