Hints and tips:
...Actor, singer and writer Billy Porter is expert at making a grand entrance....
...been locked up by “bad people” who were demanding thousands of pounds, the Times’s Billy Kenber revealed....
...Another is to what extent the Big Four, of Deloitte, PwC, EY and KPMG, are simply jacking up audit fees for business they’d rather not take on....
...“No one knew where we were – we’d head out and not be back until teatime,” he says of those years....
...At the start of this year, though, I felt a strong urge to embrace everything I’d normally reject. I have no idea why: perhaps it was the “serious person” gene finally kicking in. Whatever....
...I’d advise coming here for something more substantial than a flat white....
...“Sure, saving £100 on wine a month might save me £1,200 a year, but that’s a drop in the ocean compared with what I’d need for a house deposit,” says Billy Ford, a 29-year-old data scientist and wine hobbyist...
...He made Pippa Middleton’s wedding dress in 2017, and dressed Billy Porter in a gold-feathered bodice and skirt, incorporating a digital print of the Cupola Room at Kensington Palace, for the 2020 Academy...
...“I’m obsessed with fully carpeted rooms,” says Billy Cotton, the American designer behind the creative, often flamboyant interiors of artists including Cindy Sherman and Lisa Yuskavage....
...Between the quaint backdrop and imaginative premise, you’d be forgiven for expecting a breezy show full of gentle whimsy....
...“Maybe I will make it to five years,” he’d say....
...She also toured intensively as a performer, leading the Carla Bley Band with Mantler, Swallow, the trombonist Roswell Rudd and drummer D Sharpe....
...We'd love to hear from you. What do you like (or not)? What topics should we tackle? Email the team at workingit@ft.com or Isabel directly at isabel.berwick@ft.com....
...A new biopic, starring Billy Porter as Baldwin, was announced this year....
...I lament that I wasn’t taught piano with Billy Joel’s “Vienna”. “Exactly!” Byrne says. I ask him when he’s creatively most fulfilled....
...On the Working It podcast this week I talk to Max Dickins, author of the memoir Billy No-Mates, about how he fixed his own friendship problem....
...I felt like I’d been dropped into A Midsummer Night’s Dream or, when the sun set and left you stranded in the pitch black while unseen marsupials pounded and hissed around you, the horror movie Predator....
...And if I didn’t organise everything, we’d never see each other. And I thought, what a great, simple tip....
...In less than an hour, they’d all gone. He describes the experience as “pretty shocking”....
...Amid the hair and denim and introspection, Daisy meets Billy (Sam Claflin), who is trying to get a band together....
...“He achieved so much in life and in the industry — if you live to be 101 and produced The Apartment, I’d say it’s been a good run.”...
...I asked an expert: Max Dickins, speaker, playwright and author of the memoir Billy No Mates: How I Realised Men Have a Friendship Problem....
...Avon also launched two successful celebrity fragrances around that time with Catherine Deneuve and Billy Dee Williams....
...Like a sartorial equator, many guys dress for chilly temperatures north of the belt, but below it you’d think it was scorching....
...According to at least one preview I’ve read, the casting of a woman in a role previously taken by David Tennant in London, and Billy Crudup in New York, changes little, since Katurian’s gender is not germane...
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