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...Warner Music, home to Dua Lipa, Lizzo and Ed Sheeran, is controlled by Access Industries, the holding company for Ukrainian-born billionaire Leonard Blavatnik, through supervoting shares....
...His son, also named Boris, talked about his father last year in a long and interesting interview for the World Chess Hall of Fame in St Louis, focusing on Spassky’s later life where he emigrated to France...
...One essential element is a subject with a high level of charisma, and nobody offered more of that than American conductor and composer Leonard Bernstein....
...The composer Leonard Bernstein had a big nose. Bradley Cooper, who is playing him in the upcoming film Maestro, also has a big nose, but not as big. So, for the film, he’s wearing a fake one....
...In The Woman in Me, Spears conducts the tour of her life on her terms, from teen stardom to victim of paparazzi voyeurism to court-imposed conservatorship under her father’s control....
...One of my favourites is pink-flowered Magnolia x loebneri Leonard Messel, which grows and flowers even on alkaline soil....
...Belfrage was raised in Italy by a Brazilian mother, who grew up in Cuba and Mexico, and a British-American father, and her cooking draws from the flavours of her family history....
...Byatt’s debut novel, Shadow of a Sun, focused on the dynamic between a girl and her father....
...The description that fictional priest Father Ted applied to Catholicism also holds water: “Vague, and no one really knows what it’s about.”...
...He once planned to become a doctor like his father. But despite being a leading specialist, his father barely made a living....
...Bernstein’s three children have released a statement praising Cooper’s work and saying that their father would have loved the film....
...Douglas is a complex figure: a disabled, Shakespeare-loving drag-queen vigilante and a survivor of childhood abuse who was imprisoned by his sadistic father....
...Four years ago it seemed likely that Royal’s family would have to leave the UK due to the expiration of his father’s work permit, but the then Home Secretary, Sajid Javid, made a personal decision to allow...
...Last year’s event drew 12,000 for an evening of Tchaikovsky, Leonard Bernstein and George Gershwin....
...Ravinder: One of the most joyful things that we have at Christmas is we always have birthday cake because it was my late father’s birthday on Christmas Eve. We commemorate him every year....
...Enheduana’s father, King Sargon, was the first ruler of the Akkadian empire, conquering Sumer, the Levant and parts of Mesopotamia....
...He was born in 1953, and when Joseph Stalin died four days later the baby’s father decided on the name for his son....
...Her father, a designer, poet and political anarchist, was another influence. She remembers as a small child watching him sit in rapt concentration with old 78 records playing on a vintage gramophone....
...The story, set in Harlem, tells of an African-American boy’s divided loyalties as he grows up with a police officer father but protests as an activist himself, and the father’s own conflicts after the son...
...I drive home on the country roads I pedalled over as a child behind my father, when Forte was still a real-life Barbie land to me....
...Christopher R MundySt Leonard’s-on-Sea, East Sussex, UK...
...Michele Pertusi is duly authoritative as Glauce’s father, the Corinthian king Creon, and Matthew Polenzani portrays the ineffectual Jason....
...In what is the most contrived and most inevitable part of the book, Leonard becomes a sort of anti-father to him. Lish writes in a brawny, rhythmic style with lots of edge....
...Fritz and Kurt, a retelling, with illustrations, of The Boy who Followed his Father into Auschwitz by Jeremy Dronfield, also ended up as a book with fresh material after the author discovered previously...
...And that might be on the horizon: she and Neal have recently acquired a former duck farm near St Leonards-on-Sea in East Sussex....
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