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...It’s daggers drawn in Vardy v Rooney: The Wagatha Christie Trial too and, again, animosity comes cloaked in verbal niceties — with the added delight of legal understatement....
...Best of Enemies Noël Coward Theatre, London James Graham’s brilliant play Best of Enemies had its premiere at London’s Young Vic in 2021: a year that had been rocked by the attack on the US Capitol....
...His preferred dressing gown coats are best worn by taller frames with V-shaped torsos like his, as the syrupy nature of the style has a tendency to drown those shorter in stature....
...“An offset V-peak lapel, a signature shape first created by the legendary Huntsman head cutter Colin Hammick, cheats the eye and makes the wearer look well proportioned, and even athletic.”...
.... ★★★☆☆ Shoe Lady Royal Court (Jerwood Downstairs), London Everyday objects also conspire to thwart Viv in Shoe Lady, E.V. Crowe’s surreal new comedy....
...This accounts for the contortions that successive presidents from William McKinley (war v Imperial Spain) to Wilson (war v Wilhelmine Germany) and FDR (war v Nazi Germany and Japan) went through in the search...
...(Ms Gadot first appeared in the Wonder Woman role last year as part of the ensemble cast of Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice)....
...‘Game Plan: Board Games Rediscovered’ is at the V&A Museum of Childhood in London until April 23 Photographs: V&A; The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge...
...“Donald you’re a snivelling coward, leave Heidi the hell alone.”...
...The key to Jude Law’s Henry V perhaps lies in a scene we never see: that poignant moment at the end of Henry IV when the young Hal tells his old drinking buddy Falstaff, “I know thee not, old man.”...
...We go from the appearance of the New Woman and Ibsen and Shaw, straight to Noël Coward, and everyone passes over what’s in between.” She concedes: “A lot of the theatre was very light and fluffy....
...I am too much of a coward to trust to nature and I certainly would not attempt the exercise with a meat as unyielding but flavoursome as shin of beef....
...The film’s cynical message, teased or possibly tortured from George V....
...Sitting me at the tiller of a small craft, he would tilt his boater at a jaunty angle and tune up his Noël Coward medley....
...Aimed at Leo Apotheker – the former SAP executive now at the helm of Hewlett-Packard – the message was blunt: turn up and appear as a witness at the trial, or risk being painted as a coward....
...At the end of his most famous soliloquy – “To be, or not to be” (Act III scene I) – Hamlet seems to have convinced himself that thought is the enemy of bold deeds: “Thus conscience does make cowards of...
...Four stylish clerks tap away at typewriters to the background warble of Noël Coward, debating the philosophy of war as well-educated bright young things will do....
...Yet when the approach works – the mud-caked verismo of Henry V, the Tuscan sun and skittishness of Much Ado About Nothing – the singleness of purpose intensifies the energy and vision....
...As for Danny Kaye and Noel Coward…Olivier loved them. So did millions. End of story, I reckon....
...Michael V....
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