‘Underneath it all, he was an old school gentleman’ … a shot from the book Hot Damn! showing Thompson with Bill Clinton. Photograph: Chloe Sells‘Underneath it all, he was an old school gentleman’ … a shot from the book Hot Damn! showing Thompson with Bill Clinton. Photograph: Chloe SellsPhotographyInterview‘He was a handful’ – Hunter S Thompson’s PA and photographer relives her wild jobSean O’HaganShe cooked his weird dinners, dealt with his volcanic rants, and read his prose back to him from dark till dawn.

The G2 interviewDerek JacobiInterview‘I’ve got a feeling I won’t be on stage again’: Derek Jacobi on age, ego, Igglepiggle and unrequited loveRyan GilbeySixty-five years after his first rave reviews, the star of I, Claudius and Last Tango in Halifax is still drowning in work – and self-doubt. Can a man who won Ian McKellen’s heart really see himself as ‘bland and uninteresting’? Derek Jacobi is having a bad hair day. “Oh, he butchered it,” wails the actor in mock despair.

Portraits in the Museum of Smoking. Photograph: Tyler BertramPortraits in the Museum of Smoking. Photograph: Tyler BertramMuseumsThe exhibit, starring figures from Paris Hilton to Carrie Bradshaw, is a tongue-in-cheek tribute to a terrible habit Absolutely no smoking is allowed inside the Museum of Smoking. Sorry, but those are the rules according to the fire code, the exhibit’s curators say. If you want to smoke, you can go outside. Viviana Olen and Matt Harkins run THNK1994, an Instagram account and series of pop-up exhibits dedicated to honoring 2000s-era celebrity kitsch.

The ObserverChessThe end game of Bobby FischerHe was said to have an IQ greater than Einstein's, and he won the world's most famous chess duel. But when he died last month in Reykjavik, Bobby Fischer was a shuffling recluse, consumed by paranoia. John Carlin pieces together the grandmaster's last movesAt 8am on Monday 21 January, under cover of darkest night, a hearse slid stealthily out of the snowy streets of Reykjavik, followed by another car.

Dean Yates, a former Reuters employee now based in northern Tasmania. Dean was bureau chief in Baghdad when two of his colleagues, Saeed Chmagh and Namir Noor-Eldeen, were killed by the US military. Photograph: Matthew Newton/The GuardianFormer Reuters journalist Dean Yates was in charge of the bureau in Baghdad when his Iraqi colleagues Namir Noor-Eldeen and Saeed Chmagh were killed. A WikiLeaks video called Collateral Murder later revealed details of their death