Hints and tips:
...In it he became Little Richard, the angel none of us ever deserved who once said, I’m not conceited, I’m convinced. ‘Chris Ofili: The Seven Deadly Sins’ is at Victoria Miro, London, June 2-July 29....
...Sylvia Crowe and her carer, Sarah Myland, live in fear of heavy rain....
...Langston Hughes’s poem runs like a bluesy refrain through Lynette Linton’s wonderful, bittersweet staging of Pearl Cleage’s Blues for an Alabama Sky....
...This laconic fellow often alights on the fertile, mysterious planet that is Lynette Yiadom-Boakye’s imagination. Indeed, she has said that he “encapsulate[s] the spirit of what I’m trying to do”....
...Usually the people who do angel investing are more helpful and can be more dispassionate because they know they can lose the money,” says Mr Crowe....
...For business owners who want more active angels, though, crowdfunding can supply them....
...Noah and company are aided in their effort by a CGI race of giant stone angels – the Watchers – who have more in common with the wise walking trees and chivalric robots of The Lord of the Rings and Transformers...
..., Kevin Costner as his Kansas foster dad, Amy Adams as Lois Lane, Michael Shannon gurning away as evil General Zog, Krypton’s fallen angel falling like a ton of rocks on Metropolis....
...And shreds of political correctness persist: Lynette Yiadom-Boakye’s mediocre “10pm Saturday” might not be here if Yiadom-Boakye were white and male....
...Before I get there, though, a disclaimer: I know Crowe, who has written for these pages....
...to the US, visiting various Crowe shrines....
...The pick was the soprano aria “Non parmi esser” (“I seem to be among not men…but among the angels in the mansion of the sky”), sung with due radiance by Lucy Crowe....
...Romans are no angels, and have many ingenious ways of parting the unwary from their money, but in my experience they know when to stop....
...C) Who is the angel in the celebrity-studded version of the nativity scene at Madam Tussaud’s in London this year?...
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