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...Short memories and same-sex attraction will draw comparisons to Todd Haynes’ Carol. In modern parlance, an awed Eileen is seen by the luxe Rebecca....
...Todd Haynes’s Carol (2015) is a different creature. Adapting a 1952 lesbian-love novel, it’s faithful to the book in never hitting the Highsmith highs....
...Bleak House, the masterpiece that is subconsciously brewing in his mind, is a dark, sophisticated and troubling work, far removed from the cosy “Dickensianism” of, say, A Christmas Carol....
...Thomas (Mathew Baynton) is waiting to be kissed under the mistletoe, while Lady Fanny (Martha Howe-Douglas) wants a decent tree and Alison (Charlotte Ritchie) yearns to sing carols....
...The boy’s is in colour, with a soupy richness and glow that evoke the work of Douglas Sirk, Haynes’s 1950s directing idol (Imitation of Life)....
...Tatler magazine once ranked him and his second wife, Carol Ryan, behind only Elton John in the list of London’s most sought-after party guests, an accolade that pleased Victor greatly....
...Former Citigroup and Credit Suisse executive Robert Jenkins, meanwhile, wrote that HSBC chairman Douglas Flint should go....
...Jubilee Lines, edited by Carol Ann Duffy, Faber, RRP£12.99, 134 pages Most of the poets in Carol Ann Duffy’s entertaining new anthology, Jubilee Lines, seem uncannily good at remembering events that happened...
...Especially adored was A Christmas Carol (1843), in which Dickens embalmed an ideal image of the Yuletide festivities as an opportunity for family gatherings suffused with hope and cheer....
...The adrenaline rush has created sleepless nights and a loss of appetite for Carol Sherriff, who founded the business with her partner Simon Wilson....
...She is currently in a relationship with photographer Scott Douglas, who lives in Scotland, and they spend alternate fortnights together....
...Douglas Caster, Ultra Electronics Holdings chief executive. Michael Chance, opera singer. Alastair Clark, former Bank of England official. Colin Dennis, services to the agri-food industry....
...Five residences have been erected in the ouside space, each by leading architects including Kieran Timberlake Associates of Philadelphia, New York’s own Jeremy Edmiston and Douglas Gauthier, and an international...
...What have the poet John Betjeman and the director Carol Reed in common?...
...Carol Glover, chief executive of the Department of Tourism, who has a strong private sector background, believes that the local tourist industry is turning round....
...Charming, funny and gets my vote for the best picture book of the year. (3-7) THE LOST HAPPY ENDINGS by Carol Ann Duffy illustrated by Jane Ray Bloomsbury ₤12.99, 40 pages A marriage made in picture...
...Lincoln lost, but his debates with Stephen Douglas set the stage for the war and emancipation....
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