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...I would die to be in a room with Carol Burnett and Tim Curry. Million Dollar Mermaid Busby Berkeley does undefinable things in this MGM aqua-musical: his trademark kaleidoscopic routines in water....
...It took just six weeks for A Christmas Carol to hit the stage....
...Among the audience was Jennifer Bennett, here for a bit of Christmas comfort, as well as distraction; the next day was the first anniversary of her husband’s death....
...There was nothing wrong with the stone, says Mr Bennett, who thinks it will still be sold. “I don’t see any softening in the market at all....
...Among the performers to have ignored his letters are Tony Bennett and Barbra Streisand, though Barbara Cook did at least write back with a gentle “thanks but no thanks”....
...It dipped into the cabaret songs, together with a couple of carols and a choral piece, showing how skilful Bennett always was without delivering music that was truly individual....
...Here, a mammoth diamond leaf-spray brooch is worn centre-stage on a tangerine gown, while model Helen Bennett’s arm is clamped into a handcuff-sized Flato bracelet....
...Her organisation had campaigned against the rule change, winning support from Carol Ann Duffy, the poet laureate, as well as Alan Bennett, Salman Rushdie, Ian McEwan, Philip Pullman, Jeffrey Archer, Irvine...
...Bennett begins by demolishing objections to the thesis with mockery that masquerades as helpfulness....
...To October 19, bfi.org.uk/lff Pick of the rest Foxcatcher Bennett Miller, US Quite the strangest film to be frequently talked up as an Oscar contender, Bennett Miller’s new film is no less queasily excellent...
...In literature it has given us the Brontë sisters, JB Priestley, playwright Alan Bennett and poet Ted Hughes; in art, sculptors Henry Moore and Barbara Hepworth and painter David Hockney; in music, composer...
...”, the quiet rapture she finds in Howells’s “Kind David”, the fun she has with the Foxtrot from Richard Rodney Bennett’s “History of Thé Dansant”....
...In particular, she had been praised for what she now describes as “poor man’s Alan Bennett”, a monologue about a woman eating a lettuce. It was inspired by a moment from real life....
...It starts with a meta-theatre framing device that makes Alan Bennett’s multi-layered new play over at the National Theatre look a doddle....
...“Collaborations between stone dealers and designers are an emerging trend,” says Carol Woolton, jewellery editor for British Vogue....
...We expect naturalism, then, delivered with Bennett’s customary insight....
...Carol Ellinas is family law expert at Bross Bennett, the law firm The advice in this column is specific to the facts surrounding the questions posed....
...The proposals then have to be debated by parliament before becoming law Carol Ellinas is a partner in the family law practice of Bross Bennett, a legal firm...
...“If we eat too much bluefin tuna today, there will be none left tomorrow,” said Caroline Bennett, owner of Moshi Moshi, the UK sushi chain....
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