蜜芽传媒

Margaret Keane was the artist behind the popular "Big Eyes" paintings of the 1960s, but her husband Walter Keane bullied her into letting him take the credit for them. He made millions of dollars from them until Margaret took him to court to prove they were her own. Margaret's story has just been turned into a feature film.

Ennio Morricone is one of the most famous and prolific film composers. His music has been the emotional backdrop of almost 500 movies. However his name will always be synonymous with the spaghetti Western. He tells Matthew Bannister about composing the some of the most famous film scores in Hollywood.

James Ellroy is an American crime fiction author whose novels have been turned into Hollywood film such as LA Confidential and The Black Dahlia. His books are often set in 1940s America and he himself admits he is obsessed with the past and in particular the criminal history of Los Angeles.

Tsuki Ayano is re-populating her remote village in Japan with human-sized dolls. The dolls now outnumber the human population and help to attract visitors to the area.

South Korean Kyung Wha Chung is one of the great violinists of her generation. She tells Outlook about her long and illustrious career and how an injury in 2005 forced her to stop performing for 5 years.

(Photos: Margaret Keane (credit: Keyne Eyes Gallery San Francisco CA); James Ellroy (credit: Lisa Stafford); Kyung Wha Chung (credit: Kang Taewook))