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...The $1.4bn-grossing film won only one award, for best song, which went to Billie Eilish and her brother, Finneas O’Connell, for “What Was I Made For?”....
...Cue ecstatic applause for “Thriller”, “Billie Jean” etc. Frost dances fluently, although his Jacksonian tics become wearying. The set pieces with the dance troupe are unexceptional....
...“A late imperial architecture . . . suddenly becomes [Ghanaian], through Nkrumah’s Africanisation policy,” says the V&A’s Christopher Turner, who has curated the exhibition alongside Biamah-Ofosu and Bushra...
...About a year ago, after dabbling in covers of other artists, including a “country twist” on Billie Eilish, he started posting his own music online....
...An undercurrent of style was also palpable in the black Chanel J12s worn by Billie Eilish and Pom Klementieff, which also echo the singer and actress’s quirky and nonchalant androgyny....
...I bought it at Christie’s, having known the past two owners, Canadian collector David Graham and taste arbiter Christopher Gibbs, for 30 years....
...Christopher Oram’s design goes some way to bridging the gap, replacing the front rows of the stalls with cabaret tables and popping some of the audience, with the band and the bar, on stage....
...An inventive set helps tell the story of Christopher’s detective work after he finds a dead dog on the lawn....
...Not so in Billie Holiday’s case....
...For example, in 1951 Miller took a song based on a passage from Christopher Marlowe’s Dido, Queen of Carthage and an Armenian wedding melody, backed it with a harpsichord playing boogie-woogie, and handed...
...Songs by Billie Holiday and Charles Aznavour were played, even though there is no singing at Islamic funerals, after which an imam spoke and prayed....
...Christopher Hampton has said he wrote this 1976 drama after working on A Doll’s House....
...In a heartbreaking rendition of “Never Let Me Go”, his voice suggested Billie Holiday’s: warm and loving, but shot through with the blues....
...That’s why, at the end of the first episode of the new series, shop girl Rose Tyler, played by the unexpectedly brilliant Billie Piper, hesitates only for a moment when the Doctor (Christopher Eccleston,...
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