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...No modern celebrity would open their book with the candour of Harriette Wilson, a British Regency courtesan, in her bestselling The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson, Written by Herself (1825): “I shall not say...
...Backstairs Billy Duke of York’s Theatre, London There’s a moment in Backstairs Billy when the Queen Mother (Penelope Wilton) and her devoted servant Billy (Luke Evans) plot an escape....
...Billy Childs doesn’t so much flit between classical music and jazz as stride....
...The four mortals — Lauren Fagan, Rachael Wilson, Caspar Singh and Samuel Dale Johnson, all good — are fired up when Wilson’s Hermia lets fly in their quarrel....
...The kids’ market is saturated with celebrity offerings, mostly picture books, sometimes ghostwritten and often expertly illustrated, from chefs (Jamie Oliver: Billy and the Giant Adventure) to sports stars...
...Early on — hilariously — we hear a question from radio host Roy Plomley on an ancient edition of Desert Island Discs. “Your childhood was a little unsettled, wasn’t it?”...
...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....
...Among them were biographies of George Washington, by Woodrow Wilson and others, reminiscences of Old New York by Charles H Haswell, and of India by a Lt Col Pollock....
...From there, the company just kept making hits: Bridget Jones’s Diary, Billy Elliot, Fargo, Notting Hill, Senna, Shaun of the Dead. The list goes on, but we all have busy lives....
...Led by three outstanding performances — Paul Mescal, Anjana Vasan and Patsy Ferran (who took over at short notice after Lydia Wilson had to withdraw and is astonishingly good) — it has the feel of desperate...
...The performance begins with Lloyd’s elegiac reading of Billy Strayhorn’s “Blood Count”, written in 1967 shortly before the composer’s death....
...I saw Billy Connolly six times in a row on one of his Australian tours, and it was the location of the first of about 30 Elvis Costello concerts that I’ve since attended....
...Her dramatic vibrato has often been compared to Roy Orbison, he of the immortal “Only the Lonely (Know the Way I Feel)”....
...But the mooted savings from not uprating benefits this autumn are around £3bn to £4bn according to Tony Wilson over at the Institute for Employment Studies....
...A graduate of Central Saint Martins, where he studied menswear under Louise Wilson, he first garnered attention at his namesake label before being made creative director of Dunhill in 2008....
...Those were the days when what Harold Wilson called “a tightly-knit group of politically motivated men” could bring a whole industry to a standstill....
...Henry and Wilson work beautifully together: Henry is both gloriously sassy and poignantly awkward, at one point tripping over her own feet in her haste to make a point; Wilson (who took over from Michael...
...Jenkins was chancellor from 1967 to 1970 in the Labour government of Harold Wilson....
...As the sun began to go down, the alpenglow setting alight the spectacular Cirque of the Towers, Jess cast her line into the calm waters of Billy’s Lake, beside our first camp....
...As a Labour MP, Williams served in both the Harold Wilson and James Callaghan governments, leading to her being tipped as Britain’s first female prime minister....
...“This building is iconic all over the world,” Roy Blunt, Republican senator from Missouri, said as he introduced the bill last month....
...Williams — who formed the “Gang of Four” along with David Owen, Roy Jenkins and Bill Rodgers — won the Crosby by-election for the SDP in 1981....
...Then came Roy Hodgson, a long-term Englishman émigré who spoke fluent Swedish and Italian....
...(Billy Nauman) A record year for E&S shareholder proposals, but are they wins?...
...“We should not just be looking at the risk,” said Nigel Wilson, chief executive of UK insurer Legal & General....
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