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...They’re now joined by this rare revival of Dodie Smith’s 1938 play Dear Octopus (at the National’s Lyttelton Theatre), set at a golden wedding anniversary, and led by the superb Lindsay Duncan....
...Acts announced so far include Andrea Bocelli and Robbie Williams — with plenty more to come. 2023’s line-up included Billy Joel, Bruce Springsteen and Guns N’ Roses....
...On a bad day: “I am taking notes on a man dear to me, with no clear goal beyond recording the final months of his life.”...
...Max Dickins, who you heard there at the start of the show, is a speaker, playwright and author of the memoir Billy No-Mates: How I Realised Men Have a Friendship Problem....
...As it happens, the production company was able to find a talented young mixed-race actor called Billy Ashcroft, so my feelings were redundant either way....
...Email dear.jonathan@ft.com...
...They will ask for Billy Idol, but my voice will be shot by then. It’s perfection....
...The Shapeless Unease: A Year of Not Sleeping, by Samantha Harvey, read by the author, Vintage Digital, RRP£9 Afflicted by sudden insomnia, novelist Harvey (Dear Thief, The Western Wind) spent a year of...
...Dear readers Here’s a cheery thought. The magnetic north is racing south towards Siberia at an unprecedented rate, scientists said this week. The field created by the earth’s molten core is weakening....
...In a damning “Dear CEO” letter to companies that provide and distribute so-called contracts for difference (CFDs), the Financial Conduct Authority said a review of the market had “uncovered areas of serious...
...They made up for it earlier this year, winning Best Original Score for Dear Evan Hansen....
...Billy Wilder planned a musical blockbuster with Peter O’Toole as Holmes and Peter Sellers as Watson....
...And we would then appreciate all the more the extraordinary Billy Elliot and the ballet, as well as the maddeningly enjoyable Strictly Come Dancing....
...In his moving memoir, Dear Tom: Letters from Home, written in 2000, he reprints her letters to him while he was at college and soon after, when he was on the brink of professional success....
...Royal approval is seldom as effusive as Queen Victoria’s appreciation for Balmoral Castle in the Scottish Highlands, a place she called her “dear Paradise”....
...That’s my message to you and to my dear friend Billy Netanyahu. And you’ve no actual peace plans? Well my secretary of state, John Kerry, has a very good plan. Really. So I hear....
...But its shares, up 63 per cent since last summer, look dear. Deadpan Ed Edward Bramson would be a hard man to read at the poker table, writes Kate Burgess....
...“Dear Willie,” he wrote to one young fan, “You asked for my autograph. Here are two – one for yourself and one for a swap.”...
...Oh dear; oh dear. Here is baseball, reel upon reel and inning upon inning....
...Billy Wilder was still directing aged 80. You don’t stop. You aren’t supposed to. In normal life you are supposed to stop....
...(Whatever happened to Billy Wilder? Weren’t there once comedies that started sour and stayed sour?)...
...Billy Bob Thornton, Kim Basinger, Mickey Rourke and Winona Ryder glitter away, while the tale’s tanned and teeming youngsters are nameless and interchangeable....
...Will you really carry out your threat to subject four-year-old Billy to waterboarding?...
...Dear Prime Minister, You asked for some new fundraising initiatives to show the public you are acting in the wake of the Abrahams affair....
...“We thought we would but it’s like a dear old friend now,” says Dean. “It’s a bit like going to see your favourite band. We normally do it as the finale [at tours]....
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