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...The American surgeon and author Leonard Shlain explores this in his 1998 book The Alphabet Versus the Goddess....
...Ridley Scott’s new two-and-a-half-hour-long film stars Joaquin Phoenix, and documents a lot: Napoleon’s rise and fall, some of his most famous battles, and his relationship with his wife, Josephine....
...So I think a lot of the best biopics and recent one I thought was terrific was Maestro, the film about Leonard Bernstein, right?...
...When the empress Joséphine commissioned architect Pierre-François-Léonard Fontaine to remodel her bedroom at the château de Fontainebleau, she wanted, naturally, to consult her husband, Napoleon....
...One silk robe is adorned with a Paul Colin portrait of Josephine Baker at La Revue Nègre; another features a shot of a macaw from the Dutch taxidermists Darwin, Sinke & van Tongeren; there are inscriptions...
...Do they also know that Leonard Bernstein was the composer of a fair-sized corpus of “serious” music, including three symphonies, written around the same period?...
.... ★★★★★ Other composers, including Leonard Bernstein and William Bolcom, have likewise fused operatic and Broadway elements to create works for the stage, but the grim subject of the Chinese-American composer...
...Denise Brewster had lived with her partner, Leonard McMullan, for 10 years and the two had bought a home together....
...the regulator had “regularly engaged” with Arcadia Group and its pension scheme trustees over the past few years on a “range of issues” including the 2012 sale of 25 per cent stake of Topshop/Topman to Leonard...
...A homage to charismatic chanteuse Josephine Baker proved a mixed success....
...Josephine Esther Mentzer was born in Queens, New York, to Jewish immigrants from Hungary and Czechoslovakia....
...Many of them had followed instructions to bring, inter alia, unwanted books, a gift for a stranger and flowers for “Mistress Josephine”....
...THE COMPLETE WESTERN STORIES by Elmore Leonard Weidenfeld & Nicolson ₤16.99, 544 pages He is most often associated with fast-paced, glitzy crime novels, but Leonard cut his teeth penning stories about...
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