Thick-skinned and fearless, Kajsa Norman goes behind the lines in Afrikanerdom, where she finds a racist, cultish and tribal people but, as Josephine Fenton discovers, she also finds some hope for a dying race

Since the original version of Ira Levin’s off-beat novel, made in l975, was a dull, rather plodding affair one wonders who thought it worthy of a re-make?

The makers of the new Nicole Kidman movie, the Stepford Wives, have risked incurring the wrath of two of America’s most powerful women.

Brother and sister John and Joan Cusack have both dropped out of the cast of the remake of The Stepford Wives for family reasons.

Country singer Faith Hill is joining Nicole Kidman in the rapidly-expanding cast of the remake of The Stepford Wives, which is due to begin filming in June.