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...Christopher Nolan’s acclaimed biopic about American nuclear physicist J Robert Oppenheimer received 13 nominations in total, including nods for the blue-ribbon Best Picture, Best Director for Nolan and Best...
...“We call this the Coldest Table In London,” he announces, gesturing at the bare windows of J Sheekey in Covent Garden and the wind tunnel that is St Martin’s Court, in front of which I have nobly placed...
...Harris’s Original Pick-Me-Up bitters, a tonic that is said to have been a favourite of Oscar Wilde....
...As Oscar Wilde might tell us, to make a mess of the aftermath of one crisis may be regarded as a misfortune; to do so twice would look like carelessness....
...This interest in the details made O’Connor’s recent experience on set with Autumn de Wilde filming Emma particularly rewarding....
...And if you think of all the great novels you’ve read that have survived the past 100 years or more — Dostoyevsky, Wilde, whatever — they all have a crime in them of some sort....
...Crossing the border from Kansas into Colorado on a Greyhound bus, scoffing at the notion that “There’s No Place Like Home”, 18-year-old Lily changes her name to Ruby Wilde. Enter Las Vegas!...
...The Price of Everything takes its title from Oscar Wilde’s definition of a cynic as one who “knows the price of everything and the value of nothing” to examine the current state of the art world....
...Thomas J. Mayer’s Jochanaan is formidable in every sense, a prophet well worth the fuss; Gerhard Siegel and Marina Prudenskaya are superb as the awful Herodes and Herodias....
...And yet, in the words of Oscar Wilde, “To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world.”...
...Moyle, author of lives of the Pre-Raphaelite muses and Mrs Oscar Wilde, is out of her depth in the company of a major artist....
...Shylock, Oscar Wilde, Herod, Phil Spector? He has done them all. Or rather they have done him. In Danny Collins Unchangeable Al, cast as an ageing folk-rock star, is still unchanged....
...In 1907, at the first performance of J M Synge’s Playboy of the Western World at the Abbey theatre in Dublin, there was a riot....
...His Chechnya-set drama The Search again stars his wife Bérénice Bejo, this time opposite Annette Bening....
...And even scarier, this from O J Simpson: The day you take complete responsibility for yourself, the day you stop making any excuse, that’s the day you start to the top....
...“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken”, so said Oscar Wilde and so did many of New York’s designers on Tuesday....
...Richard Gutteridge, an estate agent at Savills who marketed a flat in Oscar Wilde’s blue-plaqued house in Chelsea for £1.1m, says owners of such homes should not expect a premium for history....
...It’s like what Oscar Wilde said: ‘I can resist anything but temptation’.”...
...Oscar Wilde praised the taverns, TS Eliot composed some of “The Waste Land” in a shelter overlooking the beach and Tracey Emin wrote about her hometown in the Sun newspaper, lamenting: “The Victorians built...
...She will report to Annette Browne, product direction and design head, who in turn reports to Kate Bostock, head of clothing at M&S....
...Winner of the 2009 Man Booker prize Stephenie Meyer Bestselling author of the Twilight vampire romance series Gail Rebuck Chairman and chief executive of the Random House Group J. K....
...An Army of Phantoms: American Movies and the Making of the Cold War, by J Hoberman, The New Press, RRP$29.95, 408 pages This study of geopolitical anxiety in 1950s/1960s cinema is written by the critic...
...In his famous book English History 1914-1945, A.J.P Taylor begins with the words: “Until August 1914, a sensible, law-abiding Englishman could pass through life and hardly notice the existence of the state...
...When The Children’s Investment Fund last month ended its campaign to force J-Power, the Japanese utility, to raise its dividend, many chief executives hoped the move signalled the diminishing power of shareholder...
...www.glyndebourne.com Tokyo Annette Messager: The Messengers Stuffed toys, photographs and an array of objects from everyday life all appear in this first exhibition by French artist Annette Messager...
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