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ReviewNon-Fiction
Camp! — a snappy guide to an all-conquering aesthetic
...You might understand it as Bette Davis and Joan Crawford’s monstrous siblings in What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?; as a drag queen’s stock in trade; and certainly as anything covered in rhinestones....
August 11, 2023
The Art Market
Art market boom hits the buffers
...Most of the works come from the Château de Ferrières, east of Paris, designed by Joseph Paxton for Baron James Mayer de Rothschild — the son of the dynasty’s founder — and his wife (and niece) Betty in 1862...
May 25, 2023
FT Live
FTWeekend Festival
Where the FT Weekend paper comes to life
Saturday, 7 September London, UK
FT Magazine
Why we changed our daughter’s name
...“Hello, Betty!” “Look, Betty!” “Come here, Betty.” “Kiss, Betty!” “Hide, Betty!” “Betty . . . watch out!”...
May 13, 2022
Film
Bette Davis at the BFI — the eyes have it
...After Baby Jane came the more subtly ludicrous Hush . . . Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964)....
July 22, 2021
ReviewCrime books
#MeToo, Nordic nights and badger culls — the best new crime fiction
...Ex-actress Poppy Page runs an extras agency; renewing a relationship with the seductive Matthew Gordon is to lead her (and her mother-in-law Betty, a co-narrator) into some very treacherous waters....
May 1, 2020
Letter
Older women bear the brunt of pension changes
...Chrissie Fuller Jane Morwood Betty Ann Tucker Riley Ann Rochester Beverley Cordwell Lea Butler Lesley Kirkham Waspi Chorley Supporters Group, Lancashire, UK...
February 14, 2019
FT Live
Business of Art
Market shifts and future growth
Monday, 7 October180 Studios, London, UK
ObituaryDoris Day
Doris Day, actress and singer, 1922-2019
...Beginning her screen career replacing the star singer Betty Hutton in the 1948 musical Romance on the High Seas, Day went on to achieve her own superstardom with Calamity Jane (1953)....
May 15, 2019
UK outsourcing
My First Million — Ed Reeves, office outsourcing pioneer
...My other indulgence is our winter skiing holidays and keeping two pet pigs, Betty and Barry. I would like to eat them, but my wife will not hear of it....
November 8, 2017
ReviewLife & Arts
Elizabeth reigns
...Taylor’s prose is sometimes compared to that of Jane Austen, whom she greatly admired, and if she does share something with Austen it is that both authors seem to invite a less complex response to their...
June 22, 2012
ReviewLife & Arts
Harvey, Studio 54, New York
...Similarly filigreed are Jane Greenwood’s costumes; the lavender coat worn by the daffy Betty Chumley, portrayed by Carol Kane, is stunning....
June 18, 2012
ReviewLife & Arts
Pride and properness
...The Prisoner of Paradise is a delightful study in method writing, an affectionate, playful tribute to Lalla-Rookh, Jane Austen, the Brontës and the historical romance itself....
February 24, 2012
UK schools
New year honours list
...Jane Beaumont, director of accreditation, UKAS. Patricia Birley, co-founder, Vindolanda Trust. Betty Roe-Bishop, composer. Gary Brown, fiscal crime liaison officer, British embassy, Bucharest....
December 31, 2010
Life & Arts
Kate Valk’s devotion to the stage
...As if to prove her devotion to the stage, she relates her ambition to play Blanche in a film version of the Aldrich film Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?...
October 30, 2009
Susie Boyt
A romantic break for one
...“Mum, do you think I’m the only person in the world right now reading Jane Eyre in bed wearing a red leotard and yellow socks?” “Maybe.”...
March 28, 2009
ReviewLife & Arts
Books of the year
...A popular classic got a modern twist in the year’s most surprising hit, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, which squeezed new blood out of Jane Austen’s work....
November 28, 2009
FT Live
FTWeekend Festival: U.S. edition
Where the Financial Times weekend paper comes to life
Saturday, 4 MayThe REACH, at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, F Street Northwest, Washington, DC, USA
NotebookTerrorism
Super Tuesday for famous followers
...She had Steven Spielberg and even the woman who plays Ugly Betty. If that is not a winning platform I do not know what is....
February 6, 2008
Retail & Consumer industry
Delia puts spring in Aunt Bessie’s step
...When that market dwindled in the 1990s, it decided to sell to the retail trade and dreamed up Aunt Bessie, in the tradition of brand characters such as Uncle Ben, Betty Crocker and Colonel Sanders....
March 22, 2008
Life & Arts
Reader, she tended them
...Lucilla Andrews is one of those authors about whom the Romantic Novelists’ Association “feels warm and fuzzy” (Jane Austen is another)....
September 1, 2007
Life & Arts
Whose side are you on?
...Fast reading is easier by virtue of the Peter-and-Jane-sized print and extravagant space between the lines. This, typically, is the layout adopted for young eyes....
March 10, 2006
UK schools
Billionaires: 1 to 11
...He was the last amateur yachtsman to win the America’s Cup, and was once married to Jane Fonda....
November 12, 2004

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