Chloe Veltman is an arts journalist based in San Francisco.

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  March/April 2009: Interview with Mike Leigh
  “The reason my films work is because every actor on set is very secure. They’re able to fly.”
• November 2006: Interview with Irvine Welsh
  “Our unflinching contemporary Dickens” discusses his weird, telepathic shift from prose to drama.
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  Online Exclusives: The Passion of the Morrissey
  During his tenure as frontman for the Smiths, this gladioli-strewing, hearing-aid-wearing waiflet of a man inspired fan devotion worthy of a deity. Why, then, wonders Chloe Veltman, might he take his own advice to a “silly old man” in “misguided trousers” (aka Mick Jagger) and “get off the stage”?