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...But Bonnaire brings real edge to the film, and Maxine Peake is perfect as lover and literary confidante Barbara Bray....
...Another London Sinfonietta commission was Emma Wilde’s short and touching El Blanco Día for solo clarinet....
...From Oscar Wilde’s cape to Donna Tartt’s androgynous suits, Newman shows how a strong look can cultivate a literary legend....
...The soprano Barbara Hannigan masked the technical difficulty of the title role by throwing herself into its humour....
...For more information about the venues that make up the Yorkshire Sculpture Triangle see ysculpture.co.uk Photographs: Jonty Wilde; Tony Worrall; Iwan Baan...
...In the third, he adjusts to his newfound fame while establishing an awkward stasis between his French wife, Suzanne Deschevaux-Dumesnil, and his lover Barbara Bray....
...Marguerite Duras’s elliptical play (translated by Barbara Bray and inspired by a real-life case) is set in 1966 and is a teasing why-dunnit....
...The play (translated from the French by Barbara Bray) examines a broken marriage, but at one remove: the couple meet, three years after they split, to finalise their divorce....
...‘Caro in Yorkshire’, to November 1, ysp.co.uk, hepworthwakefield.org Photographs: Jonty Wilde/Courtesy of Barford Sculptures; John Riddy; Wilde/Courtesy Arts Council Collection, Southbank Centre; John Hammond...
...Or (c) overcome prejudice and hatred to achieve baseball glory while eyes mist over, soundtrack trumpets bray and the baby-holding wife stands in the bleachers like a Madonna and child? Yes, it’s (c)....
...In short, this is the best Dylan biography yet – an imagined reliving of an already imaginary life, and a book to sit alongside Ellmann on Wilde, Richardson on Picasso, Ackroyd on Dickens....
...Interest is sustained not so much by vocal artistry or pirouetting brass, as by the oblique comedy of Wilde’s surviving lines and Barry’s absurdist add-ons – a megaphone duet for two high sopranos (Barbara...
...Wainwright was revealed, starry yet self-aware, in double-breasted tails and red plastic sunglasses, like Oscar Wilde imitating Ian McCulloch at a disco....
...The Secret History, by Donna Tartt, Alfred A Knopf, 1992, cover by Chip Kidd & Barbara de Wilde “Forceful, cerebral and impeccably controlled” was how New York Times critic, Michiko Kakutani, described...
...As Oscar Wilde once said: “It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it.”...
...Oscar Wilde and the Candlelight Murders By Gyles Brandreth John Murray £7.99 FT bookshop price: £6.39 Oscar Wilde and the Daylight Robbery, more like....
...’s Books By Thomas Wright Chatto & Windus £16.99 370 pages FT Bookshop price: £13.59 The author of Collections of Nothing, William Davies King, is a professor at the University of California at Santa Barbara...
...The tiny Berkshire village of Bray, on the Thames, contains two restaurants each with three Michelin stars – Heston Blumenthal’s Fat Duck – judged the best restaurant in the world by Restaurant magazine...
...She is the ghost of Barbara Cartland mugged by the living shade of Baroness Thatcher....
...Or perhaps The Fall of Oscar Wilde’s House. Or then again maybe The Soul of Animals Revisited....
...As Oscar Wilde put it: “A friend is one who stabs you in the front.” Nothing can count as friendship which lacks time and a few real tests behind it....
...Likewise, Barbara Cartland (6) may have been a terrible writer, but she is certainly a popular one....
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