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...Like Alan Parker’s extraordinary film, The Late Americans is compelling in its determination to capture the tenderness of aspiring artists, their desperate ambition and crushing uncertainty....
...“Trying to navigate the system we have at the moment is like pushing water uphill, and it is not improving,” Donna Fordyce, Seafood Scotland chief executive, said on Thursday....
...Four reconstructed Parker originals feature, alongside two standards that are closely associated with the shortlived trailblazer — the album marks the centenary of Parker’s birth....
...“This cannot be allowed to happen further,” Dame Donna added....
...The opener, “Donna Lee”, was recorded for Savoy in 1947, when Davis was Charlie Parker’s sideman....
...that celebrated the creative methods of the writer Donna Tartt....
...“I don’t know many seven-year-olds who are into Charlie Parker,” he says....
...Then last year came Divorce for HBO: a story about a New Yorker going through a painful and, at times, painfully funny, separation, starring Sarah Jessica Parker....
...Photographs: Marlborough Gallery; Alamy; Steven Brooke; Di Donna; Alan Cristea; Simões de Assis Galeria de Arte...
...flutey-impressionism, hints of big-band orthodoxy and catchy riffs were the order of the day – or developed into rumbling slabs of trombone, oddly spaced stabs surrounded by silence or, at the end of “Donna...
...Protagonist Barbara Parker progresses from beauty pageants and make-up counters to a role in a successful sitcom. Artful and perceptive....
...Django Bates’s second release with his Beloved acoustic piano trio mixes well-turned originals with chop-and-change deconstructions of Charlie Parker classics – the title track, “Donna Lee” and a lush “Now...
...This Peter Parker is an Adonis in touch with his inner Woody Allen....
...The Goldfinch , by Donna Tartt, Little, Brown, RRP£20/$30 Tartt’s last book was published in 2002, so a new novel is an event....
...Lilting intros and deconstructed riffs yield to fast swing, the finger-breaking “Donna Lee” is reconfigured as a wistful ballad and “Ko Ko” a free-floating sax and drum duet....
...“It was when Sarah Jessica Parker, Katy Perry and Cheryl Cole were seen and photographed in J Brand coloured denim,” he says....
...Gheorghiu is known as a prima donna of the classic mould: her no-shows are sometimes as famous as her performances....
...When Scott told his uncle, Donald Harrison – a saxophonist and one-time member of Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers – that he wanted to be a jazz musician, he gave his nephew the score for Charlie Parker’s “Donna...
...So did Mary-Louise Parker. Fracturing and factionalisation of audience and taste has become the norm....
...While there isn’t much sewing left in New York, there are still plenty of Calvin Kleins and Donna Karans, producing designs that will often be made on the other side of the planet....
...Prada’s experimental collaboration with director James Lima; Boucheron’s Spiegelworld circus bash; Y-3’s store opening; Runways for Change, an Obama fundraiser co-hosted by Anna Wintour and Sarah Jessica Parker...
...The controversial charity has nearly two million members, including high-profile celebrities such as Paul McCartney, Sarah Jessica Parker and Pamela Anderson, who espouse Newkirk’s mantra: “Animals are not...
...And we didn’t want her to leave: she was Elisabetta in our new production of Don Carlos and Donna Anna in last month’s revival of Don Giovanni. She is, in every way, an extraordinary singer....
..."There were no prima donnas, no dissenting voices," Mr Prodi says. "We followed the mainstream and we worked together."...
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