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...In the early 1990s, keen to devour everything, I loved going to opera with a music critic friend....
...Payday lenders inspired the sly Seal in Billy the Borrowing Blue-Footed Booby. He encourages Billy to keep splurging on impulse buys instead of paying off his usurious loan....
...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...
...For a time, getting blackout drunk at least two nights a week (while jibing at our sober friends about their lack of participation) seemed an inexorable fixture of our social calendars....
...the Bleys moved back briefly to Los Angeles, where Paul was playing a string of club dates with a quintet comprising saxophonist Ornette Coleman, trumpeter Don Cherry, bassist Charlie Haden and drummer Billy...
...Worst affected are men: in 2021, a study by the Survey Center on American Life said the percentage of men without any close friends had jumped from 3 per cent to 15 per cent since 1990....
...“I was talking to Billy Friedkin about the sounds. I say, ‘Is that too corny?’ He says, ‘Nothing’s too corny!’”...
...One friend tells me that he stood next to him at a concert once and thanked him for his work....
...Max DickinsSo I spoke to a guy who had loads of friends, loads of male friends, and I said to him, what’s your secret? And he said, well, my friends call me the Sherpa because I organise everything....
...Billy the waiter collects our dishes, and I realise that I have eaten most of the crab; it was deliciously succulent....
...Again and again, Samer returned to Cormac McCarthy — the long, haunting scene in Stella Maris where Alicia describes suicide by drowning in Lake Tahoe, or Billy’s hundred-page hunting expeditions in The...
...And it’s not just because Billy Joel has a house there. The hotel I’m staying at, Baron’s Cove, is a seven-minute walk from The Dock House....
...A new biopic, starring Billy Porter as Baldwin, was announced this year....
...While the protagonists of The Commitments (1991), Brassed Off (1996) and Billy Elliot (2000) followed and achieved their dreams, Robert Carlyle’s Gaz and co were driven by desperation and found only temporary...
...Michael Formanek and Billy Hart are the session’s inspirational bassist and drummer, but it is the pianist herself who is this album’s commanding presence....
...Motson drove to Hereford with two of their players, his friend Ricky George and Billy Meadows. Minutes before time, part-time carpenter Ronnie Radford rocketed home Hereford’s equaliser from 35 yards....
...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 grew up in the Dandenongs — reputedly a corrupted phrase in the Woiwurung language that means “lofty mountain” — after my parents became besotted with a colonial-style house a friend had put up for sale...
...His view is that “it’s where you make friends....
...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....
...It was here that I at last met Binyavanga, who generously included me in a circle of writers — among them Parselelo Kantai, Martin Kimani, David Kaiza, Billy Kahora, Jackie Lebo and Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor...
...When he threatens to shop Kurt to his Nazi friends, moral squeamishness has to take a hike. Suddenly everyone in the family has a real decision to make....
...“These reform proposals come with strings attached,” said Billy Melo Araujo, senior law lecturer at Queen’s University Belfast....
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