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...Backstairs Billy Duke of York’s Theatre, London There’s a moment in Backstairs Billy when the Queen Mother (Penelope Wilton) and her devoted servant Billy (Luke Evans) plot an escape....
...There are also framed photographs of various celebrity guests, including Nicolas Cage, the formerly famous and not very good rapper Vanilla Ice and, by my table, a young Billy Crystal....
...The 1946 film starring James Stewart is a Christmas favourite and ENO will be having similar hopes for this canny choice of opera....
...Rory Stewart WRITER AND FORMER CABINET MINISTER James Rebanks sketches through his family farm the evolution (and near destruction) of British agriculture in English Pastoral: An Inheritance....
...Robin Stewart, a councillor for the Ulster Unionists, the DUP’s closest rivals for the unionist vote, said the “us or them” argument usually plays well for Mrs Foster....
...Talbot Yard is like a family, says Matt Stewart, who with his wife Elizabeth opened the Rare Bird Distillery, opposite Roost, in October. The couple fell in love with Malton, Elizabeth explains....
...Towards the end of his life he received a recording deal from a grateful Billy Gaff, manager of Rod Stewart, who had enjoyed chart success with “Reason to Believe”, Hardin’s other best known song....
...Sitting down lacing a shoe while his discarded ex-manager (Paul Stewart) stands over him, grieving and inveighing at a protegé’s ingratitude, Douglas expresses thoughts and feelings in every tiny movement...
...The day after I meet Billy Childish, the prolific painter, poet and rocker, he sends me an email detailing his daily routine....
...Director Richard Jones and designer Stewart Laing envisage the engine-room scenes in an almost futurist style, but on land the mode is more expressionistic....
...Billy Eckstine had a minor hit in 1945, Cliff Richard used it to prove his own crooning credentials in 1964, as did Rod Stewart more than 40 years later....
...Some neat political comment about the rat race, then, but also plenty of amiable nonsense provided by Stewart Wright as a formidable dame and Rebecca Craven as a sweetly clumsy learner fairy....
...“Britain isn’t cool, you know/It’s really not that great,” sang leftwing folk star Billy Bragg. “It’s just an economic union/That’s past its sell-by date.”...
...Neat political comment is spliced with high-jinks provided by Stewart Wright as a formidable dame and Rebecca Craven as a sweetly clumsy learner fairy....
...Pop and rock – Radiohead, Bonny Prince Billy, Led Zeppelin. I need to be familiar with it. What do you snack on while you write? I drink a lot of coffee. And about 1.5 litres of Pepsi Max....
...Robert Mitchum and James Stewart died on successive days in 1997. Ingmar Bergman and Michelangelo Antonioni died on the exact same day (July 30 2007)....
...As No Man’s Land is a kind of alcoholic Olympics, Stewart’s sallies were continuous....
...The 39 Steps and Wicked (both 2006) and Billy Elliot The Musical (2005). And these are the youngsters, children of this millennium. We go back to The Lion King and Mamma Mia!...
...Stewarts & Lloyds , the steel company which later became part of British Steel, built whole housing estates for the workers – still known as Lloyds houses....
...As a result he has accompanied Al Green and Billy Joel, performed a New York show with Jon Bon Jovi and played one song with Rod Stewart at Madison Square Garden. Not that frustrated, then....
...Tokyo, 1964 10,000m Billy Mills ran behind the garbage truck as it wound through the Indian reservation in South Dakota....
...“It was regimented - get on the bus, get off the bus,” says Stewart....
...Arie Gluck, Israel: http://on.ft.com/KoHXKH Ben Ainslie, Great Britain: http://on.ft.com/KoHZT3 Billy Mills, USA: http://on.ft.com/KoI3SP Carla Marangoni, Italy: http://on.ft.com/KoI8Wn Ellie Simmonds...
...Arie Gluck, Israel: http://on.ft.com/KoHXKH Ben Ainslie, Great Britain: http://on.ft.com/KoHZT3 Billy Mills, USA: http://on.ft.com/KoI3SP Carla Marangoni, Italy: http://on.ft.com/KoI8Wn Derek Redmond...
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