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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 film-maker’s mother is Carol Joffe, a set decorator whose credits include Woody Allen’s Radio Days and Hannah and Her Sisters, while her late stepfather was Allen’s longtime producer Charles H Joffe....
...In the mid-1990s, when Sine was a banker at Morgan Stanley, he advised Son on his $2bn acquisition of the computer and technology magazine publisher Ziff Davis....
...Beth Morrison Projects, the estimable Brooklyn-based operatic producer/commissioner, collaborated for the first of two different programmes of songs by her superb stable of composers....
...If you can look beyond the blacked-up Sammy Davis Jr impersonation, you may still see its appeal. But the landscape has changed. In 1977, Britain had just two broadcasters: the BBC and ITV....
...Other artists include Carol Bove, Wolfgang Tillmans and photographer Christopher Williams, who helped design the platform....
...We need empathy,” says Beth Goldberg, Jigsaw research project manager, who was trained in political science but has now also acquired anthropology skills. Will it fix the issue?...
...Three of the composers are from the UK — Ken Burton, Roderick Williams and Smith himself — and three from the US — Melissa Dunphy, Jocelyn Hagen and Taylor Scott Davis....
...In 17 Church Row , James Carol (Zaffre, RRP£7.99) riffs on our uneasy relationship with technology....
...As Bette Davis drawled in a 1963 interview on the film industry, “I think, somehow, they still prefer the little woman.”...
...Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon rsc.org.uk A Christmas Carol The Old Vic’s lovely, carol-wreathed staging of Dickens’s Christmas classic returns, this time with Paterson Joseph as the old...
...Carol Monaghan, SNP MP for Glasgow North West, said the families of the suicide victims were being left to deal with the consequences of the government’s policy while the companies who designed the schemes...
...He, Selznick and director Carol Reed were discussing the cinematic classic-to-be that the American mogul was about to produce....
...The legend of A Christmas Carol and its popularity was in part created by the British reading public....
...The opening gala is Widows, Steve McQueen’s all-female heist movie starring Viola Davis, and based on the Lynda La Plante television series about gun-blazing gangsters’ wives who take over the business....
...Rawlings’ widow Veronica (Viola Davis) is left to pick up the pieces, including the $3m lost in the siege that is owed to a local crime boss....
...and choreographed sequences flow in and out, and the figures of Dickens (Nicholas Bishop) and his editor marshal events along and sometimes even stand in for a younger Scrooge while the excellent Phil Davis...
...The Times reports a letter from David Davis to MPs threatening to withhold the UK’s Brexit bill until all issues are solved....
...To my left, Dorothy Parker, to my right, Bette Davis, and underneath me, because I’m in his lap, Idris Elba. Who would you choose to play you in a film about your life?...
...During the civil war, Jefferson Davis, the Confederate president, devoted as much rhetoric to attacking the class pedigree of his Yankee opponents as he did to defending slavery....
...Todd Haynes’ 1952-set Carol (2015) was celebrated as a trendsetter on its release....
...Gareth Davis brings gravel-voiced gravitas to the chairmanships of plumber Wolseley, DS Smith, a packaging group, and bookie William Hill....
...Jane Hilburt-Davis, a family business consultant in Boston, is increasingly advising copreneurs....
...Liebling was drawn to boxing, but so were Joyce Carol Oates and William Hazlitt, neither of whom is easily pictured doing high-speed pad work amid buckets of bloodied spit in a basement gym....
...I want them to apply their whole brain to their job.” 7 Beth Brooke-Marciniak Global Vice-chair, Public Policy, EY “Since coming out . . ....
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