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...Lorraine Ashbourne is a hoot as Aunty Carol but lets the comic mask slip long enough to reveal her own heartache....
...The audio version is an ensemble piece, read by Frank Blake, Moe Dunford and Seana Kerslake, who take the parts of Kala’s friends, reunited in their home town over a summer....
...Frank Herbert’s Dune, thanks to the recent film versions, continues to ascend in price. (Last autumn, a rare storyboard for Dune sold for £350,000 at Peter Harrington.)...
...stuart.kirk@ft.com Letter in response to this article: What Mark Twain said about property’s appeal / From Carol Wilcox, Secretary, Labour Land Campaign, Christchurch, Dorset, UK...
...Rarely a year goes by without Oliver Twist, David Copperfield, Bleak House or A Christmas Carol boomeranging back on our screens, each hoping to be the definitive adaptation....
...Until February 15; further information and tickets here February Art ‘Frank Auerbach: The Charcoal Heads’, The Courtauld The first ever ensemble of the huge charcoal portraits that Auerbach produced...
...(Ronson later wrote the screenplay for the 2014 film Frank, based on his experiences.)...
...Bedford Falls is fictional, the all-American town where Frank Capra set his Christmas classic It’s a Wonderful Life....
...And while an old-fashioned sensibility remains – people sing carols between two town churches during the holidays, for example, and belong to garden clubs – there is also a really dynamic, 21st-century energy...
...I worked with Carol Burnett on her TV show for 11 years and she was always so sane and pulled together, but Judy was a little loose around the edges.”...
...A central interlude features some attractive music by three composers to whom Britten had connections: John Ireland, Gustav Holst and his much-loved teacher, Frank Bridge....
...It is possible that his time in San Francisco could turn out to be as groundbreaking as it was in LA (Salonen presided over the opening of the Frank Gehry-designed Walt Disney Concert Hall)....
...Both artists, the Selby show’s curator Carol Ockman observes, industrialised an image in their own way....
...Only the singalong carols will be missing on site. At longwoodgardens.org/our-gardens-your-home, you can sing along at home with the Longwood organist....
...Carol Homden, group chief executive of Coram, the UK’s oldest children’s charity, accepts the challenge head on....
...The first family-friendly offering is Liv Lorent’s gothicky dance-theatre retelling of Grimm, scripted by Carol Ann Duffy and first seen in 2018....
...We meet a few weeks after filming on A Christmas Carol has wrapped, and he still seems to be on a post-shoot high....
...Ten children crashing around a house in a field with donkeys, Frank Sinatra and Count Basie playing on a loop, and occasional interruptions from Debbie Harry....
...Carol....
...Some of my favourite poems are barely more than a sensation, a ghost of an image: my beloved Frank O’Hara’s “Having a Coke with You” about pitying everyone who hasn’t seen the orange-shirted yoghurt-loving...
...More than 1,300 designers from more than 90 countries entered the prize, which was presented by actress Emma Stone at LVMH’s Fondation Louis Vuitton, the Frank Gehry-designed cultural centre in Paris....
...It was his animus against the Jews which, in 1915, encouraged a mob to lynch Jewish factory foreman Leo Frank, wrongly convicted of murdering an Irish girl, Mary Phagan, at the Atlanta factory where he was...
...When the axe fell on Carol Bartz, the former chief executive of Yahoo, she ranted in an interview: “These people fucked me over.”...
...A Christmas Carol and Oliver Twist are peppered with harrowing accounts of homelessness, squalid working conditions and urban crime....
...This encapsulates the management style of the 49-year-old chief executive — frank, decisive and forgiving....
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