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InterviewMusic
Actor Billy Porter: ‘I wanted to be the male Whitney Houston!’
...Actor, singer and writer Billy Porter is expert at making a grand entrance....
September 1, 2023
InterviewLunch with the FT
‘He is driven by demons’: biographer Walter Isaacson on Elon Musk
...Billy the waiter collects our dishes, and I realise that I have eaten most of the crab; it was deliciously succulent....
September 15, 2023
FT Live
Business of Entertainment Summit
Capitalizing on Disruption
Thursday, 19 SeptemberLos Angeles, CA
ReviewMusic
It’s a Wonderful Life, English National Opera — an enchanting Christmas show
...The darker elements of the story are played down, except when Michael Mayes cuts through the sweetness as George’s nemesis, Henry F Potter....
November 29, 2022
InterviewMusic
Conrad Tao — the classical pianist making it up as he goes along
...At his Carnegie Hall debut recital in 2019, Tao’s main programme was Bach’s Toccata in F-sharp and Schumann’s Kriesleriana, with several modern works....
November 5, 2022
FT Magazine
Flying car, anyone?
...What looks like something out of a movie or a cartoon is really happening,” says Billy Nolen, acting head of the US Federal Aviation Administration....
January 12, 2023
Moral Money
Amazon, Chevron, Exxon and Facebook face shareholder showdowns Premium content
...“A CEO I’ve looked up to for my whole life . . . came up to me and said ‘f- you’ and walked away. That’s not an unusual occurrence,” he recalled....
May 26, 2021
FT Live
Business of Art
Market shifts and future growth
Monday, 7 October180 Studios, London, UK
FirstFT
FirstFT: Fed warns of risks posed by Chinese real estate
...We had reporters at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport, New York’s John F Kennedy International Airport and London Heathrow....
November 9, 2021
Moral Money
ESG is a-changin’, water disclosure demands, greenwashers beware CA100+ Premium content
...“[F]or all its hype, ESG investing does not require us to turn our rules inside out to accommodate it any more than any other broad genre of investing, like value investing, requires us to do,” she said...
December 2, 2020
FT Globetrotter
Many happy returns: the city spaces that bring joy to our correspondents and writers
...They will ask for Billy Idol, but my voice will be shot by then. It’s perfection....
January 10, 2022
Moral Money
How much do black lives matter to business? Davos plots ‘great reset’ for 2021; Chuka Umunna exclusive Premium content
...(Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson, Billy Nauman and Kristen Talman) Can Davos ‘nudges’ reset capitalism?...
June 3, 2020
The best of TV and streaming this week
Domhnall Gleeson and Merritt Wever play old flames reunited in Run on Sky Comedy
...You wouldn’t want to be on a long train journey with Billy and Ruby: crazy gallops up and down the aisles, rowdy drinking games, fortissimo conversations of the “F**k you,” “No, f**k you” variety, not to...
April 10, 2020
Moral Money
Amazon’s Covid-19 conundrum; polluters capitalise on chaos; CEOs plan post-pandemic life
...That beats Congress, which got an “F” from 48 per cent of participants....
April 1, 2020
FT Magazine
‘Parks and Recreation’ star Ben Schwartz on the joys of improv
...I was in two different shows where the bag burst, and it was f**king vile.” What UCB lacked in hygiene, it made up for in creativity....
May 8, 2020
ReviewMusic
The Cult — a guitar hero saves the day at the Hammersmith Apollo, London
...Thank goodness, then, for guitarist Billy Duffy, a man who was probably born holding a guitar aloft and striking a pose, and whose riffs barrelled the show along....
October 28, 2019
News in-depthMarkets
Aftershocks and fragility: 10 years in financial markets
...Billy Nauman...
December 30, 2019
FT Live
FTWeekend Festival
Where the FT Weekend paper comes to life
Saturday, 7 September London, UK
ReviewFilm
Shazam! delivers high-speed biff-bang and sophisticated humour
...(directed by David F. Sandberg) is no more than a manic two-hour exclamation mark....
April 3, 2019
ReviewTelevision
The Damned: Don’t You Wish That We Were Dead, Sky Arts — not the usual musical horror show
...Jello Biafra, Chrissie Hynde, Dave Gahan, Steve Diggle and Billy Idol bring the good vibes. The original line up (Vanian, Sensible, Rat Scabies and Brian James) was brief in any case....
November 9, 2018
ReviewLife & Arts
On Chesil Beach — heartbreak in Hardy country
...They f*** you up, your mum and dad. (Philip Larkin 101a.)...
May 16, 2018
FT SeriesBooks of the Year 2017
Best books of 2017: Music
...Roots, Radicals and Rockers: How Skiffle Changed the World, by Billy Bragg, Faber, RRP£20/$29.95 British singer-songwriter Billy Bragg turns author with a skilful history of skiffle, the 1950s craze that...
December 1, 2017
Life & Arts
The Hollywood cool of the Hotel Del Coronado
...That’s partly thanks to Billy Wilder, who came to the hotel in 1958 to shoot his comedy, Some Like It Hot....
July 13, 2018
An outstanding crop of letters to the editor
Glaswegians’ way with F-words
...Sir, Brian Bollen (Letters, June 29) rightly notes how Billy Connolly could use the F-word with wit and without offence....
June 29, 2017
Letter
F-word took Connolly’s comedy routine to a transcendental plane
...On the other hand, at his peak Scotland’s Billy Connolly was a master in the entertaining use of the F-word, and I once had to put a video on pause as I was falling off my seat laughing and gasping for breath...
June 28, 2017
Top 10 films of 2017
Jackie: a piercingly intelligent film of kitsch but no corn
...The magazine reporter (Billy Crudup) rattles the cutlery in Jackie’s brain to the point where she, retaliating, almost takes a knife and fork to his brain. Telling cameos abound....
January 19, 2017
FT SeriesChina: the soft superpower
Beijing’s endgame: football with Chinese characteristics
...The crowded Billy Wright pub in Wolverhampton, a working-class city in Britain’s West Midlands, is an unlikely jumping off point for President Xi Jinping’s global mission to boost China’s influence....
November 9, 2017
US & Canadian companies
Billy Walters found guilty in $40m insider-trading case
...“I remember calling Billy,” he told the jury. “I said this stock is a screaming f***ing buy right now.”...
April 7, 2017

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